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> This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions.

> I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.

This is completely disingenuous. It's clear from Linus's persistent and cruel personal attacks that he acutely understands many emotions: anger, fear, shame, etc. He attempts to exploit these when he coarsely insults his maintainers. Framing his actions otherwise is a form of deflection.
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Quad-/Multi-rotors use tilting [1] for steering - including speeding up and slowing, and maintaining / recovering stability. Increased moment of inertia surely increases energy budget necessary for stability and maneuvers, which means lowered energy for flight.

Of course if the weight saving is good enough to offset that, it may still be better off with structural batteries. And the energy budget increase can be calculated pretty well.

[1] achieved by differential thrust, achieved by speeding up / slowing down opposing engines
And having bought one with Ubuntu pre-installed (ASUS 1215B) they aren't without their own little set of issues, like non working wlan drivers 'cause lets just replace the existing working one by a WIP FOSS variant on an OS update,or GPU support that gets removed because AMD decided to reboot their drivers development.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001786
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The childs name is just the hash of the two parents names plus the birthday timestamp.

I like it. However it's probably better to use DNA sequencing instead of names to avoid too much ambiguity.

Maybe we could use some sort of blockchain solution to unambiguously keep track of which kids belong to which parents and which order they arrived in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17999282
> it's a bit of a stretch to claim Amazon is a public good

Well, it's either good or it's bad. It seems you think it's the latter and I think you're wrong. All the merchants whose businesses have been transformed for the better would disagree. Those merchants' customers would disagree as well.
Fantastic :)

The closest I've got to this, is as a contractor - I don't look for new roles until one finishes.

This means I get about 1-3 months between each one.

3 day work week does sound healthier, the New Economics Foundation is in favour of it too

https://neweconomics.org/2010/02/21-hours

Before this, I was inspired by my mother working a 3 day week (not for maternity, I had already left home when she switched).

3 days is great since you are selling less than half your time.
There are plenty of good reasons to use alternative unemployment metrics. The one that's usually used (the "official one") is outdated, and mostly useful for estimating the type of unemployment that impacts running costs of unemployment assistance programs. It isn't the best for telling us how many people are working, or as a general labor market health indicator.

That said, it isn't a conspiracy. U6 is probably better as a general indicator. I personally prefer employment/population for each age brackets, fwiw. But... since these correlate, the trend is the same. U6 is always about double u3. Both are lower than they had been. The "structural" threshold for u6 is also double u3.
But wouldn't comparing U6 to U3 be misleading? U6 has always been a double of U3, more or less. Right now U6 looks like U6 in the late 90s.
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Hiring first employees in the early days of a startup
The most popular advice you hear is “don’t hire for as long as you can”. This is true. Hiring is awful, disappointing, exhausting and no-one cares about you.

But let’s say you have to hire and start delegating. First 10 hires will form a company culture and define the future.

Below, I’m sharing some tips, that I’ve learned hard way.

- Step 0 is to create a job posting. Make it as short as possible. List only top skills and top tasks. Make the description simple, as you are explaining to a 10-y old kid

- Before posting any ads online, do the search in your network. Ask yourself: “who is the smartest person you know?” This will save you a lot of time and bring higher quality candidates.

- As a founder, you should not have time to speak to every candidate. Chat with them via email first (not the messenger). See how well they behave, form their thought, format the text. And 90% of candidates disappear or show poor ethics.

- Ask for a few references. Talk to 2 - 3 people who were their employers, co-workers or even employees. Ask them open questions and let them talk.

- Do a project with them. We usually do a test that takes 2 - 5 days of work. We pay on hourly bases. This is a crucial part, that will show their ability to communicate and collaborate, be creative and actually execute.

- Take them out to dinner or drinks. The informal situation can uncover unexpected qualities.

- Make sure they want to take your job. For example, during the interview, I ask for what other positions they are interviewing. It’s better to uncover now, that their dream is to become a growth marketer or to work at Google when your position is sales in a healthcare startup.

Flag people who:
- Say YES to everything. Sometimes it’s a part of the culture.
- Seem arrogant
- Talk bad about their previous employers, co-workers, clients or anyone else
- Worked long in the companies with bad cultures

I hope these tips are useful. I’ll gladly answer any question.
Is there nothing that will slow gravity down? Does that mean that gravity is essentially faster than light? I mean not technically, but for all practical cases it would be slightly faster?
What I find remarkable about this kind of articles is how a situation in which economic activity and employment is going so well that the labor market might shift in favor of employees/workers is described as "the economy is running hot", a self-evidently bad state that sensible economic policy should seek to avoid.

I'm kinda baffled by that. I'm no economics major, but this seems to imply that keeping wages low (or at least decoupled from economic growth) is actually a goal of economic policy. Is that true?
In the opener the author seems to generally agree that toning down ad hominem conduct is a good thing:

> He's stated that he'd tone down his language (no more calls to "retroactively abort" people and such. This is all good, and I support it. One of my greatest fears is having my patch/contrition to a FOSS project be publicly dissected and ridiculed.

But his bullet point objections either contradict the above (transphobia should be acceptable), or are basically contentless (objecting to a part of the CoC that the author says doesn't apply to kernel dev).

Abbreviated summary of the bullet points on why the CoC is bad:

1. The CoC's author objected to transphobia within the Opal compiler project

2. The new CoC means Linus will need to tone down his language (which we seemed to be ok with in the opener).

3. The new CoC doesn't allow discrimination. Discrimination has never been a problem in kernel dev (if you really believe that, then the CoC shouldn't change anything)

4. The new CoC requires all maintainers to be of the same technical ability? (not sure where this idea came from, it doesn't require this)
Even more interesting is the long-term trend of long-term discouraged workers. This doesn't seem to be recovering anytime soon, if you believe SGS - http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...
Plenty of beginners I'm sure. People who come from languages where == is not broken will probably default to using it, if only because of muscle memory. It might not be immediately obvious that it's broken too which makes it worse.
The theater itself is not the experience. The 'out' thing is, though.
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When you say "let society take care of it", who exactly do you mean?
I don't know how Time Machine works, but deja-dup integrates with Gnome's Nautilus. In the backed-up dirs, when selecting a file, it offers a menu entry to revert to a previous backed-up version, based on a date.
Totally unrelated, but I couldn’t help notice that the OP shared an “old.reddit.com” URL. Glad to know it’s not just me that hates the new Reddit UX.
Agreed. I keep hoping that this will make people become less trusting in strangers with strong opinions (e.g., newscasters). Unfortunately, as shown by another link on the HN home page [1], we tend to blindly trust the news.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004244
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Pretty sure a chunk of their business model is paid content
Relink to [1] perhaps, which is the original source without any anti-adblocking nonsense?

[1] https://news.gsu.edu/2018/09/10/researchers-identify-molecul...
Read hacker news once every day and you will after a few years of reading be above the average software engineer.
my rules:

1. should be pronounceable in every primary languages my family speaks.

2. no automatic stupid nicknames

3. not the name of people we know and don’t like.
These days I mostly use the effect in reverse - my basic assumption has become that most media reporting is crap and unreliable. And when I come across some piece of media (magazine/podcast/etc.) that actually covers stuff I know and does it well (including being honest enough to not bite off more than they can chew), they instantly get promoted to long-term favourites list - the rare few I can listen to without having my bullshit filter on all the time.
One person should not choose where and to what social services need funding. That's why we have government and not kings and queens.

I think that would be a more compelling argument if our governments had a stronger democratic mandate and our political systems offered the people genuine choices in how money was being spent on their behalf. Looking at what's been happening in places like the US and UK recently, I'm not sure it's the best time to be arguing for big government and redistribution of wealth as a vehicle for social responsibility.
> There are article outlining services and add-ons

But - should all this extra gear be necessary? It's fine for you and me, and everyone else here who understands all this stuff but what about the rest of the general population?

I think GP's point is fair, if you view it as constructive feedback rather than a criticism of the publication. I personally enjoy the economist but tend to steer clear of the online experience.

Now that's me, who is knowledgeable enough to work around the various glitches. What about the rest of the potential readership. This poor quality of execution is costing the economist circulation, therefore advertising revenue, and probably potential subscribers.
>Anecdotally, one of the most effective engineers I worked with, who asked penetrating questions during code and design reviews, did come off as a bit of an asshole at times.

How do you see the view that you are/were mixing his questions as an attack on you yourself (or against someone else) unnecessarily ("Does he not trust me?", "I know how these things work"), perhaps subconsciously.

It is what I've experienced a lot when dealing with North Americans, criticism is taken as an attack on your person.
The alternative is what, exactly? It may simple be that a facile understanding of the world is perfectly acceptable for most topics.
I agree.

https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/09/imam-hasan-o-hus...
Ask HN: How do you offer bug bounties for open source projects?
I am the maintainer of an open source project and would like to offer bug bounties and rewards for testing the application. The thing is that platforms like Issuehunt or Bountysource seem to be limited to Github only. Other platforms like HackerOne look more like an enterprise SaaS and seem to not fit.

Does anyone have an recommendation or idea?
Perhaps not a universally correct one, but most probably a sufficiently accurate one, given Amazon's continued revenue growth.

This is similar to the chronological vs. algorithmic timeline debates in social media: it's annoying to many users, but the overall result must be positive, otherwise they probably wouldn't be doing it, in face of the backlash.
I have observed a surge in articles related to fasting (all of them are positive about it). Has there been new breakthrough in the field?
Thanks, I was trying to recall this one. Looks like it didn't gained traction tho.
That people benefited from internet shopping and delivery is not a defense of a company treating it's workers badly or evading paying taxes. Let's not pretend amazon is the only company that might have delivered those efficiencies, they were just the most successful, the most ruthless.
Good "history" post that anyone who do not know should read as personal IT history culture however their conclusion IMVHO are wrong.

When RSS concept started we simply do not have always-on tech, ads-tech, aggregator's tech and software itself was a business. Now that we have the above TheBig simply prefer control their consumers better. RSS-web-client like Google reader are simply ancestor of modern aggregator, a way to control users while leaving a bit of freedom, aggregator's suppress this last bit of freedom, that's for me the real reason behind RSS/Atom decline.

Sorry for my poor English.
> The Open Source Definition says nothing about [very long list]

There is nothing in your list that is different for open-source and proprietary software development. You could as well add countless articles about OOP and functional programming because they mention some open-source tools.

OSD is about answering three simple questions. Should I use some program or library? Should I contribute to its development? Should I release my new program or lib as open-source? OSD makes process of choosing the answer fairly simple and helps developer avoiding all weird legal stuff. He doesn't need to know OSD and read full texts of licenses as long as he uses most adopted like MTI, BSD, GPL. Descriptions of pros and cons of every one of them in layman terms are available on the internet. It's hard to say the same for the ill-conceived licenses you mentioned.

I can't sell some project based on Lerna to [list of companies] ? OK. How am I supposed to check that the company didn't change name? What if I am selling my work to subcontractor? I would probably have to include this list in every contract. What if every open-source project started banning some arbitrary list of companies? Am I supposed to review the last commit to license every time to make sure that my company wasn't included? All that looks, sounds and smells like a lot of headache and any reasonable person would drop the project with first sign of it.

Commons Clause was even worse. It was advertised as "MTI+CC", but nobody would be able to figure out what "CC" part meant for them without a lawyer. And any lawyer would advise to find something else.
Maybe rest for a few months first. :-) It's 25 x 90-100 minute lectures, an enormous amount of material. I enjoy his lectures a lot more than reading his prose; he's amazing.
>>That seemed to happen around 60ish people.

The moment your boss has a boss, its just plain easy to hide.

The most important thing to understand about big people structures is every thing is a 'cost center'. The expenses aggregate at your boss, its irrelevant who is consuming how much in a team. For example Boaty McBoatyFace could have negotiated a big bonus from his boss Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge could have 10 people reporting to him, but Boaty's bonus is largely an expense divided by 10 across Scrooge's team, and largely appears as expense per person to the Scrooge's boss.

More precisely its like

SELECT SUM(person_expense)
FROM expense_table
GROUP BY manager_name;

Sure some one could fire a query and see it was not 9 people who ballooned Scrooge's expenses, but only one employee called Boaty. But almost always no one does that(Because people who deal with expenses interact through Dashboards, not SQL queries).

I learned this first hand from my ex-manager. Also most organizations are likely to fire queries along the lines.

SELECT SUM(expense)
FROM expense_table
GROUP BY expense_category;

expense_category being things like lunch, project outing, education etc. Then companies decide to cut down on budgets related to that category. But that's on the common category alone.

Say an expense category was 'bonus', or 'stock grant'. Its very common in most orgs, that in a team, for 2 - 3 people to eat the whole team's budget, and yet be totally invisible. And better, make it look like the whole team finished the budget.
It might just be the post-Soylent diet fad in tech:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/04/silicon...
I guess I'm really really weird, but even long haul doesn't bother me too much. I just put on my noise cancelling headphones and have 10 hours to just sit in silence with my thoughts, a book, a movie or some music. At regular intervals a nice person brings me a glass of (admittedly often mediocre) red wine. There are definitely worse ways to spend a day.
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If its anything like technology, dieting probably suffers from baseless trends which become self-sustaining at a certain point.
The data is also included (for english, data for other languages is being currently collected). Just search for "common voice".
Can anyone read the study and actually tell how long or what kind of fasting did it take to gain those results? The article just quotes a scientist about fasting for 24 hours.
Musk says Tesla now in 'delivery logistics hell'
People relying on its broken behaviour :)
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"it's a bit of a stretch to claim Amazon is a public good"

No, it is an outrageous claim. Let's be clear - these ASI guys are useful idiots.

Compare Jeff Bezos to Linus Torvalds. I am still waiting when ASI will call Linus "a greatest philantropist". He would absolutely deserve that. Instead, he gets called "asshole" by some people. C*suckery of these people is just insane.
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You're definitely not alone, it's just that people who agree with you are less likely to speak out because of chilling effects.
Perhaps it’s selection bias. People who are happy with Amazon may not see the need to comment about it in every thread.

But to counter this trend: I am very, very happy that Amazon exists. It’s allowed me to discover and buy plenty of books that I otherwise would never read or sample. Not to mention dozens of everyday items I buy from them. Nail clippers, socks, alarm clock, router, resistance bands, headphones and many more I’m forgetting about.

It’s all under one roof, delivery is usually very fast (sometimes it’s just one day on two-day delivery; when there are some delays and it takes an extra day they always notify me by e-mail).

Amazon is great and I’m a more-than-satisfied consumer.
A good source for me is: https://www.codetriage.com/
Choose this as an entry point to say something. I agree with the battleship analogy to a point but I don't think it would be very hard to turn around. Not when compared to building rocket ships or many other things we do at scale.

I grew up on a UK small holding sheep farm (2-400). In the 80s it was possible to raise a small family largely thanks to the benefit system.

As I see it hobby farmers are all we need for sheep production. I agree that we need a degree of livestock but we need to transition to reducing our consumption of meat hugely. Much of the land currently used for livestock should be converted to forest and forest garden communities as soon as possible.
There a problem with consumer awareness. If consumers cared about pesticides in their food, or food miles, or dependence on foreign imports (on an island nation) then the locally produced food would be more viable. However most consumers are so heavily hypnotised by modern consumerism there only desire what is persuasively advertised which means sexy new 'phones' and not poison free vegetables.
Control of food and water gives certain control of people. Only a small percentage of the population is really aware of what it takes to make enough food to stay alive. Large corporate forces now control policy and effectively the market condition in most respects so small scale passionate farmers are best of not trying to engage with the commodity markets. If the UK leaves the EU and there is a major global conflict people will quickly start to realise the value of local food.

I'm mostly interested in how we can reduce the labour overhead in the this kind of small scale farming. At EMF camp I saw an brilliant example of someone building their own open source horticultural robot. It will be at https://pretix.eu/farmhackwales2018/fhw2018/
The issue of counterfeit branded goods is gathering momentum. Already I know people who refuse to buy anything for their kids from Amazon as the risk is too high. I think twice about it now myself. Such an easy problem to solve, just don’t commingle in the warehouse stuff that is sold by them vs sold by third party via them.
Clearly they have been better than the alternatives for customers - otherwise, they would not be successful.

Employees also have a choice - Amazon is not a monopoly.
Yeah, I think point 2 is still relevant, but intentionally damaging the opponent's sword is pointless. Ideally the fight doesn't last long enough for the accumulated damage to matter and focusing on damaging the sword is a worse strategy than focusing on incapacitating the person holding the sword (who by the way might still be dangerous without the sword).
You've got a lot of answers here, and quite a few of them overlap what I'd suggest. You're not going to be able to pursue them all.

Personally, I tend to learn things that are relevant to my job as I'm doing it.

Aside from technical things, that also means learning the domain you are working in if it's sufficiently interesting. For example, I worked in healthcare for a while, so I learned to read the HL7 protocol and the most important parts of the NHS data dictionary. Then I worked for an environmental charity, so I learned about thermodynamics and government policy making.

If you learn the domain, then you will make more good decisions when you design your program. You will also be in a better position to be trusted to make those decisions yourself.

For technical stuff, I like to spend more time and go deeper on things that I think are fundamental, things that I think will be useful in the future, and things that I have fun with.

I don't like to spend time on things that I find yucky, that I intend to avoid using again, or that I think are based on unsound fundamentals.

Sometimes I make wrong decisions in either direction. Either spending too much time learning something esoteric irrelevant in the long term, or spinning my wheels because I've skimmed over something without understanding it properly. I don't know a way to avoid this.

A few specific things I think are good quick wins for a starting software engineer:

* Version control.
* Known what a dictionary/hashmap is for and how to use it.
* Set logic (intersection, union, difference, xor), and how to do it in your favourite programming language.
* Automation (bash or Powershell + make + SSH).
* SQL + indexes (common in lots of computer programs, and SQLite fits nicely into the automation chain above).
* Regex, how to use it in your text editor / IDE of choice, and how to use it on the command line. https://www.regular-expressions.info/