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Not ceding classic liberalism with the word is the point. (Because ceding too much of it puts you at danger of a populist takeover, i.e., "literally Hitler".)

Land explains this better (mentioning Thiel, too) at http://www.xenosystems.net/nrx-and-liberalism/. His thinking there should apply broadly to all non-left (non-)politics.
Imperial units would be a lot more defensible if they were consistent. But just in your example we've got things being divided into 12 and 16 parts, and many other random divisors are common. I'd be onboard with a system of units where the divisor is always constant, but having it random is annoying. Fortunately there is a system of units where the divisor is always constant - SI! Yeah, it's 10 instead of 12, but it'll have to do.
which will be read by people hoping to get their product on PH... meaning they're even less likely to use your product.

Focus on your product.
Take me for example. I downloaded your framework and will never look at it again.
It does happen. My company (Affirma.com) has been doing it profitably for over a decade!
am coding as we speak...and I'm serious.

We're realising source code to one our apps as part of the marketing drive this one >

https://appsto.re/gb/ZiUPdb.i
Also its a buggy mess, I dont think distance localisation would be that much of a priority if they also couldnt build something that doesnt hang every few minutes.
I've been working specifically as a Unity developer for a couple of years and this thing smacks of amateurishness.
As compared to?
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Quite interesting. It shows potential to be used in numerous use cases. Anyone know of similar projects in other languages like Python and Javascript?
How to launch such femto satellites??
Product Hunt is a nice option
Measurement effects are not captured by any QM equation.

The equations are all time symmetric, yes. But the theory is not.
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The Fibonacci sequence is a pretty good rule of thumb for converting between miles and kilometres. 2 miles is about 3km, 3 miles is 5km, 5 miles is 8km, etc.
If they prosecute a white hat there will only be black hats left. It's not a legal perspective but it keeps the honour code working.
It's not modal is it? If you click off the box dims to transparent and doesn't restrict input
There doesn't seem much reason to think it's more lonely on the whole, but I could believe that the lonely in Japan are more isolated than other places.
I believe that a super negative act can easily mar someone's reputation, and I think most on HN would agree that Intellectual Ventures is a pox on our industry. Similarly, lots of people on HN have changed their perception of Theil after his gawker stints have come to light.
Suck it up or quit. You're not going to change what sounds like the central strategy of the company. And if you complain about it, your superiors may very well see you as weak and unwilling to do what it takes to win. So either keep quiet, work hard and get paid, or leave. If you're really that concerned, blow the whistle on your way out. But don't expect to get hired again after doing that.
Although, not feature parity with this project, Pybreaker[0] for the circuit breaker patterns in Python.

[0] - https://github.com/danielfm/pybreaker
One problem with rules like this is that they inadvertently create a bias in what is considered an "attack", which leads to religious claims standing uncontested because any disagreement is viewed as an attack. Eventually it becomes okay to preach belief, but not okay to advocate for reasoned disbelief.

This is related to a current problem in the US left, where tolerance of belief has to compete with intolerance of abuse, and sadly, belief often wins at the expense of the abused.
I agree most Google employees are probably not racist against black people.

But they do have a bias similar to the one you just mentioned - they tend to only hire from "top schools". It's true that the top schools tend to produce good people, but it's elitist to think that only they do. Perhaps Apple recruiters look at a broader range of universities, including historically black ones, for example.

Regarding what you said about stores and factories at Apple, those figures were for tech roles, not retail, so that isn't why Apple has 7x more. Although, what "tech" precisely is is not defined by either company, so it's possible there is a significant difference there that we can't see.
I'm surprised immediate mode guis have taken such a long time to take hold. The separation of data and drawing in very elegant after having come from ui systems where your widgets essentially end up being data structures.
Most people would probably expect Pornhub to be more honorable than e.g. AT&T...
I always approximate the number of kilometers in a mile to phi (which it is pretty nearly - it is about 5% out), then you can use the Fibonacci series to convert between them.

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 ...

So if you want to know what 5 km is, find 5 in the Fibonacci series and the number of miles is the one just below - 3 in this case. Just use the next higher for miles -> km, eg 5 miles is 8 km.
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Is the author obligated to fix the broken code? If they aren't willing to fix it, would you prefer they said nothing and left everyone using insecure crypto?
I installed HTTP/2 indicator extension for my browser and I am very surprised to see how many sites are already using HTTP/2. It's easily close to a third of the sites I use frequently.
Haven't spent more than a month there however I always got the sense that it's 'harder' to be Japanese (same goes for Korean) than it is to be a Westerner.

Complex social hierarchies, deference to the boss, deference to family and elders, suppressing individualism and the overbearing pressure to conform.

Especially though, having to stop at every single pedestrian crossing even though the road is one metre wide and there's not a car or a cop for kilometres.

More than a few months of that and - bam - seppuku for me.
Corruption is generally measured as people's perception of corruption, which should help to normalize something that is culturally nebulous. Secondly if corruption becomes really bad it'll bleed into other numbers like GDP growth (see China), pollution (oil leaks and spills in Nigeria) and even life expectancy (recent crisis in Venezuela).
It is honestly all over the board. I've worked with clients that had estimated the return, in many cases because it was very easy to do. Migrating from an expensive proprietary product (IBM MQ) to a much cheaper open source product (Red Hat AMQ) when you have 1000s of brokers and yearly subscription costs makes it very easy to calculate the savings. Another client was working with us to create a new product line from scratch. As part of that, they had to estimate the return on the product, the budget it would take, then justify that to their owners.

I've also had clients where they are not great at this. They are also invariably the ones with poor scope control and overall immature project management.
This submission originally got hit by a spam filter and then was rescued by a user who vouched for it. We rolled back the clock on the post when we saw it, but I suppose it may take a while for the OP to realize that they ended up with an active thread.
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(Full disclosure: co-founder of Datawire)

We released a microservices development kit (MDK) last week that includes similar semantics (e.g., circuit breakers, failover) that implements these semantics in Python, JavaScript, Java, and Ruby. The implementation is actually written in a DSL which we transpile into language native impls. We do this to insure interop between different languages. We're working on updating our compiler to support Go and C#, adding richer semantics, and making the service discovery piece pluggable (currently there's a dependency on our own service discovery).

https://github.com/datawire/mdk
Could be AWS.
Could you expand on that? Is it a matter of efficiency like running graphics calculations on a CPU?
Why does this Android app require a phone number to sign up?

At least Hangouts lets me use the app without a phone number.
If it were true open source I think the project would get a lot more contributions. The enterprise edition, with the "best" features, is very much not free.
What searching? The developer links you directly to their app in the store.

For free apps you don't necessarily need to enter a password, for paid apps it's still simpler than whatever payment system the developer might be using.

With the MAS you can go from viewing the app/developer website to the app being installed in as little as two clicks.

How is that worse ux than manually downloading an archive/image, opening the file, moving the .app bundle or running the installer.

There are some valid criticisms of the MAS. UX on the install process is not one of them.
Google initially denied that they complied with the usage of PRISM, until documentation showed they were lying. Apple held out longer than Google, so at some point they all had to decide that they were going to "work" with the USG.
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When I look at category theory diagrams, I always think that the visual embedding is underutilized. It seems like the diagrams could be enriched with more symbols to encode more information. For example (and probably a bad example) differentiating between automorphisms and identity functions using different symbols on their arrows). Somehow making these diagrams completely self-contained could be potentially interesting, and I wonder what the tradeoffs would be.

Maybe the current formulation of the diagrams is just right for people who use them to do a lot of heavy lifting. It would be interesting to hear some opinions on this.
Why would the world care if Americans are using a different unit?
mmm... nop.
But that is what I mean, it is a pseudo-library because the code needs to integrate with those compiler hooks you just described.

Just like, for example Turbo Pascal, Delphi or .NET allow us to replace the memory allocator by initializing the runtime with an user provided library that obeys to a specific certain ABI.

Good luck with the work.

Are you aware that these guys are using Rust for language research in VM implementation?

http://microvm.github.io/

They just published "Rust as a Language for High Performance GC Implementation".
I'm sure many will read into the similarity between the bandwagon for information theory described here and the bandwagon for machine learning / artificial intelligence.
While it may be obvious for some, let me decode (one of the few situations Genius would make sense for me) some of the repeating issues.
As I've noted elsewhere[1], machine learning / artificial intelligence hold great promise for many fields, but we need to fight hype and unscientific use. To steal from Jack Clark[2]:

"Machine Learning is modern alchemy. People then: iron into gold? Sure! People now: shoddy data into new information? Absolutely!"

---

"Our fellow scientists in many different fields, attracted by the fanfare and by the new avenues opened to scientific analysis, are using these ideas in their own problems."

"[E]stablishing of such applications is not a trivial matter of translating words to a new domain, but rather the slow tedious process of hypothesis and experimental verification."

This is immensely important. While many of these methods appear general, and can be used with little effort thanks to the wide variety of machine learning toolkits that are available, they should be applied with care.
Applying these methods to problems in other domains without careful consideration for the differences and complexities that might arise.

The availability of advanced toolkits does not make your work impervious to flaws.
With machine learning, it's even worse - the flaws in your data, model, or process, can be explicitly worked around by the underlying machine learning algorithm.
That makes debugging difficult as your program is, to some loose degree, self repairing[3].

Using these toolkits without proper analysis and experimental proof that they're working as intended, especially when their predictions are used for an important decision, is negligence.

"Research rather than exposition is the keynote, and our critical thresholds should be raised."

As a field, we don't have a strong grasp on many of the fundamentals.
Issues that are obvious in hindsight are hiding in plain view.
Just a few days ago, layer normalization popped up.
It will likely make training faster and results better for a variety of applications.
You can literally explain the idea to a skilled colleague in all of ten seconds.
Somehow we were using a far more complicated method (batch normalization, weight normalization, etc) before trying the "obvious" stuff

We need more work like that than papers and media publications grandstanding about vague potential futures that have little theoretical or experimental basis.

Also, it's worth reading Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"[4] from 1948.
There's a reason it has 85,278 citations - entire fields started there.

[1]: http://smerity.com/articles/2016/ml_not_magic.html

[2]: https://twitter.com/jackclarkSF/status/755257228429406208

[3]: https://twitter.com/sergulaydore/status/746098734946201600

[4]: http://worrydream.com/refs/Shannon%20-%20A%20Mathematical%20...
Every big company will cross your feelings of what is right or ethical every now and again. I would chalk this up to the simple fact that a big company is composed of many different people, with different ethics.

Day-to-day, what really matters to your experience is the direct team around you. You're a little enclave inside a larger organization, and may never really interact outside said enclave.

But, we also like to take pride in what we do. If you are ashamed to work for the company, that will probably eat at you. You might learn something that changes your perspective that leads to changing your mind, but the company probably won't change.
Except radio did not really provide a solution to the interactivity problem until the internet came along either. Youtube and Podcasts grew in popularity around the same timeframe, so I don't think it is fair to say that radio is ahead of the curve here.
The 'study' was discussed yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142140, but this is more a media story, so we can treat it as a separate topic.
> You need to engage topics like this in hand-to-hand combat

Fortunately, doing the exercises in books isn't the only way to do that.
Sort of for the the same reason it makes GPUs faster - parallelism. You can have multiple CPU cores. Or you can add parallelism to instruction handling by adding branch lookahead - where you basically execute a sequence of instructions in parallel. The deeper the lookahead, the more transistors (exponentially?) need to be added.
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Which means, at worst, that the ad homonym attacks are factually correct.

They are still irrelevant.
Hi rgbrenner. Co-founder of Redbeard here. I really appreciate and definitely agree with this comment. I have a great post saved from a few years ago by Alex of GrooveHQ which also mentions the same sentiment: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/96361/Getting-Crunched-...
Only if you believe in non-unitary collapse, which is probably wrong IMO.

Einselection is my favorite potential solution. Straightforward, clean, unitary, and the math is promising. The idea is that apparent collapse is just emergent behavior of the schroedinger equation, via induced superselection rules between incompatible measurement eigenstates.
Are you asking sincerely, or as a passive aggressive commentary about OP's query? If the former: I think, yes, if whistleblowing can motivate change that would prevent fraud.

If the latter, OP didn't disclose anything about a specific company.
If you are on the fence enough to ask here, don't quit immediately and instead just start interviewing elsewhere now. Once you have some solid offers lined up, you can make a more informed decision.

In general a large corporation is -- surprise surprise -- going to be made up of a lot of people. Some of them are going to be really passionate about doing the right thing, some of them will be happy to do what it takes to get ahead, and a lot of them are just going to want to do their job, get paid, and not worry too hard about the bigger picture. It can feel bad to be at the big evil and feel like you're being corrupted by being a part of it, but you always have the option to do what you think is right. You can stay there, work hard, and push back against the culture and attitudes you think improper. Maybe you'll make a difference. Maybe you'll give up. Maybe you'll try hard but no one will listen, and meanwhile your hard work will benefit the wrong people. Maybe you'll get fired after people get tired of you telling them how bad they are or after you refuse to do something that crosses the line.
There isn't a concrete answer. A judge would try to determine whether consumers could be confused by your name and believe that it was somehow tied to Weebly. The results of such cases are all over the place and depend on lots of different factors.

That's where a lawyer comes in. S/he will be able to give you an idea of overall risk, rather than a hard "yes" or "no" answer as to whether you can use the name. The only way to assess the risk is to have experience reading about (and ideally representing someone in) such cases. Some law can be done "well enough" yourself, but some things absolutely require a lawyer. Founding documents and name searches are absolutely in the latter category.

Find a lawyer in your city who specializes in startups and get an hour of time. You're mostly paying for experience, not for raw time, so it won't be expensive. You can expect $0-$100 on the lower end, especially if it's trying to get you into the office to sell more work. The most you might expect to pay is $500. Don't worry about the price, and instead try to find the right person -- someone who has been practicing for years and has lots of cases under his/her belt.

Edit: I actually just realized that if your comment about WeeBrix sounding like Weebly is searchable in the future, it would seriously hurt you in a lawsuit. If you intend to keep the name, you should delete that immediately and hope that there aren't any archiving/caching services that picked it up.
It's a bit of ideological poison, extracted from the root of the dialectical materialism tree (aka 'scientific socialism', as defined in the poems of Marx and Engels).

The allegedly scientific basis is that there is an unstoppable march of historical progress, and you should cheer it on and actively lay waste to the obstacles that are going to be swept aside anyway. (Yes, it's a strange creed.)
Extensive discussion of original National Geographic article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12126284
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I know I'm probably going to keep getting down-voted ,but if it's merely abstract and not complicated ,why is category theory considered a difficult course? They don't teach it in undergrad. Is it because it is poorly taught, or students don't like abstractions, or students are ill-prepared, etc. The question I'm digging at is what makes something hard to understand versus easy
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I grew up with a mix of metric and imperial (like most people in the UK), but the imperial conversions are all really weird and hard to remember -- 1760 yards to the mile?? For me it's easier to remember "a yard is a little less than a meter" and "a mile is about 1⅔ km", and then use the most natural metric unit for figuring out estimates.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Georgia Tech (okay, that's technically in the east, but it's not what's usually thought of as "East Coast").
UT Austin.
University of Wisconsin—​Madison.
University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor.

The list could go on. If you want to expand outward a bit, the University of Waterloo in Canada is also quite good.
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Skimmed the beginning, will read the rest later. Liberalism is definitely modern (it's from the enlightenment), it's definitely British (ie. has nothing to do with Rousseau)... I'll have to read more to see why the author thinks it's not political.

I personally like that they are embracing "progressive" more. I think it's more accurate than "liberal" and uniquely theirs.
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As OP says, fighting fairly would probably end the company resulting in no job.

This tends to be my experience, nice people find it very hard to start and run successful companies. The sort of person who feels guilty for making a good profit is at a disadvantage to the person who feels delight at taking as much money as possible.

[edit] I keep getting down votes for stating my experience and opinion. I have no idea how the voting system on HN works. Should I avoid personal anecdotes?
Definitely not. That's why I said it I think it's great that this stuff is brought to the surface. I can see how what I wrote isn't entirely clear though. What I am trying to say is that it would be nice if the message also aimed at encouraging contribution to open source software as well. It seems healthier to OSS as a whole to encourage improvement rather than abandonment.
that sounds a lot harder than multiplying by 1.6
It was a sincere question.

How should I have phrased it to avoid ambiguity?
Well, looks like you are not in a position to change these policies. Therefore, if you regularly feel "a combination of frustration and shame working for them" rather than just a short period of negativeness / sadness that goes away quickly, it's not likely that it will get any better later and quite possibly worse. So quitting seems like the only option, doesn't it?

I'd just add that regardless of your decision, try to take a step back and see if you could have spotted these issues earlier, before joining so that you'd be less likely to repeat this mistake in the future. Maybe there were some red flags that you missed or downplayed?
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I think you'll see formerly religious atheists make the most claims about the illogic of (their former) religion, because they are most familiar with it. They can provide logical arguments against their particular former belief, but none that would ever convince the true believers (e.g. those who say things like, "Even if the Pope said tomorrow it was all a sham I would still believe in Catholicism", or similarly for other hierarchical religions).

Your mention of axioms is very similar to how I used to reason about my own former belief. When empirical reality contradicted those axioms and I spent some time away from the continuous reindoctrination to examine what I believed was real, I found it far more reasonable to disbelieve than to replace one belief with another.

Ultimately empirical reality has to be the arbiter; no amount of soul searching alone, without evidence, can reveal facts about reality. So maybe there is no concrete logical "proof" that physicalism is real, but empiricism isn't about absolutes, and empirically, physicalism has a much, much better track record of supplying new, true knowledge about reality than any other supposed way of knowing.