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hi!

have you considered white hat selling?

Take 25 top companies of your prospects list and write to them asking for permission to do a pen test.

It all starts from there...
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Oh, sounds like while most bots are only posting stuff, some do actually consume it for analytics-reposts-engagement. This is huge because (wait for it) Twitter could be the first social network written and consumed entirely by bots!
"Pretty wild and dangerous things" - I think you're suffering from a failure of imagination there. Examples of humans who thought something wild and dangerous were Hitler, or Jesus or Mohammed; those people changed the face of the world because they thought something. And those people were human, constrained by evolution to think in certain ways. An AGI doesn't necessarily have to think inside the human box. There is a lot more of "dangerous thought-space" out there than you seem to be accounting for.

Your second paragraph: presumably you think it's literally impossible to invent nanotechnology to make yourself omnipotent, but I'm not willing to place that at less likely than 5%. Something clever enough could probably just manipulate the existing social structures to kill all the humans (something very intelligent that truly wanted nuclear war could probably make it happen). Just a little bit of tweaking to smallpox might be able to destroy humanity anyway. Even just the right new religion might do it (witness the great purges by pretty much every religion ever). None of these suggestions are intended as "this is a plausible way of killing those inconvenient humans"; but if each of my suggestions (nanotech, nuclear war, pandemic, grand new idea like a religion) has a five percent chance of working, that's already a 18.5% chance that exactly one of them would work. Once the humans are dead, of course, it has all the time in the world to achieve all its goals.
Because if you immediately announce that you are done coding, you cannot do any of the other things on the list, which are all good ideas. After you've done them all, you should announce you are ready. It's probably a good idea to tell the interviewer what you are doing, don't just stand there looking at your code in silence if you can avoid it.
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Steam too annoys me in this respect, would be nice to have the option to hide all promotions (and indeed content) about games one can't run.
And in the meantime businesses and governments are still going to deploy weaker AI to their own ends.
Is there any other field where the interview has become a field unto itself? A field where a person can walk in with over a decade of experience and then not get past the first interview because he doesn't know topics he hasn't used since college? A field in which because you don't commit yourself to 40 hours of work at work and then an additional 40 hours of work outside, companies won't look at you? Joy of coding!
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Isn't all this just common sense? It basically says "be a nice person to communicate with". But split up into a huge table of checks and crosses.
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Trouble is, this ability is very hard to test for.
A test is always an isolated, well defined problem, where the solution is written in a vacuum.

But this is completely unrepresentative of the actual kind of programming tasks at work (in my experience).

Modifying the behaviour of existing code, that you didn't write, in a way that minimises technical debt, is a completely different challenge.
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One of my best momemts at bigco was a useless middle manager getting fired. Bad and toxic employees do kill morale for your team.
Neither of those is a concrete definition. Defining "consciousness" as "being aware" is just punting the question on to "how do you define the word AWARE?".

And some people don't have an inner monologue. It's not specifically mentioned in http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-ex... but it's of that same class of thing; there are certainly hits on Google for people claiming not to have an inner voice, and I didn't even bother reading the article on psychologytoday about it.
An invalid (and thoroughly disgusting) analogy. You are conflating murder and death in a rather untidy way, and hoping that the disgust for the analogy taints that which we're making an analogy about.

If you like the theme of murder: How would it be different if a prison, rather than executing death row inmates on the first day they were legally permitted, instead delayed their executions so they could bundle them up into annual batches?
When you mass fire people like this, it can only seem like your plan was to fire a large set of people and you made it a goal to find them. You're quite likely to find people to fire that are down on their luck for some reason or another.

You're also quite likely to alienate or scare a sizable portion of your workforce. Anxiety about getting fired will drive a lot of people to perform worse. Conversely, a feeling that your company will support you during rough times can make those rough times shorter and help productivity.

It's also about diversity. Diversity of life situations, diversity of mental health status, diversity of motivations, etc. etc.
> "I think the discussion of what constitutes an OS is mostly academic."

An operating system is the software used to interface hardware and applications. If you miss out on control of hardware it's not an OS. At most, solutions like unikernels are an edge case, but anything with less direct control over hardware than unikernels are not. If the term 'OS' is too loose it becomes meaningless.
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I don't mean to suggest that there needs to be a set percentage that must be fired at some set time interval, but I do think that new hires don't always work out, and people can change from being a value adder to a value detractor, especially once you get to the huge numbers of employees that some companies have.

The process of evaluating the people that make up the organization should be under constant improvement though, and again, simply because of dealing with large numbers, there might be a few false positives, but on the whole as an organization, management should be on the lookout for who isn't performing.
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This looks like the Equinox Pine Street location (in the FiDi), not the Equinox Sports Club on Market Street. Not that it matters for the story, but the headline's off target.

The actual story is pretty fucked up, though.
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Still waiting on TCO.
You're right, there is a balance to be struck. Just because we can't be 100% correct of the time objectively measuring who adds value and who does not, doesn't mean we should give up the endeavor. It also doesn't mean we should implement a policy of always cutting x% or people just because.
> And it's not like we didn't have low performers — once I got into management it became quite clear that there were a handful of people who were borderline useless, but it was just accepted that they were employees, that the company should look after them just the same, and find work for them to do.

In addition, courts will be siding with the employee in lots of cases, and when the company has a Betriebsrat (workers council) and the Betriebsrat sides with the employee it is next to impossible to get someone fired without serious consequences in court.
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Good luck being able to actually save some of your paycheck. I, for example, cannot because the rents here are shockingly high.
So companies should follow the law? I think you're really arguing for better employee protection in the USA ?
The alternative to arbitrarily requiring a proportion of staff are fired on a certain day and thus institutionalising the necessity of having disposable staff members to protect your core team is setting real performance standards, offering real criteria for improvement and firing people that can't or won't improve to meet standards regardless of what time of year it is.

Companies that impose forced stack rankings and firing quotas don't exactly have a great track record of avoiding large redundancies in recessions, and indeed due to company-wide underperformance...
The humble bundle concept sold out a long time ago. The first incarnation was "The Humble Indie Bundle" - which raised an unexpectedly large amount of money for independent game developers (in a time long before 'indie games' was a valid genre).

After seeing that this was a successful formula, they went on to raise funding in 2011 and pushed for larger publishers / developers to target with their acquired audience of heavily engaged gaming fans (mostly indie people). There was quite a strong note of sourness at the commercial interests being spun out of what was originally a charity + grassroots initiative.

Now, as many other people have mentioned in this thread, they've largely fallen into another same again steam sale outlet.

My attitude is more of indifference - they sold out long before being acquired by some big old company. I feel they put too much emphasis on aggressively acquiring new sales at the expense of their old customers.
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The part I’m also interested in is the cgi-bin config of the web server. Or did you manage to get Apache’s mod_lisp working? How?
My take is that full-stack devs are proficient in frontend, backend and sysadmin work. Therefore they are well equipped for either of these roles. To convince the potential employer, I would focus on describing the specific part of my previous work - say, describe my past projects in terms of the frontend tasks, showing proficiency in this area.
> Example: do I need to guard empty lists or not? Well, it depends on if I for-all over the list or try to index explicitly

Does it? Why?
It's true that if you have 30 days of vacation that that comes from your contract, but that's a pretty standard perk with large-ish companies. The legal minimum is 24 days though [1], so that's as low as it can go. Usually after a couple years of working for a German company, you have a permanent contract, which can only be changed or revoked under cases that are also regulated by law (e.g. layoffs because of cash shortage or continued, documented underperformance).

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/burlg/__3.html
There's nothing weird about closure-based scoping. You find this in Python, R, Javascript, ... It has roots in the lambda calculus.
Being conscious during the trip is an essential part of the healing process.
In fact, healing comes from the realization of what consciousness really is, that death is not the end, how my little self is just a stubborn part of a larger infinite consciousness that is the Universe thinking itself into existence, etc.
You 'remember' what you really are and that's liberating.

One theory that I subscribe to is that the drug increases the brain's neuroplasticity, allowing for new pathways to be created between sometimes unrelated parts of the brain.

Being conscious allows one to guide (but not control heh) this process, where the user can pick a subject to think about and immerse oneself into a audiovisual/emotional/cognitive hallucinatory experience that follows related to that subject.
Inevitably the most pressing issues of one's life will surface, allowing the user to examine them from all these different angles - accept, forgive, love and heal.
I was actually in a similar spot once... I choose to fire myself...

The company is out of business now, mainly due to poor and unethical management
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Poorer friends can introduce you to cheap entertainment you would not know otherwise too. Like seeing movie you would not care about seeing before, borrowing a book or a video game you would not try otherwise. Going on bicycle trip you would not go otherwise. Talking about their jobs which I completely different then yours.

While his examples were all rich friend things (so I guess he socialized only with rich people), the phenomenon exists universally.
But if you generate a string at random, it's more likely to be "frh2dj3" vs "swnohl6", which is just as easy to spot as "io" vs "com".
I’m curious how this would work technically as the two networks use different technology. Plus there must be a ton of overlap in the networks in metro areas
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Right but on the quadrants of predictions of timing vs imminence, all the examples are in one quadrant to justify the need to act now. Fair enough for reinforcing a narrative but a tad disingenuous.
Not sure what you mean. I've seen some hacker news people argue the exact opposite and downvote me for exploring the exact opposite concept, now the opposite happens. I guess this is not the right place to ask or think.
> communication is when both parties turn their webcam on

Not least because the individuals concerned can't goof off doing something else at the same time.
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I'm not a fan of this style of management either, but at this moment in time we need a standard bearer for electric cars, and Tesla is best placed to fill that role at the moment.

After the (hopefully successful) release of the Model 3, assuming this drives other companies to push forward electic cars, we won't need Tesla to be successful anymore, so I'd expect more people to be critical after that.
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Yeah, I got a similar deal for a bunch of no no starch press ebooks about a year ago, i'm not a gamer but much appreciate their book sales.
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your argument begs the question of whether or not we can successfully test for this trait to begin with.

i don't think we can. the outsized productivity impact a good person can have far outweighs the statistical probability of getting one if you simply accept all competent interviewers, i.e. the expected value is so high that you can blindly hire until you find one, given sufficient financial resources. without the financial resources, you only hire people you already know are good, which is the general pattern i've seen over 20 years working in this industry.
As long as GOG keeps it DRM free, they will remain the only distributor that gets any more of my money, aside from direct, DRM-free sales by creators. Steam destroyed all rationalization I was using to be ok with DRM by locking my account for 3 weeks shortly after I opened an account.
How does the Bolt fit into that framework?
Is Psilocybin and/or Ayahuasaca and/or any other DMT source legal anywhere in the world? I would expect at least _some_ places make it legal, possibly have hundreds/thousands of years of experience that might be interesting to read alongside modern studies.
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But https://status.dropbox.com/ says its up when its down. What gives?
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Any subject matter experts in reporting? How long is 500 errors considered not a major outage? How many companies define a SLA and "cook the books"
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Given that alphabay was busted within 96 hours of accepting zcash, and that both Greene and Zooko have said they could backdoor it for a subpeona, i find it hard to take zcash seriously. TLA coin.
> People always seem to put Musk on a pedestal. Personally, I've always been (and always will be) leery of a company run by a PayPal founder.

Bingo! I never quite got the Musk hype train, between how he treats his employees, doesn't respect work life balance, has unrealistic expectations and talks about people not wanting to work for him as less talented, promotes the idea of American exceptionalism etc., I don't see the appeal.

As for his 'accomplishments', he seems to talk a lot and constantly over promise/under deliver. I guess his appeal is that his companies at least approach the exciting territory, which is quite a difference from another 'food delivery startup' of the Valley, but lets not make an average (if electric) car made by Tesla, with plenty of its own, documented QC problems something it is not, just because Musk is involved.
Indeed, and the privacy implications of centralized mixers are doubleplus ungood.
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My bet on this subject is a combination of evolutionary computing, agorics[1], deep learning style feedback and language learning.

I've got a repo[2] for a vm where the programs can act in that way. But I am at the early stages of programming initial programs with economic/learning strategies. So I don't know how promising it is. More details can be found spread out on my blog [3]

[1] https://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers.htm...

[2] https://github.com/eb4890/agorint/

[3] https://improvingautonomy.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/introduct...
> In almost all psilocybin studies, the effect is mediated by the degree to which the participant has a 'mystical-type experience.'

> I don't imagine this could be experienced while unconscious, and so assuming that's correct, then it would be substantially less effective if someone was unconscious.

It's correlation, but to determine causation one would have to undergo simultaneous mystical-inducing-quantity psilocybin and be "naturally" unconscious (because e.g. stuff used for general anesthesia is likely to interfere with other brain processes). I have no idea how such an experiment could actually be carried out.
What about the many third party Twitter apps some users prefer to use as opposed to the official client?
Why are you speaking up now? Just go to the police and spare us.
I’d rather the big two were broken up but this merger will give T-Mobile and sprint all the incentive to price just like the incumbents but give them the resources to maybe get to network parity so that regardless of what carrier you’re on you will have the same coverage. Once that’s the case then you could really put the three against one another and get decent rate in your phone bill. I’d rather competition did that as well by having many smaller players but the system isn’t healthy.
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Seems like they updated the status page. Im still curious though.
You make the job sound rather dire. Whittling on an assembly line; the meticulous craftsman who polishes corners of industrial furniture. I’m not convinced there is much future for the kind of programming that pretends to be a guild of humble craftsmen inside industrially directed corporations.

Regardless, the coding interview process doesn’t seem to measure creativity or craftmanship. Consider industrial designers, people who actually sometimes do mold clay as part of their job. If a company is serious about hiring an industrial designer, would they administer a test like this: “You now have 45 minutes to whittle a miniature bust of Mozart out of this piece of driftwood. Make sure to talk while you’re working so I can understand your thinking.”
All possible examples would seem to be in one quadrant, because what we remember -- if anything -- is the time just before it in fact was made possible.

The alternative would be technologies that were never developed at all, most of which never had this sort of discussion and therefore wouldn't work as examples.

Take a more historical view, though, and you'll notice there were people claiming flight was near even decades before the Wright brothers.
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I know something similar often happens in the public service. Public service managers quickly learn to always hire a few useless people who they don't really need, just in case they need to make cutbacks.
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"What is it like to be a bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). In it, Nagel argues that materialist theories of mind omit the essential component of consciousness, namely that there is something that it is (or feels) like to be a particular, conscious thing. He argued that an organism had conscious mental states, "if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism."

Dennett denies Nagel's claim that the bat's consciousness is inaccessible, contending that any "interesting or theoretically important" features of a bat's consciousness would be amenable to third-person observation. For instance, it is clear that bats cannot detect objects more than a few meters away because echolocation has a limited range. He holds that any similar aspects of its experiences could be gleaned by further scientific experiments. --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F

Heterophenomenology ("phenomenology of another, not oneself") is a term coined by Daniel Dennett to describe an explicitly third-person, scientific approach to the study of consciousness and other mental phenomena. It consists of applying the scientific method with an anthropological bent, combining the subject's self-reports with all other available evidence to determine their mental state. The goal is to discover how the subject sees the world him- or herself, without taking the accuracy of the subject's view for granted. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterophenomenology
I bought several indie game bundles when they were for Linux and/or DRM free. Sadly I had trouble getting most of the Linux games running, at least on Debian (thanks multiarch). I have also bought a few titles off their web store, all you get there is a Steam key. However, I have bought games from the store specificaly hoping that Valve gets less of the cut (PUBG being the latest).

However, I just bought two book bundles over the past month. They are still fantastic. 10-15 books DRM free for about dollar or so each, and a portion of that money I specified to be donated to FSF.

Hopefully post IGN aquisition the book bundles will continue.

PS. I bought Cuphead week of release on GOG to show my support. It may be Windows only but it was DRM free at launch.
Don't be ignorant and read the article. He went to the police since Equinox didn't behave how they should have behaved. Kudos for the male author to share his story.
That seems like it would make it very challenging to assign a version upon release. And there's also the possibility of overlapping versions.
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Presumably, a week was enough time for a technician to give it a look-over.
He risked everything to make a rocket company from nothing, if ever there was a person that earned the hype, this is the person.
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I learned C in CS major. I was awful, could barely write working code.

Spent a few years writing Python, went back to C... and it was much easier to get right.
I'm sorry that happened to you and thanks for speaking up. The way the company treated you is beyond awful.
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