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That will depend on how long the game has been rolling, workforce-wise.

For permanent employees, there's severance payment when firing someone. The amount depends on how long the employee has been in the company, as well as when the contract was signed (the legislation has changed and doesn't apply retroactively). This means paying the dismissed employee something between 12 to 30 days wages per each full year of service. Bear in mind that the value is capped via multiple factors, e.g. it can't be bigger than X times the minimum wage, it can't be bigger than Y times the monthly wage.

However, most contracts are fixed-term: for those, the company simply has to inform the employee that they don't intend to renew. There are also many, many people illegally hired as independent contractors, but working full-time on company premises; those are "fire at will".

There are alternatives [1], however:

* A collective dismissal procedure;

* Dismissal due to the termination of a job position;

* Dismissal due to the employee's incapability to adapt.

[1] http://us.practicallaw.com/6-503-4030?source=relatedcontent#...
There are a lot of reasons why Uber doesn't really work in Germany, most of them listed here already. One I'd like to add is, at least from my experience in Berlin, taxis here are already what you'd get by paying the premium for "Uber Black" — Mercedes E-Class, super clean, super comfortable, driven by professionals and not very expensive. This is a world of difference from, say, Australia, where the taxis are dirty, unsafe, and driven by a workforce that has a big stimulant drug-use problem (of course this is a generalisation, but I've caught enough taxis in Australia to come across all of this a few times, and it's certainly not uncommon).

In other words, there are places like Australia that desperately need Uber and the competition it brings to taxi companies. Germany doesn't have this need, and Uber doesn't bring much to the table compared to what is already available.
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We used to do this at work. "Hey Siri! Call [person's partner]". Everyone turned their voice activated stuff off quite quickly after that.
Is any of this publicly accessible? Links?
I find doing mathematics in this paradigmatic non-abstract form to be utterly impossible, pure slaves to arithmetic. Whenever algebraic notation is barred from me I just break down and fail.
> A small group of billionaires deciding how to allocate resources is better but not by much than a small group of people at the Gosbank in the Soviet Union deciding how to allocate resources.

How is it better even at all, even not by much?

If we imagine that the small group of central planners were actually democratically elected (in the Soviet Union they were not, although they ideologically pretended to be), it's unequivicably _more democratic_ to have them making decisions compared to unelected billionaires who are not in any way accountable to voters.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'democratic' when you say you can't think of anything more democratic than those with more money having more political power. I don't see how there's some specific threshold where this becomes more or less true than it was at smaller level of inequality, although it's certainly _less_ democratic the greater the level of inequality, it seems fairly proportional to me rather than there being a 'threshold'.
Human values are complex, but most of us have the instinct that inequality is bad, just as we have an instinct that murder or theft is bad. Even if everyone had 100x what they have now, the inequality would still feel wrong to me.

In terms of ethical theories: from a utilitarian perspective, inequality causes unhappiness, and even a partially destructive redistribution of wealth would probably be better for the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Other approaches (e.g. virtue ethics) I'm less familiar with.
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Waves are different around atolls than continental shelfs. The closer to land the larger the wave would get.
> At least wood stoves are carbon neutral.

Only if you grow a unit of mass of wood at the same rate at which you burn it. Otherwise the stove actively transfers carbon from forests to atmosphere.
Actually it seems like black car regulations designed for protecting taxi. There's a law there that requires a driver to drive back to their "base" before picking up again. That means the Uber drivers often need to spend an extra hour of driving for each trip, where taxis don't. Regulations like that don't do anything for safety, they exist only to protect an entrenched industry. They aren't being beaten by competition, they're being beaten by suspect regulation.
I don't know how current this information is, but the few times I used Uber, I got regular taxis. That was in Berlin a few months ago. So at least during that time, Uber was yet another taxi app, with no USP at all.
> the C++17 standard library is planning on doing checked
> integer operations by default

In C++, wrapping due to overflow can trivially cause memory-unsafe behavior, so it's a pragmatic decision to trade off runtime performance for improved security. However, Rust already has enough safety mechanisms in place that integer overflow isn't a memory safety concern, so the tradeoff is less clear-cut.

Note that the Rust developers want arithmetic to be checked, they're just waiting for hardware to catch up to their liking. The Rust "specification" at the moment reserves the right to dynamically check for overflow in lieu of wrapping (Rust has long since provided types that are guaranteed to wrap for those occasions where you need that behavior).

> someone implemented integer overflow checks and found
> that the performance penalty was low, except for
> microbenchmarks.

I was part of that conversation back then, and the results that I saw showed the opposite: the overhead was only something like 1% in microbenchmarks, but around 10% in larger programs. (I don't have a link on hand, you'll have to take this as hearsay for the moment.)
Our main metrics for hiring are be based on Skill, Knowledge, Quality, Ownership and Collaboration. Which is similar to @ruraltechnocrat. But I will explain how our process is and at what point we measure qualities.

1. Skill: we review his works in Github, Behance etc. If he made an application and release we will go through it also.

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3. Quality: We will give him a one-week test task to make a small application using some web services like Flickr, Instagram etc.

4. Ownership & Collaboration: After reviewing the test task we will invite him to the office and work with the team on the real project. may be peer program with a developer.

This is a very long process but we got a better result from out old fashion of hiring. But Still @dsacco quote is very true, there is no universal sign for a good candidate.

Most of the candidates are like the yin-yang. but I had seen and inspired a lot of good managers who maintained the equilibrium in the team. This is something out of the scope of the question but shared the thought.

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It strikes me that if the WSJ ran an article with the headline, "Hluska to earn a billion dollars in 2016" both my odds of earning a billion dollars and my realized earnings in 2016 would go up astronomically, regardless of any market or business conditions.

In other words, it is hard to quantify the extent to which coverage about how the IPO market is going to stink, and how valuations are going to hit the toilet actually cause IPO markets to suck and valuations to hit the toilet.
I'm with Thomas_Lord... IBM's PC division took a radically open stance with the PC market. I remember being astonished to see the circuit diagrams in the IBM 5150 Technical Reference manual, but understood the point to be that IBM wanted to make it easy to build compatible hardware and software. They reversed their stance - and lost their leadership - with the second-generation MicroChannel and PCjr architectures, largely due to the profit margin problem you identify.
I haven't been to these, but I've been eyeing up http://gotocon.com/ recently
In case you're still checking these comments: do you think FlingOS is a good fit for someone who is comfortable with C, or would they be better off with something like xv6?
FWIW, you may wish to add a 50Hz notch filter as well. If you're in North America 50Hz noise won't be as much of an issue, but if your receiver is sensitive enough there's likely still enough of it floating around from various DC-AC inverters and the like. Of course, if you've got a good enough tuner you can likely just measure the noise in that "band" yourself.

Re: using a pipeline as an antenna - I wonder how difficult (or illegal) it would be to use mains power lines. My RF-foo is only marginally above white-belt, but I'd imagine that a fair amount of low frequency signal would make it through the transformers.
I didn't mean to make it sound that way - I think it's a feature. Many of the libertarian groups don't seem to recognize this and are proposing we try to create Xanadu (and I don't mean Ted Nelson's product - it's more likely to exist).

I agree that these societies could exist outside of a formal government - they'd need the ability to evict people which probably means everyone would need citizenship elsewhere.
Pure Python is the difference. It runs anywhere python runs. Same can't be said for a compiled C program.

It's maybe not a "big" why, or one you care about.
Using money to vote on how to. allocate resources is plutocracy, which is pretty far from democracy.
I also have a 27" 2560x1440 monitor and while the content looks fine, the video gets really choppy if I don't configure my monitor to 1920x1080, as if it's struggling to resize the video. Does this not happen to you?
I see that you're targeting website creation, but a react-native syntax output (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/flexbox.html) would be nice for me. It's just slightly different (it seems, to me) than vanilla flexbox.
As a former member of the Numba team, what is your outlook on the technology and the broader continuum ecosystem?

I'm looking at Numba and friends (Dynd, blaze) for a new stack, but I'm not sure where the development arc will end up vs say Julia. I'm also curious about the sustainability of Continuum's business model and practices in the medium and long term.

Any thoughts on this? I understand if you are limited in what you can say, but I'm open to any nuggets.
Yeah, I think Rust has probably made the right decision here, but it's frustratingly imperfect. This introduces extra divergence in behavior between debug and release mode, which is never good.

Note that there's even pushback in this thread about enabling overflow checks in debug mode due to performance concerns...
To be a cynic, one of the best ways to kill a project is to get involved and make a mess from the inside.
There's nothing like big blocks of time to get some writing and coding done. Full Stack Python (https://www.fullstackpython.com) got some major updates with new pages, additional sections on current pages and new links to resources. The change log [1] and commit log [2] capture what's new.

[1] http://www.fullstackpython.com/change-log.html
[2] https://github.com/makaimc/fullstackpython.com/commits/gh-pa...
Stock prices are often volatile the first few months after an IPO . Remember Mark Zuckerberg's 'disappointment' in FB's stock price? http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/09/11/live-faceb...
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Spending $3000 and saving $300 on delivery is not saving money.

It's spending $3000.

You are $3000 less well off.

This is such a basic concept many will violently oppose the idea with rationale such as "well I was going to spend it anyhow" or "Well, those headphones were on the list" or "These CDs were necessary spends and I would have bought them regardless of the saving".
It depends. There's a ton less bureaucracy involved with a blue card in Germany compared to an H1B visa in the US; on the other hand, the requirements for (say) a fishing license in Germany are borderline ridiculous [1].

[1] http://fishinggermany.jimdo.com/taking-my-german-fishing-lic...
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Over Christmas I open sourced Lingo. A tool to manage code quality at scale. Here's the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10832511
We're on a website called "Hacker News." We have the ability to make innumerable improvements to the way governments work. There is no reason to pick 1, 2, or 3. We can have anything in between. We can make something new, we can figure shit out. Not that it'll be easy, but we can...and we should.

All I'm reading in this thread is:" ______ system of government isn't perfect, so our only option is to keep doing what we have been doing even though we know it sucks."
I was in Berlin earlier last year and I was surprised at just how excellent the taxi's were, especially in comparison to the UK. As you say, all clean, high quality cars.
Well, gee, I don't know! What part of "sit in this room for 8 hours a day until we cut the umbilical cord, then get a job and contribute to society so that you can afford to live and maybe retire one day. because otherwise you are human garbage." sounds like it supports mental health? How many people will quickly blame social media, or adults paying too much attention to children's emotional needs for ruining our children when it's our toxic social structures that are doing it?

Oh, oh! I know. These kids are just too coddled these days. If they would just grow thicker skin they wouldn't be so severely depressed and constantly anxious. It's not as if what ails society hurts the most vulnerable and malleable of us first and most.

The way society treats children like raw materials pushed through a factory until they can be extruded as adults is horrifying.
What exactly are you doing? I've been gathering data for few seasons in my league, going to use it to help me draft next year.
I agree with you. There is a huge difference between being CEO of a private company and CEO of a public company.
Robojar.

A microsubscription (cf. Spotify, Google Contributor, Apple Music etc) system that works on the open web while remaining robust to attempts to siphon payments through fake visits.

As is typical of an engineer, I spend entirely too much time running down technical rabbit holes. Thanks a lot, ADHD. My current rabbit hole is getting everything into Concourse CI.
Another name for that "human value" you discuss would be "influence." I don't know of any system immune to that. Some proposals, like the one in China to have a "social currency" system (i.e. the government gives you money for promoting their ideals) seem more likely to promote the value of influence rather than decreasing it so I'm not even sure if there's an agreement over whether it's good or bad. Honestly, I suspect it depends on the positions of the person with it: that is, people will be unhappy when people they don't agree with have a lot of influence and happy when people they do agree with have a lot of influence.
Grew up in the USA.

I'm not opposing personal responsibility at all. Count me as a fan.

We do have opportunity here. I am a product of said opportunity. We also have a near insane cost and risk exposure here, and that has impacted way too many of us.

Way too many of us aren't making it. That's a problem.

Yes, other parts of the world are worse. That is their problem. The US needs provide for its own. [1] Those assistance programs are nice, but they are often diluted, or come with punitive implications. It can be very difficult to escape from many holes people fall into.

Just try getting sick here, or have a family member get sick. We have done a little good with the ACA, but years of building, doing it right, etc... can be undone with grave, lifelong implications through no fault of the person unlucky enough to encounter something like that.

The real dialog isn't to compare the US to the worst, or lesser places. It's about our own potential as a nation. It is also about the longer term implications associated with stunting that potential too.

One of those implications may just be our ongoing ability to help improve the third world, a cause I believe in. In order to do that, we need our own house to be in order first, or it all ends up a mess and unproductive.

That is not good for any of us in the long term, though it may be fantastic for some now.

[1] By that, I mean with appropriate policy, not a nanny state that owns our problems, whatever they may be.
Out of curiosity, have you seen Toggl? We use it at work for time tracking and find it mostly quite good. Would be curious to know what's different about your use case.
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That is a very complex question. I suppose the relevant part of the answer, relative to your question, might be that more Germans are forgetting about why nationalism was bad.

The US escaped being crippled by GWoT costs. no lessons learned. It may take President Trump to teach the lesson.
For the past month or so I've been building a notes app as I wanted to move away from Evernote and couldn't find a good replacement. It has been really fun building something that I use every day and building it exactly as I want to use it.

http://github.com/timdavies/trunk
> I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and still lack a healthy business environment where ideas compete on merit.

And I don't dispute that at all. What I am saying is that society's prosperity is optimized somewhere between total equality and extreme inequality, and that we seem to be drifting further away from that point.
> Because the state is neither corrupt nor _incompetent_

This needs to be proven. Oh wait, it is proven like every day. Just open a random newspaper on a random date.
/european
I visited Uganda once, wood stoves + limited electricity + population growth = pretty severe deforestation. The pollution in Kampala, jeepers...... unbelievably sad given how beautiful the natural environment is.
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I think he deserves a black bar? Anyone else think so? He has some serious contributions in that lifetime to the world of Comp Sci and general hackery. How do we vote to initiate a black bar?
The comment I was replying to specifically mentioned it.
I don't get it either. National shipping isn't that expensive to justify paying 100 usd a year, and prime doesn't cover international shipping. So what do you actually get? Fast shipping. Doesn't seem worth it.

I live in a European country without its own Amazon portal, so all my shipping is international. Even if they had free international shipping the next day, prime doesn't seem like a good deal to me. As I only buy a handful of items a year from them. Mostly books.
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I'm specifically questioning nonsensical claims that startups create no value made by Holly Wood. I'm not sure what you are even talking about. Who is telling everyone to quit school and what does that have to do with any of this ?
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I don't know about the specifics of characterizing beam-pattern, etc. I am pretty sure, Kinect 1.0 can be more directional in spite of having fewer microphones because the microphones are cardioid, as opposed to the uni/omni-directional ones used in the Echo. Also, some parts of the design of the Kinect speech processing pipeline is public. You can read about in Ivan Tashev's (of MSR) book [1], IEEE Signal Processing Magazine article [2], and some presentation videos he has online [3]. Also, see his publication list, a lot of papers are relevant to the Kinect speech pipeline http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/ivantash/publicat...

Also obligatory, why the downvotes?

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1022...
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2012...
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=tashev+video+lectures&oq=tas...
How are startups responsible for empathy in college students?
The GNU toolchain, LLVM and Linux port seem not to be mainlined yet. Is there a plan when patches will get submitted for inclusion?
Couldn't you have had those books shipped for free anyway, just slower?

The way I buy online, Prime doesn't save me any money. I always go for the free shipping. Without Prime, I wait longer. Prime only saves money if you routinely pay for faster shipping, and do a lot of people really do that?
"Tell you what, why don't you start your rant"

Please don't make personal attacks on Hacker News.
I have partially-developed personas, but I don't know enough to apply that to value--they're centered around UX and functionality.

I'll read over the blog and possibly purchase the book.

Thanks for the input.
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basm (borland's assembler, built into delphi and bcb) does this. You just freely reference variables defined outside your 'asm' block and the compiler determines how to map them to registers, stack offsets, etc.
That approach has its own problems. Working Model, a physics simulator from Knowledge Revolution (Macintosh, mid-1990s) used a copy protection scheme where it asked for the last word from some page in the manual. Unfortunately, after the copy protection was set up, but before the product shipped, someone made a small change to the manual that caused repagination. Page numbers in the first two thirds of the manual still worked, so the product seemed to be OK. Those in the last third didn't. Fortunately, you could just restart the program and try again, hoping for an early page number.
> But actual people are not harmed or affected directly by some mega-rich person being much richer.

True, but that goes for welfare as well. Someone who is freezing cold does not get colder when someone with 100 blankets gets 100 more.
Would be very curious to see what you come up with if you're willing to flick me an e-mail when it's done (see profile).
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