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Thanks to hackernews api, now I don't need to see shit comments like this and filter out xenophobic posts and comments. Hackernews comment section and many posts have become a propaganda machine. Too bad hackernews is going far right and down the drain.

This such a great advancement but no tech is discussed in the comments. Sad.
This shows lighter in my browser, like it's voted down, but it's by far the most insightful comment.

Also, if you're a company and you have a platform like facebook and Twitter, and you're a private company, not the government, you can kick whomever you damned well please off your service, or delete their posts, or edit them to make them look stupid. It's not censorship if you're not the government. If facebook gets all progressive and the conservatives don't like it, let them make their own conservative platform. Too bad techies lean left, going to make that difficult.

Freaking 'merica's biggest political activity is now whining.
Sounds like a great argument to increase the federal minimum wage so everyone is forced to pay their employees more.
This is especially difficult when Kik is involved, since it uses cryptography and is involved in cryptocurrency. I was interested until I saw it was about ICOs.
Maybe. It is hard to making money leasing your boat. You need to pay the crew and such. If the market of people wanting to lease a boat is down one year you still have to pay those people.

Note that a boat is a bad example on your part. There are lots of other things you can do that are more likely to earn money.

For that matter if you can afford a $100 million boat, the crew cost is a line item that you can ignore and thus your boat sits in port 11 months just so you can have your boat. If you really like that boat it isn't a big deal that you are losing that much money.
The paper is linked in the article if can be bothered to read what you are threatening to flag...
The fact that it's yours makes it interesting by necessity, but also puts you in a position to discover ways in which all babies are - at least to some extent - interesting. There are minds that are anything but mundane beyond the minutiae.

On the contrary, you seem to have restricted the category of interesting things so tightly that you're not noticing a whole treasure trove of things.
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This is so often overlooked. DNA is nothing without the machine to 'run' it. Which is incredibly complex in itself, more so than the DNA?
Speaking from experience with my brother, it's an uphill battle. Without meds, he can go into a full-blown psychotic/manic episode and every new relapse damages the brain further and makes it harder to come back. With my brother it's especially bad since he doesn't even hear voices, but has delusions of grandeur and gets very confrontational, thinking he is the devil and wants to hurt people. Just recently (a few months ago) he had his third hospitalization, even though he was receiving abilify injections, and this time it took the strongest meds (haldol, leponex) to stabilize him. But sometimes it needs to get worse before it can get better. Try to convince him to take meds or get him on monthly depot injections. For reference, we are in our early thirties.
Well yea, they're going to have a ton of options once organization is complete.

I think most of the CEO's comments about why they're not recognizing the union feel pretty standard from the management's standpoint.
Wow, it'd be great if we could get past the "year of the software startup influencer" in otherwords the entirety of Product Hunt...

I stopped following when an app meant to "map where you cried that day" made it to the front page of PH...
The reason it's not the best analogy is because keyboard layout is not biologically programmed like handedness. If anything, Dvorak being more ergonomic makes it more biologically friendly.

> I wouldn’t actively try to teach them anything, but let them learn on their own.

Not to dole out parenting advice, but not influencing your kid concerning a fundamental skill like typing is 1) a mistake, & 2) unavoidable once they start asking questions.
Except now somebody's boss is going to site this article to show it's common practice (I'm only partially kidding) or only remember the removing pins saving time part.

I'm reminded of the LA TV news shorts reminding people not to modify their lighters to continuously spew flame and throw them out the window on the freeway. The alignment of stupidity and (anti)social incentives to risk other people's lives is a dangeous thing. Antivax rallies come to mind.
Because "doing something about it" requires violence. Americans have gone soft--we aren't demanding our rights be protected. Until we send a clear message, they will continue to walk all over us.

Rights are won by force and no other way. I'm sorry if that offends you, but pick up a history book and read and you will see that I am correct.

The above is why there is a full-court press to ban guns in the USA. They know what is required for us to force them to respect our rights. They know because they use violence every day to complete their own goals.
My high school physics teacher did the same. He would take the tests he prepared himself to check whether the scope was appropriate for the allocated time. The factor of 3 was spot on for this kind of estimation.
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Preserve our freedom AND limit population growth? Sounds like a win win.
" getting the vitamins you normally get from meat can be challenging - especially to your wallet" - Which vitamins? I'm honestly curious, the only one I think vegans have a shortage of is B12, which is easily substituted for with cheap ingredients.

As someone who has recently switched, I'm honestly confused as to this "cost" issue... it seems to me that the diet is much, much cheaper now that I no longer have to buy meat. I understand the price issue at restaurants (vegan places are more niche and thus more expensive), but if you cook for yourself, I find myself saving money.
People can tell whether you spent 5 hours or 5 days on a task.

I wonder whether that's the reason for him not getting the job. Likely, the interviewers wanted to see what this person is capable of doing in a short timeframe, how they'll prioritize and deliver under such constraints. This guy failed to do what they asked for.
It's amazing this article even needs to be written. You'd think the executives pulling in these crazy salaries would be competent enough to know that paying their "team members" next to nothing is going to result in high turnover and be a bad business decision in the long run. This article frames his choice to actually pay his employees as some big discovery, but it's not. The fact is, execs already know, but they put their short-term greed over what is best for their employees, the company in the long term, and their communities.
Stackexchange already did that line of thinking (and cite this article). Enlightening comments. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37637/did-henry...
I can do way more as long as it's not all the time, and the work's interesting. Think 80hrs writing some software, followed by a lighter week that's mostly cooking involved meals, or gardening, or prototyping board games, or building furniture. Maybe no code written for another 5-6 weeks. That'd be my "natural"—absent economic pressure—relationship with projects and with writing software. Maybe a week a month or less, but very heavy and focused when in that mode. Then heavy and focused on something else for a while.

But yeah, my "real work" limit for a day's probably like 4hrs tops in any kind of sustained way. I've rarely seen a job that can manage to keep even that much real work slung my way on a regular basis, though. And at this point I provide 90+% of my value just by knowing the right thing or having the right insight, and communicating that info. That top-of-the-value-pyramid work is maybe a handful of minutes a week, on a good week. Most of my salary's justified by a few hours a year—it's just hard to know which hours it'll be.
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Intuitively and introspectively I agree with you.

But then I ask myself, where are all the successful 30-hour week companies? Why is it that nearly every single successful organization has a culture of long hours?

I personally know that I can't sustainably work 10+ hours a day. But the observed results in the real world seem to say something different.

It's hard to square that circle, and I'm genuinely interested in anyone who has insight on this.
Microsoft Open Sources Key Component of Its Search Engine
Includes Front Page, Ask, Show and Polls.

Thanks to Hacker News RSS [1], Feed Informer [2] and SimplePie [3].

[1] https://edavis.github.io/hnrss
[2] http://feed.informer.com/
[3] http://simplepie.org
I am sorry you had such a bad experience, can I ask you to give me some link or details about your issues with datetime , I want to learn about the problems I do not doubt you.

I had some problems with mysql updates though, new versions had different)better default behavior). we were using an ORM for the project but the initial setup and migrations were made in plain SQL and those needed to be updated. As an example in older mysql you could have a timestamp column NULL with no default value set and now we needed to fix to set a curenttime as default.
yes, i think most of the depression and anguish comes from experiences like this
I have some experience but the things is obviously I don't work 12 hours a day continuously. I took plenty of breaks as needed. Also help is I live very close to the office and the pay was good. Overall I saw it as a positive experience.
>> We are going to have the government deal with shitty Mods?

Breitbart.

>> Back when I was a kid, if the Mods sucked, you'd stop going to that website.

If websites existed when you were a kid, you are not the target market for this tool.

>>Serious question, why do unhappy customers keep buying what bad companies sell?

That's how addiction works.

>>I stopped using Facebook and many subreddits. I have this self control.

Then they have won. Every time a reasonable person disconnects, the ratio of unreasonable people on a platform increases. Unreasonableness, extremism, creates greater engagement, generating more add revenue.

>> Is there anyone here that cannot stop visiting bad websites?

We are all here aren't we?
Once I had a half day exercise that went even further - they provided the computer, removing the internet, but also removing all of the normal module documentation, and for good measure forbidding you from using any documentation from any source.

There were a lot of compilererrors on the way to a solution for that one.
That old Sinéad O'Connor is still ringing true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14lwdpYkAA
This sort of thing mostly works fine for students and similar. (And internships are often great for everyone concerned.) But this doesn't really work for someone who already is working full-time. Some pay is fine but there's no way I'm taking a week of vacation to interview with you.
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I had a similar experience once but a little more extreme. On a take home interview test they were asking to build a full backend analytics setup plus a data viz UI. I called the recruiter back and told them an estimate to a problem like this was well beyond the ~4 hours they originally told me. Their response was to say "they were looking for people who would find a way to get it done no matter what". I immediately stopped the interview process without looking back.
This article is one of the most disgustingly bugman things I've ever read. It doesn't matter that America is a soul crushing gladiatorial pit; a miserable scramble over a few crumbs tossed us by the reptilians at the top, it matters that American corporate efficiency may be at risk.

Virtually everything about modern American life is alienating, mostly because of this mindset and the downstream products of it. But if it were good for corporate efficiency, I'm pretty sure Harvard Business School types would be all for it.
Yes, many people, even (!) in Hacker News.

It's sometimes not about self-restraint, and that's an ongoing discussion here: What do you do when everybody else are on these services?
Voice typing will never be robust enough to handle the innumerable use cases of text input, even if the technology were significantly improved from where it is now. As a trivial example, inputting information that you don't want to be heard by whoever's around.

More concretely speaking, do you think their teachers & future employers would be OK with them not knowing a computing skill that's become fundamental to modern life?
It doesn't really make much difference.

If you invest it directly you support whatever you invest in. (you might or might not get it back depending on if the investment is successful) The best case you supported a new things that everybody buys, thus creating a company that employees a lot of workers.

If you buy luxury goods you directly support all the employees of the companies that make those goods, keeping them in a job.

Even if the investment choice was a life saving drug, the luxury purchase means those employees have money and they are likely to donate to research of life saving drugs.
They might find greater ease with learning both at this point in life. But unless you homeschool, the probability that your children will have to work on QWERTY computers they don't have the ability to change into Dvorak input mode at school approaches 1. They'll need it.
It is good then that we have not. Green light is the most ugliest kind in my opinion.
Hackernews obsessed with anti China nowadays !

Propaganda machines are working well again. Xenophobia and FOMO on the rise.
I've never seen one of these. I'm assuming it is like an Aldi or Trader Joe's?
True, but Employer-B now has employees who DGAF about anything in the business, and often have an adversarial, even 'eff them! attitude to the business.

Employer-B's customer service and general care of its facilities & inventory will suck, and they will have much higher turnover costs, even if they have better products.

So, what is the relative advantage?

Moreover, the article was specifically about the tradeoff in executive pay vs low-end pay, and how a small sacrifice at the top made huge differences both for the low-level employees and for profits overall
Not a good look for Typeform.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/05/business/the-quiet-allure...

> Though David Rowe, a veteran architect of the Wharton forecasting model, has played a key role in developing the firm's econometric model, the senior staff, including Miss Eickhoff, Judith Mackey and Lucille Wu, is mostly female. Mr. Greenspan explains the gender bias with the free-market pragmatism that has become his hallmark: "I always valued men and women equally, and I found that because others did not, good women economists were cheaper than men. Hiring women does two things: It gives us better quality work for less money, and it raises the market value of women."

That is, just a few decades ago, the leading economic consulting firms in the world—economists!—were regularly overpaying men because they didn't want to hire equally capable women, such that Greenspan could find an obvious mispricing in the labor market.

Imagine how much more poorly people who are not economists and not owners of their firm must be making hiring decisions on much less blatant biases than gender.
Popular. Posted five times in the past week:
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GDPR most certainly does apply in the UK? We haven't left the EU yet - if we ever will and even if we do we'll still have GDPR like rules in place.
I miss the old site :( It's so simple and beautiful..
Generally, you can say that if you don't know what you're doing is in fact legal, you should get some legal advice. Of course, this isn't practical in every situation. Sometimes you just have to take a chance if the stakes are low. However if what you're doing looks an awful lot like selling securities, but you don't actually know if it counts or not, I hope you'd get some advice on that matter. I'm curious if they did.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ While not the official language, you can oftentimes assume people will understand English in Sweden.

My observation in Florida is you find more people who don't speak English here than in Sweden.
The sad part is that someone thinks that starting a union is going to make anything better. If they unionize it's just an early death rattle for Kickstarter. I know they've got some shit going on, but this just adds gas to the fire.
> I'm sorry if that offends you, but pick up a history book and read and you will see that I am correct.

It doesn't offend me, it's just trivially wrong, as I know of many privacy-enhancing laws that got passed without a drop of blood being spilled (e.g. the GDPR).
That’s true. I heard Chinese internet CTOs saying this about a feature that took a year to launch in NA when they do recruiting in CA:

“We can deliver this in two weeks with the same team size”
Prisoners of memes, social media victims
The research is interesting without the hyperbole the media puts on it for clicks.
Except it was used elsewhere in the UK before London.
I'm pretty sure they were to trying to get a sense of your political leanings, without actually saying so.
Great idea.

Until you realize that no level on minimum wage is adequate in SF, while $10/hr is livable in rural Arkansas.

It's not a silver bullet even with COL factored in. Higher staff costs? Replace them with automation. You can see the largest employers of minimum wage employees (eg. Mcdonalds) hedging against a rising minimum wage with kiosks to replace cashiers. At $15/hr for labor, those capital investments start looking like a mighty fine ROI.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. Lots of things persist because “that’s the way it’s always been done”. Probably what’s going on here, in my opinion.
I think it's because Twitter has shown they will reverse bans for cases that get too much negative publicity rather than adhere to a consistent policy. This is a logical counterreaction to aggregate and lobby for banned accounts, conservative or otherwise.
I would steer clear of "IT", you need to get some projects on a blog or fill in your GitHub with things that aren't necessarily over the top complex but somewhat novel and creative.

Employers see you as a risk because they aren't sure how much effort it's going to take to get you to a point where you can not only write code but understand how to work as an engineer in a larger org and be extensible.
Almost everyone of driving age in Sweden speaks English with complete or near fluency. I know there are a few who don't do well in class, and a few who are quite old, but maybe less than the number of tourists.
>>Serious question, why do unhappy customers keep buying what bad companies sell?

Many good convos have happened on this -- Facebook is de facto required for participating in some levels of society. I've heard of people being required to use Facebook to get information as vital as announcements about school for their kids. For those of us with poorly understood chronic illnesses, Facebook is the only place we can find people who share our condition and can trade information with. Many community events are only announced through Facebook events. Essentially, it's infiltrated so many aspects of life that it's become very difficult for many people to fully walk away from.
Why do you think anyone expects “loyalty and sacrifice” for minimum wage at Walmart!

sacrifice? c’mon
Never underestimate the wealth of a rich and lazy CS undergrad's parents.
> you’re about to dedicate up to 5 working days on this task, with the potential for them to ghost you straight afterwards

I often give companies a list of open current open source tasks I'm working on. Pick one and I'll complete it for your interview. Every singe company turned me down, except one, who just accepted one of the tools I had on Github and examined that.
...return?

Walmart, Amazon.
Interesting to leave out "Revenue more than doubled to $728 million in the same period, as did membership."
What's worse?

Private companies making decisions about what appears on their privately funded platforms?

Or bureaucrats, ideologues and partisans using government power to influence what appears on private sites?
Political affiliation is not a protected class in federal law so you could ask that... though state law might prevent it.
> The above is why there is a full-court press to ban guns in the USA.

I'm skeptical of this claim. I think many opponents of private gun ownership are motivated by concerns about their use for crimes against regular people, not because it lowers the ability to resist tyranny.
I don't know but politicians need to feel like they will lose votes if they are caught supporting these kinds of things.

To put it in US terms, in the 2016 Democratic primary we saw attack ads criticizing Hillary for being a hawk. They'd say things like "she says she supports not getting involved in Quagmire:latest but in $YEAR she voted for a bill that funded $ThingThatDoesTheOpposite".

When we see city and state politicians getting called out in the same manner for pandering to the interests (mostly police and government) that want a police state then we're on the right track.

I don't know exactly how this translates to practicalities. I'd support politicians who have a strong message of getting the .gov out of people's business in specific cases in the hope it eventually generalizes.
Excelsior JET 16 cancelled and Excelsior moving away from JVM development
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Ask HN: What do small marketing agency deals look like?
I can't figure out the math behind all of these smallish marketing agencies. In my city there are at least a dozen of them; 10-20 employees, very nice offices, they typically have one or two Fortune 1000 clients, some smaller clients, and a few local clients. They seem to launch one or maybe two projects a month. Projects are usually some mix of creative video and photography, a microsite, social media creative, digial ad creative and buys, content, "brand strategy", etc.

It seems most of them would need to bring in at least $100k/month to break even. Are the deals that big? Anyone have examples of number breakdowns for these types of deals?
This is very true. I live in the DC area and the number of ridiculous "clean coal" ads plastered all over public transit and TV/radio here is insane.

Lobbyists will be the death of us all.
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What do you mean?
From the vibe I've got, it seems like it's fully non-custodial. There is quite a large section in the middle too about securing your keys.
You can install the VSCode extension, today, with a few key presses.

This is explicitly mentioned in the article.
Related older easy-to-read article, paper and seminar lecture:

1. "Binary holographic reduced representations for SWI-Prolog" by Jocelyn Ireson-Paine:

http://www.j-paine.org/hrr.html

2. "Dual Role of Analogy in the Design of a Cognitive Computer" by Pentti Kanerva, in Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences. Workshop. Sofia, Bulgaria, July 17-20, 1998:

http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/choe/mirror/kanerva.ANALOGY98-kan...

3. Pentti Kanerva lectures at Stanford on "Computing with High-Dimensional Vectors":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUCoxhExe0o

4. Additional information, including the slides, for Kanerva's lecture are available at:

http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/171025.html