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This sounds like great news for low-wage workers, but the article seems to punt on the Why. Since so many people have been under-employed the last 8 years, I wonder if the increased turnover is due to over-qualified employees who were just working a Walmart gig until they could find something better, e.g. college graduates or folks laid off from a higher-paying job. I wouldn't be surprised if this were a large part of the effect, and in that case I'd figure that:

- raising wages would not help retain these people.

- the increased turnover will subside as the underemployment problem fixes itself.

I'm curious what other folks think about that theory?
I don't know DannyBee to know his smarts- but I do see the potential sarcastic undertone :)

I'll leave my comment though for the edification of others.
The issue is in essence that GW2 has become overly streamlined for sake of PVP. It is a curse i see with all MMORPGs that provide some kind of "competitive" PVP. Sooner or later the PVE side suffers because of some "exploit" or "OP" combo that makes PVPers cry foul.
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I completely disagree, the type of craftsmen you're referring to will cease to exist at the company in the future. The very concept of craftsmanship is antiquated by the idea of intelligent machines. That is, machines that can learn.

No matter how hard a human tries to "obsess over every single detail" they will simply be unable to compete with a machine intelligence in this regard. All the things you listed are so obviously suited to be tasks that intelligent machines can excel and surpass humans at. Even unintelligent machines would fare quite well against a human at all the tasks you listed.

You may argue that there's an art to craftsmanship that machines "will never duplicate the creativity of humans." I hear that like 20 times a week and it's not true. This falsehood lies in a flawed premise. The premise that the machines doing art/crafstmaship will seek to "replicate" human creativity is simply false. Human creativity doesn't necessarily replicate the creativity of other humans; why would a machine creativity need to replicate? Many intelligent machines are already making art online. Machines do not need to replicate. Intelligent machines can create on their own, independently. People are doing this with twitter bots now.

Notice I use the word "machine intelligence" and not just machine. A machine is process that has been animated in the physical world. A machine intelligence is fundamentally different. It learns and is better than we are at most (if not all) things. I understand that this eventuality is terrifying to people. Being scared of the inevitable doesn't stop it. We need to be thinking about this now so we can make plans to figure out what do with humans once these machines proliferate through our society.

As an aside I also love Japanese culture. I had the opportunity to travel to Japan after high school. It was great.
United States of America -> America

United States of Mexico -> Mexico

Dominion of Canada -> Canada (I think they dropped "Dominion of" some time ago, though)

Kingdom of the Netherlands -> Netherlands

Federal Republic of Germany -> Germany

It's a fairly common abbreviation style, and USA is the only country that has "America" in its name.

If the OP thinks that the USA is any more of a monoculture than Europe is, perhaps he should spend some time in Manhattan followed by some time in Luckenbach, Texas. :-)
No, women do not need to be pretty or not so pretty in IT. They need to have proper knowledge. Physical attributes do not really matter if you have useful skills for an organization as one would expect from a male applicant.

Please stop victimizing women.
Sad but true. The problem is that there are no email standards to speak of. Each email client supports an incomplete set of either HTML and/or CSS making it nearly impossible to determine anything more than a baseline feature set.
Ugh, yeah, total agreement here. Historical accident, I suppose. I try to pretend like `head` and `tail` just don't exist.

You can always recognize a file where I'm doing list ops because I define `uncons :: [a] -> Maybe (a, [a])` at the top of the file, haha.
> e.g. C++ also has functors, and they're completely unrelated to Haskell functors.

You can't blame that one on Haskell or the functional community - the term was already established before the C++ community decided to use it in spite of pre-existing definitions. They even ignored Prolog's pre-exising abuse of the term functor :-)

A few similar terminological accidents of history come to mind, where the original definition of some term is now obscure and a different definition popular:

- POSIX capabilities (as implemented in e.g. Linux), which are a security mechanism that has nothing to do with what security researchers have been calling capabilities since the 1970s

- Microsoft operating systems using the term "Format" for creating a file system, despite the fact that it is impossible to actually format hard disks at the hardware level since the 1990s

- imperative programming languages abusing the term "function" to mean procedures with side effects

- "thunk" meaning a stub that emulates/bridges different calling conventions, instead of a call-by-name (or lazy) closure

- "Tea Party" used to refer to a fine rock band from Canada
> but real code isn't permitted to touch their drives

Do you mean one is not allowed to check out the code on OSX and sync to the dev/linux box?
I want to cry.

If you want to play on those zones, you can resort to a private server with a old expansion. There are very good ones on vanilla where those zones are alive. :-)

That list of locations falls very short, too.
dafuq?

And I thought I was being a overprotective yesterday when my 5 year-old was digging worms out of the dirt and dropping them into the chicken run and I kept warning him to keep his fingers out of the mesh because the rooster was really mean and would bite him.

Seriously? An effing book?
I wonder why the ambitious CommonMark project did not look into adopting any of these. Regarding references, this is great, but I was referring to internal within the document ones, not external. For example, in "Article I" you mention "Article II, Section 3", which should change to "Article III, Section 3" if I insert a new article between the first and the second or to "Article II, Section 4" if I insert a section.
Only the C99 standard library. The language changes which weren't already part of C++ weren't imported.
Ask HN: Has a VC firm every acquired a startup for lead gen reasons?
Most mobile apps are native GUI wrappers around ffmpeg, some http library, and maybe WebKit or Blink. The high-level coördination will remain relatively unchanged as the underlying GUI, media, network, and web libraries push up against Amdahl's law.
I have no snappy answer to either of those comments. Thanks for giving me more to think about.
I saw other headlines on news reports about this malaria study finding that were much more pessimistic. Sure enough, this actual article kindly submitted here reveals that many researchers are "disappointed" by the malaria vaccine field-tested in the recent study.

The bottom line is much like what the article finishes up by saying, "Other experts warned that funding for a vaccine should not be redirected away from insect nets and other malaria control measures." A vaccine that has a higher effectiveness against malaria than the one just studied would be very helpful, but it will probably take a new approach to vaccine development to find one. The article incorrectly refers to the malaria parasite having "learnt" (a better choice of words would be "been naturally selected for") adaptations to escape host animal immune systems,[1] and that is why it is not easy to develop vaccines for the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria.

[1] http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1513/85
Currying is weird, it completely changes how you handle functions.

It allows some incredibly powerful concepts to be expressed unambiguously with little syntax.

However I certainly agree that the lack of obvious markers for what a function call involves is painful. (For instance `$` is nonsensical in a C-like language but very useful in Haskell)
Hence the use of the word "almost".
Oh, look what just popped up: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24777
I guess you aren't aware of commercial UNIX (Aix, HP-UX...) and embedded compilers support level.
"If you ask me what is bad about Haskell, it is the difficulty in finding developers and difficulty on making other developers to work with apps written in Haskell."

This makes me wonder even more what's wrong with it! I doubt the learning curve is scaring THAT many people away, since employable programmers already demonstrated a willingness to learn hard things. It seems to me that there must be something bad I don't know about the language.
The new post-grant patent challenge scheme has made it a lot harder to enforce patents. Now, an accused infringer can file a post-grant review request and tie things up for a year or two, even if they lose. During that period, it's almost impossible to license the patent. The patent holder has to defend against the post-grant review, which is expensive.

There are few real "patent trolls". The EFF's list is very short.[1] Only one law firm, Farney Daniels, is listed as having sent out more than 3 demand letters. This isn't a big problem.

You need to own intellectual property if, for example, you're writing for Apple's platform. If your idea is a success, Apple copies it and then turns off your platform access. Look what just happened to Pebble.

[1] https://trollingeffects.org/lawfirms
I have taken to liken GW1 to a trading card game.

You collect a bunch of cards (skills) and then build a deck (skill bar) from that.
> I have to admit my imagination flashed to an image of somebody wearing a portable biofeedback rig that buzzed (or perhaps zapped) them every time they used the target portion of their brain, in an attempt to starve the tumor.

Hopefully the target portion of the brain isn't the part that responds to being zapped.
The answer to my question is apparently "no".

> YubiKey NEOs are not upgradable based on best security practices. There is a no upgrade policy for our devices since nothing, including malware, can write to the firmware.

-- https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...
Apparently JAX is specifically oriented around technology on top of the JVM, so the award does make sense in that context.

That said:

Considering that Red Hat, Pivotal and others are also actively pushing towards more Reactive software in enterprises, it's pretty clear that distributed, microservice-based systems is no longer just for early adopters.

It is interesting to observe how a large contingent of developers had grown quite resentful of the Unix philosophy, and now the new architectural trend of "microservices" is having them flock right back at it. Seems they might have come to their senses, if only by accident. Take this snark with a grain of salt.
My favourite department in my favourite state school is trying to slow turnover by extending the contract length for non-tenure-track teaching staff - it's now renewal every three years instead of every year. Payment is still the same - USD 40000 for a full load in a high-tax state in the Northeast.

When you have a stream of qualified and sufficiently desperate applicants you don't have to offer more money than the competition; there are other ways of not being just as awful as the rest of them. Academia is still busy finding out where the wage floor lies.
Thank you very much for your positive opinion!

I did my best making the look simple, functional and mobile friendly but probably it is not as fancy as you expect it to be.

We need to hire a good designer, we also need to get more traction. Therefore we need people who believe in the idea and who are ready to invest their time or money.

I am open for a new name as long as we can find an unregistered .com or at least .net domain.
Calling C++ from "ffi" is very hard. With "C" there is almost one to one mapping of the function you wrote to what the compiler produced and linker sees (there could be an "_" or more added, or something similar, but that's it).

With C++ mangling (decorating) is specific per vendor, per compiler, and it might be even per compile options. Then you have different way of handling exceptions, new/delete, location of the this pointer, deep/shallow virtual tables, etc. etc. And for templates it's possibly very awkward to support them in any good way.

It could be that wrappers like SWIG might help there, but would require some amount of work, or rewrapping the C++ interface to be "C" like with "objects". Some API/library writers go to the extent where even if the library is written in C++, a "C" interface is provided, and a new "C++" interface is written on top of the "C" (e.g. it's not using the original C++ one). This might be due to problems with dynamic (RTTI) symbols and different linkage versions (since you've asked about MSVC - different runtime libraries loaded in your application - yes this is pretty normal for Windows).
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To be honest, I think Haskell is the best language I know of for fast iteration as well. You can successfully create and manage far worse, yet working code when you've got a good type-driven guardrail. A common pithy quote, which I agree with wholeheartedly, is that "`IO` is the best imperative language out there today".

There's definitely a lot of missing documentation about this folk practice of "fast, loose, shitty Haskell" due to the strong culture of pretty code that's also enabled by Haskell. I remember seeing a video presented at CUFP that went into the merits here, though.

Essentially, this is a "tricky" concept because you want to design your types to be exactly as restrictive as you can afford without having to think too much. It probably requires a good grasp of the Haskell type system applied in full glory in order to bastardize it just right.

So, tl;dr?

I think types are the ultimate fast iteration tool, but this is not a well-documented practice.
In the case of ancestry it is not just their users, but also the users extended family. One of my relatives found it necessary to put me in there and I've had a really hard time to get them to delete me.
What is completely wrong about this situation is that of course you are correct, there is no way for the bus driver to monitor anything about the students in the back of the bus. The bus driver is busy, driving the bus and their attention should be wholly on the road ahead. If the bus driver is noticing an 8yr old sitting quietly reading, then he is not paying enough attention to that road..

What is needed here, is not any kind of stupid rule saying that they can't take 'things' out of their bag, but a student supervisor on the bus. If students are actually jumping around then the supervisor needs to stop that.
The fake MAs are a dead giveaway too
There are over ten years' worth of stories and content in WoW. There are very few people in the world who can claim to have experienced all of it.

One of my favorite "wow, that's random" discoveries in WoW is the Plants vs Zombies minigame by the Dalaran crater in the Eastern Kingdoms.
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HN really does hate jokes.
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right and this makes me sad since my neo doesn't include and cant upgrade to include u2f ;\
I know you're being modded into oblivion and it's more likely for tone than anything else. For the most part, I haven't had much trouble using LibreOffice against newer ms .(doc|xsl|...)x documents, which is much closer to open than anything from ms-office before it. The oddities tend to be the use of fonts that aren't embedded or the use of other embedded content that will never work outside of a windows context. The simpler the document, the less trouble though.

Are you actually having significant problems in your day to day use, or was this just trolling?

All of that said, I'm actually very happy to see MS opening up .Net/CLR because there is a lot of code that runs under it, and being able to port and reuse that in a linux environment. Even in my current project creating a replacement for a .Net application in node/iojs, there's a small service I'll be using that will run with mono because re-creating the piece in question would be problematic, though that piece will enable a live data migration (encrypted data) to something that won't need the .Net code in question.
Ambient lighting is another case. Surface versus volume, and hence triangles versus squares versus tetra versus cubes, but same difference.

Squares have the problem that there are ambiguous cases at saddle points, which you don't get with triangles. If you have this:

1 0

0 1

It could be this:

1 . 0
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. .
.
0 . 1

Or this:

1 . 0
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. .
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0 . 1

With triangles there is no analogous issue.
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I disagree. I don't know anyone who thought that gaming stuff was fun. It was silly and a waste of time. Foursquare now is great at recommendations - something people actually need. I don't think it was necessary to rip the checkins out of it and into Swarm but I think the people who actually found that fun and a vocal minority.
Yes, you select who to interview based on the results of testing technical ability, not on the résumé. So you don't ignore the cultural fit, you just make sure you eliminate bias in the candidate sifting process.
It's funny that page lists "bear raid" as an example. That's basically how shorting is done. You short a stock, then you tell the world why as loudly as possible.
I would naively assume that the market forces of high unemployment would be more powerful than over-qualified employees would account for unless they sought them specifically.

Given all the mechanisms they already have in place to control the impact of turn-over it doesn't surprise me that they realized it would be cheaper just to pay people a little more.
there's also "will either happen before amd goes bankrupt"
I'm... hesitantly okay with "Functor == Mappable", but I really think Monad should be "Embedded DSL" and Monoid "mergeable". Or really Semigroup.

Monad is definitely abnormally difficult to humanize. The trio (T, ∀ a. a -> T a, ∀ a b. (a -> T b) -> (T a -> T b)) is really hard to nail down.
> Neither of them were or are actually monopolies

"Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp...

A company does not have to be the sole supplier in a market to be considered a monopoly in the eyes of the law.

> Apple has even run afoul of that at various times (like when it got dinged for its monopolistic behavior regarding e-books; it certainly didn't have an actual monopoly, but that still fell under antitrust regulations).

But that case didn't just involve Apple. It also involved the oligopoly of book publishers, who worked with Apple to engage in price fixing against Amazon.
I agree with a lot of your commentary, but think that Yelp is a horrible place to try to sift through shameless paid plugs and trolls. My experience is that 4sq has some of the highest signal-to-noise ratio of local reviews... for now.
I never thought I'd envy cube workers but having worked in a open office/co-working space I do. I really do.
Ha, that's cool to hear!
I don't know if this really means what they say it means.

When you aren't "thinking" your brain runs a "default network" that consumes about 98% as much energy as when you are thinking hard. That is, in terms of metabolic activity, it makes very little difference if you are "thinking" or relaxing.
I attempted to extract postal codes from csv lines that contained addresses (as well as some unrelated info). Complete failure : (
It also appends some garbage to the username, validates it and then proceeds with the random char grab....weird

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They're certainly trying very hard to prevent that.
Quite right. Great example of this is Wings3D--take a quad, add a crease, and switch to OpenGL rendering and watch the weirdness occur.

Quads are just bad.
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AMD's board? Yeah.

I think they're trying to beat both to the punch. :(
"Failing that, independent invention needs to be a 100% defense against infringement"

Won't work. That's a state-of-mind issue. Infringers will claim "independent infringement", when in fact they got the idea from the patented work.
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lwan looks really awesome. I will give it a try
Isn't this how the world wound up with Ada?
It would be interesting to hear wether or not PG believes that most of this still applies 10 years later.
It may not be more cash compensation; but having a greater degree of certainty definitely has value as far as trying to plan your life.
It is unclear to me why msft is still investing in VB.net. C# is a better mainline language; F# is a better bleeding edge language. VB.net seems like a holdover from the ASP days, and honestly is riddled with issues (no differentiation between assignment and equality, it's 2015 btw).
NancyFX already runs on Mono (officially supported by the project), hopefully it will run on CoreCLR once more of the API surface area has been covered (I wouldn't be surprised if it could run right now, as long as you have the correct dependencies in your project file).
Heh, Hemingway is a cute idea, I had not seen that before.

It seems a bit miscalibrated though. I tried pasting in the current front-page article from The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/obama-drone-str...), and it becomes almost completely red ("27 out of 37 sentences are very hard to read"). If it categorizes ordinary newspaper prose as "very hard", I wonder what kind of audience it is aimed at.
This exact reason is why EverQuest grabbed me so much harder than any other MMO since. Another huge reason is the danger factor. In WoW, there is effectively no punishment at all if you die, so there's no fear of exploring new places. In EQ, there are (or at least were) steep penalties if you die in the wrong place. Ignoring the fact that you lose XP that could amount to hours of lost progress, you may compound your woes with continued deaths trying to get the loot that remained with your corpse. The fear-factor had me addicted, and made accomplishments that much more rewarding.
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Depending on what parts of WCF you are using in practice, it may just work [1].

[1] http://www.mono-project.com/docs/web/wcf/
> However, don't expect it to generate code that's portable between architectures with different pointer widths.

That's a limitation I can live with. If my only concession is that I have to have two builds (32/64), and everything else is portable, I'll be a very happy camper.
I worked with an ex-Microsoftie who was responsible for getting Excel onto the Mac, in the 1990s. He quit and swore off computers for a couple of years, and we had to convince him that (a) we were a great company and he should definitely interview with us, and (b) we weren't going to treat him the way Microsoft had.

He was pretty good, but there were parts of his psyche that seemed . . . damaged.
Also you can do the equivalent of a Delaunay triangulation in 3D to consistently convert point clouds into tetrahedra