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> No because technology and it's global reach also turn the industries into a "there can only be one" game.

I'm sorry, but WHAT? Loyalty towards brands is at an all time high. People want personal treatment. Also, we live in a service-based economy, not a product-based one. This makes carving out a niche for yourself even easier.
Having a lot of professors living on the public dime and not contributing anything back is the effect of a rich (and decadent) society, not the cause.
I bought a nine pin port (Atari joystick), cables, and two photocells from radio shack and soldered them together then mounted it in plywood. It worked just like paddle controllers for input (more light higher number). I doubt I could do that with modern USB.
Finished this five years ago: "Stepanov-style generic programming is the bees knees; we don't understand why."
To eliminate candidates that are out of their salary range. If their absolute cap for a position is 85k, it's a waste of time to even have the hiring manager look at résumés of people currently making 140k.

The less good but still perfectly ethical reason is the aforementioned information asymmetry. The hiring company (especially if it's a smaller business posting on Craigslist) probably doesn't know the market real well. They may be trying to figure out what they'd have to spend on the position.

An employer may also want to see increasing salary within your previous roles as a evidence of success there.

While asking for salary history in the job posting is a not a great signal about the company culture and cash position, it's not unethical in and of itself. I would just tell them you aren't comfortable discussing salary information at this stage. Let them make the next move. I don't like when an employer eliminates me a possibility based on a single point of information, so I try to not judge them too much till the interview stage.
>> "In many regions, there aren't any cheap rooms -- not cheap enough to afford one on near-minimum wage."

I find that hard to believe. Even in London, where rent is expensive, minimum wage would be enough for a room (not a great one but not a horrible one either) and food. Minimum wage here is £6.50 but even assuming £5 p/h that's £800 per month. You can definitely find a room for £400-500 p/m. Maybe the situation is different in the US but London is one of the most expensive cities in the world and the effects of the recession are still a lot more obvious here than in the US where the economy has been doing much better.
The cold hard reality is that in most US states 10%+ of people ages 18-30 cannot get a job doing anything. High skill jobs are inaccessible to many people without extensive training and low skill jobs are highly competitive and people with more experience get them. We are in a crisis and will be looking at an unemployed generation soon.

I'm a lot luckier than most of the people my age in georgia. I've also dedicated my life and made a lot of sacrifices to get here that society told us as we grew up were unnecessary and irrational. The narrative we got was "go to college then it is easy to get a job" when the reality is that people are graduating college and facing unemployment. As somebody that teaches in a university setting it is soul crushing.
Be very careful what you ask the gods, you might run into:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox
1. Resize the browser so the hamburger menu is shown,

2. Click it twice,

3. Resize the browser to its original size,

4. The sidebar has vanished forever.
"Why doesn't he get some sort of job and rent out a cheap room? He seems like he is sane and with the ability to work a labor job or a job at a fast-food restaurant."

What does he have to gain by doing this?
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For what it's worth, I know almost nothing about Magic aside from the fact that it exists, and I still found this style to be vastly preferable to long human interest stories that only occasionally discuss the actual point.
How much actual philosophy of science written since 1970 have you read? Right now, a constant conflict is that (many) non-philosophers of science think philosophy of science has gotten too empirical and too focused on particular scientific issues, to the detriment of philosophy (I don't believe this, but it shows how out of touch you are). Grad students in Phil Sci are expected to do graduate coursework in the scientific fields they study, and completing a masters is quite common.

As for working scientists, many have brilliant insights into the practice of science and its epistemology, but very many working scientists will offer you a warmed over version of Karl Popper as their philosophy of science.
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I am a professor of philosophy at a public university. What is the value of
philosophy to the taxpayers who subsidize my teaching

Taxpayers funding STEM subjects is very clearly an investment. But we fund philosophers only because have convinced us we ought to. But as Nietzsche said, that which convinces is not true, it is merely convincing.
Today I am quitting my 6 figure job to do this.. Need your support
I'm not quite sure we are at the stage where 3D printers are a home market item. I figured they would go into copy shops first with models priced like big copiers. It just seems a little early days.
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Marx is a good example of why philosophy can be very dangerous. Marx's ideas have literally caused the deaths of millions in Soviet Russia, Communist China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, and probably others. Besides keeping people desperately impoverished in places like Venezuela.

I'm not saying we sholdn't do philosophy because it can be dangerous. Philosophy can also be very good. In fact, we need the good ideas to prove the bad ideas wrong. I am a big fan of philosophy.

But not at the point of a gun (i.e., not on the taxpayer's dime). Philosophers used to be self-funded or funded by patrons. As an aside, since philosophers have become primarily funded by governments and guns, we have a 10,000 fold increase in the number of philosophers, and no increase in the quality of output.
You most likely set off the voting ring detector which then penalized your post, making it drop off.
Ok. You should also stop using your browser for letting the malware through, your OS for letting it run, your computer hardware for making it possible and technology in general.

Blame is a slippery slope. The fault is with the malware creators and them alone. They are committing the criminal/unwanted behaviour.

Top tier ad companies work very hard on this problem and if you check how many ads are run compared to just 1 being bad, it's a tiny fraction of a percent. Does it happen? Yes. Everyone on this site should already know there's no such thing as perfect security or a service that cannot be compromised given enough time/money. That's reality.

Please reconsider exactly who is at fault here for issues like this and hopefully you'll realize it's not just so black and white and this isn't quite a good enough reason to block ads. You can always use antivirus or malware protection software that's actually designed for this stuff if that's your primary concern.
Isn't that the same as stated in the link?
Talk 4/21 Palo Alto,CA Bob Frankston Consequences of S/W Defined World
The problem is that they have no way of knowing how many BTC they actually lost track of during that period or whether all of it did reappear. For those 5 months they have no idea which addresses Mt Gox was keeping the vast majority of their BTC in or how much they had, and if any funds remained in those addresses after November 2011 the whole argument breaks down. They're assuming that none did because the amount of funds in addresses they know about after the gap is roughly the same as before the gap - but the amount of BTC that Mt Gox's accounts claimed they have doubled during that time period, and there's no way to tell whether Mt Gox actually had a shortfall or there was more BTC but only a portion of it got moved to known addresses.
The second half of your message, that! If only people realized here that selling the notion of work hard win big isn't working for most middle class and lower class Americans. We can keep on saying its in the name of Capitalism and that this is what this country was founded on that we keep on burying our heads in the sand but at what point does one give up old notions and adjusts to the realities of living at a particular time and stop quoting old cliches that don't work for the majority?
I get what you're trying to say but "analytic philosophy" was a pretty specific movement, and calling Socrates pronto-analytic is just confusing.
Oh but there is.

Thats how it works today it's just conditional rather than unconditional and a lot of those money are being given to corporations as tax deductions and subsides not to those who actually need it.
Still too over the top. Probably the easiest way to do it would be a Dyson “mirror”, maybe two cone-shaped mirrors built around a star that focus the radiation into a disk, or a parabola on one side, something like that to harness the power and project it where it's needed (most likely to power solar sails for traveling between stars). So probably we should be looking for stars with irregular brightness that's not due to planets or instability. At some point they should also find lines connecting stars where the dust is hotter than it should be. They probably won’t find any of this, which is perplexing.
> sporadic, acute dosing ... tolerance inevitably catches up to this manner of usage

Out of curiosity, does a sporadic use still lead to tolerance?
He's also blaming addicts for being addicts. At the end of the article he lays out a "rugged individualism" argument that addicts should just suck it up and quit being addicts. Well, they can't, and they've proven that they can't multiple times, so what does he propose we do, other than crack down even harder?

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is how some define insanity.

Also, if these gangs are non-violent and their custom are non-violent, isn't that preferable to the kind of raw violence that is seen with other Mexican cartels?
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That is what happens when your language used all over the world and you are tired to learn other language than native one.
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I understood the lead quote to be about comparing the software developers at the two companies, not people in the research arms.

Also, I'm curious: who are the top-notch probabilists at MSR?
Woah, this seems like a lovely abstraction. Seems like the guard does the magic. Does anyone know if there are advancements along these lines?
I totally agree. We should remember pretty much every major academic field we are studying has its root in philosophy. It is true philosophy seems barely standing on its own nowadays as it has branched out to many different fields over the past centuries. Standing on the shoulders' of giants? The biggest giant we have seen so far is philosophy.
Oates' argument generally seems to be "It won't be scary because it won't be." He rejects the premise of Musk, Gates, etc. He basically says we won't be able to build a superhuman AI. All his arguments are then predicated in this assumption. The assumption that we won't build a superhuman AI is just wrong.

For example:

> [Would this superhuman intelligence inherently go nuclear, or would it likely just slack off a little at work or, in extreme cases, compose rap music in Latin?]

This statement assumes an AI on the caliber of a human intelligence. Making rap music in Latin is something a human would do. A superhuman AI is beyond a human intelligence in the same way a human's capacity for thought and tasks is beyond that on an ant.

The premise of a superhuman AI has at least some evidence supporting it. Oates offers no solid evidence to his rejection of the premise. His argument is therefore kinda bad (but not necessarily incorrect).
Basically those guys just give up on how they're expected to live: work hard, pay a mortgage, get a job, consume, be polite, don't have too much fun, don't ask too many questions, be a good person.

They're not completely unable to avoid homelessness, but they don't see that what their country is offering them is a fair or interesting deal. The future is just depressing in terms of opportunity and economics, so to me, those guys just give up, and they're not to blame. It's their country who betrayed them, pure and simple.

I too feel that I'm often being blamed for my lack of motivation and discipline of work, but to be honest, I'm not seeing anything in society that makes sense at all, so living lifeby not adhering to the common capitalist pillars seems risky at first, but with the recession and the economical context, it makes totally sense, and if the country fails because of it, I don't think I could be accused for it.
Thanks for mentioning your post. I really enjoyed it. I have a couple questions that, to my understanding, weren't covered in your blogpost, and I'd like to learn your opinion.

I'm guilty of having contacted someone I greatly respect and asking "Will you mentor me?". While I honestly believe that particular individual understood the naivete in the format of my request as shown by the kind response, I would like to improve the manner in which I seek mentorship in the future.

In your examples, you offered to help improve a project of a prospective mentor with work you had already completed. If you don't know what work may help that person, would you ask directly how you may provide a benefit to him/her?

My next question is about the type of advice I seek. You suggest "[...] have gone as far as you can by yourself" before seeking mentorship. I'm not stuck, but there are a few paths I might choose. Each is a considerable time investment, and making the wrong choice would be a setback I'd really like to avoid. The conventional advice I have sought online hasn't provided a clear answer to my specific situation. What is the best way to ask someone if he/she has the time to offer advice? I don't want to start by presenting the questions and making them feel obligated to answer something that may take more time than they have available to consider.
The qntm link tells you the words are da and ja, which makes the problem easier. In the hardest version you have no idea what the words for yes and no are.
In real life, it doesn't work that way.

Imagine there is an open-source project. Its development is active, many people are contributing patches, all is well.

Then, the maintainer disappears. Forks start to appear, but as there is no centralized development any more, all you can find is a dozen forked GitHub repositories, each with a few improvements - but, without getting your hands dirty, you have to choose only one.

Eventually, someone comes along and rallies together the forks and revives the project. You may think that all is well again, but suddenly the original project maintainers return and continue development in a direction incompatible with the main fork. Neither project's leaders show interest in uniting the forks back together.

What's worse, now you have a bunch of other open-source projects that depend on the original version, and a bunch which depend on the fork. In many cases (e.g. libraries) you can't use both the original and the fork simultaneously, meaning you can't use any components that depend on both forks in the same project. And now you have a huge mess on your hands.

This or similar situations have happened many times before. I can name 3 projects that have suffered this fate off the top of my head, projects that I've been personally involved with.

Fragmentation is bad. Forking should be a last resort.
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Actually this isn't a good comparison.

You should be comparing cost per sheet. The Kirkland SKU you linked to is cheaper than the Walmart one.

But this is a shitty fight, if I wanted the cheapest toilet paper in town, I could drive an hour across town and buy some from Big Lots.

It's not like we only go there to buy toilet paper, that's a dumb pedantic argument to make. With the toilet paper are six or seven bottles of wine, $5-$15 cheaper than anywhere else in town for the same, several pounds of meats, about 30% cheaper than any local grocer, bulk milk, again cheaper than my grocer (and without the troubling safety issues the plague Super Walmart grocery sections), maybe a hard-drive at reasonably cheap prices.

And 0-minutes spent shopping around, instead of hours spent finding the best possible price for each item. My time isn't free, why is yours?
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In Asia, the key ideas of Confucius, Mencius, Laotzu, Zhuangzi and the like are still alive at the hearts of many.
> The article seems to blame the drug, and the delivery service, and the people selling it. But many of the people in the bottom 20% income bracket in the US are sick, isolated, have no access to health care...

From the article:

> "the victims — mostly white, well-off and often young"

> "A result has been a rising sea level of prescription painkillers that continues today, of opioids such as Percocet, Vicodin and OxyContin. Sales of these drugs quadrupled between 1999 and 2010. Addiction followed. And this has given new life to heroin, which had been declining in popularity since the early 1980s."

I think your point is valid but not relevant to the article. It's not claiming the things you said.

Also Rat Park is highly controversial and has failed to be reproduced and, obviously, is a rat study, so I wouldn't really rely on it as a robust narrative for what's going on with drug addiction in humans.
> http://mrhaki.blogspot.dk/2009/08/groovy-goodness-safe-navig...

August 2009 is a long time ago, when Groovy 1.6 was the current version. The month before, Groovy's creator published a blog saying if he'd known about Scala he would never have created Groovy. And during the following month, Alex Tkachman published his first blog outlining his plans for Groovy++, which was eventually duplicated as the static typing facility in Groovy 2.x.

> println company?.address?.street?.name

I haven't used the Codehaus/Apache edition of Groovy since version 1.8 when there had been plenty of mailing list discussions about enabling ?. functionality to ripple through all subsequent . after the first use of ?. so that:

println company?.address.street.name

would be behave the same. Was this much talked about functionality ever implemented?

Edit:

Looks like the Haskell Maybe monad described by Arguggi in the other thread goes even one better than that by not even requiring their equivalent of ?. in the path at all but instead the typing system infers whether to use . or ?. functionality from the type of each field (company, address, and street in the example). I remember a mailing list discussion in the early days of Groovy begun by its creator James Strachan about whether to use some new syntax to require an object to be assigned to a variable:

Object! ob= new Object() //can't be null
Object ob //can be null

Unfortunately, he was, er, replaced by the current management soon afterwards.
No he's not, he's blaming doctors for misunderstanding the medicines they are prescribing and overprescribing them, thus exposing a lot more people to addiction than otherwise would've been.
It is a sister game of Push Out Fans, I posted it several days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9366498

The two game share a same code base. Hope you like them.
Wow, my respect of the utility of reddit just soared after reading this.
Nobody is afraid of today's AI algorithms. But if we make machines that are smarter than us and have desires, they will influence the future to achieve their desires. If these desires conflict with our own, things will not end well for the dumber party.

As we really have no idea what we, collectively, think of as a moral terminal goal, and less so how to formalize this, there is no reason to expect the first AIs to have goals that correspond to what we want. If AIs self-replicate in a competitive ecology, what would be selected for would be agents millions of times more intelligent than us who use their intellects only to make more copies of themselves - using all available resources including those we need to survive.

I'd recommend people read Stephen Omohundro's paper on the topic, Basic AI Drives: https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv...
Yeah, you should have. An application is not supposed to implement JDBC. The database driver is supposed to implemented JDBC. If your application implements JDBC you're doing it wrong.

Just like nobody walks around and complains that new versions of the servlet API break any Java web application because web applications are not supposed to implement the servlet API. That's the job of the server.
Are you seriously making the argument that taxation is stealing?
Serious question: What are you basing this "reality" on?

I'm really trying to understand why you think this is all fake. We can and do measure ads pretty accurately. Attribution is far from perfect but aggregated against a large audience who's exposed to ads vs a control group, and with tracking all the way down to conversions, we can see there is a difference.

My company works with Nielsen to certify and double-check our results as well as numerous other partners that only do attribution which is why our clients trust us.

It's not impossible. It's done everyday and it's backed by science, technology, data and results.
> little to no control over it's members

There is some amount of control when you are accepting and possibly celebratory in response to behaviour that should be discouraged.

For example, if you never sexually harass someone yourself, but you are silent while other do so, you are ceding a control that you have over the situation.

If more people that were respected in the community called out these behaviours when they happen, you may see them happen less (though this isn't an absolute control, so they wouldn't go away completely).
Your project looks great! Is its source available?

It'd be nice to add a link the the f-droid page for each application, where such a page exists.
Milos Kundera has an entire book "The Joke", about this very thing. I often think about it when contemplating saying something ill-advised.
MeshCAM (what comes free with the Nomad 883) is easy to use... although speeds and feeds still need to be manually inputted. But still, if you break your block of wood because you feed was too high, you just drop down the feed (or increase those RPMs) and spend $5 on another 2x4 block of wood.

Or if your RPM was too high and you smell burning, you drop it down on the next run.

In the worst case, if you catastrophically fail at those numbers and break say an end-mill ($20 to $50), that's still not that big of a deal. A major mistake / catastrophe still is cheaper to deal with than regular maintenance of say... a Form 1 stereo lithography plastic that costs something like $150 per liter.

I'd bet you that MeshCAM (again, free with the Nomad, $200ish otherwise) will create more precise parts than your typical Makerbot stuff anyway. Waterfall + Pencil Finish is more than enough to get the majority of projects done. (Steriolithography from Form1 looks... very impressive though, but the running costs are absurd in comparison)

ArtCAM, and other professional toolsets, are probably much better suited for professional artists who need to keep track of the grain of wood and the cutting direction. But... you can ignore the details of wood-grain and still come up with something with far more detail and precision than anything Makerbot can ever hope to do.

Basically, you start to care about those minor details with CNC machines because you actually have a machine that has such accuracy that those details matter. Also, $5 wood blocks and $20 leather (Drag Knife on a CNC machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoRUZnvbXw) honestly feel more "artisan" than the $100+/liter plastic that comes out of a Form1.