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I didn't take the comment as bragging. At least I hope it wasn't meant that way. If the boss doesn't take vacations it makes the employees feel like they shouldn't take (many) either.
I think your thesis holds, but I don't think it's clear that your example does (though it certainly still could). Depending on just how much chance of accident goes up over time, and just how great a "productivity" hit we apply for an accident, it is absolutely the case that your productivity falls at some point and it's conceivably the case that it's before 12 (or even 8) hours - though for all I know it's at 15.
Fair enough.

I was totally convinced that Amazon had baremetal instances available, but now I cannot find anything, so that could probably be a figment of my imagination.
In every position I've been at, there was no payout for unused vacation time. This was allowed by (US) state law.

Of course, everyone would just take all their vacation and come back in and work for a day.
I'm very glad to learn that.
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If I want to make a comment on your website, and you have a form auto-checked that lets you send me spam, I have at least a choice, and it was something that, in your absence, I wouldn't automatically have a right to do.

Now the question arises: do I have a right to send things to your inbox? You certainly have created an interface with an API that I am obeying, but I've never liked treating APIs as legal constructs (although many of my fellow nerds wish it were so) so it doesn't necessarily follow.

There is one issue with lack of notification. I could say that anyone who goes on my property owes me $500,000 for the pleasure of being on my property. I could even send registered mail to every person on the country to inform them of this rule. I don't think walking on my property indicates agreement, because even if they read and internalized my mail they have no way of remembering.

I really don't know where I'm going with this.
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Here's some previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4702456

In terms of raw GFLOPS, you shouldn't.

Parallela offers something halfway between a multi-CPU cluster, differing in terms of memory access, and a GPU, differing in that each core is a real core and can be independently making calls, branching, etc.

Another point to note is that every GPU architecture is different and that some support a different degree of control flow parallelism vs. data parallelism.

Ultimately it depends on the kernel you're working with - if you're to a point where you've got strictly linear SIMD and you depend entirely on floating-point math throughput or memory bandwidth, it wouldn't make sense not to use a GPU instead.
> Supports almost full Python 3 syntax, including yield (compiles 99.99% of the Python 3 standard library).

What parts of Python 3 syntax are missing? Which parts of the library don't compile?
> Apple stole this design wholesale from GTK

This has been part of Finder and iTunes since at least 2006, at a point when it wasn't the norm for anything in GNOME2 that I can recall.
Depends on which side you are ;) I agree though, it's totally broken, but not only the industry, the whole SSL system is broken.
I built a toolkit to automate instrumentation and collection of line coverage data from unit/integration tests. It eliminated the need for an entire team's job (the one I had been managing). They were re-assigned and my client dropped me for someone half my rate. It was a great feeling to create that automation that directly saved money but a little bitter-sweet when robots replaced people's jobs, including mine :)
I'm kind of missing that either. Hope that cycle starts again.
They are registered in Scotland. Likely any American individual or company that doesn't register is liable to have the same thing happen to them.
I guess it is easier to program, I am only a simple web developer and i would be more productive programming on this than learning to use cuda.
Presumably your cofounder was inspired by the appstore logo which is the letter A made from a pencil & ruler......
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I think you're exactly correct, and "unlimited vacation" is almost always better for the company than the employee.

Here's a great essay on the ills of a policy like this: http://jacobian.org/writing/unlimited-vacation/

One of the main issues it that the US is one of the few (maybe only?) industrialized nation that doesn't require companies to offer PTO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...
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Any infrastructure that is of a size needing this will already have in-house tooling (Google/FB/Amazon/etc) and everybody else should be using public clouds anyway. Ubuntu is grasping for relevance.
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I can see one fan at the top of the cylinder- is only one fan really sufficient? It looks like this would generate a large amount of heat.

I would be quite interested to see the temperatures this gets up to.
It runs on the micropython board:
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I once spoke to a department head at a D.C. law firm known for its aggressive trial work. He mentioned he took his four weeks every year, including the whole time he was an associate. This is the kind of humble-brag I like to see. "I took my four weeks every year and still {got promoted, got funded, hit profitability, etc}."
there are more suited places to talk about things like this, but since the OP was talking about MDMA and mentions "countless substances" - this is quite a nice one

https://www.google.de/#q=shulgins+favourite+drug

although you could argue that synthesising and experimenting with unknown substances might have been his real favourite thing
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Apologies for positing a supposition without knowing the facts.

To be clear we are a great fan of Canonical's work and it's too easy complain about the few issues that praise them for the great work that is done every day on the Ubuntu platform.

The bleeding edge of Open Source technology is oft a perilous place to do business.
Genuine question: Have there been examples of socialist countries or unionized jobs where profit was made and shared among employees rather than taken either by private capital ownership or by the government?

At least as far as I know, there hasn't been a country-wide experiment with a setup like that, where employees actually have a self-motivated incentive to work harder. (Now that I think about it, that's really quite a terrible indictment of both socialism and capitalism as it's been tried so far!)

In a sense, early-phase startups are like that, and those seem to work quite well ;-)

The law-firm model is a bit like this as well, I suppose, and small boutique shops in creative fields.

Another example may be existing coops like Mondragon and many other smaller ones. Those are not in the headlines much, but they also seem to be doing well despite competition from firms that are run along more capitalist lines.
from the kickstarter page:

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Yep. cannot be used commercially. People forget that.
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Or how about you just get paid for hours worked? Like a contractor. You want holiday, sure take as much as you want and don't feel guilty.
This is ridiculous.

Vacation times aren't mandated in order to manage employees - they are are mandated in order to give them authority and to require their managers to manage around their employees vacation time. By providing the employees express, written authority to override their managers, they force vacation time to be addressed.

So, yes, this is kindergarten, and yes, be happy that the overall system is set up to mandate vacations. Otherwise, there will be no vacations.
Wow, I did not know that. That's nuts.

Although it sounds like he just violated the terms of the license: http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/shulgin_alexander/s...
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If they are raising money from American individuals (not Qualified Institutional Buyers) they would need to be registered with the SEC irrespective of where they are headquartered.

They might, at most, qualify as foreign private issuer, so they can file with the SEC in private, but I strongly doubt they did it.
http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/qasbsec.htm

Edit: For those asking why the American laws apply to this situation, it is because if you're raising money in America, American laws apply just like British laws would apply to Google if Google is doing business in Britain (or raising money there). If the company is registered in Scotland and raises money in Scotland, knock yourself out, the SEC doesn't care.
I really enjoy explaining this to people (especially Americans when I'm talking about how comparable my home country, Australia, is in terms of land mass to mainland USA).

Showing them Bucky Fuller's dymaxion map is always fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

http://www.genekeyes.com/FULLER/Internet-specimens/dymaxion....
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The Communist Party of China prohibits talking about Tiananmen(六四), they hope that the public especially the young in China never know about this.
Because they also know it is not an honorable thing but a great sin.
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It's discussed some here:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Differences

But I guess they are still in the process of writing that/filling it out.

The biggest difference listed is probably no Unicode. Another significant point is that lots of library functions are only partially implemented.
Almost every time I've talked to someone about reducing their working hours, the most serious reason not to has been something like "but everyone else is working 8 hours."

It's not like the "invisible hand" simply discovered the optimum life arrangement for all workers everywhere.
Why would this matter to them if they are based in Scotland?
Wouldn't it be quite hard to benchmark something like Parallela as it contains an FPGA/ARM/Their own multi-core chip.
Maybe someone with more familiarity can tell me how this differs from/expands on Cobbler?
It's on a state-by-state basis:

"Remember, states may have laws protecting employees who have accrued vacation time and corresponding pay."

http://www.legalzoom.com/business-law/employment-law/employm...
The project's website, from the linked post:

http://micropython.org

Apparently, there's a kickstarter for a dev board that runs this version of python. Looks interesting.
The 1st Amendment restricts the laws that Congress may pass. Corporations are (in most jurisdictions) formed as a privilege granted by law, and foreign corporations are licensed to operate by law.

Of course, that relies upon strict logic, when the justice system relies somewhat upon political expediency and kritarchic traditions.

If you believe that free speech is a basic human right, common to all natural persons, then any consequence of any speech, no matter how odious or damaging, is preferable to the consequence of attempting to alter or stifle the words before they are said. But the former can be seen, and the latter cannot.

We cannot know the value of speech left unsaid for fear of retaliation.

So while the U.S. foundation law does not explicitly protect freedom of speech from any entity other than the U.S. governments, its commercial codes and corporations laws do govern the behavior of incorporated businesses, so in theory, they should contain provisions for stripping away corporate privileges as punishment for engaging in behaviors denied to the government, or be considered unconstitutional otherwise.

Such arguments are not likely to go far in the courts, however. Quite a lot of judges own stock in at least one corporation.

If you say something I don't like, I can hold it against you personally, and I can direct my unincorporated businesses to do likewise. But I cannot direct a corporation's resources towards viewpoint-based discrimination, even if I own 100% of the voting stock.

The realpolitik is that so long as your business makes the proper political campaign contributions, major offenses become minor, and minor offenses are overlooked. Really, the common misunderstanding is that politicians pay more heed to the constitution than their own interests.
Absolutely this is the answer. The way this is normally handled is that vacation time accrues, then some portion of it rolls-over in the next working year. But there's a roll-over cap and expiration on those vacation hours (usually mid-summer or similar). And those rolled-over hours aren't eligible for payout if you leave.

In most places you can accumulate a tremendous amount of vacation days on your second year there, but you're pressured to use them before the expiration (or before you quit).

One place I worked also didn't recognize national holidays, they just gave you 11 extra vacation days in a separate pool. I ended up with something north of 6 weeks of vacation a year there, every year.
If you're building a startup that you hope might get acquired, it's worthwhile to establish and document a more traditional PTO plan. When a company is acquired, the hours that you've accrued are typically credited to your balance in the acquiring company's plan, so if you have zero accrued hours at the time of acquisition, you're going to end up with a zero balance post-acquisition, too.
> Because this is Cavium's niche and biggest asset, and all their customers are doing networking.

That's their current niche. They're trying to get out of that niche, as the article clearly shows. (Let's be clear here -- the article might be a PR fluff piece, but it hasn't been written in an ignorance of the position of Cavium in networking). If they try to market this stuff for general purpose servers, they need to have an answer to the problem of parallelizing general purpose workloads. I don't see why this is such an offensive thing to point out.

I work at a company making networking equipment (mainly for telecoms), targeting the 20Gbps range at the top end, with Xeons. We could scale much higher for trivial workloads like switching, but the bottleneck is in actual processing where the wimpy MIPS cores aren't particularly tempting. The offerings of companies like Cavium have really not looked compelling compared to standard Xeons during the last 4 years or so.

Maybe if we'd started before that, we'd have started with a network processor and would naturally stick to it. But many of the more established telecom suppliers we've interacted with are likewise doing significant amounts of stuff with Xeons (standard hardware, or ATCA blades at the most exotic end). The only Cavium card I remember anyone using was doing 10Gbps of traffic that was so trivial, that even the low-spec 1U Xeon server the card was installed in could have handled it with the proper userspace NIC drivers.
$120 if you want to use a business name. $60 for individual validation (that's a pain in the hind end) and $60 for business name (which involves handing over tax records and private information about business operators).
lol :D

I guess the thing that struck me about the perpetual motion line is how unintentionally(?) trollish it was. It invites debate. It would be better to omit it.

It's like a web form that asks your email address followed by "We never ever sell your personal information to anyone!!11!" It raises a question I wasn't even considering and now I'm not sure I trust it! http://goo.gl/PaXG5g
Consumers are heavily protected here too... Look up HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act. It's illegal to deny health care coverage to a person based on health status and a long list of other reasons, and your medical records are highly regulated and private. The daily meme of USA lacking consumer protection gets really old after a while.
It's a pretty big fan. Also, the cylindrical design certainly helps airflow
Given that it was token ring that might have isolated the AS/400 but the MAU would have healed the ring and everything would have been fine.
Wat? Cocoa is pretty great.
A few minutes later he's on Twitter advertising, and rabbiting on about Apples' new XXX. So the distractions remain.

I read it as a semi-aspirational piece, something not realisitically achievable but a target.
Things haven't changed I see.
There is also http://www.teknohama.or.tz/. Their events seem to be geared mostly toward beginners and not to people already in tech.
A lot of the events are organized at awkward times for someone with a 9-5, participants are also very young, I'm 31 and was probably the oldest at one of the Samsung events that was held at Kinu. This is not necessarily a bad thing though.
It's interesting, but not surprising. If you offer to sell securities to the U.S. public, and meet certain other requirements, you need to register with the SEC. It doesn't matter if you take payment for the stock in dollars or Bitcoin or cupcakes.
"Error establishing a database connection" *scnr
Yeah, unfortunately Mavericks is really bad

I'm back on 10.8.5 and not in a rush to upgrade again (because Mavericks crapped itself and I had to restore from Time Machine)
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I was just curious, why is 24 x 10000+1 = 107 x 2243 not prime? I was under the impression for any n, 24 x n + 1 is prime.
The leadership of the federation at that time was almost entirely human. And I don't agree about the term "human rights". What if everyone used the term "European rights" even when talking about people on every other continent? It would be very awkward.
I've always thought that FullContact[0] has a pretty nifty way of showing that yes, they really are serious about vacation time. In addition to having an "open" vacation policy like the one described in the OP, they also have what they call "PAID, paid vacation", which is where one time a year they pay you $7500 on top of your salary to take a vacation, as long as you promise to not do any work. Haven't seen anybody else with a policy like that, but I'd love to see it become a trend.

[1]: http://www.fullcontact.com/about/careers/
Robin Munro wrote a pretty much detailed take in 2009.

http://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-tiananmen-squar...
(too late to append to my previous message)

As someone that remembers the constant battle between AOL and third-party IM clients, I'll note that Google's handling of XMPP feels similar to AOL transitioning from TOC to OSCAR[1]. The parallels are there. They provide a way for third-party clients to connect to their service, but make sure it's never as fully-featured as the 'official' client which uses an entirely different protocol.

[1] The OSCAR protocol was more fully functional than the TOC protocol (e.g. 'buddy icons' didn't exist in TOC, nor the ability to directly connect and send images to a buddy), but AOL pointed to the TOC protocol when third-party IM clients wanted to connect to AOL's IM service. At one point, the OSCAR protocol would start doing things like requesting random binary chunks AOL's official IM client to assert that a third-party wasn't connecting to the service (i.e. working around this would mean distributing a copy of AOL's IM client, which allows AOL to sue).
Maybe Canonical should stick to their core...

...and focus on Linux on the Desktop... instead of trying to be an "Everything" company. Get the core down solid and making money, then expand into other markets.
The vile lie of social: that we're all 'connected' to one another, when we're really mostly just typing text back and forth. And most of that communication is noise, status-signaling, or self-promotional.

It's exhausting.

There's nothing normal about ingesting loads of human opinions on the most trivial facts several times a day.
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For the experience building it mainly I guess. The author also mentions machine learning and image processing. Doing multiple different tasks at once. Which I think is possible with the latest CUDA and Nvidia gear though.

It has 8 FPGAs on there too. Useful for highspeed IO and other tasks. Also, there are 8 HDMI outputs on there. Which would make this a pretty interesting video wall machine.

If it had the 64 core chips instead of the 16 core chips, this thing would be ~ 800 GFLOPS I guess.
> other languages don't have a similar barrier

Lisps have the RPN psychological barrier. Python has the significant whitespace psychological barrier. etc. Any language can present someone with some psychological barrier.

I think the OP's strongest point was, Objective-C the language is pretty trivial to learn quickly (after all, it's just C with message passing). You'll spend far longer trying to learn the Cocoa APIs than you will spend learning Objective-C-the-language.

For instance, I decided to try to learn swift and SpriteKit at the same time. I spent far longer looking up methods on SKSpriteNode than I did looking up language constructs. (i.e. I assumed "let" was the same as in ES6 and couldn't figure out why the compiler was mad.)
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I'd actually quite like to see a series of progressively enhanced images made in this way. Like 1 pic every second, take, the mode pixels; repeat for 10 pics, 100, 1000, ... might be interesting. There's probably a range across the number of images that ties with the busy-ness of an area to create some interesting visual effects? Like is there a point where an image starts to appear out of the noise, could that be an effective measurement technique (counting insects/cataloguing their level of activity?)?
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> Everything stops for food. Fast food of course exists in Korea. But no matter what's going on, how critical it is, or how behind everybody is, my experience is that Koreans will drop everything during meal time and take a remarkably relaxed view of meal-time.

This is actually a very healthy attitude. The best of both worlds would be to take your time with meals - there's really nothing wrong with having lunch and discussions with friends even for two hours - but plan accordingly. Don't schedule anything for two hours after lunch starts, and so on.
To be honest, Intel's AMT is a bit of a PITA, but the Orange Boxes were assembled to have some resemblance to real racks of hardware. So remote out of band power control is essential.

There's something quite magical about using Juju and MAAS on the Orange Boxes and seeing the LEDs light up as you scale out a service (e.g. juju add-unit -n 5 nova-compute).