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Serious conflict of interest with this story given that the Post is owned by Bezos and Amazon is highly reliant on the trucking industry and trying to grow their own logistics.

Working on a project in Angular right now I’m really questioning if the layers of abstraction on front end code are worth the cost. The compile times and performance costs over writing standard JS are real.

The thing is it's kind of a false narrative. Because the shows aren't entirely ad free. They're mostly ad free, but Lost in Space for example featured an extremely jarring product placement for Oreos which came up repeatedly in an episode. It was just as jarring for me as ad placements, disrupting the narrative and throwing me out of the story. Especially since hte Oreo package was identical to the ones we have now even though the show is supposedly decades in the future.

This happens in most Netflix shows; jarring and obvious product placement that disrupts the flow of the story.

So it's not that they are ad free, they just featured reduced ads in most episodes.

It's very sad that you believe that. It doesn't have to be, and shouldn't be in my opinion. That's a tactic immoral people resort to and make excuses like "Everybody does it." for their behavior.

Yes, absolutely. If anything I err on the side of playing things down. I never want to promise something I can't deliver or tell someone I'm more than I am.

Besides, that's not even the issue. This guy just flat out lied. Not exaggerated, he told lies and built upon them. There's no excuse for that.

Tip #3 is pretty silly. Lots of people don't use LinkedIn, it's a horrible site, and a LinkedIn profile isn't proof of anything.

Spend more time talking to your candidates and ask for real references. Don't trust phone numbers and emails given by the candidate, if someone references someone who works at a company then contact the company through their public contact methods.

Dude, no. Someone who would lie this much to get what he wants will lie when you're working with him.

If he makes a big mistake he will lie about it to avoid getting fired just as surely as he lied to get the job.

Citing Neil Gaiman -- or some other celebrity -- doesn't do anything to make this less true.

This is THE statistic that nuclear proponents love to cite. There have been articles blasting about nuclear’s low fatality number as long as I’ve been on HN. And just as long I’ve been pointing out it’s a bogus, stupid metric.

Solar gets a higher fatality rating because of folks falling off their own roofs. It’s a tragedy sure but does that mean solar is dangerous? Of course not. Climbing up on the roof of your house is dangerous and everybody knows that.

It’s also a number that tries to gloss over the worst parts of nuclear; the extremely long lived impact of nuclear accidents. The areas around Chernobyl and Fukushima are destroyed for generations to come. Finding responsible, safe ways to store spent nuclear fuel continues to be an issue.

Renewables are cheaper and cheaper all the time. More countries are finding they can power a larger portion of their needs with renewables every year. Frankly we just don’t need nuclear and it’s serious risks and downsides.

Skype is dying because the client has been bloated and slow for ages along with poor call quality and reliability. Those two things together made it far less appealing than the many alternatives.

Great article. Appreciate the point of view and I think all the advice is sound.

100%. And it’s like they have forgotten anybody ever shares computers in a family. Google has lost the plot lately.

I’m not forgetting anything. The actual shuttle missions were not a statistical experiment or a consistent action where you can say “well this is what happened so that was the chance of death on an individual shuttle flight.”

It only means that’s your chance if you have the technology from quantum leap (the tv show) and you randomly land in the body of one of the participants.

as I said already the shuttle and everything around it evolved. The crews changed. Trying to say “the actual chance of death was this based on how many people died.” is silly.

Yes if you actually run an experiment with real sample sizes you can begin to form hypothesis around and unknown probability.

But my point was you cannot look at a historical event and say "Well this happened, so that was the chance." That's the basis for the silly internet joke "The chance is 50/50, either it happens or it doesn't."

Which is what the people I replied to were doing.

Oh my lord you guys that is not how probabilities work. You can’t look at what actually happened and then say “Well that was the chance.” If I flip a coin 20 times and happen to end up with a 15:5 split that doesn’t mean the chance of heads is 3:1.

Also the context of that 1 in 12 in the quote is important. They’re saying that was the chance on the first flight in retrospect. The shuttle and it’s supporting facilities and processes didn’t stay static, they improved over time.

Yeah, it is. Give people better interfaces for controlling the sources. Set a higher bar for quality before even letting a site put their articles up.

It wasn’t a problem on Google News for years and it’s because it didn’t pull articles from those sites. A super easy solution is just dump all those newer contributing sites.

Saying that Google has problems with spammers in search results too isn’t proof that the problem is hard to solve, because it used to be solved pretty well in both cases. It’s proof that Google has de-prioritized solving it.

Exactly why I stopped using google news. Garbage sites started getting thier garbage articles into my feed constantly and it was an annoying battle to keep them out. Seems obvious and easy to fix, but in true google fashion they will probably only make it worse.

100%. This is what people fail to realize about programming. Sometimes our job is just writing stuff where we already know what we need to do. That stuff tends to go pretty fast.

The hard part of our job, and what takes the majority of my time, is creating solutions to problems. And a lot of that time doesn’t even involve typing. I have to look through documentation, other people’s code, logs. And just think. The typing starts when I have an idea to try out.

Interrupting that process is like detailing any other creative process. The problem is not the time I have to take to answer a question, it’s the time it will take to get back into the headspace the interruption took me out of.

A bunch of truly awful people nobody wants to be around blaming women for their lives instead of taking some personal responsibility.

Those details don't really matter, because the point it's not realistic to expect a company with so many projects and users like GitHub to be making those kind of individual calls.

You don't really own part or any of the project if you don't have administrative access to it. It's that simple. If you feel like you should, then you need to arrange that with the person who currently does.

These are project organizational issues that GitHub shouldn't be expected to waste their time on.

Good policy. Then I can just watch for people to go on vacation via their Instagram, and while they're out I'll contact GitHub and say "Hey this person is unreachable! Give me control of their projects!"

Brilliant.

It’s not censoring of ideas. It’s removing video ads for quackery that is probably illegal under strict reading of US law.

YouTube is on borrowed time (as is all social media) in skirting regulations that normally were enforced on TV and radio. It will catch up with YouTube, Instagram, etc and they are realizing it and trying to prepare.

The placebo effect is a real effect

UM Dearborn is largely a separate entity. They're related but when people talk about UM it's not what they're referring to. It has its own much smaller student body and faculty, etc.

Different sections of Detroit have different costs, Royal Oak isn't very cheap. But some sections are way, way cheaper than Ann Arbor.

The part of Ferndale my good friends live in is still much cheaper than Ann Arbor even though it's about 3x more than it cost ~5 years ago.

I’m giving you the experience of someone who grew up in Ann Arbor and has lived and worked in this area for 40 years. Outsiders like to conflate the two but they are not really that tied together. There’s influence but Ann Arbor is largely economically and culturally independent of Detroit.

Not necessarily from, but are choosing it instead of. But yes young people who grew up in Ann Arbor are moving out to Detroit for sheer cost of rent/house reasons.

I'm sorry I have to do it; Detroit does not have U of Mich. U of Mich is 45 minutes west in Ann Arbor. Some U of M grads go over to Detroit, but it's not like U of M students live in Detroit. They are very separate.

Detroit is mostly reviving because Ann Arbor, where U of M is, is way too expensive. The Ferndale area of Detroit is becoming what Ann Arbor was when I grew up in the 80s; all about its local community and full of young people trying to do new stuff.

A big reason is that Ferndale was very cheap to live in, and while it's come up a lot it's still a lot cheaper than Ann Arbor (and a lot of other parts of Michigan.)

You don’t have to wonder. The data is out there.

While there are “more millionaires” than before, that’s a bogus metric due to inflation. You have to look at concentration of wealth as a percentage and a ratio between. Wealthy and poor and “middle class”.

If you do that it’s obvious what the issue is; wages have stayed very flat for the poor and middle class and almost all wealth gain has been concentrated in the top very few percent. Because most wealth gain is happening in finance and investing, and like I said wages have stayed flat for many decades.

How can it possibly have any value whatsoever if it's not real?

If it's real you can wonder ok what motivated actual people to behave in this way, what actually happened?

If it is made up (which it almost certainly is because it's so far fetched and ridiculous) then it has zero value. There's nothing worth thinking about here or discussing if it didn't actually happen. Like I said it's just a really poorly written short story.

You don't discuss literature the same way you discuss journalism. I can't believe you don't already know that?

This is the lamest argument I've seen in a while.

It's clearly being presented as a true story by the original source. If it's not true it's not food for any kind of thought it's just a really badly written and stupid short story. Stop trying to justify lying.