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Assuming someone needs or cares about VC because they work in Silicon Valley is like assuming they belong to a yacht club because they're wearing a polo shirt.
They should be tested independently, each with a completely reproducible setup that does only what is required for the assertion that will be made. I'm not sure what's hard to understand here... Are you trying to say that they need to be run together? Because it doesn't seem like that to me.
I wouldn't assume that the general public is strongly against this kind of legislation. A subset (our subset) is, but the HN demographic is small compared to the rest of the country.

The basic concept of strong encryption is not something that most people understand. People are projecting their ideas of physical locks and warrants onto digital systems because that's what they understand. It's flawed, but it's hardly the first or even biggest/most important issue where poor understanding by the public leads to bad legislation.

Every now and then I have to drive through bumfuck Oregon, and the only radio stations are AM talk radio. It would be "educational" to spend some time listening to that every now and then. There are real people on the other sides of these issues that seem blindingly one sided to us. I think a lot of Congress probably just thinks that passing this kind of legislation (on encryption) will make most of their voters happy. Just like shutting down the EPA, or ...
Modules are so closely tied to the base kernel that they require recompilation for about every stable release and code changes for about every actual release. Almost nobody uses FUSE in production. DRI sorta works, but it's so closely tied to the kernel that people have loud objections to out-of-tree non-GPL modules using even bits of it.

Linux is pretty modular as an engineering project, in that there are ways for developers of one part of the code not to need to care about all the rest of it. But in the sense that systemd gets criticized for not being modular, Linux is also not modular. It is technically possible to implement either systemd's or Linux's APIs faithfully enough for things written to those APIs to work with your alternative implementation. systemd gets criticized because doing this is difficult in practice; it's far more difficult with Linux.
This is wrong. The answer is obviously "Go is debugged in production with extensive logging," so I question whether you're actually a gopher.
> Are there? If someone's that ignorant of the language, I don't think I'd want to run something written by him …

Yes, there are. I don't know any off the top of my head, but I see them all the time. So, just for fun, how about a little test:

Step 1: Google 'notable applications written in golang'

>> first result: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2843821/application-develop...

Step 2: Click through to github repos

>> Result 9/10 of them won't work with go get.

So, are Docker, Kubernetes and Etcd the kind of software you wouldn't want to run because their creators are too ignorant of the language?
>>People don't generally do research trying to understand how cells or tissues work, they generally write papers about "stories" they found. Only a small minority are trying to do some serious modeling using serious math.

Speaking as a layman, that seems like a very strong claim for what one hopes is a hard science supposedly applying the very best practices of the scientific method (i.e. falsifiable theories vs. anecdotal stories).

Is this meant to be hyperbole to get your point across, or something that is generally known throughout the bio[med|tech] industry? As a sister comment pointed out, the latter scenario would be quite alarming.

EDIT: I'm aware of growing sentiment within the scientific community to reconsider using p-values, of which John P.A. Ioannidis and his body of work[1] helped to raise awareness of. Was this the "story"-like theme that you're referring to in cell and tissue papers?

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
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Uber's RSUs have both a time condition and a "Uber goes public/Uber gets acquired" condition before they can vest.
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I thought it was also proven that it couldn't be energy positive.
I know Michel Laberge, he's from my home town of Bowen Island, BC. I went to school with his son, and my earliest memory of his mad scientist work was when his son brought in a mechanical hand controlled by a glove for his grade 6 science project. I think I was experimenting with lemons as a power source...

Of course we didn't learn until much later that he had rented the old gas station in the middle of town to conduct experiments with nuclear energy.

I still believe General Fusion's approach to be the most practical of the solutions I've seen. I'm continually following their progress, and am hoping for great news to come from them. I would love to be able to tell this as the story of how we accomplished nuclear fusion.
It's probably not; but it does fix a bug where bytes got misinterpreted. See http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Random-failures-in-comp...
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You have the Yakuza to thank for a lot of that.
I enjoyed Tempo very much. Haven't read much else by him, but this article is almost ironically self-unaware in its sweeping generalizations. For a guy who once wrote that simple 2nd order systems should be considered as weather systems (coincidentally I was pondering these words all day today!), his "banded" view on age vis-a-vis "society" is unnuanced. Surely he realizes that society, including the culture industry, is comprised of people interlocking at all levels and ages, but this reads like someone who just realized that older people have capital to invest and younger people have time to burn. V.R. must surely have put that together earlier?

It's as if to comprehend this essay, your definition of "culture" must be constrained to "pop music." If he doesn't believe that people >=40 have meanings manufactured for them, just pick up the NYT for example... The same with sports cars, fancy homes. Perhaps he's simply out of touch with "stuff people over 40 like." The entirety of child-raising, college-funding etc. is all part of culture...
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> Making each an individual test would triple the test time, pollute the test codebase and not bring any advantage.

Would it really? None of what you said here is true.
Didn't know about the Reinhart-Rogoff controversy [0], interesting! They state that they have been careful not to claim that high debt causes slow growth, but rather that it has an “association” with slow growth.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff-aus...
Willfully ignorant. She has been a staunch opponent of "gun rights" (where you & I stand on it matters little for this post), with a very long train of making staggeringly ignorant comments about the subject - long enough, with enough intense involvement by both sides, to show she can't possibly be "plain ignorant" as at some point you have to absorb some objective facts about the matter and show some competent basis for your stance (say, when debating a subject you should know enough about the opposing view to be able to present a competent argument on their behalf). With that kind of precedent in place, it's safe to conclude she knows little - and literally wants to know little - about the objective facts of the encryption issue.
A quant fund is almost certainly going to know the difference, since it's filled with professional researchers. That being said, Harvard CS is still top 20, and your publication record will probably matter more.
This behavior is absolutely ethical. They have done some work, not all the work as you have implied. Part of the basis of paying employees with options is so that they stick around - early employees know this when excepting this form of payment. This is the small price they are paying for getting rich later.
What shuttle service did you use for 16 and 64 core development? Might help someone stay close to your cost profile. Btw, your data sheet for 64 core says 65nm, too. I thought it was 28nm or maybe I misread one of your posts. 16 to 64 core on same node would be nice. :)

And good luck with "The Brain." Saw that on your website just now. Funny that I was thinking of proposing to someone a prior product for revival that did NN's with 256 8-bit cores on 0.5 micron with good results. Then, ABC Thinking Machines Super-Connector had badass GA results back in the day with 64,000 simple cores. Your design looks like a Thinking-Machine-on-a-chip level of cores with cores being more versatile. Not 64-65k but close enough. :)
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The problem is you're arguing against a totally different position than where Geekette and myself are coming from. Let's go back to the first lines of the OP: "What are the ingredients of a good relationship? Trust? Communication? Compromise? How about a sense of smell?" ... followed by the statement by Dalton that "Smell is important in social bonding." That last statement there is an extremely broad, confident statement (consider how complicated social bonding is), and it's explained by Dalton with this "emotional contagion" idea.

Two studies that show statistically significant effects for a total of ~60 people smelling odors from two different conditions (fear and disgust) is not nearly enough evidence to back up an assertion as broad as "smell is important in social bonding," nor that a substantial range of emotions spread via odors (contagion). At best, these two studies are suggestive, at worst they are so flawed as to not lend any evidentiary value. "Statistical significance" is not a substitute for critical thought on how much evidence stands for and against the hypothesis (meta-analysis). If I set up two experiments that showed that gravity doesn't exist, p=0.04 for both, would you set aside the totality of the evidence saying it does? Perhaps you would criticize my methods, or the link from my results to my conclusions, no?

You set up a strawman by saying that I'm asking the impossible—that large-scale behavioral cohorts must be assembled for preliminary studies. I'm not. I'm simply expecting some honesty in how people report the conclusions of preliminary studies.

>Did you even read either abstract? This is controlled for. There is a control group inhaling normal sweat

You are incorrect, probably because you did not read past the abstract. Perhaps you should be more careful about telling people how science works in the real world or whatever, because real scientific discussion involves reading methods sections. In the APS paper contrasting fear vs. disgust vs. control, the control condition contained unused compresses, i.e., no sweat at all. From the horse's mouth: "unused absorbent compresses [...] in our view constitute optimal control stimuli because other nonemotional bodily secretions (e.g., sweat from playing sports) can potentially contain other chemosignals."

So... I am supposed to believe that when recipients smelled sweat from the donors watching disgusting videos, compared to no sweat, feeling disgusted at the sweaty odor is some kind of "emotional connection" to how disgusted the donor felt while sweating? Give me a break—this is a sham negative control. The huge confounder, as Geekette rightly points out, is that many people are normally disgusted by any sweaty odor.
There's not an unlimited supply of tourists, at some point that demand is exhausted.
Oracle runs on so many platforms, that essentially once you fire up a command line interface or otherwise give administration commands to it, it is its own OS.

After installation (provided you don't run out of disk space), you can set it up and maintain it without (hardly) ever having to run an OS command.

As a result, just about everything, including statistics to be gathered, users, etc. is just another table you can query via SQL or set using Oracle commands.
"he" referring to a person who does the sort of work admired, not specifically the author of this work.
You're right, I did, but I wasn't actually addressing ease in some absolute sense, I was talking about the appropriate tools for the job.

If researchers have the legal right to publish their work, I can't see any reason why github wouldn't be exactly the place they'd share it, rather than some custom online research system as proposed by the parent.

That said, I don't have any experience in CS research, it's not my field, so I may be wrong about that, do tell if so.
One might say that mathematics is almost pure abstraction, whereas philosophy has a much greater emphasis on going back and forth between abstractions and the real world to fit them together.

Ethics and political philosophy have contributed to wars and revolutions, and in turn were shaped by them. Epistemology and metaphysics similarly influenced, and were influenced by, the cultural milieu of their times. A philosophical theory that does not respond to the very real needs and sentiments of its listeners is unlikely to gain acceptance at that time, no matter how elegant or self-consistent it might be.

Likewise, in software engineering, you usually don't abstract away in a vacuum. The relationship between entities in your CRUD app must have at least some semblance of the actual things they represent, or your app will become a UX nightmare.
I did some machine learning research in college. Suffice to say, consulting is quite common in ML. Half the AI/ML professors at my school consulted/advised on the side, and many grad students did as well.
This makes me wildly curious if anyone has any rough statistics on what proportion of tech in SF is VC supported. I'm sure its incredibly nuanced and would be only a ballpark, but it would still be interesting.
Hidden? It's pretty plainly obvious to everyone...
Apple has $233 billion in cash in real terms (as of the just reported quarter). They hold most of it in short term assets; it's equivalent to cash in that they can access the capital on very short notice if needed. If Apple had to write a check for $50 billion next week, they can do it.
I do know how mining pools work. One could indeed do what you are saying.

What I am saying, however, is that one wouldn't.

It does not make any sense economically or in terms of risk of arrest.

Either you have pissed off miners ("Hey! What happen to all the money from that fee?"), or they are all collaborating which means "grand conspiracy".

Without the miners participation you have an easy to trace transaction chain that goes like this: bad guys, suspicions fee transaction, pool operator, new address. Trivial to trace.

In point of fact the fees in this case went to every participating miner. All conceivable cases that lead to any definition of tumbling requires that the actual funds are sent to all the miners. The event horizon argument which is the basis of the article is simply wrong. You seem to agree since you don't make a case for that.

Simply put: the fee is just as traceable as any transaction.

The best that could be done to balance the economic motivations and risk in your scenario is to generate pre-signed multi party transactions in advance of the initial fee payment for every minor, perhaps they only become valid once the fee is paid (one of the inputs to the transaction), and only at some point in the future (to obscure the direct relationship). In this case you'd have at least one new transaction from every participating miner creating a large number of outputs that become difficult to trace. Though it is still only one round of tumbling, and so compromising even a single participant would be enough to trace at least the value of that one participants laundering contribution directly to the source.

Even that solution requires a set of completely traceable colluding participants namely the entire set of miners who should have been paid the fees but aren't. And each of them would have to express there intent to collude via the pre-signed transaction in advance of receiving any benefit.

So at absolute best you have a poor quality, high risk, error prone, tumbling / mining service.
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I made a small database software engine. Learned a lot about pointers and C syntax, and I still use the software sometimes. SQLite is written in C, if you didn't know.
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Wow that phrase has really lost its meaning lately.
Why are you so sure your interests are always aligned with big tech interests?
It may be that a company has done very well but hasn't raised more money to bump up the present market value of the stock. In this case you would want to exercise early so that the clock starts for capital gains in the event of liquidity.
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I doubt Torvalds telling everyone that sizeof was a function helped with this confusion.
> I believe that Feinstein is a genuinely bad person, and we would be better off without her

As a Californian, I am constantly ashamed at calling her "my" senator. Why the fuck can't someone reasonable run against her? I guess for the same reason that Bernie is having so much trouble: the Democratic Party is sorta like the Communist Party in USSR; you have to be an insider to get anywhere.
A city is more than a rental market -- it's also a community. This is where all the-market-fixes-everything kind of arguments fall short. Unfettered development would eventually stack Berlin with enough housing but the disruption to people's lives would be immense; and Berlin would lose much of the charm and character that has drawn so many people there to begin with.

A city is one part market and one part enchanted forest.
1. Your grades aren't that important. Most important is evidence you can do research (publications or letters of rec.)

2. It is possible to consult in AI/ML, because there is so much industry demand, but you definitely can't count on it. Also, you probably won't be able to consult in your first 2 years, because you'll be busy ramping up and taking classes / passing quals / figuring out your research area. You might have a better shot at relying on internship income (you can make ~30k over the summer as a research intern for companies). But the catch in all of this is that the more consulting/interning you do, the more that will delay graduation (unless you get top tier research papers out of your internships).

3. I would get started with MOOCs and online courses on the fundamentals in whatever area you're interested in, on your own time, and after that start reading papers / implementing things / experimenting. Then some options for you:

a) you might consider approaching professors for volunteer research work (which does happen), or even paid research assistant positions (low pay, obviously).

b) you might consider applying for a top-tier master's first, with a focus on getting and doing research. This will be expensive (like $120k for two years?), however, and worsens the opportunity cost (especially because it is not guaranteed you get into a top PhD after the master's).
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> Life is first and foremost about loving everything and everyone.

For you. The real truth is life has no meaning other than the ones we each assign ourselves; meaning is entirely subjective and as such there is no one answer, there's billions of answers.
She seems to be pro-encryption as long as it comes with a backdoor.
Not to say that DotA wouldn't benefit from more rigorous testing, but in Valve's defense I'd say that the complexity of interactions in DotA is far beyond LoL. Some of the bugs you're seeing might only arise in extremely rare situations.

DotA is balanced with creativity in mind. When an exploitative strategy is found the game is not changed to remove it but instead through some combination of tweaks and modifications, often to seemingly unrelated aspects it's made into something that's only situationally viable.

The reason the game is so deep/interesting is because this philosophy has been in place for many (10+) years now resulting in a game that's much more complex than pretty much anything else out there. DotA 2 retains edge case behavior that was present in the original Warcraft 3 mod. Things that were once engine limitations are now part essential parts of gameplay. Preserving these weird interactions instead of attempting to make the game more regular/comprehensible is one of the things that allows such a high level of creativity in competitive play. There's always a way you can outplay your opponent that's clever. In go parlance: there's always new tesuji to be found.

All that being said I think Riot's efforts here are quite laudable and DotA could certainly find benefit from more rigorous testing.
The other difference is that as far as I know, computer science is the only discipline for which industry has solved the problem of reproducibility; it's one thing to be asked to design a method to run reproducible studies of humans, it's another to ask researchers to run `git remote add https://github.com/user/repo && git push --set-upstream`. That's not asking for any support, or other effort on the researcher's part, and I frankly don't understand how the CS academic community doesn't have this as a standard when it'd be so easy to implement.
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"peaceniks"...AKA people who don't hate themselves and humankind.
> I think a testing library can be a great addition, since it can turn a three-line if check into a one-line assertion.

Totally concur with this. I feel like all these people complaining about "bloated test frameworks" either haven't written a lot of tests, or are just fine with repeating themselves in test code, or they end up writing their own version of a test framework anew in every project. So much simpler and sane to grab an off the shelf solution for test code.
Actually TV shows and movies are made for the young, the under 40 people. When they reboot a movie or comic book it is for the younger generation not the older that grew up with it.

Immortality comes with a cost like losing teeth, gray hair, wrinkles, you don't look as good as when you were younger. You might need plastic surgery, hair dye, or even Sens if it is available to prevent aging.

Businesses want to hire recent college graduates and not 40 or older people because 20 somethings are strong enough to work extra hours, don't get married and have kids yet, and can work for less money.
I think this stems from the same "lazy design" that made (G)AS' x86 syntax so very unpleasant to work with --- they just decided to make inline Asm literally dump strings out into the compiler's own Asm output, with some printf-like placeholders to be replaced with variable names/register assignments. There's a belief of "strict modularity" (i.e. compiler doesn't know at all about the inline Asm other than what the programmer tells it explicitly) which probably had some influences too, whereas MSVC et.al decided to spend a bit more effort on making things work in a more integrated fashion.
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> the variable name length should match the scope size

Perfect summation, matches my thoughts.
That's what I'm saying. The next generation of companies will have all of the tools and technologies to enable that distributed ownership. It's early days, but "decentralized Uber" Arcade City is doing precisely that.
If you figure out how the garbage collector works (it's a C library) then you'll learn :)
No. I assumed since it was prominently mentioned in the opening of the piece, it would be addressed before the conclusion. Sort of the Chekov's Gun principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun