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(ps. I know what these surprises can feel like -- for what it's worth, I am sorry)
Google and Alphabet have executives that set mission statements. If these executives wanted to, they could easily prioritize ethical conduct and refuse compliance with censorship schemes and oppressive regimes.
What an amazingly poorly informed article.

Specifically, Angular does do Server Side Rendering, and from the React notes, if you can learn ES6, then you're also learned TypeScript since they're the same thing (TS is a superset of JS, so all JS is valid TS).
Yeah, I'm not arguing that it's a common reaction
> They already do this with everything else. Vehicles like Mercedes and Tesla are significantly safer than some competitors. Legislation sets the floor, not the ceiling. Or at least it shouldn't create a ceiling.

I think the difference is those are, for the most part, internal safety features for the car's driver and passengers, whereas self driving effects mostly people not in that automobile. Sure, there are some features in cars that aren't, but for the most part, a driver knows (should know) their vehicle, and someone driving a 1978 station wagon and someone else driving a 2018 Volvo won't make that much of a difference on the roadways. Driving a car with a bad autonomous mode vs. a car with a good autonomous mode could be a significantly bigger difference for pedestrians and other drivers than older and newer cars.
AFAIK most large ccompanies that survived from the Nazi era were founded 1870-1920 or so. Notable examples are Siemens, Daimler-Benz, BMW, Zeiss, BASF. A notable counterexample is Volkswagen.
I have a friend who used to be quite involved in the ayahuasca church. He now knows five people from the church who have committed suicide. The fifth just hung himself last weekend. He was 25, and was the son of one of the priestesses in the church. Spent his childhood in the church, being fed ayahuasca regularly.

One of them was also a friend of mine. By the time he killed himself he was clinically insane and should have been hospitalized, sadly the services didn't get to him in time.

I realise this is about psylocibin, but I think its still appropriate here. Psychedelics are no joke.
I've already written down everything I know in https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-secrets-of-great-pro.... I keep updating that answer from time to time.
Toward the end of 2013, an internal email changed everything. Entitled "Whistleblowing disclosure — knowingly dealing with criminals in Estonia branch", it was written by Howard Wilkinson, Danske's head of markets in Estonia. Its content was explosive. Detailing a "near total process failure", he referred to a UK limited liability partnership called Lantana Trade which had opened an account at Danske in Estonia the previous year.

Its account was marked "dormant" at UK Companies House and yet it had a credit balance at Danske of $965,418 on the same date. A colleague later told Mr. Wilkinson that the bank did not know who the beneficial owners were but "apparently it was discovered that they included the family of Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, and the FSB [Russia's intelligence service]", according to the email seen by the FT.

Danske's internal audit team was sent to investigate the Estonia operation in January 2014. Yet Mr. Wilkinson complained in a further email in April that despite his warnings "no related client account has been closed by management" and "there appears to have been no attempt by management to identify the full scope of the problem of UK LLPs submitting false accounts".

He reported that a senior executive told him "[Danske Bank] is not the police" and "[Danske Bank] has no obligation to report false client accounts to the authorities." That same day, he resigned and sent an email to Copenhagen, signing off: "Sad to say, it seems to me that things are totally broken here."

Wow. So internal whistleblowing procedures are token efforts which are actually shortcuts to get yourself 'resigned'. I become less and less surprised when reality turns out to match Dilbert one-to-one. Which is sad.
re: 4) - if your CV has a new job on it every year, I would be much less inclined to interview/hire you. After all, 1 year in is when a developer really becomes valuable to an organization.
Coinbase is reportedly an $8B company
I'll take the "volkswagon special" for one please
I have been only recently hired as a product manager in a large company. I have a technical background, mostly in startups and I am struggling to understand my bosses motivation. Everything is super slow, but speed is priority only on paper. In practice the only important measure is to look good and be popular. Incompetence is not an issue as long as it is calculated in your roadmap and in your estimates. To the contrary, being proactive and pushing for improvements can only land you in trouble, because your authority is limited and as a manager you depend on the good will of many incompetent incumbents.

So far I have learned that management, aka navigating politics, is harder than navigating technology.
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That seems a bit similar to the Ranger[1] given as an example in the article. There's also ranger.el[2] for Emacs. By default in ranger.el (and I assume Ranger too, but I haven't used it), B is the current level, A is the previous level and C is a preview of whatever you have selected in B. You can hide the preview (so the current level would be C) and add more previous levels. There's no compressed view of all previous levels though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_(file_manager)

[2]: https://github.com/ralesi/ranger.el
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Psilocybin and LSD are on their way to legalization, but the enormous host of compounds in their phenethylamine family might not be so lucky due to a systematic problem with U.S. drug scheduling policy. This family shows enormous potential for treating some of our trickiest mental health / public health problems (addiction, depression, anxiety, OCD, and the list goes on) but the policy for newly discovered phenethylamines and tryptamines seems to be "Schedule first, worry about it later." This slows scientific research down dramatically, research that we need in order to even know in the first place whether a compound might have "high potential for abuse and no known medical potential." If there is medical potential (and in these families at least there usually is), what took days to Schedule will take millions of dollars and years or even decades to reschedule...per compound.

So, while I celebrate the progress being made for a couple of promising compounds with a relatively large base of recognition and support, I'm hoping that I see a more sane approach to drug policy within my lifetime (Portugal seems to be the fashionable example these days).

I'll also second /u/jrowley 's recommendation of Michael Pollan's recent book "How to Change Your Mind" as a good primer, and would recommend the TV show "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" as another fascinating dive into the subject.
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YC Winter 2019 Invites/Rejections
Applications just closed for the Winter 2019 batch so I thought it would be good for an invite/rejections thread to go up.
Do you work for comma.ai? Because I can't imagine any other reason for the absurdity of your cheerleading. On par with Super Cruise? Gimme a break.
Stay a software developer as long as you can. Don't jump into management prematurely. You'll miss the days where you used to work on interesting technical problems rather than people problems and politicking.
If Google considers handing off private info to China, which is known to execute people with disliked political beliefs, it's not self-evidently wrong to compare Google and their executives to the devil.

Edit: if you want to downvote, please also reply with your ideas and tell me why you disagree with me.
Cloudera and Hortonworks Announce Merger
I really need to know the story behind this.
Yeah, and most of the time (at least at places I've worked) the managers are former coders. So arguing that all managers are stupid just seems silly to me.

Also, yes - anybody can do management, and anybody can do coding. Learning to do either effectively is a skill.
There have been plenty of European countries where similar (or much stricter) rules were introduced and arguments similar to yours were used.

And in the end, there are hardly any negative consequences.
The last coal plant in Denmark will be retired in 2028.

Current regulation requires large district heating to produce electricity (which is no longer economical due to abundance of cheap wind power) and this delays the conversion of the last coal plant.
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This hand waves away the complexity involved. Witness the immigrant backlash and rise of populism in Europe, Britain, and the United States.

Progress is needed, of course. But these are pipeline issues that take decades to nudge in the right direction. Push the lever too far, too fast, and it is going to snap back in your face (See: Brexit, Trump, Poland, etc). There are consequences for disregarding the climate you operate in. Voters and companies can respond faster than you can; recognize the leverage points in your feedback loop and the appropriate amount of pressure to apply to each (and what each point can tolerate).
Why would I wrap an exception if I don’t plan to have special handling? If it is exception that I didn’t throw because of a business reason, why not just throw the original exception?
Psychedelic mushrooms are powerful medicine. They have a psychoactive effect which alters brain chemistry and helps neurological disorder. We can see that in the paper. But then so do anti-depressants.

I believe the key difference between plant medicines like mushrooms, Peyote, Ayahuasca and others and clinical mood altering medicine is within the ecstatic experience. It is one to thing to have a pill lead you to an empirically more "healthy" brain. It is quite another to embark on a deep, introspective vision which provides a narrative to match the chemical benefit.

I volunteer as a guide within Ayahuasca ceremonies in Peru. Many turn to Ayahuasca as a last resort for depression, PTSD, sexual trauma, and much more. I have seen people in ceremony live through what they interpret as a hellish exorcism, an active exploration of their lineage, or a direct confrontation and resolution of their deepest emotional and spiritual trauma. These people often undergo significant positive transformation after the experiences.

These profoundly "real" experiences appear to be essential to the healing process.

We are creatures of story and psychedelics can help write a _most radical_ chapter of recovery.
Excited to launch this! We worked with Carbon Engineering to get their carbon captured using direct air capture. We believe it's the first consumer product to use direct air capture.
Thank you. Instead of acknowledging this reality, many here seem to be proposing technical ways to get around it.
Does this work for mounting Dropbox for Business folders? If so, this solves a significant problem for Linux users of Dropbox (whose official Linux client does not support account switching).
It's funny. They can't find enough labour and I, as a farmer, can't find enough ground to expand my operation to utilize the full capacity of my labour and equipment. Seems like the obvious solution is to downsize their operation and let someone else fill the void. In my experience, people interested in farming would rather own their own business than work for someone else.
Well, maybe Word for DOS took up 7-ish floppies.
Am I the only one concerned that they are rolling this tech out without further study? To quote the IEEE:

"Millimeter waves are broadcast at frequencies between 30 and 300 gigahertz, compared to the bands below 6 GHz that were used for mobile devices in the past."

In 2011 the WHO (World Health Organization) panel of scientists decided to label Cell Phones as possibly cancer causing after a review of the available studies:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.h...

This past year the department within the US government responsible for studying toxic effects released a preliminary report showing an increase in brain and heart cancer rates within male mice exposed to 2G and 3G wireless radiation:
https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/index.htm...

That's not to mention the personal stories of cell-phone induced brain cancers that have been circulating since the 80s. For instance: my brother-in-law's dad died of brain cancer, and he was a business man who was on his cell phone almost 24/7.

Exposing the majority of the US population to higher frequency waves than the ones already under suspicion of causing cancer seems like a bad call without further study.
What's wrong with providing context and why the Windows system doesn't historically work the same way?
Nothing is new under the sun and any Turing complete system can do what any other Turing complete system can do.

There's more than "can it run a command?" here. For example, I find that vanishly few operators managing fleets with tens of thousands of containers are prepared to go along with "just run this random bash script on the VM; I promise to keep it up to date".
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Horray, finally food safety is removed for the poor. One final triumph for the market- its not like that is the last straw that broke the camels back in the arab-spring revolution.

Imagine if all that food-oversupply for cheap had not been moved off to some bio-fuel.
If a culture gets that blind to this last most important thing, that kings and emperors shivered about- yes, that is a decent way to end it.

The fool who finds the hand grenade, can put a ring on it. What a way to go for capitalism in its purest form.
I'm not sure it's that simple. I suspect (but cannot prove) that some people are naturally procedural thinkers, and others are naturally functional thinkers. Haskell just makes sense to some people - and not to others. To say they "just have to properly learn the language"... I could say the same about you and C.

Assuming I'm right, can the naturally procedural thinkers really learn to use Haskell? Probably yes, at least most of them. Will it ever be as easy to them as procedural programming? Probably not. What will that "not as easy" look like? Greater cognitive load.

I am aware that all of this depends on my opening assumption being correct...
I was 14, just released my first text based game (think simple travian) to the world via national aggregation site (reddit of my nation at the time) got few thousands sign ups and few active players.

I hosted the project on some PHP hosting who's owner was a guy I met while playing online games. I edited and worked on the game live through some editor that offered FTP connections.

Because I was 14 I didn't have a card and I had to go to the post office to make a payment I missed it once and the dude shut my site off immediately & deleted everything. No backups. Since I was editing remotely I didn't have recent backup I had some old copy of the codebase. I never manually backed up the database, I didn't even know what backup was probably... So a game died 2 months after it was launched :(

related memory: I didn't know how to configure a cron job so I asked the dude if he can host me 1 machine open Opera on some url, right click and set "Refresh every 60 seconds" (Versions before 12.00 had that)
Exactly what I was going to post. At the very least I was expecting a demo of the product after all the nonsensical "bad day" blabber. But it never came and I still had no idea what I was looking at.
It isn't, but the people I'm replying to are suggesting charity is better than taxes because government is wasteful, to which I'm arguing that if that is the case then the solution is to fix government by making it transparent, not opening up more avenues for corruption by giving tax deductions for charity.
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I don't know johnwheeler's story, but I got talking to an Oregon game warden a couple weeks back. His story was that the state is handing out jail time and big fines in certain circumstances. What he described was work parties (large families, for example) coming from as far away as Seattle to pick up clams on the Columbia river. This particular type of clam is in vast numbers, but it is an invasive species. So you would think the state would be thankful to have them gone, right? What he described though is that the state is concerned about the spread to other bodies of water - so they want them left right there, rather than transported and potentially dumped somewhere else to spread. Given that these groups are collecting them for restaurant sales, I suspect that is an unlikely scenario, but there you have it. He said the biggest ticket he'd written was on the order of tens-of-thousands of dollars. So apparently this can be a hard lesson to learn.
The NSA and USA do not have a recent history of murdering tens of millions of its own citizens.

What America does has no effect on the morality of what China does. This is whataboutism at its finest.
Could it be because the message is literally from the President, in their ex officio role as the President?
Representative quote:

> "I am so utterly unimpressed," wrote Jacob T. Levy, a political theorist at McGill University, "by the fact that an enterprise that relies on a widespread presumption of not-fraud can be fooled some of the time by three people with Ph.D.s who spend 10 months deliberately trying to defraud it."
While we abide by the rules of government established by a document that that is hundreds of years old?
This article is all over the place and then apparently quotes an academic out of context. The real problem with indoor farming is not setup cost. For the fundamentals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw&feature=youtu.be... ... Bruce Bugbee, Utah State University Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, has studied plant growth in controlled environments for most of his career presents the results of his analysis of the environmental effects of Vertical Farming/Indoor Agriculture (September 2015). With regards to the machinery shown at the top of the article, it is standard industrial automation equipment you can purchase off the shelf, apparently not even hardened or substantially adjusted for outdoor use.
The implicit argument you're posing is that board membership is a meritocracy where there are no implicit or explicit barriers to entry based on certain groups.

I don't think I need to go into the result of holding that belief with the current makeup of boards of directors.
You didn't called it out as being p-hacked.

You called it out as not being possible in principle, that we will never be able to predict skills/whatever from a brain scan.
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What America does has no effect on the morality of what China does. This is whataboutism at its finest.
Do you really think a nation state (especially a psuedo-communist one) that involves itself in a project like this with specific requirements (like backdoors) is going to let it be housed off-site? Do you really think they won't demand to let their engineers all over it? Inside and out?

The whole reason AMD exists is because IBM wouldn't do business with Intel without an alternate domestic supplier.

In government manufacturing here in the US we can't even put CUI in the Cloud if the end-user is the government. And we're democratic. Can you imagine the export controls on Chinese technology?

The chances that China WON'T see the source code are zero.
It's fine to raise a concern or ask a question about it, but please don't be snarky about it. That's against the rules, both for Show HNs and for the site as a whole.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What about algorithmic laws.

People complain about affirmative action, because it favors one group of people over another.

What if you algorithmically defined quotas instead of saying group X you say of the n groups that are underrepresented in the subset population relative to their existence in the larger population of the country they are weighed favorably by a multiplier of X.

This way you can get around writing policies that expressly prefer one group over another. Instead of saying we prefer black people over Asian people into our institution, we prefer "women" over men. The policy should be written as we prefer the lower X% represented ethnic categories to ensure preventing homogeneity and ensure a level of diversity.

Of course the issue with this becomes how do you define group identity. People can be divided into infinitesimal categorizations, and how do you define what qualifies as being part of a group. Is Barack Obama black or white? What percentage of genetic markers, indicate that someone deserves a specific label or categorization. Why is that percentage accurate? Why do we prefer one class of discriminated people over another class of discriminated people? The questions go on and on.
Neat! Thanks for the tip.

This might be as useful as when I (accidentally) discovered that Ctrl+W closes Explorer windows. It even works on Windows 98!
Of course, there's no evidence that women are "treated like a second-class minority". There are individual instances where women fare worse than men (e.g., sexual assault victimization), but there are also individual instances where men fare worse than women (e.g., literally every other kind of assault victimization).
Ask HN: Was hired to improve company's devops, founder won't listen to my ideas
Three weeks ago I joined a fast growing startup on the West Coast to improve their dev operations and processes. The company is seeing crazy growth but they are still doing things like pushing directly to master and using prod deploys to test things out. I was hired to help improve this and implement things like staging environments, autoscaling of resources, and other DevOpsy stuff.

Since joining I've received considerable pushback on my ideas. Obviously I am the new guy and don't expect to just dictate people around nor is that my intention. However what really gets me is that the founder just straight up does not seem to trust me. Every suggestion I give - even things as industry standard such as the use of a staging environment - is met with suspicion and doubt and the insistence that I hadn't done enough proper "research" on the idea. I find this highly offensive considering I've been working in DevOps for almost seven years and before that was a SysAdmin.

So after two weeks, I got the approval to create a staging branch. I wrote up a huge document on the staging workflow, covering edge cases such as hotfixes and rollbacks. I put time on people's calendars and walked them through it including the founder. Yet he still continues to resist the change and pushes directly to master, ignores the new processes I put in place, and generally just does what he wants. He also keeps harping that I need to "earn his trust." I find this baffling - I mean, I was hired for a reason right? Why would they hire me if they didn't trust me?

I am starting to get frustrated, especially since the founder has pushed breaking changes directly to master and then I got flack since I am now the "systems" guy and am responsible for the health of the app. I'm trying to think of the best way to approach this diplomatically. Do any HNers have some pointers or advice to give? I've worked with difficult clients before but I've never faced such a huge lack of trust.
Isn't there an Aesop's fable about this sort of thing?