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In a more traditional workplace, such as a law firm, your boss would tell you to take your Milennium
Falcon home because it's unprofessional. Professionalism is a virtue which is deeply underrated by the computational professions.

Part of "professionalism" is the recognition that you can be whoever you want to be on your own time, but while you're at work your personal identity is partially subsumed into your identity as a member of a profession. That means you dress, decorate, talk and behave in a way that's a bit more neutral and respectable than you might in your college dorm room.

This is a bit dull, sure, but it also enables all sorts of people to work together effectively by papering over their individual differences with a shared professional identity. The fact that your coworkers are of a different sex or generation to you and like different things is pretty immaterial when you're all wearing suits, sitting at undecorated desks and talking about work. Nobody will be alienated by your dick jokes, because nobody makes dick jokes.

Greater professionalism is the solution to many of the tech industry's problems.
> So, I conclude that a diverse team will come up with ideas that are broader, and as a result, solutions that help more people, than would a less-diverse team.

Will seems like a very strong claim to make. Can, certainly, but will? Maybe it all depends on what kind of sample size you have in mind.
At some point in the far future we may be able to implement an AGI as a quantum computer. However I don't think we will ever be able to scan and upload an existing human mind into that computer; there isn't even any theoretical way to measure and store the whole quantum state.
And still no pagination for TermsAggregation and TopHitsAggregation ...
You may hack this site by any means necessary
Rents escalating massively is usually a case of supply controls.
Something like

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"Further, the current Interim Chair, Craig Evans, explained that I am causing problems because students are not signing up for other Professors' classes on account of me."

Perhaps it's the other professors who are causing the problem by not putting any effort into teaching well?
Then the question becomes whether an architecture obscures or exacerbates them, and also how it deals with them. The systemd object model does not fare well, as discussed.

What specific aspects of the systemd dependency model do you feel exacerbate race conditions and circular dependencies?

(Also compare a system like s6-rc or serel where dependency graphs are compiled from manifests and consistency checked before being applied. The graph is persistent configuration and not an ephemeral artifact.)

I have seen people discussing systemd error messages about circular dependencies online. It seems that systemd does perform some checking, although I haven't found documentation on what checks it does (I probably missed it). I'm not sure how the dependency graph could be persistent configuration because hardware can be hotplugged these days. For example, are you going to create nodes in the graph for all the hard drives that could possibly exist over the lifetime of the machine?

Systems having ordering dependencies does not inherently affect their determinism, the startup discipline (sequential v. parallel) primarily does, and then there are different ways to tackle parallelism. systemd's execution model and transactional object system exacerbate non-determinism in ordering results.

If the sequential vs. parallel startup discipline "primarily affects determinism" won't all these systems have the same issues with nondeterminism? I don't think anyone is seriously proposing starting up services on boot sequentially in 2015. Or even when a USB stick is inserted. Systems have 12 cores now and people can be very sensitive to boot times.

[lack of portability is] a horrible criticism of systemd. Any cursory examination of systemd will quickly reveal the task is next to insurmountable without doing what amounts to a full reimplementation.

I understand that systemd relies heavily on cgroups and other Linux-specific features for process isolation. And the BSDs are also unlikely to accept GPLed code. However, I feel like they could have at least discussed some way of reducing fragmentation here. As it is, I would be amazed if at least one or two of the BSDs didn't implement a similar init system to systemd in the next few years. And as it is, they probably won't share any code or concepts, unfortunately.
That's one reason, but mobile zoom really does behave badly with a lot of website designs. Fixed headers in particular.
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I agree this is a major and disgusting problem, however the article does mention this; albeit with a different assumed reason.

>farmers have pumped cattle and chickens full of antibiotics because they plump up the animals (possibly because the antibiotics kill benign gut bacteria that usually take some of the creatures’ daily calories for themselves).
I found this snippet from an open letter he wrote to the Mathematics Department in the past:

> you instructed me to show a draft of my final to another very eminent member of faculty and former winner of
the distinguished teaching award. His comment on a draft that contained 8 questions was that it was already too long
and too hard, and should be no longer. I had originally been planning on asking 15 or so questions, including some
difficult ones, but I was not allowed to do so. In the end we settled on 12 questions. The result of this intervention by
you and other faculty was that the median score was over 90%, and in order to keep to departmental grade
distributions I had to set the A- cutoff at 93%

The implication here seems to be that his final exam was notably harder than is typical and yet he was forced to throttle the cutoff for an A- to enforce regulated grade distributions (which in and of itself is a horrendous policy).

The letter is here:

http://alexandercoward.com/OpenLetter.pdf

I think it's hard to ignore this in combination with the highest teaching scores anyone in the department has received in apparently 18 years.
I'm not associated with UC Berkeley, but I have been involved in a lot of campus politics in the past. Because I see many alumni commenting here about the effectiveness of this lecturer, I offer a suggestion: Give a restricted gift to the university. Earmark it for something like the salary or research of Dr. Coward. If they want to play politics, you can too and restrict that your donations are tied to his continued employment.
Yeah, well, if it's to go from unit files to Guile code, that's not what I'd consider an improvement. Having configuration files for use cases where the requirements are simple enough is nice.

Of course, when they're not, you end up with an abomination like MSBuild, but that's not the case here.
Thank you. Now let's discuss some solutions.
A skillful writer can make any job sound indispensable. Money is a better indicator than words when it comes to what society really values beneath all the soundbites.
My guess would be that you're allowed to copy, but they probably don't want you to publicly share what you've copied. Whether that desire for you not to disclose is legally enforceable should be confirmed with a lawyer, of course.
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About %70-%80 of the buildings in SF were made before 1979 also. So it's not a very useful metric. Go see whats for sale, most of it was built before 1979. Then go see stories about people trying to build a SFH on a empty lot and being block by neighborhood bullshit for over a decade.
Proof that patents aren't everything.
Why is a government agency funded from tax dollars of its citizens filing secret patents to own algorithms?

This is absurd.
This makes more sense why someone like Dan Goldston would leave Berkeley for San Jose State
Of course it is, and always has been. And whether the money comes from private or public sources does not change that. It's why having a free marketplace of ideas is important.
Yes. I like how you use the word "initially".
This helps me understand why someone like Dan Goldston left UC Berkeley to teach at San Jose State.
Most millionaires in this country are self-employed/small business owners, not VC-backed tech startup founders or early [insert unicorn name] employees.

Silicon Valley has convinced many people (you included apparently) that it's virtually impossible to build a business with meaningful and sustainable profits simply because there are competitors or other forces that limit growth and market size. This is simply not true.

Hint: you don't need to own every mobile home park in America to be a millionaire several times over.
So, how much more vulnerable does this make HP with its upcoming split?
This is my understanding as well. I believe the effect is called cathodic protection[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathodic_protection
While 1) my own experience somewhat matches yours, and 2) it does seem, subjectively to me, like a lot of this can be attributed to women freely choosing not to go into the profession early on, you did absolutely nothing to refute any of the points in the article.
Disclaimer: I have done privately funded research.

I'd say the answer is likely 'yes' - even for those who are trying to be conscious about it, there's a desire for things to work, to make people...well...happy. No one is going to be really excited to know their drug is shit. I've heard private industry researchers talk about this, even in companies that make an effort to shield research from finances - you don't want to let the team down.

On the other hand, you know what else corrupts research? Wondering where the funding for your soft money lab is going to come from. How you're going to pay your grad students, technicians, etc.

Research costs money, and the government has been providing less and less of it. The gap has to be made up somewhere.
The Avaneya project created software to decode the Viking Lander tapes. A few tapes contain images that were (as far as I know) never released.
Beautiful results: https://gist.github.com/jakeogh/fa995a3277d500ab59b1

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Avaneya:_Viking_Lander_Remast...
Upload my brain, so people in the future can use it as a DIY kit for Artificial Intelligence?

This article sounds a lot like SOMA the video game. brain scans, uploading your brain, etc
http://somagame.com/
Was that meetup scheduled at lunch or dinner time? If so there should have been lunch or dinner there ( or an expectation that you buy your own meal)

Displacing a meal is often a greater imposition that simply the meetup time. Maybe your friends simply figured that more food would come for the rest of the attendees?
No it's not and most Government agencies do the same for classified and unclassified projects for obvious reasons.

The NSA isn't special they just go out of their way to make is appear to be, DARPA also files secret patents, and so most defense contractors if the project is classified.

As for patents, well universities get the rights for patents for research funded with public funding and conducted by students, heck even NASA and the EPA file for patents and so does every other agency.

In most cases agencies have a Technology Transfer Program (TTP) that enables them to transfer their technology and license their patents (often for free) to US industry.

The NSA files for patents sure, but they aren't making money on them in most cases what they do often do is ensure that US industry remains on top because US patents still matter quite a bit and when anyone attempts to file a similar patent the NSA is granted the patent based on their earlier filing which is then more often than not is transferred to the US industry through their TTP.

And whats exactly absurd here? Your money has been already spent, would you rather some one else (just as likely to be a non-US for-profit company) would get that patent instead? We can debate patents all year long but claiming this is some sort of a unique case or misuse / abuse of power is well as you put it absurd.

P.S.

If you are interested here is their latest catalog, lets not treat that blog post as some form of actual investigative journalism.
https://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_techn...
Note that this should not validate or invalidate his claims, but here are videos of his teaching: http://math1afall2015.blogspot.com
Consider the source. a16z has a vested interest in there being more startup founders who don't consider/believe this obvious fact.
I really support the ideals of this group, but I can't help but think they're politically doomed. They'll have 'progressive', borderline socialist politicians fighting them on one side and then they'll have elitist, wealthy homeowners fighting them on the other side. Both those groups have the same goal: don't build anything OR if you're going to build something, it will be low density, low income housing purposely planned to make sure there is no new housing supply for market-rate home owners.
> But still a lifeless corpse all the same.

How can you possibly know this? And I'll point out that no one but you has posited that the result would still be a human brain.

What do you think happens if you freeze a brain in liquid nitrogen, then safely thaw it out and restart it?
I think you'll only find that in personality types that most of society probably isn't too fond of. That's not a gender thing, that's just a pretentious, insular, obnoxious personality.

And frankly, I don't think that's very common in professional settings. A basic rule of polite conduct is respecting other people's interests and beliefs.

That said, I myself do sometimes say "sports ball" because I think it's a humorous way to address a topic I know absolutely nothing about.
I said that like 10 times and still see it almost every time
I get what you are saying, but sometimes it's about narrow streets, sewer systems that are at capacity, water mains that are too small, traffic, horrid transportation systems, just towns that weren't built to scale?

Yes, you will find groups of people who don't want new people moving in, or the town they founded spoiled with overbuilding.
Bolinas comes to mind. These guys(Basically Hippies) built houses out here when no one realized just how beautiful a small community can be, and just how beautiful it is out there. They designed their little town with only a certain number of water hookups. They were upfront about their desires--they didn't want developement, nor other people. It essentiall stopped all building. As a young man who wanted to build out there, I thought it was unfair; but I can also see the wisdom in what they did. It's just a complex problem.

I am sympathetic to people who need housing. I actully belive in rent control. I just don't have a answer.

On a slightly different note, I belive we need to end homelessness yesterday. Every town should be required to have an area where people can camp. It doesn't need to be fancy. Just a place where a person can pitch a tent, without getting a ticket, or killed. There can be porta potties, and mobile wash stations. Cops can patrol the camp sites if needed. I don't think everyone will want to live in these primitive campsites. If that became a problem, you could require proof of previous residency.

Got off track--sorry.
Looking forward to a high performance JVM on the ARM server. Is there a way to rent an ARM server which has a high-performance JVM ?
No one's being called out. I'm curious about how it works, so I asked. Thankfully not everyone here is as reactionary as you, and I actually learned something.
Don't get me wrong. It works for me including a slightly hacky way on iOS.

However, it would be nice to have official iOS 1Password support since I believe 1Password can leverage BTSync via API much like Dropbox for a much more seamless experience.
Using watt's generated per dollar as a metric of success for fusion research (emphasis mine) is a false analogy. No commercial fusion power plant exists, however you seem to want to hold research reactors constructed for the purpose of discovery to the same financial standard as operating coal power plants. When the first commercial fusion reactor is turned on then we can bemoan capital costs using real data. Until then, don't compare apples and oranges.
One question. Why is it important to make, quote: "computer science more attractive to women..."?

I mean I get that the sex discrimination stuff and treatment of women we read here on hacker news is bad and of course it would help if there were more women in tech.

But other than that, if you think of the women in general and not some "diversity would be good" (which it probably would be), why the worry?

Why aren't we as worried that not enough men show interest in being nurses or kindergarten teachers or social workers? I know from experience that it would be very important to get a more "balanced" look at things in those fields.

Are we still treating women as little girls who we need to be worried about because they "only like superficial things and nail polish" and can't really take care of themselves unless we make changes so that "important stuff" is more attractive to them?
I think this is a very patronizing attitude, and dismissing the stuff some women may find more interesting than "hard sciences"
Getting the police involved based on someone's emotional state seems like a mistake. How could you possibly measure such a thing with any objectivity?
2 things about this fascinate me:

1) The knock-on effect of having this cross-published on HN and reddit will somehow make this story reach some form of news-media -> which in turn will influence UC Berkeleys decision, as they will be under the media-spotlight.

2) I always thought many STEM professors were useless educators who only taught students as a by-the-way while they chased fame/recognition among their peers for academic-success (or status). I guess this rings true for Math departments in many parts of the world.

As many others are saying, it would be better for this guy to leave, because if the department was overtly toxic before, the true assholism will shine once the other profs create a siege mentality against this guy for "outing them".
Are you (and parent) looking at something other than their pricing pages? It seems to me that scaleway costs 0.6 euro cents/hour, but also generally has higher numbers for most features than Digital Ocean: more cores, more RAM, more disk, more bandwidth.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
Society doesn't always value economically what it needs existentially.
So then it seems like we should focus on introducing feminine-nerdy interests into programming culture. I don't know what these are and why Star Trek wouldn't be among them though.
As a former resident of Lafayette, I'm glad that someone is taking action against the NIMBYs but BARF is out of line here.

The picture BARF paints of what happened is not entirely accurate. The city did not deny the developer from developing the land. After years of public planning meetings the owner of the land decided to work with the city after overwhelming public opposition against the development.
This question is one that I asked, and in response it was made very clear to me what is meant by the norms of the department. It means teach from the textbook.

Incidentally, some of the worst instructors I've had were these. It doesn't inspire much conference when you see one whose teaching involves verbatim copying from the textbook onto the blackboard and making serious errors on the parts where he/she doesn't. The impression I get from those is basically "if you can't even figure out clearly what you're doing, what makes you think you can teach us about it?" The best tended to be ones who didn't ever use a textbook at all.

Coward is such an ironic name for him, as from this article he is anything but a coward. I think he should find a better place to work where his skills are far more appreciated. That's what I did when I encountered a similar situation in computer science.
ARM has typically been more efficient, for both heat and power consumption, while losing out on computational power.

That's enabled people to cram significantly more processing cores into a server rack. 4 years ago HP release a server line with 288 quad-core ARM processors in 4U, for a total of 1152 cores. Obviously that introduces the complexity of needing code that is suited to massive parallelism. Each processor there took up just 1.5 watts idle, 5 watts under load. By comparison the Atom from Intel at the time had comparable performance, but consumed 8.5 watts, just over 70% more, and didn't idle to as low consumption.

There are a number of problems that are significant with large scale data-centre operations, but power consumption and heat generation are way up there at the top. In theory a data-centre filled with ARM based servers would give you comparable performance, but with cheaper electrical and climate control bills.

The emphasis there is on "in theory" :) The reality at the moment is that companies have spent years trying to get ARM based, massive core count servers to be a thing, and it hasn't really worked out. Switching processor architectures is never something that can be done lightly. Software has to be compiled and supported provided for it, and isn't necessarily tuned for the ARM architecture. The x86 architecture's performance characteristics have been really well understood, and software likely designed with those characteristics in mind.

Historically ARM has also lacked Windows server support, and had very variable quality linux support (not helped by every Tom, Dick and Harry SoC company do the darnedest things in pursuit of creating 'value'.) As far as I've heard, they've since done (or started on?) a huge restructuring of the ARM path in the kernel to clean up the mess and provide significantly better customisation opportunities.

In part it has also seemed like a case of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM". You've only got a certain budget, do you gamble on an unproven (to you) architecture, or stick the the tried and tested Intel?
> There are professors whose teaching quality is actually proficient and sometimes excellent, but whose student evaluations are marred by the fact that they can't speak English well, they have social deficiencies (e.g. Asperger's syndrome), etc

And those teachers deserve to have lower student ratings, because the quality of the experience for the students is drastically lower even if they learn the material at relatively the same level of competence. I myself have social deficiencies, and I don't expect people to give me sympathy points if I ended up lecturing a large class.

I fail to see how anything you've written about Coward's "cult of personality" is bad at all.
There is no reason to think that it would, either. If you did a Moravec transfer with real neurons that were grown from your own stem cells, such that the resulting brain is more-or-less physically identical to the original brain, do you still think the subject would "lose" consciousness?
Justice, Safety, and protecting the commons are perfectly satisfied by the interests of the wealthy. The absolute first thing that wealth wants is safety and order, and central to that is a well-functioning police force. Unless wealth has been entirely monopolized, that will involve a coalition of monied interests. We're not quite at the point of a private police force, though we're close, due to the raging ineffectiveness that BLM and similar movements are pushing for.
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I work at Pivotal Labs also. I don't even find it that disruptive to interview candidates on our projects bc I'm still working on what I'd be doing that day. It's certainly less disruptive than marching our entire team one after another into a conference room where they grill the candidate for an hour at a time, which is what most employers do.