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> This should be built into the law though, not into unions.

But how do the low-paid and exploited workers get the kind of representation and voice that results in the law makers and policy makers hearing it?

If the workers are not valued enough to be paid well, do you think the employers themselves value the employees enough to listen?

That is the point of the union.

Some unions do indeed give the entire concept a bad rep, but the fundamentals of "workers coming together to acquire a collective voice to be heard" isn't a bad one.

The output of that voice is law. Such as equality in the workplace, safety regulations, working hour regulations, etc, etc.

Few of those laws would have come to pass without the worker being able to have a representative and voice.

I see parallels between democratic representation in society and representation against powerful employers. To some extent, given globalisation, multi-national corporations and the power of corporations in political lobbying I'm becoming more of the view that multi-national unions need to come into existence.

And not to hit the "strike" button every 10 seconds. Withdrawal of labour is a nuclear option and likely no-one will ever win when it occurs. But... to have that kind of representation and voice against corporations that increasingly cannot be held to account by sovereign governments and local lawmakers seems an important check.

We remain people. Work isn't the be-all and end-all, and people should be valued. If a business cannot sustain itself by valuing people fairly and with respect...then the business is at fault. We shouldn't create human misery, and people who work for us (entrepreneurs, leaders, decision makers in companies) do deserve a voice and representation to hold us to account and constrain us (to some extent).
And your Bayesian statistician will acquire their priors how exactly?

Bayesian statistics can be very powerful, but it would be a terrible idea to prefer Bayesian approaches to Frequentist ones in all situations.
I cannot comment on the unions for workers in private companies, But I think In my country unions built for public workers and officials are blood sucking leeches on tax payers.
They are highly ideological and so far I have not seen any good coming from them in my line of work. I am forced to enter an union and I have to pay them a good sum for nothing and I cannot leave because they create a mechanism that you will loose benefits if you are not a member (Before they used to give those benefits without a union anyway). There are laws protecting the workers already and I would rather take the chances and deal with my employee on my own when I am in trouble.
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The adversarial system is designed to allow these kind of attacks.

"You don't know what you're talking about" is easily countered by "I invented these crypto systems; these have had no serious challenges in the X years since invented; I've defeated these crypto systems; I've published these papers in these peer reviewed journals; I have these honorary awards from these universities." etc etc.

It's a lot more troubling in other cases.
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That would not prevent the authorities from discovering that someone had bought bitcoins via BTC China. Unless the target was able to produce the bitcoins or give a plausible explanation as to what they did with them, they would likely find themselves on the wrong side of a money-laundering conviction.
Bitcoin is the foundation for Banking 2.0.
I just sent you some XRP to get started.
I've played online chess at www.gameknot.com for nine years. Very good community. Great tools.
I believe the use of the phrase "all grown up" juxtaposed with loud headlines about the evils of paedophilia is one such reason the Daily Mail is reviled.
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Article seems a little content-free to me. Could someone in the know explain what exactly has been decided?
I am the author of the movie mentioned in the article. One precision with the E-2 visa is that the funds must come from your own pocket and you must be able to prove the source of the funds is legitimate (how you earned the money). So it is still more of an investor visa than entrepreneur.
Same reason perp walks happen.
"Google Now is definitely a great response to Siri."

That's an interesting way to put it. One could also say that Google Now is a great continuation of Google Voice Search. Or a great extension to Google Search. But of course it's also ok to say it's a response to Apples response to these technologies. Probably makes a better headline as well.
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> The Daily Mail has to be one of the most repugnant media organizations

Hm, I don't know. I sort of respect them, in a way. In some ways I think of them as the authentic voice of the impotent lower middle classes, lashing out at everything around them, greedy, cynical, childish and shallow, blaming others, ever seeking some outraged scandal to distract them from their otherwise mundane lives. Hate the Mail if you will, but you're basically hating their audience too.

I don't like the Mail, but at least they're independent, seemingly serving no-one's agenda but their own. Murdoch is much worse, in my opinion.
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I don't think this is any intel agency. It smells like Google.
Somehow I'm not seeing the entire worlds financial system as being either un-networked or not an appealing target.

If you think skript kiddies on the other side of the planet are a difficult adversary, try inside jobs like corrupt fellow employees, now they're a worthy adversary.
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I really like the movie, you guys did a great job making it!
Denmark has something that sort of works like this, but imo it works okay and is usually not exploitative, partly because of several differences:

1. It's not completely free to businesses or completely unpaid: the person continues to receive pay in the form of benefits from the unemployment fund, but the company kicks in 17% on top of that as a pension contribution. This is partly to ensure the company takes it seriously, and partly because making sure everyone has a funded pension is in the state's interest.

2. The job must actually provide relevant training, not just gruntwork. The company must propose a training programme and learning outcomes, and there are periodic evaluations of the company's performance in fulfilling these.

3. It's opt-in; you are never required to do it. It's an option offered to people who are deemed to be having trouble finding a job because of lack of in-demand skills. One option among several: others include vocational courses run by the municipality, going back to school for an adult masters degree, etc.

4. The benefits are at a reasonably high level, so things like paying for transit are not a problem. Minimum benefit is around $1800/mo, I think.
Some more:

4) Every nation has some defined set of borders. (The Yemen-Saudi Arabia border was only recently agreed, and was previously left deliberately ambiguous.)

5) Countries do not overlap. (Counterexample: France and Spain agree they both own Pheasant Island in the Pyrenees. The administration cycles every six months.)

6) Borders are at fixed coordinates. (Except for some borders defined by a river, which change when the river shifts its course. Some subnational borders are certainly like this.)

7) A nation's borders can be drawn with a single stroke of the pen. (Counterexample: South Africa takes two, one for the outside and one for its enclave Lesotho.)
"who has loads of money? Bitstamp? Maybe it was them"

Is basically what the "investigations" I read boiled down to
That poster probably meant things such as quantitative text analyis, comparing language patterns used in literature, etc - which is mostly a question of interpretation, but requires some skills in scripting for the initial data gathering.
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The online version is a different beast to the print version.
I can understand. Maybe it's more important to find a project that motivates everybody. I usually want to quit projects that don't appeal to me very much as well.
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If that's the case, give your money to a Cat charity rather than your hateful heirs
I think programmers these days focus too much on having whizz bang technologies.

90% of successful project implementation is culture, good practices and so forth.

I've seen well run cobol projects, and badly run projects using all the latest trends.

It doesn't really matter if your software is using Java, ruby or node.js. I can guarantee you from a business perspective, success does not rely on that. I much rather have well tested, well maintained Java Spring Code base, then a badly tested, unreadable clojure codebase.

The success of the story is that they probably went from a bad codebase to a good one. And you can in any language, node.js or not.
Thanks, great tip. I'll do that in future.
Great post. Wrote about how much effort it was to fill my beta list here: https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/3408064eda35
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I apologise for the name-calling. (Particularly the egregious terms I used... and it's no excuse that in my circle of friends we use them in conversation, but subtleties are lost in translation, even amongst English speakers)

My broader point is this (if you care beyond taking offence at the language I have used), people desperate for a job to feed themselves and their dependents, should not have to subjugate themselves at the feet of Amalgamated Internet Co. in order to live a fulfilling life... and saying 'it's a bit boring but suck-it-up stranger' doesn't display any empathy.

However your feelings are entitled to be respected?
I have the best experience with targets where data logging works automatically, i.e., where I don't need to bother with manual data input.

- RescueTime: Productive and unproductive time, or specific software/website categories, automatically logged by the computer;

- Draft: Words written every day (just started, but looks promising);

Also successful: binary variables (1 or 0 every day, either done or not done).
I think they missed this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af_vCRXUodk (Alcatel Australia, 1991)
The entire backlog of 1.2 million articles are stored in elastic-search, which is used to drive the site

Elasticsearch is awesome and I'd heard rumors of people using it as a data store rather than just a search index but it's awesome to see it being used as a data store at such scale.
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Is interesting that Kaglew Management LLC, which is the company trying to acquire the trademark, is run by Charles Lew, the attorney who is representing the claim.

KAGLEW was created by Charles Lew and Alex Kagianaris, partners in the boutique law firm, Kagianaris Lew LLP. They are recognized as a highly motivated and committed, demonstrating extensive experience in restaurant development and management. They are currently involved in several restaurants, bars/lounges, and development projects in the Los Angeles area; all of which showcase their expertise with prominent success rates and notable recognition.

Today, in this tough economy, KAGLEW is proud to identify and present hospitality and restaurant ventures as commercial opportunities for themselves and their investors. KAGLEW structures deals for maximum returns and is an invaluable resource for creating and building wealth in commercial properties. Some exciting projects KAGLEW has recently developed are the organic vodka from Hawaii, Ocean Vodka, the highly publicized Crown Bar in West Hollywood and the popular Gasser LOUNGE in Redondo Beach. STOUT, the latest venture from KAGLEW, is bringing together two of the fastest growing commodities in the restaurant industry – gourmet burgers and craft beer. KAGLEW is positioning STOUT as a high volume high return asset and has plans to open multiple locations in Southern California and beyond.

I guess they are not doing as well as they hoped in restaurants and craft beers then.
How is that a condemnation?
I think I misunderstood him but it did sound like OOP vs functional :). What he meant was probably something like "we stopped writing bad code with lots of mutable state and caught up with modern best-practices in OOP".
Hi Alex,

Will do that asap :)

Regards !
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That's great and exactly where we should be. Glad to see some countries have actually hit themselves with the clue stick.
It's not quite at the level of Soul of a New Machine, but I still think every programmer should read this book. A great story from the trenches. It gave me so much respect for Dave Cutler, and confirmed so many things I suspected about Microsoft at the time.
The Bitcoin Foundation needs to make itself useful and quickly challenge/oppose this application.
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Very nice! I think the best way to learn a new language is to have graphical output instead of 'hello world'.

This will get me started with Go!
That sounds familiar. I know somebody who worked on our student paper that swallowed their beliefs to go and work for the Mail because it was the only paper still hiring. Not believing in it doesn't absolve you from being complicit in it, though.
That's just, like, your opinion man.

Me, I prefer to see data. Fortunately, there are a number of studies coming out about patent trolls. Unfortunately, there is no clear consensus. Also, things like the impact of baseless demand letters simply cannot be studied because they cannot be tracked and there is no data. This will hopefully will change soon.

But I'd much rather prefer analytical study over uninformed vitriol. Ars Techica is usually good, but not when it comes to patent matters. This is the same blog that painted CSIRO, a well known Australian research lab, as a patent troll because they claimed to invent WiFi and sued manufacturers over it. The comments on that article (many from posters down under, naturally) kept calling out Ars' incorrect rewriting of history, but they would not back down. I wouldn't want my news from somebody who won't accept the facts because they don't agree with their biases.
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Greg Shahade's videos are great. I particularly enjoy his solitaire chess games, where he attempts to guess the moves of existing games by great players of the past and present.
Hi IanDranke, thanks for your help.
So, you mean that the "recommendation engine" of Amazaon/Hulu/Netflix are not good enough (because it shows always the same movies) and/or you'd want just a merged list (filtered by your interest)?

Update: For "merged list" I have found this: http://www.canistream.it/
Is that what you looking for??
I was constantly listening to modules (first with DMP and later with Cubic Player) and DOS shelling from the player to do something else. That something else being editing ascii/ansi art or programming in Turbo Pascal. Because the module playing was done done in TSR, the players at the time could not switch to the next song in the playlist unless you returned to the player. When the music ended I had to quit the application I was working in and "exit" from DOS shell to give control back to player software. And then back to DOS shell and into the application.
> Difficult though it may be to imagine now, manufacturing was a growth industry in the mid twentieth century. This was an era when small firms making everything from cars to candy were getting consolidated into a new kind of corporation with national reach and huge economies of scale. You had to grow fast or die. Workers were for these companies what servers are for an Internet startup. A reliable supply was more important than low cost.

2007 was when the iPhone was introduced, before Foxconn was in the public mindset....but China's massive growth in manufacturing was well known by 2007...So why isn't China flooded in high-paying union jobs? Or is it because Chinese industrialists and laborers are savvy and forward thinking enough to not every go through the union-building phase?
Unions are just another group of people, with leaders and political aims and a focus on advancing their own interests. (This isn't a judgment - management does this, and non-unionized workers do this too).

I've seen unions mired in bureaucracy and questionable decisions, just as I've seen unions with an honest interest in advocating for their members (for example, legally defending members from bizarre attacks from the public and unfounded criticism).

When the leadership and rank-and-file act intelligently, then unions work well. When they operate in bureaucratic and self-serving ways, then they break down and lose public support.
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Whilst I appreciate you outlining which buttons you clicked on this website, perhaps you could engage with the discussion and present your view? There are mechanical-turk computers behind the scenes to interpret your button pressing.
Ask HN: I have trouble finding the right JS/Canvas solution
I'm still a novice when it comes to JavaScript and though I did a few smaller projects in Angular and dabbled a bit in using Canvas for games I'm far from having the knowledge to find the right answer to most problems.

I've been working on a project that involves a large amount of images which need to be moved, resized and categorized. I think it's comparable to what Microsoft has shown on the Surface. So far it's pretty static, which means instead of dragging pictures into zones to tag them I just select them by clicking on them and then open a dialog. Pretty easy to do, pretty useless for large amounts of images. Using the DOM and a framework everything is cut out to solve this problem.

Problem is, it is too slow and too rigid. I wanted to add selection by drawing a box, or even a polygon with a pen. To my understanding this is both possible in Canvas and WebGL, but neither allow me to use the DOM or frameworks build on top. There are frameworks which make the Canvas more accessible, but they are all targeted at making games and basically no interaction which is made easy with DOM + JS is implemented.

Is this a gap in the world of JS no one has yet filled? The only remotely active framework that promises more than just game development is KineticJS. I havent found any project using it and flagship projects like Mozilla's Bespin were all abandoned in favor of projects like Cloud 9 or Ace which use the DOM.

I feel like I would be stuck rolling out my own solution to this problem, which is far out of my reach.
One of the cool things about OS/2 is that it changed the sound the floppy drive made as it track-seeked. Rather than a chunk-chunk sound, it was more of a buzzing noise.

The small things one remembers...
> Places have only one official name per language

Better example could perhaps be The Hague (Den Haag or 's- Gravenhage in dutch). It also an example for the first and third one (dutch doesn't use 's (or des) nor den anymore)

edit: oh and it's also the seat of the government but not the capital
The world's number one newspaper in terms of readership? Show me the numbers!
No. With current economic circumstances, many have the choice to work there or to not work at all.

In construction jobs you have steadily-changing tasks and work in fresh air/the sun. It might be more physically straining, but it is certainly healthier for your body and mind than working as a human robot at Amazon.

Also: Nobody is complaining that working at Amazon is not the greatest job on the planet. The scandal is that it would take so little effort on the part of Amazon to significantly improve the working experience.

We wouldn't tolerate a sweatshop operating in the western world. So why do we continue to tolerate Henry Ford style assembly line work?
I've given myself some rules so I don't go overboard staying up late, like not doing anything work related after 3am or computer games after a certain time. When I don't follow these I generally get up later and later until I'm on a truly unworkable schedule. I find it's pretty easy to go to bed a little later each day, it's much harder to go to bed earlier, at least for me.

The other solution is to plan stuff early in the morning.
Hi, I like your site. I found it to be very fast.

A few notes:

1) The icons are not very informative. Really just the filter and the share buttons.
2) I would move the blog, about, and terms to the bottom and move the headlines, magazine, and other items up into the top bar. Maybe even have them slide out?
3) The filter to search by topic is cool, but it is not very apparent as to how to go back to a parent topic. I am sure color or a simple label would help this.
4) The site is static. What about small screens and wide screens?

Best of luck!
Maybe you're referring to something like the 80-20 rule, "Pareto principle"? More productivity by abstaining from perfectionism?

I just find it much more satisfying to produce small amounts of (what I consider to be) good output rather than large amounts of mediocre output. This isn't appreciated in all contexts, which is why I've called it a luxury.
I can't get to the BBC this morning. Strange. I'd assume the article is predictable traditional topic and style following from these sites:

http://www.arrl.org/news/amsat-uk-funcube-1-satellite-in-orb...

And

http://www.funcubedongle.com/

If there is anything un-predictable about the article someone should reply with it.

I'm hoping over the upcoming holiday weekend to do some satellite listening.
I'm related to 7 teachers, across 3 different states. They have much more education than I do (Masters degrees with lots of continuing graduate education hours), and make less than half the salary. It's not a myth. Keep in mind these are not hourly plant workers or night managers at a grocery store, they are highly educated professionals who work the equivalent time of a salaried year in my profession.
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I doubt if bitcoin really resembles RTGS; for one thing there is no central agency involved. Or may be it does if you consider distributed network of nodes which does "proof of work" for your bitcoin transaction as a Central Bank
Thank you! I'll see how it works with the methods we use and those described in the other comment.
The thing I find interesting about OS/400 (or whatever it's name is this month) is the single-level store. When your program needs access to the contents of a file, it's just a memory offset. The OS relies on the swapping mechanism to bring those pages into available memory. Which, when you have flat 64 (one could argue 65) bit addressing … why not?