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In Greece, with our austerity measures, part-time employment came as a requisite from our creditors, because it would turn our economy more competitive.

What really happened in an economy with 23% unemployment? Now anyone can hire you legally for as little as 100 euro per month and, since there are a million people out there looking for a job, can demand from you to work 12 hours per day for 5 or 6 days a week. Slavery does give a competitive edge to a business.
It's on-the-job training. Most CS degrees don't teach you shit about anticipating the needs of the typical end user.
> Mostly a result of regulations that make it difficult for companies to get rid of people (either because they're not good or the company needs to shed staff).

It's not as if the permatemp phenomenon isn't a problem right here in the United States, where it's generally pretty easy to fire people.
Taking a weekend to digest what's happened isn't going to burn that much money, and it will help ensure you're ready to move on to submitting applications.

Something fairly traumatic just happened, don't be afraid to take time to absorb it so you can focus on the next effort.
Some of this is due to regulations, some of this is the fact that they can now get away with it. The market can be efficient in more than one way.

I will say that the concepts of year contracts are totally alien to me as an American. But I think Europe still works on the old-school postwar model, where you're horribly underpaid at the start of your career and the company makes a bunch of money off of that, but over time you make more and more until it morphs until a well paid sinecure. So they're just stuck at that horrible entry phase forever and never move to the good part.
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Hold on a second. People are essentially suggesting "strip the regulations, let companies fire people at will". How precisely are short-term contracts worse than at-will employment where you can be fired at a moment's notice? You need to constantly have one eye on the job market either way, or risk losing your income security. At least short-term contracts don't create an information asymmetry - you need to find a new job at the end of the contract, not whenever your boss decides, for reasons unknown to you, that they don't need you any more.

If workers want security in employment, they're going to have to create it themselves - through worker-owned companies.
Go on... You're describing something that's incredibly puzzling and leaving everyone's curiosity burning!
Original non-clickbait title: "Fossil discovery rewrites understanding of reproductive evolution".
If we can't predict the effects of basic, "simple" market regulations like these labor laws, what makes you think a complete overhaul of the system is going to be so much better?

If we ever do UBI, I predict there will be massive problems that no one was able to predict that will arise as soon as the system is in place and we'll be no better than when we started.
I swear we need to crowdsource data about AliExpress delivery times. I'm going to make a note of my next packages, but the last few got to me via Cambodia and Tonga of all places.

I've never had an AliExpress package take less than a month to get to me in Australia, BangGood and Gearbest are slightly faster for some reason.
Equipped DL puts more strain on the grip simply because the weight is heavier.

The best DL-like movement that specifically targets grip strength is partial DLs off the blocks or in the rack. That way the weight is heavier and you can specifically target the lockout hold where the grip strength is most important DL - wise.
I remember seeing "lawful intercept" being mentioned somewhere in the GSM standards, and it seemed they were certainly not opposed to it...
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective (2008)
As a sidenote, this post highlights why your first priority when you have a decent paying job should be saving ~6 months or so of expenses so that if something like that happens, you have an immediate safety net to fall back on.

There are too many people in the Bay Area making 6 figures salary and living paycheck to paycheck (exorbitant rent + car lease + student debt payments + weekends in Tahoe + nice brunches + buying the newest phone quickly adds up...)
Nosebleed seat means a seat at the very back of the house. Because it is usually very high up, the idea is that the atmosphere is thin and it makes your nose bleed. Basically what the person is saying is that the fan can buy a very cheap ticket and exchange it for a much more expensive ticket that the scalper bought.
Large text + overly verbose + two sentence paragraphs + huge images = a scroll bar so tiny, I realize I need to get back to work
I think the really interesting point from this article is about why bundling is so attractive when marginal costs are close to zero, for both the consumer and the seller. In the digital world, almost all services have a near-zero marginal cost, so bundling has a clear advantage.

It is also interesting when thinking about WHY people get so attached to the idea of 'unbundling', even when it might not be in their best interest. I think most people look at some of the large cable bundles, for example, and think "man, I am paying for so many things I don't watch!" What they don't realize is that even if the channels they didn't watch were removed, the cable company wouldn't be able to charge them much less, since the marginal cost for additional channels is near zero.
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i have difficulty imagining what kind of creature would ask all of us kind and well-meaning folk for help with this kind of elaborate "it was not me!" scheme. must have been for a girl. was it worth it? a lot of us actually love SFC and pulling our heartstrings like this and so transparently is turning my stomach. does it really take 13 years to develop an emulator? and these days, with actual cartridge hardware? there are many dumpers and many PAL carts all over the world. it is slightly impressive for you to have considered and thought out and written such deliberately organized FAQ-like introduction to your immediate world of paranoid guilt process almost as if one were wrought with some kind of self-illuminating regret. i am so sorry.
Slot hosting moved to annual only as administering a customer-owned equipment adds an additional layer of headache.

Its not cost effective to have customers who want to load up on 'warez' cancelling their service, shipping back their disk to get it back the next week empty for another round.

We're positioning this as a long-term storage product where customers don't want to be paying the hosting company each month for disks.
This is Richardson 1948 shit, so Richardson had the good excuse of doing all the work while people did their computations by hand. This numbnuts is not only like 60 years late, but does not have that excuse.

Lot of people who don't like reading in complex systems, I find. Also a lot of people who aren't sufficiently cynical.
One button, 20 different startups every day
I would really like to see a middle ground here.

There's good evidence that minimum wages can be used to nudge up bottom tier salaries without very much impact on employment rates. For use-cases that tend to suffer most (eg youth employment), most EU countries have exemptions.

Labour laws which try to force longevity come with some costs that aren't very easily mitigated. "At-will" employment sounds very aggressive but forced employment sounds bad too.

I think compensation packages (based on years in employment) should replace no-firing laws. This will keep a softer incentive in place, but avoid making hiring people so risky.
It's a pipeline. Check out this [1] paper about the Taco Bell scheduling system. It's forecasting (stats, but would probably be called ML if paper wasn't in 1998) -> queuing theory (markov chains, sometimes formula-based, sometimes simulated) -> scheduling (normally mixed integer linear programming)

[1] http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/inte.28.1.75
Sure, you can practice and reflect on the previous interview in-between. Your level of concentration is so high during a technical interview, as soon as you disconnect you get a big drop. For an onsite for example, you go to 5-10 45 minutes interviews in a row... you're in until the end, then you crash at night in your bed. No way you can do the same thing the next morning.
If in the US your insurance should not be deactivated, you should have the ability to take over the payments under COBRA.

Update your LinkedIn!
As you shouldn't, even Wikipedia itself has a disclaimer against any claims of validity. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer) Besides, encyclopedias are tertiary sources, they should only be used as general references, not primary sources.
I would start job hunting right away. Though after accept the new job offer, be sure to leave yourself some off time to take a vacation or relax yourself.
Don't recommend to do vacation before new job landed though.
All that's required for living paycheck to paycheck in the Bay Area is a willingness to pay exorbitant rent. The other stuff is a distraction from the real cash drain.
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Gimme your specs, I'm curious to know what meeting infrastructure you're using. I can start a vidyo meeting in about 15 seconds.
What percentage was given back to the VCs? (just curious)

I, too, found the post easy to read and straight-forward. If there was ever a great way to answer the hiring question of "Tell me about a time where you failed and what you did about it?" it would be this. Good luck in your next gig!
> This information includes who you called and how long you talked.

Given the recent shift from data to metadata protection, which is the only justification for messaging centralization, this vulnerability effectively reduces security to almost zero.
I just had a snarky thought: Has anyone ever heard of anyone kvetching about transitioning from mangement to engineering?
> perceived safety ... driving

I became a way better winter driver when I started intentionally fishtailing in snow and ice (in low risk situations).
I had a package 'fall off the truck' a few scans after it entered the USPS system. A month later it scanned at a Chicago sorting center, and was delivered a few days later.

Another recent package was said to have been delivered, but wasn't actually in my mailbox until the following day. Maybe my neighbor redelivered it for me.
It's interesting that HN shits on advertising as a zero-sum game, but has no issue with SEO.
Wow, $5 finally. Must have gotten tired of DO and Vultr taking those customers
you can search multiple locations on craigslist right now. in the left hand bar click "include nearby areas". there is also a miles from zip search option.
The ability to lay people off whenever you want also has the benefit of employers feeling more confident in hiring people, as they can lay them off if required. It leads to more jobs and a more dynamic labour market as your job security is being able to find another job readily. By making it hard to fire Europe has also made it hard to hire.
All he is saying, and this is a good point, is that the long time use of something isn't indicative of it being good for you. Going to church has been around for 2000 years too, that doesn't mean that it's healthy, it's just something people do.
> (I personally consider hinting obsolete, but I would rather not argue about it.)

That depends heavily on your preferences in font rendering, and in particular whether you prefer Apple-style "accurate shapes with no respect for pixel alignment" or Windows-style "monitors have pixels, better to ignore the designer and snap to pixels than to be blurry" rendering.

It also depends on the fonts you use; some fonts don't need hinting to look good, while others do.
Completely agree. In the last couple of years there has been a push to say that ops are no longer needed and that a dev/engineer can do ops. I've found this to be a fallacy, and while true a developer might be able to use docker, or serverless, they usually have zero idea of the configuration used and no actual in-depth understanding of how these services work and communicate. Thus no idea how to scale or fix problems.

For the last 5 or 6 years, people have been waving their arms saying platforms as a service (Heroku, etc) or containers eliminate the need for servers. Howerver, the cloud server market has only ballooned in size. AWS has continued to explode with huge revenue numbers. Google Cloud is fasty maturing and a threat to Amazon. Azure is competing as well. Servers aren't going away.. Ops aren't going anywhere...

Anyway, I bring up this rant, because I just founded my third startup Elastic Byte (https://elasticbyte.net) which is a DevOps and cloud infrastructure management as a service. If anybody is looking for professional ops to manage their cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Azure) I'd love to chat.
I believe it is an overreaction because I highly doubt he intended to spread hate speech, but just wanted to troll and be inflammatory. I say that because the phrase he said is common on many sites like 4chan. Like I said, I feel there _should_ be reprocussions, but cancelling his show is too much.
> Some highly skilled employees are absolutely vital, to the extent that them abruptly quitting would be more catastrophic for the employer than for them. Think database admin, C-levels, etc.

The employee should still have a right to quit, barring some bizarre contractual obligation. That an employee becomes absolutely indispensable is a problem for the owner to solve, not the employee.

> someone vocally espousing views that are abhorrent to their coworkers

That's not about the politics, that's about harassment, which is a firing offense, usually. There are many situations that could go either way, so it's not a cut-and-dried rule.

I certainly would not say you could fire a Muslim for being Muslim, or a Jew for being a Jew or a Christian for being a Christian, if those particular attributes didn't have an effect on the work being done. Racists usually fall into that class where you don't know they're a racist until there's a problem you can and have to take action on.
The author of that article is the same author of autotrack. He actually mentioned it yesterday.
Sorry to hear about your bad luck! it will be ok. some ideas:

1) COBRA for health insurance.

2) if you dont have ongoing health issues, don't worry too much about medical expenses. theyre negotiable and not as impactful in the past.

3) relax and treat it like a vacation

4) negotiate with landlord about reducing rent or subletting or breaking lease

5) interview, be happy and positive, see what you can land!
That's an easy and lazy characterization. Sure, there have been a lot of dumb theories, but there are plenty today as well (anti-vaxxers, for example). But folks 3500 years ago (or 100,000) were just as smart as the folks today, they just lacked a lot of tools we have. But some of their observations are apposite.

Just take your example: "Thousands years of experience, and yet medical practitioners wouldn't wash their hands less than two centuries ago." Well, I had some pretty religiously hardcore relatives. My Mum's uncle, who died at 95 in 1985 was such a hardcore brahmin that if the shadow of a lower caste person fell on his food it was discarded (given away actually). I found that enormously offensive, but at the same time I am fascinated that my longest-lived relatives were the ones who preserved ancient cleanliness rituals. The meat-eating, alcohol drinking ones all had heart attacks in their 60s.

Standard practice if you were sick (and upper class) in ancient Persia: have your servants bring you out into the street where you would ask folks if they'd ever seen those symptoms and what they did. And now "evidence based medicine" is a modern revolution?

Likewise, some of the Greek scholars had brain-damaged ideas, and some had good ideas that are irrelevant these days (like estimates of the diameter of the earth or the use of zero). But they also had good observations on life and human nature. And the opportunity for longitudinal observation.

I used to mourn that only 7 of Sophocles' 120 plays survived, but then I figured that they were probably the best 7. I suspect a lot of ancient crap has been discarded, and the density of cleverness per unit work is higher than the contemporary corpus. After all, nobody watches 99% of the movies from the 70s, just the good ones. Why shouldn't this be true from ancient thinking, when you have had so many years to winnow it down?
HN title filter ate the "!". The title must say "!=" instead of "=".
Can you provide some rendered screenshots with a few fonts and sizes? (Ideally including a side-by-side comparison with Freetype?)
In my case, I had an editor for a structured document where the user could modify some parts of the document using a form and others using other components, some of which used forms internally. I wanted to have the whole document represented as an object in my Redux store that was also synced to the server.
Except for ESPN. The marginal cost of adding ESPN is about $7 per subscriber. http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
No. But reading articles like this will.
I really do care about weight and dimensions. Before I used to buy the typical 3.5Kg laptops. When you carry an Acer around, you can feel the weight in your backpack, even when you walk around the office to go to a meeting. I switched to a MBA and I feel it like if it was a paper notebook. It is a huge difference. A perfect laptop for me would have the weight an dimensions of a MBA with almost the power of a MBP.

As for battery life, I need enough battery to be able to go to meetings without having to take the charger with me. It's not usual for me to work 8 hours without having a charger near to me. Also, as far as I know, the new Macs with USB-C, can be charged from an external battery pack.
I don't know. I could easily spend $200 bucks a week on lunch and dinner alone.
Stop creating accounts to spam Startup Button. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=startupbutton.com
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Some of the fingerprinting involves not the user-controlled configuration of the machine, but hardware-related aspects like the canvas fingerprinting which looks at pixel level details of a small rendered figure. That combined with IP address will go a long way.
A video referred to by another user on this thread puts it very clearly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645102
Definitely raise an issue: https://github.com/nodebox/opentype.js/issues
I agree that working at a startup as employee number whatever is high risk/low reward (even when given equity). I would either start my own start up (high risk/high reward) or work for a larger established company (low risk/low reward).
The only other conclusion is that you think that the law against making false statements is somehow special and it alone should be thrown out under those circumstances. But there's no reason why that particular law should be special, so the much more straightforward assumption is that you think laws in general shouldn't apply in those circumstances.
I think he's referring to a seat that is not a good seat. Normally called nosebleed seats because the altitude is so high it could make your nosebleed. I think.
The delta between the ability to identify that something is poorly designed (taste) and the ability to create a well designed version of a system is immense. The problem isn't that people with taste aren't in positions capable of effecting change. The problem is that design is very very hard.
That compounded experience was not useless garbage, it directly led us to our far more informed state today.

A very small percentage of this old knowledge is still "as best as we can do", I would guess. But we have made vast improvements on almost all segments of knowledge.
lol sorry, but I was serious :P
> Serotonin-producing neurons are located in an area of the brainstem (the most “primitive” part of the brain in evolutionary terms)

Stupidly simplified. Seratonin is a key chemical throughout the body. There's more of it in your gut than in your brain (why do you think people on SSRIs gain weight?). Focusing your attention to behaviour regulation entirely on the brain is silly.
I have a 100k / month web app, and I have one $10 server for the app, and one for the db on DO. Based off the CPU + disk usage, I'd say I could grow 4x and stay with the same setup. It will be a lonngg time before I need a load balancer.

Either my workload is atypical or people massively overestimate the server power they need.
Perhaps many phones don't, hence the many complaints that "phones stopped working" when the surveillance vehicle was nearby.
Why would new people coming in drive unemployment up?
Every time I look at lists of HTML5 elements, I about how I really need to get better at writing semantic HTML. Tomorrow I will go to work and create 500 more div tags.
Right. And, at least for a family, rent is 3k-4k+. Where's the real cash drain?
i3 has really been amazing for me. It came to my rescue when I was looking to move to a saner desktop on Ubuntu and I am now hooked on the focus-follows-mouse model. I feel lost when I go back.
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Here in California single use plastic bags are banned. Now it's a pain, at checkout you either have to tell them how many multiuse bags to charge or bring bags from home.

No so many years ago paper bags were common and what I used. Paper is great, it's biodegradable, renewable, and convenient.
He should have experimented with signs that said "Death to all Christians" and "Death to All Muslims" "Death to all whites" "Death to all blacks" and see which one would have gathered the most hostility or backlash.

When you've said every curse word under the sun, what's left in edginess but to make jokes about the protected classes of society. Nobody on here seems to be coming to Pewdiepie's defense even though, it's quite easy to compare his jokes here to the ones made by Sarah Silverman Jim Jefferies Louis CK, etc etc. And if Disney would have cancelled a Louis CK show because of a tasteless Jew joke (which he's done many) my bet is we'd see more people come to his defense on here.

Comedy is the delivery and recognition of the absurd. Jokes work best when the audience knows that the comedian says something they would never do that brings a shock.
Apologies for neglecting this over the weekend.

This is true. I did not mean to say that just because I think it is wrong, that it is. However, the claim seemed to be that the images experienced by the brain are fully synthesized by the brain. Which seemed off.

Again, just because it seems off to be does not mean it is wrong. Not my field, and whatnot. I can even see something to be said for visual processing going in stages such that the stage that you are cognizant of is effectively on images constructed by you. That seems to be a different claim, though.