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There are many theoretical physicists who argue that consciousness is tied in with quantum mechanical effects (e.g., my Dad's friend Henry Stapp; they were in the physics department at Berkeley together, and of course Roger Penrose) that are not supported on conventional computers.

My Dad, who is a member of the National Academy of Science, does not agree with me re: Idealism vs. Materialism, but that just makes for more interesting conversations :-)
You're mistaking "easier" and "more likely".
There have been academic papers on parallel CSS layout, actually, and my Servo work extends that state-of-the-art. But I've got my hands full with hacking :)
Question: If you find yourself being chronically underpaid like she was, is there any reason not to immediately demand an above market salary, rather than an at market salary? Call it a retroactive "correction", or something.
Could you state this in a different way?

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to ask.
Define "user". You're on the internet. The bits you're downloading are probably passing through devices somewhere in the path that run FreeBSD.

~30% of North American traffic is from Netflix, whose servers are FreeBSD.

Everyone is a FreeBSD user and they don't need to know it to for it to count. Nobody actually gives a shit about numbers of users sitting on FreeBSD desktops.
I would first do some research on probiotics. From what I've seen, the only proven benefit came using them ina very certain situation which I forget completely (it was something like it helped clear up diarrhea after an antibiotic quicker or something like that). My point is they aren't cheap and you could simply be wasting money. I'm honestly not informed enough either way, but when I looked into them a few years ago, there was little to no proven benefits of using them.
Presumably he would do the same if pitched 3X or 4X
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Was the Casimir effect highly controversial like this? Is there a good example of a discovery that was both challenging to reproduce and initially dismissed by many but was later vindicated? We hear lots of examples of the inverse of this like Pons and Fleischmann but I'm sure there have to be cases like this.
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Not only do companies have various versions and legacy systems that utilize older technology, they expect us to provide the most up-to-date skills on our development, plus be able to integrate into their older sytems, which is a lot easier if you have the older technology (even if it's from awhile ago)...... We can't all copy and paste the same ad LOL
> These candidates that challenge this minor issue end up being more trouble than they're worth in other ways too; it's a red flag.

Speaking of red flags: organizations that think people who have basic negotiation skill are too much trouble to work with.
I own a stainless Datejust (Rolex). The MetaWatch people gave me several (10+) of various models of their watches. I wear neither, and have no plans on an Apple Watch.
Must it be local conservation? In other words can we rule out systems that push against something nonlocal or against everything in the universe at once?

Edit: elsewhere in the thread you explain that yes, it must be local.

So if this isn't experimental error or some other minor effect, it seems safe to assume that however it works it is not violating conservation of momentum. Either that or the universe is much weirder than we thought.
Isn't prostitution the occupation of prostitutes?
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> Rather than outsource support or rely on less technical people, we have our developers directly support the API they built.

Then you're not paying your developers enough. A developer commands a much larger salary than tech support. You're either underpaying the developers, overpaying techs and calling them developers, or you're not being completely honest in an effort to pull in more customers.

I'd go with 3, but whichever it is, I don't trust anything you've just said.
You missed his point, which is the double standard with regard to what is classified as "intellectually interesting" and what is "boilerplate", based not on the quality of how something is said but rather on how a few influential people like what is said.

It's completely natural to like some opinions and not others. What people find off-putting is your false objectivity, not your stance itself. Even many people who disagree vehemently with my opinions would not classify them as "ideological boilerplate" or trolling.

Not to speak for grandparent, but he seems to be commenting on the systemic pro-startup bias (for which you are not necessarily at fault) of this site. It does get repetitive, because the presentation is so one-sided. A lot of encouragement is given to a strictly positive view of venture-funded startups: that they're the future, that they're the best way to work, that anyone who isn't in one is missing out, and that while there's some ugliness it's better to rely on evolutionary improvement than revolutionary overthrow, as if you can analytically solve The Problem, sit down and talk to it and tell it that it's been solved, and it will go away.

What's also left out, systematically if not intentionally, is discussion of what happens to people who don't eventually win the startup lottery. Failure is presented here as a temporary setback on the way to inevitable success, which ignores the fact that for some kinds of failure are worse than others and sometimes people aren't as forgiving as they should be.

Finally, there's very little attention given on Hacker News to the extreme disparity of equity between founders and employees, and the fact that the reasons for those discrepancies are almost entirely sociological. Encouraging people who have the social resources to become founders, to do so, is one thing. Encouraging 22-year-olds to become startup employees without advising them on how to become something else 10 years down the road (when they don't win the startup lottery and need to find stable, adult job positions that come with respect, remuneration and authority) is, if not irresponsible, at least negligent of the bias it upholds.
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I primarily work on Python, Go language, Django, can build scalable web apps, RESTful APIs

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Indeed, I didn't think it could be so simple either. Figured "what the hey" and thought about writing one in perl, but a few already beat me to it looks like: https://metacpan.org/pod/Games::NES::Emulator
super cruddy of them not to send anything out about this going down was using a week or two ago and now all the songs and play lists gone just a let down majorly.
Are you implying it's a matter of getting your customers to use their brain?

I freelance and therefore I can be a jackass without direct monetary repercussions, perhaps that's why I don't view it that way.

Because I struggle to think of a lot of situations where I've been unable to replicate an issue a Client has reported where it hasn't turned into a miscommunication/misunderstanding of some sort.
GP actually used falsifiable properly - meaning that the claim is testable (evidence could swing both ways). A non-falsifiable claim would just have to be taken on faith alone or rejected altogether
10 years on, it has been use it or lose it for me.

I've lost so much...
I disagree because bringing Objective-C, Java/Android, and CLang compilation to Visual Studio doesn't provide any sort of abstraction.

The support for Objective-C, Clang, etc is, in my opinion, merely about bringing iOS and Android software to Windows (especially for phones and tablets). Microsoft knows they need current high quality apps on their platform to get users. Users which will buy their devices and operating systems. They don't really want developers to run iOS software unmodified on Windows but they do want to make it really easy for them to attempt a port.
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Do you think you could be a little bit more condescendingly passive aggressive? If not, I'd appreciate it if you'd turn it up a notch. In for a penny, in for a pound.
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Yup. It runs on the ARM host and you have to use those NIFs to explicitly make use of the Epiphany coprocessor AFAICT
I saw your comment a few hours ago, and I am having some difficulty answering you, that is, defining consciousness. In my experiences from more or less a lifetime of meditation practice (and what is meditation but an attempt to understand our own mind/consciousness/ego) my gut hunch/belief is that consciousness is something that is spread out and not localized in our physical bodies.
My hat is off to Spire. I interviewed with them but for several reasons did not do well during the interview. Regardless they were very cordial and understanding. If you are into embedded check out these guys!
Given the popularity of news-as-entertainment such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report, or Last Week Tonight, it would seem theres room for an online edition of the same schtick. Hopefully Onion Inc gives that a try!
i do, and i don't. you can have multiple names in the US.
HipHop doesn't support the entirety of the PHP runtime for exactly the reasons that have been laid out for you.

That's reality from a company with a shitton of money and a vested interest in doing it successfully.

They can't do it in the general case because reality disagrees with you.
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Been a longtime Windows user that recently switched to a mb pro 13 about 9 months ago. So far it's great. Even with only 8 gigs or ram I can run all the things I need plus a vm when when I need it to test something. Battery lasts all day no problem. Love that when it wakes up it's just like an ipad, boom it's on and ready to go always. I've never had windows laptop that could wake up from sleeping like that reliably. Good luck with whatever you choose.
Windows is not becoming obsolete. Quite the opposite. In the enterprise Windows will stay for a long time. I'm working at company > 500000 employees and our IT will be very happy when they can replace the iOS devices with Windows equivalents. And certainly the Desktops aren't going to be replaced by OSX. Even more with Windows 10 around.

MS strategy is much more straight forward. Simply offer reasons and make it easier for customers to use their products. Mainly the cloud and mobile services. They're just smart enough to understand where Google and Facebook make their money with - not by selling OS.
I kind of disagree here. Compilers reached commodity status a long time ago. Nobody makes money off them compared to how it was in the 90s and the list of ex-compiler makers is as long as your arm (Watcom, Metrowerks etc).

'clang' is probably approaching the point that its good enough so the question for Microsoft is do they still see any value in continuing the develop their own compiler or should they just switch to 'clang' ?

I think this is the big shift we are seeing in MS this year. Instead trying to owning everything, they seem to be shifting their focus to owning the parts that have value and commoditizing the rest. The strategy was successful for Apple so its unsurprising that Microsoft is looking to a similar strategy as part of their salvation.
I'll re-post here what I posted the last time this came around:

I applied for this job. I have a PhD in physics and have some administrative experience, and I didn't (yet) have a postdoc position.
The application process was very interesting---I had a phone conference-call interview with a few people in Wisconsin and New Zealand. I made what must have been a relatively short short list, because the interview was not cheap: they flew me to WIPAC, had me take a full physical (ultrasound, cardio study, chest x-rays, etc.) which is required for any winter-over position, set up a full day of interviews with science-side, tech-side, and administrative-side people, some of whom themselves had wintered over. The beer and cheese curds in Madison are great. Check out the Great Dane.

A lot of the interview was to gauge personality, and there were a lot of questions along the lines of "If someone was acting in a dangerous & threatening way, and you were in a place more remote than the space station (in the sense that there is no escape capsule or any chance for rescue) what would you do?"

The tech that keeps IceCube going is a bunch of custom-designed and manufactured blades which receive (IIRC) UDP from the sensors in the ice. A lot of processing happens at the pole, because the limited (and satellite-orbit-dependent) bandwidth would make transferring the whole dataset wildly impractical. So the "interesting" events are found on-site and sent over the satellite, while everything is also written to tape. Once the summer comes the tape is swapped out. Scientists can also query additional data to be sent via satellite if they need something specific.
A few weeks later I was told that for the two IceCube winter-over tech positions, I was third choice, and that if one of the people offered the job sustains an injury, fails the psychological examination, or backs out, that I might be called on short notice. As I didn't have a job at that point, it was OK by me, but I was certainly disappointed. I'm happy in my postdoc position, but will certainly apply again when the time comes.

Had I wintered over, it would have been the smallest of small-world phenomena, as someone I know from college was one of the chefs there this winter.

Aside: I have heard that (if you get the job) they will sometimes preventatively remove your wisdom teeth / demand & provide other preventative treatments.
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Exactly. They won a few years ago.

At first Microsoft tried to copy exactly what Apple was doing and that didn't work. Now they're at least trying to compete with Apple in a way that leverages their advantages.
This story is boring. Another person complaining that he's underpaid, because he didn't negotiate. The fact that he had a job makes him lucky enough. He should be happy. Nevertheless, we've all been underpaid before, it happens to lots of people.
i engage people with my own self expectations in mind. i believe that's what makes me an effective leader. i could be wrong.

i have not, and i would never in a million years ask someone what they currently make. why would i ever do that? what's the point? you might as well ask them about the size of their genitalia.

the range of bullshit answers you will receive, even from the lowest level of positions, just means you're only fooling yourself if you ask these kinds of questions. just ask for what they want. lying about that won't benefit them, it will only benefit me.
What is the point of this? Why not just use SSH or other encrypted channel always?
Inviting or encouraging a particular vastly underrepresented demographic isn't the same as saying that they're preferred over any other demographic.

There's good evidence that just saying "women welcome!" (or any other underrepresented demographic) is a good way to reduce the huge gap between men and women hires by numbers.
uh, well, my stumpers include, "why should we pay you 200 grand?" which should naturally flow into a conversation into the amount of value this particular engineer or executive will bring to my organization.

here's another one: "how will you pay for yourself in 6 months?"

i'm no longer technically competent enough to stump an extremely talented engineer on a technical question. not really sure where you get the 'superiority' language, since i would be out of business if i didn't hire employees who were 'superior' to me.

again - sometimes i feel like i'm taking crazy pills around here.
There is a reason why these things are still written in FORTRAN: they run much faster than C-based versions. Some people say that C++ with templates can get closer to FORTRAN, but even if that is true, creating libraries for non-C++ languages from C++ template-based code is very complicated.
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The broader stroke is MS to be relevant in the platforms side of the story. Sometime people will argue that windows is used extensively in enterprises, but obviously the today startup which will be tomorrows enterprises are using almost no MS eco system.
Not sure why it claims maximum diversity is ideal. In NYC people often prefer to live in the neighborhood of their ethnicity where there will be many stores with what they like, in their language, and many speakers of their native language among other benefits.
My bold prediction about the whole Apple Watch phenomena:

_It will be a big bust._ After the initial hype, not many adults would want to wear it.

This might upset some people (Apple fans?). But now, let's build a mental image together: one day, in the middle of a meeting at your work place, many of your colleagues rest their hands on the conference table (either using a tablet/phone/laptop, or holding papers). You raise your head and glance over the whole room, and you see there are so many Apple watches out there. They look the same, blink the same way, sound the same. The square-ish shape becomes kind of tiring and stupid, simply because you've seem them everywhere. They are really out there. A funny idea pops up in your mind: is this a robotic, dull and weird picture or what?

Watches are not like mobile phones, in terms of personal touches. Adults use phones mostly for their practical functions, and phones can be kept out of sight. Watches are different. Nowadays they are mostly for images/styles/personalities/fun, so, do you want to wear the same watch as everybody else and appear so average?
Sometimes a few false positives don't matter. Or matter less than latency. Nobody dies if a query returns Daniel Day Lewis as the star of Ernest Goes to Camp and many people might just write it off as human error...even if it isn't.
I think they want compatibility with other compilers, but unless they move alway from Windows, there is a lot of their APIs that require close compiler/library support: COM, DCOM+, .NET, etc. They will probably need at least to maintain VC++ for a long time.
You don't need to watch this video to know that Apple has won.

But what do you expect, everybody to pack up and go home?

I'm glad they are trying something/everything in order to bootstrap Windows.

Innovation happens when people are competing and fighting for the user's attention. Not when they are rolling in cash with no desire to do anything new.
That happened to me today. They asked me my rate. I said $X. They said they could offer $X-20%. I declined the interview. (I was getting bad vibes for other reasons, so I don't feel bad.)

If I was unemployed, I might have considered $X-20%. Since I have a job, there's no reason to accept a job for a lower salary than I'm getting now, especially when the interviewer is being a jerk. (If it seemed like an awesome opportunity, I'd consider equal or slightly less. This was not one of those, it was a contracting company looking for a warm body RIGHT NOW to fill a client need.)

One other lesson I've learned that's surprising: You would think that in a job where you're underpaid, you'll be appreciated, and in job where you're paid well, you'll be abused more. My experience has been the opposite. In the jobs where I was paid well, it was a more pleasant experience than in the jobs where I was underpaid. In business, money equals respect, so if you're underpaid, that means they don't respect you.
Erlang itself runs on the dual core ARM chip. There are Native Implemented Functions (NIF's) that can do things on the Parallela cores, but those functions are not Erlang.

Or, more succinctly, don't get this thinking you're getting a 16 core Erlang node, not exactly.
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People can still be good bosses/owners if they're solely in it for the money. They important point is that they have an accurate picture of costs and value.

Some penny-pinching bosses can be annoying. One boss fired a guy that got paid a lot less than me, but then I had to take over his tasks, which meant I was doing a lot more low-value work (updating pages on his WordPress site) instead of higher-value work (programming).
Maybe the VCs hope they will have already cashed out by then?
Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time.

I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India.
It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business.
It is a large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/underbanked Indians is what excited me to work on this.
In the past I have built both fast-data and big-data companies and have a few patents in this space.
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Thanks. Didn't check. Will from now on.

The <> format has worked before for me here. ???
I'm having trouble finding data that is using the same methodologies. The CIA World Fact-book specifically seems to be lacking data for Australia.

It would be good to see some solid data, because one thing that surprised me while travelling in the USA was the extreme poverty I saw just down the road from extremely wealthy neighborhoods.

Not to say that Australia doesn't have its own set of problems, particularly in Indigenous Communities, but this seems to operate at a wholly different level.
I would like to suggest to anyone really interested in understanding this topic better, read about the Casmir effect http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect

The Casmir effect and the Casmir-Polder Force is considered by many scientists to be a result of asymmetrical forces being generated by and or from the quantum vacuum based on the materials and geometries being used.

It did take decades to verify to the level people don't consider it experiment error, and we're sill arguing over if it's really a quantum mechanical effect. Some people do not like the whole quantum field theory thing and their efforts to disprove things related to it is important for science.

Personally QFT makes a lot of sense to me so I look at the work being done at Eagleworks and wish there was a way to help accelerate the pace of research because this thing isn't the LHC its not trillion dollar stuff, a few million is probably the total bill to do all the work and the subsequent re verification by JPL, NASA and Johns Hopkins that they want to do. This could be "done" in a year if we stop going slowly. It's 2015 and I would like my hover car next year thanks.
>>I agree with the conclusion that the ability to attract talent is one of the secrets behind the Valley's success.

This has more or less been the secret to the US becoming the most powerful country in the world as well, not just SV. It's a shame that our attitudes towards immigrants has changed so dramatically in the past 20 years.