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...so instead of refactoring your law so that contractors have the same social benefits as "full-time employees" instead, she wants to turn the contractors into more easily controlled full time wage slaves.

I really hope you Americans don't vote a president with such twisted logic! ...imagine how this warped way of thinking would be manifested in international politics
I suspect the list is pretty long. But off the top of my head, Pandora had a pretty brutal layoff in the very beginning, to the tune of (from what I understand) basically asking their most dedicated employees to work for free. Somehow they pulled themselves out of that one, but, it wasn't pretty.
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This webpage has a weird bug where the boxes listing the features are laid out oddly. I'm on firefox 39.0 w/linux.

https://i.imgur.com/3Jo3E7g.png
Ipos are arguably just a form of crowdfunding.

Certainly back a few decades there's little difference, nowadays Ipos cannot be done without several volumes of paperwork by expensive lawyers.

If efficient IPOs were still around the crowdfunding market would be smaller. And IPOs of early stage companies certainly do not generate returns in a predictable way.
> For comparison's sake, I feel like in 2002

Counting from the viewpoint of 2002, not 2015.

Also, you're using the first games when I was thinking of the later ones in the series (say, King's Quest V era); they definitely came across as retro to me and my peers in 2002.
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Labor market flexibility is one of the great strengths of the US economy. It's one of the reasons why unemployment is back to reasonable levels even after the Great Recession. The freelancer economy has some downsides but in aggregate it's a good thing, both for workers and the economy as a whole. The opposite end of the spectrum is the labor market regulations in a country like Greece, which has always been a drag on their economy (even before their debt crisis).

Anyway, this is a great opportunity for the Republicans to paint themselves as the party of progress and technology, though they need to clean up some of their backward views (climate change, etc.) before such a claim would be credible.

The NY Times had a somewhat more balanced article about Hillary campaigning against Uber: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/business/rising-economic-i...
Actually, Nintendo were releasing 3D games even before the PS1. Starfox was the first poly 3D game from Nintendo and was released in 1992, at least a year, maybe more, before the PS1.
I know it's beside the point, but Pocket is actually a great product and I actively use it in Chrome and Android.
> Explaining why something that is small today could some day be huge is so hard.

Actually, seems to be very easy to some people. And quite funny, often those people are not very good at executing business so it will never be actually huge. But they are good at explaining.
There's xmonad, the tiling window manager. Apart from that I can't think of anything that is actively worked on and has any major traction.
I think you would find 90% of 4wds are automatic now as well.

Modern autos are actually more efficient than manuals, and easier to drive. The market has spoken.

The wiper stalk position varies depending on the car. As I pretty much only drive European cars it's always on the left and not an issue.

As for switching between LHD and RHD, you'll have a default. When stressed (heavy traffic, bad weather etc) your brain will be overloaded making decisions and you will use your default. If that doesn't match the car you're in, you'll try and change gear with the door handle. It's just mlike crossing the street, the way you first learnt is burnt in, and while you can override that, one day the basic programming comes back to the top and you look the wrong way and step out.
> The way forward is ton get rid of the concept of 'benefits' packages and just let people work for a gross pay and let themselves choose their own benefits from that.

This. Among other things, it would go a long way towards fixing the health insurance problems in the country. One of the reasons the private health insurance market is so dysfunctional is that relatively few people participate in it (most people are covered by their employers).
I'm not so sure. I spent the last few nights with my 14 and 16 year old kids, playing Mario Cart, Mario Party, and Mario Bros, and loved every second. Maybe it's our expectations that are off.
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> and it's easily superior to the Flash player in performance and resource usage.

Not on older (3y+) machines.
Any lawyer is going to tell you to keep your mouth shut in this situation. Anything you say at this point may be held against you later. Sucks, but true.
It's somewhat amusing to think of the N64 being cited when the parents replied to are about 3D environments complicating the control schemes.

Most of the people who encountered the N64 did not know how to hold the controller at first glance. This was made worse by the fact that practically every game has a different idea about how the controller was to be used. Nintendo had to settle a court-case by distributing gloves to players complaining of friction injuries.[0] .

This was mostly because developers didn't know how to deal with the control schemes of 3D environments very well, and Nintendo was planning for what they considered to be needed in the future : more controls.

There's very likely a reason that the M shape was never used for controllers again, however it did leave a lasting legacy in the form of trigger buttons (not shoulder buttons), which are now practically a universal controller feature.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_controller
>Number one issue for common people: "I use webmail".

Which is actually two issues. One, the interface; there's a GPG thingy for GMail, but it's kind of junk. Two, and no less important: how do I search my archive?

(Did you just say "download it"? You lose. Did you just say "don't use webmail"? You lose again.)
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Also, it was an ice cold intro whereas the investor intros were warm.
Uber is a great service and a great idea. However, they encounter many legal problems. I am not surprised that Hillary Clinton wants to move this industry... a bit like the French government does.
Yes, if you have developed a 'relative' position patten in your head, it takes a while to adjust.

The secret is to have an absolute position pattern in your head - you know that first gear is up and to the left - and your brain is able to operate your hands accordingly. Same as how you learn where the cupboards are in a kitchen and can open them no matter where you are standing - you have an absolute mental map of the kitchen.

It's probably because driving is a stationary activity that the brain develops a relative map (move right hand this direction) rather an absolute (first gear is over there)
Without the bargaining power of large groups of employees, how will reasonable costs and levels of service be maintained? It's well established that people on their own without insurance get charged much higher rates than people with insurance get charged for the same procedures at the same hospitals. Presumably the same effects apply to individuals trying to obtain a price for insurance versus an employer bargaining for a group of employees.
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holy crap that is convoluted

I simply use mplayer and javascript oneliner extracting direct mp4 link from YouTubeCenter plugin = streaming video in mplayer without downloading.
First of all, get an upvote for taking the effort to try and make it better for those whom you lay off.

I've never been laid off from a real job, just from a temp one where the owner was a jerk. Few things I can think of:
1) Try, with you best efforts, to help the folks you lay off to get other jobs. Recommend & refer them to those you see relevant. Make sure they get advice from their direct boss about what the should/better/could do next, and try to get your company waling their hand thro.

2) Clarify the situation quickly. People hate to get these news but rumors running around are much worse.

3) Some managers afraid try to detach their compassion to cut this awful mission fast. This is not the time to pull the authoritative boss too much. You're already sending them, try to show warmth.

4) Keep in touch with the best employees you have to let go. Try to hire some of the in the future if you can. If will be a great closure.

5) Can you send them away with something?
A course to develop their skills towards the next job? a gift? few meetings with career coach for each laid off employee? (you can but that at bulk)

Best of luck!
I'm not sure what that 8% includes (municipal/city workers? military? police?), but in Finland the government claims on their website to employ 79 000 people (~1.5%). No idea if the numbers are comparable.
She's not campaigning for workers now, either. She's campaigning on behalf of lobbyists whose broken business models are being threatened by Uber and their ilk.
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Yeah, but all my assets are in my company... and really, once someone has had root on your servers? It's pretty much impossible to take that away without their consent. A "clean wipe and re-install from backups before this person had root" is going to leave me with nothing bout a smoking crater, financially speaking.

Also, you just saw what happened on Reddit. Firing someone who is in contact with your customers can backfire in ways way worse than a discrimination lawsuit, if you screw it up.

so... at least when dealing with my own stuff, while I'm sure my insurance company would prefer I follow your advice, it's probably in my own best interest to do whatever it is I can do to avoid pissing off the outgoing employee, even if it does give them more leverage if it comes to a legal fight.

I mean, I'm not sure if the commentor I'm responding to is right or not, but getting sued for wrongful termination is pretty far down the list of things you should be worrying about when you fire someone as a small company.
There has been no write off of debt.

The bailout was; Greece was lent money it could not have gotten on the open market. Mostly to pay off debts from bank the Eurozone feels too big too fail ( my speculation ).
Link to transcript of that keynote

http://m.ign.com/articles/2005/03/11/gdc-2005-iwata-keynote-...
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Seems to work ok in many places around the world and in different products within the us. You don't need 'group buying' for auto or home insurance, or car or home purchases.

In fact group buying probably hinders the ability to get the right product/person match.

Of all the problems to solve, it seems pretty easy. Even if that just means groupon for benefits.
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>"Given that the company is facing hard times, we looked at performance and pay of everyone at the company and kept the people we felt were the highest performers at the least cost."

Hm. So the information you want is that it wasn't random or based on seniority. It was performance based, even though your performance wasn't low enough to get you fired outside of a layoff.
Operators in APL had the same associativity and precedence semantics. On his github page, Rob Pike describes Ivy as "an interpreter for an APL-like language", so it makes sense.
With that logic they could add the Ask Toolbar and make it opt-out too because otherwise far fewer people would benefit from it. Clearly adding pocket wasn't in the interest of users, but only Mozilla's. I doubt adding pocket by default into Firefox was even a thing anyone asked for.

And why Pocket? Maybe some Firefox users use Instapaper, and they had no say in the choice of Pocket.
IE11 has a reading mode since Windows 8 I think. The replacement Microsoft Edge browser will also include it.

Firefox for Android actually had its own 'reading list' for a while too. Won't be long until Pocket will be on Firefox for Android by default if this is their direction.
I've been lightly following this for a while now (and it looks really good) but sadly so far I see hardly any benefit in using Lua without openresty for web development (I have two fun projects using Lapis and some more boring stuff in production in pure openresty+Lua, without any external libs).
Why openresty? Simply for performance reasons - when using Python the ecosystem is just exponentially bigger than Lua's and for the stuff I need Flask usually is the right answer and gives quick results and stable(!) libraries for everything are at hand.
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If you're the CEO, show presence. Our former CEO went home on the afternoon and let middle management do the talking. Don't be that guy. People will be angry at you and it will feel shitty. Do it anyway and absorb the blame. It's only one day.

Either be visibly available or take part in the layoffs.

In the layoffa, be fair, transparent and clear - but follow the protocol. Don't beat around the bush, your (and your managers') first sentence should be "We're very sorry, but we will let you go." Instilling hope or doubt where there is none is unfair, don't do it by accident.

Reiterated because it's so important: nobody cares about your feelings that day. You can't make it better. Don't make it worse and be a real grown-up.
Thanks to post here. :-)

One thing the main purpose is to make staging and unstaging easily when doing terminal jobs. And I made it just for fun, but I think it's useful to me at least. :-)
In general I believe that there are no hard and fast rules about the expression of feelings in life. I agree that going on about all the emotional agony you went through to make the decision is worse than useless, but expressions of remorse like "I'm sorry it didn't work out" are totally fine in my opinion. A statement like "It's not personal, we had to make a business decision, and it wasn't easy." also communicates that the employee is not totally expendable, if that happens to be true, while also communicating personal concern.
Firefox < Opera < Chrome, in terms of performance and business choices...
This tsunami TCP SYN attack uses 1000 byte SYN packets apparently. A good countermeasure for these would be rejection of all large SYN packets. Verisign DDoS protection services claim that they can withstand 2Tbps attacks of most types.
That was back when Sam Walton was alive and pushing Buy American. Walmart went to shit after he died.
Dude - stop trying to explain to HN how great Haskell is. The longer it takes people to catch on the more of a head start we get. In the mean time we can continue to be extremely productive writing programs we can maintain easily and refactor confidently without unit tests, while reaping the benefits of a great community that provides an awesome standard library and thousands of other useful packages (all in a cohesive, standard format).

It may not be as fast as hand optimized C. It can be within a factor of 2. Though it can be cross compiled to many platforms without any changes.

But I digress - it's my secret weapon and I'd like to keep it that way ;)
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Same issue here. Safari 9.0 on OS X 10.11 (Beta 3).
You do realize we had a time before unions and common benefits right? What makes this time any different?
well, yes, you're right - its still there tho :|
Yeah, for and while loops can be done with a simple fold - accumulating a tuple. But you've got so many other options.
"It's not in one of our prime 5 markets...you would be better without us...but Hey call us when you're doing your series A".

This ranks just below my favorite answer:

"We love that you have 1M users, but we need to see 10M before an A round. (Month passes). Oh, really 10M users that's great but we like to see 50m before doing A rounds now. Come back later!"

Of course, you won't need this chump change fund's money when you reach that point.
I don't think the classification of most of those DoS bugs are correct. I also don't think there's a big difference between 100 vulns per year and 300 vulns per year. You go fishing and you find some each time.
Yes, they're made with a 3D engine because the platforms and the widely available frameworks are all 3D. However, the games themselves, the gameplay, and the primary aesthetics of the games are not 3D and would be just as home in a 2D or 2.5D engine and hardware with at most minor changes to the visual look and feel of the game.
> Personally I wouldn't escort them out or lock their accounts unless you think that they are going to cause problems.

Hopefully you have a corporate policy regarding this. Ours is to lock access to accounts within 30 minutes of notification. It's just the best policy to have a uniform approach that is applied evenly.

For emails, have it autoforward to an IT monitored, or your own account. Occasionally you may have an employee who needs access to something via an account that is tied to their work email.
I you are panicking the kernel, that is a kernel bug, not a JS/Firefox bug.
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My group policy cost more (~60%) working at a corporation than my paying for it on my own - because they are averaging costs for everyone.
This is good advice and continues to apply to the meeting/discussion with those NOT getting laid off. There is simply no way for you to pass on how bad you feel and have it come off well. I recall vividly a VP going on and on about how hard the day had been for him, and just thinking, man, keep digging yourself in deeper... it hurt to watch and I never regained respect.
If you're laying people off because you need to trim payroll, everything I said should be true.
Yeah that is exactly what I thought as well..

its not like they pivoted... maybe the homepage pitch changes...

All this episode should highlight is that founders should not think that VC's have some sort of wisdom when they reject...

They follow only one wisdom and that is traction... if you got that and in huge spades, then everything can be explained in a wise manner.. and we will marvel at their wisdom.
Just read the latest news on domainnamewire.com that the workbetter.com lawsuit has been dismissed.
> Also, if you have a non-compete on the employment agreement. Do the right thing and nullify that agreement.

They OP may not have the ability to nullify employment agreements. They may have the ability to not enforce them post layoff.
Ever been in a roomful of people waiting for a suddenly-called all hands meeting, and seeing a whole bunch of people with their phones out wondering why their email isn't checking, then seeing their wifi credentials stop working, then the lightbulb going off in their heads?

(That was a fun day...)
At first glance the Feynman Algorithm is funny, but it also encodes a lot of wisdom about how to go about problem solving.

For example, I've noticed that oftentimes when people get stuck solving a problem it's because they tried to move to step 2 or 3 without first completing step 1.
A function that takes a database connection as a parameter does use global state, the state in question being the world outside the process.

If you want some convincing about the for loops claim, well, first I recommend considering how keyboard users often overlook cases where using a mouse would be more efficient, and then I recommend trying some programming contest like the Google Code Jam using Haskell. Then try using C++, or D or something. Once upon a time, I didn't do programming contests, but some people from IRC got me to try the Code Jam. I thought I'd use Haskell, being very familiar with it, and the experience was a most illuminating disaster. On the other hand, C++ worked out pretty well, even though I was a total cargo cult functional programming weenie at the time and had a real bad attitude about C++, while having only used it for a couple of college classes. You'll find yourself much more aware of how much time you spend stumbling over functional code after that.
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Pandoc (document format converter) comes to mind.
Isn't this just another way of lock-in? Now instead of using an open source solution or some some other open source management platform, you are now dependent on this company to manage your docker instances. Am I missing something here?
A lot of people will even want to wrap up and pass off their work in as controlled a way as possible, even having just been laid off.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9873255
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This is very interesting to me. Does that mean that if I'm ever in the unfortunate position of being fired I should not sign anything and lawyer up?
Or if I feel like I don't mind signing right away, should I bargain very hard "I'll sign it here and we'll be done but you'll have to give me 150% of what you are offering"?
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> If you really care about making it easier for the person being fired, this is a MUST.

Perhaps this is splitting hairs, but I see a round of layoffs as something considerably different than being fired. Net-effect the same, but firing someone has a the connotation that it was for cause.
CharityWatch says even a “minimally efficient” foundation spends 60 percent of its budget on programs. In the years 2009-2012, the Clinton Foundation devoted just 15 percent to charitable grants, according to an analysis of IRS filings by The Federalist. That fell to 10 percent in 2013. Forty-five percent was spent on salaries, perks and travel for staff.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/31/clinton...

Hiliary Clinton can be bought and is being bought through donations to her foundation.
>The way forward is to get rid of the concept of 'benefits' packages and just let people work for a gross pay and let themselves choose their own benefits from that.

Well until you change the tax laws any such change is just going to result in a pay cut. The whole reason things like healthcare are offered as benefits rather than straight salary is because benefits are tax efficient.

>Ultimate flexibility is what efficient economies are about. Unions don't like that future and understandably try and fight it. It's a futile fight in the end.

Sure get rid of the unions, but let employers band together in trade associations. I am sure that these employer organisations would never collude to hold down wages.

Edit. It is good to see that everyone here has forgotten about all the big tech companies banding together to hold down tech wages.
Well today the government (i.e. tax payers) will subsidize a good portion of health care
Be kind, just, considerate, etc. Many have covered these ideas, no need for me to repeat them.

What I will say is, you should consult with an attorney. It is all well and fine to go through life assuming that all people are good, honorable, ethical and even altruistic. Yet, it is even better to believe those things while taking steps towards protecting yourself and your company should you come across someone who deviates from such notions.

Why do I say this? Because I've been burned on more than one occasion by people who see a layoff as an opportunity to enrich themselves. If you don't know how to manage a layoff it is very likely that you will do and say things that will expose you and your company to liability. This is the part that sucks. You have to lawyer-up in order not to create a problem for yourself or your business. There are Federal and State laws you have to be aware of.

Spend a few hundred dollars to sit down with an attorney well versed in matters surrounding labor law and have him/her advise you on how to conduct the layoffs.
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