skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole thing is completely self-inflicted.

No, it's inflicted by a broken society. In a working society, at least a working first-world society, everyone has at least a basic standard of living. This allows both a flexible economic system (entrepreneurship, job-changing, etc.) and family life to coexist: your company going bankrupt does not mean your kid can't attend school or eat. The American solution seems to be that people should have a corporate job for life with the old IBM or Amoco, which provides both ultra-stable employment and benefits (company-provided childcare, parental leave, health insurance, etc.) and only those people are "deserving" of having kids.
> I'm sure the generation before Henry Ford reduced work hours to 8 hour days and work weeks to 5 days thought their kids were lazy.

I doubt it... At the very least you need to go much further back than Ford.

While Ford was one of the earlier industrialists to willingly accept and embrace the 8 hour day, it was by no means his doing. AFL and other unions had been fighting for working hours reductions for decades by then - with loss of life on more than once occasion - , and gradually started getting concessions.

The first widespread demands for an 8 hour day in the US happened 30 years or so before Ford was even born.

The first attempt at introducing 8 hour working day for federal employees passed in 1868, when Ford was 5.

New York got partial 8 hour working days (for certain traides) from 1872.

In 1889, the Second International agreed with the AFL to make May 1st 1890 a day for demonstrations in commemoration of the Haymarket massacre, and in support of the 8 hour working day. And so, the US unions fight for the 8 hour working day is actually directly responsible for May 1st as the international day for labour demonstrations.

It wasn't until 1914 that Ford cut working hours from 9 to 8, at a point when millions of workers in other industries had already achieved it. At that point, 8 hour working day had been a labour demand for 2-3 generations already.
Can someone explain how the extortion actually works? I don't have much experience with SEO. Thanks
What really helps is if the employees can
1) go online and see their "proposed" schedule months out, ideally with decent export options
2) can trade shifts, ideally online in some app (and have contact info for their colleagues)
3) have a schedule printer in the office
4) can report in ill on the app
5) and of course, manager needs to be hands-off from the schedule (you can of course, build this into the software by making sure it has a "how many urgent changes" counter for managers, so their bosses can see how finicky they are)

Especially you shouldn't build in the ability to give monetary incentives for work. That'll cause a race to the bottom on part of the employees.
Those are beautiful stories of truth exploration!
"It's a completely bespoke car for each circuit."

This may give the wrong impression, so just to be clear there are strict regulations in F1 regarding the reuse of components and static designs.

http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/rules_and_regulations/spor...

Mercedes, who sit in #1 and #2 in the driver standings, and of course #1 in the constructors standings, is presumed to have an advantage because of the way they laid out their turbochargers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuBB2F6IutQ

By F1 rules, no other team can change their own engine designs until next season.
It is important to document cases like these, so others in the future won't panic when such SEO blackmail happens.

The closest form I could find to report this to Google is: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/paidlinks Though not regular selling links for money, I would make note about that in the additional details and provide a link to their XRumer domain list.

In my experience the folks over at the webmaster forums: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters are good at, and interested in, handling these sorts of cases.
No worries. Just dropped that in there in case dang sees this thread. Or at least it's here if someone finds this in the future.
Building Docker Images for Static Go Binaries
Full disclosure. Not hiding anything. I just wish more people used it. I feel like they don't know about it. Maybe I am just bad at my job lol
The article only refers to 'passenger safety' and how 'passengers may not be covered'.
Most of all, java was the first real commercial language with a (good) garbage collector. That was a real advantage.
> Wow, it's free

It is not free - you can't make derivatives. It is just free of cost.
Just adding up to those points.

Compiling at the time was a problem. Adding a new library could mean hours of digging up to find out why you can't even link the damn thing in your project - if that's even possible. That's before even talking about cross-platform.

Java was also a modern OO language, safer to use than C++ and with everything you needed right there in the JDK, all of that backed with solid documentation ( internet was not what it is now, if you were the lucky few with access at all )

In particular, java had a great easy approach to threading out of the box, working everywhere.
Locked or unlocked? It's not really clear, but reading between the lines it sounds like this only works with an unlocked phone that trusts the computer. Like they built a version of naughty iTunes that does bad things when you sync with it.
Agreed, and it was something that bothered me when writing my comment because the OP obviously is only focused on one of those audiences.

I have about 20 cities under my belt (half, foreign) and could do the low-income version of all of them :D But this would be a good thing to add to the one or two expat-related sites concerning living costs that have popped up on HN in recent weeks.
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My father is age 92, and in 2001 he lost his central vision to macular degeneration. He wrote long documents on his PC before, but afterward he never had much dedication to figuring out how to use a computer with assistive software for the blind (or more lately, smart phones in assistive mode). Thus we entered a years long search for usable CD and MP3 players. Most devices have tiny uniform buttons and depend on LCD indicators. The best we could find for a long time was a Sony S2 sport CD player that had a hand strap that kept the thumb positioned to work buttons without needing to look at the device.

But years ago he got the free (from the US government) digital talking book player[1][2]. This device is an excellent engineering and user interface solution for delivering audio material to blind users. The buttons are all large and report their functions by audio. There are all sorts of built in modes, including an extensive set of self-tests and diagnostics. Around the US, there is a service infrastructure so if there is any problem with the devices, the user just drops them off at a local library and takes a replacement.

These devices can play prerecorded DRMed audio books or MP3s delivered on USB cartridges or thumb drives. The Library of Congress maintains a large collection of downloadable books called BARD[3].

[1]http://www.loc.gov/nls/digitalbooktraining/LOC_01/LOC_01.htm...

[2]http://www.loc.gov/nls/transition/Digital%20Talking%20Book%2...

[3]http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/talking_books/bard/
Not to mention the US, Japan, and most if Europe is already below the replacement rate. Without immigration we are a dying society suggesting we need even fewer kids is a great way to end up extinct.

Reolistically, in the long term we need to support young parents with policies that promote having more kids or accept that 'the American way of life' is a dead end doomed to failure.
I'd love to have a discussion with you about being a tech lawyer one day. I'm interested in knowing more about that career path after getting into com science and then shifting over to the business side of things. Friends and family have been raving about how great of a demand there is for tech lawyers these days so I'm curious to get your perspective.
Ingress interface, so I could play the game without holding phone in my hand (useful if you want to bike to cover distances between portals faster).
Spammers noticed that their own sites got nuked from the results when they used an automated tool (XRumer) to point thousands of low-quality links to these sites.

So with a paid product that was now useless (or less useful) for linkspam, they now turn it around and use it for blackmail: Pay us or we point all these links to your site.

There used to be a time when the majority of these links were simply ignored by Google. They were worthless for both linkbuilding and negative SEO. This may or may not have changed with more recent updates.

In all of this spammers are largely sailing blindly and most of their analytic "insights" are circumstantial. Pointing a large amount of XRumer links to a site may only be a single signal to start a deeper investigation: if that turns up nothing spammy, chalk it up to ineffective negative SEO, and investigate deeper.
I can only give you some advice with what has worked for me. I'm 29 now, I've been programming something I'm very passionate about for the past 4 years, earning just enough on the side to work on that. Last year, it took a big conversation with my girlfriend to accept that it was time to set aside the project for a bit and start working as a freelancer. For the first time I took a serious attempt at making a good CV/portfolio website and reached out through several channels to get some work. What worked in the end was to work though consultancies (which I had a grudge against). They gave me good connections which then gave me new work without the consultancy. I learned what I was worth per hour (much more than I used to ask). And because I did small jobs it was also very dynamic. The work wasnt always fun, but to develop myself like this was very much fun! And guess what, I grew a LOT in this time, my coding got better, mostly because I had to deal with lots of real life demands. My toolbox grew. My confidence grew. My professionality grew. My wallet grew. Then after bout a year I switched back to doing as little as possible and working on my own project. It took some effort, determination and time, because I had build up some responsibilities, and they tend to keep going for a while, but you also don't have to cut it all. Just keep the best :) .. right now I'm in a sweet spot of 1 day of well paid work and 4 days of doing my own project. And if you don't know what product to build next, I would suggest following your heart first, finding you passion, find what drives you. Give yourself the freedom to explore that. Because that's what will keep you going and motivated. And once you've found that... THAN it's time to find a way to make a living with it, preferable while helping others in the process. Good luck!
Thanks, that makes sense. I'll have to see if you've written a blog on this before.
The questions I read were in the 4th paragraph where you talk about not being in control.

There's a range of possibilities that you are more in control of things than you think. Is it The opinions of others? Perhaps take a needed vacation to travel. Travel alone to reflect or just not think about it. Perhaps someone is actively trying to control you for what they think is best for you?

I believe in a 25 year old crisis. Because you still have people out there who think they inspire you, or want to influence and guide you. Or you are legally an adult but there's all these older folks to still see you and treat you as a kid. Or you overcompensate for it by out-adulting the adults. Or you are self-aware of your age and how your accomplishments overshadow those who are older than you. You have surpassed them in some ways yet still try to find meaning in life. I think that's what I'd call something like the quarter life crisis.

I guess no matter what age you're at, it's time that matters in how you invest it and appreciate it. I want to control time!
Most of these are Watch ideas:

- Work with "Zombies, Run!" or similar apps to improve the "role-playing exercise" app market

- Breaking news

- Alerts about responses on reddit, HN, etc.

- RSS reader

- Drive the Google Play Music interface on my Android

- Drive the Google Play Music interface on my PC

- Remote control for Chromecast / Google TV / Android TV / Roku

- TODO list / reminders

- Friend RADAR. How close am I to my friends right now

- "Ask me about." I set my list of "Ask me about" topics. You set yours. We glance at our watches, and see we've got some interests in common. Or you have one I'm interested in...

- Process Dashboard / Personal Software Process - basically a timing system for project time

- Sleep monitor that wakes you up near when you want to wake up, but when you're already in the light sleep phase

- CASIO calculator watch mode. Impossibly small buttons emulated as close as you can.

- Pick a list of TV shows that I watch, and have it have a countdown to when the show starts

- Remote control for Power Point or Google Slides presentations (forward, back buttons)

- Push-to-talk phone conference call? Voice-activated mode, too?

- CB radio - chatting with everyone within X distance who is on the same channel?

- Compass

- Remote control for home automation - lights, etc. Garage door opener...

- Mission Impossible mode - just looks cool and has flashy displays with no purpose at all.

- Open WIFI signal strength meter
While the engine, gearbox and chassis have strict regulations, the cars undergo major changes from race to race.

Next week at Spa (a very fast track) we will see radically different cars from, say, Monte Carlo (the slowest track). The cars look visually different if you look at them in side by side images.
I know next to nothing about Reddit. I do know a joke.
I thoroughly agree with that. Go's channels are great for multiplexing (but not as great as real continuations), but for computation, promises beat the crap out of Go's channels.

And data structures in Go, that's just plain painful.
Even people making minimum wage struggle to make ends meet. Do you propose that this will significantly change if we remove minimum wage?

I understand the "prices will fall" mantra, but cost of living goes up with inflation. One would think that there would be no need for a minimum wage because as cost of living goes up, no one would be paying the 'bare minimum' anymore. The problem is that this is not what we see in practice.

Another consideration is that middle-/upper-class wages would (in my opinion) no fall as a result of minimum wage abolition. This does not have an insignificant impact on prices too (just because cost goes down does not necessarily translate into lower prices, maybe just higher profits).
>What can economists learn from linguists?

That's a question best left for a linguist to answer, not an economist. The Internet is full of amusing correlations between language and behavior, and most of them are bullshit.

Here's an analysis of Chen's argument by an actual linguist: http://sinoglot.com/blog/2013/04/futurity-in-chinese-and-eng...
No perfect forward secrecy. If someone gets your PGP key, they get all of your messages (past / present / future) and you might not even know your key was compromised.
Not attempting greatness, because of risk of disappointment?...I feel something is missing there. I don't have any answers yet though. There must be a third way.
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Check out ThoughtWorks - software company that provides professional services: http://www.thoughtworks.com/

Might be a good match for combining traveling and coding.
I would imagine that an HR department in the US would be reticent to even look at a resume that included a photo to avoid the appearance of discrimination.
I would love to have some opinions of people that have used this. What for and how was it?
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> if Cloud costs ever get out of hand

Smart, because that's the next line in the Microsoft play-book.
HN is fickle. You committed the double sin of posting a TL;DR and YELLING.
In many cases, this is an acceptable trade-off. Security is not one size fits all; your average user cannot afford to be NSA-level paranoid. Otherwise we would spend all of our time verifying keys and not actually doing anything.
> I haven't been effected by this sort of thing in years, but I've always felt that they should have to pay you for hours they schedule you, whether they use you or not.

What I think would make sense in a regime where minimum wage exists, given that people often work multiple jobs and such scheduled-but-canceled-at-the-last-minute hours effectively exclude other work is to include hours scheduled or where the employee is required to be "on call" for work that are not cancelled sufficiently far in advance -- obviously, one needs to decide where to set the bar here -- are counted as hours worked for minimum wage purposes (including for calculation of overtime pay due at minimum wage -- and for hours worked for related purposes like "full time" status as it relates to any benefit mandates, etc.), but not as hours worked at the actual wage for the position, or overtime entitlement based on the actual wage. So, you can't use schedule-and-cancel to drop the pay for the "reserved" time of an employee below minimum wage.
is this PG's Viaweb?
Looking from the other side of it: if the supply of workers is such that you can get enough for your high-demand hours without paying more, why should workers be paid more?

I realize that the real world adds a lot of complications, but in theory, supply and demand should just work itself out here. "In theory" isn't always useful by itself, but the remedy depends greatly on why the theory is breaking down.
The paper is

The effect of language on economic behavior: Evidence from savings rates, health behaviors, and retirement assets
MK Chen - The American Economic Review, 2013

http://scholar.google.dk/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=...
I had the exact same thoughts, roughly, and then I got one at Google IO.

When I'm not at the house, it's a godsend. I barely use my phone anymore, and instead just pick up my wrist, say "Ok Google, text wife", a brief pause, and then "Can you pick up some milk? We're running out."

It saves battery life on the phone like whoa, is convenient to know when messages are coming in, but (IMO) less distracting than ringtones. It allows me to wait for urgent messages while I'm in a meeting without disturbing anyone else, and without obviously picking up my phone every few minutes to check for them.

Beyond that, they're much easier (and maybe even safer) to use while driving. At the least, I avoid the whole rummaging-through-my-pocket-to-pull-my-phone-out-because-it-vibrated bit.
Part of the reason you are lost is because you have no experience. You are trying to solve problems with startups, but the quality and profitability of the problems you can solve at 25 is not that high. Simply because you have not seen enough. The other part of the reason is that our (I am 28) generation has a lot of freedom and a lot of free time too, we are having troubles dealing with that, many just waste time/freedom on useless stuff (carrier, facebook, TV, etc.), others “waste” it thinking of how to obtain a better future (financial freedom, sounds a bell?). My advice is: go out, go have some fun; meanwhile get good at whatever job you are doing and I ensure you that in a couple of years you will have seen lots of profitable/interesting problems worth solving.
It's obviously as not as simple as that if you didn't choose to have your child.
Is there a list of interesting/useful non-hobby projects made with this? Or even something similar to this?
"I cannot be printed on printer X"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach#Themes

:)
A Bluetooth dongle that tells me when my fly is down.
How does "It rain tomorrow" not indicate a concept of the future?

For that matter, how does "It rain tomorrow" not indicate a phrase in the original language that might as well have been translated into English as "It will rain tomorrow"?
Sadly, fertility rates go down, and birth defect rates go up, as we age.

Modern US society expects you to study, work and save until you are 30 to 40 before having kids (internet boy moguls aside).

Soo... Why is autism on the rise?
A service requesting app that can be shared with large businesses (property owners?), govts, etc.

e.g. I see a broken sprinkler, I quickly can mark it w/GPS picture, and report it.

Another example would be refuse on the street, parks, sidewalks (like a couch, tv, etc)

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A wearable that goes on a pet's collar that then ties into the owners watch, so the owner can always find their pet.
even if a policy violation appears after over 6 months, that doesn't mean that google takes all the money on the table.
I'm seriously considering framing your post. It is refreshing to receive reminders that working harder to consume more products does not make us happier.
Ah, yeah, I'm presently working on that one.
GAME CHANGER. sorry for caps but this is huge. I have used arduino heavily but I can tell you it has its specifics and a universally accepted language with nice syntax like python will generate a massive uptick in projects and creativity.

That being said I would love to contribute.
Right. I implied from actually reading the source articles and injunction the more correct "Uber cars are usually in violation of their insurance terms and not covered at all." BBC is slightly off here.
It also reminds me of the military quote, "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics."
+1 for VoiceOver. I'm not visually challenged but I find that listening to books, articles and emails makes me understand them better. I use VoiceOver+Instapaper while driving and plough through articles quickly. I use VoiceOver control to tweet these articles without looking at my phone's touch screen. It's very effective. VoiceOver also works really well with iBooks and ePub books. The pages flip automatically and the reading speed can be adjusted on the fly to match your comprehension. VoiceOver is iOS's best hidden feature.
You don't know it includes a photo until you've looked at it, and refusing to look at it further invokes the appearance of discrimination.

It would make more sense to have the photo removed or obscured before anyone doing substantive review of the resume got a hold of it, though that may be difficult if the term "HR department" is an exaggeration and its really just one person (unless the HR department isn't actually responsible for substantive review, just tracking, and the working manager over the position does substantive review, which arguably ought to be the case for all kinds of other reasons -- in that case, a one-person HR "department" isn't really a problem, as all they have to do is receive, track, and make sure that things like that are dealt with before the real reviewer gets the resume.)
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Wonderful app!!
Very useful
The overwhelming bulk of the changes in the car from track to track are setup changes. These are designs they put an enormous amount of work into over the off-season, and a significant amount of test time, so it seems circumspect that they would radically if even marginally change them mid-season, before even considering the incredible tight restrictions of F1 (which are there for safety and fairness, but also to try to keep it within "reasonable" fiscal bounds).

Teams come out with a season design, and from that they adjust wings, tire pressure, gear ratios or change points, etc, within the tolerances allowed. I've only marginally been following F1 for the past year, but I'm wholly unaware of any substantial construction change from track to track.

Edit: To substantiate this a bit, here's the Ferrari car at Hockenheim (a very high speed track), compared to Monaco (a twisty, "urban" track).

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/bGZpJEcephz/F1+Grand+Prix+of+...

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2014/5/15851.html (click on the Ferrari picture)