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>A bunch of clones is no fun at all and doesn't give the proper vision.

I'm also a native English speaker, and had no problem parsing the sentence.

The implication is that hiring a bunch of people very similar to each other in opinions and skills results in an echo chamber mentality, and makes it harder for anyone on the team to identify with differing opinions that could improve the product but are contrary to the team's default position.
Misleading headline.

Change it to: "An Amazon Data Center Under Construction is on Fire".

And this is not newsworthy, stuff under construction catches fire all the time, being Amazon does not make it any different.
How did you determine that you are not one of the coders who believe themselves better than they are? Because if you are misled about your own ability, you might also be misled about which feedback is useful.

Is it possible that there is a surprisingly large number of coders who believe their feedback more useful than it is?

If coder feedback tends to be useful, then isn't it likely that meta-feedback on the usefulness of feedback is useful?
a frequent situation is that the first proof is really long and convoluted. Later, after building up of much of a theory construction blocks around, the proof becomes "simpler" (i.e. simpler combination of well established in that area "blocks") and that is what frequently taught later to students and to "outsiders".

For such first long proofs among the best approaches is to throw it to the pack of hungry wolves ... err ... students and first years PhD-s and let them gnaw on it (with presenting their progress on weekly department seminars - thus saving time to more valuable members of the department and providing the students with real-life experience of a mathematician) Well, at least this is how it was done back then at our University (in Russia :).
I assumed it had something to do with PG's beans & rice being a small bit of YC lore...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=525529
To be clear, this is a data center under construction, not one in production.
I'm a muslim and here's my perspective on what happened in Paris.

The attack on Charlie Hebdo is an absolute travesty. My heart goes out to the cartoonists, columnists, editors, policemen, and other innocent victims.

Absolute freedom of speech is a human right. From Paris to Riyadh, anyone is free to draw and publish cartoons of the Prophet and any aspect of Islam that they disagree with. Not only should critical discourse be tolerated, it should be welcomed, for it leads to introspection and self-betterment.

I believe that a majority of muslims living in the west would agree with me. Many might have been offended by the cartoons, but one does not choose to live in a free society if they can't handle opposing points of view. Unfortunately, this doesn't come through in the statements of muslim "representativates" on TV who are quick to condone acts of violence but seem hesitant to categorically dismiss the ideological basis for the violence (i.e. the cartoons shouldn't have been published). This is probably because their jobs depend on carefully towing a line between religious ideology and political correctness.

Again, I don't think the cartoons are an issue for msot muslims in the west. I suspect the motivation behind the gruesome attacks in Paris might have been to make them a bigger issue, with the ultimate objective of sowing internal discord and recruiting more troublemakers. Perhaps the perpetrators play upon the expectation that the public discourse will inevitably drift to "why are muslims violent and dangerous and opposed to cartoons of the prophet?". Young mulsims will inevitably face this discourse in schools, in the press, on TV, and may eventually start to believe it and feel isolated. This might mold them into targets for further brainwashing and recruitment.

I think that we, as a society, need to get a lot better at understanding these criminal motivations. Forcefully reacting to these acts of violence is simply not enough. If we fail to control the discourse, I'm afraid such violence is likely to continue.
LWR was chosen during the cold war because they wanted to make as much weapons grade fuel as possible.
I'm currently also at reading it. It's definitly worth it, gives a good overview on different concurrency solutions.

However if you want to have a really deep dive into actors/core.async/threading-primitives then more specialised books might be more helpful.
"beating the credential creep" is just about the worst reason to get a PhD, so I'm going to be a jerk and start by saying "you're part of the problem". But thank you for considering changing careers. What you have identified is exactly correct. If your institution is unable to raise funds in neuro that is a BAD SIGN since Obama promised a heap of money for neuro, and it is one of the few areas that is modestly well-funded (of course a lot of 'other players' jumped in to try to capture that money too so there's now, surprise surprise, more competition for that grant pool).

If you were an EE, even with bad grades, you should be able to find a startup that will want you, that is, if you're young and want to play the startup lottery. Another thing to consider is to get a master's in EE or a related engineering discipline if you want a 'second chance' to bring your grades up. Sure, it costs money, but it's only one or two years and masters are very highly valued in the Engineering disciplines.
Why wouldn't they? They might not have been able to get the deal on their own, nor did they necessarily have the right experience or a CEO ready to run it.

Don't forget, there is _a lot_ of capital in the world. We're talking trillions. To get the returns Blackstone is after, things need to move fast. It would be foolish to spend 6 months looking for a CEO when a suitable one comes knocking on your door. Especially when he might be the only one who can do a deal.
if it doesn't affect operations then isn't this just pointless clickbait?
Proxmox as a home virtualization solution
Then suddenly it becomes impossible to offer any feedback. Or discuss offering feedback. Or discuss even the possibility of feedback.

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How do you feel about goldfish?
Never had an issue. I've run benchmarks against mine and then google's and didn't see any noticeable difference. Google only seems to offer me what I assume are massive privacy violations for using their service.
You don't have to handle the decay heat with active cooling after stopping fission. You can simply "walkaway safe". They're using physics and engineering design to replace failsafe systems.
> past seven days has seen a _lot_ of stuff land

Yep, and for those who has to stay on master it was pretty nasty time - one day you patch a library, another day you're almost revert yesterday's patch.
Stop sensationalizing the title. A building that is currently being built with Amazon as the planned tenant caught on fire during construction.
The second toplevel comment ("this sounds suspicious") and its replies were mostly what I was referring to. The original author had to show up and defend himself, something that would rightly terrify many newbies. Comments near the top are exponentially more representative, both because of upvotes and because of the number of replies they engender.

Although it's interesting that a toplevel-only view results in a much more positive outlook. I wonder if I could write an extension to hide all replies by default to see what various threads would look like.
That's really a shame. I know a lot of my success has been due to the patience and instructions given by my seniors when I started.

Perhaps your success can be in spite of the critics.
For those willing to watch 30 mins, great summary of Box's strategy: http://retailroadshow.com/sys/launch.asp?qv=016800407320261&...
Chemists can make a bit of money in industry depending on the specialization. Organic Chem can go into medical/pharma research. Then there is lots of research/work/money in materials (diamonds, carbon fiber, other composites, lots of stuff I don't know).

I don't know the specific pay in these fields, but it is definitely higher than you would get staying in academics.
It's not the worse mathematician homepage I've seen, by a grand margin. Mine is only marginally better, and I have more to blame since I know what I do when I do webpages :)
Same for me, but at a different university. School was free, good stipend, and free housing cause i was also an RA (not normally allowed but they let me do it). Living like a king is an apt description. Best 5 years of my life, without question.
It's not just women who prefer this communication style, by the way. As a male, I find the constant jockying for position among other men to be tiresome and stressful. It's particularly acute among other coders. To be honest, it's also one of the main reasons I don't maintain many friendships with men.

There are others still who are often excluded in this kind of environment: minorities, LGBTs, and people who are shy by nature.
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Most people ignore the advice they are given, that's just how people are. They have to come to a conclusion under their own power, or else it just won't stick.

There are exceptions that should be studied to understand the phenomenon. One thing I know there are people who will diligently take and address feedback, but only of one particular kind. For example, where I worked at Microsoft code review feedback was sacred - you never complained about it unless it was demonstrably, factually wrong, and you did as you were told. There probably were people who didn't follow these rules, but if so they did not last very long. Another example is master/apprentice relationship, where apprentice relegates his creative autonomy to the master for certain duration. This is largely imaginary at this point, as I've never seen this happen myself, but it's worth looking into. Yet another example is people's reliance on authority status - when an authority says something, many people are inclined to believe it just because.

You will note these are all exceptions to the rule however. Outside of these narrowly defined areas, people largely ignore any advice they are given. It is for that reason many people who have something to say keep it to themselves - they don't want to waste their time. Sometimes I bump into someone misguided and I just look at them smiling politely without saying much. Sometimes I also see people smiling politely at me, when that happens I try to unwind last few minutes of my words to see what could have gone wrong...
LED noise is not due to something vibrating.

Former Sound Engineer and well LEDs make noise (super quiet). My guess it is the transformer that is making the noise since a LED powered monitor is regulating the voltage of the LED as needed if it didn't do that your power use would be many times higher than with a voltage regulating transformer.

Wouldn't mean anything damaging is happening at all.
Where do junior developers come from?
"Why does anyone think science is a good job?"

- Because you get paid to investigate some of the most interesting things in the world, in the company of mostly great people.

Science is awesome. Scientific careers right now are shitty, but that's because the current system is broken, not because of anything intrinsic to science. We should try to fix it.
We live in a society that values trading commodities

It has nothing to do with our society per se. All capitalist societies work this way. Externalities distort pricing in very predictable ways. The fact that science is undervalued and commodities trading overvalued comes right down to how externalities are produced and/or captured by these activities.
If you've gone through paper-publishing, editors ask for pretty large reductions. A 29 page paper can easily be a 50-60 pages paper with "decent details" or a 150 pages paper with clear explanations of all details.
At first glance, it seems like they bought at 10x EBITDA, and the combined entity is trading at 43x P/E. That's a deal well put together.
If you've got your thorium spread out and not reacting it should no longer be high temperature well before the 4 years are up.
That's really not the point. Whether or not you know what you are doing, you are the mechanism by which child porn is distributed. From a Bayesian perspective, you can just decide how "at fault" you are. If you're in a firing squad of 10 people and 1 guy has blanks, there's a 90% chance you're firing real bullets at the guy in front of you, even though you may have no real way of knowing whether you're actually firing blanks or bullets.

Either way, there's the objective fact of what you are doing (which is independent of your knowledge of the fact) and the degree of your complicity in the action. The parent is saying that they are uncomfortable with knowing that there is an x% chance they are aiding in the distribution of child pornography. There's an argument to be made that providing infrastructure is very different from active engagement, but it's bizarre to pretend that because you can't objectively know what each packet contains that you are therefore absolved of all knowledge of the situation.
Also because IIRC it made more sense on submarines.
Hey just cus something is not a financial success doesnt mean its not good! :)
Knowingly providing internet infrastructure so others can attack other internet infrastructure is far from "being neutral." ISPs disconnect customers all the time for abuse, yet somehow Cloudflare gets a free pass?

Funny how the solution to being DDOS'd by their own customers is, "Buy our product." In the sane world we call this racketeering or protection money.
This is true, without the right tools. I am moving to logstash with kibana to do this, and it's looking very promising. See http://www.elasticsearch.org/videos/kibana-logstash/
What real-world purpose does this conjecture hold, and why is its proof of any importance?
I thought he looked familiar... I definitely remember his photo making the rounds as "Potential Satoshi"'s when that was the media craze of the week
Really interesting to consider how self-driving cars will enable lower insurance rates.
To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but also continually surprised
There's a couple I know:

1. Engagement Pyramid: http://www.socialmediamodels.net/social-media-overview-model...

2. Hook Model:
http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/09/desire-engine-in.html
Perhaps it isn't that science is unprofitable, it just isn't immediately profitable.

Pretty much the entire modern economy, i.e. those parts that don't depend primarily on manual labor, politicking or usury, is founded on the work of scientists and engineers.
so waste taxpayer money on more positions which create more postdocs and grad students? Just kicks the problem down the road.

What if there's a limited social capacity to do science? As in, at any given time there's it's only worth it to allow some percentage of people to do science (and not all of them will be doing science). Throwing more money at the problem will only muddy the waters by drowning out the good voices with junk, and what you will see is thousands of journals, and more fraud and bad science percolating through the upper journals. Hmm...
Seeing it from the perspective of a network filesystem (WebDAV by itself is a lot more, albeit afaik has never been used seriously as an authoring tool) it is a bit over-engineered, but the real problem (expecially when dealing with CardDAV and CalDAV) is the clients/servers inter-operation, as it looks like no-one is able to respect the RFCs (check the amount of hacks the radicale project or davvy needed to make OSX clients happy, or the differences between lightning, korganizer and so on). So the reason is that my patience ended :)
They don't have to be 'IPO good', they just have to be forced to IPO through technicalities, right?
In my experience running https://thisaintnews.com the hardest part is getting and keeping users. It would probably be easier if I did some marketing, but that's too much like work! Still, it's not doing bad for something that's been around for 6 years, and hasn't been worked on in a year.

The second problem is motivation, after a certain amount of time, it becomes far less fun and much more of a burden, at which point you have to decide if you'll power through, give up, or quit totally.

The rest is just a software/hardware problem, and easily dealt with when needed.

As for the load, it's not that busy, but not that quiet for what it is, (http://stats.thisaintnews.com) and it runs on a cheap server from http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/, has a Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 V2 @ 3.20GHz, 16Gb ram and 2x 1tb hdd, unlimited bandwidth and 1gbps link. It only costs about £25/month iirc.
I took one nuclear engineering class, in 1975. It was clear then that pressurized water reactors should be replaced as the predominant design, either by gas-cooled or molten-salt. I'm sure the same is true now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-temperature_reactor suggests that gas-cooled reactors tend to be pebble-bed, and that the story gets confused because there's a molten salt version of the pebble-bed reactor as well.

Anyhow, googling on HTGR (High Temperature Gas Reactor) will reveal more.
The space of proofs is enormous. Model checkers and proof assistants will probably become user friendly much sooner than they'll get good enough heuristics to navigate such spaces.
> 4GB can cost you $40 which is not cheap at all.

That's totally negligible on the cost of the rest of the machine. Imagine $160 will get you 16G!! That's an absolutely enormous amount of memory, most power users would be more than satisfied with that.

Not all that long ago that amount of RAM would cost more than a brand new mid sized car.
Giving the benefit of the doubt, I think wereabout was trying to see how I handle criticism, but it is really not a good experiment since we are talking about coding and not English skills. Truthfully, I've had to deal with too many psychologists and social workers in the early part of my career to be rattled by that foolishness. I am long past the worrying about a education on a reservation has affected my English grammar or writing. Particularly when we are talking about messages on a forum scribbled off in haste. Also, that is not the language or tone to express a critique unless you get paid by the media to be outrageous.

So, detouring back to the full explanation. The dictionary definition for the meaning of clone I was referring to is "a person or thing regarded as identical to another". Hiring people that are basically the same is boring and doesn't lead to a diversity of though or experience. Its fine having similar friends and you will grow with them, but a business shouldn't operate that way. You owe it to yourself and your investors to cover as much ground in experience and knowledge as possible.
>Cloudflare is closer to a router than a host.

They literally run Varnish, mod_security, mod_evasive, etc. They literally host content. They are a host, not a "router."
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> How do you propose to bring about a more utopian society with the above characteristics?

Individual people have to care about these values & resist the imposed values of ego, greed, competition, materialism, ridicule, nationalism, violence, being "right", "getting mine", etc. It takes people leading & living the life of these values. If others resonate with these new values, then a movement is built.

All I can do is love myself & others. I see my own life as an archetype of our greater successes & failures; doing my work has a positive impact on those around me.

> (Note that I came of political age during the tail end of the cultural '60s. I have heard all of the above before....)

Like anything else of nuance, it takes creative iteration.

The '60s changed our understanding of freedom, love, & compassion. The upheaval healed, perpetuated, & created trauma on our souls.

The '60s had a lot of energy breaking social bounds. Sex, drugs, & rock-n-roll, while liberating, is not necessarily the most sustainable emphasis.

Many people went down a more esoteric path learning about ego & love. We can utilize our advances in communication, social understanding, global reach, experience, etc to shift our values to be harmonious with each other & our environment. It's necessary to our survival, so I have faith that we will evolve, just like we have many times in the past (i.e. tools, fire, civilization, etc).
My reasoning: http://blog.planitwide.com/about/
> Give me an example of any ecosystem where the standard library is the defacto best solution?

In Go that's certainly the case and in my experience it's a great thing, only time will tell if it will end up suffering stagnation like maybe happened to python.
It's certainly a bit grim. To offer a personal perspective...

> * age 30-35: working as a post-doc for $30,000 to $35,000 per year

You can earn more than that (and younger) if you're prepared to travel outside the US, though it's still not great. I'm hesitant to share personal details, but I'm personally in my mid-twenties and just starting a "postdoc" (in a sense; still waiting to defend my thesis), and I'm earning quite a bit more than that, albeit in an expensive city and with a large tax/student loan burden.

I'd like to do a postdoc in the US next year, but I'd have to take a large pay cut to do it, which is something I'm on the fence about–I figure you're only young once, and money isn't everything, but I can't help but feel I'd be being taken advantage of just because I happen to enjoy doing science, and the additional opportunity cost would be high too. Is it worth it? I'm not sure.

Beyond that... I wrote a much longer comment but deleted it. The fact is, academia is in an unhealthy place right now, and there's quite so much wrong with it that it's very difficult to articulate. Where do you begin? Whether to even stay in academia or leave is a question that seems to be discussed a lot lately, certainly among my colleagues, and I expect to see a lot more threads like this in the future.

Edit: Actually, I should add, that despite being in a decent place now, I had to unexpectedly work without pay for a time last year due a (ahem) 'funding hiccup.' This experience was so very terrible at the time that I'm surprised I didn't just give up on the PhD right then. To explain: in the UK, STEM funding is typically 3 years, and when that runs out you're in trouble: you can't go and get another job because you need to finish your thesis to get your PhD. Most people can't finish a PhD in 3 years (unsurprisingly). Some people manage to get extra funding from somewhere or start postdocs while still technically writing-up, but most people don't. Some people are told there will be extra funding which never materialises, or doesn't arrive on time. Several of my friends ended up going back home to live with their parents to write-up (and are still there); this is not uncommon. I know someone else who ended up living in a hostel. Once you've started the PhD you're invested, and the longer you do it the harder it is to walk away. The real kicker to me is that a lot of people accept this and think it's okay.
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Somewhat cynical question, but is the 100 year aspect of this study anything beyond a marketing gimmick?