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You make more than your sister doing "less" work because knowledge and high level skills are a value multiplier. You may come up with a world changing idea that generates billions of dollars. No kindergarden teacher could achieve that. Pay matches accordingly.

Except this argument doesn't seem to apply globally: I have a good friend over here in Europe who's got a PhD in computer science. He works as a researcher in a renouned university. His sister is not a kindergarden, but elementary school teacher.

She makes (slightly) more money than he does. Her work day starts at 8am and most of the time ends at 2pm. She's got around 10 weeks of vacation per year. She cannot legally get fired if she performs badly.

So in this country, my friends knowledge and high level skill levels certainly weren't a value multiplier when compared to his sister.

Granted, he might be able to get a higher paid job with his background, but that brings us back to the grandparent's original point: your education is not a good predictor for your salary.
From my understanding, the chip is geared towards implementing neural networks with low power consumption, which makes using spikes a reasonable design choice. So one can argue that using spikes is not about biological accuracy, but power efficiency.

That is great that people want general purpose machine learning chips, the question is how to do it in low power. My guess is that the right architecture will be a mix of ML primitives mixed in with things like spikes (and perhaps other primitives seen found in biology).
Ask HN: Why does web programming pay more than embedded and game programming?
Hello HN, Why does web programming pay more than Embedded and Gaming programming? It seems easier since it has no heavy math, no need to know about electronics, no need to know much about the underneath hardware, computer architecture concerns, signal processing and etc.

I would imagine that the embedded system/game programming person would be paid a lot more than a typical CRUD ruby shop. But I am very wrong.

Also there seems to be 100 web programmers for each kernel or hardware engineer. I don't see the supply/demand effect on this market.
Yes, we produced the video ourselves. Hired outside talent for the voice work though :)
Actually feet is the plural of foot :)
Kind of ironic that a doctor would say that to you. Just try getting a doctor's direct line or cell. It's almost impossible, they have receptionists because they'd be overwhelmed with patients calling them with stupid questions all day if they didn't.

Of course, you could also just hire a remote assistant to field phone calls for you if you wanted.
>more of 3D printing for sure, but you're kidding yourself if you think it'll replace carpentry.

I wasn't suggesting that 3d printing will replace carpentry...
I've always been confused by Calico as a company. Are they part of Google or an independent company funded by Google. They seem to be sharing office space at one of Google offices and there are obvious ties but is working for Calico independent i.e. none of the Google benefits and perks or is it suppose to be a division of Google
Cassowary ( http://constraints.cs.washington.edu/cassowary/ ) is used by Apple for this.
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Math vs. Anti-Semitic Propaganda
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I always had mixed feelings about Alfred Nobel. A person who spent his life producing guns, then created the Nobel prizes, who often go to people that absolutely do not deserve it for political reasons ridiculing the prizes (e.g. Nobel for peace to Obama, G. W. Bush run for it and came 2nd!), but economics Nobels is also highly disputable.

As for Math the article states:

> Nobel omitted mathematics simply because it was not as important to him as other endeavors were.

Any person who has looked at any science at even small depth needs mathematics to express concepts. Mathematics are the lingua franca of the universe. You can't do Physics, Chemistry, Biology or even social sciences like Economics without a basic understanding of mathematics.

So IMHO Nobel (as I said I have mixed feelings for him), new that mathematics goes without saying and didn't create a Nobel for Mathematics. The fields medals is an excellent prize though, so IMHO there's no real gap.
That's a great point, completely agree
What kind of bounce rate do your normally get from organic traffic vs the Reddit traffic?
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Introducing: News with Auto-Scroll (yeah meta64 again)
Why does HackerNews seem to keep burying my posts about http://meta64.com, because there is absolutely no doubt it's the best news aggregator engine in the world? What's up? Is it really impossible to gain traction even with a superior technology ? Or are people really just too jaded and pacified to try something new?
It's a separate company, not Google.
Carpentry is a bad example... 1/4 inch vs 6mm or 7mm doesn't make any difference in this low precision craft... it is far from being precise to the millimeter... Even if you were doing higher precision wood working, you could make your box-joint 6mm wide instead of 1/4" and it would still be a perfect fit.... Also, try dividing an inch into tenths using a ruler?
>'I think some big co should sell a modified android phone (like telcos do) with a preinstalled adult app store.'

I expect that selling a porn phone would be like selling vibrators. If you really want to move the later you need to call it a neck massager.

I think plausible deniability / actual versatility is key in selling anything for which a big unstated selling point is enabling 'sex'.

Porn undoubtedly helped speed the adoption of VCRs and later Internet connected PCs, but they were sold as a way to watch Bambi with the family or for the kids to do homework.
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Ask HN: Confidential Salary Sharing Tool?
Recently read an article on salary confidentiality, suggesting a method by which a group of individuals could share their salaries and learn the average for the group without anybody knowing what anybody else was getting.

In light of the recent case in northern California, I was wondering if anybody has implemented this in an online tool that would allow for confidential salary transparency?
My sister did 9/80s. They were pretty nice when she first moved to the area, but the problem is that you have to take them off on a Friday and it's use-it-or-lose-it. Now that she's married, it's pretty rare that her husband gets time off when she does, and so the extra Friday was basically just a "sit at home in front of the TV day and veg", while the 9 hour days meant that it was an hour less time to spend with her husband in the evenings. I think she's switched back to a regular schedule now.

I have some former coworkers that effectively did 9/80s as well, since they maxed out their vacation and started taking every other Friday off so they wouldn't lose it. It usually worked better, ironically, for people without many hobbies, since they were okay with just sitting at home and vegging for Friday.

4-day weekends could be great if all of society moved to them, but they're tricky when it's just some employers because the people you love aren't around to hang out with. I actually tend to prefer taking Wednesday off; a veg-day to break the week in half seems much more relaxing than a 3-day weekend where you can't do anything fun for one of the days.
Economists of yore were wise to see that productivity would increase dramatically, but they were wrong in believing that surplus productivity would translate into leisure time.

I look at Google and Ycombinator as the model for the future economy, if economic systems are left unchecked by the threat of physical force.

How many people are working at Google everyday on a product that will never produce one red cent? Hundreds? Thousands? How many funded YCombinator startups will never provide a return on investment? 60%? 80%?

These days, the smart money is taking all their surplus productivity and putting it into long-shots to create even more surplus productivity. This explains why industries like software development, that have such an enormous productivity surplus, are paying such high wages right now. One could even argue that the shortage of skilled individuals in such an environment will lead to an increase in demand for those who can train such people - leading to something like a more organic education system.
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I wonder what defenses we will see against such side channel attacks in the future.

Perhaps completely opto-isolated (for both power and signals) and EM shielded coprocessors?
Information entropy and the labour market
Bounce rate is pretty similar (actually better), 55% organic, 50% from reddit.
Non-correlation is so correlated with non-causation that it requires it. And that forms the basis of a lot of "you accept the data you're dealt" science.
If I were to take a guess, I'd say the quality of the output is more visible to those who are paying. Also, there may be a high level of supply generally, but quality developers are not the easiest to find.

Game programming is a special case in that you have to have a ridiculous level of programming skill but the mainstream developers are run like sweatshops (by many accounts), meaning that staff burnout and turnover are both high. It only works because there's a high number of youthful newbies who's dream job is making games, therefore giving a high level of supply despite the working conditions imposed.

Embedded programming also requires a decent level of skill, but it's not seen as glamourous.
As someone who's tried to teach Ruby to laypersons, this one really stuck out to me: "Distinguishing between returning and printing values"

Teaching using the interactive REPL might possibly be an anti-pattern when it comes to teaching a language. I mean, it's great to introduce, but walking through concepts with it can be quite painful:

1. When you get into unclosed brackets and quotation marks, beginners are often confused why nothing happens even after pressing "Enter" a few times. Yes, the prompt does signal an unclosed entity, but it's not obvious to beginners.

2. When you're demonstrating via projected display...it is very hard for students to determine exactly what the hell you're typing, especially if you take advantage of history-autocomplete shortcuts. Yes, such a thing is so mind-numbingly obvious to a moderately experienced programmer, but it is not at all the case for newbies.

3. If you're writing a sequence of commands...not only do you not have to make a typo, but so do your students. Try diagnosing a cry of "It didn't work!" when there are 3 to 4 lines that could have any variety of typographical error.

I think getting into the REPL to do "hello world" is fine...and it's probably necessary to show some basics about variables...but afterwards, it seems much more efficient to get into writing script files and executing them via command line than it is to continue using the REPL.
C is roughly (F - 30)/2, not too bad.
To make my life easier I also measure lb as 1/2 kg and driving distances as time.
Perhaps not to you, but most folk I know (in the UK) aren't quite so hung up about it. I'll sometimes refer to a half-liter as a pint, or a liter as a "couple of pints", or a meter as a yard.

Though the pint is by far the stupidest unit. Why on earth wasn't it standardised at 500ml? It would have fixed pints, quarts and gallons all in one go!

I know, you can think up immediate objections, but having 568ml to the pint and 4.546 litres to the gallon, is just wrong!
According to Wikipedia, the Abel Prize is considered by some as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
>Using the right tool for the right job is worth far more than enforcing arbitrary universal consistency.

Except units of measure are not "tools"...they are ways of communicating information. And when each person feels the need to enforce their own version of "right tool for right job" then things like the mars orbiter incident happen.

>Imagine if we enforced only one programming paradigm, since they're all equivalent.

Hardly. A better analogy would be to enforce identical calling parameters for DLLs libraries across all languages. That would benefit all languages and improve interoperability.
This isn't reddit. Sarcastic one liners and an expectation of downvotes make for bad comments here. You've been here long enough on the site that you should know this.
It's a boondoggle in the making. Solving ageing is hard, and it's going to require fresh ideas, not throwing insane amounts of money at the same old, same old.

The Scumbag 2nd law of thermodynamics is a really harsh mistress (Solved ageing? Die of cancer anyway etc.).

But hey, the digerati elite are showing touches of grey and most of them wouldn't have any better use for their money anyway once they've got the mansion, the yacht, the jet, and the mistress(es) half their age.
The thing about measurements is that they don't matter in your everyday life. I get that it makes physics calculations easier and international machining companies need to interface with the world, but measuring the speed of my car in miles per hour and knowing my couch is 7 1/2 feet long are perfectly fine, and there is absolutely no compelling reason to switch to metric for those kinds of things.

People don't want to switch because it's a huge burden to retrain yourself to think in those units. I remember growing up that the US tried to do it—roadsigns in California had both miles and kilometers on them and our speedometers had both readings for a while. But it didn't stick because there's absolutely no point—it doesn't improve anything, it's just churn.

I've got a very intuitive notion of how long a mile is, and Europeans have a very intuitive grasp on how long a kilometer is. It isn't because one system is intuitive and one isn't, it's just what you're used to—you know it because you use it every day.

The article is wrong. Imperial Units are not "better". But, the system you know and use every day is better than the weird foreign system.

As Abe Simpson once said, "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
.net developer by day. Don't have the time to hack after work. Girlfriend and family time.

When I'm able I tinker with emacs, js2-mode, and skewer. It's fun to hack JavaScript in emacs.
This comment and some of the others show the ugly side of HN.

Judging a company just based on a web site. Also the company is still very young that it should be given time to prove itself.

mindless contrarianism
Wrong, incorrect Deputy annotations (other than the UNSAFE annotation) cannot lead to memory safety violations. I edited to post a bit to make this more clear.
The pricing seems pretty reasonable, but as someone who's built a quick 15 line Python bot that sends me an SMS any time there's a significant change in any of a few Bitcoin markets, I'm not sure how much value this adds compared to, say, a simple open source project that anyone could use.
The UK converted to Metric recent-ish-ly. Once the people who grew up with the old measurements die out it'll get a bit saner, I guess.
yeah, very novel.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/howLay...
A guess: at $2500+ per couch, or their $800 lamps, you don't have to sell very much crap to justify sending a lot of catalogues.
David Malki of the web comic Wondermark invented a game called "Restoration Hogwash:"

http://wondermark.com/restoration-hogwash/ - http://wondermark.com/restoration-redux/

One player selects a catalog item and covers up the description; the other players each write a description that they think fits, and then everyone tries to guess which hilariously overwrought description is the original. One of his commenters pointed out that “There are 72 different items [in the catalog] which are described as being made from wood from ‘100-year old buildings in Great Britain’.” There must have been a sale at Home Depot.

He ran a modified version on his blog in which commenters try to describe an item, and he showed them which other item they had actually described. Very funny stuff.
Are you suggesting cancer is a necessary consequence of the way heat transfer works? I have trouble believing that.
Another toolkit that uses Python, but with Qt (and previously also wxWidgets) is enaml - it has a cassowary solver, a Visual Studio docking system, and very interesting approach to connecting that to visual elements.

https://github.com/nucleic/enaml

http://nucleic.github.io/enaml/docs/
I did the same thing, was thinking on looking on it for some co-workers. But ended up leaving
It's not clear to me how that would work. Sending 1 bit of information to 8 processors is not the same as sending 8 bits to one processor.
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This guy is an Aubrey de Grey fanboy who shows up in every ageing related thread shilling for SENS, wouldn't worry about it.
Interesting, was expecting a higher number. Did it translate in a higher time on site as well?

On the 20k, it's actually low for Reddit, but it's so volatile and random, i've had posts generating 185k+ views for around the same amount of points in active sub reddits.
They say it would be nice, but not yet, no.
I think this is his argument. It would actually be harder for him to handle more digits, even thought they mean the same thing.
And here I thought my comments represented the ugly side of hacker news.

I personally thought the above comment provided detail and references as to why this a tough nut to crack as well as what the current promising approaches may be.

And yes, the company should be given time to prove itself.

But given that they are well-funded, and that their public face is their web site, I would think (and maybe I'm crazy) that they could provide something more interesting than a bunch of vanilla executive bios. This is an amazing area of research and this is the best they can show for it? Not impressed (so far).
I don't see a claim in those links that people at the bottom rung have $20k in disposable income. I can't imagine they even have $20k a year to begin with. Your claims are very different from my experience living close enough to that bottom rung to know people in it.
FWIW, there is no learning on-chip. Machine learning is not the goal of this project, nor is its success dependent on it's learning capabilities (at least not at this phase). Where it does succeed, however, is in low-power computation in an architecture that is scalable and fault tolerant. LeCunn is criticizing an orange for not tasting like an apple.
Actually, I much prefer his responses. For once, it's a founder saying what he wants and how he feels, not someone boasting about a feature or service despite their misgivings about it.
But if I fork a repo with a button (or even navigate to different branch/commit in same repo), a manually set query string would still point to the same code.
Whereas the referer headear can identify exactly the right version briliantly.
I completed most of the assignments. I was hoping the spreadsheets portion would be a bit more fleshed out. Looking forward to more assignments.
Interesting point. Wonder where the downvote comes from? Googling the nick + sens leads to quite a lot of SENS-related comments.
That would be great! I think that adding more libraries to the benchmark would be just great. This is the project I've created to run the benchmarks:

https://github.com/mfontanini/packet-capture-benchmarks

You can have a look at some of the existing benchmarks so you get an idea of what it has to do. Let me know if you need any help.
The Mac screenshot I see on the home page looks about as non-native as the average Qt app.
No I'm suggesting that the body is a complex system and if you solve one component of the problem, another component ultimately fails until you run out of components (hint, just like software)

Every time a cell divides, it has a chance of turning malignant. Live long enough and one of those cells will win the cancer lottery and take you down if you don't catch it in time. Many forms of cancer are symptom-free long enough for this to happen (pancreatic for example) and we do not yet have the technology to easily detect this until it's late in the game.

And that's just one way to go. Then there are aneurisms and all sorts of other odd bodily defects that will eventually manifest.

Ageing is tough. That said, eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep, and you'll stand the best chance to max out your time clock.
There are some great posts about machine learning and database technology on Facebook.com ( by their staff ).
There are wal-marts outside of the USA/North America, I'm sure you know.q
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The engineering team from PornHub was at GoogleIO this year wearing shirts that said, "10,000,000 downloads and they still won't list us in the Play store."

Interestingly, they mentioned that they are now moving all servers and content to Google infrastructure.
It's an analogy to explain to people the prestige and honor that comes along with the prize. There's no official ruling to be found on which one is considered to be more like the Nobel prize, and it really doesn't matter.

The Fields Medal certainly has history and pedigree behind it (the Abel Prize was first awarded in 2003), but it also has some oddities, like the fact that it has an age limit, which means you won't get prizes for many mathematicians' seminal results, which often come after decades of work.
Yes it is.

I had to squint and blow up the screen. Then I scrolled down a bit to get a better view and it was gone.
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I wrote a little project but it probably pales in comparison to most of these. https://github.com/dandroid88/webmote
Your preconceptions toward the latter, if I had to guess.
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In the second link there is a graph entitled "Disposable Income for a Hypothetical Single Parent with One Child, by Earnings", which doesn't fall below $20k. Of course, it may not be correct to generalize it, and it is incorrect to present it as "per person" since it represents two people - parent and child.
I don't need to claim the brain has any similarity to a computer. All I'd claim is that the qualities Chalmers cites aren't evidence that consciousness is "unexplainable".

Me: "An intelligent being having internal representations seems very logical - computer programs often build a variety of representation of the things they modeling. " - sure, the brain may be utterly different than a computer program but there isn't anything in that difference that implies there couldn't be an internal representation. If a computer program can do that, sure something far more intelligent could also.

The brain may indeed be well beyond we human's ability to explain. But that fact hardly provides evidence for "consciousness" being an element of all reality, akin to space or time. Indeed, the vast physical complexity of the brain is evidence that other parts of reality aren't that likely to share it's properties, which is the exact opposite of what Chalmers argues - remember he's arguing that because consciousness is "unexplainable" we have to attribute conscious to all matter to wind-up with the brain having consciousness ("a photon has a small amount of consciousness").
Maybe someone who knows more about this can confirm, but I've heard that Nobel left out mathematics because he felt it was too abstract or esoteric in comparison with these other sciences which (he felt) had more of a chance of directly improving the world. Maybe an analogy would be that while he promoted a prize for literature, he didn't promote a prize for typography or spelling. Not saying I agree with that idea, but this is what I've heard.

Again: Someone who knows better, please correct my misunderstanding if I'm wrong.