skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there's an email that shows direct evidence of conspiracy to fix wages, I'd be interested in seeing that, but I don't think the no-poach agreements need to be assumed to have been a bad-faith arrangement.

Depressed wages are the whole point. The no-poach collusion is there to prevent the companies involved from being in a position where they need to make a counteroffer to retain their talent.
I'm not sure I believe the "keep you from getting drunk" part of this, as this experiment bears out. However, yeast is a good source of B vitamins, and alcohol often causes B vitamin deficiency. So taking yeast (or drinking unfiltered beer) is a good way to avoid that. So it might help with the hangover or long-term effects.
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Nope, Slick is the best one that I ran across for Scala.

I just found writing the classes painful so I wrote slickint to deal with generation of classes, and it was reasonable after that.
Some new rifles allow you to "tag" targets and with sufficiently advanced software it should be able to tell the difference, unless the two targets overlap, then it's a maybe.

Sniper rifles already exist that can tag and track moving targets.
Work has already started on supporting Docker images in Gitian Builder.
https://github.com/devrandom/gitian-builder/issues/53
Lastpass for iOS [1] or Android[2]. On Android you can even have it fill passwords inside of other apps

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lastpass-for-premium-custome...

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lastpass.l...
> It doesn't really leave the employee without somewhere to go, it just makes it harder for them to find employment at a direct competitor while still employed.

They stopped being direct competitors the minute they agreed to collude. The term you're looking for is 'fellow cartel member.'
System Administration at Netflix
Were these the guys who adapted their technology to fire fertiliser pellets into the ground from the air, for agricultural purposes?
How is it unnatural moving at swift pace is a very common phrase. I can think of several times that I and others have said it.
If nothing else, cookiecaper represents the kind of thinking that leads to these situations in the first place. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it's amoral. Yes, it betrays profound ignorance of the law and ethics, and yes, it's shot through with the kind of "logic" so poor it's actually repulsive. But that's actually the point.

In the same way that smoke indicates fire, a stink like this indicates a giant pile of shit. And that's exactly what's just hit the fan.

If you (a) agree with cookiecaper and (b) have anything to do with HR, now would be a great time to consider switching careers. You simply don't have the moral judgement your job requires. Better get out now before you find yourself in the middle of a similar mess.
Wow, Rapexegesis.com? I literally just misspelled that immediately after seeing it written.

ex·e·ge·sis
ˌeksiˈjēsis/
noun
noun: exegesis; plural noun: exegeses

critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture.
"the task of biblical exegesis"
synonyms:	interpretation, explanation, exposition, explication More
The Reason Pot Is Still Illegal
What a terrible thing to say. What she wrote sounds like classic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I have PTSD myself and this is exactly the kind of thing that triggers it.

As for the Cards against Humanity game, let that be "exhibit A".
He should have artificially controlled wages through legal means: start a union.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3766509
> I would take this article with a pinch of salt and an ocean of water.

Is that supposed to make the homeopathy more effective? :)
Just because someone made a mistake, it shouldn't automatically make all of their work 'evil'.
If it makes you feel any better, there's a great deal of randomness in terms of what makes it off the "new" page versus what doesn't. That's assuming that the content is good and you're not a recognized author.
A lot of lyrics sites are high-traffic, but also have low retention and high bounce rate due to SEO being the major source of incoming traffic.

Would be interesting to see some data on RapGenius userbase in industry standard terms - monthly actives, daily actives, etc.
The memory model seems to be the real achilles heel for concurrency in Java. In the end with a only little bit of work one can master the concurrency primitives and they are quite usable. However understanding the full ramifications of the memory model is pretty much beyond mere mortals. As a result it is hard to do anything else than stick to established patterns and / or toolkits and frameworks if you don't want to set yourself up for insidious issues that are nearly impossible to reproduce.
(I'm more on your side than not.)

What does it even mean for 'society' to 'have a bias'? That individuals in group G fare worse in situation S, all other things being equal, than individuals in other groups? If you have a better reading, please let me know. If not, we have disembarked too far from the cognitive for bias, an inherently cognitive thing, as our explanation.

Look at my name and call me a hammer-nail guy, but here's what I think: it comes down to options - yours, others', your expectation of others', theirs of yours, and most especially the resulting interplay of all of the above.
Human beings are the situation you put them in.

You and I (and Max Temkin and Julian Assange) have a grounded reason for a general fear of false rape accusation: that option is available to any woman we've ever spent an hour with. Is any individual, no matter her motivations, terribly likely to exercise that option? No, but that's not the disturbing part. The disturbing part is, there's no recourse once they do - no options.

But why! Why are there no options? Because rape is the exact thing that it is: a grievous crime whose lasting scars are emotional more often than physical. Anything else, it's different: show me the dead body, show me the stolen thing, what have you. If you're a woman, and some dude rapes you but somehow there's no physical scarring and no dna and no webcam recording and no witnesses-- an altogether plausible scenario, we can all agree-- then fuck you, says the legal system. No options. Not that the legal system has an option in the matter either; you can't have a system that sends people to jail for decades on testimony without evidence. No options here, no options there, no options everywhere, for everyone.

We, by which I mean the public, tend to believe the accuser, in my personal opinion, a) because some fraction of the public is women who have been exactly there, with no options, and see themselves in the accuser (regardless of whatever the real truth of the matter may be), and b) because they don't believe their voice matters anyway. Perhaps secretly, but all the same. Your girlfriend's opinion on Ben Roethlisberger's guilt of rape will, she is well aware, have zero legal effect. But it's your potential no-option situation, not hers, on your mind when you challenge her living room accusations for lack of evidence. A challenge which she can't answer because rape is the thing that it is.
So is the entire team as douchey as the founders or is this all a facade? I can't see how any self respecting person could work for such clowns (at least when in public) unless they themselves are just as bad and can't see what the problem is.
Why not negotiate a way to make the employee want to stay for the duration of the project? If the monthly salary isn't enough to ensure the duration of service you need, find a way to offer additional compensation.

Try back-loading the employee's contract with increasingly large incentives in the latter stages of the project. Any steps you take that limit the employee's career mobility and agency without employee agreement and compensation are suspect.
Just curious, but why don't you use git?
An employee really worth it will see their salary go up. An employee that keeps switching to the highest bidder will gain a rep as unreliable.

That problem solves itself. No need for the employer to trample on the employee
Which can be (and was) remedied by a simple reply to correct that one particular part. Indiscriminately pedantic downvoting on the other hand, just kills the potential for any fruitful discussion all for the sake of some silly minor mistake. Luckily, more people came in and got the comment out of the grey zone in this case.
> The memory model seems to be the real achilles heel for concurrency in Java.

I'd expand it beyond Java to shared-everything models in general. Any language with a shared-everything model is going to incur all this complexity. At least Java goes through this pain to ensure memory safety in the presence of unsynchronized accesses from multiple threads.
If someone lies about the things you can check, you should automatically assume the things you can't check are lies too.
Your personal attacks on cookiecaper are disgusting.
Alcohol blocks absorption of B1-B6 (due to preferential metabolism) but it doesn't deplete your body of vitamin B (and your body's stores of vitamin B may last months so you're unlikely to run out during your hangover). As long as you're not permanently drunk (i.e. an alcoholic), vitamin deficiency probably won't be an issue.

If you're not deficient in a vitamin, taking additional doses probably won't give any benefit.

Belief in vitamin B helping with hangovers usually leads back to this study:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4588294

but I wouldn't personally put much trust in studies from the 1970's about Pyritinol (B6) preventing hangovers. Subsequent studies have failed to reproduce the results. And large unnecessary doses of Pyritinol may lead to cholestatic hepatitis and other issues so exercise caution.
Why couldn't you just use @ in this case. The app could parse it later into whatever symbol you wanted
A public apology might be nice.

I'm not going to burn my graphics books, but I'm really disappointed with Pixar right now.

"This needs to be nipped in the bud." Um, yeah.
Does anyone know if animator wages (or programmer wages for that matter) have shot up substantially since the whole no-recruitment scandal came up?

That'd give us some idea of how much wages were suppressed all those years...
Hint: they are mocking you.
I could never understand sandwiches. People were eating meat and cheese and bread on a plate as a meal for hundreds of years. There's no breakthrough here, all the ingredients were already there.
any TL;DR?
s/monopoly/monopsony
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People are telling you why your question is flawed from its premise without actually coming out and saying it. Try reading between the lines a little bit.
And if you think bing's search marketshare is not due to Microsoft OS dominance then I have a bridge to sell to you.
Agreed with OP. Wish you guys could come up with a different way to show text is annotated. The highlight just grabs my attention way too much and it tells my brain that "this is important" which isn't necessarily true with Genius annotations. It works well for lyrics on rapgenius, but for content on news and other websites not so much. I hope website owners will be able to pick their own style.
Concur. With this scheme it seems you're just adding fuel to the fire. If a synthetic acetaldehyde dehydrogenase supplement could be scared-up (converts acetaldehyde into acetic acid) then hangovers could be a thing of the past. FWIW coming from NW Celt stock (Norman French, Dutch, et al) I never suffered from hangovers, given seeming continued expression of the lactase enzyme (can drink milk like water) and high acetaldehyde dehydrogenase output when stupid enough to over-imbibe (like on college and grad-school weekends).
They are popular for the same reason garbage like Cheetos and Pepsi are popular - they do a ton of advertising.
You'd have to be a genius to spell that correctly.
Sorry to invoke Godwin's law here. But now your defense of Catmull is quickly devolving into "What about all the good things Hitler did?".
> one could also argue that ... market forces would make them untenable if there were truly a dearth of the needed specialized labor to complete the product.

It's not a good argument.

There are markets where these agreements work and markets where they don't -- it depends on the cost of entry. But this is probably a market where they work, because, well, they exist. Smart people entered into them despite being on notice that they were probably illegal.

To clarify cost of entry: let's say the employees here are wheat farmers. There are hundreds of wheat farmers and five companies that buy wheat to make bread. Those companies compete to buy as much wheat as possible so they can enter as many markets as possible while still making a profit. So they drive up the price, and end up paying roughly as much for the wheat as the value it contributes to the bread-making enterprise. Those are market forces, and the capitalist notion is that they fairly distribute profits among all the people involved -- but they reduce the profits of the five companies.

So let's say the five companies get together and agree to split up the wheat and only pay 80% of the market price. All of their profits go up, all the wheat farmers' profits go down, market forces are no longer operating -- and therefore the agreement is illegal. It's cool if that isn't obvious to everyone, since it's not exactly relevant in most of our lives -- but anyone who's allowed to run a market-leading company has probably had the concept mentioned to them at some point.

But so now the other market forces you're referring to come into play: the five companies have created an opportunity. If some sixth player (like Sony Bread Co.) is willing to come into the market and pay 90%, they can get all the wheat at below market price. This is great for Sony because they get cheap labor without even having to break the law, but it doesn't solve the problem for the wheat farmers. Only if a lot of other players have the same idea will they drive the price back up to the free-market level.

But that assumes the 20% entry bonus created by the illegal cartel is enough to overcome their competitive advantage from already being in the market. Becoming Disney isn't free -- and this kind of cartel is something, pretty much by definition, that you would only go for if you thought you and your compatriots had the market locked down. And you would only drive the price down as far as you thought your competitive advantage could defend.

So, no -- market forces are not a magic wand to make agreements designed to nullify market forces OK.
This is complicated as usual. There are quite a few people who gain power (think police) and/or wealth (think private prisons) from the War on Drugs.
Great for Rap Genius, but every time I read something about them, I think of this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo
Here's the thing: when you're discussing the failures of another person's moral reasoning, you are inevitably calling their character into question. It may not be the point, but it's unavoidably the effect.

For the same reason that you can't state that someone is lying without denigrating their character, you cannot point out that someone is representing an utterly amoral position without implying that they are a generally untrustworthy human being.

Let me put it this way: would you be comfortable having cookiecaper running HR for your company? I should hope not. But if you were, what would you tell a board member who came across a post like this an wanted to know why - exactly - a guy this demonstrably off-base was being allowed to fill a position that carried so much risk?

For what it's worth, people were just downvoting the guy. I think there's some value in seeing what he has to say in order to better understand that mindset that let to the moral implosion we're presently discussing.

Separately, I think the tone of condemnation is actually very important. I'm sure there are plenty of people here who have had damaging encounters with others who think and act like cookiecaper (e.g. anyone who has worked under Catmull). It's important to establish, in a very public fashion, that the values he displays are absolutely not okay.
Hope you have generals that were soldiers instead of politicians or businessmen, I suppose.
Is it fair for Linode to do so?
raptionalized
Here's an odd question: how's the soundproofing in your apartment? Can you hear lots of street noise even with all the windows closed?
But, please forgive me if I am wrong;

While that may be true - if this strategy was at the core of fomenting an illegal wage-collusion between companies, than it doenst matter if the strategy is valid: what matters is that to achieve the most effective outcome of said strategy, CEOs of the biggest tech firms colluded to prevent worker wages from reflecting true market value for the enrichment/better-ment of their bottom line.
The quote is actually Terry Pratchet, not Douglas Adams.

“Million-to-one chances,” she said, “crop up nine times out of ten.”

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld
Bit off-topic, but I wish they'd move away from the black background and to an interface a bit more like Stack Overflow or Quora which are both nicely laid out.
I do like this idea of a 'vesting'-like timeline. Especially in high-risk, high-turnover projects, tying final bonuses upfront to sticking till the project ends sounds like a rational solution.
> An employee really worth it will see their salary go up.

Maybe at some places but I'd bet not at the vast majority. An employee that is worth more than they are paid will sometimes be given a raise that was not asked for. The employee may also ask for a raise and either be denied or accepted. Lastly, the employee may look elsewhere and be recognised for the new value that they can bring.

Of the 3, the last option is what I've noticed much more often. This isn't (always) the "fault" of the employee, but of the employer unwilling to recognise or pay for the value being delivered.

I imagine the thought process goes "they are delivering X for value Y, why would we give away our profits for value Z?". But just like companies that need to demonstrate profit growth, the employees will want to see their own profits grow especially when their experience should lead to increased value delivered.
Soon bullets will be able to change direction in mid-air to follow target
I wonder if they had any way to reasonably detect these being used maliciously after they'd fixed it, since they fixed this as long ago as September 2013.

It'd be a neat sort of non-honeypot.
Url changed from http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/pixars-ed-catmull-emerge..., which points to this.
There is no right answer to that problem.
Fire is a cheap and freely available force multiplier.
While Marijuana may have uses for medicine. As a recreational drug, I think the in ability to easily check when you consumed it, or to have a high as a result of just burning off fat. (it is fat soluble, and you can end up high even years later if you burn enough calories) Makes it harder to enforce responsible use than say alcohol.

I don't think we want pilots, surgeons, or police doing their jobs while high, and since the buzz could come quite a long time after consumption that would always be a risk.

Hemp is often promised to be this miracle product that will solve all of our problems, but visiting places where hemp is legal we don't see massive quantities of it.

We import cotton, and bamboo, but you don't see many hemp t-shirts.

We even import paper, which is one of the things Hemp is pretty decent at. But we don't see much Hemp paper. Turns out ink doesn't stick to it as well as it does to Wood pulp and cotton blends.

The real reason Pot is still illegal is that it is dangerous to those who aren't consuming it. A stoned Doctor might not smell of it, might not have any real outwards signs, and then could get the giggles when he nicked an artery.

Edit:
Years may have been a stretch. Looks like 7 days has been shown in a lab, and the CDC thinks weeks.
http://healthland.time.com/2013/09/17/one-toke-many-hits-exe....
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001143.htm
Two points on earth with different latitudes move at different speeds. The effect that affects the bullets is known as the coriolis effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect).
Similar boat, I quit my job in april to travel. So far I've been to Japan, Inner Mongolia, and Hong Kong.

I find it's a lot cheaper to rent an apartment than hotels/airbnb, but you would have to stay in one place for a month at a time, which is mostly ok for places with a good subway system.

I was planning to change to the nomadic lifestyle forever, but 3 months later it is getting to be a bit tiring. I find I miss the convenience of having a car, fast pc, and going to the gym. I may just make it more of a once a year thing.

shameless plug for my blog: http://jack.ventures
Is the fact that alcohol use is easily detected in a field-administered test all that keeps surgeons from doing surgery drunk?
When I worked there, we drank on the job fairly frequently. :)
I also use 1Password, which syncs its password database file via Dropbox. Either one is a better alternative than reusing the same easy-to-remember passwords.
I don't find much wrong with nitpicking.

I don't really understand what you mean by derogatory. The author does complement the TheOatmeal guy quite a few times.

Do you mean that the author of the post should have been more polite about the solar roadway thing? I suppose there could be an argument for that.

But generally it seems like the blog post is requesting that some things be clarified slightly.

I will note that I had a bit of trouble determining if a certain part of the blog post was a quote or a response.
(the part about measuring in light years seemed unclear to me.)

I don't think the post was that bad or negative?

It didn't think it was that great, but it seemed fairly inoffensive, and perhaps with something worth considering.

While I don't think it is important, it might be somewhat better if the comic had talked about the center of the sun instead of the surface, and I don't think it would have harmed the sound. "center of the sun" sounds at least as impressive as "surface of the sun" and has the name number of syllables, so I don't think there would be much aesthetic cost.

But then again, maybe the aesthetic cost would be enough to outweigh the benefits of technical accuracy about things other than the car.

Up to the oatmeal guy I guess.

But in any case I don't think a post correcting it is harmful or rude.
No, but easily defined rules about how long between a drink and the surgery is.

Just like pilots. You can drink and be a pilot, just not 8 hours before. How long you have a high varies wildly, and under stress old highs can come back.

Edit:
And if you think you can come up with a combination where you didn't die an hour after your drinks and are still drunk 8 hours later, here is a calculator

http://touchcalc.com/calculators/bac
tl;dr: Pot is illegal because of the money coming in from big Pharma companies to keep it down, since they will lose money once legalization occurs. Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA) is hypocritical in it's war against marijuana while choosing to ignore the dangers of opioids and related prescription drugs.

Also, law enforcement is lobbying hard to keep the status quo since property seizures from pot activities are a major source of income to law enforcement since the Reagan administration.

"Legalizing marijuana could, however, hurt the bottom line of drug companies that make money off drugs like Oxycontin and Vicodin."