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One real world success story for Qt:

Andy Brice (Oryx Digital, UK) has been developing his successful desktop software product, Perfect Table Plan (a seating planner software for events), in C++ and Qt, and selling it for over 10 years. (His newer product HyperPlan may be done in that stack too.) I've been a reader of his blog from some time: successfulsoftware.net. Many good tech and more biz tips there (for the software product biz - for desktop apps). And his app is cross-platform between at least two of the big 3 consumer OS's, IIRC (or maybe all 3) - Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Edit: I had also checked out Qt (v3 or 4) and tried some of the example apps (reading, compiling and running them) and also bought and read most of a book on Qt programming by some well-known Qt developers (don't remember the book or author names right now, but they may have included some of the original Qt creators). The impression I came away with was similar to that of some of the other commenters here - Qt seemed to be a well-designed library, not too difficult to learn, and with fairly good documentation at the time. I could understand the signals and slots mechanism it uses, without much trouble. Didn't get the moc part though (was not a C++ expert, also did not look much into moc) but it may not be needed to know that well, may be enough just to be able to use it.
I don't believe compulsion comes into play here. By the way, do you think that children who enter Buddhist monasteries are there voluntarily? I even doubt that novices in Japanese Zen monasteries are all that voluntary. A cultural thing, maybe.

And believe me, meditation often feels coercive, even if nobody on the "outside" is forcing me. I'm forcing myself. Which is will power on a slightly larger scale than the one to restrict movement.
I think that's the point. At this point the understanding of the nature of consciousness and reality are still just speculation. It shows either a fundamental limit of human reasoning (which I think is well known), and/or that we still have a lot learning/researching to do.

But statements like "The possibility that consciousness is the real concrete stuff of reality", or none-the-less quite fun to unpack and discuss. Even if unintelligible due to aforementioned limits of human reasoning. :)

I think if you find yourself always looking at the world 100% through rigorous logic/methodologies, and don't allow your mind to wonder and explore new possibilities, then I think it's safe to say that human reasoning will absolutely remain bounded.

(also, the comments section was fun to read as well)
Its nice to read an article like this and realize the shop in mention is a short walk away! Such a small world.
My point is this doesn't end at the database. So, you can successfully let the database manage users and access permissions to the data in the database. But then, why not let the operating system that the database is running on control that?

And how is that a different argument than what you are proposing here?
"I think it's well understood how consciousness works"

care to expand on this at all? it completely contradicts most everything I've heard.

saying consciousness is just a neural reaction could be right but it's by no means an understanding.
https://github.com/cayleygraph/cayley is currently on the frontpage of HN, and it does use PGSQL as backend.
> Apple is building 11,000 parking spaces not because it wants to but because Cupertino, the suburban city where the new headquarters is located, demands it. Cupertino has a requirement for every building.

They may well do so. But the point of this article is that municipal ordinances don't give property owners the choice:

> Apple is building 11,000 parking spaces not because it wants to but because Cupertino, the suburban city where the new headquarters is located, demands it. Cupertino has a requirement for every building.
And there's constant talk of them going native because of how poor the current client performs...
> "No part of the business had sacred cows," he told El Reg.

If Ubuntu itself becomes a sacrificial cow, I wonder what happens to its downstreams like LinuxMint.
There might be some places where you could say Sublime still beats VSC, but none of them are worth $60 to me.
Yes on the first one, and a big nope on the second for now. I passionately loathe Rube Goldberg machine deployments and am the kind of engineer who constantly asks "do we really need that?". I love exterminating complexity. But maybe that will change when we get to millions of concurrent users and tens of millions of devices and actually need Kubernetes to scale.

Raft is not complex. I doubt leader elect would be terribly hard to implement.
> I like using both JS and Python where it makes sense, but building a medium-sized or large app in such languages is asking for trouble.

There have been tons of reliable large apps written in dynamically typed languages. This is, again, a tiresome argument.

> the STL is currently working great! JS would kill to have something as stable and high quality as the STL.

The STL took nearly a decade to get hash tables. And for years, users suffered from Microsoft and other vendors taking very different approaches to template expansion, causing no end of ifdef hell. JS never had such issues.

> But that doesn't scale when building widgets and doing positioning.

Huh? How does flexbox "not scale"? Positioning is just one aspect of style.

> At one point web developers need to talk less and deliver

I've been working on browsers for 7 years, and on most of those weekends, thanks.
Native programming features the OS provides are also not free: it's still similar code drawing things on the screen, making sure they are properly aligned. HTML/CSS is a pretty flexible, and it indeed has some overhead compared to most native UI frameworks, but the "ridiculousness" of this overhead is imaginary.
Just for the record, you made that up. Milo went after her first.

...Do you think the "get her" tweet you posted above was directed at Milo? You may be confused.
Take a look at the Design Your Life book: http://designingyour.life/the-book/ - It applies design thinking to problems like this.

Without knowing you I'm going to make assumptions - but appears you're being quite binary about this decision. There are ways you can investigate these options in some depth (design thinking) and see what you connect with.
My answer explains why there would be an emotion attached to a perception. The subjective aspect is a result of the network being an agent, that has to fend for itself in the greater environment. The stake of the RL game is survival itself. Each new state it finds itself in opens some possible future paths and closes other paths. Some actions lead to rewards, other to losses. I think subjectivity lays in this space of values, options and actions. That places is where "it feels like something" to see red.

And if you're still unconvinced, remember what we are: a collection of cells, a protein based dynamical system that has computing and learning abilities. Why would it feel like something to be a protein-based computer?
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Anyone interested in consciousness (even out of personal curiosity) is likely to love all the work of Kevin O'Regan.
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/
Interesting, sound, scientific.

For example his book "Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell: Explaining the Feel of Consciousness (2011)".
Author makes it available to download on
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/869531/OReganWhyRedDraft...
We don't even have a proper explanation of how neurons themselves work; there are some processes we have no idea how they are possible (vast amount of ions passing through membranes) as well as some local protein computations that go against perceptron simplification operating on simple analog electricity.
Except that the market isn't sorting it out. Do you think government regulations mandating free and abundant parking come from the market?

It's amazing how many people in America think our car-dominant culture is just the result of market forces.

The truth is that land use for transportation is zero sum enough to make market forces impossible to use in the way we expect for most consumer services. If you want choices, the best option is to support multi-modal transportation, which in most US cities means reallocating resources away from cars (who currently have almost all the resources) and towards walking, biking, and transit.
Yes but not like I used to. When I was younger and had time I would bookmark things, organize them, and use them to navigate to sites of interest. Now I simply use bookmarks as a dumping ground for 'something I need to see but later because I am tired now and not using the internet for anything serious'.
Firefox has had profiles since at least 2008.
> ... given that male humans don't react with sexual attraction to the pheromones of female monkeys.

Umm, where are you concluding that from? Does it not seem possible that humans would share with our relatives some olfactory communication substances and their effects?

We still have very little understanding of olfactory communication between humans (no human pheromones are known AFAIK) so I am sure we don't know yet about the lack of reaction to chemicals from other monkeys that you are positing.

Anyways, our reactions to other species' pheromones would not lead to conclusions in the opposite direction.
Yes http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-anti-trust-2013-...
We have tried swapping the order. There's no will for good public transit solutions when people can expect to drive everywhere because the current state of things has disproportionately favored cars.
On a side note: Breaks and activity are necessary.

And maybe, through developing better ways to develop a strong PFC, which is crucial to a non-violent society. I do believe that compulsory schooling, and increasing rates of schooling, lowered the rates of violence somewhat. I don't have proof for that idea, unfortunately, but it is plausible just from the idea that school builds discipline or strengthens the attention network in the brain, and that this kind of strengthening has been linked to better self control and less aggression.
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> To those that truly care about excellence and don't merely pay lip service to it, there is only one way of building: using that platform's native toolkit.

Since you are clearly an expert here, can you explain to me how an immediate-mode API from the 1980s in which all painting is done via the painter's algorithm and context switches to kernel mode on every operation is superior to a declarative model that allows for global optimizations to minimize state changes and batch draw, in addition to using hardware Z-buffers to minimize overdraw?
It seems extreme to base my user account of a product on my employment status. Too much that could go wrong, when you could just make your application completely independent of your organization.

My point is that there is not a single user of my applications that has the ability to drop tables from a database. In your world, there would be some. But again, why? Why should any given user of GMail, for example, be able to delete any accounts on GMail? I can see why an employee of Google would be able to. But why a user of GMail?
We all know various things to a greater or lesser extent, but I suspect there is more constancy in the personality trait; the extent to which a person may attempt to pass off chauffeur knowledge as Planck knowledge. Then there is the divide between the people who know they are doing it, and those who do not realize that there is a difference (shades of Dunning-Kruger.)
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Nothing about our understanding of intelligence or self-awareness explains why we're not philosophical zombies.

Your explanation only addresses the form of perception, not why there's perception at all. It doesn't even address it, just implicitly assumes there must be such!

Your comment isn't even wrong: it fails to address the topic at all.
It really is amazing how many Americans seem completely unaware how the rest of the world lives. You see it really acutely in pro-suburbia arguments on HN, and weird objections to universal healthcare around the internet, as if this was all totally hypothetical and we didn't have concrete examples of how it works.
It's 2017 and we're debating about parking? Shouldn't we be remarking how quaint that the Economist can't see what's coming?
I think the title may mislead some and result in their dissatisfaction. This article (and comments) are more addressing the unknown nature of consciousness and matter. Specifically, how they seem to be circularly related. I.e. Our consciousness seems to have originated from our physical configuration, yet also the only way we perceive/understand the physical reality is through our consciousness/mind.

It also concludes with the fun statement "The possibility that consciousness is the real concrete stuff of reality". Which is quite a fun statement to truly unpack and understand, of which, I will not attempt to do now. :)
- The commercial license (if you need it) is not that expensive.

I consider it very expensive. More than +US 3000/year for 1 developer?

The open-source is useless for desktop apps?.
A luxury is a good you consume more of as you get wealthier. For example, environmental regulation is a luxury good, which is why many people don't see the need for limiting pollution if it gets in the way of accumulating wealth (and why richer nations tend to have more pollution laws).
There are a lot of people.
Well, we are there again. This is the very common Berkley Gender Admission Bias all over again. DoL just forgot to check their base rates of female developers and points to a relation nevertheless. I wouldn't be surprised if, when accounting for the distribution of female developers, it were to be the other way around. That Google is paying a bit more to retain them.
For me it's also:

1. Cost. Personal car requires much less money, than taxi service and I don't even consider using buses, they are just terrible here.

2. Safety. Almost all taxi drivers are reckless idiots. I don't feel safe with them, while I, myself, quite an accurate driver. Also taxi drivers are usually very poor people, so you're in danger of getting robbed or raped (probably not a big danger, but still). And in my car I'm quite protected.
Most of the HST resolving power is due to the fact of being outside of the atmosphere.
Adaptive optics have been improving in the last 20 years if I recall correctly, but even with the advancement in lasers to generate improved artificial stars and in the segmented mirrors to have a better atmospheric correction in real time, they still can't do anything regarding the loss of trasmission, especially in wave lengths different from the visible light window.
The fact that with a "small" diameter in nearly-ideal conditions you can have better results than much bigger apertures on the earth is still a testament that aperture alone can't do miracles, especially when there is a lot of noise.
And don't forget that HST optics are flawed.
Before the servicing mission that added the correction we were relaying on software adjustments.
And even with that huge handicap the results were nothing short of amazing.
It's not like this viewpoint isn't known, it's just not accepted because it makes no sense. Consciousness really is unexplainable by what we know of the physical world, it's constancy is just odd. When were talking about the most advanced organ in the history of the universe, is it really a leap to consider that new physics would be involved?
I was claiming that markets should sort it out, not that they are sorting them out
I see 'parking' as just a symptom of a larger issue. The lack of civic planning and encouragement of desirable and healthy balance within communities.

Cities should be much more like the Caves of Steel (Asimov).

Instead of cars on the roadways pedestrians should have bizarre (market streets), park way, and retail streets. People moving belts could also increase flow.

An entirely different layer would be used for the vehicles. Electric motored transport for goods, services, and people; within a city these would likely be orchestrated via central driving servers.

At the edge of the city, and likely also by ports and major civic centers, there'd be interfaces for legacy vehicles. Massive parking and warehouse structures that are well connected to the local civic infrastructure for moving goods and people.
Tiny electric planes and $25 tickets could be the future of regional air travel
You've missed the question: why is there a perception at all for red to seem like that in?
That means they need 90% more data, right? Like, how other molecules behave in context, not stand alone. Some of them have similar properties.
This argument ignores other vehicles that aren't cars that operate on non-fixed routes. Bikes and e-skateboards jump to mind. Maybe even scooters (as in many southern European cities).
or perhaps there's no real depth to speak of, leaving little but mystical obscurantism. depends on what you mean by "this subject".
The first sentence is well formed but the example makes no sense at all to me
Here are my experiences with Cayley.
100% positive for building graph microservices.

1. Use Cayley as a library
2. Put metadata in separate nodes.
Holy wow. I just finished reading the first of the Kingkiller Chronicle books, The Name of the Wind. I did not realize this central theme was so similar (and/or derivative). My exposure to sci-fi and fantasy is more deep than broad, a lot from the same authors instead of several from many. I think I must be somewhat blinded to how common this probably is.
But that's not inclusive
> what exactly differentiates an MVP from an RAT except for a subjective interpretation about is implied by the terms Minimum Viable Product and Riskiest Assumption Test.

That's exactly what differentiates them.

Although I'm not sure what about language you feel is subjective. I don't think subjective/objective really captures the thing that makes words fuzzy. Words are culture, and so they mean different things in different circles. The cultures are all blended, so when two individuals talk everything is a little soft around the edges.

But "minimum" is quite a different word from "riskiest". Minimum implies "what do you think you can get away with presenting to someone" whereas "riskiest" implies you are making an assumption that could sink the ship. I think you'd have a hard time arguing they are so similar as to be functionally equivalent.
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get two or three dedicated servers, stick a 2 disk mirrored raid in each one, run one primary and have barman manage your snapshots+streaming replication. hook in some cronjobs to monitor age of stuff and failure of stuff. that is pretty much it for anything less than, say, 5TB. Beyond that your copy times are too high and making snapshots becomes extremely difficult.
Cognitive dissonance is extremely "expensive". Deliberately suspending one's beliefs takes very good storytelling and/or resources corresponding to a movie budget. All that so that each person could suspend their beliefs for a couple of hours.

For the kind of long-term emotional investment it takes to do research or develop something new, one (typically) needs to have "buy-in" at an emotional level (aka irrationality). Few humans can invest a lot of their time/effort/resources on things they believe are probably not worth the trouble; sustained dissonance would probably cause burnout.
What is coming? Where will autonomous vehicles park themselves?
This seems to be the old homunculus argument in another form.[1]

As knowledge of how brains work increases, this will probably become a non-issue. A big question for millenia was "what is life?" This question continued through the discovery of bacteria, and later, DNA. As the lower level mechanisms of biology were understood, it stopped being a question. Bacteria are alive, and are reasonably well understood. The components of bacteria are not quite alive, but are also understood. (There's still some argument over whether viruses are alive, but that's now just an argument over the definition.) "What is life" is now a "go look it up" question, not a mystery.

"What is consciousness" will probably go the same way in time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument
I also found that knowing something pretty much equals to being able to explain it to someone. I thought I knew many things until I tried to explain them.
Or, in other words, there is a sort of "internal" knowledge that seems to heuristically cut corners and generates or fosters the illusion of knowing. True knowledge does not cut corners. Which is what some of the posters have expressed as well.
> "Present findings provide functional data supporting the hypothesis that modafinil can modulate the cortico-cerebellar connectivity of the aging brain"

Did anyone doubt this at the start of the study? I bet Tylenol modulates cortico-cerebellar connectivity. Pretty weak conclusion. I hate to be so critical, but I'm not sure what is added. Drawing real-world implications is likely impossible, which admittedly may not have been the authors' goal.
Also http://reactiveui.net/ which looks quite good, but doesn't have good enough documentation for me to commit a project to it yet.
In some sense, this is useless. A sensor that counts 50% of incoming photons twice each has more shot noise than a sensor that counts each photon once.
Chances are this would have the desired effect for me: I would simply not shop during those times. I enjoy purchasing items in a store and going to the theatres, but I hate paying for parking or dealing with public transit. So I would just stop patronizing stores and movie theatres and instead use Amazon and Netflix more than I do now.
"Consciousness really is unexplainable by what we know of the physical world"

maybe. or perhaps it simply has a mystical privilege. there do seem to be a fair number of terms and concepts (like 'qualia') that hold sway over some people's discussion, but themselves seem questionable.
> near zero latency to take a trip

True only in areas with abundant parking right next to the destination. This is not true in many urban places, where parking might be located some distance away, requiring you or a valet to retrieve the vehicle. Also, as the article points out, there can be considerable latency on arrival, as time may be required to find a place to store the vehicle. With public transport, no time is required on arrival to find parking.

This can even be a problem at places with plenty of parking, like airports, where shuttles are necessary merely to get you from the terminal to the big parking lot.
This is already the case with some places that provide free customer parking but most city centres still provide free or low cost parking for personal vehicles at a cost to the city which is effectively a subsidy for merchants in that city.
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