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Everyone was directly motivated at the time to solve Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem [0] which was about mathematical proof not universal machines. Turing, along with a few other mathematicians, recognized that proofs involved notions of algorithms and computation and all, together, generalized these into notions of computation we have today—Turing Machines, Lambda Calculus, Recursive Functions. So it's not terribly surprising that Turing's model was a human one. It was exactly his goal (originally).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem
I recommend looking at it as a system problem. Think of your team as a whole body. Your job as the 'head' is to achieve the high-level goals. You make the best use of your team when they work together to multiply the effects of the others. Then, you achieve your goals more efficiently.

They're all individuals with their own interests, motivations, self-purpose. You have to understand who each of them are and how they all work together. Then, you must question if the issues are innate or only symptoms of something else.

Most likely (since they're hired and not fired) they're all able. So, are they bored, burned out, tired? Are they not being rewarded for their work? Do they not understand the high-level goals? Are you micromanaging? Do they not understand their roles? Roles are important - it must be completely clear that they have a singular set of roles and responsibilities.

Sometimes it's ok to have inefficiencies with one or more staff if it benefits the whole system. For instance, I kept a guy on my team simply because he was funny. He made the other teammates laugh and have a good time.
I tend to say there are no bad developers...only devs with no motivation. It's not only you who have to do something. Do they like the product? Do they enjoy the tools they/you use? Are they happy with the compensation? There are a lot of such questions you as a lead must figure out.
LLC's don't have 'stock'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_company

The salary deduction thing sounds fishy to me. I'd want to get it in writing and run it by a lawyer, and probably have some portion of the company up front or over a scheduled time period (some kind of vesting in other words).
Forget about focusing on what people can't do effectively and focus on what they can and will do effectively. Then work your ass off to make them even more effective.

Recognize that you're new to management. As a new manager the overwhelming odds are that you suck at it in ways that make the dictionary definition of "suck" say, "No really bro, that's not me."

Nothing personal. And even if I am totally incorrect and you are the immaculately conceived management prodigy, the best attitude you can have is that you totally suck and that the team goes home after work and tells their spouse dogs children and parents about the idiocy they deal with because of you.

If people are coming back a week later and demonstrating that they didn't understand last week's conversation that's an indication of less than effective communication on your part. [1] Never mind getting people to do what needs to be done, they're not even getting the what of it. A lost week means you haven't followed up.

To put it another way, how you would do it doesn't matter. You're just another snowflake. What matters is getting it done in the ways the people who you want to get it done will do it.

Favoring your doppelgangers means that other people's diversity prohibits them from ever being any good as far as you're concerned. You're the new boss and you're broadcasting closed mindedness. To the degree it's about who will tow the line and who won't.

It happens all the time. The PHB is a latent talent in everyone.

Good luck.

[1] And very effective communication to. You are effective at communicating "I don't think you are very good." And It flows as naturally as the title of this Ask HN. It's disrespectful and counterproductive.
Because people impose their predetermined views quite strongly. If you have already have a view of someone, anything that remotely confirms that is used as evidence. Where things don't confirm that that are forgotten.

If your going on a date with someone and they pick their nose, you probably think they are a slob. If someone has been married to someone 20 years, and they pick their nose, you might say "but they have a heart of gold".

Forcing yourself out of lazy views, is quite hard.

Yet its the number one thing thats important in management. Not jumping to conclusions, being able to see from another position, being able to reframe your views and so on.
at 32, i did. best decision of my life. and not because i had a horrible job. i had a great job working at a global investment company. i went from financial district to dorm-room in 3 weeks. i took nothing but math courses for 12 months. i'll likely do this again every ten years or so. i would highly, highly recommend it. and, i'm not going to give reasons why i recommend it because the value you get out of something like this is completely case by case. but, switching from "producer" to "learner" from time to time is an amazing experience.
1. Give direction with appropriate detail. Be prepared to give very detailed direction to junior people. I sometimes ever go as far as putting lines of code right into the technical specs. Most technical leads hate to do this. They say, "I might as well write it myself." That's because they look at it as an expense. I consider it as an investment because people learn from it. This should make things run much smoother. Important: the level of detail should decrease over time. In fact, your junior person should start pushing back: "I don't need that much detail anymore!" If this doesn't happen, then they're not learning fast enough. This is not normal.

2. You must have your finger on the pulse of everything going on all the time. Not every little detail, but you must know where each project is, plus or minus 10%. Don't let yourself lose track of anything; that's when problems start.

3. Reviews must be daily, not weekly. You don't need status meetings, emails, or project updates, just one minute reviews. 3 day old problems are 2 days too old.

4. Peer review everything your people do until you're absolutely certain you can let someone else do it. And even then, continue to peer review something they do every week. You are responsible for their work; peer review is one of the best ways to stay one top of it, insure quality, and teach. And always be brutally honest with peer review, never bashful. Tell them what's not good enough, what you want, and why. It may be uncomfortable at first, but it will save everyone headaches later.

5. Read "The One Minute Manager". Then do it.

6. Be nice, have fun, and get shit done.
> Harder than making things? No, absolutely not.

Measuring a shape in 3D with a given accuracy is immensely harder than making a shape in 3D with that same accuracy.

Just one example that might convince you of this:

Take any old lathe, and a micrometer. Run the lathe, cut yourself a nice chunk of hss shaft to 25 mm diameter, precision 1/100th of a mm, cut it off at 25 mm long.

Now try to imagine all the ways in which that object that you just made can be non-cylindrical, in which the planes can be non-parallel and what kind of other deformities such as tip-radius artifacts there might be. If you're going to use your trusty micrometer to measure it you will not be able to detect much if any of that. It will take a very expensive setup to be able to determine within 1/100th of a mm what the exact shape of that thing you made is.

> That's a communication problem. Happens often enough, but DRM does nothing to fix it.

True, but specifically 'machine has not been tampered with' can make such communications problems a lot easier to solve. Having witnessed exactly that scenario here recently I'm fairly convinced that without the gyro to prove the machine had not been tampered with that it would have been a lot longer discussion, possibly even a court case.

This happened post delivery and the machine was for interesting reasons unable to reach the advertised accuracy. It took months to get that one solved and the bill caused by the downtime was substantial.

> I know that may be what people want but that's still a fantasy for precision machining. I don't think anyone is near the point that you can fire the machinists and simply hire someone to sweep up the tailings, refill the oil tanks, and slap shipping labels on things, (and then I suppose cash the checks from your mountain chalet).

Who spoke about firing the machinists?

The thing is that between the design department and the machining center there is a series of well defined steps and then a whole pile of machine specific knowledge to get a part to come out right. But the whole chain is digital now, in the interest of repeatability, including tool management, stand times, deformation correction and so on.

It's not rare at all for client and supplier to be continents away from each other and they're definitely not going to visit each other in order to get some part produced.

This also means the market got a lot more competitive which means that inbound quality control is a very important factor in keeping everybody in the chain reliable.

Unattended operation including auto-feed has been done for years and it's not rare at all to see one operator/machinist run 5 machines.
It would be nice if they announced end-to-end encryption for Hangouts at the same time. At least then they wouldn't have the excuse of "having to support a legacy system" anymore.
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One could argue that eventually the market will settle on peripherals interconnected by something that could be open. I don't need a "smart hearing aid" with cloud connectivity... I need a quality hearing aid whose sole job is to take a secured audio stream and play it with as much quality as it can muster. I can carry the processing unit in my pocket and drive it with anything I want. I don't need "smart glasses" with integrated cloud this and proprietary that... I need glasses that take a secured stream of video data and display them with all their might. I don't need an integrated... etc etc. There's no reason the machine in my pocket driving them can't be open.

This is, of course, not what will happen at first. It will take time for the "race to the bottom" to produce this result.

I'll say this though. I don't consider myself terribly ideological on this point, but in practice I probably am. I am not turning over my hearing and my vision to a company, or indeed any organization. If it's not open, I'll play the luddite. It's not worth it.
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There is a Penn and Teller skit where they go to people's home's and ask about curb side recycling. They ask the home owners if they'd be willing to have a x colour bin for y. They continue on and on and on until the home owners have 15 bins out front their house. Although most of the home owners agree to have that many bins, I think their point was to say, we can't have a rainbow of bins out front our homes.
CrunchBang was Debian-based, right?
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We did some work on applying NNs to prosody prediction; see Fernandez, Raul, et al. "Prosody contour prediction with long short-term memory, bi-directional, deep recurrent neural networks." Proceedings of the Annual Conference of International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH). 2014.
Also - can you be considered a family farm if you don't own a combine, but instead hire the services of one/several?
Is there a lightweight solution for centralized logging with full text search and a nice UI? ELK seems like it requires some serious RAM and cores even if you are just talking about elasticsearch. Is there a similar solution that works well in just a couple of gigs of RAM for a slower message flow rate?

Is anybody here successfully using ELK in a low ram environment with low message flow?
Having personally been in this position, i'd say your wrong.

I've been close to being fired at some companies, and others promoted within months.

Mainly because of the different culture. I'm happy for it, finding a good company or position with the same values is really nice.
As a (smaller) CDN, we routinely solve these sorts of problems. Never occurred to be to blog about it in such manner. But then again, we suck at PR.
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Before you purchase the product on Amazon, you can search for that smart TV on PriceFrontier.com. If the signal is 'Buy' you might as well purchase the item straight away before the price goes higher. If not, you can afford to wait as the price may fall further.
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Noooo, #! is one of my favorite distros. Used for quite a while in the past.

I stopped using when they switched the base system from Ubuntu to Debian (I know, shame on me) :(
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What exactly are you missing? I found the desktop-task-packages on Debian testing quite usable without any configuration.
If you haven't tried them for a year or two or if you just tested the stable release, I can recommend to take a fresh look at testing/the upcoming Jessie release. It has become much more polished over the last year or two.
MathCAD is still around, it is at least pretty popular in my field (nuclear engineering). I actually hate it to be honest, but I think it is good for people who are less inclined towards programming.

That said, I think Mathematica does a much better job of notebook style programming. You can do some truly amazing things manipulating the Mathematica notebook. The language itself is also pretty nice, something like APL flavored lisp with M-expressions instead of S-expressions. It isn't without its flaws, but it is one of my favorite tools in the toolbox (along with Python, C++, Haskell and Fortran).
If we injected politics into every tech article, there would be no tech articles here. Article on how Graph Search works under the hood? "But did you know Facebook makes their money peddling consumerism to kids?" Etc. At the end of the day, the technology involved in flinging all those terabits of Facebook/Twitter/Netflix content around the aether is legitimately interesting, whatever the FCC vote may be.
>the model showed that corporations are six times more likely to do well compared with companies that aren't incorporated.

Perhaps they have this backwards. Those companies are incorporated because they are doing well, they aren't doing well because they are incorporated.
Much obliged (assuming that's directed at me!) - Radim's started with some rather nice talks too :-)
A sad day indeed. Brings me back to my days of obsessively sampling every flavor of Linux out there.
Mis-quoted.

Marty Baron ‏@PostBaron replied in the thread:

"@apblake I didn't say we held back "would-be scoops." I said there was certain information at times that we chose not to publish."
Well, maybe it's not that they aren't very good but that you suck as a team leader? :)
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Maybe you could try an agile approach where instead of assigning tasks you put them in a board and allow each team member pick the one they like to do.

Our experience is this makes each team member pick tasks that fit their strengths, or challenge themselves. You, as a team lead, can leave them along to handle it. They will ask for help, or mention they are stuck in the daily stand-up.

EDIT: I guess I didn't need to be that blunt, thanks downvoters for pointing that out.
There are communication channels that can't be jammed in practice (eg. color and shape codes). The drone does not need to be completely mute and uncordianted.

The way to avoid this kind of attack is the same way people has been avoiding for ages somebody hiding a bomb with a clock at the target. It's done by police investigation and arresting the people as soon as they start making bombs. Helped by the fact that most people that want to do something like that are too stupid not to blow themselves while trying, this has been good enough for a long time.
Take a look at Koken.

http://koken.me/

It's an awesome (and free) way to self-host your own photo album. Sounds like it'd solve at least part of your dream setup.
> There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has to vary.

...how is that like toothpaste?

I don't disagree with what you're saying, but... toothpaste?
I loved crunchbang. The installer was great. It got from zero to everything you needed for a development box in 15 minutes. Thanks for all your work!
Well, I doubt they'd do that. Having worked with Germans, I find it difficult to believe that these numbers would be very easily conned by changing how statistics is done.

I am also quite sure that there are various different unemployment numbers calculated by German statistics officials, but the media may wish to stick something simple, which is probably the one that is also comparable across OECD countries.
Setting up a vm may sound 'scatterbrained' to you but depending on the complexity of the environment they might see it as an essential task. Repeating what's been said: you need to consider that they are finding flaws in your DevOps/Engineering practices.
C'mon Andy, let that coupon code fly! I'll share it on the amp hour, we'll get your volume through the roof ;-)
Regarding 1, I'll link to a comment downthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9009056): you're in tricky territory if you're giving direction that detailed.

Giving a level of guidance that's appropriate is good. Treating a junior dev as incapable of working except as a puppet is soul-crushing.
"The American public largely hates domestic use of drones, and only 3 percent are “very likely” to buy one this year, according to a recent Reuters American Insights poll."

Huh? Hate is a very strong word for a technology that the "public" planned to showcase during a big collage football game but was shut down by the FAA. http://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michiga...

I have no doubt that the FAA, "hates" the domestic use of drones but the public keeps finding tons of incredible uses for them, which seems to be complicating the security issue. The security issue is clear, even if you could jam the whole frequency spectrum how do you deal with possibly disrupting emergency medical care, package delivery, surveillance... This article grossly oversimplifies the security issue. Garbage.
I remember when ubuntu first came out, it was more beautiful than windows and on par with mac os at the time. FOSS has no problem looking good these days. If only we could keep trendy pseudo-designers from tinkering with the interface (unity, gnome 3).
Self submission / promotion is not an issue here if it's not illegitimated seeded with votes.
Keep in mind, you only know the manager's side of the story. Maybe they go back to him every week with the same questions because they didn't get good answers the first time around, and didn't know where to look! It's not too hard to fire a dev, it's harder (and more frustrating) to figure out the real problem in situations like these and fix it.
I'm sure jamming Wifi and GPS will have fun effects on drones as is jamming common frequencies for radio controllers at 72Mhz will also have fun effects of crashed drones.

Not sure if this is possible but actually if you make a broad frequency listener with software controlled radio then you can try and just jam all local heard frequencies with a stronger noise signal.
Facebook has a real-time feed of which tweets are being shared on Facebook. That seems like enough signal to capture major happenings.
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Don't beat yourself up. I think I stopped using around the Debian transition also.

I remember using #! in VirtualBox as a development environment on a otherwise Windows machine. After #!, I think I used Mint, and now Xubuntu.
NO!
I own the battery. I can do what I like with it. I'm not paying for this.
Ugh.
Peppermint is working pretty good for me these days.
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Recent version? My local makerspace has a pair of Makerbot Replicator 2s and they've been great. But I've heard not-so-great things about their newer products.

https://www.3dhubs.com/best-3d-printer-guide is a pretty up to date guide on what the good printers are today.
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>If you squint just a little bit, a huge percentage of the population wants a king.

If you squint too much you will end up confusing the media generated with the opinions of the population. They are very different though.
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But it would prevent some frat guys from doing something stupid. Of course hard-core criminals and the mafia will always have access to dangerous things, but that doesn't mean restricting access for the small-timers and the stupid/drunk is not worthwhile.

You can't always win, but you can win 95% of the time.
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Hi, OP here, we 're really excited that this made the HN front page! Feel free to ask us anything.
In some places in the US & Canada, 2000 acres is a pretty small farm. I know a guy in Saskatchewan who farms 1600 acres and holds a full time off-farm job as well.

I also know of a family ranch in Saskatchewan that's about 30,000 acres. It's run by a husband, wife and two hired hands.
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This could be a problem of communicating expectations and a poor feedback loop from you.

Do they know that you aren't happy with their performance? How early in the process do you catch it and correct the action? It doesn't sound like it's very early at all if it's a week later and they are coming back at with the same questions.

I'm not saying to micro manage or even tell them that they are poor employees -- I believe both approaches lead to hostile work environments. The best managers I ever had largely followed the principles laid out in How to Win Friends and Influence People, and now that I'm transitioning to leading small teams I find that approach leads to far better results than the alternative.
The default dark gray theme that it had was refreshing back in the day, just as everyone was falling over themselves with bright colors and transparency.
Wheeler suggested that some positrons could be "hidden" within protons.
But Cargill and Koch wouldn't be included in the 96% because the owners aren't the 'principal operator'.