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I'm from the Netherlands. If an employer wants to fire you, he has to follow certain rules. If you have a temporary contract, he can just let you go after that period, so that's a popular method - just hire people temporary. However, you're only allowed to do this three times for a maximum of three years. After that, the contract is fixed without end date. You could fire someone for one month, then take him back, but that will not be allowed. If you do this as employee, then you get fired the fourth time, you can object this in court and the judge will award you with a fixed contract. If you want to do this, you have to fire someone for at least half a year, and that makes it less attractive to do.

Another option is to hire someone who is self employed. It is a popular method since the crisis. Fire an employee, then hire him back. However, if the employee only has one client, you can go to court and prove that in fact nothing has changed, and the judge can reinstate your old contract. I don't know if this happens a lot, but it has happened.

When you have a fixed contract (no end date) and work somewhere for five years, the law says the employer can fire you but has to pay you five months salary. Because of common law practice, this will normally be doubled. He has to prove that he has good reason to fire you. This is in general too little work, or malpractise, or distrust or something that disturbed the work relationship. If this can't be proved, the only option is negotiation about extra money to leave. If they can't agree on this, they can ask a judge. That will cost money as well, so most of the time that path is avoided.

Only in the case of theft or when you're drunk at work, say bad things about your boss or company, can they fire you right there and then without pay. Still they have to prove that.

When unemployed, you can get unemployment benefits, normally 70% of your last salary (average over last 6 months), but you have to search for new jobs and prove that. This will last maximum 24 months, after which you go into welfare, which is super, but little money and you have to sell your house etc.
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There's also a simple problem in that you're, on that page, not doing much more than showing simple HTML, however in browsers with JS off, for whatever reason, it shows absolutely nothing. Not even a message that JS is required.
A compilation of properties of Thue Morse sequence and the story of my obsession with it as a kid. Nothing original as such. Would love to hear if anyone from the Hacker News community experienced this. I'm new to programming so please don't judge me if the code snippets aren't up to the mark. Would appreciate constructive feedback.
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Thats why I end up checking the items price history anyway...the list price is meaningless.
So if I say, "Darth Vader was Luke's father," do you have to remind me that Star Wars isn't real?
Same as saying that homes connected to public streets have no expectation of privacy because burglars can break windows and kick in doors to gain access even though you have your doors locked.
Its organization is specified by statute:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act

If the banks owned it, they could vote to take all the profits (instead of a small fraction). Let me know when that happens.
Heh, I did a Windows 7 -> Windows 10 upgrade mostly because of Quantum Break, a Windows 10 exclusive. Haven't actually played it too much, but perfectly happy with the upgrade.
The best opportunities, Windows XP being retired and Apple neglecting their pro users, have already past. With Google entering the market there is even less holes in the market today for other Linux variants.
In my opinion, using Cascading StyleSheets for this stuff is just broken. Animations are not styles. Behavior is not a style.

Readability and usability of animations could be improved by adding animation tags to the HTML Canvas (like WPF Storyboards: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/364529/Animation-using-S...).

The view behavior-part could be done like WPF triggers. In fact let's just get rid of HTML/CSS and implement WPF for the browser.
I can't help but wonder if we have lost more than we gained.
That article is very nice but you're not reading it correctly if your takeaway is that "1.1% of users would benefit more from a CSS menu than from a JS menu". GDS is the UK government - a large portion of that 1.1% is likely not loading the CSS either. Bots, crawlers, rss readers, etc. The 0.2% number is much closer to what you're looking for.

And to repeat: Those that disable javascript have a choice in the matter. Accessibility isn't a matter of choice.
So if I've upgraded, and then downgraded (twice!), will Microsoft remember, and let me upgrade later, when 7 goes off support?
Or maybe it's just that maintaining the direct upgrade from Windows 7 is only going to be a bigger expense as the platforms diverge. I wouldn't be too surprised if they planned to retire that path completely and force people to install Windows 10 from scratch in the future.
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Somehow I expect a lot of this is not acquired by the voters in any way. It's just internal gambles with little meaning outside, and the arguing people forming narratives for random events after they have happened.

It also reminds me of lots of tiny associations and clubs. A huge amount of time is spent on infighting about some public release that nobody then reads. Politics probably attracts people who love meetings and arguing about pointless things.
Skimming it, the article seems pretty detailed, it should be possible to follow it in other languages, or even to convert it to a polyglot guide.
Not sure if it's a part of the standard library, but the .Net variant of C# contains a sorted dictionary: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f7fta44c(v=vs.110)....
Was it ever meant for general web usage?
In this case (and in some case in Europe) this right was given by the superpowers. Making some hotels explode has never made a country.
This is gold! Thanks a lot for sharing!
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Also, fantastic work. The readability of C# really shines through here - I could grok all of this code instantly :)
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Before looking at the article I thought it was a new office layout. No more cube farms, no more open layout, now we put people into little work coffins.
I seem to recall Just Cause 2 required either Vista or W7.
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... and ipchains (in 2.2) replaced ipfwadm.
A certain quote from Office Space comes readily to mind...

https://youtu.be/4lmW2tZP2kU
I'm not that familiar with .NET Core. It doesn't look like MiscUtil is compatible with it.

The executable project has some minor references to Mono.Posix just so it can catch kill signals while running in the Terminal and die gracefully.

Both dependencies can be removed quite easily from the project.
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Oddly it seems that browser tracking sites are reading ChromeOS as Linux. Because there seems to have been a recent uptick in Linux computers registered.
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open map alternative:

https://www.openstreetmap.org
I have escalated this to folks I am friends with at Google. They are looking into it.
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The W3C's job is to standardize implementations. Most standards bodies do not invent on their own. In any case, a standards body will generate the fundamentals allowing the ability to piece together components to create what a developer wants. No standards body is able to come up with every desire of every developer.
It was a new install. You have to tell Virtualbox which OS it is going to run, though I am not sure what it does differently. It seems you can change the setting afterwards.

You may just have bad luck. It always takes me a day to get Virtualbox running correctly on a new PC, no matter how many times I have done it in the past.
I was curious as to how this was done, so I took a look at the external JS that CodePen was configured to load. He's using GreenSock[1], which looks like a really cool tool for building rich interactions and animations with SVG+JS in the browser.

1: https://greensock.com/
While I see your point on the Acceptable Ads shakedown, the reason I chose Adblock Plus was because of the Flattr Plus integration, which seems like the first attempt to really fix things (ie sites that let you block ads in return for a Flattr micropayment). I avoided using an ad-blocker (and generally viewed people who used them as selfish cheapskates) until ads became a malware vector. ABP with Flattr Plus seemed the best alternative to block ads & protect my computer but still ensure publishers are compensated.

Incidentally, thanks for posting, even though it incurred a karma hit for you - good to hear both sides. HN has too much groupthink sometimes.
My sentence is fine according to Grammarly, LanguageTool, and Word. So, can you be more specific, please? Anyway, I was talking about basic rules that even idiots should get right.
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>decreases the risk of accidentally buying knock offs...now it is... safe.

I'm not sure it really decreases the risk that much, maybe some. With stickerless commingled inventory a third party seller can easily mix their fakes in with the real products and those fakes can end up "sold and shipped by Amazon."

and stuff like this - http://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-ope...

>German knife maker Wüsthof recently told its authorized distributors that come June 30, they can no longer store its products in Amazon's warehouses, because the manufacturer doesn't want the merchandise commingled with items from unauthorized third-party sellers, said Todd Myers, vice president of sales at Wüsthof-Trident of America Inc.

>Authorized Wüsthof distributors may still sell through Amazon, they just can't use its fulfillment service, meaning they have to ship purchases themselves to customers. Wüsthof itself stopped selling its knives directly to Amazon around two years ago, according to Mr. Myers.
Why does every discussion on HN and reddit, about every topic, required to bring up privacy, spying and government intrusion? Including this one which is similar to discussing the use of crayons for a coloring book.
I think you misread this from beginning. As someone from eastern asian background, this feels not like some shady play that employer forces people into, rather I think it is close to a what is a catharsis or some sort of confession in western countries.

The belief system of Sinosphere is built on ancestor worship. Every year, family gather together and goes to ancestor's tomb, do some cleaning and present offering to the other world, memorizing the ceased while appreciating contemporary life. I think this ritual works pretty much the same way, though it might feel weird, but outcome isn't that bad.
I recently bought a Thinkpad with W7 Pro. I have no real use for Windows right now, and I'm thinking of wiping that disk to install a BSD on it.

But things change, and I if I'm lucky, I may (have to) do a little bit of software development (porting at least) for Windows in a year or two. Most likely people will want Windows 10 support at that point. In my situation, would you recommend upgrading?

EDIT: I've considered using a VM for Windows, but I don't know if it'll be painfully slow. And I'm not sure if I can get a copy of Windows for that purpose free of charge.
Yes, that brief glimpse of hope that was brutally torn away seconds later... The Cpt. Darling quote I mentioned earlier had that 'punch in the gut' feeling for me too, because it somehow brought to light how large his life was outside of the war...

I began to wonder about Pratt & Sons - did Pratt have sons or other employees in the trenches too? Same with the Croydon gentlemen - how many of their 11 will die in the war and never play cricket again? Who is Doris and is she waiting anxiously at home for him? What will she do when she gets the telegram telling her he will never come home?

After laughing at Darling as an idiotic, simpering, one dimensional character in the earlier episodes, it was awfully gut wrenching to see him here as a more complex personality with a full life, who was quite simply terrified at the inevitable prospect of having that very life ending in a few minutes time when they went over the top.

'Bugger' indeed...
This is from "week to week" - shouldn't it be compared to the same time last year instead?

Initially, I would think that sales would go up in mid-summer anyways.
Another anecdote: I tried to buy Apple EarPods on Amazon. The first search result, ranked #13 in the best sellers claims "Apple EarPods Genuine OEM" for $9.99 when all reviews say "do not buy, not genuine!". How can Amazon let these products be listed???

I ended up buying them for $30 in person at my local electronics store.
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It's actually even more involved than that. For example there needs to be a 24 hour down period per week and there are mandatory breaks an employee is required to take by law (refusing to take a break, even voluntarily, puts the employer in violation with the law).

I'd say that other than civil servants, people working in the "Handwerk" (a German concept that includes various industrial jobs and skilled crafts, literally "manual labour" but often implying specialised expertise) have it best as they typically work under union contracts and have fairly tight regulations.

OTOH loan workers tend to have it worst: loan workers bypass a lot of the labour laws and often get all of the drawbacks of being self-employed without the benefits of actual free agency. They're often hired to replace permanent employees, so they're sometimes met with hostility from their colleagues and they have no job security and often no way to transfer to a permanent position (both because that's often exactly what they're there to replace and because they're often under non-compete contracts that forbid them from doing that).

Agency work also tends to be pretty bad, especially for designers: you're often expected to work unpaid overtime and there is a lot of pressure keeping people from exercising their rights or asking for a raise. I've routinely seen designers work weekends and massive overtime (think 12 hours, not 10) for months on end. The worst story I heard was of a 32 hour day (working on a regular day until the next morning and then leaving "on time" the next day).

Note that not every agency is like this, but they exist and it's taken for granted that you have to "eat dirt" if you really want to work in the industry. This especially used to be a problem with internships but thanks to some changes to a few laws interns have it pretty good these days (e.g. "voluntary" interns have to be paid minimum wage, making them a lot less cost efficient than they used to be).

Also, of course, almost none of the labour protection laws apply to leadership roles (typically C-level jobs). The reasoning behind this probably being that if you run a company having to take time off can get in the way. Sadly this also means there are some strange corner cases for founders (e.g. you get almost none of the maternity protection).
"remote-execution-by-default": web browsers execute code that was loaded from an untrusted source somewhere on the internet. Every (ok, most) browsers by default allow any website you visit to execute JavaScript code in your browser.

"same origin" is about the source of that code, only of minor relevance here as long as no working signed code distribution mechanism and infrastructure exists - why not, btw, after all these years?

For communications and general information transmission we do not need remote code execution.

Yes, browsers try to do that in a "safe way" - the "sandboxing" approach has been exercised for many years now, mostly without success. Maybe Qubes OS can be a successful approach to this problem, but we still have too many non-technical problems to solve, as reality shows, so enough time to do more research. Until then: css only should be the default.

CSS gives us a very good way to stop going on with that inacceptable defaults while we fix the first version of the internet.
Yes. And you need a pickaxe to drink from your glass.
Yup. Get the upgrade. Even if you uninstall immediately once you see Windows 10 is activated, getting the free upgrade now entitles your hardware to it for life.

And UWP development does require Windows 10.
I would recommend a VM, which is what I do for all systems I need to develop for but not use as my everyday system.
"All Quiet on the Western Front" - the only book from cca 40 we were forced to read during high school classes that really consumed me - the horrors described, the progressive apathy to death all around and almost total randomness of survival... far from usual poetry. Still cannot comprehend such madness that was happening 100 years ago
Well then they'd be wise to offer free Windows 10 upgrades to Windows 7 users forever instead of charging for it after July 29th 2016. And yes, I know they have to make money, but Apple hasn't charged for an OS upgrade in ~3 (soon to be 4) years now and that is their competition. If they were serious about getting people to use Windows 10 they'd let people stay on 7 until their compatibility concerns are fixed.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/audience-network

FB Audience Network is already in Beta for Mobile Web [1], they might investigate to expand this business for Desktop Web too.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/audience-network/mobile...
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Yes - that was certainly a very ominous scene. The beginning of when my heart went out to that character.

Stephen Fry played his part brilliantly - He certainly epitomised the pompous brashness and careless disregard for the value of human life that seemed to be prevalent amongst the Generals and leaders of the time...
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"Prime Sellers" (that's FBA sellers in Amazon logo) are not more trustworthy than merchant fulfilled sellers by any means. It's simply just a different way to fulfill orders.

Also its possible to get a knockoff product that is sold and shipped by Amazon because Amazon allows their inventory from their supply chains to commingle with third party seller inventory.
thanks! will clone this
Traditionally, I remember the rule that presentation should be managed by css, while behavior should be managed by javascript. But does the fact that some things can be reasonably done either way change - for example - a site's or app's maintainability? How about it performance? Is a CSS implementation rendered faster than javascript? I struggle with this at times, especially in some cases where - admittedly older - frameworks allowed for some overlap. Ah, well, much like lots of the web, i'll just work to get stuff done.
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I turned off after he implied Brexit was a bad thing and that people were just frightened into voting for it. It's nonsense to suggest that the majority vote was either a bad thing or done out of fear. It happened because politicians didn't listen to voters or do anything about their concerns and money was always the deciding factor in everything they do.

If politicians don't represent the will of the people, a revolution will ensue.
If its not been referenced by the Simpsons, is it a real urban legend?
I don't think this would be good idea. Then there would be the danger of employers pressuring their employees to waive their rights: "If you insist on working only 11h/day, we can hire someone else."

I would totally expect this to happen for basically every minimum wage job if you could waive your rights like this.
To me, it sounds like what needs to be persisted is the data specific to the accounting program rather than the internal state of a Windows installation.

At eight hours a month, I'd wonder whether the overhead of shared responsibility would be worth the effort versus just having one person take responsibility. In an activity highly dependent on standards and accuracy and consistence such as accounting, I'd suspect errors to correlate casual or infrequent or disinterested users and adding layers of implementation complexity such as the cloud to increase the odds of errors as well.

So my gut would be to just put one person on the task. If information had to be shared, I'd look at storing the data centrally and distributing copies of the executable. As the third option, I'd package the data and OS in a VM image and treat it as a file under version control. For something with sensitive information, the least desirable option would be a running Windows installation accessible from the internet.
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Quite enjoyed this. I've been toying with the idea of using Amazon distribution to increase scale.

Very helpful to see the steps laid out. Thank you
For me, it will give me a slight inflammation to my head, which translates into procrastination.

Also a bike is a really eficient way to travel, so if you are like me you either will not do much effort or you get an inflammation. I've noticed that walking to do some shopping is better. Plus you kill two birds with one stone.

Sometimes I do bike slowly to a park but I don't count it as physical effort. It's just travel.

Edit: It might count for you. The takeaway should be: listen to your body. When you procrastinate something is not good with your brain. Look back in time and see what you did that might be the cause. When you are in "the zone" do the same: look back in time and see what you did and do more of that :).
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That example in the README.md of Alicia and Bob generating a keypair, importing each others public keys, then encrypting/descripting a simple note is really well laid out.
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And how does the average voter get involved in "drafting bills" I suspect that there are very few of us on HN who have ever done something like that.

I manged to get several thousand people a better pension by using the democratic process but I suspect as a dual wonk/nerd I am in a minority.

I did half consider going to work in the HOC if one of my colleagues had got the speaker ship.