skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a moral dichotomy that's been around for ages and I have yet to see a satisfactory answer on: are sweatshops evil because the workers are grossly underpaid and work in terrible conditions, or are they good because they're better than nothing and people will apparently starve to death otherwise?

One common answer -- and part of the reason why capitalism [0] has basically been replaced by the modern mixed economy (which, confusingly, is often called "capitalism", though its not really, being more of a synthesis between the thesis of 19th century capitalism and its antithesis in 19th century socialism) everywhere in the developed world since at least the middle of the last century -- is that sweatshops are evil for the first reason, and capitalism is evil for the second reason.

[0] the 19th Century system for which the term was coined.
So why not start firing people? Seriously.

If I'm a hard worker, and I see people doing nothing all day, nothing would motivate me like firing them.

eg look at people working remotely, check vpn logins, and if they weren't logged in while working remotely, ask them for a reasonable explanation (maybe they were working entirely locally, but probably not), then terminate.
"Awesome post." Great! Show your support with an upvote. Bam.

"Too hungover to read all that today though. Definitely Saturday morning over a cup of coffee - assuming I'm not in the same shape then." This contributes in no way, shape, or form to promoting insightful and educational discussion.

The whole comment was unnecessary.
The article comes from a study by the International Labor Organization.[1]

All this seems to come from one startup, Softwear Automation, which has just some lab demos and can't put a whole garment together.[2]

First of all, the textile industry has been mechanized for a long time. It was the first industry to mechanize, over 200 years ago. Everything from picking to weaving was mechanized in the developed world by 1940 or so. Cutting and sewing are now semi-automatic, and slowly going automatic.

If you've never seen a modern loom, here's one in action at a trade show.[3] Here's a working textile factory.[4] The looms pretty much run themselves. Note how few people are in the textile factory. Even third world countries have this technology. Low labor costs cannot beat a 1000RPM Toyota jet loom.

Sewing has advanced to the semi-automated stage. There are lots of machines where a human lines up the fabric and the machine does the rest.[5] The main remaining problem is handling and placing fabric automatically. The T-shirt and jeans manufacturers still haven't solved that problem, though they're getting close.

Production of simple shapes such as towels and sheets is almost totally automated.
Here's a factory in Bangladesh. Massive machines, few people.[6]

Summary: most of textile automation has already happened. The last step, sewing of complex garments, is the only part that hasn't been automated yet. Expect T-shirt and jeans production to go full auto in the next decade.

[1] http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actemp/whatwedo/a...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA96-WX-oXc#t=163.352979
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl2rmup2dVY
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcZW91Ub38
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJw6oMwuJ94
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXiEU1Dhc9M
Bitcoin doesn't solve fraud; there's no way to prove that someone hasn't sent money to you.

That is, you can prove ownership of a Bitcoin address, but you can't prove that you don't own an address.
Recommended reading: "Crazy Like Us" by Ethan Watters. I'm not sure about the validity of this article, but the Watters book presents a fair amount of evidence that mental disorders are in many ways socially constructed by individual cultures. And often the construction is sped along by inventive pharmaceutical company marketing departments.
I'm impressed. It gave me what I thought to be a small, weak data set, but the recommendations were better than those I get from Netflix, which has much, much more of my data to work with.
A question that can be answered by pasting it into a search engine is very unlikely to provoke an insightful discussion, and is not good use of HN real estate.
IIRC she did.

Edit based on your edit: Probably not quite as abruptly as you suggest - usually you need a pattern of underperformance to fire without risking a lawsuit. But Yahoo underwent several rounds of performance-based lawsuits. I think her big mistake there was not cutting once and cutting deep - multiple rounds of layoffs are much more demoralizing than getting rid of all the underperformers at once - but hey, Monday-morning quarterbacking. We aren't the ones at the top making the call.
I've recently read "Man Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl. I think it's the comfort that we live in make us wonder if there's more to it. We don't struggle with survival anymore. World is now covered by advertisement to urge population to need more useless things. Things we think are innovations are really just facilitating those needs - the need for acceptance, attention, respect, entertainment. Getting bored? get some vines. Lonely? Check Facebook. We don't really feel better doing those things after a moment. It wears off. You do it again.

So is education. You get some, then you get some more. So is work, you get a job, then you get promoted. You know exactly where you are going. You know exactly how much money you need to live comfortably. Maybe you will find a SO, get some babies like your mom keep asking you to do. Maybe that's the way to go. Well, you get to see them for a couple hours before and after work everyday. Maybe go hippie? Go all kumbaya. Maybe find Jesus? It's a peaceful, harmonic society. Another day in paradise!

Realize you are not the only one suffering existential crisis. I have no business giving you advice. All I can say is, I'm in your shoes. All I can think of is to seize control of my own life. Truly understand something thoroughly that you are good at and passionate about. Not for your employer, not for trying to gain attention or respect. Just for you. Take whatever opportunities you've got to travel, to meet other cultures. There are so many possibilities, and you will power to choose your own path if you just be extremely good at something. Know at what point money loses its value. Be good and go forward.
Thank you very much, no worries.
> This is really interesting. Have you looked at Apache Beam?

Just gave it a look. Took a while to find some examples with code, but once I did it made a bit more sense.

> Beam is runner-independent and you can take the same code and run it at scale on a cluster, wether it's spark, flink, or google cloud.

I thought that was pretty cool.

> As for riko more specifically, Beam will have soon a python sdk, but I'm unsure if there will be a python standalone runner. Maybe this is something to look into...

A python standalone runner would be very useful. Otherwise I'm hesitant to go much further since my goal is to have a pure python solution for working with streaming data. Most libraries require installing java and that is what I'd like to avoid.
You missed the employment rate that sucked. Anyone who thinks the 70's were better than what we have now has no idea what they are talking about.
I wonder how censo came to mean that in Italian. (It doesn't seem to have that meaning today.)
Whether you should trust the compiler is always an issue.

The answer is no.
So in a thread about how massively successful this game is, we are all predicting the inevitable doom? Why? Of course one day it will die out, but so will literally every other game. So far these things have not stood in the way.
Oh so you heard? Sounds authoritative.
To catch those who upload the torrents?
I've never heard of this, and I founded a marketplace that worked with both.
Datadog does WAY more than Sensu does. Sensu doesn't handle metrics with more than 1 dimension, which should be a standard feature of any modern metrics platform.

I also disagree that setting up Sensu takes a "little" time. What is a "little" to an inexperienced Sensu administrator? A day? A week? Several weeks? Quantifying it would be valuable to the reader.
I thought she just gave remote workers an ultimatum. Surely there were some workers there actually working?

Or maybe I missed the firings...
When someone told me that Pokemon Go was exploding, I looked into it, and got really excited about its concept. People getting outside, interacting though a long-loved game, using real landmarks to denote checkpoints, playing a localized "king of the hill" type minigame. The architecture behind it and it really feels like it's using bleeding edge VR push us into a more social and fun world.

That said, I also feel like it's equally the biggest missed opportunity to date. Usually, I just see players walking, heads down, not talking. It was downright eerie when I was downtown one Tuesday night at midnight, and it was dead quiet despite ~60 Pokemon players meandering about. They should have introduced PvP earlier (hopefully it's around the corner!), and better yet, make it so you get more exp for battling people you haven't battled before. Spur people into social interaction!
There is a PR for a Lean backend producing both C++ and Rust: https://github.com/leanprover/lean/pull/1090 Note, however, that this is purely focused on executing Lean code, not integrating with other C++/Rust sources.
I corrected it
> No True Scotsman

The No True Scotsman fallacy doesn't apply to conversations where the topic at hand is discussing what makes someone a Scotsman.
Nice. Need to see more hardware posts here. Please though, improve the depth of the language.
it's my understanding the API they used was undocumented, so while it's WeWork's fault for not doing a better job securing an API that seems sensitive to them, it's also disrespectful to do something that you're pretty clearly not wanted to be doing
All the more reason basic income makes economic sense. When the alternative is inefficient and costly human labor.
Auto Industry Publishes Cybersecurity Best Practices
Can you compare Instana to Datadog, SignalFX and Wavefront?
Well, it doesn't really emulate the gameboy game either, so noone wins.
To appreciate the aside you have to understand Lululemon's seminal role in the athleisure trend and the market impact it (making leggings acceptable pants) has had on the apparel industry.

Also important to note is the sewing process required for leggings - coverstitch of very stretchy knit fabric - is something that requires a lot of sewing machine operator skill and is difficult to automate.
It's a matter of encouraging health in a community. A lack of proper resources(which can be everything from documentation, tutorials, guides, libraries, to tools like Ember-CLI) can lead to mistakes in design and part of your community going off on a tangent, which leads to dead branches of development trees.

For example: While React still works for a lot of people who did things in ways advocated early on, the rise of Redux and functional reactive programming has caused the community to move in a direction many library authors weren't aware of when they began.

Is it anyone's fault? No, not really- but taking advantage of stewardship in a community can lead to better tools and resources that help newbies, take some of the work out of your hands, and keep quality for everyone as high as possible.
We throw hundreds of thousands of metrics at Datadog per minute from thousands of hosts; it hasn't broken a sweat yet.

Are you affiliated with Wavefront?
I was on citalopram for a while, I can speak to the feeling of "is this thing doing anything?" After a couple months I noticed that my emotions felt bounded...I felt highs and lows, but the differences between the two were much less pronounced than previously. I felt...robotic after a while? Like I was going through my day on autopilot, but hey I was getting things done and didn't feel like killing myself on the regular. For me, one of the most pronounced side effects was a significant dampening on my libido; if you've got a partner or wish to maintain an active sex life consider working with your medical professional to find an alternative SSRI.

Give it time, and best of luck to you on your journey.
Show HN: Gold Laces Conference for Bootstrappers and Side Hustles
If you're interested, you can use my code FRIENDS to get half off (so tickets are $99 instead of $199).
This seems like something people in the US could use as well. People who wouldn't dream of seeing a therapist but don't want to burden their close friends with their problems.
Seems like it could be beneficial.
Ducking Genius!
I submit that a 'snob' is someone who holds contempt for someone who is not knowledgable in their area of interest. A 'geek' is someone who is excited to teach others about their area of interest.
Probably better to stop the bombing and campaigb and let isis grow bigger... they do wonders for the muslim community. /sp

Media coverage reminds us of the religious threat to civilized society.
Is there more you can share at the moment? My wife sometimes works with Stoll software and we are thinking about buying a double bed from them in the near future.
Hey! I work on the site, sorry for the mishap. You should be able to authenticate now!
You can search for people with a given title, or a company that is in a specific industry, etc. You can do boolean searches and do pretty complex searches depending on your LinkedIn account (free, business, etc.).

For instance, you could find out how many companies are in the day care business in a specific state or in the US as a whole, etc. You could search for professionals with "day care" or "care taker" listed somewhere in their title or profile and do some basic guesses from there.
I meant in the store which added support maybe 3 or so years ago, and then dropped it a year or two ago. I used to prefer buying my games there, instead of on Steam, because of that as well as not having my games library locked to Steam. Nowadays I'll usually buy from GMG for the same reasons, though their store interface is much more confusing and conflated compared to Humble's.
Looks like it.[1] "An example The Information gives is that of a 20-year lease signed in New York’s financial district, on which WeWork got over a year of free rent. This free rent, however, was not spread out over the length of the lease, as is usually standard accounting practice. Instead, it was plugged straight into the current numbers, increasing near-term profits."

WeWork leases real estate on long term leases and subleases it on short-term ones. If occupancy drops, they're in big trouble, caught between declining revenue and fixed lease costs.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-financial-projections...
As an X discussion grows longer, the probability of mentioning Y approaches 1 for all values of X and Y.
They could be a high value client, or just good at maintaining relations.
Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
RPAPL § 853
Commercial Lease
"Having thus substantiated that the value of its discarded records and personal property is $145,695.20 and that these records and property were discarded pursuant to a wrongful eviction as established by the complaint and, moreover, admitted by defendants according to the uncontroverted proof, plaintiff is entitled to recover treble damages of $437,085.60 under RPAPL § 853."
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/94...

I was wrong about NYCAC § 26-521 - 529, that's only for dwellings.
Looks like we've got some shills in this thread: vizza, kearneyface, and antonplus all posted with the same, verbatim comment: http://i.imgur.com/P2adbAh.png, http://i.imgur.com/C4DUgTy.png, http://i.imgur.com/aKY91bN.png
I will never understand this. Rhyming slang is always so far fetched.
We're not going to make any terrorist group grow smaller by killing innocents.
> ...all can be done in runtime, w/o restart of the full topology...

That's pretty impressive! So something like react/elm hot reloading?
> tights (thank you Lululemon for convincing women that tights are pants, sometimes it makes walking down the street that much more enjoyable),

Leaving aside the objectification in that sentence (not because its not problematic, just because other than acknowledging its existence there isn't a lot to say about it), women have been treating leggings as pants for considerably longer then Lululemon has existed. (Though Lululemon was involved in -- how much spurring and how much just benefitting from is probably debatable -- the most recent resurgence in popularity of that.)
To appreciate the aside you have to be a creepy guy.
>>What would you guys do if ya were in my shoes?

I'd move. felt the same in my home country with 19 and left to Asia for 10 years then back to Europe, then moved around here "locally".

After reading this¹ I'd love to go back to Asia. I miss the food and vibrant tech community and regional short trips to local crazy/weird/exciting/fun places. The people I remember the most. If you can you should go! (anywhere, just go!)

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137103
I remember reading about some CFO that was pissed he wasn't getting a CEO job after two years. I remember thinking why did I just spend two years learning nodejs.
You aren't forced to. You could always choose to be in poverty instead, if you don't care to do produce any wealth.
So, when will Apple's browsers support Opus (in Ogg container) in the audio tag?
I was surprised too. I didn't really connect to any of the choices during building the profile but the recommendations were right on.
> Outrage politics is basically like steroid use. It can aid in quickly bulking up (a group) but it has detrimental long term effects on the body politic.

That is an extremely pithy statement of the current state of politics (at least as they are in the US), right now.

Well said.
Well, you have to be okay with the objectification of women -- which may make you creepy on some level, but doesn't require you to be a guy (though, statistically, its more likely that way.)
It's not suing an employee for talking to reporters. That doesn't make sense.

Most company exits include an NDA clause which would prevent talking to reporters so the statement does make sense. Except you're totally right thats not what she's really being sued for.
I was there when it happened; it felt like the right call to me and my team. In fact none of the performance related terminations had us scratching our heads.

I was a part of a startup (interClick) that got acquired before MM became CEO and our experience of the rest of the org was pockets of smart dedication drowning in a mass of serfs passively resisting the will of the fiefdoms to which they belonged.

It seemed to us that what MM should have done is broken up the fiefdoms and dismiss the feudal lords that reigned before revitalizing the suite of properties and expanding mobile/video.
I would guess, just having it as an option in addition to credit cards, wouldn't make someone abandon their cart in the case of a poor UX (more likely abandon bitcoin)
It was also #2 on HN before it received any comments, for what it's worth.
Shock of the New: Los Angeles vs. Modernism
See also: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/09/anarchists-...
>If you're going through all your music and converting everything to Opus, don't. It's another lossy codec and you will lose more sound quality (it will sound worse). Keep what you have. If you're really concerned over sound quality: use something lossless, like FLAC.

I'm buying music in FLAC, and store it as master copy. Then I convert it to Opus for actual playback. If better free codec will come out, I'll do the same thing, using FLAC as a source. So FLAC has its usage.
Boston-based :)
Monit is lightweight, easy to configure, capable of monitoring and restarting pretty much anything, and free. It works standalone, or with the paid M/Monit, you can aggregate multiple standalone installations into one console.

After struggling with so many other systems that were complicated and burdensome and ultimately no better than nagios, I came across Monit and haven't looked back.
I'm a happy customer of Wavefront. I completely believe that Datadog can handle hundreds of thousands per minute -- especially if most of them are pre-canned, non-custom metrics grabbed by their agent. Hundreds of thousands of metrics/minute is a few thousand a second only. Wavefront does millions of custom metrics per second, which can be sent with different dimensions and tags. That's much harder.
Maryamyriameliamurphies.js – Haskell-style morphisms ported to ES2015
>An additional limitation to keep in mind is that this data mainly appeared to be from observational studies. These cannot prove cause and effect. The individual studies will likely have varied considerably in the additional health and lifestyle factors they took account of when looking at the links with alcohol. For example, smoking, diet and physical activity are all factors likely to be associated both with level of alcohol consumption and cancer risk.

In other words correlation does not equal causation. If someone who exercises several days per week, has a healthy diet, and drinks a glass or two of wine each night, would that really have the same potential to cause cancer as someone who drinks 2 beers every day, eats fast food, and smokes cigarettes? I'd like to see long term studies done with individuals who have a "healthy" lifestyle vs "unhealthy" with alcohol involved if at all possible.
>This is a probably good news for Yahoo employee's as Verizon

Good news for Yahoo shareholders. I have no faith that Verizon will turn Yahoo around. I'm not sure it's good news for employees. You're bringing in Verizon corporate culture into a Silicon Valley company - have fun.
7 full-size PCs stacked on top of each other with a cheap switch and a power bar.
What do I have to learn to be hirable in Clojure?
Elm's type system rules out the possibility of null or undefined. So you won't be seeing those errors at runtime (modulo some bug in Elm itself). It encourages you to program with a very clean separation between model, view, and update. And it has very helpful compiler error messages that guide you to correct code.
> 3TB drives are now about $100. That's _cheap_.

Cheap storage exists. Parent's point is that cheap storage isn't portable.