skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As currently constituted non-competes allow your former employer to take the spoon out of your mouth, so to speak. The proposed change would simply say that they have to provide you with an alternate means of supporting yourself if they will prevent you from working.

It's one thing for knowledge work (even there I'd like to see it go away), but there's zero justification for preventing a guy who gets fired from Jimmy John's from trying to work at Subway or Quizno's.
Show HN: SecureIT – Easy to setup cybersecurity service for free
I have built this service to allow every project to have basic cybersecurity, in an easy to setup way.

It will basically alert you when your service/server is running on vulnerable software.

The website is:
https://secureit.io

You can even try it anonymously at:
https://beta.secureit.io/tryit

And you can also join in on the discussion and show us some love on ProductHunt as we launched there today

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/secureit

Thanks for caring, I did this mainly to help out starting businesses/projects - and it will always stay free for those without revenue, as I can afford to do so.

All feedback is welcome!

Cheers!
Plausibly be trusted in what context? In a court of law? Or in the court of public opinion?

I think the general hypothesis among mass communication studies doctorates is that as soon as a technology is created and adopted by a mass audience, there are immediate examples of humans immediately using it to manipulate public opinion in some way. For example, as soon as telegrams became a thing used to manipulate public opinion (like the Zimmerman telegram), fake telegrams became a thing. As soon as online video became a thing, fake online videos became a thing (like Lonleygirl15).

Isn't what you are really saying is, "humans like to create fake things, and then a lot of people fall for those fake things." Right? Why should we buckle up for that? Isn't it already a foregone conclusion?
they may be better off in Idaho.. less crazy gun people.
A lot of the usefulness today is bankrolled by ads.
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Munt sounds badass..
I've worked on an organic farm and we used pesticides in combination with a multi-stage bacteria compound. All "organic" stuff that touched live plants, but we were allowed to spray glyphosate on anything we weren't growing. Wind carries small particles very far, though...
Again I didn't understand what point you were trying to make. That small companies outside the US don't reach the front page of HN? Of course not. Is that your point?
definitely the reason
There most certainly IS a product! The only way I can imagine that you came to believe there wasn't is that you were confused by the fact that they give their product away.

Does Encyclopedia Britannica's website "britannica.com" have a product? Is Encarta a product? Of course they are, and so is Wikipedia, unless BY DEFINITION you exclude any "product" not exchanged for money from the definition of "product". And by that definition, the second can of beans I got at the grocery store on a buy-one-get-one-free sale wasn't a product -- which I feel demolishes the usefulness of the term.
One aspect of this is that it's much more difficult to "work your way up". To start at a relatively low paying position and then put in your time (accruing annual raises) and taking on roles of increasing responsibility and pay.

Previously you could start in the hotel kitchen and then become a line chef or a waiter or bartender and then a manager. And you'd be able to do so by showing you were competent and hardworking and moving up within the organization.

Now, in the extreme case, each of those roles is handled by a different outsourcing firm. The manager is quite possibly not directly taking resumes from people who walk in off the street, they're getting workers from a temp service who only supply low level kitchen help.

Put another way: who is typically going to make more? The person who has worked for Hilton Hotels for 20 years or the person who bounced around between a half dozen temp agencies doing work inside the same Hilton Hotel for 20 years?
Well the info from the doctors who examined them debunks it, but that assumes that as you say, it isn’t being spun. I think the truth is that we just don’t know, and may never be in a position to know.
>Although I should say, not without hesitation, given the extreme discrepancy between rates of change in tech and law.

The law is already far behind in this case. It implicitly assumes all databases allow for a CRUD workflow. But now we have blockchains/distributed databases where the UD part of CRUD is literally impossible. It will be very interesting to see how the courts deal with personal data stored in this manner...
Non-compete clauses are a pretty weird thing and I've seen them in contracts before. Definitely read up on them. I've refused to sign contracts with them before. They're totally unenforceable in California and a few other states.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
Camera and GPS are must haves. I have no interest in keeping track of two more devices.
Like global warming, this may be a problem that we are unable to do anything about except adapt. We need to lean into the gig economy, instead of pulling away.

What we need are mechanisms to ensure that there's always a constant and steady stream of gigs available for any person to work. Many of these gigs might not be full-time or part-time jobs but rather micro-jobs or micro-tasks, that some entity needs to have completed to fulfill some larger mission, which is irrelevant to the gig worker.

The requirements for completing a task could range from simply "Being a human" to "Specialized skills in a specific domain". Profiles for workers could contain all sorts of information that could help them find relevant work quickly and easily, consisting of things like education and trade skills to even body metrics and IQ if necessary. And of course workers can be rated based on previous work history to help them better find future jobs without needing to keep a resume.

A worker should not need to get anything more out of their job than payment for services rendered. Healthcare should be handled by the government, and vacation time is handled by whenever the worker doesn't feel like working.
Is there any resource that you suggest to get good at learning sql? I am a django developer and have relied on the orm up until now. I know the basics of SQL and databases but I still won't feel too comfortable doing without ORM. Thanks
Sarah Bagley in 1845:

> Whenever I raise the point that it is immoral to shut us up in a close room twelve hours a day in the most monotonous and tedious of employment, I am told that we have come to the mills voluntarily and we can leave when we will. Voluntary! Let us look a little at this remarkable form of human freedom. Do we from mere choice leave our fathers’ dwellings, the firesides where all of our friends, where too our earliest and fondest recollections cluster, for the factory and the Corporations boarding house? By what charm do these great companies immure human creatures in the bloom of youth and first glow of life within their mills, away from their homes and kindred? A slave too goes voluntarily to his task, but his will is in some manner quickened by the whip of the overseer.

> The whip which brings us to Lowell is NECESSITY. We must have money; a father’s debts are to be paid, an aged mother to be supported, a brother’s ambition to be aided, and so the factories are supplied. Is this to act from free will? When a man is starving he is compelled to pay his neighbor, who happens to have bread, the most exorbitant price for it, and his neighbor may appease his conscience, if conscience he chance to have, by the reflection that it is altogether a voluntary bargain. Is any one such a fool as to suppose that out of six thousand factory girls of Lowell, sixty would be there if they could help it? Everybody knows that it is necessity alone, in some form or other, that takes us to Lowell and keeps us there. Is this freedom? To my mind it is slavery quite as really as any in Turkey or Carolina. It matters little as to the fact of slavery, whether the slave be compelled to his task by the whip of the overseer or the wages of the Lowell Corporation. In either case it is not free will, leading the laborer to work, but an outward necessity that puts free will out of the question.
Describing it as wrath is in proportion to the overwhelming lack of action against corporate issues these days... so yes, slap on the wrist on an objective scale, but 'hey, look, they DID something!'
The issue at that convention center (from my experiences there) are that multiple events really occupy the same space, not adjacent spaces. Like if there are 4 event halls in a row with two groups (A and B) it won't be AAAB, it'll be ABAA. And you have to travel through the common (very large) hallway to get to these areas.

I could understand parents being somewhat disconcerted with finding their teenage daughters surrounded by a bunch of adult men. Especially if they didn't know that another convention was going on (at first). Imagine you take a large group of young teenage girls somewhere and find that there are a couple thousand adult men seemingly at the same event. At first it'd seem very odd.
I think that contractors explain HOW it happens, not WHY.

Let's say in some city the factory was closed due to outsourcing and 3K people are now jobless. They are not applying to be a security guards in city hotels -- there are no vacancies announced, and hotel managers are not aware of opportunity to lower their costs.

But then some dude opens SecurityGuards LLC, hires former factory workers and starts sending out proposals for security contractors, paid by hour. Once proposal reaches hotel manager desk and evaluated, their current bouncer is fired and contract with SecurityGuards is signed. Hotel manager collects yearly bonus for efficient cost control.

So, the root cause is global wage arbitrage, but it appears that owners of contractor businesses are the bad guys here.
How would the API ensure this when getting passed a transaction? I fail to understand this. A transaction has two main methods, commit and rollback (do I miss some?). I'd never want an API to call those. That's up to the caller.
How proton therapy disrupts cancer (open in incognito if the paywall comes up)
The 2 apps I use the most on my mobile phone are the Camera app and Google Map. In today’s and age I would not spend money on a Startac Motorola or a Nokia phone.
Unfortunately no. I wasn't in the habit of taking pictures with my phone at the time.
> By late 2016, Google executives clearly started becoming disenfranchised by the slow pace ...

I assume they mean "disenchanted" -- this sentence makes no sense as written.
It really is amazing. Even the dedication, training, and talent to go from a 4:10 to a flat 4:00 is mind blowing.

Watching the rare times a pro will take it to sub 3:50 is nuts. Many good athletes in most HS sports can usually run anywhere from 13-14s for the 100m. That's keeping pace.
We were taught that, for the first person, 'shall' indicates the simple future while 'will' indicates determination: 'I will continue using "whom", regardless of what others may say.' For the second and third person, it's pretty much the other way round: 'will' indicates the simple future, while 'shall' indicates obligation. ('I won't tidy my room!' 'Oh yes you shall!')

This distinction is allegedly unique to England, possibly to the south of England: even there, I doubt it's adhered to much, except by sticklers. One of the older books on grammar (possibly Fowler's Modern Usage, I'd have to check) had the apocryphal story of the Scotsman who fell in the sea off the English coast, and in fear and desperation shouted 'I will drown, and no one shall save me!': onlookers left him to his fate, regretfully but in accordance with his apparently plainly stated wishes.
It wasn't high-tech. Just what IT is supposed to be for.
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I am curious as to where you are getting the idea that "unionization in Canada is still as strong as the strongest years in the US". That's pretty much the opposite of my personal experience and observations, and it's not the consensus I've been hearing (which is that organized labour has been at an absolute nadir in the past few decades, as much in decline as in the US). Unions have shrunk, membership are down, political clout is down, and a newly unionized company is a rare bird indeed. Perhaps the high rate of unionization in the public sector skews the stats here, because in the private sector, things are pretty much a mirror of the US situation.

From what I can tell, all of the same factors that are driving down wages in the US - increased consolidation, far more 'temp' positions brokered by temp agencies - apply to Canada as well, and have had the same effect.
Doh, you're right. I looked at the site earlier and forgot to click on the red triangle and click "re-enable warnings". Mea culpa.

I checked firefox and it works correctly too.
The problem with public sector unions are that they are a reverse monopsony. They collude with politicians to elect those who are willing to ignore economic reality and pay unsustainable wages/pensions/benefits[0].

Looking at places like Connecticut/Illinois/New Jersey it is causing starvation of public services to meet pension obligations despite already high taxation.

They are caught in a trap since if they raise taxes further (and/or decrease services) they will lose those most capable of moving- who also happen to pay the most taxes. This is already starting to play out[1].

Private sector unions are tasting the fruits of their corruption via the mafia and general unwillingness to integrate with long term industry needs, ala the German model.

Its incredibly unfortunate, since a modern, ethical and foresightful private union would serve the greater good of the country better than just about anything else I can think of.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2016/06/01/public-p...

1: http://www.courant.com/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-tax-migratio...
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So you are saying Google and other companies in the SV are not guilty of things highlighted in the article.

> Rather than idealistic newcomers, they increasingly reflect the worst of American capitalism — squashing competitors, using indentured servants, attempting to fix wages, depressing incomes, creating ever more social anomie and alienation.

Everything is about attacking a big company?
I've always wondered if it is related to discipline not bring enforced as harshly. I'm NOT saying it was good to do that, just wondering if that is a cause...
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I often wonder if the 'overdiagnosis' simply comes from the scenario that society might benefit (in terms of productivity) if there was microdoses of ritalin (Vitamin R?) in the water.

(not advocating for this...yet).
What I found really sad to see is the amount of dead links at the end of the document. Of all the links 2 are still in existence.

The broken links include links on the same domain.

What a sad state of affairs - and I am guilty of it myself, having killed content on the web oftentimes in the past. Not sure what to do about it, though.
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And Metropolitan France has a density 116/km2, it's just a bit above Pennsylvania (110) or Ohio (109) and significantly below Florida (145).
I think software developers are dumber than average cause their skills are in such demand that they don't bother learning how to generate/use leverage like professionals in other niches do
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I don’t think a whole lot has really changed, just the actors. VCs have thrust themselves in to the conversation when they basically stayed more behind the scenes years back. They’ve been trying to make themselves in to rockstars that last decade or so which is a little different and I think it promotes the profit based nature of SV a bit more; you know many by name and reputation and reputation means how much they’ve made. That and there has been some substantial innovation in terms of business models, google, Facebook, etc makes giant money and most of their users have never given them a dime. The ability to fully comprehend that (is that the “innovation half-life?”) has just about reached the point where average joe consumer understands it. These service companies draw a softer crowd of engineers than the hardware firms did, design and ux are things now and those types of engineers are a bit more ready and willing to say “hey look what I did” than a firmware engineer on a primitive MP3 player might be.

They used to say ‘you never got fired for buying IBM’ but you also never took a beating for talking shit about IBM and there is a deep hacker tradition of that. We have a few more IBMs these days.
"I made way better money than most of my peers at 25 - they were still in grad school and paying off loans. By 30, I was still making more, but they were quickly catching up.

I'm imagining by 40, I won't be much ahead of anyone with a professional degree or even those who went into government and now have seniority, pensions, etc"

I have seen that myself. I used to make more than people my age but over the years non tech friends have advanced steadily and have passed me. People in government often make around 150k too but they get a very nice pension in addition.
If this is the case, I imagine a lot of profitable sites will be geo-banning EU users who don't subscribe to a payment plan as a non-profitable drain on resources.
Unfortunately these numbers omit the 3 trillion dollars spent in war in the middle east and Afghanistan, none of which would have occurred were it not for US military and covert efforts to secure oil resources in that area. Just adding in the cost of running the US 5th fleet would arguably be a good start.
The major problem I see for the "gig economy" is that as a contract worker one is essentially on their own for things like health insurance and unemployment benefits. While neither are things often talked about on the HN boards, here outside the Valley those become real concerns for employees with families.
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I'm actually really curious about this now. Couldn't we just hash the photo and compare the file to the signature to verify authenticity?
Mostly unenforceable in Canada as well.
> Easy to setup cybersecurity prevention service for free

> I have built this service to allow every project to have basic cybersecurity prevention, in an easy to setup way.

You're preventing cybersecurity?

"Preventing cybersecurity" sounds like a good descriptor for "corporate red tape" not "preventing [the lack of] cybersecurity".
Why not JVM? I'm asking because I'm starting to learn functional and I think Clojure is a very nice language to write both backend and frontend.
Problem with modding plastic stuff like this is that as soon as you make one thing stronger, something else becomes the weakest link, so then you have to replace that with something stronger, and so on, until you've replaced nearly everything.

At some point you'll probably need rubber tires or you'll get a lot of wheel spin.
One thing I rarely see discussed but am curious about is the impact of women entering the workforce over the period we have observed wage stagnation. If you "doubled" the supply of labour, would that suppress wage growth?

Have relatively high-paying professions managed to replicate the effects suppressing wage-growth of the lower-paying jobs by accepting more women into their workforce over the past 20-30 years?
I've thought about it for several seconds and don't see what is wrong with the quote.

It is a cheap and easy way to explain to non-technical people that when something is "free" the provider is getting something back. Payment for advertising to you, collected data from you, and so on. If you(general) understand that, and are OK with that, then continue. But don't be naive.
Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher
I am always amazed how many excuses and how many arguments are there when big businesses profit at the cost of the average Joe, but God forbid when a mere employee tries to do the same.

I see no reason to be "ethical" anymore when it comes to employment because I know that it will be one sided - in this case I will act purely in my own interest, just like the businesses do. There's zero reason to play the game where the other side gets to change rules at will and forces you to get along with it.
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Because he's clearly lying and trolling.
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spectrum, specifically the 2.4ghz band, where google was looking for wireless alternatives is unlicensed no ?
I've always wondered why they don't make these things with remote kill switches for parents to control while their kids drive around the yard/sidewalk.
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If they've been implanted with microchips or other devices, it should be trivial to determine if that's true or not with modern medical imaging techniques. However I suspect they won't believe any evidence that doesn't align with their pre-determined conclusion.

Anything that shows what they say isn't true will be considered another layer of the targeting and campaign against them, furthering their conviction they're being targeted. Quite simply they're torturing themselves.

It's sad, but I wonder how do you help someone like that?
The other crooked part about temps / contractors is that they're more expensive for the party hiring their services, but the employees earn less and have worse secondary terms; that extra money? Goes to the higher-ups.

Companies need to be incentivised to hire their own people again.
Term "Game AI" is usually used in context of game development, where it means something completely different: not an agent that is optimized for top perfomance, but an agent that is optimized for maximum player fun. It's a completely different task, solved with completely different methods.
> Wind power is big on-site construction though, which doesn't decrease much in cost over time (if at all)

False. Every industry has what's known as the learning curve. It is this curve which is responsible for e.g., the 90% drop in cost of solar panels since 2000.

Wind turbine manufacture, blade manufacture, mooring, installation, maintenance, management, all are following a significant industrial learning curve and there is every reason to expect it to continue to behave like other industries.
I can definitely see how Amazon is controlling their marketplace, and even now opening brick & mortar stores now that they closed down everyone else's. But I don't get anything from Facebook except finding out what my grandma thinks about a picture of my son. I see YouTube trying to push channels they want me to watch, but I just dismiss them.
How about not maintaining shadow profiles, not allow tagging nor allow facial recognition to be applied to third parties on uploaded photos?

Facebook has such incredible smart engineers that they can file patents to identify you based on the dust of your camera lens [1]. It should be a cinch to them not to track such third parties in any way, shape or form.

The problem was that they gave zero fucks about the privacy implication to third parties, which have nothing to do - and no business relationship with Facebook. It seems quite the opposite: That the go through great length to maintain shadow profiles and track everybody.

I really hope that the GDPR forces them to clean up their act.

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-th...