skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use them in unions too, but in a slightly different way. San Francisco local 6 (Electrician's union). Basically, if you go through, or start their apprenticeship program; you can't walk away and open a non-union shop. This is different than non-compete clause, but in the same
realm.

That said, I think Computer Programers should unionize. A lot of thought would have to go into the union, but in the
end you guys would be making a decent, consistent salary. The union could stipulate that new start-ups are exempt from
union rules; until they, if they reach a certain level of success?

In turn, it would require established companies, like Yahoo Google, and Amazon follow union rules. In the end, the cash might be despirsed among the workers, and
the Founders might not throw money around like they are printing it up on a string of Epson Printers? "But Mark, I don't think we can spend a trillion dollars on app.com; we
have to pay our employees, and the pension fund needs capital?" Would a Programmer, who spent 30 years learning
a coracopua of languages, put up with egotistical rich kids,
spent so many hours in front of a box, lost weekends because
you had to find the errors---like a pension when you retire?

Oh, Amazon will just move to the Amazon. Maybe not?
If nothing else, a page like http://startuptabs.com/tab/ that doesn't have the install overlay on every load might be nice (essentially just startframe with your page info). That way users can at least set that as their new tab URL without having to wait for a proper plugin.
I guess I fall somewhere in between then. :-)

Our startup is writing "enterprisey" B2B knowledge management software, but almost all of our code is written in Groovy. But I'm "hip to it" enough to at least own several Clojure and Scala books and have both on my "to learn" list. shrug

Personally I'm a big fan of Groovy. It gets an awful lot of things right, IMO. The syntax is mostly a superset of plain Java, but a lot of things that are required in Java are optional in Groovy. But Groovy is dynamic and has meta-programming, closures, dynamic typing, etc. For my money, it really hits the sweet spot. Easy to learn for a Java person, but way more productive than Java.
It is just annoying that google has to put in so much work just to prove an obvious point. So inefficient...
Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women And Minorities
That's just under the size of the Active duty US military or major industries!

Quite a task.
ISHPermissionKit: A unified way for iOS apps to request user permissions.
You know, this whole "wow, what's it like to win the lottery?!" attitude is what makes the startup world so destructive and, I'll say it, exploitative.

Yes, live an intense life building something cool - but don't forget that most startups fail, and even the ones that succeed often end up having most of their money go to investors and partners rather than the founders and builders.

Also, as other commenters here have noted, you would get a lot more mileage out of limiting your lifestyle and expenses than in focusing on the big payout. Bonus: if that payout comes, it'll last longer if you've grown a realistic approach to life.

I've known a number of people who made "set for life" fortunes, and some of them have blown those fortunes surprisingly quickly.
It is a very strange goal, indeed. I'm reminded of David Graeber's idea of "Bullshit jobs:"

When I talk about bullshit jobs, I mean, the kind of jobs that even those who work them feel do not really need to exist. A lot of them are made-up middle management, you know, I’m the “East Coast strategic vision coordinator” for some big firm, which basically means you spend all your time at meetings or forming teams that then send reports to one another. Or someone who works in an industry that they feel doesn’t need to exist, like most of the corporate lawyers I know, or telemarketers, or lobbyists…. Just think of when you walk into a hospital, how half the employees never seem to do anything for sick people, but are just filling out insurance forms and sending information to each other. Some of that work obviously does need to be done, but for the most part, everyone working there knows what really needs to get done and that the remaining 90 percent of what they do is bullshit.

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1...
thanks. i really hope it is too!

re what you're getting, i'll update the copy, but all that's gonna happen is that you'll get an email with an invite once we're ready for more users. nothing will ever be scheduled without your permission, and of course, no one will ever get your info.
Just to balance out the responses here: No, I have not. I am nowhere near that goal. I'm 27.
most people seemed to have picked up on this, but we aren't looking for a company that wants to have one million _employees_.

i can envision a future where a million people drive for uber, or where someone creates a healthcare platform that lets individuals find people who need care, or an education platform that matches up people who want to learn with people who want to each, or...
Did EBay create 1M jobs?

This is pretty difficult to determine, if you want net jobs created, not merely people who currently make a living selling via eBay. For example, when a consignment store closes and that business moves to eBay, those are jobs shifting from one location to another, not really net-created jobs. Figuring out how to net that out is pretty complex, and I'm not sure solid enough data is available to determine to what portion of eBay's business are new transactions, versus existing merchants shifting sales channels.

This is perhaps even more clear with Amazon Marketplace, which has a number of booksellers making a living selling used books full-time there, but probably a number actually amounting to fewer employees than have been displaced by the same Amazon's impact on brick-and-mortar used book stores. Many of the full-time sellers are even direct continuations of such used-book stores, which have laid off most of their staff and "gone virtual", transitioning from meatspace to online storefronts. (This isn't to say that Amazon Marketplace doesn't produce other advantages, but creating net new jobs in the used-book sector is probably not one of them.)
>Women have almost no intellectual curiosity. It is just how they are wired. If you want to have great conversations about anything meaningful, you must find a man.

This sounds like selection bias. From what you wrote, it sounds like two things are true of the women you meet.

1. You're selecting them based on looks
2. Your intention is, in most cases, to sleep with them

I'm not saying that no attractive women are intelligent, of course. What I am saying is that if you are selecting based on looks (and interest in clubs) then you're less likely to find intelligence. You're more likely to select your friends based on intelligence than looks, so it makes sense that the men you meet seem smarter. You're looking for different things.

Likewise, you're not trying to sleep with your friends. That dynamic isn't there. But if you're meeting women to at the very least explore the potential of sleeping with them, then you're probably consciously or unconsciously steering the discussion towards fun, sexual things.

I've accidentally torpedoed several first dates by having intellectual discussions with the women I was talking to. We had great discussions! But in most cases an in depth intellectual discussion is antithetical to creating sexual chemistry, at first.

You might consider finding some platonic female friends. You may discover they have qualities you don't notice when you're dealing with women mostly on the basis of trying to date them.
I am reading it as several companies that create an aggregate of 1 million jobs rather than one absurdly large corporation.
Great post Jonatan - thanks for sharing!
On a related note to my last paragraph, I just stumbled on this quote from David Foster Wallace and found it remarkably relevant:

"I think somehow the culture has taught us or we've allowed the culture to teach us that the point of living is to get as much as you can and experience as much pleasure as you can, and that the implicit promise is that will make you happy. I know that's almost offensively simplistic, but the effects of it aren't simplistic at all."

Source: http://radioopensource.org/david-foster-wallace-chris-lydon/
This is, among other things, a terribly confusing situation. Who's to blame? The person who asks to have results expunged? The law that requires Google to comply? Google for complying? Or no one—is the right thing being done, the "pen" of the Internet being dulled back into a pencil?
The current Google+ is not material design. Here's more info: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw&list=PLOU2XLYxms...
My first contract (with Electronic Arts) had a clause something like "We own anything you make in your free time, unless you work in California where we can't legally say that so we only own what you make during work hours or with company equipment"

Since the job was in California, it was a perfectly reasonable agreement for me, but since it was my first job I probably would have signed it anyway.
The blue pill runs deep in HN. It's just the personality of nerds to be white knights. There are always a minority that have taken http://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill
I use http://samurai.fm now for my funk, disco, electronic needs.
Created or moved? I would argue that the Uber/AirBnB jobs have just taken market share from existing jobs. That's not to criticize or make it less worthwhile, I just don't think that is the intention of the RFS - though its brevity leaves it quite open.
Intriguing choice of topic. For visitors of this thread, to read about the prequel to these lives, try "Founders at work"

http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early-e...
Great "Jobs can be created without hiring people"
Those connections needn't be concurrent.
I think something similar will happen to Mixcloud too.

See U.S. licensing rules: http://support.mixcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/1595564
Thank you for the detailed answer. It would appear wording/code that shows how to validate the transaction is in order.
The interesting part of this, for me, is that the Guardian believes that a) Google has the power to put the genie back in the bottle (dubious, but reflective of Google's massive control of Internet navigation) and b) the Guardian would have the power to put the genie back in the bottle (absurd).
Eliminating side effects is about a lot more than variable scope. One example would be reading from/writing to a file.
Looks great!

HTTPS giving me troubles, e.g. clicking through on footer links from HN: http://imgur.com/59cQ7G3

On an unrelated note (careful, Inception-style sentence coming up, and apologies if this has been mentioned before/isn't helpful), most of the footer links in the footer of the pages linked to in the footer of news.ycombinator.com lead to 404. Id est, click on a link in the footer, then click on a link in the footer of the page you just clicked to, 404 hey presto.
This law is a very serious threat to freedom of the press, and freedom of speech in general. While it was (allegedly) introduced for reasons that seem quite reasonable - avoiding unfair reputations in search results - it could quite validly be termed as "Right to censor criticism or true facts about yourself".

Let's take high-profile person X who is found guilty of some serious crime, like sex offences. They have the money to hire a professional "reputation management" firm to find all stories in the press about them, and send takedown requests to Google, who is legally compelled to comply with those requests. The result is that information that is out there in the public domain, and that the public arguably has a right to know, is censored.

There's a balance here between an individual's right to be protected against defamation, and the public's right to know. I don't think this law strikes the right balance. Furthermore, it ignores the technical and social nature of how the Internet works - the so called "Streisand effect" that repeatedly gets invoked whenever someone tries to suppress information. And as technology evolves and there's even more ways for information to become replicated (think peer-to-peer search engines and the like), it's like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Its not a strange goal at all. We have a social structure and economic structure centered on work. Its the key basis for how the production of our society is distributed. Increasing overall production doesn't necessarily do anything for the lot of the median person. In a democracy, where the interests of the majority are paramount, a policy that reduces overall production but leaves the median person better off could be rational.
So a knife producer, by that logic, is also guilty, because of the reputation of knife's to, you know, kill people.
I think they are artistically wonderful!
It all depends how you perceive things, isn't it
Startup Idea: Test Other Startups in Rural Areas / Outside SV
I'm kicking around this startup idea.

Partner with other startups and implement/test their ideas for them in mainstream suburban/rural America. At lot of startups, especially those in SV, focus on metropolitan areas only or California only. It can be difficult to determine if those concepts will scale nationally. Understandable since that is where they live and those are the people they know, but what if they could partner with another company that understood the rural/suburban market and could market the same concept to them. This would be a "boots on the ground" marketing campaign, advertising on the local web forums and taking to small business owners in rural areas directly.

What type of startups do you think would benefit from this?
Perhaps it can be done with leverage? Finding a way to empower others to create those jobs. Perhaps this is via capital, advice, networking, or some combination.
Tell Google.

Perhaps you know more about Android than them

https://source.android.com/source/index.html

Or perhaps you're just spreading wrong things
I doubt he will, he spends his time buying young attractive women's time and clubbing with other douchey status chasers. It's very important that the bouncer at a club recognizes him.

He seems completely unaware that calling anyone out on their lack of intellectual curiosity and "conversations about anything meaningful" is hilariously ironic.
I can see you're trying to use high-def images so the site doesn't appear blurred on Retina devices, however those images shouldn't load when I'm not on a Retina device.

Try resizing the window in Chrome and notice the navigation images become jaggy. The resize algorithm switches temporarily for performance reasons.

There's also the fact the having bigger images only to resize them down wastes bandwidth and makes them appear slightly blurry.

Check "srcset". It's supported by more and more browser (including the upcoming Safari 8).
> My guess is someone at Google read an outdated, incorrect blog post about the BEAST attack and saw the recommendation to force RC4. They then did so without bothering to learn anything about what they were doing.

Oh, well, no. Really, this is not something that can happen at Google. The security people working there are for sure not clueless and a similar decision is not taken so lightly at that scale.

What happened is that they looked into it more than OP, benchmarked it and decided that the performance overhead of a cipher different from RC4 was not acceptable for the video streams. Or they have hardware streaming those videos that only supports RC4.

It's not small play as OP seems to believe. I'm actually amazed that they enabled AES-GCM as a fallback. Btw, RC4 remaining preferred points more in the direction of performance reasons.
You have failed to just read the Android site

https://source.android.com/source/index.html
i use http://mp3monkey.net
In my experience even getting all the pieces installed in a testing environment is hard. Specially when you need to make sure that they are all wired correctly, with the correct version, with all their dependencies (maybe different kind of databases, queues, caching layers) and on top of that if services are written in different languages, that adds another level of complexity.
Eventually when the system grows big enough and the team of people that needs a stable test environment grows big enough, it just becomes too expensive.
So great it see someone on HN who gets it. It's always about productivity, all the time. Increase productivity bad you increase wealth and quality of life.

Focussing on job creation is the wrong metric because you can do it by employing people to be inefficient, which makes everyone worse off as production falls.
If they truly have cold storage of their btc - yes, this system does improve security, as their cold-storage bitcoins aren't subject to electronic hacking, just physical intrusion. And, the use of encryption and HSMs can mitigate against even a physical intrusion as well.

Sometime in the next couple years, someone is going to come up with a relatively fool proof vault storage for bitcoins, we just haven't see it yet. (And Coinbase isn't sharing enough details yet for us to know whether they've put one together)
perhaps if you gave some examples of your issues with swing, you'd find out.
Can we use Tim Hudak math?[1]

context: in the recent election for the province of Ontario in Canada, Tim Hudak promised 1 million new jobs if he got elected. There were several questionable ways he arrived at that number, one of which was counting 8 years of a single new job as a new job.

1: https://www.google.ca/search?q=tim+hudak+math
The best way to actually, legitimately create jobs is to find a way to match a need many people have with people who can address it, in a way that wasn't previously discoverable.
I think you misread.. it looks like the $1.6 million is how much was raised in the seed round:

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/indextank

The acquisition would be much more than that.
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i recommend 8tracks.com
Unfortunately, the historical way to create 1M jobs is with bullshit jobs[1] which by themselves produce no value.

[1]http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1...
The BBC also received notifications from Google today that some of their articles had been hidden from EU search results - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28130581
I'd also add that my instinct was to click the Gradle logo, hoping to land at their homepage which should explain what Gradle is. Instead, it brought me to their forums.

I wonder how many other visitors were lost this way (Google Analytics should know, look for people going from this post to your Forums via the logo, and then exiting).
so no limits of quality of the job, number of hours per week to qualify, or such? Such requirements are service oriented at best, if not then off shore for others.

to give a sense of scale, Wal Mart has 1.4 million or so workers in the US.

You cited taxi type services, but would not work at home call center work be similar? The in home medical care many receive qualifies, are there are other in home opportunities out there? Education perhaps, remote teaching and the like?

Honestly this "one million" number just comes off as a feel good statement, it reminds me of politician speak way way too much
I didn't think Austrian judges are this retarded... then again, the greatest retard of all times was born there, Adolf... so anything's possible.
First, that is a low blow linking to others doing it. They know, or haven't got to them yet. Websites like Etsy do the same on license content. Two, they choose you be set an example. Three, I always thought of Soundcloud the Vimeo of music. If it is an artisans music website, upload your own creations.

Unfortunately for soundcloud, aren't they killing their main userbase? DJ's mixing mainstream songs.
This reminds me of when I used to work at Q-go[0] here in Amsterdam. We were doing very similar things, NLP search engines to improve user interaction in various applications, mainly websites and customer support systems.

During my time there we did pretty much only latin script languages, as for some reason we kept having troubles with unicode.

Would be nice to see how Preferred Infrastructure analyses their input, but I couldn't find any specs on their website really. On the other hand, I can't find any public information on how Q-go did that either. I guess these things are a bit of trade secrets..

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-go
As has been mentioned a few places here (and as the RFS now states), the goal is not "have a million employees", but "create a million jobs".

As the people employed may or may not work for you, and as a lot of companies displace other companies, having a million employees is neither necessary nor sufficient.
This is a very promising idea.

I always crack when it comes to algorithm type question. I am aware of some of the run of the mill ones like, write a palindrome detector, bubble sort.

However, I still can't figure out the crazy hard ones like:

In a pyramid of numbers, write an algorithm to find the path to the biggest sum. Write a method to produce pascal's triangle. Given a grid, where X = wall, O = space, write an algorithm to figure how big the room is and so on....

My biggest gripe is knowing that these type of questions will kick my ass and not being able to prepare because you are already supposed to know this from your comp sci courses, which I've never been to as I have been self taught through making my own software, and learning as I went along.
So it's "a million jobs with no healthcare or retirement benefits," then.
https://www.bitfinex.com/ allegedly (or at one point) claims to offer FIX connectivity. And they have swaps for BTC.
I thought that many of the "features" are simply Gradle plugins that they happen to ship with the core product. In that case I'm not sure I'd call that too many features. Seems more like a good core product with a great extension mechanism.

I don't use Gradle on anything at the moment, though I've looked into it a few times as a possible replacement for maven on my team.
I don't think Gradle needs to spam HN for publicity. It is the #2 (subjectively ranked) build system for Java and other JVM-based languages, and is arguably on the cusp on overtaking Maven for the #1 spot if it has not done so already. It has a pretty tight relationship with Spring and Grails, two of the top three frameworks for doing Java web development.

If you've done any real Java development within the past five years, then you at least know what Gradle is. If you haven't, then you won't, and that is perfectly okay. Frankly, this maxim is true of half the announcements on HN. If I don't recognize something at all, then usually it's a random Rust or Julia thing... and I've grown to conditioned to simply ignore it and skim onward.

I do agree that any public announcements SHOULD include a blurb for the new people who are hearing about the subject for the very first time. As far as HN irritations go, however, that bothers me a lot less than the tendency of announcement threads to turn "meta". Fewer comments on the subject matter itself... more comments on the announcement’s font selection or color scheme, copy verbiage, logo design, or just completely random digressions to discuss why Rust does it better, etc.
Sony signs deal with Klick Push to sell products with songs
I appreciate the feedback/tip. I am no expert in typography by any means. and I will be interested to A/B the contrasting styles. I have seen it used in body before and I liked it, hence I used it 😀
But how many of those jobs are job transfers, someone moving from a normal taxi firm to uber doesn't create a job in that sense.

The two ways to solve this problem would be to find a fundamentally new task that humans have never done before or to find a task that only some humans can currently do and make it do-able by many more people.