skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without unions (or minimum-wage laws), the price of labour reflects supply and demand. Skills in shortage have higher wages; unskilled labour drops to starvation wages - or below, provided there are replacement people.

In good times, with labour in demand, wages are higher, up to the point where the demand is met. Wages can go no higher. If there are enough people, these wages might be quite low. The remaining surplus is captured by capital.

In bad times, when demand for labour is low, wages may drop arbitrarily low.

Another solution to starvation-wages or below is social security or, more radical, universal income. It acts like an employer competing for labour, providing a minimum-wage threshold, through market forces. If capital doesn't offer sufficient wages, labour chooses the safety net.

However, this ignores the non-wage benefits of employment: people like to work, to be important/needed/useful, to be part of something, social contact, etc not to mention practice and acquisition of skills.

Finally, to be fair to pg, unions also represent a freezing of a particular way of doing business. Like back-compatibility or a requirement to use a particular technology, it restricts the way work can be organized. It prevents work from being "re-factored" - even if there exists another arrangement that would be just as good or even better for workers.
Inflexibility eventually causes inefficiency.

[ BTW I think there are three levels of systems that we can optimise for "efficiency": technical systems are efficient at their task; a business as a system is efficient at making money; a society as a system is efficient being something people want to be part of - that is, serving their needs. ]
> How can we even know the answer to that question?

Huh? People report extortion and muggings to the authorities routinely. Combining that with surveys to estimate non-reports should allow us to get a very good estimate.

> How many of the people who do not pay these ransoms do you really think are hit again?

About the same number as people who do pay: Few.
Anecdotes are great.

Did some digging and found this article from 2012 which says that 38% of researchers in the U.S. are foreigners.

http://www.nature.com/news/global-mobility-science-on-the-mo...
>Actually, it does work—but you have to do it a certain way—and it sucks.

That will get you banned... so if you're getting away with it, it's probably against your interests to admit to it, much less complain about it.
I've 2 kids... and you catch my drift - they act (sometimes) like terrorists, and that is when you cannot negotiate, meaning, your word is absolute. Otherwise, any negotiation when they are acting like terrorists usually would end at their peril (yours too, probably), for they not know what they do. This is what I mean, "don't negotiate with terrorists".

Of course, at other times you can negotiate, and they get the tradeoffs rather than being absolute in their attitude, sticking to their guns, without thinking.

It is an ongoing commitment, a 'battle' of staying present, guiding them, drawing a line when necessary, and letting them win too... It is absolutely through contradictinction they will learn the most - what worked once, may or may not work again, behavior wise.... of course, there are absolutes - don't kill or hurt others, don't lie, cheat or steal...those are usually easier to teach. And then there's wisdom...that's lifetime learning.
>> What if we paid workers meaningful amounts of equity?

> How would you provide equity for public school teachers?

I don't subscribe to the neo-liberal idea of conflating money with value (or equivalently: to measure efficiency in terms of money). But one could theoretically ban salaried employment[1,2]. And structure public services as employee-owned corpration that bid on service contracts. On might create a limited monopoly, by requiring a license to eg: run public education. And the same could be done for police, prisons, fire departments, special forces, security services... Again, I don't think this is a good idea, and we do this to a certain extent already.

[1] https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/knights-of-labor-jim-crow...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
Do you really need to wear a watch to bed for that? Why not something less obtrusive and comfortable, like a sweat band around your ankle? BTLE is cheap, i'd rather wear two devices with focused purposes than a clunky watch with an oversized battery.
It's still better than no unions. Similarly, unions don't just do paypackets, they also do things like check OH&S conditions. And from experience, at the low end of town, the young, the hardworking, and those with the most initiative are screwed by capital anyway. You don't get extra money in your paypacket for being a hardworking or initiative-showing bus driver or call-center operator.
CGP Prey is great, hadn't seen that video before but he does a great job of articulating why this time really is "different".
I think a water use tax would also be sensible here, and maybe more straightforward to design and implement.
That's all well and good until we realize that means Floridians and Californians will pay $15 for a loaf of sandwich bread and $30/lb for ground chuck, while people in the midwest will be eating turnips and potatoes all winter long.

Local is great but it seems like it's pretty clearly a marginal phenomenon.
The distinction between file formats and programs is mostly convention rather than semantic.

The logical structure of a file parser is almost indistinguishable from that of a language parser, and most file parsers include what is effectively an interpreter to massage the low-level file instructions into something more meaningful in the loading program's domain model.

A file format is a program that, when evaluated, constructs an in-memory data structure.

The degree to which this is a problem depends on the side effects (if any) of data structure construction, and the set of data structures available to be constructed. And of course how the data structure is used later; if the data structure represents instructions (this is perfectly possible even in pure languages like Haskell) or may behave other than expected with inheritance, more problems ensue.

That's all independent of simple bugs in the parser, such as buffer overflows when trusting lengths and offsets embedded in the file, or infinite loops with naive offset chasing.
I didn’t mean this as an affront to the HN community, or as a criticism of Show HN. That said, after you work on a startup for a while, getting traffic/feedback on it is important.

I check HN daily, mostly by skimming the homepage. This happens on the toilet, before I start my day—and, while laying in bed with my son at night, while he falls asleep. I find a lot of good reading here.

But, I have to admit that I found it more useful (personally) 8 years ago. I’m not quite sure why. There seems to be an ebb and flow of content from one season to the next. Sometimes it’s overly technical for me (I’m not a developer), or it’s so unrelated that I don’t feel compelled to read.

My hunch is that this is representative of a community that has simply reached a certain size. I don’t mean that HN was better when it was smaller, but I certainly found more pleasure in it then.

Back to the point though, I don’t want to devalue anything that YC, or the community, is doing here (nor do I mean to take anything away).

Instead, I just had a thought pop into my head that maybe there should be other ways to get founders feedback on what they’re doing. As we’d already built Chapp, I figured it couldn’t hurt to toss it out there.
Call me callous but I always thought one of the most important lessons a child should learn is "its not all about you."

I am so amazed when I see parents nowadays devoting their entire life to making sure their children are spared of any tiny little inconvenience. These children will be very poorly adjusted and these parents are rarely happy.
That's the main reason I haven't bought a smart watch.
In a similar vein, here's Garfield the comic with Garfield the cat removed: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ - also a great way of getting your daily dose of existential angst.
I mean let's be specific. This article calls out Hershey for moving away from polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) to friendlier-sounding emulsifiers. In exactly what way does a consumer benefit from reduced consumption of PGPR?

Your ancestors also ate a lot of meat roasted over open fires, or in comparatively primitive ovens. Within the next 20 years we're going to come to understand exactly how carcinogenic that millennial-old practice is (cooking, it is going to turn out, is basically carcinogenic), and it's going to make us feel silly about caring about PGPR --- and, I hope, about looking to micronutrients in the food supply as an answer to most of our public health concerns.
Or even a simple predicate.
Of course, technology gives capital a way to replace labour, which I assume is PG's fundamental point.

At some point, the value of labour will have to be decoupled from remuneration almost entirely. As a society need to re-adjust our thinking on the meaning of welfare, quality of living and the value of work.

I do wonder, if wealth were more equally distributed, whether we'd already be in a post-scarcity economy, at least in the developed nations.
I'd also like to know this, but won't have time to check. There's also many many forks of PuTTY that'll need to be updated.
>With Abenomics and all the financial repression people get poorer every day. Their savings evaporate, future is dark.

Despite the 40% or so depreciation of the yen over the past 3 years, actual cost of living has only gone up something like 5 %. And a lot of that was due to the recent sales tax increase from 5% to 8% (supposedly)

Say what you will about QE, but the depreciation of the Yen basically stopped Sony and others from going completely insolvent. Dropping the value of the yen sucks a lot for things like travelling (and hey, now I have less money in absolute terms), but there was a very scary future in store if the yen kept its insanely overvalued position.

Anyways, this article is a bit of a stretch. There is the airbag thing which is terrible, but comparing Sony to Apple is comparing one extreme to another. There's some opportunities for Japanese companies, but I don't see how it's related to quality concerns.
This is an interesting twist on an idea I've had to bring the aesthetics of automatic-wind mechanical watches to the smartwatch world. The principles would be to have a power-source powered by the motions of the user - and notifications would be through mechanical movements of watch hands or whatever. Chronos tries to address the gap between what mechanical aficionados look for and smartwatches... but I think it misses the mark.
Those are hardly "African" in any sense a modern American would think of. They're on the same continent, with different climate, demographics, and cultural affinities, across an extreme geographic barrier.

And Egypt never competed against Romans and Greeks to the north; at any point in history where the Romans and Greeks would have been relevant, Egypt was under Persian (Greek times) or Greek (Roman times) rule. Egypt competed with the Hittites, and with various Mesopotamian states -- although it was usually much bigger, richer, and stronger than the Mesopotamian states.
Are you joking? The United States is dominated by the modern trusts. In 1911 Standard Oil was broken up. In 1999 the two major Standard Oil subsidiaries - Standard Oil of New York and Standard Oil of New Jersey merged once again, into ExxonMobil. In 1984 Bell was broken up. Now the Baby Bells have merged back together with the countries local loops dominated by Verizon and AT&T (and Qwest) and the wireless spectrum also dominated by AT&T and Verizon (and Sprint...and T-Mobile, which AT&T tried to merge with, then Sprint - and which will be merged or carried off to the graveyard in the coming years).

Monopoly is the name of the game, or duopoly any how - and everyone from Peter Thiel to Warren Buffett is pretty open about it. The "Big Eight" accounting firms have been halved, they are now the Big Four. The media is owned by the Big Six, which is really the Big Five as Redstone controls Viacom and CBS.

The US is full of trusts and monopolies and the trend has been for more of the same. Even breakfast cereals have a Big Four. Less than 7% of workers in private industry are in unions, and that number has been falling.
Don't forget that wasting money on management is good, while wasting money on mere employees is bad. This has nothing to do with managers having an artificially strong negotiating position (they don't after all, generally produce anything) -- while individual employees have an artificially weak bargaining position (they do in general create the major value for any company).

It's sad that union has such a bad rep in the US. I'm not sure if that has more to do with right wing politicians colluding with organized crime to disrupt and discredit unions, or if there really are issues with unions in the US in general. My limited reading implies unions in the US are generally a net good for society. Then again, it's hard to discuss sane labour practices in a country where a number of states practice at-will employment.

It's so far distant from the work market in Norway that I have a difficult time trying to relate.
I understand your point, I just don't think I wasn't being civil.
Unions and the lawyers who negotiate with them are actual inefficiencies, and they are both the inevitable result of exploitive business practices.

Providing a better outcome without the intermediaries would be a great way to improve the system.
Show HN: PC Security Solution with 12 Antivirus Engines and Application Whitelist)
Just what http://shapecatcher.com/ put out in a few minutes seems to render more reliable as a compromise than the proposed composition Ƭ̵̬̊.

Ŧ̊ (Latin capital letter t with stroke + combining ring above) or Ankh, ቶ (Ethiopic syllable to) or even simply the female sign with caret?*

All seem way safer to render than this. With more than one Combining Diacritical Mark Ŧ̬ͦ it's seems quite impossible to tell how this will be rendered in different browsers.

* why does HN filter for the female sign 0x2640 and Ankh?
People have been saying that for 50-60 years now, and history seems to have taken a bar bet to see how many different ways it can make those people end up sounding dumb.

We're not going to have a negative growth rate, and we're going to feed everyone.
From Protesting Vietnam to Demanding “Safe Spaces” – US College Students
Some people still keep their data drawn in the suede of the back seat of their car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Familia
It's more taking cover in the Establishment Clause. They make it religious so that when it hits the courts judges are reluctant to overturn it and "discriminate" against the claimed religious belief.
>And building things in the public interest? Please. These things our built in our client's interest.

As soon as I read the tagline, I thought, "Surely he's presuming all engineering is civil engineering." That's the only way that argument holds.
You can do that now: you can create a certification program, sell inspections to acquire the cert, and enforce it through contracts. That companies for the most part don't do this suggests that there isn't really that much market demand for it.
Those are the UK-derived names. In North America those are all referred to informally as 'professor'. Even the lowest, Assistant Professor, is usually expected to run their own lab. Many people don't ever make full Professor.

edit: and the jump in pay and responsibility from postdoc to assistant prof is huge - maybe a factor of 2 in pay. The rest is incremental.
The US could not, under the TPP say "well, if you want to sell android devices in the US, you have to produce the GPL source code".

But that's unrelated to today's GPL situation, because the way the GPL works today is: "I as a copyright holder sue you for copyright infringement because you don't have my permission to my work… by the way, I'll give you permission if you follow these license terms…"
The lede is buried:

“MythBusters” isn’t about facts, it’s about process: For every myth, the team has to figure out how to test the claim, then construct an experiment, carry out the tests and analyze the results.

This is the single most important concept in all of science, and Mythbusters is the only popular television programme to convey it. Whatever criticism you might levy against Mythbusters, this core fact is inarguable - Mythbusters has taught a generation that science is not merely a repository of facts guarded by an establishment, but an active and ongoing process of discovery and verification.

Knowing a few facts about the cosmos or the natural world isn't particularly useful; learning how to ask good questions and find answers for yourself is invaluable.

Chapeau.
It even displays correctly in Notepad in Windows 7.
How would you characterize a top researcher compared to yourself?
The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015
How does that explain the large numbers of foreign researchers?
I think the reason for this is that they're trying to manipulate C's syntax to get a certain kind of intuitive style. They seem to want it to be concise and C-like (without resorting to macros), but they want to add their own functionality without actually extending the language. In this case, they want you to just be able to cast a Cello "var" pointer to a specific type pointer using the normal cast syntax.

I'm not saying it's the right choice. Just that I understand why they did it that way.

Still, I think a macro would be a perfectly reasonable way to do it.
I always thought "Baby On Board" caution signs were placed on cars and minivans as a courtesy to other drivers.

These signs let other motorists know that the sign-toting car will swerve wildly, stop unexpectedly and misbehave drastically because a self-centered, totally implacable baby is present inside, jealously and continuously demanding the driver's attention by screaming, vomiting and pretending to fatally gag on nothing in particular.

Now I know I was wrong.

Thanks HN!
> *(why does HN filter for the female sign?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156894
Just because this clause is completely unrelated to the GPL doesn't make the clause okay. It's still shitty because it blocks democratic governance options to have policies that require source release for various situations (such as requiring Open Source for government software use or making policies that software in schools needs to be Open Source etc)
The US inmates charged per night in jail
My watch (with mechanical hands, not digital) has some kind of kinetic energy generation, it has run for years and years without stopping, charging or winding. I wonder if something similar would suffice for energy needs of a device like this with no screen to power?
More evidence for Joseph Tainter's "Excessive and growing complexity in the face of diminishing marginal returns leading to civilizational collapse" theory[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter#Social_complexi...
I played with Samsung's 2D to 3D conversion in 2011 and found it to be surprisingly good at live action content.

While looking into their conversion technology I found a mention of TriDef. They have several OEM downloads indicating they provide the 2D to 3D conversion for some Samsung, HP, LG, and Phillips displays.

https://www.tridef.com/
Someone should be making those keyboards... But I wouldn't mind if they also added arrow keys.
January was when some slides from a talk were posted - http://www.slideshare.net/frohoff1/appseccali-2015-marshalli...
Can people please stop calling gluten free a fad or "bullshit". The reactions to gluten are autoimmune not some simple thing only to do with the walls of the intestines. Classic intestinal Coeliac reactions while the most common are only one of the manifestations. We've known for ages that it can also cause problems with the skin (Duhring's disease, discovered in 1967 and also still not fully understood) and there is a growing body of work showing connections to the nervous system.[0] The bottom line is it's an autoimmune disease and we simply do not know the full extent of the interactions and effects when the immune system is going wrong so people like you, who don't know what you are talking about to the extent you can't even spell the name of what you are talking about properly, are the real purveyors of bullshit.

That's to say nothing of the fact that even in your world where there are only people with classical Coeliac those people have to put up with the implication from the people mocking and sneering that they aren't genuine, and have to put up with waiters and waitresses who don't properly handle food or disclose its ingredients because they think it's a fad.

[0]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?linkname=pubmed_pubmed_ci...
Putting your spouse before your children is not only essential to a healthy and happy marriage, it is also essential to raising well adjusted children.
don't forget to restart, as well.
Easily ripped-off because their paywall needs a new word to describe simultaneously terrible, useless and laughable that isn't Donald or Trump. In most desktop browsers, press <ESC> (or stop on mobile browsers) to stop loading content while the page is still loading in just the right time window and the paywall ask will be less likely to popup (but still nondeterministically succeed sometimes).

Or read just the the text here:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/7eea331af1ff2fe...
This is true, but in a lot of instances ignoring variable dependence still produces meaningful results. For example, Naive Bayes on text classification usually performs really well even though words occurrences are dependent on each other. From my experience, if you are attempting to classify on a large number of observations (E.g. a large number of words), the algorithm performs well.
I personally wouldn't like the feeling of wearing a watch to sleep, so I wouldn't use a smartwatch for sleep tracking.

I use my Apple Watch as a simple nightstand and alarm clock. It works well.
I evidently need to make this more clear in the article, but RescueTime captures all time I spend in front of the computer, not just work time. My actual work time is about 50h/week, which is probably about average for software people in my area. In fact, it's probably on the low end if you factor in that everyone else spends 10h/week commuting into San Francisco.

I find my job incredibly exciting and rewarding, so I don’t find that amount of work burdensome. YMMV, of course :)
To me eOS looks like glossy crap. But then i sit here writing this using a minimal XFCE on Gobolinux, so what do i know? ;)
I offer you an alternate interpretation which may fit your data:

The easy cases where both parents are likely to agree and be happy with the results, end in mediation.

The difficult cases where both parents are likely to dispute the results, accept mediation less often, and end up in court.

Binding arbitration is a different thing entirely, because the parties have no recourse and one of the parties set up the system, which loses revenue if it cannot be useful to that party.
Google's cache shows a legitimate site there, but all I see are squatter-style advertisements linking to 'sedoparking.com'.
> Not all local is good, but the best producers usually are.

Wait, so you are saying, if I live far away from the farm the exact same produce suddenly tastes worse?