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I think you have generally sensible, pragmatic views. However, please re-examine your stance on the House of Lords - while on paper, having an unelected body with their political power sounds like a oligarchical disaster, in practice not being beholden to tawdry party politics means they are consistently the sole voice of reason in an otherwise bonkers political climate. I trust the Lords more than any other government body to stand up for what's right. I would be loathe to swap that for another Commons.

(also re: Trident - "it will never get used" is a bad argument. It's a nuclear deterrent. It's being used right now.)
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Thank you - I've just installed this, and it's great!
I don't know of any companies that completely shut down. People take a fixed day off but it's a different day for everyone.

As you might conjecture this can lead to some friction where people only meet between Tuesday and Thursday. This leads to slight inefficiencies but in my experience these are small in well managed teams.
Is this an old presentation? Doesn't Go now start with 8KB stacks per goroutine, which is the same as OS level threads (which physically allocate 8KB from a larger virtual mapping)?

I thought the benefits of goroutines were now about more efficient scheduling, not lower memory utilization?
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"University of California, Berkeley study: Who Would be Affected by an Increase in Seattle’s Minimum Wage?" is a more comprehensive study on the empirical effects of raising minimum wage in nine other US localities.

http://murray.seattle.gov/minimumwage/#sthash.u0fx1kth.dpuf
Did you completely miss just how much DirectX locked games into the Windows platform?
Work from home for 1 day a week is pretty common in Netherland. I've had coworkers who were only in the office for three days a week because they had one day off and one work from home day.

Personally I've become less of a fan of working from home, because you see the people you work with less. Particularly the daily standup in Scrum emphasizes the problem with people working from other locations. But if you don't work in a team, working from home is a great option.

On socialism, Sweden is generally seen as a really nice mix between the good part of capitalism (free market), and the good parts of socialism (equality, workers' rights).
We'd have more luck just inventing and adopting a new word to replace hacker, any suggestions?
How exactly ?
The entire American tip culture seems very weird to me as a Frenchman, where it is always included as a fixed percentage in the price. It looks to me like every waiter becomes a beggar when it's time to pay. Some of them are outraged when you pay too little; other times someone leaves a huge tip because he liked the waitress and the other waiters feel bad. It's just an unfair lottery and it's always awkward anyway.

Even the logic of promoting good service seems useless. The manager could easily take care of that (it's kind of his job) and if for some rare reason I had a bad experience, I can voice my opinion and not come back.
Strategically it looks smarter to interoperate with Google here. Not doing so will probably lock Google out ofthe USA to some extent but it'll surely lock Apple out of anywhere Android dominate and scrap any growth ideas from emerging markets.
I guess Flappy Bird is now a tier 2 "hello world" :)
of course. the day a company, when faced with larger profits, decides "hey, let's give it all to our workers through an increase in pay" is when i'll believe the libertarians ;)

the determining factor for the amount someone is payed is not how much their company earns, and/or how much they contribute to that. for most workers it is simply - how easily can s/he be replaced? i.e. market price, mostly independent of how well an individual company is doing! no manager is going to pay workers more than s/he needs to, at least not without risking reduction in competitiveness, and for workers with low education, you can find replacements easy, particularly during economic downturns.
I wouldn't say that working from home is particularly common in the United States. It exists, but it's a very small minority of jobs. There are more if you include "occasional work-from-home": some companies will let you work from home one day a week, and come into the office the rest. The web-tech startup scene is probably the place fully working from home is most prevalent, and even there it's not a very large proportion of jobs.
Interesting… I've never really thought that the point of speaking is to get a message out to the maximum number of people — which seems to be the definition of effectiveness the OP is using (and on that scale I wonder why books are at the bottom too…)

Some of the reasons I speak at conferences:

* Before I started speaking at conferences I got a lot out of attending. Both in learning and networking. As corny as it sounds I like to give a little back to the communities that helped me when I was younger and less experienced.

* Not everybody learns the same way. I know that I've attended workshops and talks that have made clear topics that I've found opaque after reading books, blog posts, etc. People have told me that they've got more from one of my workshops than they have from hours of reading and unstructured practice. So while I might not be reaching the maximum number of potential listeners, I may well be reaching people that I would have otherwise missed.

* I reach people through different channels. The people attending a conference are not necessarily the same people who read blog posts, mailing lists, etc. If you're following a blog on X, then you're interested in X. Conference talks are an opportunity to reach people who maybe didn't even know X existed.

* I find presenting in front of groups a little daunting and difficult. Practice has made it less daunting and easier. Communicating to groups of people is a useful life skill — from business meetings through to pitching to investors. Presenting makes me practice and improve it.

* I value the time I invest into making a good presentation. It forces me to put my thoughts in order and really think about the most effective way of communicating a topic.

* Unlike the OP I have got work through speaking. Both directly, from people who've seen my speak, and indirectly from folk googling around a subject area and finding my name pop up repeatedly around particular topics at conferences.

* I generally don't present at a conference unless I get at least travel / accommodation / ticket. So this reduces the cost of an event to opportunity cost at worst. This means I can go to more events. I enjoy and get value from conferences so this is a good thing in-of-itself for me.

* Speakers usually hang out together at some point. This means I've had the opportunity to meet and occasionally make friends with some wicked smart people. Occasionally folk in the "Squeee! I'm a fanboy" area ;-)

* I generally get more feedback from a presentation than I get from a blog post. Both directly from talk Q&A, folk approaching me with specific questions, etc. And indirectly from watching the reactions of the audience during the session.

* You often have the opportunity to present something multiple times at different events. This allows you to experiment with different ways of putting the message across with fresh audiences. Something much harder to do with blog posts, etc.
Indeed, I also think it's most similar to Scala.
This only uses SpriteKit, for 2d graphics. SceneKit is for 3d stuff.
On the other hand, I have a friend who would rather work 7 days a week at a little over 4 hours/day, so I think it really is up to our individual preferences (though I'm sure there's some kind of nonuniform distribution!)
This isn't the first time we've seen an artificial increase in the minimum wage in the US - it's just the highest artificially increased minimum wage.

There are nine other localities where this has been done where there's empirical evidence available. See a link somewhere in the child tree of your comment.
I'd love to work 4d/week, but how does it affect retirement fund buildup?
Being able to move a window wherever you click is actually pretty old (the oldest example I know of is the Aqua brushed metal type of windows in OSX 10.3 Panther, I believe). Compact window headers don’t seem new either. For example iTunes has this since 2010 (version 10).

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it's latest. Go 1.3 will have a minimum stack size back down at 4 kB. I think they have plan to even trim it down to 1-2 KB in Go 1.4
One "libertarian assumption" is that it's worth doing a little math to figure these sorts of things out. Usually if you do that math you will discover that neither profits nor high top salaries are anywhere near large enough that companies could merely absorb the higher cost out of either or both. (Incidentally, a raise to $15/hour is quite a lot more than "the smallest hike in pay".)

But hey, just for the sake of argument let's pretend you COULD take it out of profits. Here's where you run into a related assumption which is one of the basic rules of economics: change happens on the margin. Suppose that the entirety of the McDonalds chain as a whole is profitable. For simplicity we'll ignore the fact that the individual stores are mostly franchises and pretend they're all company-owned. The chain is not uniformly profitable! Some outlets are very profitable and others are just barely scraping by. When you increase the cost of labor the outlets that were very profitable are still worth running even with the new cost of labor, but the outlets that were only slightly profitable before are now losing money.

Those are the outlets that close.

Restaurants that will lose money every year with the higher wage aren't worth keeping open. shifts that lose money at the higher wage also aren't worth keeping open, so hours of work tend to get cut back too. You don't lose jobs at every store or uniformly, but you do lose marginal jobs that did exist or that would exist were it not for the new wage.

Overall, the chain will survive, but it has to shrink back in order to do so. In order to argue that it doesn't, you'd need to believe not just that the company overall is making (a lot of) profit, but that EVERY individual outlet is making the same share of that profit, so they're all worth keeping around post-change.
Agreed. The problem is not CS, it's the popularisation of CS as a gateway into the wonderful and high-paying world of software ninjas/rockstars/gurus/[hype du jour]. Transforming CS into preparation for software development careers would be akin to redoing engineering schools to teach students machining skills: important, yes, but that's what vocational/trade schools are for. If you're going into college, suck it up and learn your math. For everything else there's the documentation.
It's probably harder than just registering a new account and trolling here.
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This is one of the under-appreciated things about start-ups. It doesn't matter one bit how good you are when the sun is shining. It matters so much what you do when the going gets tough, how you deal with crisis (and they will happen, just when you can't use them) and what your attitude is when it seems the whole world is conspiring against you.

Best of luck to you and your team, so curious what you'll do next! But given how this one worked out for you I'm not at all worried :)
I think graydon is reaching here, while there may be some intersection of features in Rust and Swift, I don't really see any Rust influence at all.
I grew up in Australia and at 19 started the 9-5 'grind' type job which I kept going for a few years.

When I started contracting and working from home, I found that I could not shake the association of the hours and what they mean. No matter how hard I tried.

If I started later than 9 or 10, I was 'lazy'. If I took the whole morning off and was working until 11pm it was 'a disaster of a day', even if I worked less hours. For some reason if I was working later than 6pm it seemed like something was wrong.

I have no idea how to reliably change the perception of time once it's ingrained. It's certainly a strange phenomenon.
Obviously it will depend on your workload.

Although I rarely boot my PC I am running a number of virtual machines and the SSD helps when booting those.
This is bogus & unsourced. The minimum wage in Seatac was $9.19/hr in 2013, not $7.
Isn't the definition of hacker infact a cracker?

I don't think a community (not HN, just in general) can just coin a term and expect to change the definition for all.
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Finding a word other than "cracker" to designate people using computers for illegal purposes would be a useful exercise. Otherwise a lot of entirely legitimate activity gets tarnished and if you describe yourself as "hacking" then ordinary folks get the wrong impression.
Why does government set N hours at all? It's must be up to business! E.g., if I have a software company, I want my employees to work 20 hours a week. Isn't it obviously better way for everyone?
except ∑ is an upper-case sigma which corresponds to s in the latin alphabet, so why not option+s ?
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"A larger body of economic research investigates the effects of state and federal minimum wage increases. These studies compare employment trends for states or counties that have different minimum wages. The best studies make comparisons to nearby states or counties to control for regional economic trends. These studies also find no statistically significant negative effects on employment or hours at an aggregate level or for low-wage industries such as restaurants and retail stores, or for specific groups of workers such as teens. These studies also do not find substitution effects (such as shifts in hiring away from black and Latino teens)."

...

"Several additional studies of Santa Fe and San Francisco have been produced by the restaurant industry-backed Employment Policies Institute. In a study of Santa Fe, Yelowitz (2005a, 2005b) found an increase in the probability of unemployment for low-skilled workers and evidence of replacement of low-skilled adults by teens. In his study of San Francisco, Yelowitz (2012) found the opposite result: a decrease in teen work hours and no discernible effect on overall employment.

Unfortunately, both studies suffer from serious methodological problems that make the results unreliable. Since higher wages are likely to increase the labor supply, unemployment rates can increase even as the number of people who are employed also increases. Pollin and Wicks-Lim (2005) replicate Yelowitz’s (2005a) study but look at employment, rather than unemployment. They find no negative impact on employment. Furthermore, even if the reported results for each of the studies held, total compensation for teens and low-skilled workers would still have increased. Any employment or hours reductions would be more than offset by the increase in hourly earnings (Pollin and Wicks-Lim 2005; National Employment Law Project 2012). "

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"In his review of minimum wage research, Schmitt (2013) considers several channels through which employers might adjust to increases in the minimum wage. One possible scenario is that employers will simply switch to hiring more skilled workers, thereby hurting the employment prospects of less educated workers and, in particular, black and Latino teens. Schmitt reviews several studies that have explicitly researched this question, some of which yield conflicting findings. Again, research design matters a lot here, and studies that thoroughly control for regional or local differences do not find evidence of labor substitution. For example, Allegretto, Dube and Reich (2011) examine the impact of the minimum wage on the employment of white, black, and Hispanic teens, covering the period from 1990 to 2009. After improving on previous research by controlling for regional differences, they find no statistically significant negative effects on employment or hours for teens, regardless of race or gender. In their contiguous counties dataset, Dube, Lester and Reich (2013) similarly find no evidence of such substitution by either age or gender."

http://murray.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/UC-Berk...
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It certainly would be cool if it were.
It's one of the design decisions in Gnome 3 that I don't dislike. Happy to see Apple adopt it. I always thought the combination of the Menu bar in OSX (top of screen) with GtkHeaderBar would save a lot of screen real estate... and seeing it in action is nice :)
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We started using "intruder" instead of "hacker"/"cracker" at Rublon. It seems to work pretty well.
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Does this need IOS8 to run?

Is there a way to get that without being a signed up dev with Apple?
From the GIF in the readme, it looks like collision detection is broken.
Actually, San Francisco and San Jose both have laws increasing the minimum wage. Richmond also just passed an ordinance in March to raise it to $12.30 by 2017, which will be the highest minimum wage in CA.
In the United States, a family of four with a total household income of $23,851/yr. is "not poor". An individual with an income of $11,761/yr. is "not poor".

If you believe an individual can survive on $11,761, or that a family of four can survive on $23,851, in a major city, I would identify that as a flaw in your positions.
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A minority community can take ownership of a pejorative. A pejorative is often a word appropriated by a majority. Both of the previous sentences apply here.

And no, you are incorrect.
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I wonder if the government workers, who will still work 8 hours a day will have a loss of productivity due to a conscious attempt to help the move to six-hour workdays.
See my reply to zo1 on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838800
Not for everyone, and the one we advocate isn't new at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29
I concur - setting up a power backup system was my first task when moving here (Tanzania), and it isn't a simple nor cheap barrier to overcome.

That is a pretty impressive salary, even for western standards! Maybe I should consider moving to Mozambique :)
The exact claim being responded to was "modern trains have electric motors on each car".
Without getting too much into it, it's always dangerous comparing different countries. I'm not trying to discredit you, but at times it can be apples and oranges because the amount of variables is incredible.

For example, consider when somebody asks, "Well, $country has light rail that's cheap, punctual, and goes everywhere. Why doesn't the U.S. have it?"

They ignore that the U.S. is the fourth largest country in the world by land area. The state of Oregon has roughly the same land area as the United Kingdom. While light rail may be something that's very good to have, it can be otherwise impractical for a country as large as the U.S.
I feel like this does a great job at exemplifying the futility of petitions on Change.org.
If you're new to functional programming styles this swift project might be more relevant: https://github.com/maxpow4h/swiftz
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For my day job I use mostly SQL Server and a beast of an application which is written in VB and C#.Net by some developers in another country, I am only allowed to touch the configuration and scripting layer (C#) on this one and the thousands of configuration options it contains.
But I do mostly Android in my spare time if I have the energy.
Not quite the same thing. iOS's CarPlay integration is just a mechanism for mirroring your iOS device in-car and using the car media controls. The Open Automotive Alliance is about trying to get Android into the embedded car systems market.

The CarPlay integration can be served just as easily by embedded Android as it can by any of the other in-car systems. The two approaches are not mutually exclusive.
Then you'd have the 60 hour work week pretty quick.
I think Apple were still a little afraid of pissing off carriers, when they didn't make a big deal out of FaceTime Audio calls.
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In this case, it's exactly as you say: the employer has decided to reduce its employees' working hours. It just happens that the employer is also the government. The experiment in Göteborg discussed in this article involves only municipal employees: the city is experimenting with moving its employees to 6-hour work days, and seeing what effect there is on productivity, morale, and other such measures. There's no requirement that other employers follow suit.

I believe even the 40-hour week is not statutory. At least in Denmark (maybe the same in Sweden?), the basic parameters of employment (maximum working hours, overtime pay, minimum wages, etc.), are negotiated between the employer's confederation and the union confederation, rather than set by statute. However, since the unionization rate is over 90% and the basic parameters are set through overall framework agreements (applying to all workplaces covered by the confederations, not separate company-by-company negotiations), these negotiated agreements de-facto set the conditions at almost all workplaces.

The Danish switch in 1992 from 40-hour to 37-hour weeks, for example, was entirely through union negotiations, not done by legislation.
Bleah, Rust's println makes my eyes bleed..
What's didn't you do 'println!("x value={x}");'??
Yes, I know you can use 'println!("x value={u}",u=x);', it still isn't a good syntax IMHO.
You will need more modern stuff than OpenGL2.1 because OpenGL2.1 uses a really deprecated model. You'd really want use the new rendering system based on VBOs and Shaders instead of glBegin().
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The popular American (and British?) perception of French waiters and waitresses is that they are lazy and rude because they have no incentive to provide good service. (I have never visited France so I don't know if this is true or not.)
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I think it's a good idea only if you execute code in parallel, following all the examples. Otherwise there's a lot of notions than already exist in Objective C that are glossed over and would be pitfalls for people new to the runtime.
No, because business and employees are not in equal barguaining position. Business always have an advantage and in unregulated markets they are more than happy to take advantage of their power position.

On the other hand, you can see these regulations as a collective bargaining between employees and business. Individual employees have no negotiating power against any corporation, but they all together can elect a government that will have an upper hand there, so it's just market behaviours.

And no, what you said about 20 hours work week doesn't work like that. I believe that many employers would be happy to pay only 20 effective hours a week for a software engineers, but sorry, my workday consist of some time needed to concentrate, get in the flow, release some stress, let the brain work in the hammock time, and you also need to pay for this, since you won't get these effective 20 hours a week without these other 20 hours. It just doesn't work like that. Maybe I would agree to be paid only for 20 effective hours a week, but my rate in that case will easily go double.
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