skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jobs aren't what make people wealthy, its access to markets. Jobs are an expense, not an end in itself. Politicians and now even economists always talk about jobs as some thing to strive for. This article talks about outsourcing but freeing up human resources to pursue more meaningful work should be applauded. Eliminating menial work for people to perform (usually replaced by machines or in this case outsourcing to low cost countries) has led to furthering human achievement. That is of course only true if you believe people aren't mindless sheep.
It might just be where I walk vs where you walk - I usually see them on Shoreline and between Shoreline and Castro, sometimes on El Camino in that span. A few weeks ago I saw one of the slow pod cars holding up a bunch of traffic in he right lane on El Camino because its top speed is too low for the flow there. :-D
Yes, and in states with a 'basic speed law', or similar, you can even earn a ticket for driving substantially below the posted speed limit. The Utah driver's handbook and license test, for instance, explicitly call out that road conditions may be such that the maximum safe speed is 0 mph.
> You can't exert control (e.g. uniforms, greetings, etc.) over independent contractors, so Amazon would not be able to do any of this under their current model.

You can, but the degree, nature, and scope of such control will be part of any analysis as to whether they are bona fide independent contractors, or actually employees where you are trying to evade requirements of employment law.
Announced < shipping. Soon...
I think the New York Times and other publications need to put more scrutiny on the congress in stories like this,

"When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help American companies grow, creating jobs to expand the economy. Now, though, some companies are bringing in workers on those visas to help move jobs out of the country."

I think this quote represents what congress claimed to be doing, but instead were just obeying their corporate masters and knew full well that the program would be used to erode the us workforce and workers rights in order to enrich large corporations.

I don't expect journalistic institutions to agree with me but I do expect them to call out politicians far more than they are, and to question their motives with poorly thought laws like this one.
School Bans Distribution of Sombreros, Says the Hats Are ‘Racist’
Check out this article:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/22/9372563/dropbox-really-is-...

There was another article recently that said that files are old news and people are using Slack. Granted they are shipping files in that, but people have probably moved on to web hosted versions of documents anyway.
Your comment yesterday broke the HN guidelines ("Put up or shut the fuck up") and I almost chided you for it then, but decided to err on the side of not defending the home team. This, though, is ridiculous. Nobody gets to use HN to threaten another user like this, no matter who they are.

The values of HN are civility and substantiveness. Everyone is welcome to present their views here within those bounds, and no one is welcome to break them.
I haven't seen any of the pod cars yet but I've seen a couple of the Lexus SUV's. I've even seen a few in San Francisco but they're not Google's. I seem to end up biking next to the same one every week or so in Dogpatch. It's a dark red Nissan Leaf without any labeling. I wonder what company owns it.
http://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/Regulations_Task_Force_...

"The compliance problem is exacerbated by the sheer volume of mandates—approximately 2,000 pages of text—and the reality that the Department of Education issues official guidance to amend or clarify its rules at a rate of more than one document per work day. As a result, colleges and universities find themselves enmeshed in a jungle of red tape, facing rules that are often confusing and difficult to comply with."

You will never see a reduction in the number of college bureaucrats while the federal government micromanages higher education.
So what is are you paying for at evernote that you cant get (or get well) elsewhere. I haven't used it myself for more than a few minutes and didn't see it but obviously there is something there. Curious to understand what exactly that is?
I think it's interesting to note that they don't even bother listing the required version for google chrome http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-version/
I hate the racist and nationalistic undertones whenever this is brought up.

Why should Americans make more money than Indians for the same work? What is so intrinsically great about Americans that I should pay more for an American to do my accounting than an Indian and why am I wrong if I don't do that?

Edit:

> The 36-year-old accountant said the young Indian assigned to shadow her appeared to have no extraordinary knowledge of accounting. His expertise was in observing and mapping what she did.

> At the close of business, the recording was transmitted to India, where workers practiced mimicking his tasks.

If this is possible you don't have a real job and the Indian will be shortly be replaced in turn by a piece of software.
I'm hooked. I never worry about the battery. It's dead simple to drop my phone on a charging pad at home, at work, and in the car.
It's easy to get statistics on. Whereas more subjective things are... more subjective. And it seems to be relevant:

>But there have been multiple studies on this and it turns out Americans have become less likely, over the past 50 years, to marry and date across educational lines.
It seems to me that its best for the free market for jobs to go where the value/cost tradeoff is maximized. Simply put, first worlder's are not providing the value that their salaries demand. And if we actually are, then the companies we work for will have an advantage and will eventually beat the competitors using cheap labor.

As well local inflation + foreign deflation will change this, it will probably fix itself due to the crazy printing of money in the US. Eventually, a $100k a year employee will just be subsistence in terms of real goods.
When did file sync become easy? I agree it's become commonplace with Google Drive and iCloud bringing respectable implementations to market, but I think it's still far from easy.
Thank you so much for posting this. My PC suddenly started waking up from sleep, I couldn't figure out why (powercfg or the event log were no help) and it has been driving me crazy. Looks like Spotify was the cause!
I wrote the post and made the site it's on. There are really people who don't have either of those?

But really, we just don't have everything done yet, I wrote everything on my own. We'll fix it in an upcoming update, sorry for the issues.
If the last graph on this page is correct, then lithium batteries have seen at least a 2x improvement in all the important metrics since they've been introduced:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/battery_statistic...

(I'd be interested to see a graph that includes the last ten years....)

I'd call that a considerable improvement, albeit nowhere near 10x.
I think Hobbes said it best - http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/09/30
And what if meaningful works get eliminated by machines?
Syfy Pulls Dave McClure's 'Bazillion Dollar Club' from Schedule
The claim is that an American has first dibs on a job over a foreigner, additionally there is an assumption that the local worker is better at the job. This is certainly true before the training, but unclear afterwards.
You already have competition in the form of ReText:

https://github.com/retext-project/retext

(Unless that's the project?)

However, there are some things that ReText does poorly, like syncing between the output window and the input text:

https://github.com/retext-project/retext/issues/108

and some things ReText doesn't really do at all, such as autocompletion of citation labels, checking URLs to see if they are 404, or proper syntax highlighting in math mode.

Those kind of features tend to require doing difficult things like parsing the input, which is why most text editors don't bother.
I don't remember ever seeing a flag link.. so have never downvoted.

But I do upvote stuff I like and especially stuff I think is being censored by group think... so that could explain why my flag priviliges where never given or taken away before I could notice it..
It's crazy to think how much further back we'd be without him
OO concepts live on whenever we are talking about interfaces, contracts and the like. The failed experiment is "true" object oriented domain modeling, the idea that software representations of real entities (an order, a dog, a car) should include code beyond maybe some basic constraint checking. Other than that, thehe OO tools are still powerful and some form of encapsulation is essential for any data structure that is more complicated than a pain array or a one-way linked list. But these structures are not representations of real objects, they are actual data objects. A hashmap isn't a representation of a hashmap, it is the real thing (even if it maps representations of dogs to representations of cars).
Well, the context here is that "doxing" is not about identity in the first place: it's about encouraging harassment/crime, by facilitating identity theft, leaking embarrassing photos, giving contact info of family members, giving the information needed to conduct SWATting, etc. Identity happens to be involved in all of these things, but it's not the goal.

That section of the book argues for distinguishing them because, in some cases, de-anonymizing someone (but no more) is legitimate self-defense by a community, but doxing always intends harassment (which is not legitimate self-defense). If there are rules for actual war, there are absolutely rules for "war" in scare quotes; not inciting crime is one of them. I don't think I can make the full argument here concisely, but it is well set-out in the book. (While she has a blog post saying much the same thing, I actually thought that was a much poorer defense of de-anonymization, since it's missing context.)

Obviously in this specific case there is not even "war," just curiosity, so that defense of de-anonymization doesn't apply. But we've gotten on a tangent about the term itself.
Url changed from http://serious-science.org/revolution-in-violence-in-world-w..., which points to this.
The surprise is about their behavior, not about items received. In the situation I described, the discrepancy between the two times caused me to investigate further. 12 hours later, the same delivery schedule was still available. In other words, they deliberately misstated cutoff times to create a sense of urgency and discourage shopping around or having second thoughts before hitting submit. WTF?

In another instance - they canceled one item from an order, sent no notification of such, and completely erased that item from the order history. I was left scratching my head, until I reviewed emails to see if I really had ordered that item. Again, WTF?

I'm sure they're alright if you're constantly ordering things from Prime or whatever because there are more good instances to outweigh the weirdness, combined with their policy of crediting people to keep them happy and avoid breaking the illusion.
Some places have laws requiring you to move the vehicle off the road if it steerable. There has to be some way to move the vehicle manually.
The dictionary agrees with you. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fired?s=t
https://medium.com/the-drone/career-transitions-crafting-you...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-wa...
That is incredible. I'm sorry that behavior like that exists and that service providers can be so terrible at what they do.

It also sounds like an implied admission, on the part of evernote, of not having working backups ? I would think that they would have found some way any way to get your data back to you given what just happened.
Long ago I got tired of Evernote's bugs and creep of extraneous features and switched to Workflowy [1] for the majority of my general (plaintext) note-taking. I love Workflowy and can't imagine life without it.

[1] https://workflowy.com/
The only mindless sheep here are the people allowing this travesty to occur. There is absolutely no way that the US Government should be incentivizing the offshoring of work.

Instead of H1B, we should update our immigration laws and policies to prefer educated people of means who have a desire to come here and contribute to our country.
Why Snapchat’s Only Non-Ephemeral Content, the Profile GIF, Is a Big Deal
I hope they won't go too far with it. I fear that allowing too long messages will reduce SNR.
Google Maps Comes to Apple Watch
I'd say that this has gotten worse over time. I haven't seen as many interesting back and forth discussions on HN for a long time. There are probably a lot of different factors behind that but the rise of downvoting as a means of disagreeing with a comment hasn't helped.
Old man is out of touch, news at 11.
It's definitely mind-boggling just how inefficient it is – feels like 1-byte writes followed by a full fsync based on how it can keep an SSD capable of 10K ios busy for a period measured in hours.
Does this imply they do not have backups? Or did they offer some other explanation?
It's very simple, if you use an Amazon Repricer that's retarded and you don't set a max price, this happens.
The specs say: Dual front-facing stereo speakers.
You can spot a Google self-driving Lexus by the big, spinning LIDAR on the roof. Teslas' somewhat-autonomous cars look like cars.
Google, Facebook et al should not be campaigning for more H-1B's; that would simply worsen the offshoring situation. They should instead campaign for an improved program that distinguishes employees from (effectively) contract workers.
That's a misleading and linkbait title, which the HN guidelines ask to avoid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> intended more for journalists, academics and students than web developers

Have you asked somewhere else? Seems like you'd get a bias of things developers want here
Groupon's problem is with repeat business. I think they're still churning through naive businesses that don't understand the value proposition. If they can't get repeat customers then their upside is limited. I would be very wary of judging Groupon based purely on historic cashflow.
This is insane. Although I believe Evernote is one of the few products that allow you to export your data.
> There is absolutely no way that the US Government should be incentivizing the offshoring of work.

And why not? The offshoring of work reduces the cost of goods and services and frees American time up to do meaningful, better compensated work instead.

The eventual conclusion (perhaps even in our lifetime) of automation and offshoring will be that Americans will not have to work for the necessities of life at all, just for self-actualization and luxuries.
NYTimes is identifying the wrong problem here. What if Toys R Us sends an employee to India to train the team there (that's not uncommon). I'm struggling to understand the key takeaway from the article.
Hopefully the camera and battery life have had major improvements. They were my major annoyances with the Nexus 5, everything else was great.
While you can do this, it means your device needs to be on (drawing power, running the radio, not on standby) for the whole stream, so the "normal", preferred model is for the content server to stream directly to the chromecast, and your phone is just the remote control for that process.

Exactly how this works is up to whoever writes the cast apps that you're using. APIs are over here: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/developers
That might just mean that they delete all backups when the account gets deleted for privacy reasons.
>>For example, this comment doesn't fit in their limit.

>The above comment would fit,

Yeah, but then you're into "this statement is false" territory ...
Mimicry can handle the ordinary events. I pay accountants to notice and handle the extraordinary.

Long ago when I was in digital medical imaging we observed radiologists reading X-rays and figured we could make many times our engineer wages by just saying "Normal chest" and pressing the "advance" button. We'd be right almost all the time!
Any product that doesn't allow you to export your data is broken.
Google Drive is really horrible in comparison to many other services.
26 Proven Growth Features That All App Developers Should Know About
I think they shifted it to a Pro Plus-only feature in Office 2007 or 2010. I could be wrong though.

Edit: Vs. Office Standard. I have no insight into Home or Education versions.
This is not a new concept, David Ricardo developed the theory of Comparative Advantage [1] in 1817 to refer to that phenomenon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
What meaningful work has ever been eliminated by machines? Do you have examples?
Not very many comments on lobsters, good stories but I kind of rely on the comments to choose my reading.
Why should the US Government facilitate the taking of an American citizen's job? Thats not why we pay our taxes.

If a company wants to offshore jobs out the country, they shouldn't be helped by our own government to do it.
Since every Android phone I've ever had takes SD, the process of transferring all my data over is basically just pulling the card out of the old phone and putting it into the new phone. This unfortunately doesn't handle reinstallation of my apps and migration of data like texts and calls. Google's done all this work, and there still isn't a simple migration path. Give me a simple way to boot up the 6P and have all my data migrated over, and I'll kiss my SD card goodbye. In the meantime, the user experience is still broken.
BitPay != Bitcoin, in the same way that every single bank in this list [1] != fiat currency.

[1]https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
The guy with the pull request[0] that fixes the bug is team lead for Spotify's desktop client.

[0] https://github.com/boostorg/thread/pull/67
Hopefully this coerced/forced training of your replacement will get captured at some point on a viral video incendiary enough to force Congress to do something out of national embarrassment. That's the only way to get the entrenched players to budge from the status quo.
> I hate the racist and nationalistic undertones whenever this is brought up.

I do too. There are two Indian families in my apartment complex who have a breadwinner here on a work visa. I like them and their kids are my son's best friends. I don't see them as the problem here.

> Why should Americans make more money than Indians for the same work?

I don't know about you, but I probably pay more for rent and a lot of other things here in the States than a corresponding tech worker in India does.

I don't think that makes me better than someone in India, but it does mean that the almighty Free Market is certainly not my friend. If we could lower my expenses to the levels you see in India then I think I'd be okay with the Free Market.

Updated: clarification.
Amazon Flex (Prime Now delivery drivers) pays $18-25 per hour. Considering how small margins are, the driver pay quite possibly comes enitrely out of the tip.
Hi I'm Nick Schrock and I actually came up with the name. Graph in this context means social graph or more generally the conceptual graph of data in your application, which you can query. It doesn't mean that it is a formalized graph database in any sort of way, nor does it seek to be.

I understand the name causes a bit of confusion but the ship has kind of sailed on this one :-) I think people will get used to it if/when it becomes a widely known name.
"freeing up human resources to pursue more meaningful work should be applauded"

Only if that pursuit can be realized, which in the reality of our current world and for the workers being displaced, it usually cannot.
Axel Springer Pays Very Generous Price for Business Insider
To rephrase the question in terms you may agree with: what should happen when there is not enough meaningful work to keep everyone employed?

(I believe we reached this point some time ago)
Then you have people like me who through no fault of their own, are forced into semi-retirement due to the lack of interesting and challenging work. I spend my time working on open source projects and living off my investments and rental income, but I'd prefer to be employed.

Is laying off Americans in a poor job market with few opportunities because most of the interesting work has been moved overseas really a judicious use of resources and talent? If it costs X amount of dollars to live in a certain area of the planet, and companies don't employ
workers in that area of the planet, how can the company continue to have sales in that area over the long term?

Employers are really not all that serious about hiring. The economy really isn't in good shape when compared to before 2008. They'll hire people with very specialized skills at a bargain pay rate, but that's it.

There are two ways out of this. In the best case,
the cost of living will decrease in first world countries and meet the third world counties in the middle. In the worst case, there will be war on a scale similar to World War II at the end of the Great Depression. War is a good stimulus for the economy and it puts people to work. I'm hoping for the former and not the latter.
Very few devices use USB-C cabling. Very many mobile devices use Micro USB cabling. Most folks will have a mess of Micro USB cables on hand, but very few USB-C cables.

Your argument is sound, but you're making it four or six years too early. :)
Agree with you. Another thing I would stress on is the price constraint. Don't forget that Nexus 5 was said to be a high-end phone but 200$ cheaper.

Given a price to stick to, it is very difficult to improve the specs substantially to wow the existing customers. Look at Oneplus one- the flagship killer and its successor- two not considered to be killer at all. I don't think existing customers would want to upgrade to the newer version.

Speaking as someone who does not own a Nexus 5, I would say I am very impressed by the specs and am waiting to purchase it. There aren't many phones better than this (keeping in mind the price).

A lot of Nexus 5 owners have pointed that the newer one does not have wireless charging and OIS. I feel that improving the overall experience matters more. Even though both are nice-to-have features it still does not help the crappy battery and low-quality camera that much. The 5x solves the existential funks first by adding those improvements. And due to the price limitation the nice-to-have features had to be dropped.
How do you know they don't have a couple American accountants still on staff for the extraordinary events?
How to manipulate curve standards (djb) [pdf]
Workflowy is a really really cool tool. It totally hits the sweet spot for the way I conduct my day to day work in terms of a todo list which is infinitely nestable, but also focusable, so I can keep track of where I am even on a long yak-shave.

I don't really like it for free-form text since it is list-oriented, but it's taken a surprising chunk out of what I used to keep in nvALT and OmniFocus.
And while you're at it, maybe replace the gifs with unicode? ▲ ▼
Edward Snowden is now on Twitter
The bounds of the human imagination, and its possible expressions, are functionally infinite. Then it is only a question of resources. I don't agree that we've reached this point.

In a post-scarcity world, I don't think the problem of insufficient meaningful work is likely to occur. There will always be a kitten to be played with, art to be made, research to be performed, and more.