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> I'm looking to transition out of startup nonsense and move into basic research.

There are options other than startups and moving to research.

Are you considering those?

It's not entirely clear to me from the post what you're hoping to attain by completing the PhD.

By the way, mid-30s isn't old, 10 years of experience isn't much, and a director-level position in a startup isn't particularly meaningful (if you were a director at a major corporation it might be).
If this were true, people without autism would not be able to apply theory of mind to actors on TV and in movies. Because people with autism lack theory of mind towards others in real life and in media, and those without it have it in both, smell cannot be related. It could play a small role, though.
It's different with Uber in hindsight, but in general, employees at start-ups are already overinvested in the success of the start-up, and that success is unlikely. I don't recommend that most people also sink their cash into their employer.
RIP Kuro5hin
You've gone kind of far afield from the idea that anyone who wants to should be able to go through grad school and then support themselves in an academic job afterwards.
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Well, it takes time, but steady does it.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/george-orwe...

> Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible.

Remember when Saddam Hussein was a great guy when he was at war with Iran and gassed some people on the side, but then later was not such a great guy because he "used gas against his own people"? Or how Saudi-Arabia and the US funded Al-Quaeda, and the US bombed the Middle East to bits, where now IS flourishes, which is such a big problem that obviously, now Syria has to be regime-changed as well, to make it better? How people are so concerned about murder and terrorism they can't even fathom the idea of one's own war criminals being arrested and tried? How Obama got a peace nobel prize, then continued with his surveillance / kill lists drone stuff, which is made terribly cute with a mic drop? How stuff constantly gets advertised as being "new" or having "more X"? Slavery is freedom, just like drinking Coca-Cola ist being popular and good at sports. More advertising follows such patterns than not. And of course, there's plenty of telescreens and microphones to go around. You never know if anyone is watching or listening, but you know they always could, just like in the book. We live in a world where people claim "privacy is dead, get over it" and don't even blush.
Central economic planning is disastrous.
This. Chris Hedges has a whole book about this called War Is A Force that Gives Us Meaning.

It's shouldn't be that difficult to understand, considering we spend all day every day interacting with these institutions, so it's disappointing to see so many otherwise intelligent people here who don't seem to grok what he's talking about.
Hey - if you don't mind, could you share your contact details? I have a question.
disagree that misinformed people shouldn't be allowed to vote...as that wouldn't really be democratic (to start with...). But it is definitely true that this is far from a "new" problem. Walter Lippmann was writing about this in the 20's ffs.
AFAIK, since 1991 (with the MIPS R4000) they have included the necessary interlocks in the integer pipeline. Just check the reference manuals from that age (e.g. compare the R3000 and R4000 manual section on the pipeline).

Or else use a search engine to find sources like this: https://books.google.com.pe/books?id=LL52JBPU4CwC&pg=PA52

The article's author should review recent documentation on the MIPS architecture. I think that the paragraph that starts with the phrase "MIPS is the worst offender" seems ludicrous for people working with modern MIPS implementations (let's say post-1992!).
I read it as hyperbole for the sake of making a point. I don't think the OP meant it literally.

But, debating that term seems to be getting away from the main point--that an employee could have an option on a sizable asset with no way to assert ownership of the asset, despite having fulfilled the vesting requirements set forth in the stock option agreement.
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I definitely agree with the overall sentiment of your post but don't forget; even pure digital designs need to be powered and cooled and the design problems and available solutions for doing this at 28nm vs 10/7/5nm are different.
For an engineering community manager, that was an awfully rant-y way to make the point: "It's frustrating that researchers don't publish their code."

Not to say I disagree with the frustration... but it's also not something new. It's been this way for decades. I'd much rather hear about who is doing work in this space and what they're working on. Here are the ones I know of:

1. The Center for Open Science (https://cos.io) is one such org trying to fix this with the Open Science Framework [1].

2. GitHub also recognizes the need for citable code and gives special discounts for research groups, in fact, Mozilla is one they work with [2].

Two smaller related startups are:

3. Datazar (https://datazar.com) - A way to freely distribute scientific data.

4. Liquid (https://getliquid.io) - A scientific data management platform. Somewhat like "Excel for scientific data as a Service".

Also, a related HN thread from some years ago: "We need a GitHub of Science" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425823

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1: https://osf.io

2: https://github.com/blog/1840-improving-github-for-science
You could easily use Gmail. Just add text to define the separate throwaway email. e.g. jane.doe@gmail.com becomes jane.doe+throwawayemail@gmail.com

When you want to turn it off just filter out the name combination you created.

Adding text: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096?hl=en

Filter gmails: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en
I think this article stretches some terms and statements to say things that sound reasonable, but aren't quite right. I noticed the pattern a few times:

1) Yes, QM talks about observations making a difference. But to say that "objectivity results from the fact that you and I can measure the same object in the exact same situation and get the same results — it’s very clear from quantum mechanics that that idea has to go"? There's a lot of steps in between where the work isn't shown.

2) Yes, scientists who ignore QM are using "300 year old physics". But somehow mechanical engineers (and even electrical engineers) still manage to create things that work without ever thinking about physics beyond 1900. There's definitely an argument that could be made that brains need QM to be understood - but again, it's not immediately obvious that this should be the case.

3)Yes, an organism that sees only "fitness" can outcompete one that sees "reality". But that doesn't mean that there's no relationship between "fitness" and "reality".

I think the main argument of this article is mostly a philosophical point about consciousness and perception, and to be fair, that discussion is really important! But I think there's a huge step missing between the science of QM and the brain that's being discussed, and the conclusions that are being drawn.
Shen-gnu - middle age, left over free software???
This article is flawed in many ways. Not once does he mention the problems with modern "education" as it relates to churning out great philosophers. Philosophy requires having an open mind in order to push the boundaries of human understanding. Modern education, especially in industrialized countries, does the opposite of nurturing free thought and critical thinking. In the United States, children who express different ideas and ways of thinking at an early age are much more likely to be dosed with psychotropic drugs to "normalize" their behavior and thought patterns then to be cultivated as future great thinkers.
A free market price would not fix anything - every tiny bit of flatland is already used. What you are saying is basically: Only rich people should have the right to live in central districts. I disagree and so do most Berliners.
On this point, I wouldn't say that CS PhDs are necessarily having a hard time finding jobs but rather CS PhDs aren't by themselves particular valued in industry so you generally aren't going to get your time and money's worth immediately after graduating (i.e. you'll get paid somewhat less than someone who spent the same amount of time in industry that you spend getting the PhD).

What it can get you is opportunities that people without the PhD don't have available (like corporate research teams that only hire people with PhDs or put them into a separate class called "researchers" vs. other people who are hired strictly to write code).

Whether it helps you longer term in the positions that are available to non-PhD holders entirely depends on you. I've seen plenty of people with PhDs struggle to advance and plenty without PhDs excel while working in the same environment.
Deep learning meets genome biology
The easiest solution is always capitalism, I agree, I'm fairly certain however it's harder to find somewhere to rent in London and paying more in Berlin still reaps results (having lived there as an IT contractor for 4 months from London I should know). I think these things can be solved in Berlin much more easily than most capital cities (i.e. there is substantial space to build new homes that simply doesn't exist in London or New York say).

Simply saying "be more capitalist" might work, but I'd say build more quality homes on all the scratchy pieces of land that exist round Berlin is an equally good option above firing people into the weird world of London property.

Finally the AirBnB/rentals thing is a result I'd guess of the massive number of people who hate having tourists traipsing through their buildings. My experience at least centrally was of large shared blocks of high quality flats and a lot of suspicion around strangers being granted entry to said gated communities.
How does the design process for these reactors work? How much design is done in simulation vs experimentally and how high-fidelity are the simulations?
Others mention SoC back-end as being separate from custom design, which is definitely true, but process has an impact on both.

For custom digital design and SoC, you start with RTL.

In custom design, you read the RTL and create a schematic using logic gates which implements the RTL spec. Generally, you have something to start with from the previous project, unless your block has seen massive changes. Then you floorplan the design, placing the interface and gates, and drawing the routes of the critical nets. Then you perform static timing analysis and many other checks to converge the design. This is a very iterative process, especially as some of your timing analysis depends on other blocks.

(I don't have experience in analog, other than working closely with a few analog designers as a customer for some mixed-signal design I did a few years ago) Analog designers use similar tools to create schematics/netlist and physical design. The verification process is much different, with a lot of work going to developing simulations to ensure the circuit works as it needs to in a wide variety of conditions (process variation, operating voltage, and temperature). There's probably a lot of other stuff as well, but I am not privy to all they do.

For SoC design, you compile RTL to netlist, using a logic synthesis tool. The synthesis tools are smart enough to approximate the physical design of the block, and you can refine your recipe to guide the synthesis tool to converge static timing in the netlist itself. Once that's complete you move to the automated place and route (APR) tools. Here you will spend some time and effort to floorplan your block: mostly placing of large sub-blocks and your pin interface to the rest of the SoC. Once you have that done, you'll go though placement, clock-tree synthesis, and routing, refining the recipe that will converge your design. Again, you will iterate on the design to converge static timing analysis and other checks.

In both these cases you will also need to converge the physical design to meet the design rule checks. The automated tools available in both environments take the design rules into account, but the complexity of these rules is not fully understood by the automation, and so user intervention is required. Depending on your group, you may have a mask designer available to help with meeting process design rules, but most groups require the block owner to do the majority of work in this domain, with the mask designer available for final clean-up at tape-in. Hope this helps.
>I feel like I'm relearning C++

Because you are. You likely wrote widly unsafe things which are perfectly legal in C++. Rust is really just enforcing RAII which C++14 already has, and you've likely avoided.
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Was Zona really even about the film? Or more about the author's experience of it at different stages of his life?

That said, Roadside Picnic is a very atmospheric and captivating story on its own right. It really fleshes out the backstory - if you like the movie, read it.
True, and waste heat is a far smaller contribution to warming than greenhouse gases.

But exponential growth gets impressive after a while. At 2.3% growth per year, we boil the oceans in about 400 years: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...

Whether this is physically or economically realistic is another matter. I tend to think that long before waste heat is an actual problem, we'll either transition to a stable state or move the growth off planet. (Conveniently, fusion is also great for rockets.)
It's 2nd may today man.
> The minute we see a bloated testing suite with yet another DSL, for Go, we are in trouble.

https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo
I draw the line[1] at amending the bylaws to prevent secondary sales. This just seems wrong to me.

[1] The line being where your company ceases to be ethical at its core.
Tempelhof cannot be developed because of a plebiscite. What else is there to develop?
Good point.

I see it this way. Logic is a method. It is one of the ways _how_ philosophy does what it does. (You could argue it is the only way, and many would not disagree with you.) However, consider what other disciplines do not require logically coherent inferences. Most, no? Art is one of the few which does not. Therefore logic is not central to philosophy because it is central to practically all disciplines! What is central to philosophy is, as I said, _abstraction_. The willingness to go meta-, to stand back from what you're looking at and questions the conditions of its possibilities. Do you see where I'm coming from? To make a stronger point, and to not at the same time denigrate your position, philosophers go astray when they focus on logic. :)
I see it as an reference to Wittgenstein's analogy of language games. [1] That was a concept designed to show that words do not intrinsically have meaning or refer to the world, as many philosophers claimed. Rather, language gets meaning in the context of the actions of its usage with others, much like the rules and actions in a game. The interpretation for a meaning game would be that life does not have intrinsic meaning, but we create or find constructs between ourselves and other people from which we can derive a contextual meaning. These meaning games then give us a purpose we can involve ourselves in. By constructing these games for others, say a parent creating a game of success in schooling for their child, we can give them contextual meaning and purpose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-game_(philosophy)
Berlin has a population density ~1/3rd of New York's and a bit more than half of London's. Whether land is used or not is irrelevant, the question is how it's used. Also I'm sure there are a million absurd zoning/building restrictions, they always go hand in hand with the rent controls.
> Suppose in reality there’s a resource, like water, and you can quantify how much of it there is in an objective order — very little water, medium amount of water, a lot of water. Now suppose your fitness function is linear, so a little water gives you a little fitness, medium water gives you medium fitness, and lots of water gives you lots of fitness — in that case, the organism that sees the truth about the water in the world can win, but only because the fitness function happens to align with the true structure in reality. Generically, in the real world, that will never be the case. Something much more natural is a bell curve — say, too little water you die of thirst, but too much water you drown, and only somewhere in between is good for survival. Now the fitness function doesn’t match the structure in the real world. And that’s enough to send truth to extinction.

My that seem like BS. I can't quite figure what on earth the argument is supposed to be but too much or too little water being bad for you sending "truth to extinction" just seems nonsense. Maybe it's some kind of late April fools joke?
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Mid thirties here - I assumed it was meant to be intentionally funny, and found it about cute and thought-provoking in equal measure.
First of all congratulations on launching. I like the idea and do hope one day to write my great American novel. In my past life I fancied myself a screenwriter (wrote six and produced one).

My three comments are:

* A screenwriting feature so that it counts pages over words.

* If you do support screenwriting then support the Fountain format. (I have a screenwriting/production app and I modified a WordPress plugin for that support.)

* NaNoWriMo is a time to shine. Start gearing up an awareness campaign in September.
go-plus for Atom is pretty good. I haven't used the IntelliJ plugin, so can't compare them.
No, central economic planning has traditionally been viewed as disastrous.

Doesn't mean it "is" or "always will always be".

In fact, you undoubtedly live to some extent under the auspices of some form of central economic planning right now. Why? Because at some point it was realized complete lack of central economic planning is disastrous.

But you are really arguing against government controlled rent prices no? I tend to probably agree in most cases.
You should add your current age to this as a data point
What mechanism do you use to choose who can live in a central district, if not the ability to pay market rent?

Right to live where you are born? That adversely affects anyone not born in a central district.
Not as expensive as a cache miss.
Personally, I'd feel code with light commenting would be better suited for getting a "practicable" point across to readers then a paper will.

You won't need to put so much weight on describing some of your practices, you can just how how your solution is better.
I think this is very perceptive of you. Could you name one or two? I think that if you could these people would provide a counter-argument to this article.
The author does make the low hanging fruit point, and he does offer justifications for his view of the opportunity issue that, FWIW, I find plausible. I am inclined to believe that in the past, the distractions of scratching a living diminished many peoples' time for musing, especially those who were slaves. The two-day weekend is a modern development.

I don't think you are being entirely consistent when you say both that the modern era has fewer individuals with the leisure time for philosophy, and that modern philosophers are academic careerists: the modern opportunity provided by academic careers seems to have benefitted science, for example, by giving a lot of time to people who would otherwise never have the leisure for it.

While enumerating those times when philosophy has been out of favor, the execution of Socrates comes to mind, as do the events that forced Aristotle to flee Athens.

I think your point 4 is insightful. From that era, only Aquinas makes the cut. That time, however, belongs to the 'then', rather than the 'now' of vastly larger population. Also, the theological backlash occurred primarily or only in christian Europe and the Levant, which points to another bias in this list...
Thanks for writing this comment. It's deeply informative and useful.

Two things I want to call out, one minor and one more significant. The significant one first:

Your employer, in the response you linked to, wrote approvingly of Orin Kerr's proposed alternative language, which would enable the same sort of remote "hacking" with the new precondition that it be allowed only when it's impossible for the courts to ascertain the right district.

If ACLU is OK with that narrower language, is it safe to say that you disagree with your employer? Because your arguments strongly implicate Kerr's proposed language as well. Put simply: you appear to favor broad restrictions on DOJ's ability to coercively collect electronic evidence regardless of whether courts authorize it.

The minor objection I have to your comment is the link to WaPo about the FBI being able to record video from laptop cameras without lighting the LED. That's an unsourced anonymous claim that, by my reading, can't possibly be accurate as stated, since different laptops have different mechanisms and it is vanishingly unlikely that the FBI has defeated all of them. I'm prepared to be wrong about this, but expect that I'm not, and would like to know if you can provide any more evidence backing that extraordinary WaPo claim up.
> Average latency is unimportant

That feels like an overly-bold claim. Improving your 99th percentile latency from 2 seconds to 1 second may not be worth it if you bring your average latency up from 0.05 seconds to 0.99 seconds.

> It's that 1% of clients sitting there for 2sec that impacts perception of your UX.

Well, surely that depends on what endpoints those are and what people are expecting from them. A 2s wait for a whole rendered dashboard page of your entire organisation may not really be a concern. A 2s wait for 'find out more about our fast CDN' might really harm sales.

Now, if your point was "you shouldn't only look at average latencies" then you're entirely right, but I cannot see how they're irrelevant. The overall distribution is important and I'd actually recommend that people look at this shape. Just picking one percentile is always going to be misleading because you're throwing away a vast amount of data.
You bring up sample size here which doesn't really matter because the effect is statistically significant. Your point about the populations being unrepresentative is of course a good point(which can be made about nearly any study, low hanging fruit for criticism) but represents a grave misunderstanding of how science actually happens in the real world. It's absurd to think that you should recruit a representative sample of the entire world to do a preliminary study. Validate on a more convenient sample and expand otherwise it's wasted money and effort.

>It's probably a fair hypothesis that they would not hold up to larger validation studies with more participants and more emotions tested.

There is no support for this besides your opinions and naive priors.

>one study examined disgust, which as Geekette states is a reasonable default reaction to sweaty odor

Did you even read either abstract? This is controlled for. There is a control group inhaling normal sweat without producing an effect.