skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same experience in the EU (Austria). After 8 years I was happy to leave and finally be able to stop worrying about visa issues.

It really does seem like immigration police's work is to make sure as few people as possible immigrate.
Let's look, amorally, at why China has a serious interest in not having child labor.

1. It cheapens their labor, and trades an adult's job for a child. Most of the money for the jobs with potential child labor is coming from out of the country; why not soak them for a few more Yuan per person?

2. It upsets their primary business partners and reinforces the "China regularly violates human rights" stereotype that the West uses as a cudgel.

3. It trades a worker's future gains for much less siginificant short-term gains. China wants more highly-skilled jobs for its young people. It wants more Chinese luxury goods, and wants them sold the world 'round. Every child working in a factor is another child that isn't getting the education to make China a bigger world power and take the reins of a given industry.
As an international tax lawyer based in California, I can tell you the obvious: it is chasing people and capital away from the State of California.

This apparently is not obvious to our fine friends in Sacramento. Or the people who vote for them.

They seem to have a static model of human behavior: humans do not react to economic stimuli under their model, so if taxes are raised the humans glumly accept their lot and pay more.

Except of course when it is time to hand out government cookies. Then the model of expected human behavior is active. We expect humans to respond to handouts and subsidies. (I'm looking directly at the junk that our local and State governments do to entice the movie industry to shoot on location in California).

You get less of what you tax. If you don't like rich people, tax them. They will go away. (They will not be less rich). If you don't like corporations, tax them. They, their capital, and their jobs will go away.

You get more of what you reward. Insert your favorite examples here.

"We're California! Everyone wants/has to be here!" This works until it doesn't. Then it craters amazingly fast. Kind of like RIMM.
Mind to share your mind about how "they are onto something big"? Unless there is a hidden feature somewhere, I really don't see how it's big or why YC invested in it. Sure, it's useful. Sure, it's cool. But I'm afraid that it doesn't solve a big enough problem. Obviously, I'm saying that based on my own experience and knowledge:

- As a developer, integrating the various analytic libraries is trivial. Installing it? (npm install mixpanel) is mostly trivial too. Yes, it'll take a couple hours, but it will still take several hours to set up Segment too. (One might argue that's not true, but that's wrong. Even if you include the Segment.io code, you still need to provide a bunch of options and understand very well all the other analytic libraries.)

- As a manager, I don't want yet another 30$ or 150$ / month when I'm already paying that for the other analytic services. Also, I know for a fact that I can easily find a dev to set up all the analytics for less than 200$.

- As an investor, I ask myself: What's their unfair advantage? It seems like everyone could do such a service and even provide an open-source version of it.

So, yeah, I'm a bit lost. I feel it's a big like Grove.io. I really liked the idea and found it very useful. But I didn't see how it'd work as a business. But then, there are hundreds of huge companies that I don't even get their business model. (Twitter?) So, please don't take this comment as a rent, but more as an eye-opener for me to learn about where I'm thinking wrong : )
A similar platform for Node.js-based real time synchronization of model data between clients and the server is Meteor: http://meteor.com/
I remember coming to grips with this myself. Turns out most people have different priorities than I, such as buying a new car rather than say... diving in Australia for a few months?

A few things I've learned: The true test comes when it is time to pay. If you can move that part up, then you will save a lot of time. Don't sweat it if the couch potatoes at home don't make it. You'll make friends at the destination, people who actually do things rather than talk about them.

Also, agree with simonsarris' comment that announcing plans takes the uncertainty out of the exchange.
How about we not exploit their children or their adults? But of course, that will drive up the end cost of goods, which in turn hits everyones wallet directly and so everyone starts complaining. It's just easier to turn a blind eye and ignorance is bliss.

I agree with the OP. I am originally from a 3rd world country (one of the poorest in the world) but had the fortune that my father managed to emigrate to a western country. It's no good reading about it in a book or newspaper, that stuff from Slumdog Millionaire does actually happen.

When your next worry is where your next meal is going to come from you really don't care about child labor laws, education or better health. If you can't afford food, it's unlikely you can afford the other two. It seriously is a case of bringing in food for the whole family for some of these people.
This looks pretty cool. Tell me more about it. email in my profile.
Depends. If you think it's growing 10x, then it is discounted. I arrived at 5x by working back from the stock price, doesn't really mean that's the "right" answer. I'm not trying to justify amazons price, just explain what the people who do believe in it are thinking.
I suppose they'll release another article in a few months, and then another one a few months after that.
Google is amazingly good at digging up sites out of nowhere. I wonder if it is a combination of URLs passing through Chrome, GMail, any android phone, and so on. It's always a hassle keeping staging/dev sites out of the index if you're not careful with all the right meta noindex and robots.txt tags. (robots.txt with disallow all, on its own, won't keep sites/URLs from showing up in the results, at best just hide the cached body text summary below the link)
So it's like a game show? If he leaves the property, he loses claim on the land?
Google Tag Manager (https://www.google.com/tagmanager/) does this.
JS support will grow as we implement features such as hot-code-push and better support for the asset pipeline... ;)
Many people have just followed all their lives and that's what they like to do.

working out what works for you is just fine. go for it.

but using pseudo-psychology to put down people you don't understand is not so cool. there are plenty of valid reasons people don't want to do what you do (one may be to avoid passive-aggressive snarks like this...)
Because standards are where innovation goes to die.

I'm not saying standards are a bad thing, I'm saying that it's likely counter productive for most vendors at this point in the marketplace.
"I just don't see the need for these kind of searches" seems a bit strong. Other people might have slightly less restrictive employment situations.

Anyway - avoiding fixed date searches is only one part of this. Even if your dates are fixed it's nice to see non-fixed destination searches. (I already know about Skyscanner)
Actually, I think the Feynman thing is perfectly on topic. There are some things that you can multitask, but it's different for different people.
How does he get food if he's not allowed to leave the property?
Rest assured that this was going on with copiers in the early 80's as well!
It operates at a loss of $7B, but that $7B is buying at least one thing: people traveling underground instead of aboveground.

Does this reduce congestion, traffic, or pollution? Maybe it allows for increased density or more sensible housing/business districts? More reliable commutes?

Given that the population is roughly 8 million and the gdp is roughly $1 trillion, it seems possible that NYC is coming out ahead on that $7B.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP
Side note: Ghostery informs me that the SunSentinel website has 32 tracking/social pixels. 32.
> While it sucks for the workers at the plant that they're probably going to lose their jobs...

From TFA:

When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and finance their education. "In addition, the children must continue to receive income matching what they received when they were employed. We also follow up regularly to ensure that the children remain in school and that the suppliers continue to uphold their financial commitment," wrote Apple in its latest report.
I'm born and have lived all my life in Uruguay.

It's not really "third world" IMO, income is far less, but cultural development is not so far behind.

Some important differences for a startup (these only apply to Uruguay and to a lesser extent Argentina and Paraguay):

- a lot of people don't have a credit card, and those who do won't use it for online transactions (there's a market for intermediation services, and several already thrive).

as a corollary, selling anything via subscription is a no-go.

e-commerce is basically Groupon and its clones, and the ebay-owned MercadoLibre.

- everyone recognizes the need for internet access, cell phones, etc... Cell phones are status symbols - almost nobody can afford an iPhone, but many spend way beyond their means to acquire the best cell phone they can buy.

- there's a high demand for US made content, games, etc.., and basically no legal or economical way to acquire them, so piracy is rampant.

- import goods are extremely heavily taxed (and in Argentina, outright banned), so there's a high incentive for smuggling.
FWIW, this is exactly what we did and chromashift has native JS level performance.
Folks are free to look for full-time gigs. But such short-term projects can provide invaluable experience that can help people get actually accepted to full-time jobs. Arguably, past experience is the most important factor in job hunting. When one applies to even some low-level white collar job, there's a huge difference between having no relevant experience (flipped 'em burgers for the past 2 years), and having 2-3 temporary data entry positions over the past year.
Why did Google Dorks become all the rage again? People have been doing this for over 5 years now.
I don't think we actually disagree. Backend language choices have always shown more diversity, and will continue to do so. But still, the number of lines of code and developer hours dedicated to these applications is dominated by the front end. With very few exceptions, UI apps have always been "heavier" than the data engines behind them.

So even though C# won't be going away any time soon, it still shows well below Javascript in terms of "acceptance".
> I don't want to risk that.

You might be joking, but don't worry about "scoffs" from people you don't know and will never meet again... you can learn things from them and move on.
I seem to recall a highly-rated comment on past coverage reminding us to be suspicious of laws named after dead people that referenced Reason, so this might be a good place to point this out:

Congresswoman Names Law After Dead Guy, But Wait! This One Might Be Good! Scott Shackford

http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/16/congresswoman-names-law-af...
You did this from your house?

What are you, stoned or stupid?
Segment.io is, in a way, creating one. That said, an interoperable standard would not make it any easier to .push to all of your analytics vendors.

The (hosted) product seems especially useful to non-technical staff, who don't necessarily care about standards and protocols.
>Just like the printer post above, it's incredible how many webcams are left completely unsecured.

Likewise. I started noticing that SO results to software-related queries were of sufficiently better quality that I started to qualify some searches with site:stackoverflow.com. (Similarly, I also add site:ycombinator.com with some other types of searches.)

It's too bad that SO/SX has fragmented their URL structure to make the site: qualifier less effective. E.g., it would have been better to have developer.stackexchange.com, superuser.stackexchange.com, etc. Then you could choose to do just site:stackexchange.com to search the whole corpus vs site:developer.stackexchange.com to be more narrow.
As someone who consults people about proper business attire (a side business of mine), let me tell you that this advice is dangerous. The idea of wearing "boring" standard stuff (like a tie) is that clothes shouldn't get in your way and IF you intend to emphasize aspects of your personality THEN you should do it more subtle.

Most people (especially IT) wear their business clothes wrong and it takes me less than 1 second to spot the major errors and around 2 seconds to see more sartorial disasters. And then such a fella puts on a bow tie and looks like a wannabe, a fake. And it shows me that--considering his other sartorial flaws--he doesn't care about detail enough to get the whole thing right.

tl;dr: If you don't know how to dress and wear a bow tie, it probably backfires. If you know how to dress, you don't need people telling you to put on a bow tie.
The process of eviction takes time. In some places, depending on how busy the court is, it can take a lot of time. Add in the large amount of people who simply stopped paying their mortgages and how many mortgages BofA probably owns and it can take a long time for them to even get to a particular mortgage.

Now that BofA has filed the paperwork the guy will likely be forced out in 1-2 mos.
I understand your argument more than you suppose, but the reality is we already have made these laws. Until developing countries reach that level it is best that all the profits from such activity stay in that country, speeding their rise to parity.

Edit: This may be too idealistic because Samsung and others seem to get a free pass, but no American company is going to get away with child labor regardless of how bad other countries companies are behaving, I have no problem with that fact. Let lesser countries take the low road.
> Based on the comments, it looks like people are still waiting on handwritten thank-you notes and stickers which the Kickstarter project says were to be delivered in June/July 2012.

I have been furiously writing them over the past few weeks (at a pace of about 30 per day). I have about 500 to do in total and I've done about 300 so far. My intent was to deliver them around the same time as the beta release, so that the thanks would be meaningful.

> The stated goal for raising $25K (and any excess) was to take time off of work to dedicate 100% to this, at least until Rails.app shipped. What happened?

You're absolutely right. The original plan was to be able to take a few months off of work and use it to replace any lost company revenue. In other words, I was going to pay for my own time to replace consulting revenue. Co-founding a company turned out to be more time-consuming than I expected (I know that sounds stupid, but it's the first time I did it), so I wasn't able to purchase my own time in a single block. Instead, I used whatever available time I could manage and used the money to fund smaller blocks of time.

I also used some of it to fund full-time work by Patrick Gibson, an amazing iOS/Cocoa developer (he worked on the original iPad build process for Apple and the Batch app) who works for Tilde, so I could focus my energies on the necessary Ruby code.

I'm really sorry that my original estimates didn't work out. That was absolutely a mistake on my part and I have learned a lot from the mistake (and my inability to follow my original plan precisely has caused me a great deal of heartburn). In the long run, I will not allow this error to prevent Tokaido from shipping. See my other comments on this thread for more details.
This might raise a few eyebrows...

http://bit.ly/V4VtJJ
This seems like the sort of endeavor that healthcare reform would ostensibly serve for- by providing a broad solution that an enterprising organization or effort like this can stick on to provide insurance for those who sign up.
Every Kickstarter project gets delayed, and as Kickstarter keeps hush about, funding a project gives you exactly zero guarantees of anything. If you expected anything less, well, I can't entirely blame you, but you should have known better.
Unlocking Your Mobile Phone to be ILLEGAL as of Tomorrow January 26
Thank you for doing this! Can't wait :)
I don't really care when tokaido ships. I've been very grateful to being able to piggyback on your work for years now. A few bucks to back whatever you want is the least I can do.
Just go for it, trust me. I'm writing this from a nice Belgian restaurant where I'm all by myself, they serve nice Belgian food and excellent Belgian beer, and on top of that I've been eating out mostly by myself for the last one year and a half, and I've never felt more at ease when eating out.

The thing is that I've never felt comfortable when eating out with acquainteces, for one thing because I'm very slow eater so I'd always left lots of food on my table, and second because I've never been at ease with talking when your mouth is full with food. Plus you cannot made dirty jokes when someone's eating :)

As things are like I know, myself eating alone and at ease,I've discovered that I really do enjoy good food and a nice drink (I was almost indifferent to it before) and that I'm not that keen on making compromises anymore when it comes to eating out, because the decision where and when to eat depends only on me. And I've also become a lot more confident when talking to complete strangers, this coming from an introvert guy.

And on top of that, people watching and listening is extraordinary!
It sounds like the real-world skills are writing for a content farm or stuff a half-step above mechanical turk. Do they translate into real-world jobs anyone would want?
>What happened to you today?

My printer got slashdotted :(

> Eh?
Flud Web App Goes Beta – Potential for a Social Network
Occupying the property does not mean staying there 24/7. Sleeping there most nights and going to work during the day etc is still occupancy.
If I’d had more time I would have written a shorter letter . . .
Response is triggered by any foreign protein.
It does not matter it is not infecting your cells. Anything that is not known to be you is attacked. And the more and longer you have of it inside of you, the bigger the immune response gets.
UK Police Consider Using DNA Tagging Gun
The 70's called, they want their talking points back.
Given http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession , I don't see how he can hope to prevail. The true owner has tried to remove the disseisor . Although it does appear the young man will be able to go on a trip and isn't under a self imposed house arrest.
Let's not all sit here on our laptops, in our comfortable lives and try to understand the political complexities of societies where underage labour is common place.

Let's not pretend to understand, and let's not pretend that we all have some high moral duty to "protect" these children.

But, while you sip you tripple tall americano while reading forbes magazine pretending to be an expert on poverty and politics take a second to think a 12 year old boy who just lost his families only source of income, only source of food, and only source of life. These people live in a society where the cost of your fucking americano goes a long way.

So stop pretending. Because you have no fucking idea.
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120808.html ????
I first heard about squatting while I was in Amsterdam in 2007. They even had squatted restaurants. The rule there was that if you found a building not lived in for 12-months, you could break in, put your own lock, a table, chair, and bed then call the cops and let them know you were squatting. The process to kick out a squatter could last over a year. I just learned that it was outlawed in 2010, but that it still goes on.

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"In the past a building could be used legally by someone who needed to squat if it was empty and not in use for twelve months, and the owner had no pressing need to use it (such as a rental contract starting in the next month). The only illegal aspect was forcing an entry, if that was necessary. When a building was squatted, it was normal to send the owner a letter and to invite the police to inspect the squat. The police checked whether the place was indeed lived in by the squatter. In legal terms, this means there must be a bed, a chair, a table and a working lock on the door which the squatter can open and close.

In cities, there was often a kraakspreekuur (squatters' consultation hour), at which people planning to squat could get advice from experienced squatters. In Amsterdam, where the squatting community is still large, there are four kraakspreekuur sessions in different areas of the city, and so-called "wild" squatting (squatting a building without the help of the local group) is not encouraged.[27] Dutch squatters use the term krakers to refer to people who squat houses with the aim of living in them (as opposed to people who break into buildings for the purpose of vandalism or theft).[5]
...

On October 1, 2010, squatting was finally outlawed in The Netherlands after the Squatting Ban Bill was passed into law by both houses of Parliament. On October 28, 2011, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands decided that the legally forced end of squatting can only occur after an intervention of a judge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting#History
Having A Baby In The United States Is A Terrible Idea
The OPF (Other People First) Principle of Business
Does the Web matter anymore?
Yes, that's a lot of stress.

There are services like "FaltaUno.com" (one player missing :) ) that are trying to solve that problem !!!
Who says I am not authorised? I can claim that public access is an implicit authorization, like any website! And there is no warning or message in the public control panels.
I've never believed Multitasking exists as any sort of skill or ability.

Humans. Can't. Multitask.

We can switch our attention from task to task in rapid succession and call it multitasking, but that only results in doing many things poorly.

I always giggle at the job descriptions that say they are looking for a "great multitasker at home in a fast paced environment".
huh. I never noticed that having android was so rare amongst techies in the valley.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered.

If someone else later does something bad with the publicly accessible printer and there's a witch hunt for the responsible party, and the only lead they have is that you emailed them about the possibility in advance...then they'll go after you, even though you were just trying to do a good thing.

And if you're expecting the victim / police / legal system to understand that, technically speaking, it could have literally been anyone with an Internet connection...Or if you think that your good intentions and lack of criminal record mean that the most you'll get is a slap on the wrist even if they think your email "proves" that you did it...you're quite naive, especially given all the recent coverage of Aaron Swartz.
Password Breach? That'll Be $172,000,000 Please
Clever hack. These have popped up regularly in the media over the last year or two. Texas is another popular spot, given their laws and abundance of foreclosures.

It is a requirement that they maintain the property and make improvements while living in it - seems much better for RE prices than a boarded up foreclosed house. Soccer moms can't see it that way though, they just see this guy getting something 'free' that they had to pay for, and get furious.
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