skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the project lead is one of the creators of LLVM (arguably the most fundamental low-level project in Apple after actual kernels), this sort of scenario is improbable.

Much more probable is that somebody asked top-developer Lattner for "a simpler language to compete with Java/Dalvik and C# with more casual developers" and he came up with Swift. The name itself is a message: "this thing is quick - quick to learn and quick to run, unlike VM-based stuff that must translate to Obj-C (fast to learn, slow to run) or Obj-C itself (fast to run, slow to learn)".
iPhone apps need to be more webscale and NoSQL compliant too. And what about event based? (Hmm...)
I wish newegg would bait this guy with a pi-themed sale or event.
The Handoff feature is interesting. I hope its not just some lame cloud sync that takes ages to sync because your 3G/wifi is spotty. For e.g. If I was writing an email in Mail.app I'd want to be able to shut my mac and resume writing on my iphone exactly where I left off. Same with Safari and other shared apps.
You could always write this yourself with a macro:

macro_rules! if_let {
($p:pat = $init:expr in $e:expr) => {
{ match $init { $p => $e,_ => {}, } }
}
}

fn main() {
let tup = (2, 3);
if_let!{(2, x) = tup in println!("x={}", x)}; // prints x=3
if_let!{(5, x) = tup in println!("x={}", x)}; // doesn't print
}

It's slightly more heavyweight, but still not too bad.
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How Caller ID Works
This stood out to me:

>The Swedish town of Kiruna actually gave up its six-hour working days in 2005 after finding that the increased intensity of work was not a positive. "People have seen there that the intensity of the job increases significantly, with negative effects on health as a consequence,"

Could that be because we are used to fit our work in 8 hours and work accordingly? Doing 100% of your work in 75% of the time does sound more intense.

It might be interesting to see how the stress changes as people get used to a 6h day.
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> A councillor who supported the push said the vote "sends a message heard around the world".

Probably the most important aspect here. Don't get ripped off.
How pair programming works
How India’s WebKul earned $1 million in revenue with no funding
And yet i can still use emacs erc & bitlebe to talk to people over hangouts
At worst, this is a great experiment. This will likely cause a substantial enough gap in pay between Seattle and another similar city that we can analyze the benefits and consequences of artificially increasing min wage.
Isn't this part of the new iOS8?

If so, I think I recall seeing the screen which models are eligible and I think the 4S was the first on the screen. Going up all the way to the 5S.

So, I think everything before and including the iPhone 4 will be left out?
As we move from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, it becomes more about managing our energy as individuals, not how many hours we're putting on the clock

Tony Schwarz's "Leading at Google" talk on this topic is excellent - http://youtu.be/tke6X2eME3c
I saw somewhere else today that someone tried it and it crashed the compiler, so I guess not. The string "recur" doesn't even occure once in the iBook. It seem though that you might be able to use a combination of objects and enums to get that.
And once again the Netherlands shows up on the bottom of that list, so I'll say it once more: we have a high participation of women in the work force, but most of those only work part-time, often in stereotypically "women's jobs" (receptionist, secretary, kindergarten).

Makes the stats look much more progressive than reality, even though 32/36 hour work weeks are common.
Well I'm disappointed to not see a bunch more people promoting their local tech hubs, dev communities and such if they have them.
Zambia has the people over at -> http://bongohive.co.zm and a few more that aren't involved with that hub.

I know I have many "dark matter" programmers as friends. A lot of Africa in my experience as tribaal pointed out has a great many hurdles that need to be overcome in order to be a programmer. For example I have to pay the same price he does for internet access, US$60 and it's only a 512k line. Worse, service has been so bad lately I'm lucky to have more than an hour of stable uptime at a time at an average of 10kb/s.
They are all of the Photobucket web site's third-party javascript dependencies, along with a huge list of external js loaded by just one of those dependencies.
I never heard of Black Wireless, but the fact that they're selling a bogus "radiation blocker" thing makes me instantly dislike them.
A minimum wage would stop companies indirectly sucking the 'welfare-tit', where their employees are forced to have welfare/food stamps in order to just survive. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/30/mcdonal...
Seems like all rail cars need a cyclical version of this, an elbow that can be lowered, and with a circular crank, be wedged and turned to produce forward motion.

Or a wind-up where a spinning lever could compound effort onto an axle and drive the car forward...
Yep. For those keeping track, swift-lang.org and the article Colin posted in the above comment are about one language, the OP is about a totally different language, and of course the more famous Swift is completely unrelated to either.
Calling anyone versed in C in Visual Studio 2013 (C99-ish) to help with https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/696. I started the issue, but have no idea what I'm doing.
DDG isn't just Bing, though I'm not sure how much of its results are based on that: https://duck.co/help/results/sources

"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over one hundred sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, which are stored in our own index), Yahoo! (through BOSS), Yandex, WolframAlpha, Yelp, and Bing."

I also don't see "we don't track" as a liability, given that Google themselves get relatively little by way of relevance from profiling (though it may contribute to ad sales). Rather (and this is straight from a Google engineer): "It's really hard to do much better in search advertising than current query + location."

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/HFT1emeF...

So: DDG gain a niche, possibly a large one, influence the marketplace, and lose very little in ad placement relevance.
Nope, not that Swift either. This is another one.
Should it act against information asymmetry? That's intervention too, and required for capitalism to work.

Is it required? Why?
JSCS: better JavaScript code style checker
> Btw, do SSDs make any significant difference for desktops nowadays? I mean, I power up my PC once in a day.

Depends on your workload.

Mine now frequently involves accessing far more data than will fit into RAM, and thus will fit into the filesystem cache. There are only two options: This either flushes useful data out of the cache, or fails to enter cache in the first place. Either way, I'm going to be hitting either slow to seek spinning platters, or a fast random access SSD, even with a perfect oracle for an OS caching algorithm. Sadly, current OSes seem to be lacking even that.

> Also, as I'm aware it doesn't really help much with compilation performance.

Friends have seen compilation times approximately halve, even without a RAM busting workset (yes, they timed it.) I've personally seen similarly extreme performance gains in compilation, again even without a RAM busting workset. I've seen even better gains for those worksets that do bust RAM, especially if extremely IO bound.

YMMV, but I do not buy or build computers unless I can put a sufficiently large SSD into it anymore. I define "sufficiently large" to include my OS, my tools (IDEs, SDKs, etc.), and a couple of active projects to fit onto. Everything stays snappy. I bought an 80GB back when they were $500, about twice the cost of any other component in any of my computers then or since (ignoring more SSDs), and still consider it money well spent.

I recently bought a laptop - priorities, in order, were: Must have an SSD, should have extremely high resolution (ended up with 1800p, not 1080p), and only after that did I even bother to check if the machine had at least a decent amount of RAM, and a not entirely terrible CPU. It doesn't even have a dedicated GPU, just the little Intel that can do D3D11 at horrifically low framerates. (This despite using Direct3D SDKs both professionally and for play.)
Is there such a thing as a non-"artificial" minimum wage increase?
The series to me keeps seeming increasingly prescient as much as it is inaccurate. He hung around a lot of froods and was able to capture a little bit of the subtle underside of tech in society.
It sounds like the real "nerdy" way to do things. Start with an exiting product, everybody is psyched cause it is new and everyone is giving 100%. First version is out and now, somehow the hype and enthusiasm is gone cause it is no long the "new thing". Refining it seems rather tedious and boring compared to just starting with a new and exciting product.

God knows I suffer from that. The beginning of something new is always awesome but as time progresses and the "new" feeling vanishes I find it harder and harder to keep working on it.
I hope we start seeing more things like this, especially in the US. Does 6 hours a day maximize happiness / productivity? I don't know. Does 8 hours? It's the custom, but I don't know. I think it's almost impossible that 8 hours is the best number across every industry => vertical => company. I'd love to see more experimentation
Crashdumper – A cross-platform automated crash report generator for Haxe/OpenFL
I don't know what your budget is, but I found that the ASRock E3C226D2I Mini ITX "Server Motherboard" fit my needs well. Being an LGA 1150 board, it seems to support the i7-4770k CPU you mentioned and is about $100 more than your comparable setup.

It has 2 USB 3.0 ports, supports up to 16GiB of RAM, and has 6 SATA 6Gb/s ports, so I think it would also work well for a workstation board, if you added a video/audio card -- HDMI out is the only glaring omission for a workstation.

I'm using it in my FreeNAS fileserver and have been happy with it.
It appears that this bitcoin wallet app, which the developer previously announced was being removed by Apple, was quietly reinstated in the iTunes store sometime recently.

(I only say "appears" because it's hard to know if and when it was removed.) Anyway, the app's features do now include 'Send and receive payments'

https://blog.coinjar.com/2014/01/09/coinjar-wallet-to-be-rem...

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/coinjar-for-iphone/id7252098...
Yes, exactly, but working on anything on the window, on not just the title/status bar.
I could replace it with DuckDuckGo except it's not blocked. Maybe I should replace it with Facebook or Twitter, yeah?
If you use Firefox on android, like me, you can add DDG as your default search engine, as I just did after reading your comment.
More to the point: where the early search engines were placing paid results directly into SERPs, Google has pretty much always distinguished its search results from advertising. Not always with crystal clarity, but reasonably well.

This from a critic.
Tumblr is an interesting case of optimizing for content creator experience and seriously neglecting many blatant issues with content consumer experience
People are reluctant to recognize the racism against white people. Maybe it will change with the time.
In Australia our minimum wage is $16.37 and $20.30 for casual work (no fixed hours). I think the gap to the usa minimum wages has generally narrowed over the last decade or so. The other side is that tipping in most forms is rare. Maybe a little less so now though
How soon we forget OpenSocial? Which MySpace was a big proponent of? (I guess not quite "distributed", but definitely "federated"; I definitely think it was in the spirit of your comment.)
Indeed, this is an LXC attack, rather than docker-specific.

But, that said, the attack works as specified against docker 0.11.0. Largely because guests do have sysfs mounted at /sys.
I agree open sourcing this would be the logical move and maybe even open up its usage outside the iOS/OS X ecosystem long term, which would be in the best interests of Apple, but it's not ready for production use yet - from their announcement page:

And when iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are released this fall, you can submit apps that use Swift to the App Store and Mac App Store.

This is intended as a beta, and they won't even allow you to use it in production yet, even if you wanted to, so you can expect some small changes to the language spec as they refine it. Typically the xcode betas can't be used to submit, and Apple have released other projects closed source before open sourcing them (for example webkit).

It's interesting that they're moving development on both platforms to this new language. I wonder when we'll see a unified API?
>The TGV was the basis of the Spanish AVE

Well, the AVE 103 is based on the Velaro platform which most certainly has powered axles on every car, as you would expect from a German train. The same goes for the Russian Sapsan, the Chinese CRH3 and the German ICE3
"Protocols get to play double duty as either concrete types (in which case they denote a reference type you can acquire with as from any supporting type) and as type constraints on type parameters in generic code. This is a delightful convenience Rust stumbled into when designing its trait system and I'm glad to see other languages picking it up. I'm sure it has precedent elsewhere." - C# again.

PS: Apple says "Swift is an innovative new programming language"! Just like everything else they do lately!
One of the Swift developers is a former F# dev:

https://twitter.com/jopamer

The language seems more closer to F# than C# to me. It's all good though!
Thanks for your effort. It seems like duckduckgo is blocked according to the test: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=duckduckgo.com But if it is indeed accessible then do not bother accessing google search.
Blocked by the authority is annoying but under the surveillance of the authority is also sick. Do not lead the Chinese netizen into another villain's hand, thx!
RCMP shuts down servers in Russian cyber-crime crackdown
I've been using DDG for quite a while now, and I've noticed in the last few weeks or months that their search results have gotten much better. Before I'd have to use !g on most of my queries, but now it's much more of a rarity.
> In my opinion, having that as a language rule will probably force people to design their classes to have things set at initialization more often than not.

Good point. There are some interesting work in javascript, like Om, to mainly use immutable objects, it could go in the same direction.
I thought the same thing at first.

But to analyze it as an experiment, you really need to determine some objective criteria for success and failure. Each individual may have different criteria, but it's important to come up with the criteria first and then compare them to the results later.

Even then, it's unlikely to change many minds. With the economy, it's too easy to find some exceptional event that you can blame for the results not matching your prediction.

I think we just have to accept that science can't answer everything, and the economy is probably one of those things that can't be answered.
Meanwhile in Paris, a ‘haut gamme’ connected hardware retail launches
I'd rather go to 4 days a week. One less commute.
>A place where anyone can search programmers based on say, community, programming language, project interests, gender, age brackets etc

gender? really?
Yes, there is. If market forces drive wages up, that's a non-artificial wage increase. Just like any other commodity, when labor is in high demand (or in low supply), the price goes up.
If someone gave me the chance of a 30-hour work week, I would rather work 4 days of 7,5 hours than 5 days of 6 hours. Just the hassle of getting up early, dressing up for work, commuting etc. isn't really worth it when I'm only going to work 6 hours anyway. I'd rather take an extra day off.
No, F# runs everywhere C# does - you don't need a PC.
It reminds me of Go in what it omits from C. There are similarities. Go feels like a mix between python and C.

I haven't gotten to Swift in a deep enough way, but it looks like it tried to tackle the same problems with the exception of concurrency. There are differences such as classes and generics in Swift. There are also similarities such as functions as first class citizens (or so it appears so from the closures section of the free book).

All in all, it reminds me of Go just a bit. It doesn't remind me of all of those other languages that I do not know.
Even electric engines would benefit from gears. Thats because engine _power_ is higher at higher engine angular velocity

power = torque * angular velocity
so
torque = power / angular velocity
I work for six hours a day. It fits very nicely into a 7.5 to 8 hour work day with enough rest time to get a proper six hours out.

I find that knowingly working only six hours lets me take better breaks because I don't feel like I'm supposed to be working eight hours.
Evidently Seattle businesses are very productive and able to readily achieve profits over and above the $600+ a week (8h/d) cost of employing someone ( "+" means that I don't know what the overhead costs are). Rather tough on those whose energy and skills do not warrant employing them at that rate. The alternative for borderline businesses is to find ways of not employing anyone at all.
In FPMs (or FPHs if the code is in acceptable condition).

Other coders user SPM/SPH but it is essentially the same thing.
8 hours for work, 8 for leisure, 8 for sleep and 2 rest days a week seems reasonable, at least mathematically speaking. If it were up to me, I'd include commuting time in those 8 work hours as well, making the number no more than 7 hours.
The OP asked for a non-artificial minimum wage increase. Not a simple "wage" increase. There is nothing non-artificial about a minimum wage, nor it's increase counterpart.
Is it just me, or do these tests seem more heavily weighted towards C compiled to JS than most other suites? Emscripten tests seem to make up 1/4 of the suite. That's a good exercise for FTLJIT, but emscripten code is rather atypical for the majority of web apps and isn't idiomatic JS.
30 here. Just for the purpose of stats and to give some idea of who is writing this since it's a throwaway and I'm not willing to link to my social profiles (you'll just have to trust me), I have always gotten quite a bit of female attention, even more now as age has done me well I'd say. I get quite a few "first messages" (they initiated conversation) from attractive women on certain dating sites.

With that out of the way, I'm also a "traditional virgin" at the moment. I say that because there's more than one sex act, and therefore more than one kind of virginity. The why for me has nothing to do with looks or personality, it's more a combination of not wanting to be too close with certain girls/women I was seeing when I was younger, life circumstances, etc.

I also don't see sex as a casual thing, it's very much a relationship intimacy thing for me, emotionally. I also don't see virginity as something to "get rid of" as fast as possible, so I simply haven't worried about it all that much.

I don't fit the "unattractive, awkward virgin" category even a little bit, so perhaps I can offer some experience on what the women I've dated actually think about being a virgin at this age when the other factors are removed.

The women I've been seeing and dating recently have varied opinions about it, as you'd expect.

One woman had a very negative opinion of anyone who was still a virgin beyond their mid 20s (even her female friends). We knew each other very well so I can say that she was looking for experience, did not want to have to "train" someone, etc. I had to stop seeing her for other reasons (read: run) before this particular "I'm a virgin" conversation ever took place though. I imagine it would have gone poorly.

Another woman I'm actively seeing simply does not care about my being a virgin. At all. This isn't uncommon.

Another thinks it's "admirable" (I think partly because I told her the same thing I said in the 3rd paragraph). That reaction isn't too uncommon either in my experience.

In my experience (n = < 20), some women will care (a lot, and reject you for it), some won't. It isn't going to be a problem with everyone, and as long as you aren't clueless (educate yourself...) and don't think sex is exactly like porn, it will just be slightly awkward rather than a total nightmare for both of you.
why Bay Area cities wouldn't do that? How much pricier our coffee/burritos would get here so that we stop buying them thus making the minimum wage increase a "job killer"? I think even making it $30/hour people here would hardly notice it.
Mostly Moore's Law: costs of hardware keep falling. The initial Google search clusters were pretty small, a half dozen or so systems, though the Web was also a small fraction of its size.

The aspects of this I see being possible game-changers across the hosted SAAS space are of 1) autoconfiguring cheap systems, 2) better residential broadband, and 3) distributed tools which work very effectively even with tremendous decentralization.

On a per-user basis, the amount of compute resources allocated by even very large sites is relatively small. You can provision as much on your own. What providers do offer are engineering, robustness, reliability, and data redundancy.

Engineering can be provided through self-configuring systems -- a Debian base, set of packages, autoconfiguration, and a minimal set of things the user needs to worry about, and you're up and running. With SSD / flash drives, you buy yourself around much of the seek latency of spinning rust.

Robustness and reliability through a grid-provisioned service would ensure that the system as a whole is up even if individual nodes are offline. You'd also need some smarts against attacks, but if the system could communicate among nodes indicating what traffic is considered harmful it should be reasonably self-healing.

Data redundancy can be provided through sharding and replication schemes. Figuring out how to account for balance of data of a given node (if you want to load a lot you've got to offer a lot, and/or obtain credits somehow, perhaps through payment).

The one additional benefit DCs provide is for very rapid communications between nodes -- < 0.001s, sometimes better, latencies, rather than 0.01s - 0.1s between Internet sites (sometimes worse). This matters for multi-tier applications where web proxies, application engines, and databases need to talk to one another.

And if you do need some DC infrastructure, costs for that are falling (and capabilities increasing) such that much of it can be provided on a light budget (traffic costs are likely your biggest concern).

What I see is an erosion of the technological limitations which have made the present commercial model viable and/or necessary. Which suggests that it may be increasingly supplanted, especially for mature spaces.
Product Design, Behaviour Change and Design for Different Devices
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