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Philosophy is not the right tool to attack AI science, although it has taken itself up to do so. I would sum up my general argument to support this as: "AI has enormous philosophical implications, but philosophical thoughts have very few implications on AI development (other than which research branches get social blessing)."

The philosophical lines often seem to boil down into something like, "but even if it was intelligent, it wouldn't know what it's like to think like a human, thus it isn't thinking like a human", but this seems like a really weak line of thought to me. I don't nor ever could know what it's like to be you or any other person, but I can certainly relate and be related to by others as a human.

There is over whelming evidence that the brain's operation(and thus it's resultant product: conscious and human though) is a physical process. There is no physics that suggests we can't replicate this process, but using a different substrate(ie electronic computing of some shape or another), and there is no physics that suggests we can't make such a system mimic the physical processes as a human. It seems more likely, in this case, that the differences and difficulty of relating to such a artificial system would be similar to that of just another different human being.
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Has Jim Carrey heard about this?
Posts like this, and the #talkpay on Twitter, is the kind of stuff I would've loved to have a couple years ago, starting in the industry. Here's hoping this sparks a conversation across the industry between employees and managers on salary over the next couple months.
This looks seriously useful, but I'm having a hard time seeing how something like Relay will play ball with, say, vector clocks, or client-side undo, as it sounds fairly welded to the Component.

Maybe the idea is to do that all on the server? Or in the Store? Very curious to see the implementation.
GPL is conditional sharing. Those conditions can impede acceptance of the offer.

Don't get me wrong, I like GPL and admire Stallman's position. I just don't have the dogma in me to believe that lawyering up is always worth the bother of threatening to do so.
The world is full of people doing good and interesting stuff without having all kinds of lame bureaucracy. I'm more than willing to bear the risk of missing out on something interesting by passing on that kind of company.
I think also the lack of smaller cities.
Category Theory is all about composing things and being able to reason about them mathematically. In programs, we compose lots of things (functions, types, objects, systems...), and being able to abstract that away is valuable. Bartosz Milewski has been putting together a nice series ("Category Theory for Programmers") for a little while now, that seems to be pretty well-received and may give you the answer you're looking for: http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-pr...
Getting the stacks right is also quite difficult. As is moving the goroutines to different threads to allow other goroutines in the same thread to continue running.
"Salaries are not just internally transparent at Japanese megacorps but so predictable that any middle-class adult in central Japan can accurately predict my salary history. I mention this partly to say that salary transparency by itself does not guarantee happy outcomes for employees."

Yes. Salaries at Buffer might be transparent but also quite low.
That's better - thank you. We (the community) just saw this as "Is it spam?"

Sorry - I thought you were a new account. I'm using the chrome extension "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" and it highlights yours in a very-similar-color-to-newbie-color.
> The issue is not a lack of awareness. The vast majority of the voting-capable population has heard, to at least some extent, that the NSA/others are surveilling communications.

"at least to some extent" is quite a qualifier. Fact is awareness is always important, and projects like these do exactly that.

> The issue is either they don't care, they agree with the surveillance, or they are too lazy to become informed and vote to change it.

"Awareness" also involves grabbing the attention of otherwise "lazy" people who aren't incentivized to care.

> There is literally nothing on this site about being involved in voting or the politicians supporting or fighting this type of activity. If they at the very least gave visitors some way to continue their participation and become informed, I would be fine with it. Right now it's just attention for the sake of attention. It needs to be channeled into something useful.

This app is part of FightForTheFuture (https://www.fightforthefuture.org), it gives visitors a way to donate and the organization has lots of info. It is useful.
Welles' F for Fake is practically a treatise on phenomenology, and it's nearly all in the present tense.
Not only is it not random kooks off the street, it's the Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory, a group NASA set up for the express purpose of exploring exotic and unlikely propulsion concepts.

They've done a small experiment on this particular concept and gotten interesting results. It would be utterly baffling if a group set up to explore such things explored them and then quit when they got interesting results.
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Regardless of whether or not background checks are effective, if you don't require them you are increasing your chances of being sued when (not if) something bad happens. At the very least, speak to an experienced lawyer about it.
I'd like to know about the Winged Victory of Samothrace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace
I don't know about this particular software, but I'm not too sure about this whole "giving my kid an advantage in life early on" business.

I think there was a study done [1] that showed that love and security and the availability of parents and family mixed with a certain degree of freedom were more crucial to success later in life than skills such as math. It allowed children to explore the world on their own, but if anything bad happened they could always rely on parents to be there for them. To tell them things would be fine, or to put a band-aid on their wounds. This allows children to develop trust in others, self-confidence and a positive outlook in life. While at the same time motivating them to explore the world.

However, another very important thing was allowing the kids to join in when the family (or other kids) were solving a problem. This could be anything from helping with cooking, fixing something in the house or collecting firewood. I assume the benefit of this was not only practice of problem-solving and social skills, but also allowing them to develop a sense of self-worth.

(The problem is, I guess, that our modern world is solving all our problems for us. We don't repair, we replace. We buy solutions for things that we'd had better dealt with ourselves. And so forth. And that we put so much emphasis on self-reliance, which seems to be a good thing but in reality has serious disadvantages. I believe this is one of the big (root-) problems of our modern civilisation that nobody seems to be talking about, but I might be wrong.)

Furthermore, the ability to work on a specific problem _with others_ is a different from being able to do maths alone. It teaches all the right things in life.

So I guess the point is: If you want your kid to succeed, be there for and allow it to take part in life the way he or she choses to (all within reasonable limits of course, you still need raise your kids to be decent etc.), especially with others.

[1] wish I had a link.. :/
If the point is to make a more secure browser, allowing a webpage to opt-in to use the old, less secure engine instead is probably a non-starter.

(In any case, I think the complexity is fundamental to many of the specs involved.)
I may have been using a technical term too glibly there.

Local conservation of momentum is a fundamental property of any translation-invariant model in the framework of quantum field theory. All this means is that the (vector) momentum flowing into any point in space-time must equal the momentum flowing out plus any increase in "stored" momentum at that point (whatever that might mean).

Quantum mechanics is a "local" theory in the formal sense, at least in any halfway mainstream formulation (from Copenhagen to many-worlds). Even the "spooky action at a distance" that folks talk about in reference to quantum phenomena is never capable of transmitting information outside of the "cone of causality" in space-time (which is the "light cone" in most relativistic theories: information can't travel faster than light).
Can't read the terms and conditions, when I click on the link it loads under the youtube video so I can't see the top paragraph.

I don't understand the urgency in this. Why would your church be kicking you out for trying to create an app? I can see if they don't want to be part of it, but not understanding why you can't have a side project, etc...
The problem with members of congress returning to society is that they could make deals with companies while they are in congress, in order to get great benefits at those companies when their term is over.

So better keep them from going back into society. Or... forbid them to work (later) for companies that they have dealt with while in congress (but this is difficult to check).
The statistical distribution of fund performance means that average doesn't make sense as a centrality measure. The top few funds take the lion's share of returns.
I just downloaded this for my soon-to-be seven-year-old, to experiment. ($5 for a shot at making math easier is a no-brainer bet... if he takes one look and rejects it, well, $5.)

My goal is not that he literally walks away knowing algebra. My goal is that his brain gets primed with the patterns he'll need to learn algebra. Even if he never consciously puts the two things together, it can only help to have pre-burned neural pathways for the sorts of otherwise counter-intuitive manipulations that algebra calls for.

My feeling is that the exact opposite of what you fear will happen; children with prior exposure will find algebra simply easier, and in so finding it easier are far more likely to engage, even with the shit school curricula for algebra we have.
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It does look like amazing performance. But It may be too early too conclude on that point. The gain of performance may only be because of less feature implemented in servo leading to less thing to compute => less computational time.
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Go Bruce! Figwheel is awesome.
Ray Jardine was an amazing guy--an engineer who was incredibly innovative in solving problems in outdoor adventure. For example, he invented the spring-loading camming device, which is a revolutionary and essential piece of rock climbing protection. Creating this device (he called the first product the "Friend"), allowed Jardine to protect a very smooth and steep crack climb, which was the first in the world rated 5.13.

Many innovations in ultralight backpacking can be traced back to Jardine: the tiny backpack without a hip belt, wearing running shoes instead of hiking boots, carrying an umbrella, using a one-layer quilt instead of sleeping bag, using an alchohol stove, etc. It's all laid out in the Pacific Crest Trail Hiker's Handbook, which blew minds when it was published. Jardine had to hand-make most of his own gear to make it small and light enough; now you can go into REI and buy versions of most of it.
I don't think someone said, how do we suppress black people? Oh, let's criminalize drugs. I believe, as most things which go badly, they start out with good intentions, but it snowballs, and has unintended consequences.

In towns with black mayors or black police forces, judges, etc., people still believe that drugs are a scourge and anyone involved in it needs to be corrected. It's not a white conspiracy, it's people's genuine belief drugs add to undesirable behavior and want to lessen it. I think this attitude stems from people's religious upbringing, believing addiction is a fall from grace, some personal failure.

I think as a society we're beginning to realize that this infatuation with punishing addicts is counterproductive. And the real enemy is poverty.

If you address poverty and allow people to earn a decent wage, you'll have a better society, fewer social problems, more social cohesion and more bonhommie.
Except the non-locality of QM is irrelevant to a device that is apparently a closed cavity. Simply because the same word is used does not mean the underlying concept is sufficiently similar in both contexts to be relevant.

Local momentum conservation is foundational to all of physics: it is embedded in Newton's laws, and you can't get much more foundational than that. As such, if anything violates it the degree of "extraordinary" would be beyond anything ever seen. Far beyond superluminal nuetrinos.

So the previous posters are correct: momentum conservation, which is generally used to mean "local momentum conservation", is as deeply foundational to physics as Newton's laws, and the kind of observable-only-by-statistical-inference non-locality seen in QM is not known to have any impact on it.

As such, it would be earth-shaking at the deepest possible levels of physics if this result were correct. That does not mean it is wrong--although that is certainly my bet and that of virtually every other working physcist--but it's important not to understate what a big deal it would be, because understanding that opens up alternative ideas regarding how to test it.

This is neither arrogance nor dismissal, but an understanding that anything that violates local momentum conservation, via QM or anything else, and also lets the rest of physcis sail blithely on, manifesting no measureable effect of any kind on any of the millions of diverse and precise experiments that have been performed, is astonishingly implausible.

Could it happen? Sure. But it's really easy for laypeople to radically underestimate the implausibility of such claims, as was done all the time in the cold fusion community.

Nor does reproduction of the effect say anything very much about either the underlying theory (such as it is) or the actual cause. Lots of things can create forces of micronewtons, and given how utterly implausible the claim is, most physicists are starting with a prior barely above epsilon. As such, the amount of evidence required to update our belief to something close to unity is going to be huge. Laypeople, who start with an unreasonably large prior because they are ignorant of how fine-tuned such novel physics would have to be to never show up anywhere else, will require less evidence.
I hear you about expressing feeling, and it's a fair point. The problem is that some of those expressions, perhaps normal in regular conversation, become volatile chemicals online. There's too much room for misinterpretation, and the downside is unbounded.

The rules on HN aren't anti-personality, they're based on long experience with what we all have to do to maintain the substantiveness and civility of the discourse. It's a tradeoff. The cost is a certain blandness sometimes. But the alternative would, in the long run, ruin the community. Better bland than dead I guess.
That's the point where you quote a wildly inflated salary with a straight face.

"My last salary was $300,000. Yes, seriously. Is that too high for you? We can discuss this further in negotiations, I'm flexible"
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It's hard to know what the return is on any fund that is immature. Companies that exit early tend to return far, far less than companies that exit later. Check back around the 7 year mark.
This isn't true, and is an incredibly cynical sentiment.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/aboutus

> See also: the online self-appointed leaders of Occupy who went to work for Google on adtech.

I don't know about the veracity of that but it doesn't seem relevant. Some people care / try to effect social change. These people are some of them. This is one of the main groups that helped bring SOPA / PIPA to light (see: Aaron Swartz)
http://robusttechhouse.com/google-prediction-api-review/ It ranked the worst comparing to AWS and Azure
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One conclusion I draw from all this is that it is long past time to separate encryption from identity.
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I'm curious about the endemic reasons.

Overall, is it that being closer to the product feels better? And did you really shake all the "weird feelings"/impostor syndrome about charging a high rate?
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It isn't that simple - investments and their returns have risks built in, and people expect more return for more risk. If you are an employee, you are not risking your own money, you are just losing some opportunities for cash. This lost opportunity does work into the equation, but not at the same risk level as an investor because if the company tanks, the investors lose every dime... But the employee still got paid the whole time.

I do agree that for negotiation purposes, considering pay below market value is a good point for discussion. But don't get offended if it is not weighted as heavily as people who actually wrote checks.
What about up rounds?
I don't doubt you, but in cases like this it is helpful if someone can suggest an accurate, neutral title. We don't have the capacity to absorb all the content well enough to do that in every case.
There is definitely enough lithium in the world to increase the production of lithium-ion EVs. From how I understand it it though, it is unlikely that lithium-ion EV could replace every car currently running in the world.
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/eason2/
You can have manual control over memory if you want, though. This worked the last time I looked at the language, at least:

foo = cast[ptr Foo](alloc(sizeof(Foo)))
# do stuff with foo
dealloc(foo)

EDIT: Here's the documentation on the site itself. Most things are 'traced' by the GC, but by using alloc and dealloc you can work with 'untraced' (i.e. manually allocated) memory: http://nim-lang.org/0.11.0/manual.html#types-reference-and-p...
Yes its a signaling game in the short run. But is there a point when people realize the company has been overvalued?
Sharing is taking action. Awareness is important.

If that's all the part someone is willing to do, fine. If a lot of people are like that, OK. But some decide to do more when they become aware, and that's why this is important.
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

Completely agree with this, though I made a mistake that was even worse than this. A friend hired me a couple of years ago to join his small company as the first developer, during which I disclosed my salary and also mentioned that I was willing to take a pay cut (as I wasn't happy where I was, and he was a tiny company still finding his footing). Fortunately, he matched my salary, so I didn't end up making less money as such, though it also didn't take into account of the value that I brought to the business, being the only developer on the team.

As a result, it certainly feels like I've sabotaged myself, where I should be making more than I am, with the only solution being to find better compensated employment elsewhere despite being reasonably with my current role.
I thought his name was Copernicus.
How did you choose your specialization?
I'm 22 years old and I'm spending my every free minute reading about many topics. Some of my teachers told me that it is time to specialize myself and I don't think I'm ready to make that decision. I don't want to be a Microsoft guy, SAP guy, PHP guy, Virtualization guy, Networking guy etc... I would really like to be "a little of everything guy" but "a little of everything" could not get you a nice paycheck, even if you know a lot. (Am I wrong?)

After a few years of BI development on my full-time job, I'm getting tired of creating some localized and specialized app for a small group of people who use my software and curse me on a daily basis. I mean, I was perfectly happy when I was a junior developer and when I didn't know everything I know today about web development.

I'd say that I'm interested in machine learning, recommendation algorithms, big-data analytics. What if, after 4-5 years, I get really good at that field and get bored? I'd say it would be too late to change to something else.

How did you choose your field of specialization? Are you happy with your choice now?