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i almost don't want to get involved in this, and i don't intend to take sides, but wouldn't many companies find it impossible to work with someone "disingenuously" racist as well?

i am hearing that incontrollable spouts of racism should be overlooked if the person is "not actually racist". something doesn't add up to me. are racist jokes ok?

i'm just trying to say this is complicated. taking either side of this argument seems short sighted.
in your case, what you say might be true, but you haven't said enough to make that conclusion obvious and certainly not a universal truth. your conclusion that your coworkers being at the office means they are unproductive is one possibility, but it's easy to imagine many possibilities where you may be misinterpreting the value these coworkers provide.

for example, some people act as social glue, between team members and between teams, that makes the team as a whole more efficient. some people silently clean up after others. some people attend meetings to allow the rest of the team to focus. some people think much more about design and architecture than others (trading short-term inefficiency for long-term efficiency). some poeple may just like being there (vs. elsewhere) more than others. there are just so many ways that more time at the office does not equal being less productive.
It's a strange world you live in where a political theory can be both fundamentally unsound in theory and disastrously, murderously false in practice, but worth considering anyway. I don't want to spend any more mental cycles on understanding your world.
"seem to favor presence and subservience over actual results"

Classic primate dominance ritual at work.

The value of limiting employees to 6 minutes in the bathroom per day isn't in any rationalization of increased production or puritanical virtue or even inherent superiority of capital over labor, the dehumanization is in itself an inherent good or benefit for the managers to feel dominance over those employees.

Note that a workplace that dehumanizes humans will continue to dehumanize humans if you force them to stop one particular implementation or another. I guarantee it'll be a living hell of a workplace if that is banned or made socially unacceptable, just a living hell in a currently unknown manner. So better the devil you know than the ... etc.
Crouton is essentially that 'official' way. It's maintained by a hardware engineer from Google. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
As I said I think it's a bad piece because it uses cheap rhetorical devices rather than providing a nuanced view of the subject. And, as I also said, I don't think this kind of angled article is appropriate if articles from the other angles of the same subject aren't being presented on HN.

Those who upvoted it probably have a different view or they don't think the quality of the article matters as long as they agree with it.

You can find almost every opinion possible on the Internet. They have no value unless there's an argument behind them. I'm not going to write an essay for deaf ears, but I did express my opinion with initial argumentation. So don't act like I didn't and there's nothing to refute.

Edit: I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as it's grey at the bottom of the page. Talk about tolerance.
I couldn't disagree more. Most people I know work so much because either 1) they have a very high paying but high demanding job or 2) they overconsume and have to make the money to pay off the debt that they've created with their overconsumption.

For the former (my friends at Google, well-funded startups, and in finance, etc.) I'm afraid I'm not going to shed any tears for them.

For the latter, most people I know are neck deep in auto loans, mortgages, credit card debt, etc. Up until this year, I would be hard-pressed to name a friend who had a car that was older than mine. My group of friends roundly poked fun at me when I furnished my new apartment with nice craigslist furniture.

To address your point directly, for most people, finding a cheaper apartment is an alternative to "moving back in with parents".

I'm currently living in a 450 ft.² studio apartment in a small town in Tennessee for $400/month. I'm quite sure this is affordable to anyone who isn't making minimum wage, and probably them too. Making minimum wage? Get a roommate. I've had roommates my whole life.

No, people choose to work a lot because they're living a lifestyle that is more than they can afford.
I think most people forget the first step: decide whether it's really worth reading the paper. Don't spend too much time on weak papers that won't get you anywhere. Unfortunately, most papers are "weak".
The basic criticism of the labor theory is that it does not explain all things humans value. Adam Smith discussed this when noticing that water however useful it is for keeping humans alive, it's priced in accordance with its' use.

There isn't necessarily any connection between labor and the things people value. For example, the work that goes into designer purses is often the same as the cheap purses at Walmart or whatever but the former could sell for multiples of the cost of the latter.

In a meritocracy, a contributor is paid in relation to doing the work that their team values most. It could be the case that what they do has no direct connection to their labor performed but rather could involve doing very little work that no one else wants to do (or can do). The business values that labor very highly even if it's in very small chunks.
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No, I'm not suggesting that. I'm in a forum talking about things related to my trauma, aren't I? Shouldn't that be triggering me into a horrible downward spiral, if I was suggesting this?

I got better. Some people are still in the process of getting better. I am asking for empathy and compassion for those people, if you have the capacity to recognize that they may need it. Otherwise, just do your best to be a decent human being.
And I will bill you for the commute time and upkeep time if presence is required.
I am also describing their competitors, teachers, parents and adversaries
the statistical term is sample selection bias. to test the importance of mentors you'd need to figure out some way to compare to groups of start-ups which are identical in every way except access to mentors... which i can't think of a good way to do... maybe if you could find start-ups that had been accepted by the same vcs.. so maybe one vc gives more money the other vc had more 'mentor's then you might be able to reasonable estimate the effect of vcs... but even this isn't great.
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Don't give your money to crazy?
Factory workers were paid salary in the US until much later than you'd expect.
I think a lot of the appeal of TempleOS is a certain nostalgia for a world where single coders would do something amazing on their own, and nobody knew what "UI/UX" even meant. A more naive time, with less specialization, where people just wanted to create something cool.

You can prove me wrong, of course, but why not just create a completely new UI on top of the Linux kernel? The Linux kernel is completely agnostic in regard to user interfaces.
> TempleOS deserves to be in the Museum of Modern Art? Give me a fucking break.

I didn't write it out of compassion. I really think his project could be showcased there and appreciated by art critics.
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I personally would recommend against making notes on the print out. I'd rather go with keeping your notes separately in a way you can easily categorize and search your notes.
The problem is that most introductions stick with the primitives are pass by value, objects are pass by reference. Based on that introduction, they'd know you can't swap two primitives, but they'd think that you could swap two objects.

>I don't understand why pointers are somehow a great insight that is exclusive to lower-level programmers.

They're not. You don't need to be a lower level programmer to understand pointers, but it helps immensely if you know at least a bit of a low level language.

When you're getting into details like call-by-reference vs call-by-value, it really helps to have a mental model what the computer is doing. You don't need to be an assembly programmer, but it does help if you spend a little time studying assembly language.
you didn't think about your question very hard, did you? investors, for one. no one wants to fund a company whose founder is publicly racist (sans other racists). at the very least we can agree it is a PR nightmare?

more though, i'm surprised to hear someone call racism "petty". there is a first time for everything i guess.

i'm curious as to why aren't you posting on your real account?
With the obvious correction factor that remote lifestyle is inherently far superior and financially rewarding, so you'll get better employees cheaper, on average.

I took a $5K paycut (at a new job) to get flex time and limited work at home, but I ended up saving something ridiculous like $10K after tax, on child care and commute related costs by being able to swing shift start and end times and avoid rush hour whenever possible. My kids are grown-ish now and I've been thinking about going back to 9-5 M-F but it just sounds like a nightmare, a living hell, after having a superior lifestyle for so long.
Growing up in a white upper middle class suburb must have been so eye opening! Please tell us more.
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Go with your gut feeling. Something is making you unsteady about the company. Either clarify it with the company or decline the offer.

Either way don't accept an offer you have reservations.
You're supposed to feel sorry enough for her to give her millions.
> References in Java are pointers

In HotSpot references are double pointers (useful for moving GC), but in general it's up to JVM implementation. Pointers are one form of references, which are usually understood as machine addresses, but not all references have to be pointers.
If that is your only reason for selecting an apple produce over something else, then that's just a little naive.
You can write the containers as a ".x" file, which is just C with all of the type names replaced by a macro name. Then you #include the .x file where needed, #define the type before, then #undef it after. Token pasting in the C preprocessor makes for unique names, so multiple container types can be used in the same namespace.
Useful for humanity. Because "useful for employee" or "useful for employer" are bad measures that allow really stupid things to exist.

This job is based on lying and/or deceiving to people to trick them into buying somethng. Whoever is paying for it is actively hurting other humans. In a way it's worse than bullshit - it's a malicious job.
Project Euler has a great series of problems showcasing their power, starting on Problem ~50 or so, up to their relationship to Diophantine Equations and integer solutions to optimization problems.
Us Lutherans actually repudiate Luther's antisemitism:

http://ergofabulous.org/luther/insults-explained.php

http://www.lutherans.com/guide/lutherans_and_jews.php

And no, the man wasn't a saint (something he said himself).
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Were you getting less sleep than normal? I have a theory (which is supported by a few papers I've read) that an extended period of reduced sleeping time can cause what we might call "brain damage".
The point of a universal income is that everybody gets it, employed or not. It's not an unemployment benefit. The garbage man brings in 3100.
When I read the headline, my first thought was, "This must be a guest post on TechCrunch."
Thank you. I pinged you ;)
Pass by reference has a specific meaning and specific consequences.

In C to be able to simulate some aspects of pas-by-reference you need a double pointer.
Ask HN: Any commercial proxy servers that filter out virus/SPAM sites?
I have been trying a trial for a commercial proxy service and it does a good job (I think) of reducing my advertising target surface when using the web.

However, what I would really like is the same sort of proxy service that uses a blacklist of virus/SPAM sites and simply makes those sites and their content invisible.

Does anyone know of such an offering? I thought of setting up squid and one of the net-nanny type filtering systems myself but the available filtering libraries seem to just look for key words instead of using a proper black list.

If such a service is not available, then perhaps someone could take this idea for a startup.
I think it's more than just correlation. Mentors are usually well-connected people that can remove roadblocks and help in more ways than simple mentoring. The valley is incestuous and it's difficult to succeed as an outsider.

When I joined my current company, the CEO was mentored by an extremely well-connected individual. He'd previously been a CEO of a large Silicon Valley company and was on the board of at least one company that was considerably larger. While both our CEO and him would likely say that the arrangement was solely for mentoring, the end result was that we were acquired by the company that the mentor had formerly led. What started as partnership talks, facilitated by the mentor, quickly turned into M&A.

Much like a good VC will provide much more than money, a good mentor will provide much more than just simple coaching. Very few companies succeed in a vacuum, they need the right doors opened for them at the right times. Having the right connections opens those doors.
But it's inhumane to your other employees to keep someone unqualified around.
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How does her motivation for entering a lawsuit change the facts of the discrimination? Either she was unlawfully discriminated or not. Just because she's tight on money a jury should somehow weight that into their decision? They need to start determining not only if was she wronged, but does she also deserve restitution? That's fucked up.
Haven't looked into it a lot, but it reminds me of the concept of sleep debt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_debt
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While I can understand Clint's concerns, I am very wary about his conclusion that his memory loss is a direct result of his stressful job. He doesn't mention if he ever saw a neurologist.. it's possible he had a "silent stroke".

http://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20061009/can-you-have-strok...
They've been taught, whether or not they realize it, how to morally ransom others, guiltlessly. To ignore them is to marginalize them, to disagree with them is to threaten them, and to oppose them is assault. It's incredibly hypocritical and self-centered behavior, especially for an adult.

And what I fear is that they'll shape whatever environments that will allow it because everyone else has kowtowed to their feelings, and if you don't let them have their way, you'll become the toxic old guard who enables the victimizers-- quite a step away from "big, fat meanie head".

In a business environment, after making their way into a managerial role, it may mean over-promoting people who agree with them and reassigning those who don't. It might be some form of constant ostracism, like not getting invited along with everyone else to drinks after work, having negative rumors circulated about what a secret creep you are ("I heard they tried to pick up someone who was drunk." "I'd believe it, they don't think rape is real." "What a shitlord.", or not being put on jobs you're best at. And if you aren't having work that could make you look better withheld, you might have your career slowly poisoned by having things put in your file that indicate you're not a good candidate for promotion, which is all for the best, since you could be a closet oppressor who undoes a lifetime of progressive equality.

That's a bit hyperbolic, but those are all things that I've witnessed individually in varying degrees over the years, with different labels. It can be incredibly difficult to hold people to task for their actions, especially if they're not forthright in what they're doing and you're in the minority.

Perhaps it help to solve this problem if we included one more warning about life early on: "Safety is not guaranteed."
" how would we feel if tomorrow, we woke up and some guys from stanford published new research on AI which can automagically produce working software given a set of requirements -- and they give it away for free." I would personally feel great because that would mean I could focus on getting the requirements part right instead of slogging back and forth through build software that almost but doesn't quite get the requirements right and then perhaps I would have enough time to work on extending the system to being able to capture requirements from users as well.
Hi. I'm no Marxist, but I am old enough to remember the world before President Reagan & Friends.

Back then, the US had a tax structure that meant that the 1%ers paid much more in income taxes (FWIW, the poor also paid less in FICA); government was better funded, and could hire more people to clean up some of society's loose ends.

I'm not a fan of "basic income", although some "welfare" may have a place, but there is a lot of infrastructure that goes into supporting a business friendly environment, as well as making the country a nicer or safer place to live.

Of course, the powers that be in this country don't want us to turn into some kind of socialist hell-hole like Germany or Sweden :-)
You should come back sometime! The Beltline has really reinvigorated a lot of intown areas. Midtown is booming, as is the Old Fourth Ward and lots of other intown neighborhoods.

But I do get your point about "odd" lifestyles. We're certainly getting weirder here, but I don't think it can yet compare to what you see in NYC or the Bay Area. Still, there's a lot to like here, and cost of living alone is a great argument for Atlanta.
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Can we add [2013]?

Also, this seems to be the largest previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8074186
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I'm optimistic that it's possible to write PHP applications / website backends without a framework. With that said, I've never been fortunate enough to see that first hand.

Then again, as soon as the "cruft" and annoyances that generally come with a php script-per-endpoint approach are gone, maybe it's not an existing 3rd party framework that was plugged into the site, but it's probably a "framework" by some interpretation of the word nonetheless.

If you haven't tried it, I would highly recommend giving Silex a try.

http://silex.sensiolabs.org/
I believe the standard treatment in that case is exposure therapy, in which with the help of a therapist you trigger the chain reaction so you can practice and become adept at navigating your feelings and reactions to these things.

More generally, asking "why do I believe X" is a helpful beginning point for this kind of self-reflection.
I have to disagree. IMHO most papers weren't written to be read with care. So you shouldn't waste your time on them. Skimming through is ok when you have to filter out the few papers that actually make a difference.
Stop misusing the phrase "correlation does not imply causation".

> While it is not the case that correlation is causation, simply stating their nonequivalence omits information about their relationship. Tufte suggests that the shortest true statement that can be made about causality and correlation is one of the following:

> "Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality."

> "Correlation is not causation but it sure is a hint."
Frozen foods are cheaper but less tastier, less nutritious, and harder to eat. They don't give you positive-reinforcement.
If I am gonna be labeled uneducated, fatphobic, racist, misogynistic, overpriviled white mansplainer, supporting rape culture why bother with discussion instead of just saying the most inflammatory thing possible hoping to give the other side a stroke ...

Disclaimer - I love teasing both ultra conservatives, ultra religious, and radical feminists to blood ... I do not discriminate against any group - if you are fanatic, you deserve to be mocked and provoked.
When I get into that state, by mind starts to lie to me about the quality of work. I start believing I'm still being effective. Must be some sort of survival mechanism.
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I share the same concerns - due to the small form factor of these laptops, it isn't a standard, commodity you can find easily.

Especially in the Pixel's case where it is a limited production run to begin with.
The USAF is looking to re-engine the fleet. It will be interesting to see how this affects fuel and range.

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> Lobbyists are people who tell officials whatever they are paid to say

Lobbyists are paid to advocate the viewpoints of their clients, but their clients are people: businesses, organizations, and individuals with a stake in the society.

> If we had exactly zero of them, legislators would still learn things and pass laws. They might need to hire more researchers.

Sure, you can move that function into the bureaucracy. Instead of lobbyists presenting information on behalf of clients, you could have technocrats that were part of the bureaucracy. But someone has to present to the legislators the impact a proposal will have on various stakeholders--it would be a bad thing if nobody did that work.

And it's not clear that moving the research function into the bureaucracy would be a good thing. The benefit of the lobbying system is that it's adversarial--Google's lobbyists can attack the evidence and reasoning of Sony's lobbyists. But who attacks the evidence of the faceless unelected technocrat? Non-adversarial processes have failure modes too.

Also, it's not like without lobbyists big corporations wouldn't have influence over government, or even less influence. Companies like mass retailers, oil companies, coal companies, etc, will always have tremendous pull because they employ lots of people or control products vital to the economy. Companies like Google merely have money, rather than hundreds of thousands of voters' livelihoods as bargaining chips. It's a huge credit of the lobbying system that such companies can have as much influence over government as they do.
Tell that to someone who lives in an area where there aren't thousands of employers. Or who works in a specialty field where there aren't thousands of employers anywhere. Or someone who can't move across the country every couple years to find a new job because of children / family / whatever. Or someone in a profession (or just without extremely "valuable" skills) where changing jobs every two years is a black mark. Or someone in a situation where a year of "unemployment" would essentially make it impossible to get a new job (employers have a well-discussed bias toward the currently-employed). The list goes on.

It isn't common now a reason (several, actually). Once again, just because a solution works for some small portion of people doesn't mean that it can be generalized to the rest of the people.