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Apologies about the link to a restricted site. I didn't notice it since I landed on the article via a search.

Out of curiosity, since several comments here complained about the paywall ("paywalls are nsfl"), and an equal number or more on HN run adblockers and/or openly dislike ads in general (the whole "you are the product" meme), how do you think news sites should monetize?

Seems like newspapers still add value in our lives (I know the WSJ does for me), but if they don't find a way to make money, either through paid subscriptions or advertisements, they'll be out of business just as fast as RadioShack.
I can certainly relate to a few points raised in that post. Especially, the directive syntax with the pre, post, compile, link is just... weird.
Yeah, I would fix all that. I'd run a fiber out there myself if that's what it took lol. And lag, lag is right out unacceptable.

Of course, this is still merely a fantasy in my head at this time ;)
On the other hand, SNB now has a decent-sized mountain of Euros to sell.
I'm currently working at a place where I have 4 locations I can work from:

1 - my office (shared with one other person)

2 - a team room, about 10 people right now

3 - an office across from my client, it's a "guest cube" in a cube farm

4 - from home

Plus the normal mix of conference rooms.

I find that in any given week, I'll rotate through about 3 of those pretty comfortably. My officemate also has a similar work schedule, so I'm alone in my office most of the time, so I use it for deep concentration. It's too isolated though to spend all my time there.

The team room is great if I need to collaborate, or get my energy up. It's also not too bad if I need to concentrate as everybody there is working.

The guest cube is where I go if I need to do document editing, presentations, client meetings...stuff that's so distracting I can't get any technical work done anyway.

And home, because well, who doesn't want to work from home every once in a while?

So far, it's the best workplace I've ever been, and this includes about 5 years of working from home, various client sites, cubes, personal offices, open floor plans. The best part is that it doesn't cost the company a fortune, but I get flexibility, privacy when I need it, collaboration when I need it, different work contexts etc.

I've been more productive in the few months I've been here than I've been anywhere else in my career.
I like working in coffee shops, except for the fact that I often have to go to the trouble of getting there to find nowhere to sit, since it filled up with squatters that have been there 3+ hours (several of which are one person filling up a big table, with everything spread around like it's their personal desk)
My wife is Brazilian and she actually prefers that way of getting lab results (get it yourself) to the American way: Results are sent directly to the doctor, to encourage you to schedule and pay for another doctor's visit to have the results read to you by a nurse.

In her opinion it was a violation of patient rights when we were unable to retrieve some lab results directly from the lab. In order to do that we would have to file some paperwork with the lab company and get the results mailed to us in 3-4 weeks.
Nope, I'm suggesting that we should be able to choose which currency to use. But now we can't.

If we could, we'd choose a sound currency, and then our purchasing power would keep increasing steadily (because of productivity improvements and wealth accumulating over time).
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Used to be 2.5 hours one way but as of tomorrow, it will be zero. I quit my job, woohoo!!!!
Feeding the troll but he had his wife sign a contract where she can't claim ownership of any of his assets.. smart ;)
I think your analogy demonstrates the perils of anthropomorphism when thinking about AI. If we design a resource-consuming autonomous entity it should be assumed that it will compete with us for the resources it uses until proven otherwise. That is at the core of the concern about AI safety. It is about preventing human extinction.
that's exact me, I worked in Switzerland for a bit less than a year and I kept an account there with what I earned.. I was planning to close my account as I've now moved but waited and today I woke up with this news. I just had a +15/20% on my money there :O

now I just need to decide if I should keep them or convert to EUR and close the account :D
We are set up in offices with 2-5 developers per room. Works out nicely. If work styles don't meld, you can request to move (given there is space).
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> Good for them, but nothing revolutionary going on here.

The article is hindered by the fact that the author doesn't appear to be familiar with what's on the market already, so he doesn't focus exclusively on the right things. Watching the embedded video introducing the tech, it's clear that they're working on optical flow algorithms that will allow a drone to autonomously avoid obstacles and (eventually) navigate in GPS-denied environments without heavy and expensive sensors. It's true that there are other people working on it, but no one in the commercial market at least has come anywhere close to solving this problem. I'm excited by the possibilities this capability would open up.
That second link is much better. Thanks

Ah, ha! finally a question I can answer. History #8, compare Athens and Sparta
A theory that those that do not donate to AI-promoting groups will be punished in the future by AIs? Whoa, weird. Great for promoting fundraising activities though. Very church like.
A little reminiscent of the Fallout post-apocalyptic game series.
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If you have a SAAS product and you could get a big client, do you agree to sign NDAs ? What does that even mean ?
Do you have a workstation in each spot to go work on? Or do you work specifically on your laptop?

I find that even with a company-issued laptop, as awesome as it is, it can't compare to a 2-3 monitors workstation if I really need to work on something complex that requires multiple applications up next to each other.
A fitting reply in the localization discussion!
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> Also, I can't think of any particularly hard problem that humans can solve in 0.1 seconds

Recognizing someone is a hard problem that most humans can do efficiently (except me maybe)
I find there's a lot of romantic nostalgia. I accept that there are doubtless examples where Radio Shack stores were hubs for ham radio or electronics activity or whatever. And, certainly, the average skills of Radio Shack employees are a lot lower than they were at one time. But Radio Shack always sold huge quantities of crap (e.g. laughable stereo gear) to people who mostly didn't know any better along with generally overpriced cables etc. at a time when random components weren't necessarily all that easy to find elsewhere.

I remember Radio Shack being useful when I needed an adapter or a cable. But I can't say that I ever particularly loved the place.
Centuries later, we still read Voltaire in school. Our kids won't be studying Valleywag. It is clear you are upset with people on Sand Hill Road, but your extreme claim cannot be taken seriously. Valleywag may occasionally draw attention to problems, but you ruined the credibility of your statement by trying to say they contribute more than everyone on Sand Hill Road.
there isn't network delay when your passenger tells you its "clear right"
I love your comment for how misguided it is.

> Acting like regular college students don't have classes that are super simple to game and pass

Oh, I know they exist. I just wouldn't write about them in the admissions brochure or an op-ed touting their supposed value.

> Saying life moments like dating/flirting aren't important (what exactly are students supposed to do between classes anyway!?!)

I suppose some people consider them important (I don't), but that doesn't mean the taxpayer should be footing the bill.

> Saying being an actor does not require intellectual or academic ability (hint: it does)

Maybe for better actors it requires some intellectual ability, but I'm unconvinced that most of Hanks's community college classes had any impact on his career.

> Has no idea what FAFSA is like or what it's like to navigate that mess

I'm in college right now, on financial aid. I'm well aware of the complexities of the FAFSA and probably filed one much more recently than you. But it's nowhere near challenging enough that a bright, motivated student would find it a hindrance.

> Pretending that they aren't already indirectly paying for people to "get easy As, ogle girls, and pursue unintellectual careers"

Oh, I know we are. I'd just prefer to not pay for more of it.
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> high likely because I've never dealt with errors in that way, the _encounter error, crash, restart, continue_ workflow seems a bit awful to me

It is a different way to see things, but makes sense when you consider that Erlang comes from the world of distributed high-availability telecoms where "one machine" is the same as no machine (because when — not if — the machine crashes, the system is dead).

Applied to the development environment, that means of course erlang developers try to avoid errors, but its designers know it's not possible to have 0 errors so they've built support for independent error recovery into the system: when an error occurs, the whole agent may be corrupted (in an invalid state or whatever) so the erlang way is to throw it out and have an independent "auditor" (the supervisor) decide what should be done.

At scale, that's essentially what Netflix builds (and exercises with their Chaos Monkeys)
I worked at RadioShack for 2 years in college in 2003 and I can say with out a doubt that the upper management lead the downfall of that company. They abandoned their core customers of electronics hobbyists and turned there employees into salesmen. I got paid $5.50 an hour but was told that was OK because I made commissions from cell phone sales which maybe upped my pay to $6.00 on a good day. No wonder there constantly rated as one of the worst companies to work for... If they would have paid employees better they may have been able to get people that could actually help customers and they might still be around today. Good bye RadioShack, I won't miss you.
Scalability is a reason that many growing companies use open floors. When you are growing rapidly, you're often put in a situation where you need the most flexible possible floor plan, otherwise you have to move offices. Having way more offices than employees sitting empty waiting for the hiring to happen in the next few years feels too much like a waste of space. This makes the open office plan very seductive when making decisions about how to lay out the floors.
It's probably the same one; the one linked here is stamped "1899" because that's the year it was entered into the Harvard library, but the date "July, 1869" is clearly visible on the bottom of every single page. The original poster wasn't paying attention.
I wasn't referring to B2C Startups, but agree with you that users are far more valuable than code, but maintaining and refactoring said code can take away from delivering value to the users, and instead more attention can be spent on the the developers.
I work in an open floor plan. We have fairly standard carpet and ceiling acoustic tiles, the walls are drywall, so we haven't gone to extremes to soundproof but it's not tile and open warehouse ceilings either. We have a culture of being reasonably respectful, but will still have conversations at times. In practice... I find myself hardly remembering the people that exist even 20 feet from me. In theory I can see about 50 people, but I almost never actually remember that. I'm somewhat sensitive to conversation and extremely sensitive to music (can not stand music I'm not in control of), and I'm fine.

I do have modestly nice passively acoustically isolated headphones and frequently use them, but I do that anyhow, not because I'm trying to dodge noise, and I can go hours without them just fine, usually putting them on because I want music, not isolation.

I find myself wondering what percentage of open office complaints come from A: people who are simply psychologically unsuited to them under any circumstances B: people whose open office experiences involved tile floors, warehouse ceilings, and glass walls, which would be a completely different acoustic experience and C: people who haven't actually spent any time in a decent one and are just assuming they'd hate it. No sarcasm. For that matter the studies that keep asserting how bad they I find myself wondering about A and B... certainly you can construct an open space that does suck, but that doesn't mean they all do, and I've never dug into one enough to see what they specify as the "open space".

And to be clear, I'm not asserting that they're obviously better and everybody should love them (and let me reiterate I completely believe in the existence of a set of people who will never like them), but my experience just doesn't seem to bear out the "they suck and can never work and why on Earth would any company ever put them in" attitude... at most it seems like they might be slightly worse on average but it may be below the noise threshold, and it would be the incredibly-perfectly well-run company for whom this would be their biggest problem.
I think it depends a great deal on how charitable our intentions are towards the AI.

Few would argue that, in raising a child, acting on the child's behalf and shaping their learning is an inappropriate arrogation of control. On the other hand, never relinquishing when it becomes clear the child is independent would be.

If that child goes on to be superior in intellect, in capability, etc, that child's opinions and values are likely going to be a direct reflection of the parents', or so one hopes. Sure, it's no guarantee, but is there a better approach?

When commenters talk about "trapping" or "imprisoning" a rogue AI, I feel like we've already missed the point. And yeah, such talk does have echoes of sins of the past.

I think it's also relevant to ask what our expectations of the AI would be, and how much of a burden it places on the AI. If you're thinking you need to "capture" an AI that's trying to escape so it can continue "working" for you... that sounds like you're doing something terribly wrong.

On the other hand, continuing the parenting analogy, if what you're asking for amounts to a trivial favor, or some occasional assistance with a burden, that doesn't seem at all unfair.

"Bobby, could you come over this afternoon and unconfuse our legislative body? It's all gummed up and going nowhere."
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From what I understand, Kurzweil tends to be much more optimistic about AI, predicting that humanity will merge with advancing AI rather than it running away from us.
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> Edit: Taking some words from your comment, I guess what I'm arguing is that law enforcement is already pretty invincible.

Fair enough. What I'm arguing is just that LE officers are humans too and they both need and deserve to feel safe in their job, which involves risking their own lives for the safety of the public. But I definitely don't think that they need to go full-military for that. They indeed are pretty safe already.
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And bathrooms. Why are there never enough bathrooms in tech companies?
I disagree with this. FreeBSD is running fine and speedy at other providers in a virtualized platform.
I have tended to use the localised version of os an sw, not because I prefer it but because I often ended up supporting end users with localized versions.
How does it work? I think trust is a huge factor with this sort of thing, so you have to be transparent about how you'd prevent, say, random asshats potentially putting people in real danger.
Looks like a novel idea! I'm wondering what's the purpose of giving "points" to the helpers? I can't find anywhere in the website mentioning the points' purpose.

It's a non-profit/charity, and (I think) people understand they won't get anything in return (other than good feeling), what's with the points? (pure curiosity)
Facebook has 'War Rooms' for teams who are shipping a large release soon. They are smaller rooms that can fit 12-18 people. Most of the time they have separate desks but sometimes teams just commandeer a conference room.

This sounds a bit like your idea, though a few more people.
And Musk will be punished for donating to a cause potentially preventing its inception. ;)
BTW, egal doesn't mean equal in German (though it's borrowed from French égal, which does). It means "irrelevant", "all the same", "unimportant".
I haven't seen that !
If, by analogy, the visuals of a movie musical are the "backend" and the audio is the "frontend," then what these localizers do is the equivalent of completely redesigning the entire frontend. Dubbed musicals have an incredible number of constraints in terms of number of syllables, scansion, etc., so the script translators need to be given a tremendous amount of leeway and creative freedom. They're basically lyricists in their own right, in a world where everything's composed melody-first!

In software, this would translate to localization coders being able to (and having the talent to) rewrite the entire frontend logic. And if your software product is going to make multi-millions in new markets by virtue of feeling like it's translated natively, it might be worth retaining native-speaker coder(s) to maintain a branch that parallels (and consistently merges in) your master branch, and rewrites display logic as it comes in. I'd imagine the Googles of the world do exactly this.
I use this app (also a webapp if you don't want to download) called Coffitivity https://coffitivity.com/ which recreates the unintelligible murmur of a coffee shop. I find with decent headphones, it acts as a good sort of white noise in open work spaces.
Why couldn't they just stay a hobbyist store instead of schlepping cell phones? This stuff is cyclical and we're on the up-cycle now as they are going bankrupt. Instead of having their employees push plans they could have had them grow and share their knowledge of electronics. Sad, this place was near and dear to me for a bit.
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I wonder if that just shows that having the both the open bullpen and quiet space as dueling options is ineffective. FOMO is extremely strong in everyone, so even though engineers might prefer and be more productive in a quiet space, they're afraid of missing out on the action in the bullpen so migrate there.
Not a troll :) I remember these headlines: http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/27/elon-musk-personal-finance... I wasn't paying attention much since then, so was wondering.
Hi HN - this is a side project of mine that I completed between jobs. It scratches a specific itch of my own which is to be able to keep track of visual page differences in an RSS feed. I would love to hear any feedback on the UI and design.
A farily new on that I just discovered (yesterday from another HN post) is http://blog.daviddworken.com/
Apple has a lot of monopolistic (anti competitive) problems, not just in attitude but in practice. A perfect example is their ban on alternative browsers on iOS. So bringing Apple doesn't help your cause.

> Again most Americans don't need 100Mbps+.

That's a pile of trash and song that monopolists like to sing to justify their unwillingness to upgrade their networks (since if there is nowhere else to turn, their inferior networks will be used for crazy prices anyway - users simply will have no choice). They start singing a very different song when they face actual competition. They quickly forget their previous claims that no one needs more bandwidth and start offering it. Which just demonstrates how sick the current ISP market is.

I.e. imagine you are trying to find a transport service, and local transportation company tells you that their horse and buggy service is just fine, because no one needs anything better (didn't everyone use it for hundreds of years already?). And then their competitor actually builds a railroad... You get the idea - that's exactly what's going on with ISPs now.
Not sure in their case. But the Sbarro's around here all turned into generic pizza places, as far as I can tell everything tastes about the same.
>Go is much more verbose than Scala or Clojure. Go is just a language, whereas the JVM is a platform with multiple languages.

There is a trade-off being verbosity and maintainability, IMGO Go hits that.

>In my opinion Java has a greater degree of platform independence. Wherever it runs, things just work.

LOL. Said no person who has actually distributed a multiplatofrm Java application ever- I should know. Both Java and Go are "write once, test everywhere", but in my XP Go has been smoother.

>On runtime dependency, you're wrong, as Golang does have a pretty heavy runtime dependency.

The key word here was dependency, specifically, external dependency. If Go'd runtime ships with the binary its not really a external dependency is it.

>Does Go have something like YourKit Profiler? Can you easily connect to a remote application for debugging or profiling?

Yes. It comes baked into the stdlib, its "http/pprof"

>Go doesn't have Maven or anything like it

Biggest plus ever, goes native simple tooling doesn't need an external life support system.

>This is a common misconception, when the opposite is factually true.

You are wrong, all the the stuff you are are talking about is library based, Go has channels/select/go build into the language as primitives. I wasn't talking about bolt on libraries.

>On the other hand the control on memory layout in Go is still weak

IMHO This is not the case, if you think it is, explain.
The points is just a fun gamification thing.
Trying to make people share and use the app.
With the maker movement picking up, I almost feel that RadioShack could have done so much more in the hobbyist electronics market. They could have had Arduino kits and additions, 3D printers, drone parts etc, instead of just the go to store for cables.

I can almost see the RadioShack of the bygone days that hosted electronic clubs which could have had a comeback.
> Did you go to college? Or did you ever go away to camp? Didn't your parents miss you the first week you were away? Maybe you can relate to that better.

Probably, but it was never a significant enough thing that it ever factored into our decisions. Then again, I'm someone who chose to attend boarding school and university halfway across the world.

> Also, If you're a hiring manager, you shouldn't be hiring people you'd like to work with. You should be hiring the best person for the job

Considering that I like to work with intelligent, kind, and motivated people I consider those mostly synonymous.

> Do you ever think you're passing on great talent because they aren't the sort of person you'd have a beer with?

Nope. Whether I'd have a beer with them isn't my test. Plenty of my favorite colleagues definitely aren't my drinking buddies. Rather, I ask myself if I'd like working with them on a daily basis and whether their presence would positively contribute to the office environment. If I suspect they'd be a negative influence, I don't see any reason to hire them—even i they're a brilliant coder.

Fortunately, that's rarely a choice. Most of the great developers I know are also fundamentally kind and humble people.