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I have serious misgivings about this sort of "hush money". In general, I'd prefer not to interfere in private contracts, but this one has such serious implications for everyone else. In particular, it can end up creating an information imbalance, enforced by the courts, that allows a certain group of people to remain "in the know", with everyone else unaware of what is going on.

I read a while back about a law firm that had evidently done something very dodgy - representing an inventor and the firm purchasing the invention at the same time. The engineers were eventually paid a settlement, but part of the settlement was a gag order - nobody was allowed to talk about what had happened or the amount of money paid. This included, of course, the press.

Now, what do you want to bet that well connected lawyers, upper managers, and so forth, are able to access the terms of this deal - even if they weren't involved? What are the odds that an inventor who approaches a law firm will know what transpired and why? The imbalance of information will put the inventor at an overwhelming disadvantage.

My gut feeling is that there is a third party in all of this - me. Well, me, and all the little people. I understand the need to enforce contracts within reason, but I'm having a tough time seeing my own personal interest, or the general public interest, in enforcing these "stay quiet" contracts.

I'd also point out that this isn't really a situation where we are prying into a private transaction and forcing people to talk. Our courts are actually enforcing the gag rule that keeps most of us in the dark about what is really going on out there. My misgivings about regulating private transactions aren't as strong when all we'd need to do is stop enforcing contracts that are clearly against the public interest [1].

[1] I am still thinking this through. I'm not absolutely sure this is against the public interest, or, even if it is, if we the courts should refuse to enforce the provision. It's how I'm leaning, but I have a sense that there may be more to this. I am generally glad that courts won't enforce certain terms of contracts, such as very long non-compete clauses and the like...
A lot of satisfaction, inspiration and personal growth in life comes from leisure time. Enjoying a glass of wine with a friend, meeting a new person. In the end its the people in your life you will remember and who will remember you. Not your achievements.
Huh, interesting. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/
Having the ability to produce heavy machinery IS a strategic need.

The military will not let all those factories go under because it wants to ensure the domestic ability to produce military equipment.

It's expensive though, you either pay factories to exist but not do anything, or you build unneeded machines, or you figure out how to make a "modular" factory that can be converted in a time of need.
I didn't begin programming until after college, actually. But I had a math degree by then (theoretical math, not even applied). I had developed that curiosity and drive, however, and I think college is too late for that.

edit - I mean for large numbers. The exceptions are always wonderful to see.

another edit - I also don't think that most programming is about programming, it's about figuring out how things work. Just learning to program doesn't help with programming very much. "Figuring out how things work" needs a name, and that's what needs to be taught.
Is college too late to learn arithmetic? I would equate the two; in fact, I have wondered for a while if we could actually replace arithmetic lessons in elementary school with programming lessons (and have students learn arithmetic by implementing it in code). You still have a malleable brain in college, but picking up an entirely new way to think becomes harder as you age.
This is unnecessarily pessimistic. Most of the major packages support Py3k and if they don't it's usually very simple to port over (it usually means combining 2to3 with some bytestring to string conversion debugging).

I'm not in the scientific field so forgive me if I'm being parochial but I've been writing software in Py3k exclusively for a year and half now. Using scientific computing, distributed queue processing, webapp, CLI utilities, etc...

[EDIT] Better words.
The consideration was the severance payment, which in the article was worth two weeks of salary.
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to verify that you actually worked there. they can also verify that what you put on your resume was your role. Eg I can't really get away with "CEO of Microsoft" from my time as a janitor there.
Is anyone else thinking that this is like signing up for a no-spam list? In other words, an invitation for spam?
You must be bad at googling then, because the current transportation system of SF, the BART system, carries 373,945 people in average... per day![0]

It was just an example and I was referring to the appropriation problem not specific in this case; but even if you want to stick with this one you can see that the suggestion of the analysis is to build the hiperloop along the freeway; unfortunately many high density cities don't have one already.

Well, some napkin math: The current system travels at 110 km/h and the Hiperloop goes in a low-estimate average of 350 km/h, so it would save at least two thirds of the current time, if each one travels just 20 minutes using the BART system then let's say 190.000 people that would use the Hyperloop (instead of BART) would save 36932 years of time lost in the next 20 years (with assuming no increase in population, which is false), if it takes 10 years to be build and adds 5 minutes to the time of every car passenger (because it doesn't disrupt BART operation) and SF traffic is pretty good (meaning very low), and if SF moves ~270K cars daily[1] and assuming one passenger it would mean 540K people so it would mean 18750 years lost. But one single lifetime is usually longer than 10 years so most of the people losing time now will be part of the people saving time later thanks to the Hyperloop. So even accounting for the time lost -in a rough estimate- people would save half the time they spend now traveling.

Many things I did not even take in account:

- This will not disrupt car because if you can take the Hyperloop and arrive in 15 minutes while you play Angrybirds or use you car but take 30 minutes you would likely choose the former every time (not just sometimes).

- Less Time save lives; if you are bleeding from a gun shoot arriving 10 minutes faster is the difference between life and death so it saved the rest of your lifetime.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit
[1]http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/tollbridge/SFOBB/Sfobbfacts.htm...
As to engineers, while people might expect that correlation to exist, no company actually cares whether a candidate played with legos as a kid. It would be absurd to even bring it up in an interview. Engineering companies expect that any skills you need to do the job will either have been taught in school, or will be taught to you by the company.

What's "dark ages" is grouping programmers together with painters or violinists or athletes rather than other engineers. It's the result of not having a systematic theory of the skills necessary for the profession, and not having a way of taking people with the requisite mathematical aptitude and instilling those skills in a formal way.
I guess this news simply feels like a natural conclusion to me -- why wouldn't the British government see it within its powers to act in what its medical research suggests in the best interest of its people?

I think the contention would be must lower on this site, if the news didn't involve making laws about the Internet. If it was about a food or something, it'd be a relative non-issue.
If you see a drowning man and do nothing you are guilty of inaction. In this case they knew what was happening and before issuing an informal warning went for the nuclear option.
I don't understand what you're saying. Could you give examples?
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Would you consider Tornado? It's compatible with 3.x and even uses the new asyncio stuff.
It shows that I'm running Windows 8.1 when I'm on 3.11.10-200.fc19.x86_64
We overvalue people who have been "hacking since middle school" because we can't systematically articulate the skills a good programmer should have and how we can train people in those skills.

You did a great job of explaining the unease I'm starting to feel around the whole "hacking since middle school" ideal. Besides the gender and class bias that result, it's just lazy thinking.

I say this, of course, as a straight white male who has been hacking since elementary school.
Same when in Linux. It thinks it's Windows 8.1.
As we are usually all children, workers, and aging family members at some point, but the responsibility of childbirth, child-rearing, and elder care are, due to biology and historical discrimination, largely and/or completely borne by a subset of half of the population, the justification seems pretty obvious on its face.

Just because it includes collective reasoning and is not libertarian doesn't make it self-contradicting.
I enjoyed this article, but I think one thing I would dispute is that this is a modern phenomenon.

Think back to the 90s real quick. You know what was really the first unbelievably successful unfinished game? Counter Strike.

I think the commonality that all these unfinished games have are this:
1) Inherently multiplayer
2) Players are the "creators" of content. When I say content I don't necessarily mean assets, I mean situations or gameplay experiences.

If you have those two things, releasing early sort of makes sense, because your audience will give you a lot more valuable feedback then if you just dropped it on them as a finished thing, and you can get some buzz going without raising expectations too high.
A "practice"? It's called reality.

There's a reason why most top professional athletes started their sports at a very young age. It isn't coincidence or societal convention.
Anyone willing to craft a Jubilee test implementation for us [1]? It would be nice to see the Torqbox versus Jubilee grudge match (which should echo the Undertow vs Netty title fight).

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
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That sounds a lot like the 64-bit version of Windows 3.11 For Workgroups :)

(Yes, I know, it's the Linux kernel, just fun that it matches the number of that OS)
There's no conflict between reading and understanding a codebase and seeing the value in a diagram. You can have both. Take a look at the example you chose: [0] and [1] (about a third of the way down).

They first explained PageRank (without a diagram), then explained the flow of the data from the crawler (with a diagram). You seem to be arguing that diagrams are never useful, and that just isn't true.

[0] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
[1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/over.gif
I would unsubscribe too, because I quite disagree with this viewpoint.

I agree with the basic idea that humans need to do stuff to be happy - but not work necessarily. Taking care of kids is also doing something. Making a nice meal instead of microwaving, is also doing something. Those things bring satisfaction as well.
Hardcoded? I'm on mobile safari, and it says Windows 8.1
For sure, but there is a good likelihood that that one carrier absorbed the demand that would otherwise be spread across all four, in which case it wouldn't even have ranked.
> will produce a Mark Zuckerberg, who will go on to build a billion-dollar company in roughly seven years

The entire premise to this article is based on a misled expectation. The expectation is that there should be a billion dollar startup founded by a woman. Who set that expectation and why is it reasonable?

I'm a man, and I don't aspire to build a billion dollar company. I aspire to be insanely happy, and love what I do for a living. And travel a bit. Given we're entering a new age of humanity, shouldn't we be spending clock cycles on figuring out how to be happier, instead of just wanting more stuff?

BTW, 'more stuff' is not inclusive of 'fair and equal treatment'. We all deserve to be treated equally.
....omfg.

http://pbx.mine.nu/random/Series2004NoteFront.jpg

You are absolutely right. Newer banknotes are unable to be opened in Photoshop.

I feel dirty.
Fewer than ~22% are sticking with python 3. Admittedly that's more than 5%, but I'd hardly call it a blazing success story, when 60% of people have tried it.

So, 22% of 60% of people all up are sticking with python 3. 13%. Woo...
I picked Sam Walton because I've been reading his auto biography, and he seems to be a good example of someone who really loved his job. Also, his family didn't consider him an absent father. He was someone who managed to merge his job, his family and his life goals in an harmonious way.

Is 10% of around 100. Tt's a small number, I know... but it still is 10% ... =/
Making termination/downsizing severance payouts contingent on signing a STFU clause should be criminalized. It smacks of duress to me.
Will wasn't writing about "agreements", he was explicitly making the point that for him it is indeed not worth $3k to agree to lower his ethical standards. He was writing about the non-disparagement clause, not the contract. Maybe you didnt't read it carefully, like you didnt read your PS3 EULA, because most software EULAs, including the ones from Sony, do not have non-disparagement clauses. Employment contracts have also enjoyed a lot of time and exercise in court, and have been routinely enforced. software EULAs have not, and are widely considered unenforcable. So, your analogy doesn't really work.
At risk of writing a vacuous comment but as a supporter of more HN positivity...

Damn, HyperResource looks sexy.
I can't reply to netcan unfortunately -- this isn't a conclusion that the British people are a "slave society", that's a distraction. I'm saying that, if a government has the power to make decisions that affect the heath of its population, it's probably going to make decisions under the guise of that power.

I'm not saying that I think it's a good decision - I feel quite in line with the majority voice here that it's a Bad Idea.
Thanks for the link. I finally found a proper US note and the new ones are in fact blocked from being edited in Photoshop.
Very true! Also, it's pretty clear that R2 demonstrates conscious personhood so "he's" much more than Big Dog already.
I completely agree with your type of thinking. I've always thought the negotiation game ($9500 + $0 != $9000 + $500), while sensible from a psychological perspective, is downright silly. I'd probably act the same as rokhayakebe. Sure, it isn't a negotiation, but perhaps I don't need to negotiate. If I've got a price and I'm settled on it, we may as well get down to business. After all, my time is worth something as well, and six-hour battles at car dealerships sound like a waste of it to me.
I think the problem with FOSS games tends to be that they get started for the wrong reasons. Like, most of them spawn from "it'd be neat to make a game like X" and "I believe in FOSS". That's fine, but when you get into the gritty details of making a game, it's /really fricking hard/. To actually finish something takes an enormous amount of passion and dedication. And people that put in that level of passion and dedication usually don't just want to give away their work for free after that much struggle.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that FOSS people lack passion or anything like that, it's just that for your average non-game FOSS project you usually start by scratching a small itch, and then if it other people like your itch-scratcher, momentum grows. Or if nobody likes it, you abandon it with minimal time lost. A game takes a lot more upfront investment before you have anything to show.
I don't think it's incoherent. The argument about women being free to make a choice about having children does not preclude a partner from having a part in that choice. It is about freedom from societal pressures, not freedom from a partner. The fourth point then says that if the couple chooses to have a child, it should be considere normal by society that the partner contributes equally to the burden of having a child.
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Is this in reply to my comment, or just a a series of random assertions?
Same here with Chrome on OSX Mavericks. I imagine it can only a subset of known windows versions and if it can't detect yours it just assumed you have Windows 8.1
Ah, that makes more sense. I was under the impression that Alpaca was targeted at people writing the APIs.

Neat tool!
I agree - there is no reason to be sexist. But the author's message is not just about sexism, it is about reverse discrimination.

It's one thing to fight against inequality. Its another to demand that the scales be tipped in your favor.
Same. Chrome for Android also says Windows 8.1.
In my opinion (and I suspect you simply disagree), a working healthcare system in a thriving society would not have "hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt negotiating with insurance companies and hiring lawyers while recovering from major surgery" as one of its common states. Whatever the answer is, I don't think "talk to a lawyer" is a very satisfying dismissal of the problem.
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If you take into consideration your quality of life, it's probably better than a lot of medieval (and even more recent) royals. A car replaces a horse drawn carriage which required a driver, stable staff, etc. You can get meals delivered from restaurants for minimal cost. You have access to a massive variety of foods from around the world. Fresh fruit, veg, and meat is easily affordable. You have a machine to wash your dirty dishes. You have a machine to wash your clothing.

You have access to nearly every piece of human knowledge on demand for almost no cost. You can communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world, at any time, for virtually no cost. You have access to more sources of entertainment than you could consume in a lifetime, at a very low cost. In your pocket you carry a super computer with a multi-core processor, high resolution display, solid state storage measured in gigabytes, with voice and touch interface, that can access all these things over a wireless high speed internet connection.

Every person living in a developed country is living a lifestyle that would have required many servants in any other era. People are just spoiled, greedy, entitled shits. They have no appreciation for how good their lives are. They have no comprehension of the complexity of the underlying systems that make their lives so incredibly easy. And yet they always want MORE.
Yep. Linux for Workgroups is the official name too. ;)
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-for-Workgroups-...
Ubuntu, idem ;-)
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I believe it is Fedora.

But that's a strange way of saying Linux lol
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Chrome/Firefox/Safari on MAC OSX makes it say Win 8.1.

Its either hardcoded or refuses to acknowledge the existence of an operating system other than Windows ;)
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Love this comment.

Great UI is about words.

Reminded me of this: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3404-reminder-design-is-still...
So your point is... to be happy, choose work, where work is defined as what will make you happy?
Hi, I'm a C# developer who has done some Java and C++ in the past. You may consider me in the box of people who thinks the constructor creates the object, and the object not existing until the constructor finishes. The allocation of memory is not what I would count as creation of an object, as a model of memory is basically unrelated to the idea of objects and language semantics as I use them. If the object cannot be used, I would consider it not yet created.

I am not trying to argue (on the contrary, I would defer to your expertise), but rather I mean to add a small data point of what perspective developers with my background may have.
You're making a basic logical mistake, which is that the fact that someone didn't hack in middle school means that they wouldn't enjoy being a programmer. That's a logical hole that let's a lot of sexism through. It enshrines a status quo where we consider it acceptable to have dramatically fewer women in the profession simply because of gendered socialization at earlier stages of education.
Is opposing affirmative action programs, which have historically proven to be largely failures, being a "sexist asshole"? I'm looking at this from a purely economical perspective because I really do not care about what people do, and I do not see a good reason to try to manipulate the employment market instead of society's view on employment.
I actually agree with your post. And subscribed to you afterwards.

I often encounter the same issue.

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Typical Example: Friends ask me what I am doing over the weekend? I said I got some work to do. I have to learn NodeJs, figure out how to parse BCC address off an email, focus on my UI and UX design for my email app, go do more research on hashtags for emails, etc...

What I cited there are not "work" per say as coined in most people's mind as the dreary 8 hour work life.

What I am actually saying is "I GOT A PROBLEM I AM PASSIONATED IN SOLVING. I AM GOING TO SPEND MY WEEKEND AND NIGHTS RESEARCHING TO SOLVE IT BECAUSE ITS FUN. IT IS MY VIDEOGAME, AND MY WAY OF GAINING SATISFACTION TO IMPROVE MYSELF."

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So basically if you replaced "In 2014, if you want happiness, choose work" with "In 2014, if you want happiness, choose PASSION". No one would unsubscribe.
what you wrote is a post that has little meaningful content or new information. it is a short and (in my opinion) poorly written opinion piece exhorting people to adopt a life style that many consider destructive and counter productive.
It's not generally hardcoded for Windows 8.1. I get Windows 7, which is correct.
I call this "science by press release". I don't blame universities for using these publication opportunities to call attention to their work, but it would be nice if there was a mechanism to ensure scientific accuracy in them. I can't see how to incentivize it, and regulation seems heavy handed.
It means the web sites are written by bad programmers.
The standard consumer build.

http://i.imgur.com/fW7yaYU.png

CS4 was when I first encountered it.
The point of fizzbuzz is that it is a ridiculously easy test that any programmer that says they "understand" a language should be able to do, because they would touch things like loops and str manipulation in pretty much every program they ever write.

Nobody is going to color code repeating paragraphs in CSS on every project. You wouldn't use that javascript on every project either. (Perhaps these days you would I guess, but I'd argue its overkill for basic websites, to be honest) I can guarantee you're farting around with the box model though, and odds are you could be using a framework to do it for you. Which is precisely why I'd want to test it.
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