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As a person who drives down 35 a lot, I've seen plenty of midnight traffic jams.


Yeah I don't think it will get anywhere but that seems to be the only way they can see to fight since (I'm guessing) requiring someone to be on all call at all hours isn't illegal.


As a matter of fact, it is in various countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_disconnect.

In France it exists since 2001 and had been reinforced by the last labour law. I'm not sure about the actual consequences.


Yeah but this is in America where those laws don't exist, though I wish they did


Is an open api really a vulnerability?


Yes, if it goes against corporate policy...

Security is like 90% policy.


Is the time for a transaction actually fast enough for it to be useful, I've not paid attention to it for a while.


"But the varying sizes and agility of cyclists, with their sudden changes in speed and loose adherence to the rules of the road, present a major challenge to the existing technology"

The 'loose adherence of the rules' is a pretty good reason I think.


I must be blind to these so do you have any solid examples where the people who are doing the jobs are being talked down to?


I don't know if these qualify but google search for "coal miners coding" turns up a ton of pieces about some coal miners shifting work to coding. Presumably these people think such profiles are kind of condescending as the implied story is "your blue collar career is on the outs and your labor has no value."

e.g.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/05/06/47...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/coal-miners-taught-html-coding-car...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2017/01/30/turning-co...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/21/tech-industr...

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-co...


The nature of journalism is that outlets report on things that are happening in the world. If these stories were just long opinion pieces about why former coal miners should code, that would be one thing and the criticism would be valid. But each of these pieces linked is literally a reported out piece about actual people and groups teaching people to code.

You could probably go back and forth on whether the idea condescends to blue-collar workers. But the fact is, there wouldn't be these stories if the trend didn't exist and there wasn't a legitimate effort to make it happen before a reporter gave someone a call.


There's nothing implied at all. They are blue collar workers. Their career is on the decline because the mines are closing and there aren't enough new ones opening up to simply transfer the existing labour force to the new mines. So you retrain these people for work that is available.


Can you find any of these articles published on BuzzFeed? The problem with this criticism is that it claims that all journalists have the same opinion on blue-collar-retraining issue.


How is that not targeted harassment?


Many of those banned on Twitter were using language that poked fun at media departments or corporations, not specific individuals. Is targeted criticism of a corporate group now taboo? Why has it become OK to share memes criticizing Fox News, but not OK to share memes criticizing the Huffington Post editorial team?

Hyper-sensitivity to criticism of the media strikes me as misplaced. In an age where their content sits in every curated above-the-fold screen, who watches the watchmen?


How exactly is it ? Was it not targeted harassment when they were suggesting that miners should "learn to code"? Why not though? We all know that was derogatory. Does it become targeted harassment because it came from 4chan ? Or are they entitled to protection from the same type of jokes they were making?


When they were 'suggesting that miners should "learn to code"' was it in an article they wrote or was it a coordinated campaign to find people who were laid off of coal mining jobs and tweeting them "learn to code"?


Well, i don't know many miners with a twitter handle so I have no ideea whether it was a coordinated campaign or not. The fact that they worked for the media did give them reach though, what I understood from your reply is that as long as you put it in an article it's fine... just don't tweet @. That being said... 4channers should create their own Buzzfeed, you don't need journalism training for that; and just attack from there. I'm not saying i don't feel bad for the people laid off, but it' just a tweet. In bad taste, true, but it's not the first, and it will not be the last. this time though, the so called buzzwhatever journalists are the target so that is apparently worse. m2c


I don't think putting in that kind of thing in an article is"fine" but if it is in an article I would expect for you to show me where they are talking down on the workers, not just the job. I don't like coal mining so my desire to stop coal mining could be taken as "looking down" on coal mining but I DO NOT look down on the people who work in coal mines. I also don't see setting up or supporting the creation of programs that will teach these out of work coal miners a new profession as looking down on them either. I'm just trying to find why people are feeling like this because I can't find and hard evidence that they actually do talk down to these people.


Why "learn to code" though? Why not "learn to write quizes"? Why not "learn to plant potatoes". What exactly qualifies miners are prospective coders ? (this is where the actual joke began) "that kind of thing" -- you are making it sound way worse then it actually is. Most of them were targeted at the editorial department and not persons. Would the campaign be less opressive if people suggested that the laid off "learn to cook" ? That is exaclty the point, nobody looks down on coal miners and nobody looks down on coal mining. Coders on the other hand have been taken as a joke long before the twitter thing happened. look no further than Mr. Trump


What exactly is the reason a miner can't learn to be a code? The reason they are teaching code is because it is looked as a skill with a lot of demand which is the whole point of the programs that teach in-demand skills. I honestly don't follow what "Coders on the other hand have been taken as a joke long before the twitter thing happened. look no further than Mr. Trump" means, can you rephrase it?


You have to view it within the context of what Twitter does allow. For instance there's been weeks of people fighting about the Covington High School kids with people on both sides hurling insults far beyond "learn to code" at each other and Twitter as done nothing. In fact many of the journalists "targeted" for this were extremely vicious in their condemnation of the teens, town, church, republicans...

I suspect that this happened leading up to the layoffs only heightened people's interests in seeing the journalists get a taste of their own medicine.


Why exactly did you quote targeted? You are saying specifically that people are targeting these journalists, you just have no sympathy that they are being targeted.


"Targeted" implies they are being harassed. I don't see this as harassment as much as the fair result of their own actions and people correctly leveraging an open platform.


I saw that today and though the same thing, looks like they are getting it from email but I do wish I could limit what I let google link to these kinda things.


Stop using Gmail and they won't have the data.


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I feel that is an appropriate response to a comment like "Don't use Google"


Even if you feel that way, the guidelines ask us to post civilly and substantively.


If you're using MongoDB nothing is stable /s


This might be one of the worst things I've read this week. Tokens shouldn't have anything to do with your login and giving out login is so much worse.


The post doesn't say you should give out your login. It says you should encrypt your access tokens and explains some security implications of current implementations that use them, like how they often give too broad permissions. When you change your password, you often need to reauth all of your devices, but you don't need to reauth your access tokens.


Why would I want the access tokens to be revoked if I change my password, unless I revoke the token it should be valid.


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