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Take off that tin-foil hat! You seriously think the next logical step for this kind of tech is human slavery?

Wouldn't robotics be a better option for creating autonomous drones than taking over human brains? Also, wouldn't that create a lot less outrage? Seems like a simple choice:

* Spend 250,000 man-hours designing autonomous machines that can do repetitive tasks for us, bringing with it the pride of technological achievement.

* Spend 1,000,000+ man-hours hacking the human brain so that we can hijack people for slavery, bringing with it the shame of moral/ethical condemnation.

You really think that people in power are going to chose the more expensive, less ethical option?

This is much more of an exercise in understanding primitive brain structures. The fact that we have actually accomplished one of the fantasy-technologies from "The Fifth Element" is pretty incredible, actually. We have learned a lot about how biological neural networks work, and this is what we have to show for it.

And yes, it is "just a cockroach". Wait till you find out what we have been doing to monkeys for the past 50+ years!
Thanks for the quick reply, as a native speaker I'm probably not your target audience but I'd just include a /pricing section to make that clear. That's usually the first thing I check if there's a new service and there's no mention of "pricing", "payment" on the homepage. Took me a while to spot it in the "Comprehensive" section.
Wow - I guess any apps I build have to satisfy the "If I'm tortured" use case.
All the answers are here(Cheat if you must?):

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/take-the-intelligence-test-th...
I don't think I'm comfortable with this.
Are you parodying HN? If so, well done.
Leave it to programmers to assume human nature must exist within a binary modality of "apathetic amoral workhorse" and "messy emotional beast of terror"

Naturally, this assumption causes any violation to throw a LegalException, which is caught by the GovernmentSingleton anti-pattern whose separation of concern juggles between instantiating policies that rigidly define how genders must interact based entirely upon the rotation of the earth... and managing nuclear weapons launches.

> [EDIT] Please don't just downvote me. If you disagree, leave a reply.

Just look at that plea for reason. And this community implicitly claims a monopoly on rationality while deriding others as emotionally savage worthy of mob vengeance and professional stoning.

Can we get rid of the facade of reason on HN and just spam "IF YOU'RE NOT WITH US, YOU'RE AGAINST US" until #hilary2016 is over?
I didn't claim that bridges can't fail, but that engineers can make bridges that are reliable.

Yes with roughly 20% of the economy locked up in "finance" we appear to get INCREASED economic instability.

So... did I get downvoted because that wasn't clear, or because it hit too close to home for the financial experts on here?
Rebuilding Education for the Real World
I frequently work with large enterprise code bases. With the dynamic nature of python, it can be hard to understand what exactly you're supposed to pass in to functions, or what they return. The goal of this library is to make it easy to express those constraints, as well as catching problems as far up the stack trace as possible
Similarly, British conventions for PHP: https://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
The digits are smaller and there are lots of additional elements on the screen.
You can use our checkout and order system but simply drop out the payment processing. Stripe makes this very easy and while people may not want to do it, by charging them a percentage of each transaction we're almost incentivizing them to do it.

We do need gateway options, each country is different and we're always being asked by users for support of X. I can promise you if we'd been able to stick only Stripe in and use it for everyone, we'd of done it. Our lives would have been so much easier!

And no we wouldn't call it 5% but the store owner would quickly do the math and that's where we'd end up. It's a hard sell, we ran the model past a number of people and it was almost universally rejected.
One thing to clarify is that this is appears to be an insightful tweak on a popular form of 3D printing, rather than a new technology all together. This uses a standard vat photopolymerization process with a DLP projector. The key difference is the oxygen permeable window that removes the detachment step between layers. This step is a common point of failure and slowness with current inverted photopolymerization printers like the Form1 and B9 Creator.

This is still a layer-by-layer process: the DLP takes a 3D object and uses a 2D projection (in both the mathematical and physical sense) per layer. Due to pixel constraints, this process will produce objects with similar resolution, although may have more organic edges instead of harder ones. I’d bet the software stack being used still slices the object into layers, so the projector still operates in a layer-by-layer fashion, and likely well below the theoretical 60 or 120 layers / second max dictated by frame-rate. The key advantage here, and it’s a big one, is speed.

It's tremendously exciting to see companies tackling the speed problem in 3DP. In the next two years, we will see a 25x improvement on print speeds from companies like HP, Carbon3D, ...
MIT alum from '05 here.

1) I disagree entirely that this is good preparation for most people. Maybe if you go into academia, but not for the vast majority of graduates. In what I see as the real world, the ability to self-regulate your work load (which is a learned skill) and not fall into the trap of fetishizing working ridiculously hard is critical for long term stability. And I say this as someone who finished my PhD at 26. I didn't do it by working in unhealthy ways, and I sure didn't do it by doing every assignment I was given regardless of cost to my mental health. I did it by working healthy and asking for help when I needed it.

2) Surely you're aware of what happens to any undergraduate in our era who admitted to the administration that they were depressed. I have seen a dozen people shuffled off to McLean or just kicked out for years until they could convince MIT to let them back in. In all but one case I think MIT overreacted and significantly damaged those individual's lives by isolating instead of supporting them.

3) I think the biggest issue wrt stress is that undergraduates compete for who has the worst workload. I see it again and again, and it is insane to me. I honestly think a good portion of undergrads, either intentionally or subconsciously, practice horrible work habits just so that later on they can boast about how they finished a 40 hour lab in a three day no-sleep stretch. You know you've seen it too.

4) Depression != Stress. Admitting you're depressed is already hard. Admitting you're depressed when everyone around you is stressed out is a whole other level.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
Here we go with privatizing public resources and assets again. It galls me to hear moronic, self-serving corrupt things like "...the growing economic case for deploying our streets differently, for use by more than cars." In a capitalist predatory economy and society like ours public resources and assets should almost never be used for private purposes, especially not for private profit, gain, or benefit of any kind. Whether it is clogging up the city of Austin for the monkey shit show that SXSW has turned into, or taking over public parking spaces for private enterprise profit it's corrupt misappropriation and misuse of public resources and funds. It's simply corrupt and the government, on all levels, should not be engaged in commercial revenue generation precisely because it invites corruption.
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I hate this stupid kind of slippery slope argument. If you fear everything being used by the NSA (or whatever the current boogie-man is here on HN), you'll never make any progress.

This type of technology could also be used by handicapped people to regain control of limbs in the distant future.

It's not going to be some insane mind control device. It would be hundreds of years before we could even consider doing something like that, if it even ends up being possible.
I agree that curbside parking is stupid. But Philadelphians refuse to allow new parking garages to be built. Curbside parking is often the only parking that is available, and any attempts to make other parking become rallying cries in political campaigns thanks to NIMBYism.
Gil Amran talks about using TypeScript at Wix
I always considered "eh?" to be very much a central Canadian thing (just Ontario maybe?)
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Because if your sysadmins are all moonlighting developers having them not develop stuff to do subpar system work is more expensive than just paying the cloud premium.
This was demoed to my employer when Microsoft came through a month ago. I was not impressed -- biometrics are a username, not a password.

edit: the article does not cover using your voice. I'm 99% sure they demoed to us the ability to use a custom phrase to authenticate with your voice as well.
Springs not yet in the air but AdWords is already undergoing a thorough cleaning
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I don't disagree that engineers bring a different skill set to the mix. The last thing you might want is engineers or scientists running a young company - though Microsoft, Google, Facebook, HP, Honda, Fairchild, Porsche, etc. turned out OK. ;-)

I just find it odd that Dr. Alex Ermoshkin the co-founder is listed somewhere after "Head of Customer Engagement" for example.

I just noticed that they are listed under the heading "North Carolina Office" and not "Leadership Team" so perhaps it is a simple as academics wanting to stay in academia.
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Maybe I'm not understanding our disagreement, but if I am incorrect please help me understand what I am missing.

In your preferred way, data is exchanged over HTTP which uses percent encoding to pass data. I'm stating that a serialized object, in this case JSON, provides more benefit.

Both require overhead to encode and decode, but I believe that serializing your data allows for a more consistent exchange that (provided I am understanding how you post and retrieve data) actually may reduce size, increase the variance of what can be transmitted, and remove specific limitations that HTTP may encounter.

I'm genuinely curious if I am missing something.
Still going on.
The GPL is a hack on copyright law.

If you disagree with the GPL then you disagree with copyright law. The GPL is only as powerful as current copyright law allows it to be.

Don't hate on the GPL, it's satire. Hate on the last century of corporate-lobbied legislation that has granted unprecedented levels of power to copyright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Sta.... E.g. Mickey Mouse still isn't in the public domain!
This is a women in VC story, nothing to do with women in tech.
Why do you think that?

There are plenty of articles that agree the gift was given on Valentine's Day?
"they were right, i didn't accurately follow their terms, but if they reviewed my app once submitted a year ago, that could've been avoided."

And if you had followed their terms, it could have been avoided as well.
Something you have.
Something you are.
Something you know.

You actually really need the three of them. The last one prevents the <Torture to death> scenario.
And how underpaid we are?

I'd trade what I'm getting paid right now to take on what sounds like a far easier job that pays quite a bit more in a bad year than what I make in a great year.

But qualifications don't get you into these kinds of clubs, connections and pedigree do.
> There are numerous known exceptions to simplistic supply/demand arguments, including Giffen goods, Veblen status, lack of insight on either side, information arbitrage, and so on.

> It's not impossible some of them apply to city housing
markets.

If you think there is such effects you should make the case, rather than hint that they might exist.

> Supply and demand storytelling doesn't even begin to come close to providing a useful model of that network.

I think 95% of economists would take issue with that statement
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I wonder if the author has submitted a proposal to get the missing glyph for their name added. You don't need to be a member of the consortium to propose adding a missing glyph/updating the standard. The point of the committee as I understand it isn't to be an expert in all forms of writing, but to take the recommendations from scholars/experts and get a working implementation, though more diverse representation of language groups would definitely be a positive change.

http://unicode.org/pending/proposals.html

Also, the CJK unification project sounds horrible.
By opening with a diatribe on standardized tests, and focusing on assessing skills that are inherently difficult to assess, Engel moves the discussion from helping children to condemning our education system

Exactly. The article just comes across as so silly. Take this part:

There are several ways we might measure a child’s disposition to inquire. We can easily record the number of questions the child asks during a given stretch of time.

It's been a while since I've been in a classroom but I would probably jump out the window if every class period each student had to get their average 1.4 questions in to maintain their grade.

It's like the article writer lives in a fantasy world.
No worries, written communication isn't perfect.
There probably is nothing unique about he '84/'85 generation.

There is an unconscious bias when reviewing applications (especially during interviews) to vote/side with people that look/act/know the same references/same point in life/etc like you. Since previous YC graduates both recommend and (some) decide who gets in, they match what they know.
Love HeyLets!!! Such an awesome idea!
Most of my company are women. I'm a male.

Tell me how I'm supposed to talk to them, oh super sensitive sage of all gender interactions in all contexts forever.

How machine-like and sterile should I be? How many of their emotions should I deny in the pursuit of professionalism? Should I consult with a lawyer with every photon they reflect?

It's obvious you've never lead a single human being in your life. You just give them orders like they were some bot, and then pat yourself on the back for practicing equality.

You're simply too stupid to understand the alchemy of human relations.
There is one small terminological mistake which I'll write to the author about: the use of "open source" to mean "non-copyleft (permissively licensed)" as contrasted with "free software" to mean "copyleft (reciprocally licensed)".

I see this all the time, but it's historically unfounded. The Free Software Foundation accepts both copyleft licenses like GPL and noncopyleft licenses like BSD as "free software" and the Open Source Initiative accepts both as "open source". This has always been true, because the Open Source Definition was derived directly from the Debian Free Software Guidelines and "open source is a marketing campaign for free software".

The terms were always intended to have the same denotation and a different connotation (although there are somewhere around 2 non-widely-used licenses whose acceptability FSF and OSI came to different conclusions on).

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

The distinction that the author was quite accurately getting at, but ended up missing, is that people who prefer to say "free software" are much more likely to think that copyleft is often preferable to permissive licensing, while people who prefer to say "open source" are less likely to think that. When RMS says "that companies that tout open-source principles often 'seduce our community to release free software without copyleft'" the causal relationships at work are much subtler (since many of those companies release primarily copylefted software, even when they are the copyright holders!).

I think I need to write the canonical Open Source and Free Software Refer to the Same Software page...
How many people read HN?
I'm trying to come up with a ballpark figure for the number of readers HN has.

The only source I could find with some concrete figures:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-news/ which is about 2 years old.

- 1.6M views, 200,000 uniques per weekday.

Just from this, I'd guess about 25-50% higher than it was in 2013, but that is just my gut speaking.

So the ask: how would you estimate the number of readers HN has. Even better, what their demographic breakdown is.
Are your job postings enough or how do you source candidates?
It's just that thinking like this switches people into demonization mode rather than problem-solving mode.
Sounds more like a JavaEE senior enterprise architect who was concerned that he needed to learn something new, and thankfully found a reason why he does not. :-)
"I've builds apps for years and many times a short discussion with Google allowed me to re-post an app with some modifications."

The vast, vast, vast majority of people are not able to find a person at Google to have that discussion with in the first place.

"Unless you are making apple SERIOUS revenue (think high6 to 7 figures) they will shut you down without even a response."

Apple tells you before your app goes live.
This tells me it was a poorly organised competition to begin with. The blurb clearly indicates it's for new companies/ideas (for some definition of new). However, the eligibility criteria only states that you are a US (Mastercard?) cardholder (i.e. no restrictions).

I'm not much impressed with the judges either. How the fuck is a pitch for a new idea meant to compete with one that's already a going concern?

"sign up to pitch your new business idea" and "... on the final day (3/15), the best Priceless Pitch will be awarded a $15,000 grand prize to help bring the idea to life." [1] -- emphasis added.

[1] http://mashable.com/2015/03/14/priceless-pitch-mashable-hous...
No stats for Asian founders? It would be interesting to see a complete breakdown of WC W15 entrepreneurs by ethnicity.
I have personally known people effectively kicked out of MIT for years because they admitted to being depressed.
Since the official rules apparently didn't preclude them from entering, I have to agree that it was smart.
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I find that pronunciation to be the most noticeable in Southern Ontario. In Western Canada, not so much.
Did you|anyone expect anything else from GoDaddy?

I do occasional WEB consulting and I warn clients that I have to charge extra if they are hosting any of their resources at Godaddy.

Every time i need to interact with their resources to do anything productive - it is a minefield of upsells at every step and wasted time trying to find simple things.
Yes, that would make sense. The 2 "makers" are listed under "North Carolina Office" and seem to be academics.
> If you disagree with the GPL then you disagree with copyright law.

Its quite possible to believe that existing copyright law represents exactly what government should do to manage IP in that domain and not believe that the GPL represents a choice people should make about how to use the rights provided under copyright law. (Note: I am not saying, in this post that I hold either part of that opinion, only that it is not inconsistent.) So I disagree with your claim "If you disagree with the GPL then you disagree with copyright law."

Believing that government should permit something is different than supporting the choice to actually use that permission in any particular way.
Rebooting JavaScript's AMD specification
I'm thinking about rebooting the AMD spec with a version 2 that eliminates a lot of the annoying and less useful parts and introduces stronger compatibility with Node and node_modules.

You can see my wishlist so far:

https://github.com/tbranyen/amdv2-wishlist/issues/1

Please add in here or there any comments or discussion around AMD.

If you aren't familiar with AMD it looks something like this:

define(['./some-module'], function(someModule) {});

vs Common JS that looks something like:

var someModule = require('./some-module');
That's not true at all. You submit, they review, you fix whatever and then approve. What you say is just nonsense.
"Dumbing us Down" by John Gatto is a great eye opener about schooling and how schools are great at killing creativity.
I can agree with that, I really meant negative things only as the OP mentioned his discontent with working there but yes, always good to score a few more points on your way out even if you don't think you will need them.
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Stories like this make me feel ambivalent.

Gender inequality being brought to the forefront fairly commonly has definitely forced me to evaluate my own actions and words. It sounds silly (and it is because it's mostly beneficial), but I certainly treat female colleagues differently: I'm much more thoughtful about what I say and do, and try to be as explicit as possible if I think there's any way that my words/actions could be misconstrued. Thoughtful in a way that I'm absolutely not around male colleagues.

And maybe that's totally fine: I really doubt I'll ever regret being more thoughtful. I certainly do this to some extent with people from other cultural backgrounds, so applying it to people from other gender backgrounds (so-to-speak) is probably appropriate.

But it does absolutely setup this "othering" in my mind - I don't see Jennifer as just my coworker, she's my coworker and she's also a woman and I need to be cognizant of how I act and talk around her. I'm careful to think about my words and actions before they materialize, whereas with men I'm much more likely to just act/talk and explain later if necessary. "Asking permission" vs. "Seeking forgiveness".

I don't envy being John Doerr - unless Pao was an absolutely clear frontrunner for becoming a senior partner, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
This is why I feel it's just better to refrain from any sort of judgment on this case based on what you read in the news. You're right - as it's written, it looks like "Duh, he's hitting on her." But did he give a gift to everyone on Valentine's Day? When he "asked her out to dinner on a night when his wife was out of town", was it a date or a "Let's talk about a potential investment at a popular VC haunt"?

I have no idea which is true, and I don't think I'm going to be able to find out based on summaries in the news.
Great post. I really enjoyed the "How would this job posting behave at a party?" metaphor.

Also, the point about the CTO (not HR) being the first touch point is huge.

> Contrast this to the frame that’s created when your first round is with HR. It’s rare to meet someone in HR that has past experience writing code. Although HR will be well-versed in the vocabulary of development, it’s difficult to trust their assessment of the situation because they attempt to speak with authority about something they have never done.
I think he is saying the dinner wasn't on Valentine's Day.
That's more of an issue with implementation than with typing. I mean more like, in an OO language it is possible to declare an interface with a method that returns the final subtype (i.e. the object's this type), which isn't even know yet at the point the interface is defined.
The case is about a woman who slept with a married superior of her and got preferential treatment thanks to this. Then, when they stopped, she decided to sue.

Every single one of her coworkers should be the one suing both of them for promotions lost due to her getting them by sleeping around.
That wouldn't serve their purposes.