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Plenty of governments do not permit collective bargaining by their employees--including parts of the U.S. federal government--and those employees do not suffer the problems you imply they should. Federal workers, even unorganized federal workers, are generally well-protected from political interference and politically-motivated layoffs.

There are arguments for public unions, but protecting employees from political machinations is not one of them--especially since unions themselves are usually politically active, attempting to influence elections and legislation.
I have one of those in my basement! Never thought of using it as a desk. Wouldn't it be awkwardly far from you while you're sitting, since you couldn't slide the chair underneath the work surface?
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I have a motorized sit/stand desk that doesn't have presets. It's not that bad, but I do agree that it's probably worth spending a little extra on. I sometimes try to keep typing with one hand while I'm pushing the up/down button, and that doesn't work so well.
How does Pygion compare with IronPython?
> small change that has huge implications for the nation.

Waaay overstated.

Anyway, they should just pick the fonts out of this:

http://standardsmanual.com/

I learned about this via HN some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302529
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7809626
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6117593
The trailer is intentionally vague to avoid spoilers. I thought the same thing playing through the game for the first hour or so until I got to a puzzle that made me realize why they built their own engine.

MINOR SPOILERS: Some of the later puzzle mechanics rely on playing with lighting and perspective in a way that seems to me would be difficult to implement in a stock engine.
I built mine http://i.imgur.com/IpRAW3m.jpg :)

http://imgur.com/a/H7fxb reclaimed scaffolding and a 8x4 cut down to 7x3, offcuts used to make shelf.

Works really well.
Give Parinfer a try!

https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/

https://atom.io/packages/parinfer
I'm using a Jarvis Standing Desk Frame - http://www.ergodepot.com/Jarvis_Frame_p/jrv-fr.htm

With a 72x36 Maple butcher block top from Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Relius-Solutions-Butcher-Block-Maple/d...

The top easily weighs 200 pounds, and that's not including the 2 Thunderbolt displays that sit on my desk.

It's been a great platform. At my standing height of 45", it needs to be up against the wall or it would likely vibrate a bit. As it stands, it's great.

The pushbutton memory allows for fast adjustment between sitting and standing. I probably transition a couple of times a day. If I'm going to be on the phone a while, I might sit if I'm not pacing.

Even if you simply used it as a regular desk, one of the things that have become most apparent to me is the difference tenths of an inch make in getting your workspace dialed in. Maybe you're wearing different shoes - or no shoes - you can dial in your desk appropriately.
Limerick, Ireland's 3rd largest city is much closer than Cork. It is about 20 minutes from the airport.
This is interesting.

A lot of IT workers have an expectation of privacy when working on a company owned computer. I wonder what they would say to being monitored. Probably be appalled.

If we factor out the "lives are on the line" aspect of it and only look at the "making sure one is doing their job properly" aspect, then what's the difference?
I care about knowledge sharing, and you should too
Precisely this. Basic income is a fantastic safety net and gives a lot of freedom to people. That's its whole point (that and it's a starting point to solve the problem of increasing automation eliminating jobs, but we don't know for certain if that will happen).

Jobs that are currently mostly done by people with no other choice, and hence can pay as little as they want, will have to pay better or be part time or some other benefit if they really need to get done.

And then, if a crappy or mindless job ends up paying $30/hour, people might do it because they want the extra money, not because they need it to survive.
I bet you could 3D print those pads for "normal" tall chairs with the bars if you wanted to.
This blog post explains why China's debt is a problem: http://blog.mpettis.com/2016/01/will-chinas-new-supply-side-...

From what I understand (something may be getting lost in translation)

- The increasing debt is being used to keep up growth

- The growth that is being bought by the debt isn't enough to service the debt

- Some sector of the economy will have to pay for it, because growth will wither until it is paid.

Quoting: China is also constrained from reducing the debt burden though monetization, financial repression, or taxes on households because in each case the cost is indirectly allocated to the household sector, which simply exacerbates the original imbalance. This leaves only two alternatives. First, Beijing can expropriate the wealth of small and medium enterprises directly or indirectly (in the latter case by raising taxes), although this means undermining the most productive part of the Chinese economy. Second, Beijing can liquidate government assets and use the proceeds to pay down debt. There are no other plausible options.

edit:

also: the process of deciding who gets forced to bear the debt will be highly politicized and contentious. The blog post explains how there are strong negative consequences to each choice.
They only do that if the debtor is threatening a default/haircut.

They don't go around demanding that the interest and the principal on a bond due 20 years from now gets paid tomorrow.
Except it targets the React API, so the fracturing isn't really an issue.
> one person could brute force that, in the privacy of their own home, in a trivial amount of time.

Yes. And that's assuming your pattern (26+26+10)^8 ~ 2e14, but the basic character pattern here is 26 * 26^5 * 10^2 ~ 3e10, almost 10000 times weaker. This is an extremely common pattern, most passwords don't follow a uniform distribution of those "numeric, uppercase and lowercase" characters.
What do they say, then? Because I read, for instance, the highest-scoring Latin American nation (Mexico) as having a lower mean (424) than US Hispanics (478). Other PISA components show similar results.
What does "Chinese debt" refer to?

- Debt owed by Chinese citizens?

- Debt owed by companies headquartered in China?

- Debt owed by the Chinese Govt?

What about a Chinese multinational that has offices all over the world, and has incurred debt all over the world? Is all their debt considered as Chinese debt?
I believe the idea is that it is you essentially get the best of both worlds with this setup because 1) switching between sitting and standing is more fluid, as you need only to sit down or get out of your chair to switch (rather than needing to change desk height) 2) it is in general cheaper and longer-lasting because there are not motors, etc. involved.
There is a free manual, free tutorials, core source is free, all Nimble packages are free, free tutorials in blog posts, free first chapter, many free projects..
If all you are trying to accomplish is to move from sitting/standing while working at a computer, they solve the same problem in a way that has been solved for at least a hundred years and is generally cheaper.

There are some merits to adjustable desks above and beyond that though.
Yes you are right. This sort of teaching is very effective, but very expensive. The reason we have the current system we do is because it is the cheapest solution that somewhat works.
Did you use Hyper/Iron? How does it benchmark?
So it's basically Myst but without the story?
This diagram says it all:

https://xkcd.com/1356/
>nothing stops you from having a "pre-government intervention" version

Don't neglect to consider surreptitious intervention. You're not going to see a `dhs/libressl` fork on github. We tried that with the NSA->NIST flow, and it was outed. New flaws will be injected by some cryptographer being run by clandestine services.
I can kind of see where you're coming from. I think it might be because the puzzles don't seem to produce much if any overall progress and there's no real indicator of the bigger picture you're trying to achieve (though in some ways you may argue this is also one of its strengths).

Look at a title like Talos Principle for example, which while not a like for like comparison has a quite clear sense of an overarching story and progression.

Interesting that you mention Super Metroid - I have some of my strongest and fondest memories with the things you mentioned, the wall jumps, blowing up the glass with the Power Bomb, etc. Things that felt surprising, not like deus ex machina, but which felt like genuine discoveries that made sense.

I think the Witness has these, but at a much smaller level. Discovering the rules for a particular puzzle gives that huge rush for me, but I haven't seen it translate to the game as a whole.
The International Society for Computational Biology has responded here:

http://news.iscb.org/2016/01/iscb-responds-to-new-england-jo...
> Should I shake my career and find another job?

Yes, it's time to move on-- Passion is Bullshit.

I borrowed that from Scott Adams. Your job is not your job; your job is to find a better job.

Always be looking for the better deal. The better deal has its own schedule.

On this subject Adams offers some brilliant, unconventional career advice> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17859574-how-to-fail-at-a...
Bananas for scale.
If AMD sold the same exact processor, wouldn't they also be charging premium prices for the fastest chips? I'd expect that in a competitive market, prices would be lower in general, but the fastest 5% of devices from each manufacturer's batches would still be comparatively expensive.
I'm not sure - it will, however, make it more expensive for the US to sell new bonds. (Why lend Uncle Sam $100 at a 1% interest rate, when you can buy a piece of paper that says Uncle Sam will pay you $100 next year for $98 from China?)
My dream is to have enough free time to rewrite a large open source project from es5/6 to typescript. One day..

Edit: I meant refactoring as a way to improve the project, learn typescript, and learn the project itself inside and out.
Along with the ARC transition, the move from PowerPC to Intel was incredibly smooth (relatively). But much of the work for that was done long before the change actually happened.

Both of those changes required very little from developers. Obviously a new language is going to take much more. The biggest challenge with Swift is keeping the programming interface simple. While it gets rid of the @ signs that people stumble over in Objective-C, Swift didn't really reduce the amount of learning required to create a program. Rather, it seems to be everyone's new favorite place to talk about exotic programming concepts, which results in terrifying blog posts like this one: https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/01/27/seven-swift-snare...

I wonder how long it will be before someone like Douglas Crockford shows up with Swift: The Good Parts.
I've been browsing your comments in this thread some more and just have to reply to this point:

> In any case of my condition being real, I have a fear of dependency. I'm scared that if I finally do submit and take medication, I will become dependent on it.

One of the hallmarks of unmedicated ADHD is poor impulse control and addiction. Getting proper medication makes a world of difference, be wary of inadvertently making your life worse due to internal bias.
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Until tech ecosystems outside the area are comparable there will probably always be waves of new people willing to give it a try to counter those moving somewhere more affordable.
Inferno.js is the fastest vDOM diffing library, React compatible
Huge public outlay for wide roads, originally designed for military use and now used heavily by civilians. Where have I heard that before?

Oh right. The US Interstate System! :-)

Incidentally for a similarly influential person in US history you have to look no farther than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses.

I'm in awe of the audacity of slipping unlimited power to construct roads into a bill about parks, while planning to become the person who would have that power. The authority in question was the ability to construct parks anywhere, and the right to build access roads for them. So he created a series of long narrow parks, and built big fat access roads down the middle. That is why those roads got named, "parkways"!
a marketplace for services. haven't totally narrowed down the focus. been focused on building the software and working on adapting to various areas. also, contemplating "franchising" areas out. Since most service markets are local seems like having an local entrepreneur could be a better way to manage the system over the long haul.
Crowdsourced pay-per-bug model is reactive. Penetration tests are preventive. So you're talking about different services for different stages. Penetration test is performed prior to release to production and after released, a crowdsource pay-per-bug takes place to stimulate white hats rather than black hats.
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Good for him. But back in the day, there was Frank Ryan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ryan_(American_football)
Absolutely, I'd edit the post but rather that acknowledge the gaff here. Debt the government owes to itself it has a number of ways to manage, debt between private entities is a much harder thing to fix without tanking the economy. The canonical example these days is the subprime mortgage crisis.
Black hole physics with an added quantum of uncertainty
If you still haven't read Richard Feynman's appendix to the Rogers Commission report on the Challenger disaster, here's the closing sentence: For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Debt instruments denominated in Yuan (renminbi) [1]

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21679341-...
We don't do anything. We'll have to take care of them, which is where things like a basic income help. It won't happen all at once instantly, and it's not like our only option is to grind them into soylent green. Horses may get turned into food, but that's because they're horses and not people. We eat animals, so it's not very compelling to say "oh no, we ate all the horses or turned them into glue". Who cares. The point is there are horses now and there will probably continue to be horses. Many of them with a life of mostly leisure and good care instead of being worked to death. Sounds good to me.
Yes. :)

It's exploratory in the sense that we are seeing if this general approach works for CPython. But if this exploratory work shows promise, then we will see it through. And since I'm also a member of the Python development team I always want to see Python be faster and succeed more. :)
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Or I can take thermodynamics hate my life. I have a few options, I just don't like many of them.
The point of contention is that in some jurisdictions the law forces every covered public sector employee to pay into the union that negotiated the agreement--whether that employee wants to or not.

The intention of this rule is to prevent "free riders"--employees who benefit from the union-negotiated agreement, but don't contribute anything to ensure its success.

Voluntary unions (no forced contributions) are legal basically everywhere, as you think they would be. But they are obviously less powerful because they have fewer resources, and can't claim that they represent all the workers.
The Challenger disaster: 30 years ago I was working at mission control
Not to be too pedantic, but the L'Enfant's DC plan precedes Haussmann's plan by 62 years.
>> Nope. People should always create and attempt improve upon whats out there.

Unless like he states, it causes decision fatigue. What's easier? Looking through a small group of well documented and supported frameworks OR trying to a find a decent framework among hundreds of frameworks; many of which, I might add, are either poorly documented or have inherit issues you won't discover until you're already too deep in your project to change.

It's interesting to note that in virtually every industry, they realize that giving the customer too many choices leads to fewer sales, less success and leaves them paralyzed and unable to make a decision. Yet, in software development, we firmly believe the exact opposite is true? That somehow giving developers more and more choices is somehow better?

Some more support for what I was saying:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/research-too-many-choi...

“People fail to realize that relatively rigid structures can often simplify goal pursuit by removing the need to make choices, especially when people are already well into the process” she says.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/your-money/27shortcuts.htm...

That study “raised the hypothesis that the presence of choice might be appealing as a theory,” Professor Iyengar said last year, “but in reality, people might find more and more choice to actually be debilitating.”

Research also shows that an excess of choices often leads us to be less, not more, satisfied once we actually decide. There’s often that nagging feeling we could have done better.
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I'm not arguing with you, but... what's the source of that number?
I did not say anything about -- nor do I want -- a number block on a laptop.
.. And what about those who have contributed to the project?
I agree, which still reinforces the point that it's really weird for Paul Graham to attack Shark Tank. They're just totally different entities with different purposes.
Quantum Juggling (online pattern simulator)
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Yes, with no keyboard, and without the heavy power supply you will need to carry to actually use it for any real work. Not a valid comparison, again.

My point stands: the best comparison is to Apple's mainstream laptops such as the MacBook Air, not to an ultralight.
Jerker - best. desk. ever.
Not really. I used to play my piano sitting.
> Enable WebM/VP9 video support on systems that don't support MP4/H.264

Why is this only on systems without H.264 support? Is this due to hardware acceleration?
European companies are a while other thing though. In most big EU corporations you get hired for position, not skill. The position is ranked relative to all other positions and your rank is determined through your school/education.

Case in point, it's very difficult to get hired to a German or Swiss company with a US engineering degree, regardless of the universities standing. I had to go through that myself, it's ridiculous.
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Ah, so that's where they hid all that undisclosed evidence! Thanks, Ed!
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Two developers on the early stage of a new project come to a disagreement in how the code architecture should be. Both have valid visions for the architecture but each developer thinks that his solution is better and simpler. Being one of the developers you don't want to use a solution that you don't like but at the same time you don't want to force your solution upon others. How do you resolve this conflict?
> Luminus looked good but seems to be shunned by the community.

Can I ask what left you with that impression? I've no idea if this is true or not as I don't participate much in the Clojure community, I'm just genuinely curious. I guess a bunch of people just use the lighter weight Compojure/Ring templates that really leave you with an extremely barebones web app to start with?

I used Luminus myself when starting out, but I feel that as you grow more comfortable with Clojure web dev, you'd _typically_ end up putting together your own Leiningen template more tailored to how you like to set things up (as I ended up doing). But even still, I don't think Luminus is by any means bad?
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Hello HN,

We pushed our new version of the Polarr Photo Editor today, this time for Mac OSX! (10.10+). the app is mostly WebGL in WKWebView with a native interface for RAW decoding, gestures, and file sharing. And because of these, we managed to pack everything down to a few MB.

The app is currently featured as the best new app in Mac app store, and is $9.99 for a limited time (there is a free lite version with reduced feature). You can learn more about the app in here (sorry it's not yet mobile optimized)

https://www.polarr.co/mac

Would love to hear feedbacks and see what you think!
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Thank you for the ideas ;)
At heart I am a realistic optimist. Some people will never learn and some things never change.
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Debt to whom?
Who had 24T to lend to them?
How did they make that 24T?
Just realised that I forgot to answer one of your questions.

> how best can we help Nim to move towards that goal right now?

There are many ways. One way of course is to use Nim, test it, give us feedback, write Nim libraries and tell other people about it. But the best way is to get directly involved in Nim's development on Github, help us fix bugs, discuss the future direction of the language and help us implement new features. Here is a list of "Easy" bugs to get you started: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/labels/Easy

Another alternative is donations. Nim accepts donations through Bountysource[1], and Gratipay[2].

1 - https://www.bountysource.com/teams/nim

2 - https://gratipay.com/nim/
One "practical" reason is that its relatively easy to make a Debian-based derivative distribution due to the large amount of prior art, tools and manpower. Now, if we could integrate Qubes-style isolation with Debian then most of this could be ameliorated. :)
As an early adopter (late 90s), none of my standing desks have been adjustable.

I've settled on using a bar stool. I fidget a lot. Sit, stand, lean, one leg stand, foot rest, dance. Bar stools don't run away.

I bought one like this off craiglist for $30. http://amzn.to/1lYaKgZ
Yeah I don't think a lot of people understand the lengths some companies go to, to control access to their systems (either because of risk aversion, regulatory requirements, or something else). It's on a different planet from a startup mentality of 'We hire trustworthy people, so all 10 employees have access to prod'. This is 'How do we protect customer data from 1 in 2000 IT staff across 100 countries?'

For example, I was working at a massive bank that was implementing an access control system for their servers that meant that admin's didn't have direct access. You had to

- submit a change ticket that went through all the approvals.

- This triggered a workflow through a web interface that opened an RDP or text terminal session to the server, for the appropriate person (OS, application, database, etc)

- The RDP session was recorded to video, the text session was logged.

- Once you logged out the password on the server was auto-rotated.

- The text-session was indexed and searchable. The software coordinating all this was able to match server logs against the video RDP session so you could search through the video ("show me the SQL Server commands that admin ran")

- On a regular basis, the server state would be reconciled against all the logged tickets for that server and discrepancies investigated.
Interesting to observe: "@stevenstrogatz Also known as Quantum juggling, is robust enough to serve as "programming language" for the tricks" ~ https://twitter.com/DonMostrenco/status/692822840261922817
Uplift will also sell you the legs (~US$500) which you can mate with an inexpensive desk-top (or maybe one that you already have):

http://www.upliftdesk.com/uplift-height-adjustable-standing-...

We've used these at my work and they're pretty nice.