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Just want to preface this: the following contains a giant wad of sarcastic tone and is mildly accosting; this comes from my own internal dialogue with myself about this same issue. My internal voice doesn't take my real voice very seriously. It's not meant to be unkind whatsoever.

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There's something called Y-Generation; you're it.

Good for you, you think you're special. And your friends all think they're special. Guess what? I think I'm the most special of everyone. Yup... this is our plight, and frankly, we just need to get the hell over it. :)

If I really believe I'm capable of doing great things (which I do), then there's no reason I shouldn't be doing them. But for some reason... shrug Excuses -- my biggest one, ultimately, is that because I think I'm sooooo smart, and capable of suuuuch grand things, I'm scared shitless of trying and failing and realizing that maybe I'm not quite as exceptional as I thought. Poor little baby ego, awwww.... Keep putting up a front though.

You managed to say the sentence "Thus, I have picked up another job which I'll join in a few weeks." Do you have friends who don't work in tech? Like, for real? Normally... in the real world... you don't just "pick up" a job as if you were going shopping. Spoiled goddamn brats, the whole bunch of us!

My suggestion is to go find a local pub with good staff and good regulars that you can relate to. Go there more and more often until you're blowing all your money getting tanked every night of the week. If you keep that up long enough, and then push it just a little bit longer, you'll either figure out you're exactly where you belong, or you'll get so fed up that you'll end up back exactly where you are now. But this time you'll have something to run away from.
At least here in the UK, it's not (just) a non-union employee issue. Part of the problem is that business interests have a hugely disproportionate influence over the media, and as soon as any media outlet lets any union spokesperson speak it's portrayed as an example of left-wing bias. So instead we get people like the head of the Confederation of British Industry, a business lobbying group, claiming that workers benefit from this because it offers the workers "flexibility". I hear the US is even worse in this regard.
Still, it makes no sense. The Amsterdam Internet Exchange is one of the biggest in the world, and they transfer 0.8tbps (800gbps or 100 gigabytes per second) at night, peaking to about 2.6tbps during daytime[1]. If F1 races added up to 100 gigabytes per second to that, it would be a 100% increase at night or a 30% increase when the sun is up here.

The article mentions it also needs to span continents. I'm pretty sure that if you want to reliably transfer 100GB/s, you'd need to roll new cables between a couple of continents. North-America to Europe might have the capacity, but I'm sure (looked into it before[3]) that from South America to Europe can't do it directly even if you exclusively rented the cable that runs between the continents (which is the Atlantis-2). So you'd need to route through North America or maybe Africa, which adds latency. Probably still under 300ms single-trip, but it still seems unfeasibly large to me.

Even if the article is mistaken and means 100 gigabits instead of -bytes, I have a hard time believing it. It's possible, but hard to get that much data between continents while keeping the latency low enough, at least without rolling your own underseas cables which even Google doesn't do on their own[2].

[1] https://ams-ix.net/technical/statistics

[2] http://gizmodo.com/google-funds-an-undersea-cable-to-connect...

[3] http://submarinecablemap.com
Until the driver crashes into another car and is no covered by insurance... Sorry, but your "inalienable" right end once you affect others.

Also someone will have to pick up your hospital bill I you weren't insured.
How does Way.js detect changes made in JavaScript to the values? E.g. if you set a new property to the object, is it reflected in the DOM?
OSX (and iOS) has great text to speech functionality with some quality voices. It is probably not of everybody, but for people who can use a laptop (or iPad) there is a lot of accessibility potential. I use the Ava speaker for reading long articles in the background while I do other things, and the voice is almost as good as a radio host.

https://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/
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Is private heroku still the right thing to build? I don't know the answer, it just sounded like you're building it because you said you would, but along the way have you found other/better use cases?
>They could just follow the regulations like everybody else

I can't speak for the regulations in Germany, but in the US, the system is designed by the "everybody else" with the intention of keeping new entrants out.

There is obviously no conspiracy, but the interests of the established firms and local governments (who raise a lot of money from overpriced licencing and fees) complement each other to restrict competition.
Sure, telling people how your security works is great. And in a tech world we accept and want this.

But this is F1, everything is a secret. F1 teams go to crazy lengths to keep anything that could be an advantage to themselves (ex: Mercedes mass-damper, Red Bull double-diffuser). I would suspect that there is a very strict NDA as part of supplying the communications to each team.
Uh, no, I was saying he's troll-like and thus HN should stop feeding it.
This makes sense to me. In a lot of way, the current generation seems to have a lot of folks suffering from 'special snowflake' syndrome. It is drilled into people at school, 'you are special! You are destined for greatness!" But the reality is that they don't tell you theat most of the great things in life are free...

A good family and children, personal happiness, friendships, love. These things make a person happy and satisfied. Even relationships I've had when waiting tables and the pride I took in doing that work was extremely satisfying (even if the hours were bad and the pay mediocre). But that was because of my attitude and goals, not because of the work.

Now, I work at a very very large software company doing interesting, challenging work and am paid well for it. Despite all my great coworkers and satisfaction in doing my job, they are not going to keep me company or be my real friends at the end of the day.

Work to live, my friend, don't live to work.
In my experience, people understand that. What they are not good at, however, is having the perspective to know when asynchronous communication is more appropriate. (You have a question which requires a lot of explanation, and I'm doing you a favor by answering it? Email.)
Fun article, but I don't completely buy the conclusion. The propagation speed of cat-5, coax and fiber optic cable all fall in the neighborhood of ~60-70% the speed of light in vacuum. Also it's very unlikeliness to have anything resembling a straight line path from the mail server to the destination. If the connections were aborted in a bit over 3ms you would have much shorter range than 500 miles, I'd guess something like 1/4 to 1/2 that distance between the lower propagation speed and indirect path.
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Discounting the future self is only one of many possible reasons for procrastination, which is a complex subject. If you want to listen to a podcast that reviews the many different lines of inquiry into the subject, including several branches of science and also philosophy, check out the iProcrastinate podcast with Dr. Tim Pychyl.

http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ferguson#!/story/forever/0/ferguso...
Sony hopes its ‘Album of the Day’ app will make you buy digital records again
I understand this is easier said than done, but stop living in the future and start enjoying the present. One way this can be achieved is by setting short term realistic goals; learn a skill, volunteer, help others, meet new people, etc.

This might sound cheesy, but fulfillment and happiness are usually achieved in the process of working towards your goal, and are rarely found after an accomplishment.
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I think your approach definitely makes sense. I've been using your app and it works great. Do well!
This is my plan as well (also 25). I want to learn from some of the best so that when I'm a bit older I have enough world experience to build something myself. Sure I could build all sorts of apps now, but that is only fraction of the work that goes into building a sustainable business.

I used to think life was a race, but I'm really enjoying the growth and learning parts.
(a bit of shameless plugin but since it's related) I'm working on a SaaS project to automatically copy a website as static pages with versioning and pushing them to S3 or github pages as an online backup (to avoid having a blog down due to a spike in traffic for ex), email in profile for more info.
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Mobile devices have much more interesting data these days. I doubt your computer has a detailed log of your location, your entire contact book, and unprotected tokens for services.
I agree with Nursie; it is still your problem. If it's the sort of thing that only that person can handle, then such things are more appropriately tracked in a separate system which is not lossy. (Think bug-tracking software.)
Great story and project, however one typo.

> I spoke to my grandmother today because it's here birthday,

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What you describe here my friend, doesn't seem to be procrastination. The above are pretty much all the hallmark signs of resistance. An interesting read; "The war of Art" -Steven Pressfield.

edit: care to explain the downvote?
> If I have a question for a coworker, I'll email it to them. I don't expect a response if they're on vacation. The question is now theirs to deal with, in due time. By auto-deleting it, it reverts to being my problem. I'm sending that email for the purpose of getting work done. In that sense, auto-deleting it is preventing me from doing my work. And then I just have to send it again once they're back.

Here's the deal, and this is the point I think the (maybe unnecessarily heavy-handed) policy is meant to drive: You're not free to task your colleagues with work while they're away on holiday just be cause you can. If you rely on someone who's not there to get your job done then you can't do you job. That may or may be be your fault, but the organisation needs to be able to keep functioning while members are on holiday.

Sure, there exists cases where you only need a reply eventually, and only from that one exact individual, but in most cases, someone is actually covering and can handle the request as part of the normal workload, and in most of those cases, everybody is better off if you actually re-route the request to that person immediately.

And here's the bit I think is slightly heavy handed: Coming back from holidays, I like spending an afternoon skimming over emails for situational awareness. Deleting email would deprive me of the option to passively catch up rather than depending on having everything explained to me by colleagues. Skimming a few thousand emails is easy, making sure you've caught everything single thing you might be expected to respond to is stressful.
I'm sorry. But Gandhi is just one of many who practised non-violence. Are you honestly going to sit there and tell me the MLK, Jr. had no real impact on the world either?

I'll just go ahead and leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy's_speech_on_t...

The legacy of people who believed that violence is never justified, never necessary and can be overcome with compassion.
Is the focus on "groups" of armed criminals interesting?

There were police officers shot in at least Houston and Washington D.C. yesterday. Of course those aren't major incidents, but I don't think officers only get shot in major incidents, and they at least have to be prepared to face armed criminals all the time (the article I read about the Houston shooting was making a big deal of their policy requiring armor...).
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>Maria Trisler is often dismissed early from her shifts at a McDonald’s in Peoria, Ill., when the computers say sales are slow. The same sometimes happens to Ms. Navarro at Starbucks.

Reminds me of the beginning of Marshall Brain's novella 'Manna':

>Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty and the tables needed wiping down.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
typo in your meta

appears during social shares:

"Welcome to opp.io, the actionable messaging platform. Stop waisting time on emails"
It differs a little from town to town, but in general in Germany, there is some protection for the established, but if you have a look at the numbers, you'll see that it's nothing that can't be overcome by a new entrant. We're talking about low 4 digit investments in certifications for driver and car and a couple of weeks time. There are like 3000 cab companies with a total of 7200 cabs in Berlin, that already shows that it's not a market with a lot of big players that try and keep the small players out.
I expect if you tell everyone how it's done you'll then attract a bunch of people probing it thinking they might know a way around the restrictions. Not knowing where to start, they don't bother.
It's almost like people have had enough of CMS's with billions of options and extensions when all they want is a simple website. Seems like a great way to set up a microsite for product launches etc. I'm always up for learning new stuff.
As you know this yourself, all "startups" are not risky. early stage startups are risky. "Startups" that have reached a growth stage are not necessarily risky (that scaling phase is about throwing gasoline in the fire). Your compensation package, role and type of work you do at any of these companies is on par with that of a big company. Many metropolitan areas are filled with companies that fit this profile... why work at a crappy place when you can get steady income from a safe place & fun place?
>Maria Trisler is often dismissed early from her shifts at a McDonald’s in Peoria, Ill., when the computers say sales are slow. The same sometimes happens to Ms. Navarro at Starbucks.

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.
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I agree that there is a major problem within the media and culture at large in that there is a presumption of criminality whenever a black citizen is involved in any sort of incident with law enforcement.

This has been in the public eye recently after the successful Twitter campaign #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/08/12/if-...

It is true that a higher percentage of black in the US are imprisoned, a higher percentage are convicted felons, and a higher percentage are arrested before age 25. It's also true that a higher percentage have household incomes below the poverty line, and a higher percentage are raised in a household with only a single parent. This would lead a rational person to believe that the causes of crime have far more to do with social and economic factors than with any other attribute.

> However if I was in the US I'd be rather more worried about the significant portion of gun toting redneck conservatives who are devoid of all logic.

While it may not matter to you, I find this highly offensive. I'm a white male, and a fervent supporter of gun rights. While I'm not poor or conservative - I'm middle-class at most, and an extreme libertarian - I grew up in an area where the vast majority of people were in fact poor and conservative.

I know many, many people who fit your pejorative, and they are with few exceptions the kindest and most reliable people I've ever met.

With respect, I urge you to actually get to know some of those "gun-toting redneck conservatives" of whom you speak. They may not be like you, but I truly believe that you'll quickly come to realize that they are in fact people too, and that their actions and beliefs barely resemble the caricature that you apparently ascribe to them.
This is a great point. Just look at the logging situation in Java.
"Connect to iPhone", perhaps? :)
This is definitely a scheduling technology issue in that these types of scenarios wouldnt exist without the technology to up to the minute track store activity and optimize schedules based on rapidly fluctuating store activity.

However the underlying issue beyond that is one of simple business 'greed'. Workers shifts are another resource to be optimized, and this is the end result. As long as this kind of optimization yields tangible bottomline benefits, and there are enough people who need the job so they are willing to deal with the fluctuating schedules, this is going to continue.
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I'm not sure that they're actually after natural light. Windows, yes. Natural light, probably not. In order to be considered a bedroom, you need a way of exiting the room in the event of a fire. Windows do that. In areas with basements, the window needs to be an egress window so someone can actually crawl out.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1...
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Yeah, there was recently a (rare) train strike in Sweden over something vaguely along these lines. The train company wanted to move to flex-staffing that can vary on a week-by-week or day-by-day basis based on traffic models. The proximate trigger was that they laid off 250 salaried employees and immediately re-hired them as hourly employees, but the real issue of the strike was over that kind of flex-staffing. The strike ended with a compromise proposed by a mediator that was a victory for the train companies on the main formal dispute (no limit on hourly or flex staffing), but seen as a practical win for the union (hourly workers will have to be paid a significant wage premium over the salaried equivalent, to compensate for the uncertainty/precarity of the arrangement): http://www.thelocal.se/20140618/swedens-trains-back-on-track...
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Listening to a Podcast about procrastination instead of coding on one of the rare days I get to the office before 8am... interesting suggestion you make mon frere
Hi there - the app is currently in public beta, and completely free to use while it's being built out.

I'm open to all comments & criticism... Have at it! I'm not a professional programmer (I do this on the side) so hopefully it still stacks up.
A monetization strategy for you: Try to associate any mentions of hotels, day trips, activities etc. with a link to viator/hotels.com etc. and get the referral fee.

If I was doing an idea like this, I think I would have gone mobile first (perhaps you're thinking to go that way anyway?) That way you can tap into people's geo location right away, easily associate photos & videos with the location, people can log their thoughts/feelings with a quick note, and perhaps purposely limit it to 140 to make it tweetable.
Be nice to send an email with those listed as a brucey bonus, maybe with some text to say these sites require a more hand crafted approach, and as such we are listing them here just to help you promote your service further. Or, an extra $10 gets you some extra links worth knowing about?
Obviously the post is not about if books are PD or not. Google has to completely delete all books and refund the customers, or pay publisher's royalty. It has no right to take all revenue. That is it.

edit: btw, play store, conan doyle books right now:

https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Arthur+Conan+D...
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I do the same thing! Pity it doesn't work exceptionally well with PDF files. It reads the headers/footers of each page sometimes making it very confusing. I hope it gets fixed at some point.
Down to the period at the end. I think that may be more than a coincidence.
Thanks for pointing it out. I agree, it's not very intuitive. It has a disabled attribute when there is no coupon code entered. As soon as a coupon code is entered the attribute is removed.
Am I the only one who thinks you shouldn't have a child if you haven't yet set up a stable environment for them? That includes sorting out your education and jobs.
Where have all the entrepreneurs gone (continued)?
Someone downvoted this, but I think s/he's right in that it's exaggerated. I explained why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177618
Thanks, fixed it :-)
Thank you! Fixing the mixed content now.
No, actually it's simple but in a different way. Either Uber complies with the regs, then it will be allowed to compete or it doesn't, the being popular won't help.
I fell into a similar frame of mind a few months back.

I've been running a tech business since I was in school, it's all I've ever known. Ten years on it's not like a startup any more, it's a daily slog and I dislike it immensely.

Friends and family think I've done well even getting this far but all I see is the lack of real growth for the past few years. I thought I would be a lot further ahead than this.

So I'm now doing my best to stop feeling sorry for myself. I've started helping my wife progress her career and it feels far better than anything I've ever done for myself. It gives me a reason to carry on with my boring job every day, knowing that doing so brings in enough money to give someone else the chance to follow their dreams.

I don't think I'll ever give up on my own dreams but at least if I can help someone else in the mean time I'll never have to say that it was all for nothing.
Searching the cloud just got a whole lot easier
Looks great. I typically user TripAdvisor for my travel research but this looks great. TA is a bit cluttered and sometimes hard to find exactly what you are looking for. I like how the person's trip is grouped together.

Because of this grouping, I would suggest 'tags' for the trips. For example, someone could tag a Toronto trip with "sports" or "hockey". Their trip might include a trip to the hockey hall of fame, a Leafs game, a trip to the old Maple Leaf Gardens (now a grocery store). These tags could be pre-determined by yourself, or user submitted. This way, if I am going to Paris for example, and I see a trip that is tagged "Music", and I'm not into a music trip, then I know I should look at someone else's trip for Paris. Thinking about this though, perhaps each destination within a trip/country could be tagged since trips often have multiple events with multiple 'tags'. Sorry, I'm just rambling a bit. I think you get the idea though.

I'll be submitting a few reviews though. Good work!
Sorting it out requires predicting ~20 years of social and technology changes, which is a pretty high bar. A stable job today might not be stable in 5 years, if employment conditions change (as they seem to be changing in the case discussed here). I suspect in the medium-term future there will be very few stable jobs at all.
Costco is a different type of business with different requirements. apples and oranges.

also, you do hear them complaining:
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/overtime/inter...
Interesting read. Most blog posts I've seen about the CAP theorem have an academic feel, this one is more approachable. Really, the CAP triangle is outdated. The trade off in a distributed system is between consistency and availability - you choose partition tolerance when you have nodes networked together.
Agreed. I initially sorted the list based on Alexa and PageRank. I think that data would be useful to include on http://startuplister.com/the-list/. Good suggestion on compete.com