skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't assume robots will always replace people. We have, after all, seen robot factories replaced by poorly paid humans in China.

If low skilled jobs keep being handed over to robots, eventually we get a lot of people with no valuable skills. These people will be poor and largely unemployed. If you take away welfare, collective bargaining, minimum wage, and a safety net then these people will work for literally crumbs (ocnsider people who live on garbage dumps in India). For many many roles these people will be cheaper than robots.

This is, incidentally, the lot of the poor before the welfare state was created, and it's what the Tea Party wants to recreate.
I chuckled, the point I was trying to make is that I think this may make a conventional war more likely.

The iranian regime seems pretty adept at holding on to power, and the ramifications of online warfare seem to helping them.
So, two questions:

1.- How do those companies get the best of the best?

2.- Are you sure it's talent and not process? Where you can't fail, you usually have even the smallest change specified in thousands of pages and reviewed by many people.
I get the sense that someone is trying to hustle me.
Ubuntu Community Manager on Dash Improvements
Interesting point. It could actually hurt american companies. With privacy becoming a more mainstream concern people might well steer clear of companies that have to give access to the FBI and go for european alternatives. Not that the EU doesn't screw up but at least they seem to hold privacy in higher regard.
This is the article where one of the author's warehouse colleagues is fired because he attends the birth of his son without giving seven days notice. Can't find the quote though - was it removed, or am I searching for the wrong thing?

Edit: thanks vhf. Here is the horrible quote I was looking for:

"Brian already went through this training, but then during his first week his lady had a baby, so he missed a day and he had to be fired."

Frightening.
The 1000 Small Details
What if I just use userland kill(1) utility? Is it possible to kill all processes under a PGID using kill(1)?

Say the PGID I get for sh is 321. If I do

kill [signal] 321

that will not kill all the processes having PGID 321?

If it would not kill them, then couldn't we modify kill(1) to be able to call kill() with a negative integer as you describe?

Sorry for the noob questions. I am still learning and making mistakes.
Riot breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant
They did the same with Firefox.
Allright I'll give a simple tip for today.

If you want to get lunch with someone in your company or are cold emailing them, tell them you want to hear their story. This way it touches their ego that someone actually thinks they are a big deal and wants to know more about them. It gives you a higher chance of them saying yes compared to just saying you want to get lunch with them. This applies especially if don't have any context to talk to them to start with.

Now this is just a sample tip. I will be getting tips from several folks who've done it before. Its not just going to be authored by me.

The aim of the newsletter is to empower people and give them a hustler state of mind.
I suspect that that's because startups are the mostly highly-visible and well-publicized path to riches. The other ones are private, and usually if people don't have to reveal their wealth, they don't.

I also think that this phenomena of people making a lot of money through non-startup means isn't new, it's that publicity of it is. I have a friend whose dad worked for Wells Fargo in the 70s and then struck off as an independent computer consultant for big enterprises in the 80s and 90s. I asked her how much she thought he made when she was growing up, and she was like "Somewhere between $300-500K/year." And now that all eyes are on Wall Street, people are realizing that fund managers have made multi-millions a year since at least the 1980s. In hindsight, I also think about some of my family friends who owned local businesses - muffler shops, auto-body repair - and they had nice houses and vacation cottages and boats and expensive cars too, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were making in the multi-hundred-K to few millions per year. It just takes The Millionaire Next Door for people to realize that.

(Yes, I work at Google. My path is perhaps uncommon, but still very achievable for a lot of people, and I don't think that refutes my overall point.)
Counterpoint: I have some vague idea what hustle tips could be and you have me intrigued and therefore, I will provide you my email.
The maximum possible Pell grant right now, for an entire school year, is $5500. That is $2250 per semester.

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/scholarsh...

The amount of the grant depends on the cost of tuition, so this only applies to the most expensive schools.

Of course you already knew this. You say it is "hefty" and covers all of your costs, do you go to a community college and live at home with your parents who feed you? If not, please name your college and describe how you are able to stretch $2250 to cover all your living expenses, tuition costs, fees and books over a six month period. I am sincerely interested since you seem to have brilliant financial management skills that others could benefit from learning.
There are lots of alternatives to the cases you present.

In general, wanting to make as much money as you can get is not, per se, evil or immoral.
All of these articles are full of the same stories: 'I spent 100k on a degree in sculpting, and now I owe 100k'. Does a hundred thousand dollar education in sculpting really provide value to you?

I'm not saying people who are truly interested in art shouldn't go to school, but pick a school whose costs are better aligned with your ability to pay, and consider your ability to pay after graduation. Maybe apprenticeship / community college / just starting a business is a better use of your time and money.
having access to older hustle tips will be useful.
@eoity the aim was never to harvest email addresses :) I'm doing this to spread things I learn everyday and what others have learnt.
Perhaps the term "slave" shouldn't be used at all in this context. Unless that term is trying to be purposely inflammatory.
LMAO. If I crashed on the couch, it is because I thoroughly enjoy meeting and hanging out with smart startup founders and hanging out with friends.

I can reassure you that having just returned from staying at the Intercontinental in Moscow with GOAP - I am not having a rough time.
Without the Banshee developers, Ubuntu wouldn't have Banshee to ship, so it's not particularly debatable who deserves the lion's share. Especially considering Ubuntu's incredibly weak contributions to open source in general. What Ubuntu did there was tacky. If they had handled it better (discussing it with upstream and working out a profit sharing scheme), at least it would've been slightly less disgusting.
>So this hypothetical Narrative Data company would have a largely-illegal business plan, and nobody would notice?

What are they doing that's illegal? You aren't applying for a job with them so they aren't the ones who passed you over for "somebody who's a better fit".
There are way too many colors (seven, not counting black and white), none of which really work well together.

I personally don't like how the content is all one width the entire length of the page. I think it would look better to have some variation.

There is an asterisk next to "Email," but there's no explanation why it's there.

The star bullet points look like they were drawn in MS Paint.

"take the workout with you on the road" seems misleading. Can you do this workout in your car while driving? Maybe pick a different location...

"It's your turn! This special promotional rate ends soon. Start living the dream today!" - I feel like this should be higher up the page. What's the point of having it at the very bottom?
GPL has zero influence. Please do the barest of research into licensing before invoking the GPL boogieman.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

http://internet.ls-la.net/comppoems/tao-te-chip.html
A Fokus Chrome extension exists: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flkkpmjbbpijiedjdg...
Universal health care pretty much nullifies this threat
Yes it is. Search "Brian" on first page.
If you can stay at home and get in more debt, or work and have less debt (but still lose money month-on-month) does that make you a slave? Does it make you enslaved to your debt?

What if the wage earns you only enough to live on? Some slaves were provided with sustenance and not much else. What's the difference?
I'm taking feedback from the hn folks live as it comes. I changed the landing page copy so its not vague anymore.
This website is aimed at web startups. Their general way of operation is quite different from let's say medical device startups.

So people working in both types of firms are quite different. So my guess is this is just the wrong forum.

But i think medical device startups are doing fine[1].

[1]http://atpbio.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/positive-vc-investmen...
It is a little hard for me to feel sympathetic with the need to conceal dishonesty on resumes.

It depends what the "dishonesty" is. Claiming a skill you don't have is unethical. Bumping your college degree by 5 years in order to seem 5 years younger is, in my opinion, ethically OK. There's a difference between quackery (faking a skill you don't have, and potentially hurting people) and social status inflation. One is fraud; the other is just how people work.

The problem is that, if you get caught in one of those minimal and ethically acceptable lies, or are just accidentally inconsistent, HR won't make the distinction because of the mythology that small discrepancies beget substantial whoppers. In my experience, this isn't true. Deeply unethical people are so experienced with lies that they almost never get caught in the small stuff.

I don't need to lie because I'm a person of high enough social status that I don't see it useful to fake, and I'm comfortable having an online presence because I foresee that remaining true, but I have no dislike for high-caliber, low-status people who use a bit of creative revision to up their game, as long as they're not defrauding or hurting people.
Thanks :) My goal is to just help as many people as I can. Learnings are better when they are shared.
This is an example of a case where the correct answer is not a popular answer. The people who need this advice seem to not accept it, only to eventually wish years later that they had.
Why the "sigh....."?
Most of the time it was a 960 grid system or some other various hacked up styles that were overridden and taped together.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten the Apple store had moved. It certainly felt cramped compared to the MS store.
Can you please elaborate more as I can take your feedback in account to improve the newsletter.
How 'bout RSS maybe then...?
Agreed. I got thrown by the use of "traceable" in the parent to my comment. But I think the point still stands. Asking to monitor cross-country TCP/IP connections (multiple routes, relaying, etc etc) is still ignoring the underlying technology. Not to mention ignoring the market. Where "The Bell System" used to be a nearly monolithic phone company (with pockets of GTE), anyone can make an app. And you really can't tell well-compressed data from encrypted data without a lot of effort.
Facebook raises fears with ad tracking
How many radiologists, or programmers, or plumbers can the system absorb?

What jobs can someone with 85 IQ do in 2021?

We're safe for our lifetimes. However, we have a whole class of people that we're not going to be able to find work for, at least at livable wages, especially as agriculture is more and more automated.
Not OP, but I too got Pell and OTHER grants (Pell isn't the only one). Many schools (UND in my case), have institutional and national grants that are tapped into for students.

Your final paragraph is pretty low class. colkassad did not say his/her only grant was Pell, only that it was hefty.
No need to argue over RFC semantics on this one, as everyone agrees POST should not be cached, many web services are designed around that assumption, and clearly Apple needs to fix this. Most web traffic is GET responses, so the added advantage of caching POST would be very marginal, not worth breaking the web over.
Didn't LinkedIn originally offer HR recruiters some version of their system which didn't show photos so that they wouldn't be worried about the liability of violating US discrimination laws by using headshots to bypass minorities? This suggests that HR departments would fear the purchase of legally prohibited data types.
you really shouldnt do points in that fashion. As I could easily call the script an automation for that.
Sure, and after six months, 5 of those 10 people learn more stuff and the 5 others become dogmatic mouth pieces for technique A,B and C.

The ideal approach is to not just teach someone a new approach but to make it clear that they have to keep learning rather than giving them the impression that they've finally found the holy grail of programming.
It must be a valid c/c++ program. Just wrap your code in a function
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I'd assume they don't like getting shot. A lot of Iranians have left the country especially in the past three years.

I recently met a Jewish Iranian couple, who left Iran 10 days after their wedding, because the Iranian government confiscated their property claiming they are funding the Israeli government. They told me their neighbourhood has mostly been emptied of it's previous upper class (Muslim and Jewish) occupants in the past three years due to the baseless polemics.

It sounds like the government is doing some population shuffling to protect it's control.
They can desire it all they want, but is it worth the costs? Keep in mind that it's a radically different environment. Phone lines are easily tappable because the phone system is fundamentally insecure. The police generally obtained cooperation from phone companies for taps simply because it's easier. Phones that could do secure end-to-end communication basically didn't exist.

Compare with the modern internet, where secure end-to-end communication is easy to accomplish and requires no cooperation from the parties involved in transmitting the message. This is totally different from before, when the police could just go have a friendly chat with the phone company. Now they need to get access to at least one end of the communication in order to eavesdrop reliably. This is vastly more onerous than the previous regime, even if their ultimate goal is the same.
Shipping containers and the standardization of information [video]
That last point is interesting. There's already a burgeoning industry for companies that protect privacy, keep you off Zaba Search-type sites, etc. There are a few "reputation management" companies that try to get negative information removed or pushed down in search results. The next logical step is to just pay someone to create profiles with great content.
Are you insinuating that apple designed the look for google maps on the iphone? google maps existed long before it was on the iphone, through google.com. The iPhone map looks just like the home browser version. The style looks the same on an android, blackberry and iPhone. Apple ripped off google maps plain an simple, but I agree with the original poster, there is nothing wrong with that, and it just shows how full of BS apple really is.
Who ever thought that "web 2.0" (whatever that means) companies have the best talent? They are mostly started by kids fresh out of college and have no real world experience at all.

What they DO have is a lot of energy and creativity. The talented developers usually come in to those companies a little down the road when things start to take off, or are there in the rare case of a veteran founding team.

Security and clean code are not sexy parts of the job, so a lot of startups make them secondary concerns. Young programmers don't understand technical debt because they simply haven't dealt with it, so things start off with a poor structure and need to be refactored down the road.
Bill & Melinda's first trip to Africa - how it changed their outlook on poverty
Or perhaps you should learn about the definition of the term "wage slave"?
It will be refreshing to see Apple on the other side of design patent or trademark suit, should it get to that.
The other half of the story is that the institutions have no incentive to lower prices. They don't suffer for the lack of jobs and failure to pay.

I often wonder if the US payed for the first two years of college / vocational school at a fixed rate (say: $15,000 per year or half what D.C. Public Schools spend per pupil) with the condition of an institution accepting the money that it cover tuition, room, board, normal fees (not, for example, airplane hours), and books what would happen? I get the feeling that two tiered pricing would result.
No need to do it on individual elements. If instead of the black overlay you use an semi-transparent overlay with the same color as the background behind the text/images, you will get the same effect as if you would reduce alpha on all of the text/images individually.
important note: you are not hosting a wordpress blog on s3. you are hosting a static dump of files on s3. move along. nothing to see here.
Any half-witted programmer will realize this is boring boilerplate work as he is doing this for the first time.

The second time he just runs his setup script and gets right to business.
Why should living on floating things make it easier to get along with each other, though? I am a bit too pessimistic about the human nature to have high hopes for such a project. Also, I watched "The Beach".
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That is if people who can't educate their offspring keep reproducing rapidly. If those people weren't incentivised to procreate or even disincentivised to have children, this problem could be much much smaller.

Edit: see the story about the guy being fired from his job because he wanted to attend the birth of his son which has been mentioned in another comment. This of course is a sad situation, but am I wrong to ask if it is smart to even have children in his position?

Edit2: I'm not suggesting eugenics or restricting the freedom to reproduce in any way but an education campaign.
No, "financial aid" is a broad term which includes loads and many other things which do not have to be paid back. There's a reason the term "financial aid" is used instead of just saying "loans".
One of the bigger problems with student debt is the horrible interest rates students are saddled with. Right now inflation is hovering around 1%, but yet my fiance is saddled with 150k of medical school loans at 7%. At least if student loans could be refinanced easily or had some regulations to pin their interest rates at or below inflation in certain conditions, students could tread water for a few years until their job prospects improved. Or, especially if rates could be lowered below inflation over time, the loan could naturally decrease in value as the likelihood of repayment goes down.

All-in-all the psychological pressures on the young that build after college due to compounding interest on loans seems to be just as scary for the future of our country than the absolute amount of the debt itself.
$ brew install inotify-tools
This isn't Linux.

It's too late to save shazow time and stress, but I wrote a notify-wait for OS X: https://github.com/ggreer/fsevents-tools. It's not as fully-featured as inotify-tools (since FSEvents isn't as granular), but it's pretty handy.
It looks like there is something missing in the first example in Javascript.

Population = (function() {
Population.prototype.genomes = [];
})();

This throws a ReferenceError because Population is not defined.

Genome = (function() {

Genome.prototype.values = [];

function Genome(values) {
this.values = values != null ? values : this.initial();
}

Genome.prototype.inital = function(){
return [RANDOMARRAY FROM [0-14]]
}

})();

After this part Genome will be undefined.
I suspect you are correct, if you had this data on everyone you would find that everyone had issues. Now some would have more issues than other but it wouldn't be like you had some sparkling clean alternative choice. At the end of the day the costs our blogger is suggesting are influential are, in the large, smoothed over the entire population.

Now folks who've done really stupid things? They might have problems. There is a certain 'maturity' bit that flips somewhere (not uncommonly on marriage or first child) which selects for longer term benefit behaviors over short term benefit behaviors. I could easily see a management/individual contributor choice swing on that data.

But the article plays to the insecurities that are common in people which is sad.
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Exactly. Even one generation removed makes a hell of a difference. Hearing stories about something is worlds apart from actually knowing something. They are already 40 some years out from the revolution, the people who remember the proceeding society are starting to get old now.

Even if the situation is not getting worse per se, they need to turn it around soon while they still have people who remember what it was like before, or they risk significant cultural loss.
These tips should be great, thanks!

But if this is just to spread knowledge, why not just doing the spreading through twitter, tumblr or a blog? :)
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http://i.imgur.com/B9IDd.png
Why not just start a blog then?
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The fact that you have to work in order to be able to live doesn't mean that you're a slave. You might as well say that "life is slavery".

This is all quite insulting to the plights of people who were slaves throughout history, and those who still are slaves today. Please don't equate the first-world gripes of people who are unprecedentedly well-off to actual slavery.
That's a pretty poor argument against the concept of "wage slavery", and I'm saying that as someone who is skeptical of the concept. You could educate yourself on the subject before publicly opining on it (it's best practice to first understand the best arguments in favor of a position before formulating a counterargument). Even just reading the Wikipedia article would be a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
FYI, we already have bugs tracking this. It can't hurt to file dupes but it's also not required.
Blog is great but there's something to be said about having a small email tip in the inbox every morning. But I'm hearing all the feedback as it comes. Maybe at some point it might make sense for it to be a blog then I can switch.
You want to pay him below market salary, right? Practically that means that you are asking him to invest 'market salary - your salary' every month.