skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I follow the Idealism philosophy (which is the opposite of Materialism) that posits that the fundamental property in the universe is universal mind or consciousness and our individual thoughts and ego are derived from a filtering operation: we as individuals filter out a small part of this collective unconsciousness (to use Carl Yung's term) and that is what gives us our identity while we are alive.

So why do you ignore all scientific evidence as to the mind being the brain and how cognition works? How can you be a "paid practitioner of AI" if you completely ignore the science of real minds?
Furthermore momentum is only conserved in classical mechanics. It is actually information that is preserved. E.g. In a particle accelerator momentum is converted into energy, but information is not lost.

Conservation of momentum is not more deeply embedded than c in that it isn't even a law (outside of classical mechanics) to begin with.
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The page doesn't render very well for me, so it's hard to tell what's going on. There's lots of "[Math Processing Error]" garbage.

Here's how I'd approach solving it. First, I'd split it into two subproblems, each sending two bits.

The first two bits are straightforward. B makes a Bell pair and sends half to A and half to Sender. A forwards its entangled qubit directly to the receiver. Sender superdense codes two bits and sends the resulting qubit to the receiver via C. The receiver decodes the two bits the usual way. This costs one qubit each on the B->A, A->Receiver, B->Sender, Sender->C, and C->Receiver links.

Now for the other two bits. B generates a Bell pair and sends half to C via A and half to Sender. Sender superdense codes the remaining two bits and sends the coded qubit to C. C decodes the two bits. Receiver generates a Bell pair, keeps half, and sends half to C via A. C superdense codes the two bits it just decoded into the entangled qubit it got from Receiver and sends the coded qubit to Receiver. Receiver decodes it. This sends one qubit each B->A, B->Sender, Sender->C, C->Receiver, and Receiver->A as well as two qubits A->C.

Adding it up, this uses exactly the allowed capacity on all links. Problem solved using standard techniques.

Edit: fixed a typo
I want to be pithy and say "N=2", but it's not even that. As the experimental controls get stricter, the effect becomes more negligible. That hurts the likelihood, not helps it.
Imbalance of power fuelled by a recession = more inappropriate/rude/immoral behaviour to take advantage of the situation.

They know they can say "tell us your previous salary, or else". What's worse is that they will ask your references to confirm, and they'll likely happily tell them. If you lied, it won't go down well.

As if there wasn't enough crap to fight against in your career.. ugh.

EDIT: I forgot about employment contracts that prohibit you from disclosing your previous salary. Yes, they exist.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400443

Other submissions of the story from various sources:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=liberland&sort=byDate&prefix&p...
Is there some context to being ashamed of funding Evan Spiegel? I don't use Snapchat, but I guess some people find it useful, so it's presumably a good thing. I don't know that I would be proud of having funded Snapchat, but I don't see why I would be ashamed of it. Are Snapchat's founders particularly obnoxious?
It's interesting to see the study found no relation between characteristically black names and effect on earning power when controlling for factors.

One question I've had is why didn't parents who wanted to avoid originally European names take from actual African names, rather than minting new names. I understand being disconnected from one's ancestry, but still, this seems a different alternative.

Btw Tyrone is not uncommon for white Brits.
Similar experience in other places but I replied "We are a little early in the interview phase to talk about this, lets come back to it later".

This worked until I reached the last phase of the interview, the salary discussion. The HR person simply refused to proceed further without the current salary information, as a matter of fact when I told them they should be paying what I'm worth, he said they can't proceed without it any cost. I wasn't interested in the Job so I didn't care, but they seem to count on the fact that given so many programmers out there they it wouldn't matter to them if they would lose a candidate even that late in the interview phase.

In short if there are many devs out there looking for a job, there will always be some one willing to work for a lesser pay.
Tesla may not have the direct impact to you that the Model S driver or Powerwall customer will have, but there's another element to the announcement: Industrial-scale storage for energy companies.

If that works, if they get update on that, then it will have a much larger impact at once that homeowner uptake will. Being able to take a natural gas plant offline entirely is a phenomenal win.

There's benefits for you as well. They just won't be as directly felt being that they're a few degrees removed. But I'd argue that those wins at the large-scale will have an enormous impact.
Nim has channels too (although I think they need replacing). There is also spawn which is similar to Goroutines in some ways: http://nim-lang.org/0.11.0/manual.html#parallel-spawn-spawn-...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9472545
The more accurate the emulator is, the less special casing there's a need for: special cases/hacks are necessary when the emulator takes shortcuts and doesn't implement the hardware features the game relied on. If the hardware features are fully implemented all games ought work without hacks. Hence bsnes (as far as I know) not needing game-specific hacks but requiring a hefty config to run.
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Wouldn't that make the decisions people make even less valuable? Wouldn't that promote irrationality on a larger scale, if they're coupled as you say? Are you arguing that there is an inflection point or are you arguing for a useless government?
It really pleases me to finally see a big credible player tackling the REST orthodoxy. They state very well why REST APIs are not working well for mobile.

Notably:
"Fetching complicated object graphs require multiple round trips between the client and server to render single views. For mobile applications operating in variable network conditions, these multiple roundtrips are highly undesirable."

Now, I'm wondering how they manage to make the computation of the responses on the server side no too expensive. It seems clear that there is a risk in such a system to define queries that pull way too more data at once. Also, the question of pagination comes to mind. How can you handle that efficiently?
Another way of saying this is that scaling a consulting business involves a peculiar set of challenges which may or may not be animating for people like Patrick. :)

I enjoyed the process of scaling Matasano; I only left because Erin and I were more engaged with the idea of making a dent in recruiting.

Things one does to scale consultancies:

* Refine a recruiting and hiring strategy to make it easier to staff larger number of projects.

* Build ramp-up processes to take new consultants and get them to "billable" status quicker.

* Play with service definitions and rate books, so that clients that need Patrick-level delivery can pay extra to get it, while clients that just need deterministic competent execution of tasks Patrick was good at 5 years ago can pay less to get someone without the name brand.

* Develop systems to cross-train consultants so that more people get an opportunity to (a) watch Patrick deliver a project, (b) deliver a similar project themselves, and (c) help bring other consultants up to speed.

Because revenue is so directly tied to performance and delivery in a consultancy, I think it's a pretty good lab for learning how to effectively manage people.

It's also true that a lot of them just turn into body shops.
Yeah, I actually prefer a lack of transparency. I fully recognize the right of others to discuss salaries openly and support their ability to do so. However, I think aside from benefiting companies, a lack of transparency around salaries benefits those who are good at negotiating, whereas complete transparency helps those who are not good at negotiating.

If for example, you know company X's highest paid software developer makes $110k, and the lowest makes $90k, (and such a narrow banded salary range is probably likely if everyone knows exactly what everyone else earns), you probably aren't going to get them to pay you far north of $110k simply because that would carry the likely result of increasing everyone else's salary since they now know you are making more than they are and they want a salary increase too.

But the lack of transparency should really go both ways, ideally if you want to get the best terms. That is, if you can inflate your previous salary or not disclose it at all while asking for a number significantly above it you are in a much better position than laying bare your entire earnings history.
If a company truly cares about getting good people, they'll rein in that kind of thing.
> if the company tanks, the investors lose every dime

If you choose a $90k job + equity over a $130k job, and the company tanks 2 years later, you've lost every dime of that 80k.

It's a bit different since your "investment" consists of 24 tranches, but that's more than balanced by the vesting schedule which gives you nothing for a year (despite accepting your investment immediately), and takes it all away if you stop investing.
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designer of DragonBox Algebra here...
0- i totally agree with your post : )
1-the game was never conceived as a headstart product!
2-our goal is to deliver products that introduce the big ideas in math in an engaging and efficient way, because math can be such an unnecessary pain for many children
3-we recommend to play DragonBox with family members : )
4- your reference [1] could be about self regulation (social interaction primarily) and academic achievement: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~mcclellm/ms/Morrison,%20Ponit...
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I find that quote interesting as well. Would anyone actually leave their job for $5k? Unless you hate your current job or the new job is more intellectually stimulating/better culture, that's a pretty paltry amount to take the risk of leaving your current role. Especially considering if you leave and don't like it you may have to stay in a role you don't like for a couple years to avoid looking like a job hopper. I make well under $100k and wouldn't leave my company for $5k unless the work is significantly more interesting. I work in finance so perhaps engineering is different.
I haven't used Appdash in any of my projects yet, but I have seen it used and it is neat.

I'm curious how it compares against other similar solutions, can you describe that a little? Is there anything else that's similar? What are the pros/cons of Appdash?
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You can buy a used Mitsubishi i-MIEV (early electric car with very short range) for less than $8,000.

So, do that. Then strap one of these Tesla home batteries on it.

Bam!

(NB some experience with heavy-duty DC electricity required.)
I've never heard of such a thing but it undoubtedly happens. Your pay stub is really just showing the floor though. For many positions, there are fairly regular bonuses, variable comp, etc. So, in reality, there's usually some wiggle room in providing current salary info while still being essentially truthful.
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I stand at my table from time to time.

As an employer I try to get my employees to try Taoist Tai Chi ;), offer them access to massage and whatever chair they want (trying a kneeling chair atm) and whatever can help their back/general health issues.
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Dynamically inject a shared library into a running process on Android/ARM
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The problem with the NES is that games have all kinds of different hardware inside the cartridges. In order to achieve high compatibility you need to emulate all of these chips. It's not nearly enough to accurately emulate just the NES itself.
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Horizontal scaling in consulting seems to be what you're so put off by, but I think at most lower levels, vertical scaling is still very possible.

For me, at least for the forseeable future, I'm pretty solidly convinced that I can earn more money by studying and improving my tech skills than I could ever earn by taking a side-job that actually pays me dollars in my hand.

Maybe one can "max out" and just know enough to get their job done, but I'm not there yet -- I frequently find myself ditching other opportunities for making short-term cash in favor of learning something new. That's why I would favor "building" over running a less profitable software business.
Not snark... serious question... its not clear to me what sort of services anyone could offer for 30k per week... what sort of thing commands that kind of price tag?
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It's a pretty strong signal that they want people who won't negotiate and aren't assertive. In some businesses, it's just counterproductive to hire an assertive employee: the business processes are in place, the command structure is well-established, and they just need bodies to fill places in the org chart. If it's one of those companies and you're one of those people, getting hired there will likely be painful for both of you.
The man stated his opinion. Stop getting your panties in a bunch and move on.
>We just have absolutely no basis of a clue of a glimmer of an idea of how to do it yet,

Thermodynamically optimal (aka: bounded-rational) causal modeling in a Turing-complete language of models, used to minimize the free energy of the environment/surprise of the organism.

http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/469/2153/2012...
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