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Simply calculating wage by intersecting supply and demand curves without regulations such as minimum wage regularly creates conditions where minimally skilled workers end up being supported by individual tax payers (instead of businesses)

My assertion that in any capitalism driven society (no matter the quality of education) you will have a non-trival size of the population not capable of fulfilling job demand and achieving minimum viable salary for survival.

At the end of the day we have 3 options for these people:

1) Do nothing. This creates tax burden to combat crime as people get desperate to satisfy basic needs like food and shelter. It also is pretty crappy thing to do to our fellow man.

2) Subsidize them through programs like welfare. Helps but hurts middle class workers disproportionately and doesn't produce labor.

3) Create and enforce a livable minimum wage. Helps in the short-term (until goods/services prices are inflated adjust to this minimum) and produces labor that arguably has some value. Not perfect because it further decentivizes job creation and increases R&D for automation. Also, it is just a quick fix and needs to be constantly raised.

Minimum wage is clearly not a perfect solution but I'm not sure we have a better one yet within the framework of government regulated capitalism.
At my company we switched to a 0 sick day policy. Within 3 months we were back to the allotted 1 week of sick days.

It turns out we quintupled the number of sick days for the same period as the year before. Draw your own conclusion, but I say workers cannot be trusted to manage this themselves.

It might work in a shop of 5 - 20 folks but at we are and over 10 times that, it is untenable.
"But from a whole datacenter perspective, I believe having servers with more cores is more efficient than having more servers with fewer cores, since data travels faster between more of the cores."

How are you looking at this?

From limited CompE background, my understanding was that moving data around core -> core burned a significant amount of power, even on the same die. (Using the comparison of one core vs two equally performing but separate cores)
Google launches 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows
It's one of those things where you don't know what you're missing until you try it.
Interestingly enough, his comments are closed, so I'll have to post my thoughts here :)

I have more than once turned a satisfying HN comment of mine into a high quality blog post. I like writing HN comments because they give me a chance to field my thoughts and I force myself to keep them relatively short. It's like explaining a bug in a program to a rubber ducky in the hopes that getting your thoughts out of your own head will make things clearer.

That being said I do stick primarily to the subcommunity within HN that discusses mathematical things. The last thing I want to read about is Microsoft or Apple. And the type of people who read HN are also coincidentally the primary audience of my blog (though not by intention; I never knew about HN before my blog ended up on the front page).
It looks like all (or at least most) of his submissions are.
The SSL industry is so broken...
If the information is covered under HIPAA Apple will have to be compliant with US federal regulations regarding the security of personal health data. They can't just willy-nilly make the data available to whomever they want. I'm not sure what the equivalents are in other countries, but the US keeps ratcheting up the fines for people who don't comply. Also, all the hospitals whose logos were shown aren't going to allow themselves to be parties to violations of people's privacy.
"Considerably longer than the anticipated heat death of the universe."

Better?
90% white males — what an outrage! :p
Because unlike Scandinavia, they aren't dying civilizations with net negative fertility.
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Don't worry. HN goes in cycles. Soon we will re-enter a three-week period where everyone only posts "ABCD in X lines of javascript" and "JSJSJS.js, a new and totally-not-superfluous framework"
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Agree. While Obj-C is one of the ugliest language, the main problem was/is API/SDK.
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I prefer having my children live to old age because of vaccines and farms. I prefer worrying about my weight rather than where my next meal will come from. I prefer being able to communicate with people around the world at the speed of light rather than the folks in my village. I prefer hot and cold running (and clean) water.

And I can still gaze in rapture upon the rocky sphere held in the sky by chains of gravitation.
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Twitter’s new typeface neglects the countries where it’s growing the fastest
There's always the fear of unilaterally disarming: "I am going to vote based on skill, not based on Which Side the person is on. . . . Oh, but everyone else is voting based on Which Side! Now I have to help My Side!"

It's very common to see the Written Rule be "vote based on skill, not viewpoint" and the Practiced Rule be the opposite, with occasional weak exhortations from the mods to follow the Written Rule which may never have been followed.

I do not know how to fix this or if it is fixable.
Yep.

You go: "What time is dinner?". "8 PM". "OK" (shows up 8:30-9)

You go: "What time is dinner?". "8 PM. Please try to be punctual I have stuff to do in the morning". "OK" (shows up 8:15-8:30)

More or less the same thing happens at universities (at least that I know). Lectures are at full hours, but start at 15 past and last 45 minutes. That means that you have time to move from building to building and/or take a break.

Sometimes you'll see graduate seminars with the mention (sharp!!) next to the time, it means that since PhD students don't have many lectures, the seminar can start at full hours, because they probably have nothing to do just before that.

Obviously punctuality depends on the context, ranging from 15 minutes late for university, to 30-60 for concerts or dinners, to some crazy stuff for clubbing (free entry before midnight to try to get someone in early, even though the DJ is supposed to start at 10PM).
> My approach is that something I haven't tried before is worth trying, especially if it's a 'common' thing. But at the same time I feel doing so because it's a 'common' thing is not the best of motivations.

I agree and am certainly open to being in a relationship if I find someone that I am interested in. The biggest barrier to entry for me has been finding people that I like honestly. I actually have difficulty conceptualizing what it means to "like" someone (although I assume the feeling is significantly different from friendship and exponentially 'more pleasurable' than friendship).

> I learned a tremendous amount from them, and there were a lot of benefits I didn't really understand before.

Would you mind elaborating?
> you’re told exactly where to be and when

Um, no. This is not universally required. I once answered an email about an impromptu afternoon meeting from a beach in Mexico - a quick phone call sorted out the one pressing detail, and the meeting was just rescheduled.

We work in a pretty great industry, so might as well optimize for it.
The best hack for this is to text 5 minutes before and update them that you'll be there in 20. They know they have breathing room, you aren't keeping them waiting, and you aren't technically late.
For anyone running into the DB connection error and the page not loading:

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"Having to work in the weekends at all is a sign of bad project management"

Technology is easy, people are hard.
>> You need people that challenge you in ways you don't like or you really won't grow or experience life.

This was my exact reaction. Instead of using 500 words to describe how he's shutting people out and cutting out the distractions, he could have just said, "I'm just taking the easy road from now on."

Without challenges and push back on your ideas, what keeps you grounded in reality? If I took his advice it would be like living in my own self imposed world of rainbows and unicorns.

We can all escape reality in your own little ways, but people should tread lightly when trying to avoid it altogether.
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> They are also frequently chosen because they mean employers don't need to cut employees a check for vacation time not taken when they leave.

Ding ding ding! This is a big reason that doesn't occur to most people but saves the employer stacks of money.
At first sight I really thought it was somehow related to Apple..
The global right to healthcare
I'm guessing that these "limits" actually are just marketing-speak that refer to a couple of things that are more suited to smaller/medium sized sizes:

- Warranty amount ($10k on the PositiveSSL certificate)

- Single domain

- Only domain validation

Larger e-commerce stores may need wildcard or multiple domain certificates, a higher warranty amount, organization, or extended validation (the green bar in the address bar). There isn't any inherent limitation to bandwidth or traffic with these certificates.
I write, meditate, and walk. Each has its role; there is a time for each. Why are we so critical of the way the author chooses to spend his time?
I think it speaks more to the author's prowess, not to the fantastic magic powers of Apple's latest walled garden.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but until we stop humblebragging about not taking vacation the problem of equating hours to output won't go away. Not that it's even intentional, it's just the cultural norm lately to give lip service to the idea that overworking is a bad thing but I don't see evidence that most of us mean it... it's all "Gosh, I'm the worst, I never take time off."
It could be argued that this is very much "politics" and does not belong on Hacker News, as per the guidelines.
Hackers can be either white hats or black hats (or something in between: grey hats). The moral ambiguity is part of what makes the appellation interesting.

This whole attempt to make "cracker" happen feels like a bunch of people desperate to call themselves "Hackers" and feel cool, but without scaring off boring BigCorp employers.
You're taught that ethics mortality legality are someone else's job to worry about.

People tend to adapt their personal set of ethics to suit the things that pay them. See almost every website that runs advertizements, and/or sells user's data.

Plus all the legal and financial risk.
Wonder what the implications are for the other companies/altcoins that go the IPO route. There are a number of well-known companies in the space that IPO without registering with the SEC, most recently MaidSafe [1] from the SAFE network that got a lot of publicity but no questions asked about the IPO (except boasting in their press release that they raised $5 million in the first 5 hours [2])
[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/these-guys-are-creating-a-new...
[2]: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptocurrency-news-round-dogecoin-...
I wrote something similar while I was writing my diploma thesis, albeit not that visual. For me it was handy to see whether I was making any progress, so I regularly updated a CSV file with the current number of pages, lines, words, figures, code lines, and code comments. The idea was that on every day I did something I could at least look at the data and see how much (also the script automatically adjusted page, line and word count for the appendix which I didn't want to count).
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You should always use double opt-in. There's really no reason to not use it. Your open rates and click throughs will be much higher and you will get far fewer people flagging it as spam.
> Given how Tahr has rolled out, we suspect most development effort was put into the mobile platform and a close integration of MaaS with the cloud in a box.

You're incorrect about that, but the MAAS team did suffer some short staffing last year that left us behind the curve. We've now increased the number of people working on MAAS, which is what allowed us to get large chunks of work – like integrating CloudBase's work for allowing MAAS to provision Windows machines – relatively quickly.
The DEA eventually got upset with him and took away that license, raided his house, and ruined his lab. In the end, they closed him down based on a single reading of slightly elevated mercury levels in his yard. Read his books.
Having read through the documents, I see that it is capable of ~200 GFLOPS. Obviously, this outshines my macbook performance of ~50GFLOPS, but it is substantially less than my workstations GPU, an Nvidia GTX 770, capable of ~3000 GFLOPS.

I suppose my question is why would I choose to build something like this over using a GPU?
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Also, if you read the Namecheap promotion page, they explain that they are donating $0.5 to Fight for the Future for every purchased certificate.

Yes, but you can donate almost 4x that with the money you save. It's hardly a reason to choose Namecheap.

I always found those "$x from your purchase will be donated" annoying. How about you let me keep my $0.5 and I'll donate it to whoever I want? I might not even want to support the organization they chose!
Yes more time won't make you world class, but I bet the world class ballet dancer and basketball players often put in more than 8 hours a day.
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It's not even an extra parameter, it's just an the wildcard domain prefix .* within the DN to set. Wildcard SSL certs are THE rip-off...
I prefer to call it "unmetered" vacation, not "unlimited".

I've been working with "unmetered" vacation for 3 years now and I've taken more time off than I ever did when I was earning 30 days a year of PTO.
This is not even remotely similar to that situation. Obj-C is far more important & integrated than I think you realize.
> This is not anticipated to pose a problem, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the Earth.

That's management speak right there. It's assumptions like this that will surely have future colonial developers cursing their earthbound predecessors.
If the market works, then the worker should get gains too. However, these examples were of reducing total hours worked and presumably also reducing total productivity to some degree.
I've worked in the US and Canada for 20 years. I've never really cancelled a vacation, though at the senior level I've made a choice to delay one. It was a personal choice, however. Sure, it was for the greater good of the project, but no one pressured me.

In knowledge and creative work I find that if you take 4-5 weeks off a year (I've only done this once) work can bleed in to "off time" and it doesn't matter. When you take 2-3 weeks off a year you have to protect your personal time.
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> We're not talking about imposing a 2pm meeting... we're talking about two people who agreed to a 2pm meeting. (Imposition is something else entirely.)

On the face of it, I agree. However, I think this whole thread is neglecting an important dimension by only mentioning "the" time of the meeting. No one ever expects a person to arrive at the exact instant of the scheduled event. There's an interval implied by "the" time, and it's quite possible that the difference here is in cultural expectations regarding the size of the interval or its placement relative to the stated time (US Military culture, for example, seems to have an implied tolerance of -5 min / +0 min).

It may even be the case that your hypothetical second party thinks the first is a bit quirky for insistently describing the meeting as occurring at a particular time, when it is "obvious" to them that what is meant is "we'll meet this afternoon".

Edit: moving scare quotes ("the time" -> "the" time)
No now should pin there hopes on a miracle...  
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To shed some light on the practice of using `let` vs. `var`, an excerpt from the book by Apple:

“If a stored value in your code is not going to change, always declare it as a constant with the let keyword. Use variables only for storing values that need to be able to change.”

Excerpt From: Apple Inc. “The Swift Programming Language.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/jEUH0.l
Amazon does not have a 'baremetal' instance type.

OpenStack 'can', but in practice the baremetal nova driver[0] has many issues, and the newer OpenStack Ironic Project[1] is not yet ready for production workloads.

Additionally, both baremetal and OpenStack Ironic have a focus on 'triple-O', or OpenStack on OpenStack[2] use cases -- that is using these projects to bootstrap an 'undercloud', for the hardware to be used by a higher level virtualized cloud.

[0] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal

[1] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic

[2] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO
Totally agreed. Are you serious about letting people take vacation? Give 6 weeks paid vacation per year. It's not that hard: six weeks is more than "unlimited" would practically turn out to be, and it's well-defined enough that there's no guilt or anxiety about whether someone's abusing the privilege, and it's low enough that you get roughly a year's work out of the person anyway.
Yep. It saves them money and in most environments no one takes off significantly more time than they would otherwise.
You've reinvented what we used to call dedicated servers. There is nothing new under the sun.

Might as well call it physicalization. :)
Hey, thank you for developing it!

There were a lot of cool working parts such as the Juju-gui and the way that nodes could be tagged for different charms. Though the way that charms deployed at the command line sometimes didn't appear in the gui vexed us.

I like the idea of MaaS on the cloud in a box. A plug and play cloud has its uses though TechOps time is at a premium and rebuilding the stack unlikely.

We ended up investing more time instead into Jenkins and gave up on the distributed computing issue by using 64 core, 512GB RAM servers.
There are two points I want to address here: first, let's be clear that if you commit a crime just because somebody asks you to, it's probably better if the police have you on their radar.

Second: Let's not forget what you were originally complaining about. "The fact that they were setting a trap for him" is what you said.

But it's not really the same sort of trap, is it? In one scenario, you think the police are tricking somebody into committing a crime, so they can be arrested. Sure, that's a valid and interesting discussion to have. But in the other scenario, you're complaining that somebody who has ALREADY committed a crime, and confessed to it on the phone, with no duress, is being tricked into being arrested. That's a very different situation, and I'd be very interested to know why you think that this situation in particular is objectionable. The kid committed a crime; he confessed to it freely. The police got busy catching him; isn't that exactly what you think they should be doing? He's not an innocent person being tricked into a criminal act.
If you have metered vacation days but unlimited sick days, of course that is going to happen. You have to unmeter both or it doesn't work.
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Having a flexible system is great, but what speaks louder than the corporate policy is the corporate culture. Unless you have a culture of people taking vacation days, then an unlimited vacation policy will degenerate into a tacit understanding that nobody is free to take time off.

At my previous employer, we had a four week vacation policy, and everybody took their four weeks, and the more senior people made a point of it. To a great degree, this culture has to be instilled from the top. If the guy with the corner office isn't taking his vacation days, nobody will feel comfortable doing so.
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You know, her anger was bullshit.

First off, the word inalienable means:
"unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor."

Secondly, no shit, Earth came up with the idea of rights for humans well before space travel. So did other planets in the Federation. Checkov basically said, 'these rights we believe we all have, we believe we all have regardless of species.' Had we been talking to a Orion, he would have talked about Orion Rights. But, no, she just wanted to be angry.

And thirdly, "The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club" is demonstrably false as the Federation was made up of many member races and earth was only one of several founding races.
n.b. I wasn't very clear in my comment; my experience was on the original Niagara 1 & 2, this was about 7-8 years ago, I'd guess. Hopefully things have improved since :)
Thanks for the upload. I often wondered what really happened and this gets closer to the truth. Western media might be downplaying the events of June 4, 1989 because it hits too close to home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ePH-1B2-gc
I've worked at a shop with 'unlimited time off'. Do you know how much time off I took in the 5 months I was there? 2 hours. That made me the slacker, as the only non-management developer to take any at all.

Focusing on 'what needs to be accomplished' is a great idea, in theory. But in practice, only management has any reasonable way to compare how much people are actually getting done. Those being managed cannot take any time off without at every step wondering 'Am I taking too much time off? Did I get everything done they wanted done?'

I have no doubt that it's possible to create a culture in which unlimited vacation time can work well, but the rule is not the solution, and the culture would work with or without it.
So most of the victims from Rodgers killings were Asian men, and a WHITE WOMAN makes this ALL ABOUT HER, while ignoring Rodger's racist rants. She needs to check her own privilege.
I never understood the thing with the warranty at all. Isn't it just a marketing gag? Or has anyone ever been able to claim the money from a CA for whatever reason?
Catholicism started as a counter reform to Marcionism, including the Torah again in the Bible and rejecting some Gnostic concepts still prevalent in Paulism.

This was at least a century (the dating is not precise) before Saint Patrick converted Ireland to Christianism, and specially, many centuries before the creation of Church of England.

I don't see what part of my observation about 21 century Ireland made you think that I presupposed the Church of England was older. That part of history is even on TV (The Tudors).
I used an Ubuntu certified desktop (well, laptop) and things did not just work (TM). It generally failed to recognise my second monitor unless I opened the system settings, then closed it. It also failed to recover from sleep on a regular basis and got terrible battery life. Needless to say, I ditched Ubuntu. I think it's junk, to be quite honest.

I'm using Crunchbang on that laptop now and it's mostly better.
Oddly on my Mac I have to rely on wine ports or similar to run some games I used to be able to run until OS X dropped support for the older setup; I think rosetta did the emulation prior
Hi! I am a CDO at TrackDuck. Very strange problem, what browser/os you use? From what domain you got ssl alert?
I respectfully disagree on the reasoning for keeping these drugs illegal. The most likely motivation is as a tool for population control -- look at who was targeted in making cannabis illegal and then how Nixon used the War on Drugs as a weapon against those hippie anti-war activists.

With significant brainwashing, many people today fear these drugs as directly dangerous, not as a mind opening tool.

Try asking people if they think LSD should be legal -- I bet a majority will say no.

I myself think that all drugs should be legal.