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Banky's quote reminds me of the movie "99 francs" (2007), which is I think a brilliant take on the world of advertising.
Of course it is! If the government, or some other entity, is going to give you a ton of grant money to prove, let's say, global warming, the options are to either "prove" it or watch your funding evaporate. What would you choose?
Are you sure being attractive and having lots of friends isn't a better life strategy than being really intelligent? It gets you laid way more often.

(Not that either of those are strategies really.)
I too have been a Apple user since the early eighties and recently been wondering if we might be seeing "peak Mac".

I switched to Windows back in the early '90s and basically hated life until OS X and the switch to x86 provided the incentives for me to switch back.

I'm using a 2008 MacPro, I'm planning on upgrading in the next 12 months, and the current MacPro models don't really fit my needs as well as the pricing would demand.

Now I'm leaning towards a Linux workstation but none of the software I have licenses for and need runs on Linux... and there is no Wine like project for running Mac apps on Linux.
I tried to run a Tomcat server on Scaleway, but it simply didn't work, and it was nothing complex, just jspwiki. Too bad, the price was really good.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363737
>what risk do you take by going on a vacation for a few weeks?

But what about afterwards? Assuming this to be true, you just return to normal life after a few weeks?
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Stoicism really helped me through some psychological difficulties. It contains truths which haven't altered in thousands of years.
https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-p... - this is an interesting offering, Hetzner is one of bigger hosting companies in Europe. They seem to be experimenting with cheap ARM offerings recently.
Of course, no one has yet funded their entire PhD this way. It is however a fantastic way to fund a conference trip. There've been quite a few successful projects funding conference presentations or travel.

In my experience speaking with program officers and grant reviewers, particularly NSF, the public or 'broader impact' section of a grant application is starting to grow in importance, because like I said above, it's become a way for grantees to stand apart from the growing number of applicants. So having more to put in that section certainly helps, and I do know that it's come up with a few tenure committees (successfully). It just depends on who, where you are, what field, etc.

CSE is always a bit of an outlier, given the lower costs but still. I realize your hostility is towards the notion of someone being entirely alternatively funded, which we've never claimed to do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10074948
> I favor an approach where we separate kids who've shown some aptitude for the sciences and concentrate them in schools full of their peers.

They tried that on us ("gifted schools"). The two things it got us were hours less sleep each day because of the longer commute, and worse college admissions because of GPA deflation. I would've rather stayed in the normal pipeline and gotten scholarships instead.
Model predictive control is a hot topic in Computational Logistics atm (my field) I expect this is true of other fields too, these things seem to go like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_predictive_control
Slightly off-topic: in one gig we are running buildfarm and CI on dozens of cheap notebooks (mostly ACER and Lenovo).
And enjoying this effect of local power backup, which is very useful in our office building, because power is very unstable. When power goes down usual rack-mounted server might work tens of minutes off a UPS supply while these little bastards work for a couple of hours more, just slightly slower.
Don't you think there's a bit of a selection bias there?
everyone has a scooter here, so they are onto a good thing. Also, they are massive in the rest of Asia so the market is big.

In Taiwan there are a lot of electric scooters around, they are also taking off in Vietnam.

At the same time there are quite a few people on those mini segway thingies too.
With tags in each shoe and on both wrists, and every hold a scanner, the data would describe exactly how and when each hold on the route was climbed.
While Dell may have had a shot at being AWS and EMC in 90's and 2000's, it never entered into their mindset. They were PROUDLY claiming how they were not wasting money on R&D but rather simply churning out boxes of computers as cheaply as possible using innovations developed by others.

But it is good to see a possible competitor to AWS.
Many people who have bought diesels have made the decision based on the wrong criteria. They bought it because the fuel is cheaper and you get more miles to the gallon.

However people that only drive short distances daily (less than 15 minute trips. I.e. the school run), are damaging their diesel engines because the DPF (diesel particulate filter) needs at least 15 minutes to get to a temperature that can burn off the particulates.

People who don't regularly drive long distances in their diesels are therefore driving on false economy. The repair bills will end up outstripping the fuel savings. Also, as the article points out, cheap diesel is artificially cheap due to government incentives, which could (and probably will) be taken away at any time. People driving diesels in Europe are sitting on a financial time bomb.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-2332107/Petr...
So it's okay if we only throw 30% of women (or whatever other underrepresented group is optimized for) under the bus because they're not like the others?

Isn't "just behave like the others (to succeed)" exactly what we're trying to get rid of?
> Regarding "gender diversity", I know for sure that construction, road works, automechanic, welding, mining and many other fields have "overrepresented men problem", while teacher, nurse have "overrepresented women" problem, so why focus on technology sector which is pretty good compared to those?

I am in Norway, and men are hardly underrepresented in teaching and nursery here. I also visit tunnels under construction due to my work sometimes, and can't say a girl in reflex and hard hat is that uncommon sight. They are still under-represented in STEM overall, however. Not sure what the conclusion is here, but it is probably not the one you are trying to make.
> systemd has grown fast and conquered large market shares because it was backed up by a company, which put a lot of money and manpower into it - to write it, to integrate it, to advertise it. The only thing that has not been correctly funded in systemd is research and design.

> systemd is only Open Source if you read the license; all its other aspects are proprietary - it's software made by a company and aiming to capture a market. It is impossible to compete with systemd on the same grounds, because no real Open Source developers will have as many resources as Red Hat.

This. The reason systemd is hated so much by "old unix guys" is because it shows that Red Hat basically owns linux the way Microsoft owns Windows and Apple owns OS X.

Many people protested against systemd but it was still pushed by force. It was made specificaly incompatible to make experience on BSDs worse and it sucessfuly removed Gnome from there.

So yeah. Some "haters" talk about unix this and complex that, but I believe it's mostly about scummy company showing off it owns linux now.
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What a waste.
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Fascinating premise, utterly buried behind a paywall. Tried a different browser, tried 'Private Mode', nothing. Please update with a non-paywalled link.
Oh, that actually makes more sense...
Accessing through google worked for me: https://www.google.com/search?q=Tech+Entrepreneur+Creates+a+...
Click the "web" link under the title and then click the first result on Google to bypass the paywall.
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> Sooner or later the global hub of the computer industry has to shift away from San Francisco to somewhere there's actually some goddamn space. That time is now, as evidenced by the ridiculous prices, which are pushing people out. This is a good and natural stage of the process.

They've tried. Several times. It never works. As soon as the economy donwnturns, all the non-SV sites get shuttered. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. And now, people have been through enough iterations to know that non-SV satellite sites are full of crap.

The consolidation in the semiconductor industry isn't helping, either.

However, the solution is rather simple: sustained Series A investment in an area. This is the key point that drives Silicon Valley--as bad as the Series A situation is in the Valley, it's orders of magnitude better than anywhere else. So, if you funded 50 Series A's each year at about $5 million each, you wind up with about 5,000 employees and 500 companies for about $2.5 billion invested over 10 years.

Given the lack of Series A in the valley right now, THAT would create a new Silicon Valley.

Of course, at that point, the VC's in Silicon Valley would finally get off their asses and start funding Series A's, so now you are competing with them as they attempt to short circuit your ability to get another Silicon Valley off the ground.

So, is someone going to cough up a check for $2.5 billion to be contrary and make the next Silicon Valley? Or, instead, are they just going to go join the rest in the valley?

I know what I would do if I had that kind of money.
This article raises an interesting question, but then give no good answer to it.

The actual answer is that women generally like modern programming noticeably less than men do.

Women are better at nurturing and maintenance.
Men are better with handling abstract concepts and solving deep problems by having narrow focus.

Before computers became mainstream (prior to ~1980) typical programming job was more about nurturing and maintenance.
Typical women skills were a good match for programming back then.

However what programmers did back then in 1960es-1970es is now covered by ~electronic spreadsheets.

Modern programming is much deeper and more focused than it was 35+ years ago, so most women prefer moving to other professions.
In spite of affirmative action that tries to attract women to tech.
The snowflake syndrome is the modern means of building a minority political bloc - for any underrepresented group or condition, a representative comes along and declares themselves champion of the people(the people that they represent, that is), and encourages shaming of the rest as a form of unification.

It's the shaming that eventually got to me. It's such a prolific and harmful tactic. The people who do it the most tend to lack virtue themselves, when held up to the light. And it doesn't matter how well your internal sense of guilt works - you can always be judged poorly for reasons that become obviously unfair when pushed to far-reaching conclusions. It encourages you to polarize into a completely fanatical or disengaged state, without a healthy middle. If we've improved any, it's in that outright dehumanization is less common now, replaced with convenient euphemisms that diffuse blame.

Stoicism has the appeal of "It doesn't matter how bad the outside world gets - I am going to do my own thing and fix up my own principles and actions." It encourages you to work on small everyday behaviors instead of constantly diverting your attention to the Big Important Problem that the news is currently pushing at you(and that you can't do much about, without derailing your entire life).
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Search for the title on Google and click the link: https://www.google.com/search?q=Taiwan-based+startup+Gogoro+...

For more info see "Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic" post about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
I fully agree. With a dedicated server, memory and bandwidth are more often the bottleneck than CPU. I am using scaleway.com since 2 weeks. My small arm server runs squid (to bypass the proxy of my society) and a little static server that fits almost entirely in RAM. It works like a charm.
The exception applies to this article too:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oli...

Strangely enough, on the same general topic. Perhaps it's taboo to point out the obvious when the topic is the corrupting influence of money.
Traditionally TVs only support 60 Hz refresh rates (or 50 Hz for older PAL sets), so you either render a new frame for each frame the TV can refresh, or you display a frame for two TV refreshes.

Thi sisn't strictly true any more, since many TVs now support 72 Hz (to be able to display 24 fps content like film), but my guess is that doesn't have wide enough support to rely on.
> and I do know that it's come up with a few tenure committees

If you're saying what I think you are, then that's exactly what I meant by the sex appeal comment. Regardless of how it's talked about, people aren't treating it as an alternative; rather, it's a particularly sexy supplement (because it's new and because it addresses dissimination / public awareness / education broader impact criteria that their more traditional sources of funding care about). So even though they could have picked up 2k in travel funding from a random pool of university cash or just funded everything out of an existing grant, they do the crowd funding thing instead for the sex appeal factor. But it's also possible that's not the case, they really need the money, and I've just spent too much time around the wrong types of academics.

> I realize your hostility is towards the notion of someone being entirely alternatively funded, which we've never claimed to do.

I don't mean to sound hostile. Maybe incredulous. Your earlier posts certainly sounded like you were proposing an alternative :-)

Anyhow, good luck.
That is, I'll admit, a much better success rate. Still not as high as I'd like, but I was honestly surprised by my ~7% figure - I didn't figure it was actually that bad.

I can't give you a specific figure, but off the cuff? I'd like to see decent numbers of projects regularly getting funded at the ~ 50K level. That would have a couple benefits:

- We're now talking about a year's funding for a postdoc/grad student/significant % effort for a prof. This is I think a fundamental hurdle. We can't pretend that crowdsourcing is a viable funding stream if someone else has to keep the payroll going.

- 50K is also about the level, at least in my field, where we can talk about long-term investment purchases. Equipment, computers, larger datasets...the kinds of things that are hard to put on a single project.

- That's also about the point where spending time on crowdfunding campaigns likely won't irk chairs, tenure committees, etc. A couple years back I asked the folks in the fiscal office at my department about how a ~3-5K crowdsourcing project would work, and I got serious side eye.

- It's also about where modest but decent pilot grants come in in my field generally.
How come none of these articles in the VW dieselgate wake mention previous identical scandals in this area that make me skeptical that anything will realy be done about it? Took me less than a minute to Google (from 1998!): 'Car manufacturers can use modem electronic equipment to adapt the engine to any type of test cycle. They can even tell the computer of the car how to recognise when the car is being driven according to a specific test-cycle and adjust the combustion accordingly. It was this kind of software that six truck manufacturers, including two European firms (Volvo and Renault), recently used in the United States to defeat the EPA's pollution control. As a result emissions of nitrogen oxides from highway driving increased by 300 per cent. " extract from: 'Cycle Beating and the EU test cycle for cars' - Per Kageson - European Federation for Transport and the Environment - November 1998
All true enough.

I'm actually starting to think that the PM job should actually be a kind of 'next step up from QA' position, since so many of the skills PMs typically don't have are exactly the kinds of skills that really good QA people do.

Plus, QA really, really, really, really needs to be a profession with good career progression because without career progression you don't have good QA people and without good QA people your product will turn to shit.

Abilities like empathy with users (you get this by being in communication with them, hearing about their problems), ability to tightly specify desired system behavior (you learn this writing bug reports), ability reproduce scenarios, ability to use version control and some basic programming skills.

I think if you had a PM that could write high level failing automated test cases for developers to turn green and submitted them to developers via pull request instead of dumping dead trees on a developer's desk, developers would be in heaven.
> I found his arguments about dependency management having to be linearizable highly unconvincing.

What? Can you expand on this? To me it rang as a well-reasoned, and pretty devastating, critique.
Now that may be the problem. Perhaps the mathematics department should be moved to Engineering. Stanford did that with computer science back in the 1980s. It used to be part of Arts and Sciences, run by a rotating committee, and was graduate-only. The education side was disorganized, with schedules and staffing not matching up with admissions. The entire department was transferred to Engineering, was better organized, and got much better on the educational side.

The research side was dominated by logicians to and through the "AI Winter". Then they brought in machine learning people for the DARPA Grand Challenge, and that turned the research side around. Now the machine learning people are in charge, and most of the logicians and expert systems people have retired.

Science progresses one funeral at a time.
Probably because they have zero intent to IPO, where unicorns do.
"The midterms don't count if you don't want them to, which means 100% of your grade can be the final." And that's your choice. How is it his fault for giving you a choice?

"Most of it is literally just memorizing a proof." Proofs are more important than memorizing a formula and forgetting it after a couple of month.

"Convinced me to be a math major by inciting my passion for math." That's way more important than stuffing you with formulas, algorithms and problems. If you have a passion for something, learning comes more easily and naturally.

By giving you confidence and passion, he gave you the greatest gift he could possibly give. You can find theorems, proofs, problems and solutions in countless books. The information is there, all of it. Structured in many different ways. And he gave you the courage to go out and explore. I wish I had that as a freshman. Instead I got fear. Fear of failing. Fear of being mocked in class. Fear of not being good enough. And I cowered in fear. I learned mechanically, memorizing formulas and problems by heart. What good where the quizzes, hard exams and midterms to me when I couldn't understand and apply what I was supposed to be learning?
Are you aware that you are replying to a woman?
Those tools are pretty awesome, improving a lot productivity. I just even tried Mongol, it's already really helpful. Only issue, the price for perso usage 100$... :/
I don't think you need to have an extended amount of social interaction to have sex happening. Sexuality and sexual impulse are there to make social interaction to so much necessary.
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'Deep linking' is actually just URLs that open an App at a particular screen. There is not much you can do to prevent that. Android and iOS both have support for deep linking.

I think you mean more 'app indexing' as your concern. I am not an Android user so am not sure exactly what options you have for disabling things there. In iOS you can go 'General'->'Spotlight Search' and disable stuff there.
This was a wonderful read.

Could someone who's gone down this path provide a reading list for someone interested in learning more?
Francis Spufford’s Genre-Bending ‘Red Plenty’ (2012)
I also have this:

((i-(z)/10000)/(i+(z)/10000))^(50000)

which is sort of like the Poincaré half plane
Cloud services probably upended this.

If my server farm is idle any significant amount, I'm going to take those servers offline. If I need capacity, I'll spin up some cloud instances in the short term, and I'll bring my own servers online until I'm at an appropriate idle/busy metric.

I suspect that the days of 99% idle servers are long gone. I suspect that utilization is probably above 70%.
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I assume you work at Twitter. The nytimes articles seem to suggest this is going to be announced this week, so you can certainly wait that long to at least find out.

That said, I think you might be asking: "should I wait to know if I'm laid off, or should I return to my previous job?".

What motivated you to leave your previous job at the startup? Compensation? If so, then your previous employer clearly believes you are likely to be laid off but would love to have you back, so there's no "loss" in waiting to find out, in case you're concerned about being in a weaker negotiating position. But whatever that original motivation, it applies just as much today: there are plenty of big tech companies that would likely hire you.

So, what's drawing you back to your previous startup? If you went, what would keep you there?
It's certainly possible that our existence is the result of one or more ancestor simulations.

My personal cracked-out theory is that time and space are both infinite, and thus computation is infinite. As such, our observable universe may be the result of an infinite number of ancestor simulations.

Another facet of that theory which I enjoy pondering is the notion that the supernatural may exist (souls, ghosts, reincarnation, etc)—just in a simulation layer that exists above our own, but one that is still tied to our physical universe. Inaccessible but real.

A more grim yet equally interesting twist on that would be the supernatural existing within our current physical universe, quantifiable and ultimately accessible (some day), but presently not yet discovered by science. Often all things supernatural or spiritual have a sense of morality imposed upon them, but I imagine such a finding would strongly suggest that the supernatural, if it existed, would be just as uncaring and cold as the physical universe, since it would itself part of the physical universe.
I'm in Nepal right now. Massive blockade by India taking place has taken the majority of vehicles off of the road. The only taxi cabs running with regularity are electric three wheelers.

Electric scooter dealers and cycle shops are making an absolute killing over here right now.
OP has worked there less than a year. Any severance is likely to be minimal, but who knows maybe a month or two of pay if lucky.
basically a comedian asked question on why women were still choosing non-hard sciences in scandinavian countries inspite of the overt and covert equality measures. it ends up pitting one side against other. My reading is only one side had evidence and the other side used lots of emotion. Google threw up these references

1. http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/a_funny_thing_happe...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/1vuho8/the_docu...