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That's a red herring. There are two problems with your harangues. First, there's nothing substantive in them—no factual basis or evidence or even experience. You're simply making things up. Second, they're utterly predictable and you recycle them through every tangentially related thread. That makes them noise, not signal.

Once or twice would just be normal bullshit of the kind we all post from time to time. That's part of conversation. But inundating HN with some weird simulacrum of a political campaign is an abuse of this site. It's beginning to dawn on me that it is a form of trolling. It is clearly not what HN threads are for, and it needs to stop.
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I can see how 90-degrees corner helps funneling. I'd like to see an experiment with a 50-degrees angle, I'd assume people/ants crush each other, because they think it's fair to remain shoulder-to-shoulder with the same people.
> As I really liked fogleman's NES emulator in Go I ended up mostly porting it to Nim. The source code is so clean that it's often easier to understand the internals of the NES by reading the source code than by reading documentation about it.

Win!
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Has generics, meta-programming and GC can be disabled (or tuned to run up to some max # of milliseconds).

So it is Go++ if you wish.

But I am not sure about its concurrency. Go does have channels which are nice abstractions for doing concurrency right.
> where it's rare to be really desperate for a job

My personal experience tells me there are plenty of people desperate for a job, and that is likely why these HR drones can still do this.
I have become so disillusioned even talking to these kinds of people because they refuse to consider talented people when its staring them in the face.
Most important takeaway about salary negotiation, by the way: disclosing a previous salary is almost always against your interests because it pegs your new salary to that plus 5% rather than your value to the new firm minus a discount, which is a brutal mistake

I used to believe in this adamantly, however recently I think it requires a bit of refinement.

First, it depends on where you are presently. If you are in a job you really don't enjoy or are not performing well in, for whatever reason, your top priority is finding a job that better utilizes your talents. A lot of people believe that once you start a job at a certain rate of pay, you can't negotiate it up significantly because you will always be anchored to that initial amount. That isn't really true. Once you start if you perform well you become a valuable asset, and companies don't like to lose valuable assets. One option is to find another company that will offer you the amount you want to make and take it back to your company and ask them to match it. Very often they will and without much argument. However the important thing is to start.

Now if you are in a job you enjoy and have no real desire to leave except pay, then you definitely should not disclose your salary, as you have a powerful negotiating position as you really don't need to move. However if the company is really pressing you to give them a number and won't move you on unless you do, it's okay to tell them the number if you are up-front and steadfast in that you are looking for amount $X which could be 1.5x, 2x, or any multiple of what you are presently earning. If they claim they can't match it then move on.

Finally, never negotiate salary with a recruiter before meeting with the hiring manager. Many times (certainly not always) recruiters do not know much about the job requirements besides what was written by the hiring team in a bulleted list. They don't have the authority to grant salary requests, but in many cases hiring managers do. I have had several job offers come in well above what the recruiter told me the job paid. No matter what you are told the salary range is, if a team really wants you, they will pay to get you.
The flipside is that you give them a number and get a good idea if they are going to be able to compete, and if not, you don't waste any more of your time.
Emacs. I came to Unix from an MS-DOS background, where I used Norton Commander (of which Midnight Commander is a key-for-key clone), but I ended up not using MC. It turns out you just don’t use Unix the same way as MS-DOS. When I need to manipulate files in any quantity, I use Emacs and its dired-mode.

See especially the “wdired-change-to-wdired-mode” command – it’s magical.
NPM is not a great package manager either. Specifically, there is no way to do the following:

- output your `node_modules` directory to anywhere other than the current directory. You can move it after the fact, but your package.json needs to be in CWD for npm to work.
- move/don't use the `$HOME/.npm` directory
- have deduplicated node dependencies in an app
For a tech celebrity, you're very "down to earth". I don't know a better compliment I could give.
I'll take a stab at the "why not build a consultancy business"...

It's not scalable in any shape or form. Despite having aspirational goals early on, every consulting company falls into the trap of becoming a body-shop. It happens every. single. time. You begin to feel less satisfaction about your services and proposals to clients because you emphasize "our talent speaks for itself" and it's polarized by your clients desire to simply want to pay X for Y and don't care how, what, or who delivers it. Being a one-man shop means that right from the beginning your client's expectations are set on you being the right man for the job and they'll get Y because they're going to pay you X. At scale (I'm looking at you IBM, Accenture, etc) you end up fighting with cost center budgets, and spend more time trying to squeeze quality and scope within a set budget, or risk overspending budgets and end up looking like a bad services partner. Building a consultancy sounds awesome at first, looks awesome at first, and then it slowly burns you down.
I acknowledge they happen, I think they are horrible.

I don't think assholes rioting over sports are equivalent to savagely oppressed rioting for their livelihoods and for their suffering to be heard.
I work with reservoir modelling, and it continues to amaze me that everyone coming from non-CS fields seem to have programmed solely in Fortran. Besides, I believe the Intel Fortran compiler is extremely fast. I wouldn't say there's no reason to write new programs in Fortran.
i wrote a script in bash, then perl that fetches EOD quotes, change ytd, etc etc, and stores them as JSON, then parses them on demand.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I think NASA has struck an appropriate balance between skepticism and curiosity. After results claiming thrust from the EM drive were given by paid lab testing and a Chinese study, NASA threw a miniscule amount of effort at this, expecting it to fail. It generated positive results, so they threw in a hair more. This will continue until either very rigorous, well-funded studies duplicate these results, or they are invalidated at a lower- or mid-tier levels of rigor.

There should be a reasonable threshold at which we are willing to test ideas that would upset traditional scientific knowledge, or we risk displaying the mental rigidity which we mock in the religious and scientific orthodoxy of ages past. Obviously the perfect candidate idea for such testing would be one in which a sound theory was already present, but there have been examples of profound changes in theory that came about due to strange observations - consider the motion of Mercury and higher-temperature superconductors.

I too am excited about the possibility of life in our solar system, and I hope NASA gets probes to Europa, Titan and Enceladus as soon as possible, but these projects don't have to compete. The small amount of funding this has received so far is unlikely to be the difference between go and no-go for life-seeking probes.
Boeing's Phantom Works reportedly tested the EMDrive years ago [1] and nothing came out of it. Edit: Thank you nether.

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/06/emdrive-and-c...
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Steuard is too polite to point this out himself, so I will do it for him: he is a physics professor. That the amount of money is small is a measure of how incredibly unlikely he thinks any useful result would come from the experiments.
There is also no guarantee that top firms such as A16Z and Chris Sacca will continue to achieve the returns they've gotten over the past several years. Have the top venture funds of the 90s and early 00s continued to achieve the returns they got then?
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> The drive to build another Silicon Valley may be doomed to fail

This reminds me that there have been many attempts to duplicate Lockheed's "Skunkworks". They've all failed. I suspect they failed because they always tried to create a skunkworks by fixing perceived "shortcomings" of the original, not realizing that those shortcomings were what made it work.

It takes a lot of guts to create a skunkworks, because it defies all conventional notions of how to do things. Lockheed is very commendable for having those guts, but they remain the only one.

It also reminds me of Caltech, which remains the only university to have a pervasive honor system. Nobody else has the guts to even try it.
If you're looking for ones with a GUI, there's Krusader [1] (if you're using KDE) or Gnome Commander [2] (for Gnome, duh).

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Beware of showing any weakness, though, because Endgame will label you a needs mentorship candidate, and gosh darn it, the company is just full up with employees who need mentorship. Come back later. Much later. Bye.
Look, your quibble isn't with me; it's with the biologists and the terms they've chosen to use for the different (and they are different) physiological phenomena. I'm using their terms here, in the ways they've defined them.

If you're utterly convinced that estrous and menstruation are the same, on the basis of some blood-like discharge occurring in both, then you might want to explore a career in academia. I'm sure there's a journal somewhere that would take your well-reasoned and compelling thesis on the subject. (You might need to pay them for the privilege, but as assiduously as you're defending your position here, that doesn't seem too unreasonable.)
Quantum Mechanics is weird but it's not magic. One of the most unintuitive effects is entanglement.

Almost all the entanglements and weird things of Quantum Mechanics are local. The electrons in a molecule have weird antisymmetric properties that mix different configurations (the easy picture is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance_(chemistry) the mathematics is more complicated).

You can entangle a few particles and move them at long distance, but if the particles hit another particle, the entanglement goes away. (You can transfer the entanglement, in very specific setups, but it's difficult, usually you get decoherence.)

I don't know a way to transfer a lot of momentum form one point to a very distant point using entanglement.

For example, you can put a box of particles in a rocket and each particle in that box in entangled with a particle that is in a box in Earth. When you measure the momentum of the particle in the rocket, it "changes" the momentum in the particle in Earth, so you can think that some momentum was "transferred". (This is not technically correct, but is a good enough approximation.)

The problem is that the momentum that you measure is in a random distribution, and half of the time you'll "transfer" momentum in one direction to make your rocket faster and the other half of the times the momentum will go in the other direction to make your rocket slower. It's impossible to transfer information using entanglement, and it's impossible to select the direction of the "transferred" momentum, in particular because that could be used to transfer information.
According to the Wikipedia entry [1] and other pages mentioned in another comment [2], the statue was found with a fragment of a left hand holding an apple, and a right hand with a draped sash. This was taken to understand that the statue represented the Judgement of Paris [3].

So apparently it is known what the hands held, which seems to make this speculation unnecessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9474238
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Paris
Excellent point and I will heed your advice.

I'm well aware that:

a. Startup equity is a lottery
b. As an early employee and the accompanying biases, I'm especially ill equipped to judge it's value.

With that in mind, I'm negotiating salary first. Equity with a vesting schedule is something I would treat purely as an incentive for continuing to stay with the company and not as a replacement for salary.
Crazy. I'd definitely send a quick note to someone higher up if you can get a hold of him/her. I know, not worth the time, a hassle etc. But a typical CEO worth his salt will crush something silly like that in no-time, if you really want to hire good people this is the type of person you want to fire.

I mean, hell, asking the question is one thing. I can live with that. But turning that into some kind of litmus test where declining to share private information completely 100% immediately disqualifies you, that's insane.

Anyway, never experienced it. Question for you all, are there any negatives to bluffing?

i.e. say you said your previous salary was $110k while it was really $90k, will HR say 'you're overqualified' or something to that extent if they were hoping to pay you say $90k and had a max of $100k in mind?

As in, can you recover from that and say 'oh but $100k is fine, too', or would that also send a signal of weakness where they won't hire you because you seem desperate (taking a $10k cut from their perspective, when you actually get a $10k raise)? Ugh the mindgames! haha. Would love to hear your experiences on this issue.
If this were proven true, there would be a completely manic gold-rush of capital into the area. Flying cars that operate at less than 1/10th the energy of cars on the road now?

This would very quickly move from "let's wait for NASA to do more tests" to "let's beat NASA to the test."

That's all assuming it's real, of course. I'd bet against it.
Remember that if you take a standard automobile and make it perform farm duty, those parts are likely to break, and quickly. For example, just look at the aftermarket for mechanical improvements for Off road vehicles.

Jeeps and Trucks are already among the more heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and for true off-road use, many components need to be replaced.

Rather than looking at the existing automotive parts, look at some of the aftermarket fabricators, and parts suppliers that are building out parts designed to replace the standard OEM ones.

I agree with the premise somewhat, but more parts and more engines especially is a recipe for reduced efficiency. Take for example the power and capability of a large pickup truck, which gets around 14Mpg, but makes ~400HP and 400ft/lbs of torque. It weighs ~8000lbs, and can tow 10,000. It will handle fairly tough daily use with few failures. When towing 10000lbs, they still get around 9-11mpg.

on the other end of the spectrum, a Smart Car might get 38 MPG, but it has 70HP and 68Ft/lbs of torque. It weighs 1100 lbs, and can support only 500lbs of total passengers and cargo. It is not capable of towing any load.

The returns of towing/power with increasing scale are nonlinear. Large Semi engines will run to 1000000 miles, and produce very large amounts of horsepower and torque.
"first office outside San Francisco"

I thought you guys had an office in Austin as well?
It might be just my perception based on past discussions on HN.
Love the line:

"Sartre reviewed the film in 1945, meaning he took four years even to bother seeing it."

One would think German occupation of Paris and wartime censorship might have contributed to that delay.
It would be interesting to see networth along with the salary numbers.
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> Why can't we admit that what we currently know only seems impressive to a few moderately advanced apes but in reality it is likely only tiny drop in the bucket compared to the knowledge our universe holds.

Because that would be to deny without any reason but empty speculation that what a small group of scientists have done in the past 300 years is a singularly impressive achievement, adding more to human understanding of the universe than far large groups have done over far longer spans of time.

People don't know very much aren't impressed by what the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment, and Bayesian inference has taught us about the world, and they radically under-estimate how much we know, instead comparing the vast and wonderous extent of our actual knowlege with their own fantasies of what might be known one day.

I look back at the science of the 1800's and I'm impressed by how much they knew, how much they did. I expect scientists a century or two from now will look back and think the same of us, while the ignorant people of their day will dismiss the thoughts and judgements of scientists of that time as nothing much compared to the fantasies of the ignorant.
Not true. We have plenty of clients using their own decentralized email servers and getting great inbox delivery of legitimate bulk email.

To get good results on your own server, you need:

(a) To be sending email that people want to receive.

(b) To have the technology setup correctly. It's not hard; we do it all the time for our clients.

(c) It's greatly beneficial to above ~20k messages/day on your own server. Not required, but being above that point lets the ISPs gather statistical data on your complaint and open rates, which allows reputation filters to click in.
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Can you explain what doesn't work as nicely?
Always looking for a tool to do this, your solution looks really elegant and handy - love the report page.

What do you plan to do with the "recommendations" feature?
I had a similar experience with a recruiter. I asked why and she couldn't come up with a compelling answer, she just said "That's just how it is, we need your salary." She escalated it to her manager and he pulled the same. I eventually complied but not without telling them I didn't ever receive a good reason and it makes zero sense and I couldn't see how it would do anything but hurt me.

Funny enough I ended up getting an offer way above my current salary, and a bit more than what I said I wanted.

Is anyone here a recruiter and can shed some light as to why the hell these people are so adamant about getting my salary??? I'm wondering if part of the deal for them is if they don't give my current salary to HR they won't get paid. That seems really stupid but they were acting like they would let me walk if I didn't tell them my salary.
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Much of the praise for Kane is because it used groundbreaking cinematography, which have influenced many later films. But to appreciate that, you have to know that Kane was the first movie to use these techniques. The movie (like many historically groundbreaking movies) will be underwhelming when seen without this knowledge.

A popular classic like Cassablanca have endured due to strength of story and acting, something which ages much better than "groundbreaking at the time".
> That's an almost-certain payoff against a roll of the dice on a sliver of ever-diluted equity.

This is excellent advice. Cold hard cash is much, much better than a bet of the startup you are working for will take off.