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It felt early. It felt like choosing something unpopular, because it interested you.. At a time, computers weren't cool, no one knew what the internet was.. And then my user to the whole world arriving in your area of interest.

A lot of firsts are memorable.. The first time using cable modem instead of dialup, the first time using wifi on a laptop and it seeming like magic.. "usable" GPRS mobile data.

One thing that felt different was there seemed to be far more creation than there is today vs consuming. In some ways, the only way to participate was creating because there was far less to consume.

Another memory and remaining gift today is the feeling of what authentic community and social interaction felt like online. Despite social media being ubiquitous today, there seemed a deeper community during the late 90's / early 2000's.. pre Facebook. I'd say reddit is the closest experience to the feeling today, but Reddit is more awesome with the sheer amount of people on it.

I still have a few friendships formed from irc as teenagers and we still remain in touch nearly 15-20 years later. Maybe not as often, but the depth and respect often remains. It's not uncommon to get a random call or long email during a major life event to reconnect for a few weeks to support each other along until the next thing.

I don't think the 90s internet generations' minds were as skewed by anxiety because they used technology to create, and connect.. not consume what others are up to, and as mainstream society has picked up the internet the consumption (gaming included) mindset has arrived in much greater numbers. The big shift from irc to instant messengers was one wave of disconnection, but when social networks started replacing words with photos.. The substance became visual instead of learning to use your words. I got to create games, music, web, mobile apps, video and web apps.

In a way, all my friends who joined the internet 10-15 years after me are 10-15 years behind and catching up on topics like privacy, managing distractions, paying attention to how much value tech actually provides me.

They are also going thru internet and technology addiction on a curve after I did. But we're starting to come out of the addiction cycle of building humanities weakest online social bonds of showing off, being phony, jealousy and the resulting anxiety for something far more positive: becoming creators.

There's an interesting overlap between the group who grew up online before the world discovered the internet and saw the world arrive, and the current group that knew no life without the internet.

I still have faith thoough.. Any young minded and open minded ppl (armed with today's possibilities have some pretty incredible opportunities if they can focus on what they're doing and not what, or how others are doing.
Personally, I shut down my Tor relay, which was running for two years (and earned me two tshirts), when you decided to transition from being a software project which works for anonymity on the Internet to a "human rights project".

I know I'm practically alone in having done that, but it feels good. I felt stabbed in the back when you decided that only people in one side of the political spectrum have a right to privacy and anonymity.
I'm diabetic and allergic to legumes. It's nearly impossible for me to get enough protein or complete protein without excessive intake of either legume derived protein or carbs.

Beyond that, I like meat and feel that eating meat is part of a natural state of being. I find that factory farming has other issues and most don't eat enough head to tail profile for appropriate nutrition though.

Aside: I think another large issue is that most people aren't eating enough healthy balanced fat profiles, and get too many fats higher in linoleic acid which is more problematic. Most natural sources of unrefined and specifically animal protein are generally 0.5g fat to 1g protein or higher. The eating of animals combined with cooking food are what allowed homosapiens to evolve.
Not that I fault those who chose a vegetarian lifestyle, though the religious zealotry is a bit annoying.
And in the extreme case, an undervalued company may be subject to a hostile takeover. Apple is somewhat protected by its sheer size, but at a P/E of 10, it's a quite attractive target.
I found it interesting that my latest issue iPad has a headphone jack. Not all departments have the same courage it seems and I’m glad for that.
I have commented elsewhere[0] but I will copy it here:

For anyone interested in looking at this story in depth, here are some of the times it or similar stories have been submitted to HN. Some of these submissions have comments and discussions, and those might be interesting to read too. Note that these are not all the same story, but they are all talking about "solving" things like TSP using slime-moulds or other organisms.

My take is this: No, they're not really doing anything interesting other than search, and no, they're not "solving" the TSP. Not least, given larger instances, they don't always find the minimum path, and they don't even find necessarily good paths. So while they do find a path, it really doesn't have any impact at all on the question of solving NP problems.

None.

If someone disagrees with that then I'd love to have a decent discussion.

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I hope they fail to suppress Boghossian. As far as I'm concerned, he's done academia a great favor by shining a light on the inane horseshit people "review" and publish, especially outside the hard sciences where it can't be reliably verified. Instead of systematically addressing the problem, these people are choosing to claim that the emperor's clothes are just fine as they are. I very much hope this backfires, and I also hope this is made as public as possible.
This took me a minute and a second read, for anyone else who was similarly confused:

> The review board also determined that the hoax project met the definition for human-subjects research because it involved interacting with journal editors and reviewers

The university's basically saying that the project itself is the problem, not the individual articles themselves. As the author stated, the goal was to:

> "to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research"

which is a behavioral research meta-study involving humans (in this case, journal reviewers and editors). Of course, behavioral research involving humans almost always requires IRB approval.

I realize on a third reading this is stated pretty clearly ("the hoax project met.."), but took me a minute nonetheless.
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Replication crisis + reputation crisis = lawyers
But reading the paper we learn about an issue that exists within the complex system, and that is valuable.

Agreed, that why I said "All of that said, I'm sure the math is valid and this theory has uses." My criticism (if you want to call it that) isn't of the fundamental, underlying theory... it's more with the specific example chose to illustrate it. I suspect that there is a better example model they could have chosen.
Check out Archytas, the so-called "father of mechanical engineering." He was the (philosopher) king of Tarentum and a major influence on Plato. He was one of the last Pythagoreans and probably authored the first treatise of mech Eng, "mechanical problems" (Winter, 2007). Archytas is attested to have built the first self-propelled, steam powered flying machine. He was also a major influence on Vitruvius.

The Pythagoreans were erased from history several times - but essentially introduced the modern world view that the natural world, including the human mind, has a mathematical basis.

This is completely off topic but I also discovered recently (from the source text) that Philo of Alexandria, contemporary to Jesus Christ, twice described the Essenes of Israel as "Pythagoreans". That is super strange, people! Jesus was described as a Nazorean, a sect of the Essenes. Iamblicus claims Pythagoras visited Mt Caramel (later the home of the Nazoreans) around the time that the Jewish "babylonian captivity" ended. So, that's an alternate narrative for the basis of Christianity that has better historical documentation than most of the new testament. And, via Pythagorean ideas, is far more commensurable with modern science. Just saying! It's a real rabbit hole, these original source texts....
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Inventing is building a working device.
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At first I thought it was a good idea. Not to verify problem solving skills but to maybe get a more dynamic interview of the person working in teams. But yeah, you’re right. This would quickly turn into a dick measuring contest and soon there’s be “cracking the escape room” books dedicated to optimal escape room strategies.

Hey at least escape rooms would be better than coding white boards. Probably more of an actual test of a programmers abilities ;)
I wish. Our smartphones would be halfway there if manufacturers could be bothered to include a few more sensors.

Alas, I don't see tricorders happening soon, because they're "action movie" tools. That is, looking from economical and social POV, almost every use case for a tricorder would be better handled by a team of specialists with heavy equipment, and not in a hurry. Real life is boring this way, and technology in the real world isn't about empowering indivduals - at least not in any way that conflicts with the mundane.
In the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Captain Kirk accesses classified information in the ship's computer through a retina scan. This was well before the word 'biometrics' became a more familiar term. The filmmakers had the tricky task of how to represent a retina scan in a highly visual way. So what we see is a flythrough inside Kirk's eye until the retina is reached and verified.

Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG) is a pocket electronic book that contains all the accumulated knowledge about the universe. In the BBC TV series broadcast in 1981, the HHGTTG was represented by a 'computer graphics' aesthetic which was entirely hand animated. The animations still hold up brilliantly (and are better than the animations in the 2005 film).
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Getting to 20k probably not any time soon
Hope he enjoys his struggle session.
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I found the title confusing too.

May I suggest leaving the word "Quantum" out of the title completely. IMHO it's rather cheeky (and misleading) for the satellite manufacturers to use that name at all for something that doesn't involve quantum-mechanics-based technology.
No, I'm suggesting that managers might have been made to select them on the spot. I worked as a manager. This is usually a very easy question to answer unless your team consists entirely of rockstars, which I haven't experienced in practice. As a manager you are acutely aware of who's producing and who's dragging their feet.
As someone in academia, I often encounter (although mostly tangentially via student politics) grievance studies or rather the mindset that goes with it.

I think about it as an asymmetric game. Most researchers have to give their all to get ahead in their field of study (speaking from a hyper-competitive STEM subfield, ymmv). Grievance scholars however have as part of their march through institutions achieved for themselves not to be subjected to similar standards. Consequentially, academic politics from the undergraduate level onwards is dominated by students from fields whose very existence depends on asserting their importance through these politics.

To us, this is academic politics with nothing to win, everything to lose. To them, it is a vicious existential fight. It is no surprise that the rational choice most people take is to try to ignore this.

However, ignoring it is not an option any more, so out of fear, people chose sides. Taking one side means having to make empty statements and then being (for the most) left in peace. Taking the other side means having career-ending events happening to you.

I am not sure how this is supposed to end but I am getting out of academia as fast as I can.
The guy fabricated data to fool the editors. Academia relies on researchers being honest and not doing so -- there simply aren't any resources for journals to do independent replication of all received papers before accepting them for publication. That's precisely why data fabrication is taken so seriously and the consequences of doing so are basically career ending -- it's the deterrent to incentivize people to be honest.

Edit: Also can we not lump all of academia into the same basket? The standards in computer science/math/physics are very different from that in biology/medicine which in turn are very different from those in humanities
Lots of invite only websites around that have really great communities. Getting in can be a bit hard but once you are in they tend to cross invite to other invite only sites.
If you expect a mandatory fee and its not on the item's price, then its dishonest. Sales tax in the US is bad enough, but at least we all know about it and its the government. If they want to break out the "labor" cost on the menu like auto folks do, then fine, but this fee crap is just plain irritating.
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I mean the Elasticsearch API. Kinda what you were referring to in the first part of your sentence, but I don't know why you'd say it like that, especially since the Elasticsearch API covers other things, such as mapping indexes and other cluster administration.
And I believe zeppelin is still trademarked and still exists as a company in germany.
Shell is kind of REPL (read–eval–print loop). In OOP you use looping with mutation and in FP you use recursion. This may not sound very informative but still: "Just fold over inputs, what's the problem?".

Being immutable doesn't mean that everything is static but that things aren't changeable in place. So instead of having a global mutable state, you have this local state which you can alter by creating new instances and passing them around. In the end, the difference is that on what scope changes are observable and how that constraint effects on your design. In some sense: mutable = changes are uncontrollable, immutable = changes are controllable.
> Their goal, they wrote, was to "to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research." They contend that scholarship that tends to social grievances now dominates some fields, where students and others are bullied into adhering to scholars’ worldviews, while lax publishing standards allow the publication of clearly ludicrous articles if the topic is politically fashionable.

This hoax didn't demonstrate anything non-trivial about these fields. As we know from the replication crisis, it is relatively easy to get a paper accepted in academic journals. This hoax and the hoaxers were as guilty of the political bias and ethical malafice they were trying to accuse "grievance studies" of. The fields they target have all been shrinking since 2008, a clear sign they lack a vice-like grip on universities.
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I realized that nearly every tech job I had in Israel, came with perks that included Free lunches / food. We would often get meals catered in and it was something to look forward to regularly and it seemed to energize our teams and bring everyone together. I started to learn that companies that genuinely invested in their people whether through training, free-food, etc... seemed to grow much faster. After all, a company is nothing more than a collective of people working towards a shared mission, and achievable (but difficult) short term goals / milestones, and so using food to bring people closer together [like a family], and keep them productive made sense.

I decided to take everything that I learned in Israel and bring it back home to Toronto, and so I launched JustBooked.com which is an office catering company. I did some research in the space before entering and was aware that there are two other main players in the space platterz and foodee. I figured we could put our own unique spin on our technology [which we're developing now] and compete and better yet innovate on the model. To date we have 40+ restaurants on JustBooked.com that you can order from in the Toronto, Downtown core. [To see our results, enter address, 181 Bay Street, Toronto, ON, Canada]

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I was thinking we can sell companies on ordering more frequently for the tax break they can get on meals for their employees, or something along these lines..

Any help on getting more frequency and consistent orders would be greatly appreciated guys!
Nice work! I am working to improve the MIDI playback quality on my MIDI archive website, BitMidi (https://bitmidi.com), and I think this might help.

The main difficulty with a web-based MIDI player like BitMidi is that it's not feasible to force the user to wait for a 300+ MB SoundFont to download before starting in-browser playback. The current format I use ("patch" files) has a separate file for each instrument, so I can lazily load only the necessary instruments needed to play a single song. You can see the approach I use here: https://github.com/feross/timidity

Anyway, excellent work on this SoundFont!
Are you sure this was a Roland SC? This sounded pretty close to just plain old Adlib. Of course any sound font would sound better than fm synth. What would be helpful is to have the track played on an MT32 or a Sound Canvas to do a proper comparison.

That's the thing about these old games: they were totally made for how the MT32 and later the Sound Canvas sounded to the point where they would even chose an instrument that would otherwise not be fitting, but which sounded good on the original device.

Unfortunately for me, all of this happened way before I had money on my own or could convince my parents to shell out the considerable sum these devices would have cost, so I really don't know how these games were intended to sound.

Which makes me really sad as a huge video game music fan/nerd.
About Asimov's predictions: those (incl. listed above) either haven't yet materialized, or are rather funny from today's perspective (Robotics, AI and "psychohistory" as described in the Foundation series). He's been rather poor futurologist IMO, contrary to the level of his popularity.
I'm not sure what topics are covered by 'electronics graduate.' Did this cover things like digital design/logic design?

I should make a list of topics from the absolute basics like binary arithmetic through more complex things like sequential logic and state machines.

The job aspect is more complicated for me. In the areas I've worked, a 4 year bachelors in CS, CE or EE is a prerequisite. Sometimes a masters degree as well, although that has varied over the years.

Startups are, I think, more likely to bring someone in based on their public work. I don't have startup experience so I'm not the right person to answer that beyond speculating.

If I were founding a startup and needed FPGA talent, I'd be open to interviewing someone that could demonstrate understanding of clock domains, synchronization schemes, state machine design, pipelining, AMBA. If you had demonstrated board design/prototyping, even better.

One of the projects I would have liked to have done in the past personally would be to make an effects processor for an electric guitar/bass. Really, even without any signal processing, this would be an impressive project. Making use of analog-to-digital converter(s), bringing in the data to the FPGA, having a place holder block that just passed the data through, and an interface piping data to a digital-to-analog converter would be a useful platform for demonstrating digital design understanding.

And really this could apply to any sort of "signal." Guitar just happens to be a place where digital logic and signal processing intersects nicely. Microphone and voice would work too.

You could really go nuts with this though, use it as a platform to learn about filtering, frequency shifting. You could make a harmonizer. Come up with your own auto-tune. It would be fun with immediate feedback.
>it jeopardizes the students’ reputations, as their degrees in the process may become devalued."

Hahahaha

Could you imagine how different schools would be if they put that motivation over money? At Eastern Washington, the CS professors admitted that they have to give, without exaggeration, roughly half of their degrees to people that have no idea what they're doing and have only demonstrated incompetence.
ReactNative, Xamarin or Cordova abstractions may be a better overall experience.
How exactly does that cater to only one side of the political spectrum?
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> Clickbait,

Have you ever seen newspaper headlines from, say, the early 20th century?

> e-mail phishing,

The Nigerian prince scam started in regular postal mail ...

> viral fake news

Again, early 20th century newspapers... Remember the Maine!

> and people preferring SMS to a voice or facetime call.

Telegrams and voice calls overlapped in existence.
You haven't looked much into the grievance studies area much then. The whole field is a gangrenous foot that will kill academia if something is not done about it.