skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody has ever given a shit about what the French think. A child is the product of a father and a mother. When parents don't stay together, the only logical way to divide the burden of raising a child is to allocate 50% of the monetary expenses and 50% of the labor to each parent. Anything that allocates less than this to fathers is a huge subsidy from women to men.

As for employers, finger-painting is pre-K, which isn't universally free in the states. Starting in Kindergarten, education starts with basic literacy. The production of a literate and numerate workforce is a huge subsidy to employers. The crack about remedial math actually undermines your position: its remedial math that creates the huge population of people who have enough basic numeracy to operate a cash register, thus driving the cost of cashiers down to almost nothing. Also, the high supply of literate and numerate labor drives down the wages of each marginal employee, allowing employers to capture a higher percentage of the value generated by the employee. If an employer makes $25 per hour off of someone he pays $10, and public education makes that person employable, then right there the employer benefits mord from education than the employee. Finally, remember that in the states education is funded by property taxes, which are largely paid for by families and not businesses. So families pay most of that $11k per year, not businesses.

And leaving aside the benefit to employers, why do you call K12 a subsidy to mothers, rather than both fathers and mothers equally?
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Think of it as the opening of a negotiation. They want you to do or not do something, now what do you want in return? You get bribed for working, after all.
Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?
For those who have side projects with Monthly Revenue > 1000. How do you effectively drive traffic to your site?
Regarding rural areas, maybe Amazon has two advantages:

1. Last time gas prices went up, many of these rural folks were stranded without food because they couldn't afford the gas to get into town, especially fixed-income older people.

2. There's not as much competition out there. If the local Walmart shuts down because they can't compete with Amazon, the drones might start to look more appealing.
"everything that can be invented has been invented.", Charles H. Duell US Patent Office Commissioner 1899

Based on history, it's always unwise to say that something futuristic can't be done.
I know there was a fake[1] one beforehand, but this[2] one happened for real. Or are you say this is fake too?

1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57615006-93/fake-google-emp...

2. http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-goog...
Maybe locally—but nationally, it will reduce California’s voice to an infinitesimal one.

I have a hunch that this is something that Koch allies and the RNC would love to see, as it would mean that a fairly-reliable blue state (with a lot of EVs) would become two smaller blue states and four red states.

This makes even less sense than Prop 13, and will have a substantially worse effect.
I haven't tried personally, but most of the time now one cannot purchase or use a prepaid card without associating it to an address.

You know, for turrursm.
You say you want the right but never expect to use it. If that is the case it is probably not worth very much. Perhaps they can pay you something for it...

You don't have to sign severance agreements that give your rights and employers don't have to pay you severance over what is required by law. If those rights are worth more to you than the severance don't sign.
I grew up around (mostly large, high volume) car dealerships. Dad was a mechanic and was friends with the sales folks. Car sales people come in two flavors, the career guys. These are the guys that know cars and what gets people to buy them. They make good money(knew one guy that was over 300k/yr, he was an extremely rare dude.). This is the vast majority of the guys you'll see in large dealerships now days. The sales person competition has simply weeded out the less than stellar sales people, dealers can't afford to have them around the sales floor.

The second is the transients you're talking about that just move through dealerships because they think it's quick money. Now days these guys are mostly at the buy-here-pay-here places and lower end dealers.

As for negotiation....it's just not like it used to be. Used to be the sales guy could get you a ton off and various other perks like warranties and detail jobs and shit. Now days the sales guy can do some of that, but in the end the big saving for consumers is in the financing office. If you're willing to spend the time you can save big big money by working with/against the financing agent. Note; paying cash is almost always a bad idea when buying a car. The rebates banks offer are HUGE and you're not going to get them by paying cash.
This is hogwash. I like being busy. Busy is not synonymous with "hectic", "spread too thin" or "over worked". I enjoy moving from task to task at a good pace and getting stuff done. I thrive on momentum, so keeping active and busy is enjoyable.

After that, I enjoy relaxing, too. Busy isn't the evil. Being "too busy" and/or having a lack of "not busy" is.
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How old is the OP?
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Not to mention many poisonous fruit that looks just like other, non-poisonous fruit.
20, not counting free and paid variations of the same apps.
I don't know that they're not worth watching but I'd agree many of them aren't that unique. The list was made based loosely on the "hottest" startups outside SV according to MatterMark along with some editorial input.

I really like you're idea of making some lists of the top "frighteningly ambitious" ideas of pg you're referencing.

I think we might take you idea and run with it. Be on the look out for a new list of those in the next couple days. Thanks!
I agree with some of the othe posters here - using a vector drawing tool such as Illustrator for designing an interface is much easier than using a bitmap tool like Photoshop (although Photoshop has some vector drawing tools). The main difference comes from the ease with which you can simply select, drag and re-size elements on your screen compared to Photoshop. This will definitely help you work faster if you are experimenting with layout.

You can use a vector drawing app for wireframes, for mapping out screen flows and interaction behaviour, and finally for creating the finished visuals for the app. Photoshop is only really suitable for the last of these tasks. There are some visual effects that only Photoshop can achieve, so you may find you have to use both. But I would always recommend starting with a vector drawing app.

If you don't want to use Illustrator (which has a clunky UI in my view) there are plenty of cheaper vector alternatives . Here are a few

Inkscape (open source and capable of professional results) http://www.inkscape.org/en/

Sketch (Mac only, praised for its ease-of-use) http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/

Serif DrawPlus (Windows only, low-cost but very capable) http://www.serif.com/drawplus/ (no trial version, but they are selling the previous version for £10 (approx $16 usd): http://www.serif.com/promo/

Xara Photo and Graphic Designer (Windows only, again low-cost but very fast, capable and an excellent interface) http://www.xara.com/uk/photo-graphic-designer/

Edit: just to add, the apps above do not have anywhere near the amount of tutorials for learning as Illustrator (or the industry recognition), so factor that in when choosing a vector app if that's important to you.
My general rule of thumb is that if the severance covers the expected time of the job search-- and allows you to represent yourself as employed during that time-- you should sign the non-disparagement clause and take the package. That's typically 2-3 months at lower levels, and 6+ months at higher levels. Offering nondisparagement is almost always worth it to move on with your career intact and your income undisrupted.

At 2 weeks, you should tell them to shove it. If they don't take care of you, you don't take care of them.

Honestly, I wish more people did tell the truth about ex-employers who treated them badly. The "never badmouth" rule makes severance payments low, reckless firings common, and bad corporate behavior a lot more prevalent than it should be.
> Only for unsolved problems, and only if you can actually afford it (both mostly mean competition is limited or non-existant).

You are taking a very naive viewpoint of work. If you abstract everything away, of course it is impossible to find value in your employees.

Lets take a simple example, say a Walmart employee who stocks shelves. Walmart will figure out how efficient they think a person should be, lets say they determine it should take 20 minutes to stack a shelf.

Now lets take Bob, Bob can do a shelf in 15 minutes without too much effort. Unless Walmart finds a way to encourage Bob to go above and beyond, Bob will never do 15 minute averages, why would he?

By treating Bob as an expense you have thrown away 33% of your capacity. The difficulty becomes finding the Bobs and deducing how to encourage them properly.
As a RapGenius user, I use Google to search for specific links to pages since it saves me time from having to go first to the site then run a search. Also, it's not really a site that people browse, they go to look for a specific song so coming from a search engine would be the expected behavior.
Grains want to be carried away by the wind to plant themselves somewhere else.

This is the very definition of a fruit, against which you're drawing an emotionally-charged, pseudoscientific distinction. It's a seed-bearing structure that evolved to be carried to another location to be planted.
Nope, it's an iOS 7 feature. Retina iPads have done this since iOS 5, since that is when the iPad 3 was introduced, but non-retina iPads used non-retina graphics until iOS 7.

See http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/07/ios-7-uses-retina-assets-... and http://bendodson.com/weblog/2013/10/16/dropping-non-retina-s...
By the very fact of the device being pre-owned, it is inherently possibly tainted.
THANK YOU. I cannot stand using a raster tool to design UIs. It's insane to me, and it absolutely boggles my mind that it's considered 'standard' practice (other than just going to html/css directly).
Randall Munroe has a much more thorough write-up on (a variation on) this puzzle:

http://xkcd.com/solution.html (Though you might want to click his link to the problem description first since his is a variation.)
"use smaller domestic partners to do subassembly"

That's actually a problem with government projects. Every congressional district needs to supply a part it seems. Unbundling is basically a bribe and corruption in our system.
Well, its real, main purpose is to provide a gravy train to its various first-tier stakeholders (elected representatives, and white collar defense contractors). As a side effect, it creates a lot of blue collar jobs, also -- but these are of secondary importance (i.e. they don't wag the hound nearly as much as the first tier).

After that its purpose seems to be to make Americans feel "awesome" and "safe", in approximately equal measures. In that sense "kicking ass" (i.e. dropping fire on people for no good reason) seems to be about as important as making "feel safe."

Whether the industry actually keeps us safe from external violence to any appreciable degree (i.e. that would be anywhere near worth the expenditure of blood and treasure devoted to that industry) seems to be highly debatable (and as a benefit, of at most tertiary significance, in this scheme).
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For me, that's the gist of it. When you say 'work' I associate the word with 'job work'.

I enjoy programming and reading about programming. And I do it. And I know the same reactions like "You're programming outside your job??". Now the main difference between you and me is that I do these things because I enjoy them, while you do them for the benefits they bring (knowledge, portfolio, etc).

I am a bit of an hedonist, and try to do stuff I ENJOY, regardless of the benefits they bring. Example: I like good food. And I like experimenting new kinds of dishes. But I don't like cooking. SO I rarely make elaborate dishes (I usually eat something quickly made). I don't go for the good dishes because I don't enjoy to process to get there!
(In university it was common for me to lose way too much time in a project or subject that I enjoyed, and then having to pull one nighters to study for another)

Now regarding job work. I am Portuguese, and I believe we have a cultural bias that "job work" is not enjoyable. I share that opinion, in a weird way. To me, I shouldn't love my job. I'm not saying I hate my job, in fact, it has it's fun moments. But it's not my ideal way to spend a day. The momentss where you don't want to get off your bed to go to work, our your, once again, implementing something tedious, that's when I realised what having a job is like.

But not loving your job, to me, IS A GOOD THING! It keeps me focused on my objectives. I have hobbies and a girlfriend. My jobs gives me money to travel, buy stuff, and pamper myself and the gf. And eat tasty and expensive food :)
We just a had huge survey on the most interesting startups from Estonia to watch in 2014 and the results are here: http://kaljundi.com/2013/12/28/top-10-estonianmafia-startups...
Ask HN: I'm a 16 y/o developer who just got a Glass invite - what should I do?
Hey everyone,

So today I just received a Google Glass invite, from an Explorer friend who surprised me with it. I think having Glass would be really cool, and I'd love to play with the SDK and make some apps for it (the potential to be the "First Glass app for X" reminds me of the hype for developers when the App Store first launched on iOS). However, the $1500 price tag is rather high, and while I can afford it I'm not sure its worth it.

Does anyone have any advice? Any explorers out there who wish they didn't buy Glass, or anyone else who wishes they did? I have some cool app ideas, and I really want get one. If it was even $800 I'd definitely buy it, but I'm not sure about dropping $1500 for a device which I don't know how I'll use.

Thoughts?

P.S. - Does anyone want to hire me to develop a Glass app for $1500? :) I'm actually dead serious though - if there's an app idea you want made, I'll build it for you.
Do kids still play with BB guns ( http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/family/index.jsp?categoryI... ) anymore? just wondering...
> It isn't unprofessional to abruptly walk out on the job if giving notice was never in the requirements.

I disagree. One of the things that distinguishes professional behavior for me is having professional standards. That is, no matter what your clients or employers do, there are certain ways you plan to behave. For me that would definitely include a good handover.

Of course, my professional standards also include refusing to build things that are obviously dumb, dangerous, or destructive. But a disturbing number of developers feel that they should just do whatever their bosses tell them, no matter the disaster that they set in motion. So one could argue that a lot of IT-related jobs are more trades than professions, in which case a "take this job and shove it" exit could be more acceptable. Not because it isn't unprofessional behavior, but because professional behavior isn't expected.
But when you offer me an incentive for signing the contract? It makes me wonder why these rights I'm giving up are worth so much to the company. And feeling like I'm being bribed or pressured to do something is one of the best ways to manipulate me into not doing it, just because I'm so stubborn :)

You're looking at it the wrong way. There are two ways the company can approach it. The first: we need to let this person go, but we don't want to fuck up his career and personal life and we don't want him fucking up ours, so we'll give enough severance to cover the gap and a positive reference. And no lawyer will let the company offer severance without nonlitigation and nondisparagement. The second: fuck this guy, toss him overboard. Usually, when a good company does a layoff, it's the first. That's why they offer the severance. In part, it's to keep you from saying bad things about them. But it's also, at good companies, because they know it pays off in the long-term to have the people they laid off still feel some good will toward them. Careers are long.
Any hardware/wearables/externals peoples out there: We at Hackendo are putting together a wearables + externals expo and hackathon. We would love some feedback on what/who you would want to see, and how you would want the event to work.

Details to unfold at http://hackendo.techendo.co/
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By the time 3to2 came out, the community had already figured out that it is a better path to right code that runs under 2 and 3 rather than using conversion tools.

Conversion tools are mostly a relic of when everyone still had to support 2.5. Once you are 2.6+, most people settled on single source as the best approach.
You can speak as freely as you want - there's just a difference between public and private speech. It's your own choice to publicize your opinions on social media and the internet.
That's crazy ! Add a human-to-dog feature and the duplex is complete
Photoshop CC certainly isn't cheaper to rent than CS was to upgrade, if you're using it for longer than a few months. Over a couple of years it's clearly more expensive.

I'm not really convinced design should atart or end in Photoshop either - design needs to start without preconceptions or limits imposed by the tools (often pencil and paper is beat) and also to consider the medium (in this case the API and GUI toolkits. Something is definitely lost when you split it into separate domains of how things look versus how things work.
He wasn't fired, he was laid off. There are two types of employment termination, those where the employee is deemed at fault by the employer, and those where he is not. This guy was explicitly told that he was not a fault, and he was laid off due to burn rate at the company. Then he says he was fired? No. What difference does it make? When you are laid off there is often a severance package and you are eligible for unemployment benefits, some of which come out of your former employer's pocket. Therefore, you are still at least somewhat obligated to them financially. If you are fired, you are not eligible for either of these things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_of_employment
For GoDaddy this is new as far as I can tell. You now get an email with a verification link. That never happened in the past (at least not by default).
> It would be fair to split California into 2 and then each half would get 1 senator.

Er, even split into 6 states with two senators, California would be underrepresented compared to many other states.

Plus, the one thing that the Constitution expressly prohibits doing even by Constitutional amendment is changing the distribution of Senators to something where states would not have equal representation. (You can take away all the power of the Senate by Constitutional amendment, but you can't stop it from representing the states equally.)
For me it's not about the amount of money but rather the freedom of speech restriction that you must remember for the rest of your life.

Human memory is a rather shady thing. How many of the university lectures do you still remember? Now imagine yourselves 10 years down the road, at a beer with other people getting asked about an event related to that company. Will you assume the rights of speech you forfeited for the rest of your life and remember them every time you will have the chance to speak differently?

When you're 80 and possibly with Alzheimer -- does that count too?
From someone living in Mountain View, this seems stupid on the part of San Francisco based protesters. There's been many, many examples of cities being hollowed out and losing their entire tax base because of the need for "equality." Push too far, and all those tech workers might decide that living in the suburbs isn't too bad.
I would like to point out that all retail stores really are "small warehouses" with registers to handle purchases.

1) It's not that expensive to send a Semi filled with goods several times a day to a small warehouse, again that's the norm.. not the exception in retail.

2) Packages are already being delivered from "small warehouses" with all Amazon orders - every city has UPS/Fedex/USPS distribution warehouses that split the big trucks into smaller trucks that then drive to you. Amazon is trying to use the drones to replace the delivery drivers.

Compromise that's doable with today's tech - Amazon could utilize a network of Amazon Lockers in outdoor public places and have the drones deliver the packages to an opening in the top of the locker which the locker then takes and loads into the right slot. The customers can then pickup the packages at their leisure like any other Amazon Locker. The drones would not need to deliver to every location, just the preset lockers which would be in areas with safe and easy access for the drones.
I'm the same age as you. I personally feel that age is irrelevant to clients and employers if you can demonstrate that you know the appropriate competencies in programming.
If you are still looking to learn, I would recommend starting out with some MOOC's (online courses)[0], as they give college level education for free, and I know from personal experience that a large part of the computer science I know today is because of two things: trial&error, and those courses.

Also, I'm trying to start a community of teen developers where we can collaborate and discuss, and it includes a resource aggregator, internship board, and social news platform. You can signup at http://teen2geek.com, and I'd be more than willing to send a beta invite to the social news platform if you're interested :)

[0]: Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science free online course started yesterday - https://courses.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2014_T1/info
Best wishes to your family——dealing with this diagnosis in my family as well.
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Is part time with flexible hours a possibility at all?

Located in NM, so monthly visits wouldn't be that big of a deal, but currently enrolled in some community college classes until July. Fascinating position!

edit: Sorry about the multiple replies, got several "expired link" errors while posting :)
Oh duh, finger painting, gotcha, my mistake. Why do you say remedial math though?

Why would child support stop at 3 just because there's free preschool? You still have to provide all the other necessities of life like, you know, food and clothing.
Contract law requires there to be "consideration" (usually money) given when asking you to give something up, otherwise the contract can be found invalid. Please stop taking business matters so personally, they aren't trying to offend you.
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And for an even more detailed examination of the underlying philosophical issues:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/common-knowledge/