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Prison guard is a tough job with a lot of turnover. You don't necessarily have the largest employment pool to pick from--especially since prisons are often located in rural or out of the way places.

2x the candidates is a good idea.
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In academic circles most of it comes from philosophers of mind, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
See these bollards?

http://www.road-care.co.uk/images/bollard1.jpg

They're all over Amsterdam. Strong selection pressure establishing a minimum height for men wanting to father children there.
Except it isn't using actually encrypted shared key emails, its just sending links to open the email with a shared password on their website.

I mean, encrypted email is a hard problem because nobody supports it except you, and that means you can never encrypt your emails, but Tutanotas UX of making users view the messages on their site (and the fact you cannot use it with even GPG friendly mail clients) kind of sucks. I'd rather just use OTR XMPP for encrypted private communications. Or my mumble server, which is ironically the best implementation of encrypted chat I can use with other people because I can use certs or passwords at my discretion.
I would guess because Github was not being used as a code repo, but was essentially being used as free CDN for the data file. I've seen direct linking to Github raw files like that before and wondered if it was something they condone.
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Yeah, I've seen this xkcd. It's on point as usual, but it doesn't show the frightening thing: it's the scientists who are going "Whoa" and believing in the results they've produced...
Hmmm, They don't cover an important fact: Our intestinal microbiome of bugs that live inside our stomach, affecting our moods and behaviour [1].

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141114-autis...
"It's God's will."
Because they employ people who wouldn't live in a dorm.
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Who cares?

If that happens, the projects can be re-hosted somewhere else. For the time being Github is the best option.

Sometimes the hypothetical situations free software people bring up hurt their cause more than they help.
it depends, is there any reason for India to explore space when they could in ten years with the right plan bring electrical power to the 2/3rds that do not have it in India? Imagine the amount of jobs and economical growth such a plan could generate..
Because the creator's a fan of Alex Garland? (EDIT: I think too that "out of the machine" is not a terrible, if also not a terribly enlightening, description of how a state machine makes decisions.)
It's totally a computer! Not like how 99% of the world uses the word "computer" but it computes things and is vaguely like a FPGA so it's a computer! Not serial but parallel! Like computers!@ But not parallel like the computer you have. Like a computer that doesn't actually exist. But it's a computer!
I could think of another 10 things that affect humans moods and behavior that is not mentioned in this article. Your point being?
Not to sound insulting, though this might be, but without knowing more details I'm going to assume you're failing at the soft interview questions. In an industry where creativity is just as important as engineering knowledge, it's absolutely critical that you nail your soft interview questions.

Don't be afraid or insulted by them, OWN them. Spend time this weekend thinking about what exactly your hobbies are. You definitely have them, even if it's spending time cleaning up baby mess. Think about things that bring a smile to your face and can project to others what your passions are in life.

Never lie and it bothers me that some replies below mention that as an option. However, do MARKET yourself.

The reason these interviewers are mentioning craft-beer to you is because they're trying to get inside your head and see what makes you tick. Beer is an easy way in SF to connect with a lot of people. So yea, no one cares you don't like beer, and I know plenty of people don't drink at all. I promise that that's not why you're not getting an offer. :)
If these are honestly the amounts of time you devote to these things, then you need to make a big change. If you're working 80 hours per week and can't afford to live closer to work, you're working the wrong job. Unless you're a founder (and really, even then it should be temporary), 80 hours is an unreasonable expectation from management. Showering shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. Groceries shouldn't take 4 hours per week to buy. Conversely, you should probably spend more than 7 hours per week eating, and hopefully with other people who you care about. You could easily free up ~40 hours to spend time with your friends and family or developing a hobby. It would be good for your long term health and happiness too.
Great question! Gold is a very poor choice of materials for cuffs; it's soft, not very strong, and extremely expensive. Since cuffs made of gold would be easy to break, they would not only be ineffective restraints but would likely be stolen by escapees as well.

Most companies opt for the more conventional steel cuffs, typically one of the harder stainless alloys for resistance to corrosion and tool damage. However, some still swear by simple leg irons of a design little-changed for centuries. A few have experimented with "free range" employees, bound to their workstations only by personal debt and vesting schedules, but this approach has proven much less effective.
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This is the pure distillation of everything I hate about front-end development right now, especially as presented by posts on HN and meetups.

Look upon my frameworks, ye mighty, and despair.

I can't really blame the native folks for laughing at us anymore.

We've gotten so wrapped up in ax-sharpening that we've just made the entire ecosystem a morass of sadness and bloat.

I wonder if this would've happened if it wasn't so hip to write these things, if money wasn't sloshing around so freely (in some parts of the country, anyway) and sustaining such haphazard growth.
Sorry, but how is this not just anti-intellectualism?

> 30 emails, wow!

It can take up to half a day to reply to an email containing even one fairly technical question. Obviously the time invested depends on the content of those 30 emails, but it's not at all difficult to imagine this eating a week worth of a PI's time.

> 2 weeks of a graduate student's time -- these are the people who are the least paid right? Below minimum wage even?

The typical attitude is that this is a justification for not making them spend their time managing these sorts of tasks. You don't get to say "we get to pay you crap because your job is exciting and rewarding" and then load that same person down with a bunch of grunt work (on top of all the normal grunt work). That's how you bleed students and kill the lab's productivity.

Also, grad students are not well paid but they are typically no cheaper than post docs; PIs pay tuition.

> The demands on their time seem so low, yet the complaints are so high

So let's imagine a world where people calling for massive improvements to reproducability get their way. Let's say it is a month worth of time for the lab. For each paper. Multiple papers a year. That's a pretty massive time investment. If you're a top lab, that could become a full-time position. And believe me, you're not going to be able to fill that position with a grad student. That person will have to be well-paid, because their job is going to suck.

So it's reasonable that scientists are peeved when they invest all this time and don't perceive their collaborators as acting in good faith, or feel like their collaborators are trying to cut corners to pinch pennies.
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As long as science keeps thinking this, we won't have to worry about the singularity any time soon.
On the other hand, reproducing badly-designed, not-well thought of, and probably inadequately executed experiments won't be of much help to anything. In biology its not often clear what is known, what is not, and what are the open questions, and the scientists themselves have a lot of the blame for it (for religiously sticking to closed publishing models and a general lack of initiative to share their data).
> Is it actually necessary, though? At steady state, I mean--we currently have a lot of people who are now damaged thanks to the behavior of people like your girlfriend, and short of a purge we probably can't use more reasonable methods.

Good question.

We've always had a problem with the age-old question of "What do you do with criminals?" In antiquity, the answer was simple - nothing, unless it impacts the rich. The poor can squabble amongst themselves, and as long as they don't kill anyone important or terrorize too many merchants or rob a rich person's house, they're left alone.

This changed during Victorian times - the thinkers of the time saw the awful living conditions of the poor and decided that it wasn't Christian to leave the poor to suffer like this. So, they instituted penitentiaries - places where the wayward could be corrected and nudged back in the right direction.

Here's the problem - it doesn't work. Prison has two genuine uses - it isolates shitty people so that they can't mess with the rest of society, and it deters other people from following their example.

With initiatives like the War on Drugs, we've completely borked the shit out of this because we're now sentencing enormous numbers of relatively normal people to long prison terms. This has the following effects:

1. Prison staff are now focused on survival rather than staying on top of their jobs. This leads to inmates running the show. It also leads to said relatively normal inmates having to fight for survival as well, exacerbating the problem.

2. Large numbers of people are damaged by these conditions, emerging from prison completely fucked psychologically.

3. People notice that said people are unstable and likely to return to crime, and they act accordingly by turning them into outcasts (who go right back to committing crime).

If we want this to change, we need to turn prisons from enormous Walmarts (One-size fits all incarceration for the whole family!) to focused facilities for the worst of the worst. The animals go in their cages, and everyone else gets off with mandatory counseling and community service. This will drastically lessen the load on prison staff, who can now actually do their jobs instead of fighting to stay alive however they can.
Disappointing that this is 1) proprietary, and 2) Windows/MSVC only. Impressive results though.
Here comes the unpopular opinion: I don't like open-source projects being "turned into a business" at all. Something's always gotta give.

* Paid support: you now have an incentive against improving the documentation. Conflict of interest.

* Selling binary builds: your software can no longer be easily recommended and shared by others.

* "Premium features": I'd rather call this 'crippleware'. You're intentionally crippling the 'community version' to give people an incentive to pay you money. That's certainly not in the spirit of open-source.

Frankly, I don't feel software is a thing that should be sold at all. You're always going to be intentionally (and artificially) restricting something to make that business model work - after all, software is infinitely reproducible at effectively zero cost.

Instead, if you absolutely must make a business out of it, offer something like a hosted service (that people can easily replicate themselves, in the spirit of open-source). That way you add something to be sold, rather than taking something from the existing project and asking money for it.

The better option is to accept donations, and put some serious effort into getting those going. I don't really understand why people will spend weeks drawing up a business plan, but for donations they just slap a 'donate' link in the footer of the page without thinking, and then complain after a few months that they're barely getting any donations. Accepting donations requires the same amount of thought to make it work.

EDIT: No bulletpoint lists on HN? :|
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Indeed, we can hope this.

But as the op mentions, lab techniques vary and not everything can be documented. It's reasonable for a scientist to ask for a certain level in a lab attempting reproduction. I don't know if these scientists are demanding too much and have something to hide or if there are problem with the lab involved. However, the article actually mentions numerous scientists expressing misgivings.
In the future, almost every action user might do on an information system ought to be rolled back cleanly and easily once presented with higher priority key. That will make e.g. account takeover not worth the hassle.

But right now all the systems we use are frighteningly brittle.
Gadi Evron has been in the security industry for a long, long time. He's a malware/botnet/honeynets guy. Mile-long resume.

This is kind of a surprising pick for YC: a down-the-middle enterprise security play, the kind of company that usually gets funded by Battery because one of the cofounders successfully sold a portfolio company a couple iterations ago.

It's interesting to see what seems to be a pretty conventional bit of security technology (sandboxing malware and exploit code into virtual machines is the kernel of several 9-figure security products) get extra attention because of the YC pedigree. Or maybe TechCrunch just got this wrong? Either way: not complaining!
Is it illegal to discriminate on mental health grounds? I wonder if it comes under the disabilites laws in the US?
The only serious counter-argument I've heard against the hypothesis that the brain goes further than a Turing machine is that the brain does not implement an algorithm, with one input, some processing steps, and one output.

Instead, it processes information as it comes, this information comes during the processing of previous information and the output partly loops back to the input. Short-circuits everywhere, no clock, etc. I'm unconvinced but I could not refute the argument formally.

Note that this does not contradict the Church-Turing Hypothesis : if you restrict the brain to one input, some processing steps with a pen and paper without arrival of new information, and an output, then it is very possible that the brain can only work out Turing-computable problems.
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Wow. Such an error could easily have been detected by software before the order went out. Does a professional trading company really not do any order sanity checking at all? I bet they do now, ha :-)
What you're describing (your girlfriend devising her own extra-judicial punishments for criminals' sexual harrassment) isn't a criminal justice system, it's thuggery.

Your drill instructor sounds like a retrograde sexist thug, too, and it seems like you go along with that. Which, ok, but not the attitude I'd want to carry around with me.
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How is a person's attitude not relevant to culture? Change everyone's attitude in the company: has the culture not changed?
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To be frank, until this little exchange, I thought you were unfairly treated in the storm surrounding your contribution. I thought social media was mostly to blame and that a lot of folks treated you badly, mostly for their own publicity purposes. Were it not for the effect of internet hype, you'd probably still have your job, and the gay people who worked for you would just have to suck it up.

Even after exposure to your personal beliefs and the sad little arguments you make against gay people, I still think you were mistreated and that social media is to blame, but I now also know you really are anti-gay. That wouldn't, of course, make you an anomaly in this country, especially in the ranks of CEOs (who skew conservative). It does put into perspective the support you received from some gay people at Mozilla. They had your back more than you had theirs.
Now the problem is that there are multiple time managers that don't talk to each other. This needs a standard.

"I'll have my time manager call your time manager."
> Is there some methodical way to uncover needed software?

I think this is a common thread here - software developers looking for a problem to solve. A lot of people invent a solution without really knowing whether it is a problem - or is the main problem for whatever industry it's serving.

I personally feel like you'll always do better if you at least have a passing interesting in whatever business you are planning to "disrupt". If you don't work in the industry itself, then it's probably a good idea to have a partner who does and can bring to the table the deep understanding of the industry and whatever pain it may have.

Finding that is not incredibly difficult - there are thousands of people who have an idea for an application and are looking for somebody to bring it to life. If you don't personally have any inspiration for an idea, then you can always find somebody who has the idea and industry experience and create a great team.

Another reason for having such a person is that, even if you write an amazing app, you'll quickly find that each industry can be a small world, and the vendors you are competing against are already having lunch and playing golf with the major buyers in that market. If you have no connections at all, it can be extremely difficult to get your foot in the door. "Build it and they will come" is not something that is usually true.
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I think the key fail is hidden beneath this statement, 'many “digital” computer switches are built out of analog components and processes'. In fact obviously, all computers are built out of analog components, in the sense that the entire universe is analog.

However, this is the problem. Computers are designed to interpret or translate the messy analog world where nothing is exactly 1 or 0, into a precise, deterministic digital world where everything is either 1 or 0. And I think it's highly likely that the brain does not work in this manner whatsoever, and that in fact, in the translation of reality into 1s and 0s, you've lost far too much to properly "compute consciousness"

Would it be possible to build a synthetic brain out of some form of "analog computer", capable of consciousness? Almost certainly. But since we have no idea what sort of architecture or paradigm that would use, or how we would program it or whether it would even "execute instructions" in a way remotely similar to digital computer software, such a declaration becomes meaningless.
The real answer to this problem is to invest more money on research. If there are more people looking at a particular problem, there is less and less chance that a big mistake will be hiding. Many have the wishful thinking that if we were just more careful with procedures or software or technology or something else, then the results would be more robust. Unfortunately this doesn't work when you have fixed resources to perform extremely complex research. The power of science is not on individual results (papers), but on how these results confirm or refute each other over time.
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Who in their right mind would go to philosophers to get an understanding on how the human brain works at a physical level? Why not go to your priest instead? Same level of understanding.
Regarding the bitcoin: you can't take over the blockchain while thousands of clients around the world have the "common sense" to not accept invalid blocks.

This means rogue clique might roll back a few transactions, but they can't steal money from static accounts or create coins out of thin air.
If you use Linux, both issues are pretty much sorted. Repositories provide a great way to install trusted software, if you're careful about which repositories you install on your system.
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Closed source though. The author seems to be distributing only compiled binaries.
'information comes during the processing of previous information and the output partly loops back to the input"

Computers do this all the time. Simplest example is "cancel" button everywhere.
Perhaps less: Priests may have more direct experience with a variety of minds :p
Not really. She is conciously trying not to use it, and admits to accidentally slipping up when she reverts to unconciously choosing biased terms. She seems to want others to do the same thing, and think about the words they are using, and their potential impact, which is a Good Thing generally.
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> The only serious counter-argument I've heard against the hypothesis that the brain goes further than a Turing machine

I'm confused... is the counter-argument AGAINST the brain being BEYOND a Turing machine (if I am to interpret your sentence literally)?

Or by this double negative do you actually mean the counter argument is AGAINST the brain being ONLY a Turing machine? (Because that's what the rest of your post sounds like.)

> and the output partly loops back to the input.

So? Turing machines have no issues with feedback loops; what would lead you to think they do?
You can approximate any analog value to arbitrary precision using a (by nature binary) Turing Machine, therefore you can bring the loss of information as low as needed.

The question is whether the brain offers a more complete framework than all the models of computation we know today (which are equivalent to one another). To put it another way : is there a function that the brain can compute that a Turing Machine cannot. We know of no such function now, but have ruled out yet that there is none, although most computer scientist agree with the Church-Turing hypothesis.
I think that's somewhat unfair to philosophers. Besides the fact that science grew out of philosophy, even today philosophers are very good at defining problems and finding logical inconsistencies. As a scientist, that seems very useful indeed. To understand the brain on a "physical level", we have to know what questions we're asking first.
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Perl's critical failure is that most CPAN modules expect admin rights and a gcc build environment in order to install correctly.

That killed it on shared hosting and for small projects that may not have a server admin's support.

Also devs are used to having named arguments for their functions. Not supporting that is just silly.

And finally it's difficult to google things like $/, $", $% and $_ when you're confused.
The counter argument to the CT hypothesis, i.e. the argument against, sorry for my ambiguous phrasing.