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The management within a company (considered as a class, rather than as a singular entity "the company") does indeed bargain collectively with the workers of that company.

If that's what he meant, I have no dispute. But, like you say, I can't see how that matters.

And it's pretty clear who has more leverage in the labor market: corporations. Replacing a worker is annoying but the corporation can usually afford to do without for a few months, whereas losing your job for even a short while can be devastating.

I don't think this is clear. Losing your job for a while can be devastating if you haven't planned for it, but the same is true of an unprepared company losing a valuable employee. Some empirics are necessary.

Also, it's only an effective monopsony if workers are incapable of searching for other work while they are employed.
Hi, I'm the actual author of the article (it was posted by someone else ... I'm flattered). Anyway, as an atheist its really hard for me sometimes.

There are certainly healthy, productive, happy members of society that have deep religious convictions. So be it.

But when people think they have an active full discourse with God and God is literally conversing with them and is furthermore telling them to do things that actually yield no results (Do X and Y will happen, and then Y never does), things get difficult.

Balancing the liberty of a person with what needs to be done to effectively empower them is a difficult task.
Wow, banned for "your gimmick is dumb, go away."
That's even worse when you consider the charge to make an account.
Following you suggestion, I found http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/329/uservoice-or-get...
Thanks
This would be a humongous undertaking. In fact, a better idea would do one for one of the big subreddits.

The N/S on reddit is much higher than HN thus your task would be much harder.

I really like the idea of HNM, the need for quality editorial guidance in the age of information overload is something that has been discussed many times, starting with Alvin Toeffler.
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Paranoia can be a major symptom of schizophrenia and many other mental illnesses .. and you guys are analysing this poor guy like some kind of lab rat .. how do you think this will affect him?
I find use for G+ due to the same higher intellect density that my circles generate on it.

If Google were really interested in integrating their crawling search with social search, they'd provide a "share this search with your circles" feature on the google search page, together with some descriptive text that you add like in a normal G+ post .. so people in my circles can respond with results that they think are relevant/related/tangential/interesting/whatever.
Some minor nitpicks:

i) Suggesting that someone might have a mental health problem is probably okay.

ii) Suggesting a specific mental health problem that a person may have, unless you're qualified, is probably not okay. (And if you are qualified there are ethical issues.)

iii) Mental health problems and mental illness are not "mental handicap". "Mental handicap" refers to learning disabilities. In the UK "Mental handicap" would be an odd phrasing.

Interesting questions: Should he have the choice to live with his illness? Or should he face coercion to have treatment? Does he have the choice, given that he may have an illness that affects choice?
Except it's not true: The Commodore Amiga delivered multi-tasking, shared objects and sophisticated IPC in only 256k of main memory. They cite OO techniques as being key.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exec_(Amiga)
"In general, in Europe, the idea of open-ended freedom of contract is suppressed in favor of more sweeping protective laws favoring employees."

The idea of open-ended freedom of contract only appeals to the employer. There are rarely real incentives for the employee to add contract clauses. I'm living proof that it does occasionally happen but, having been through it, I'd hesitate to say it's at all common.

In the majority, open contracts equal screwed employees due to the fact that the employers have contract lawyers and the employees don't.
Nice app but I quickly got to a point where the UI became unresponsive and digging into the CPU profiler it was all in storeValue and setItem, granted some of it can also be the issue of reading the data from the DOM, but I the point stands, localStorage's synchronous API causes issues.

It all depends on the app, but we seem to be using localStorage for all our storage and bolting complex querying on to it etc and this is a huge recipe for disaster.
The spec isn't broken; the browser implementations are broken. Even then, it's incredibly useful as is (although I haven't run into the locking issues described).

That said, we also need a client-side storage mechanism that supports queries, so I'm all for pushing toward IndexDB (or bringing back WebSQL).
Bloom, Boom, Bud, Overlog, Dedalus. Lot of new things here (for me at least).

But (not flaming, just asking) why Ruby? Is that a good choice for this project, or is it just research anyway so it doesn't matter?
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Something Awful is an interesting community. The people running it consider it to be an "idiot tax": if you're an idiot, you pay the tax.

I don't think there are very many (any?) other communities on the internet for which you must be a paid user to post.
Earlier submission and much discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3639175

Interestingly, I searched for this with HNSearch and it didn't show up:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3ACop...

Am I the only one who finds HNSearch pretty much a complete waste of time? Searches always have to be repeated on Google because there are so many results missing.
The problem with the localStorage API is that it blocks on IO: https://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2012/02/22/psa-dom-local-stor...
Agree about the public disclosure, but disagree that a mentally ill person can be expected to be responsible for their own wellbeing. It's logically impossible. And btw medication works quite well.
I'm intrigued by the 'non-responder' genetic predisposition: does this mean that no matter what form of exercise he does, and no matter how much, his fitness will NEVER improve?!
I think our context of use for localStorage is at fault too, it is insanely simple to use for small key value pairs.
"if you don't like being exploited, quit and get it over with."

Does anybody like being exploited?
flagged, see xd & thaumaturgy

This is a discussion that must be had, but the way it is phrased is not ok.
The search index that backs latexsearch.com is written in ocaml.
This is a horribly-written hit piece.
Its quite fascinating seeing heavy weights have a go at each other. Most of the discussion here is right over my head but I find myself quite enjoying it. At least its better that the current boxing heavy weight scene. This is about the only post on hacker news that I have read comments on from start to finish. Brilliant all!
…never possible…

I disagree. Consider a computer like the Apple ][. I didn't 'completely understand' it at the time, but with what I've learned since (including a CS degree), it is now very plausible to me that it could be exhaustively understood, down to every wire and line of OS/firmware code. I can see the boundaries of the areas I don't know clearly, and know that a bounded amount of extra effort could get me down through every 6502 opcode, or all relevant functional physical/electrical properties of all the subsystems.

(While I'm still not strong in the electrical engineering parts, the exercise in my undergrad EECS class where we built a 4-bit CPU from TTL components was the key for me in connecting the electrical world of circuits and logic gates to the abstractions of executable software.)

Maybe, nowadays, the typical systems (like the article's MacBook Air example) are too big, drawing from too many specialties and involving too many details, for any one person to decompose 'all the black boxes' with comprehensive understanding. But just a few decades ago, that wasn't yet the case.
Were you able to leave?

Yes?

Then you weren't a slave.
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No, they just respond more slowly. That study had people doing four hours of exercise a week. That is not very much. A lot of people would exceed that in one training session (e.g. someone training for an endurance event like a triathlon). Furthermore, there are more facets to fitness than endurance. Strength, flexibility, balance, and so on are all important to fitness, whether you define fitness in terms of quality of life or athletic achievement.
I'd suggest that just using the ~$100,000 salary range as an example has shown that you're not really understanding of the "average" employee.
Nash (crypto) would be a famous mathematician example.
It's an awful community (no pun intended). There are some of the worst people on the Internet hiding behind it.
I got really excited about this, thinking it was a Rails-style front-end framework. It's still really cool as a server-side framework, but I'm totally hankering for a full Rails stack in the browser.

I've used Backbone and played with Spine - I just can't help but feel as though they could go all the way. I wonder whether that's viable?
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I'd say life's too short to beat around the bush.
Function call overhead is only one of the issues with the C version based on void pointers.

Check out Stroustrup's keynote at Going Native 2012 for more details:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012...
Wow, how did you make the thing scroll endlessly?
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Huh? That link claims "The STL will not work in kernel mode and cannot be used", which is not much of a surprise given the STL's use of exceptions and dynamic allocation.

In any case, kernel guys seem to prefer their data structures in intrusive style rather than the container style ubiquitous throughout the C++ standard library. (For an example, see the intrusive list and red-black tree implementations in the Linux kernel.) Intrusive structures allow for exactly the kind of low allocation, very memory friendly layout that kernel developers are looking for - no clever optimisations necessary.

C++ features like stronger type checking, more careful casts and RAII are a more compelling argument for the language.
If you are in a place where the employer can lay claim to your side work, then that means you need them to agree to not do so in your contract. There is a demand for software engineers now, so they should sign it.
The idea of bump was consensual near-field communication, I think that it applies quite well in this case.
I was about to subscribe, the 88$ is reasonable for a nice printed copy. But for the Netherlands (i know, overseas) the shipping is 84$ which really discouraged me.

Great initiative though :)
NASA's employee-written maths guides to Finite Element Modeling
JoCaml uses multiple processes. (But hide IPC details from you.)
An Obj-C message is still about 5x slower than a C++ virtual function call, but even that is too slow for inner loops of expensive algorithms. For example, I'm doing DSP at 44.1k ops per second and I can only afford about one virtual function call for every sixteen samples but I can put my samples in an STL vector with no access overhead vs a raw array.

It's true that most people don't need the performance you can get with C++ but if you do it's still really your only serious option.
This is a sad post, taking it's from an entrepreneur. You sure don't want to be in the pessimistic/negative mindset.

Finding right people for customer interviews is hard

If one can't find them, how can one validate the idea, tweak it and ultimately find customers?

Conducting customer interviews is hard

How else can you close a sale with the potential customers?

Figuring out MVP is hard

How does one manage project management, not to mention a business without requirement analysis and prioritization? Also, a great question to answer: would you use it like that?

Designing experiments for validated learning is hard

It's all about risk/reward. Again, this is not the mindset for entrepreneurship.

Pivoting is hard

How else can one better grow the business, but to understand the market?

Informed-optimism is the way to go! So man-up, if you really believe in your product, you will do it.
Also, I don't think more frameworks are what we need. Guidelines are good, so to know what to keep focus on. Besides this you only need discipline

*I'm not an accomplished entrepreneur, so take this with a grain of salt. But this is how I feel now. And that's what worked for me before.
Hi I'm the author of the article. Thanks for your comment.

* I didn't post the article here and I wrote it in about 70 minutes; I had no intention of opening up this discussion in HN.

* All the information is very public, most of it authored by the gentleman in promotional materials.

* The article is about accepting and awareness. There's been much harsher words said about the individual and his project.

* The article is mostly in praise of his accomplishments.

* I have known very similar people and so this hit me on a personal level.

* As an article there's some general rules that yield a good read. I guess I could have been non-specific, or asked for consent of the family, I didn't know this was going to gain so much traction.
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Maybe if your product is simple. However like Amazon's warehouses those where I work do not have consistent packaging or can they. Then toss in having packages which can be broken as customers do not always need complete sets; you do want your customer's happy don't you? The stock oh, nearly a hundred thousand items in each warehouse and do you see where robots don't fit in?

What you do do is arrange inventory based on sales, size, and packaging. Looking to minimize the travel of each picker and reduce the chance of injury. You also install conveyors and similar to make moving inventory around simpler.
Kill it off? I don't think so. Avoid using it if it's not the right tool for the job? Certainly. As a simple cross-browser key-value storage mechanism it beats cookies hands down in my experience, but obviously doesn't compare to database-style alternatives.
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What I think was possible was understanding down to the level that you could reliably know what caused the Apple II to act in any given way.

Was it possible all the way down to the transistor level? Maybe not, but it didn't have to be in order to understand the behavior.

It was certainly possible down through the IC level, and there were any number of people who achieved that sort of mastery.

I don't believe that's still possible with any consumer general purpose computer. I think there are people out there with that level of understanding of specialized devices, probably up to and including things like Xbox and PS3. I don't know if there are people that understand an airbook to that level, or a desktop PC, or their webserver. Maybe, but it seems unlikely.
Sorry to threadjack but... how does it work? It seems that, for some reason, my account is blacklisted too. Who decides that? On the basis of what? I'm honestly perplexed...
Hmm. So while I admit you can find examples of people receiving such harassment, I don't think you can make the case that such events are common or likely the experience you will have. People generally get angry when they hear about stuff like your link. It's newsworthy for a reason (rare + outrageous). Government employees are people too, it's not like anyone acts deliberately oppressive.

Besides, that cost benefit ratio sounds worth it. (very rare chance of harassment and molestation) vs (very real chance of learning something awesome)

I guess I'm curious how much money you'd charge to store such pdfs on your hard drive forever -- more than $100? more than $1000?

I'll do it for $10 :p

BTW it sounds like you really should look up Room 641A -- this conversation and your IP were logged. Talking about evading security is probably way worse than taking about meth.
Anyone know what the actual street value of those vulns would be if you have the right contacts?

Paging tptacek, paging tptacek to the thread...
Francis E. Dec comes to mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_E._Dec
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Hi,

I know I'm about to be down-voted to the lower circles of hell, but I'd just like to say something:

Steve Jobs was a normal person. He was, like many successful business people, very motivated, very intelligent and very arrogant.

Managing to run a successful marketing campaign does not a revolutionary make.

Can we please stop turning him into a martyr?

Not sure, but we probably aren't doing history any favours with the ret-con.

Thanks.
This would be cool if it had a killer suspend feature. Which means that you could plug this out, ride to school, plug it in and continue whatever you were doing.
It's only logically impossible if you have a binary definition of mental 'illness'.
The Australian system is quite functional and, unlike the USA, we still have a functioning economy. Granted it mainly comes from digging up bits of the country and selling it cheap to China, but it's not all bad news. The USA could do with a lot more socialism than it's currently got.
Going public means ....going public.
Can you name any language that does give you that level of control in its standard collection classes? At least C++ gives you the power to define your own if you really need to.
Hey guys, thanks for the comments on our app.

Nakkiel, we'll be adding groups in the future, we know how useful this will be for lots of users (ourselves included). To confirm, every password isn't decrypted and loaded in the UI, it is in-fact on demand and passwords are only decrypted when you hover over their respective field.

nodesocket1, we considered SaaS but feel this model allows more flexibility and control for the end user, and there's no ongoing costs.
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For my low level stuff I use C with namespaces. Seriously. C with namespaces beats the hell out of both C and C++ for most stuff. You can still link to C and C++, and you don't need to worry about the myriad of quirks you have in C++ and its compilers, while you can have some decent organisation in your code.
Yeah. I've only recently become good at it. Changes things enormously when you are no longer ignored.
Exactly this. To think that doctors can diagnose a person over the internet is already far stretched, since some health problems need examinations, tests and proper studying about the nature of the problem and the ones that they do are doing it by using specific websites and they emphasize how they cannot do a proper diagnosis but just interpret the symptoms - not talking about psychological issues exclusively here.

But for members of community to point their finger saying "this guy has this, can't you tell?" is brutal. Just brutal. If you really care about a person's health (especially when it's psychological) you don't do this. Instead, you try to come in contact with him or family or at worst with some professional around his town and treat him with the dignity an ill human deserves to be treated. This feels like we're all discussing about him in the town square and when he comes by we'll just give him the stare while he walks around. How's that helpful?

Cruel? It's sick. Mo matter how much "socially acceptable" it is, it doesn't make it less wrong.
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Flagged for a flamebaity title.
Suggestion: Filter cell phone mics between 80 and 1100 hertz.
Sure, you may not be able to hear the latest pop song via playing over the radio right now via cell phone.

It should increase call quality dramatically, however.

Who cares if a few people can't be heard making their funky noises? re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_range#World_records_and_extremes_of_vocal_range

I live in Toronto and am constantly reminded about the fact of how loud our streets can get when talking on my phone away from home.
You say this hit you on a personal level because you have known similar people .. I watched a close friend fall apart from mental illness who was an amazingly talented coder and I can say without any doubt that your article will do nothing but harm to this guy.
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Google+ has one draw for me - hangouts with extras. The rest I ignore.
There is no contract stipulation in my contract that says I might need to do overtime. The only mention of overtime is the fact that it is unpaid.

So I've never done it. I get in at 8:30am and leave at 5pm every day.
I think it has been a long time since it has been happening for "some" searches. A few years perhaps. But I came across a search result which I thought would be quite obvious and apparently didn't fall into their algorithms.
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Have you discovered the super cool part of jfarmer's suggestion?

You can select and copy the wrapped text (code), and the lines, when pasted, are not wrapped. In other words, the line breaks in the original text/code remain intact.

With a bit of userContent.css manipulation in firefox, you can force this on all places (<pre>, <code>, ...) where it's useful.
It's not possible to truly implement Spotify as there is no P2P in HTML5 yet - but see Chromium's efforts with WebRTC.

It's also not possible to implement Dropbox. When last I checked, IDB in Firefox is at least an order of magnitude slower than a KV implementation with direct posix access. Most importantly, there's no proper native crypto api, and no way to let a user open a file from within a web application, and have it open in a native application, polling the file for changes to sync the different chunks when the user hits CMD+S.

Would be great if Public Web Apps could push these two use-cases through and do so without undue delay. Here's a related thread started by Tim Berners-Lee: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMa...