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I've just accepted a position at a YC startup with "unlimited vacation days". The founders seemed genuine when they said that as long as your work is getting done, it wasn't a problem.

I still agree that it causes ambiguity about how much time off is "too much".
Denial indeed. About 50% worldwide including both public and private science. You might want to look into the source of that 97% and stop acting like you've got everything figured out.
People still use Gmail? If so, I'm guessing the site doesn't pull up for them when they try to visit it. So, why is this important for posting on HN?
one of the earliest typewriters had a piano type keyboard.
[0] http://www.nytstore.com/Typewriter-Patent--1868_p_8837.html
For $115 you can have a Dogee Valencia DG800, which runs circles around this crippled MSNokiAndroid phone:

http://www.doogeemobile.com/doogee-dg800-smartphone-android-...

I'm still wondering where Microsoft is going with this. I really don't see this working very well without the benefit of the Play Store
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The facts don't bear out what you're saying.

The US is the world's second or first largest manufacturing nation (it's a close race with China currently, but they likely pulled ahead this year).

The US has the world's largest IT industry.

The US has the world's largest software industry.

The US has the world's largest internet / cloud industry.

The US has the world's largest telecom industry.

The US has the world's largest airlines, and railroads.

The US has the world's largest auto industry.

The US has the world's largest defense industry.

The US has the world's largest agriculture industry.

The US has the world's largest space industry.

The US has the world's largest retail industry.

The US has the world's largest capital markets.

The US has the world's largest real estate market, both commercial and residential.

The US has the world's largest advertising, marketing and design industries.

All of these things are not true simply because the US has natural resources. If it were simply a matter of resources per person, Norway would be the world's largest automaker or similar.
You know, I typed it out in shorthand at first, but it didn't have the same visual effect. haha

That's it, I'm writing a plugin that plays dubstep while you type.
If you are using emacs, you can try to write some ELisp code to fix something you don't like or automate something you do often.
I understand... the survivor bias... Just couldn't understand what the OP was trying to say with the title.
What about binary only dependencies?
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Sounds good. I'll make one tiny parting shot to your parting shot, and we'll be done. :)

> Using binstubs rather than "bundle exec" can be a good deal faster.

Absolutely, which is why we switched to them with Rails. It is a tough problem, though, and given Ruby's constraints. In my testing, it's the startup time that's the issue, not Thor, which is because `bundle exec` has to re-start the interpreter multiple times, and binstubs don't. Anyway.

> I just hope that performance is a core design consideration for Cargo

Rust people already feel the pain of very long rustc compiles, so while I'm not sure that it's an overriding concern, given the Rust world's concern with performance in general, I expect it to be way better. Ruby has always kinda thrown performance to the wolves.

> I legitimately just want to make sure Cargo comes out awesome.

We all do. And I'll admit to being a bit sensitive to 'lol bundler,' which I feel is often said without fully understanding the problem space, which is admittedly large. Not that you are doing that, but I have seen similar comments elsewhere. Once you explain the details, it's pretty clear why Bundler does what it does.

Anyway, yes: let's make Cargo 1.0 and Rust 1.0 super awesome! I'm really excited that we're taking this step forward. It's a huge day for Rust.
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To add to that, the European Council is a formal institution of the European Union. It has no formal powers, but it generally guides the policy of the EU through the influence of the executive branches of member nations (according to Wikipedia).

The Council of Europe, which is the organization that did this interview, has nothing to do with the European Union.

There is at least one other similarly-named entity, the Council of the European Union, which is one of the houses of the EU legislature. The names are quite confusing.
You need to make it part of play. Make it fun.

Computers were fun to me because I played games and was motivated to maximize the meager capabilities of my IBM XT, and wanted to cheat in games. So I learned all sorts of things there.

In computer class, there was no exploration, no fun. Oregon Trail was cool, but didn't capture the imagination.

I hated Math in school for many years, but my grandfather tutored me. Then I discovered puzzles and how to apply math to problems that had some relevance to me.
In an RTS game, the absolute last thing I'd want to do is sit there and fiddle with getting salvaged blocks placed in JUST the right spot.

It's a good idea, but I can't see the execution being anything but flawed.
> Assuming you don't somehow sample the same point in the periodic waveform each time, you'll eventually get the complete waveform.

To add an example of a real technique: You can use a short laser pulse and change the time-of-flight (mirrored path on a stepper motor, for instance). This technique will get you to the terahertz region, which is pretty much state of the art for where electronic devices still have gain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_time-domain_spectrosc...
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Thank you for your reply.

Looking through examples, it still appears very much that domain specific calls were added to the very flexible language typically used in Mathematica to essentially extend computation to these new domains using domain specific widgets. (Also, some exchange data types.)

I'm still having trouble seeing how this is a radical departure from say, embedding a bunch of domain specific tie ins in a Lisp using macros (or similar constructs) to get a similar syntax across them.

I get that the constructs are likely tightly integrated, but I guess I'm still not seeing where it's more than a framework for dealing with particular classes of data running on top of a programming language that targets a hosted run time with a database of facts.

I'm not saying that this isn't a useful thing, and entirely worth it for well curated data. As I mentioned, I pay for essentially that service targeting a database about social media. I'm just trying to see if there's something key to understanding the features that I'm missing.

If you'll excuse one quasi-dig: it can sometimes be hard to see what something really is and what its use cases are through the hype and marketing.
" But in case you haven't, let us restate it in plain English: Dear developers, GO THE @$#!% AWAY.""

You haven't been paying attention for the last 6-8 months then. I can assure you 100%, everything we are doing right now is about appealing to devs and "winning" by building a platform devs WANT to build for.
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Not sure why the above comment was downvoted -- it seems to make a sensible point. (Though I don't know if I'd agree with "actively discouraged.")

If I were Microsoft, I'd give significant $$$ to folks who have created cross-platform app development platforms. Then I can improve the number of Windows Phone apps pretty quickly. I may not get apps optimized for my platform, but at least I'd have something, and then I could offer additional incentives for optimization. That's what Amazon is doing with the Fire phone and developer credits.

Xamarin would be one example, and PhoneGap (or whatever it's called now) can probably be made far nicer and faster. Last year Microsoft did announce a partnership with Corona, but as far as I know nothing has come of it yet in terms of a public release of the SDK: http://coronalabs.com/blog/2013/10/29/windows-phone-8-and-wi...
Because it ultimately is a story of a corporate takeover. It is not as if they didn't had the control earlier. Reliance was a significant stakeholder of the company earlier too.
Same in Houston. I just sold some property, and I got a full-price offer the day it was put on the market, before the pictures were even up. Another guy in my office got ~10 offers in a week, including some all-cash offers, for a ordinary, slightly-run-down house in a suburban area here. Everyone I've spoken to in the real estate market here this year has some story about how hot the market is right now.
It will be interesting to see once it becomes open source.

My favorite story relating to that is john regher compiler testing effort found a bunch of bugs in a research compiler that was proved to be correct.

[Edit]

Not strictly true. As John noted in comment below:

John Regehr (me) did in fact find something like 11 bugs in CompCert, most of which caused it to emit wrong code. But the bugs were not in the proved part.
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ is not as old (1996) but is also pretty cool. I wish they had more funding to explore that idea that the web should be editable (as long as you have the authorization to PUT).
The impact of people involving themselves in biology. [video]
You did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7851927
There are two problems that too often seem to be conflated as a single issue: (1) we need more STEM students/workers, because they will build the future, and (2) there is persistent discrimination (notably sexism) in some of the sub-specialties that can't be tolerated.

Is there a reason to suspect that tackling both of these at the same time (e.g., demographic specific initiatives) yields significant benefit over alternatives?
Thanks for the reflection based on your experience. fwiw I spent some time on Oplerno today. Your model (start with credit, then figure out accreditation through existing reputable boards) makes a lot more sense.

> ...and as a layperson the distinction might be unclear.

This is really the problem I understand he's trying to solve. As long as there exists meaningless accreditation and general confusion among laypeople, non-traditional models face an uphill battle.

So it's not that accreditation agencies in general are awful. It's just at accreditation doesn't mean much to people who aren't insiders. Which is just as a bad, from a student's perspective and from the perspective of non-traditional institutions.

Offering an accreditation aimed at admittedly non-traditional degree programs where the accreditation really means something seems helpful. But perhaps this is better solved by going through one of the existing high-quality accreditation agencies and then explicitly pointing out the quality of your accreditation.
Bunyan and Winston are both decent but they still do too much. If your app isn't a logger itself features like log rotation, log levels, and configurable transports don't belong in your app. Just because you delegate those features to a module doesn't excuse the fact that they're additional responsibilities your app is taking on.
I'm a C# developer (and strong supporter of .NET and Xamarin) and this signals to me that I have that many more options now - its great and very exciting for me to hear all this great news coming out of Microsoft almost every other week.

DevDiv's tools and frameworks is where it's at when it comes to building big multi-platform codebases - backend, front-end, desktop, mobile, cloud, whatever. Add to that the immense infrastructure and operations support I get from the MS business ecosystem and it's just icing on my Productivity Cake. I don't mind paying them because I get great stuff for the price.

I never understood how tech-intelligent people would hold so much hate towards a company that pretty much provides some of the broadest selection of tools and solutions geekdom has ever known.

Side Anecdote: A little bird recently told me that while working at Box, the attitude from management was so hateful against Microsoft that they were willing to blow through huge amounts of money just to roll their own HR system. What?! As an investor I want my investments to make me more money any way possible - and NOT be wasted trying to recreate wheels just to satisfy some sort of nonsensical personal grudge. This opinion people have with the brand loyalties (and grudges) they hold are non-sense through and through and bad for business.
C and C++ most often,prototyping in MATLAB, Python, and even C# a times. There are a whole slew of languages in between assembly and C++ in terms of abstraction, as well as a whole slew of software applications outside the web and client apps.
It has nothing much to do with billable hours, and more to do with the amount of time I have for my family obligations.
Two weeks ago I tried to explain this idea to an ex-Air Force tour guide as we were standing next to the waist guns in a B17. He said I was full of shit and that the planes flew with basically no reinforcing armor. It was kind of embarrassing.
I write it for a management company focused on LIHTC properties.
Some discussion by smart people at http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/cap-talk/2014-June/thread.h... ... probably have to wait til after it is open source end of next month to say.
Quite correct: I have no idea what the price is in Lichtenstein. Nor have I compared the price of every drug manufactured. Nor even a majority of those thousands.

I have, however bought a dozen or so different drugs and have done so in France, Italy, Croatia, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. All of which were tiny fraction of the price in the US.

So given two hypothesis: the US is cheaper vs the EU is cheaper, and a bunch of data points all pointing that same way, a little bit of Bayesian statistics shows us which hypothesis is over overwhelmingly more likely doesn't it? We can agree to use Bayesian statistics even though there's no entry in the conservapedia can't we?

Contrast, for example, with the parent poster's hypothesis which comes form no more data than a.m. radio infotainment, I think there's only one rational tentative conclusion don't you?
My God, you'd think this were a news site, run by a startup accelerator, that used to be called Startup News!
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This is an interesting application, and dogged mathematical derivation, of survival analysis. We would do the same calculations today with standard Kaplan-Meier curves. Do you see the survival functions, S=1-F, in the first few pages? They also state a hazard rate, all without reference to stochastic variables. It's like seeing the mathematical version of a 1943 automobile.
>Four years ago we had you writing all your apps using Silverlight.Two years ago we chucked that out the window (ahahahaha)

The runaway success of the iPad killed Silverlight and even much more stronger plugins like Flash. I am glad they killed yet another proprietary browser plugin. Plus, Silverlight XAML is very similar to WinRT and Windows Phone.
Same here. I wish they would give a target number of days to shoot for. I've even asked and I always get wishy-washy answers.
Four equal partners is very similar to four equal partners.

Have a vesting schedule.

Have a buyout clause.

Use an attorney.

Get back to building.
I'm not normally a fan of litigation, but in this case they should sue the police department into the ground. If this behaviour was way too expensive to sustain because of liabilities, they'd have to curtail it.

Complaints are something they just ignore. Settlements hurt.

If this was some national security incident where the nephew was about to activate a nuclear weapon this sort of force might be justified. That it was for drugs is the most disturbing part. How does that help anyone in any capacity?
I think the forEach issue is a bad example, and something that could (and arguably should) be handled by the native implementation. The reason they get faster execution here is by breaking the spec.

A native implementation could have a single flag associated with the array recording whether it is sparse, and use the more efficient code path given here in the common space where it's non-sparse.
Yes, it did. And how it is and has been managed is a large part of well it has worked for the country, which is a lot more involved and interesting than "Oil was found in the North Sea in the late 60's and everyone lived happily ever after, the end".

But since you seem to be an expert, how about you enlighten me on this subject.
YES! Exactly this.

Passing down of beliefs and behaviors is almost more valuable than passing down money.

You're embedding positive or negative behaviors into someone's personality.

1>Passing down the belief that education is valuable

2>Passing down the belief that investing in the future is more valuable than short term spending.

etc.

Also having resources in general is a massive benefit.
1>having security allows wealthy kids to take more risks/reap more rewards.

2>More free time to learn and advance themselves

3>ability to take low paying jobs purely to make connections/build job skills

4>Status is a language that every one understands at a primitive level and so just getting more respect in general which means better promotions, better mates, etc.
I really don't see the need to get more women in tech. Its obvious from school age that it just doesn't interest them as much. You never hear of the need to get more male nurses, or primary teachers and that is generally not viewed as a problem.

Edit: I stand corrected, apparently there are big movements to get males into the professions I mentioned. Just that I never heard about these movements.
Our society markets cultural gender references to the extent that we instill into girls a dislike of “traditionally male” interests from early on.

So could one say that we do need to focus on girls, to the extent that we recognize the socialization they receive in a society where gender roles are a thing? I agree with the article in general -- though I don't see anything wrong with programs for girls who have already found themselves teenaged and without the resources to get the necessary programming/STEM experience, and/or being uncomfortable around teenage boys in a field that the boys have been taught is their turf.

The media should promote some more female STEM role models. It would make up for the years of degredation and exclusion of women in STEM on TV, in the movies, etc -- especially in kid's media, where girls and women are usually token side-characters when they aren't princesses (see reelgirl.com for thorough documentation). It'll never happen, of course, despite that it would hurt no one, because the necessary critical thinking, along with the knowledge of women's history, to keep ourselves from shouting "gender bias!!!" at anything helping women succeed, is absent.
Note that's API and knowledgebase computation time, not notebook computation time, which doesn't cost cloud credits.

Cloud credits come with each plan, as well, so you have some leeway for development and testing before you have to buy additional cloud credits at a base price 0.03 cents per credit.

http://www.wolfram.com/cloud-credits/ has more info.
Nah; you're just repeating the same "tolerance means tolerance of every single idea in every context" idea I wrote about. It has nothing to do with objectivity--that's your own subjective opinion and projection.
sparse arrays are just one edge case that the native implementation must consider, see this comment - https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/6697#issuecomme...
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Absolutely. This is the unfortunate effect of the militarisation of the police force and how ridiculous the War on Drugs has become! They were looking for drugs ...

Unfortunately South Africa's police force has also learned from the USA, as have others I see. Granted a Swat team is necessary sometimes, but overall the Police force is just becoming more indimidatory and inhumane. It's a bad trend, and a real threat to civil society.
"Portable" for C++ means I can run it, for example, on the computer that controls a car's anti-lock brakes. And, in fact, I can use C++ and the STL on such a computer, even if it has no OS.
Right, so this policy should come with a minimum number of days per year, instead of a maximum. Maybe some days roll over a year, but not too long.
A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding
Well, if you Google around, you get Peter Delahunty. It looks like he's gone from being a CTO at a few places (including 99dresses) to just working under a CTO. It looks like his strategy didn't pay off.
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing
Why is equality more important than, say, how poor your average citizens are?

Most of Europe is exceptionally poor by American standards.

I would rather the average person earn $45,000 per year, with wide inequality due to a lot of rich people, than have the average person earn $8,000 or $14,000 per year like a dozen poor European countries that may have a better gini number.
That's incredible.

What's the incidence of things like this in the rest of the world?
Our descendants will be vastly richer and smarter and better informed than we are, so you're saying we should tax the poor to help the rich.

Making energy more expensive now reduces economic progress, which is exactly the thing we need to outgrow this and all other future potential threats.
The increasing militarization of police in the USA has seemingly had a significant (and hopefully unintended) side-effect: Police tend to treat suspects (and those around them) not as law-breaking citizens, but as enemy combatants.
Isn't the point of the test to get exactly what I can expect as a result as a paying customer? Otherwise, what am I really validating?

I will happily email daniel for deleting the personal data. While that works well for a HN comment thread, I still think it shouldn't require interaction on your part.
If you assumed they were at all likely to buy WP. But most of them were not. The choice MS faces is not "sell them WP or sell them Android" but "sell them Android or someone else will"
The ACLU just released a comprehensive report on these reprehensible tactics all around the USA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7938911
There's actually a whole class of keyboards like this [1], the most popular being the Jankó keyboard [2]. Here's [3] a cool demo by a Jankó virtuoso.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w
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My guess is that its to preserve cash. My current employer gave me 5 weeks/year, little of which I've used, and they're going to have to pay out almost 8 weeks of vacation on my last day next week. At my current rate, its a significant amount of cash.

If you're a startup, that can be painful to cough up.
Depends which part. Happens all day every day in Palestine.
These stories seem fake to me. I know they are real but I have trouble believing that people, human beings would actually act like this. Why do we have people acting as police that wouldn't let a mother comfort her crying, very injured child. They weren't after her, she wasn't the criminal.
The site mentioned in the article (alyxandria.org) is flagged by my company's filter/proxy (IronPort) as being a potential malware site because "IP address is either verified as a bot or has misconfigured DNS." Perhaps this accreditation organization should check its DNS records?