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Off Topic: Is this style of prose common?

I believe it's called a "tweetstorm"; there's a site dedicated to help with making them: http://tweetstorm.io/
[Hiring] What companies hire freelancers for a longer term?
Want a longer term gig. Thanks!
how do you know that the United States is not aware of itself? do you think that brain cells are (would be) aware of the fact that we are conscious?
I know there are sites that ask "how much you're earning as a software developer" or whatever, to get an idea about how much people are getting paid for a type of job.

But is there a website where it basically gives asks you to choose the company name, then whether you're male or female, white or black, etc?

I think such a site could give us a much better idea of how companies treat their employees.
Ask HN: How much is Tai Lopez paying to spam his ads across YouTube?
Just fyi, Tai Lopez is the guy who begins his ads by showing off the luxury cars parked in his garage. I've been off AdBlock for a few months, and Youtube has been plagued with his ads for a while now (display ads as well as long video ads) -- they're everywhere. Quite a few Youtubers have even made parodies of his ads. How much is he paying for this, and how is this marketing strategy even sustainable?
Capitalism works better than command economies, within certain domains, because it's a more immediate feedback mechanism. Rather than peasants dying in the fields while Comrade Stalin reports another glorious success of the five-year plan, the peasants can simply go and buy themselves food.

I'm not sure how effective an incentive system it is once your basic needs are met though. Lots of people don't seem to have ambitions for which large amounts of money are a desirable aspect. Not that they'd turn it down if you offered it to them, mind, but they don't work to advance themselves either.
Ekranoplans are the most unusual looking ones.
SME's and Cyber Attacks – What You Need to Know
Adidas Creates the First Shoe  from Ocean Trash
I am glad to be done with cassette tapes. I never liked the hissiness, and the rewinding. I'm tired of car stereos eating the tapes. I'm sick of the 5 tapes in my car that got listened to over and over. My boxes of tapes went in the garbage 10 years ago.

My current car stereo I bought for $75 has only a USB port, and I stuck a 32G thumb drive in it with gawd knows how many tunes are on it. Mucho better. I enjoy inflicting disco music on anyone who dares to ride with me.
Super Fast Laser Holograms You Can Touch
I think the LEAF has a 7 seated taxi variant, as well as a cargo van version. I believe this is a growing segment as the lower fuel and maintenance costs have more impact as you drive more miles.
FastMail app for Android now available from Yandex.Store
It looks beautiful, but could anyone give me a plain word explanation how does lambda calculus relate to moving dots?

The closest thing I can think about are L-systems, but I couldn't understand even Fibonacci numbers (http://chorasimilarity.github.io/chemlambda-gui/dynamic/fibo...).
The asymmetric designs were to counteract the torque from the single engine.
'In communication theory, the Allen curve is a graphical representation that reveals the exponential drop in frequency of communication between engineers as the distance between them increases. It was discovered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Thomas J. Allen in the late 1970s.'

So this was well before mobile phones, Skype, chat, etc, etc. I wonder what the results would be for the same research done today.
From a quick googling on the subject, sorry I don't have time to dig up more right now.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-make...

The tagline: "Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working"
Drawing conclusions from self-selected self-reported data (without a careful process for validation and debiasing) is a big red flag for (a) being ignorant of basic statistics, and (b) not even being aware of your ignorance of basic statistics. I mean, "why do we use random samples?" is covered in the first lecture of a 1st year stats course.

I expect developers to be familiar with basic statistics.
This is mainly due to the fact that so many recruiters have poor practices. I have a rule that if I'm contacted by a recruiter (unsolicited) I politely ask them to remove my details from their database. I label their email as unsubscribed and archive the email in Gmail.

When I get a second email from a recruiter that previously has been marked as unsubscribed then I click that 'mark as spam' button.

I've been doing this for eight years, since I'm quite happy with my work situation and have actively tried to remove myself from their databases over that time. However my CV still seems to be floating around, even though I've also deleted it from every online job portal I was signed up to.

At some point most recruiters need to feel that pain, because they just don't listen.
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Lol, coming to think of it, 7x$150 is my monthly pay!
'The finding also revealed the critical distance of 50 meters for weekly technical communication.'

Cannot imagine this is still valid today. There could not be remote workers.
Just as a note, the site doesn't work when accessing it through https (like, with https everywhere)

It's a nice concept
why would you care if they're making as much as you?

Case 1: You're making as much as you want (given relevant factors)

Therefore you're fine, why are you complaining

Case 2: You're not making as much as you want

Isn't your beef with your boss for not paying you more, instead of with your coworker? Ask for a raise

Though I guess the core is you wouldn't want to work in a place where there's restrictions against you getting a raise (which equal pay could theoretically do if the rules are restrictive enough)

As a side note, two thirds of your skill? How would you define that really? Are you able to gauge your coworker's skill levels with that amount of granularity?
It's even more a trivial amount of money to risk damaging your company's reputation over. Her manager screwed up royally.
Data was from random volunteers, and at that moment in time over 10% of the U.S. employee base. I say size was statistically significant not quality of data because there were senior engineers who had been with the company for 15+ years and would skew the datasets. We had lots of demographic data too. Can you guess which race and gender won?
Can I make a 3D shooter using Erlang?
On Creativity, an Interview of Yours Truly by Matt Buice (2003)
I’ve noticed the same thing. Do you by any chance have a catch-all address? That was the major source of spam in the inbox for me.
I tend to agree with the way you imply.

I don't think there's an inherent reason why anyone would generally want a high, or low, salary. Human beings are still mostly wired for survival, food, sex, and interacting with other human beings. Salary is a whole few levels above that: we're not naturally wired for thinking in terms of pay.

Women just don't care that much but (many) men have the tendency to compete and investing in the effort to win. There's always been one-upping among men but I think that is mostly related to the mechanism of how men get women. It cannot be explained by survival, for example, hunting doesn't benefit from competitiveness but, rather, team work.

In the few recent centuries it seems that the competitive tendency has taken its form on the scales of employee status and amount of salary paid. Consequently, it is also reflected in the size of the relationship market available for a man. Highly paid men do have a realistic opportunity with a greater number of women than low-salaried men.
Richard Feynman's second wife divorced him for among other reasons he was "always doing his calculus".
Creating a spreadsheet to collect salary information isn't really something that deserves a bonus.
America could stop spending so much money on killing and death, and be a real space-hero nation.

Its an uncomfortable truth, but there are a lot of better things America could be doing with its war economy.
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Seems like I've been too late to help you out, then :)

It turned out that writing all the docs was at least as much work as writing the library itself... I've been doing this all on my own in the recent two years.
Music and Media (1981)
Thanks for the info! I'll try and fix the CSS for the docs page.
Yeap, "Weird Al" Yankovic and all gathered dust after CDs became readily available. I had a $400 Sony Walkman CD player (circa 1986) and a 1981 (!) German impression of The Doors - The Doors album (dull orange silkscreen printing) with the aluminum reflector material extending all the way to the edge of the disc.
I think it really sucks that you have to say stuff like "Please don't crucify me" to preface a completely valid question because it has to do with women. Why are these conversations so prone to vitriol if you don't blindly nod in approval with the "feminist" perspective? And in saying this, ironically, I expect that I will in fact be "crucified."
The standalone ext2 driver apparently stays, as it's useful for some minimalist embedded systems.
In the recent developments part it says:

"We do not keep separate sets of people, some of which we communicate in one medium and some by another. The more often we see someone face-to-face, the more likely it is that we will telephone the person or communicate in some other medium."

My Slack communications with our Argentina team kind of follows this rule.
Nepal gets its first landmark in the solar system
Why do you think that she was expecting the bonus for that reason? I can't see the connection.
This started hitting several of my mailing lists a while back. Not just personal servers, but several major web mail providers, most notably Yahoo and AOL. Some theories floated around that it had to do with a change to header/certificates, but I don't recall if I saw any actual confirmation of that.
It reads very Danish.

10 PRINT "TØ BE ØR NØT TØ BE"
20 READ A$
30 GØTØ 10
Tapers (live music recorders) used to do something like this on the old Sony TCD-D8 DAT recorder. The ten-cent 1/8" jack on your $600 device wasn't exactly readily accessible for DIY repair, so people would put the D8 inside a box with panel mount jacks, and run a jumper from the internal to external jacks. I've used the same principle multiple times since then, in other ways - on headphones, computer audio jacks, etc.
Individualism (like reductionism more generally) only requires that the higher level explanations be expressible in terms of lower level explanations, not that they're necessarily better (in terms of the insight per unit complexity) for any particular context[1]. It certainly doesn't require any analogy between the people in a nation and the neurons in a brain.

[1] like how an atom-by-atom model of an airplane might be better, even if it would be accurate enough to break it into a smaller number of tension- and shear-bearing elements
Can I just say "Thank you" for pointing out the key difference between looking at things that look similar at different space scales but remembering that no, actually they are completely different. That dust storm from space may look like the beach at my feet, but they are two very different systems that move differently, and arise for different reasons. It's cool that they look the same, and no doubt that's meaningful for some reason, but it doesn't mean they are the same.

In any event the US acts like a person because it is basically the President plus Congress plus the leaders of the top 100 public and private American institutions. Any group that small is going to act coherently.
I agree. This looks amazing. Absolutely gorgeous. This really was done with just using JS? wow. But I have no idea what I just watched.
Not necessarily. I'm not being contrarian for the sake of it. This approach that takes the first third of the time presenting the problem to an audience that arrived to hear the solution to a known problem can sometimes be annoying. It could just as well be done this way:

1. State the problem in a short less than 1 minute summary.
2. Present the solution and sustainability etc (bulk of the presentation)
3. Then, lastly, present the problem that most already know - only this time in detail.
In this thread, the repeatedly reinforced observation that expertise in crafting software does not automatically bestow skills for managing, understanding, or empathizing with people, and those whose work you respect tremendously may just disappoint you when it comes to working for them.
In a database engine, you ultimately need to move some data around, too. After all, you can't move a network connection to five threads at once, and not all aggregations can be decomposed into pieces that return small amounts of information back. Sharing memory often brings a quite substantial speedup.
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South Africa. I know the whatever organization is licensing content here is hostile enough that most people just don't bother.
I make arrowheads for my DIY bow from bottle glass and stone because I want to know how it was like hunting thousands of years ago.

I see little children having curiosity about those "cassetes" thing, but it is a five minutes thing. I actually lived casettes and HATE them. I sold all my collection, burned the piece of furniture that held it in a night of San Juan fire.

Great memories (the fire and the party on the beach, it became useful after all).

Now with just Garageband and audacity I could do 100 times more that I could do with cassetes and hold thousands of times more recordings and songs without the nonsense analog noise in my pocket.

I couldn't help when I read PR like this to think that someone else needs to find "a bigger sucker" in order to get rid of their cassete junk in their parent's garage or something and make a profit out of it.

In 2015 CDs sell for as much as $15? Wow, it is not like people could connect to youtube, download any song of the world with youtuve-dl with better quality that cassete could ever dream about. And better talk about even more outdated tech like vinyl without talking about itunes or dozens of music web sites and social networks as alternatives for "music lovers" so the article does not sound as the piece of PR it is.
I was honestly trying to be facetious before. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. Text sucks. I actually think it was really inappropriate that you were down-voted. The notion that you should have to produce material definitions for concepts presented as fundamentally non-material is tautologically absurd. It's basically a rude way of suggesting that you shouldn't present that view here. I think, absent some success by materialists, presenting non-material notions of an apparent thing is utterly acceptable. Not only that yours was on topic and directly in response to a comment you apparently read and attempted to respond to earnestly.
You don't know what a fair salary is, because you don't know what your peers are earning. I mean, if you can find out what your competitors are paying their employees, surely their own employees can figure that out. So if you can figure it out, it's not a secret to anybody!

The problem with your approach is that it is very easy to manipulate people when you permit a power/information differential like that. You end up saying "the slave is happy with the food we give him; why should we offer freedom?" -- when he's only happy with the food because you've been beating him for so long he's been conditioned into helpless appreciation of your scraps.

You feel you're making a fair salary? Well then what is the harm of knowing your neighbor's salary? Are you going to learn a new meaning of 'fair?' What's the harm in that? That's just updating your priors and giving you the ability to make better decisions with more information. (That anyone would choose to reject relevant information when making decisions is the height of absurdity.)
"Chemlambda is a graph rewriting system derived from graphic lambda calculus which can be seen as a simple model of chemical or biological computing."

here are demonstrations of the graph rewrite rules:

http://chorasimilarity.github.io/chemlambda-gui/dynamic/move...

the front page is a better start:
http://chorasimilarity.github.io/chemlambda-gui/index.html

as is the FAQ: https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/what-can-i-...
>If an entity doesn't believe that it's conscious, then can it be conscious?

I'm sure there are brain-damaged people who have a single bit stuck flipped causing an aversion to talking about that concept and fully claim to not be conscious but are otherwise high-functioning and really do have the same sort of internal experiences as the rest of us. Classifying them as "not conscious" wouldn't be useful at anything besides making them stop arguing with you. At that point, "conscious" is just a word for people who meet some minimum intelligence and happen to also call themselves "conscious". We might as well use any other word.

I don't think the word "conscious" has enough of an agreed-upon definition for this question to be even as productive as the classic question-that's-really-about-definitions "does a tree falling with no one around make a noise?". I think the question "is X conscious" is mixing many different questions together. Does the US have a subjective experience? (Who knows. I think we only assume other humans even do because we realize we're probably not the one special person to have one, but it's hard to generalize that solution to things very physically different than ourselves.) Does the US think like us? (It clearly takes a stupidly long time to come to any decisions and then changes its mind every 4 or so years on certain things.)

Just for fun as a little tangent, here's an absurd example possibly closer to the US: imagine you have a person that acts just the same as any other, except somehow their neurons in addition to carrying simple signals each have human intelligence and awareness and rich inner lives that they mostly keep private, but when you ask the person if they're conscious, their neurons stir from their own thoughts at hearing a familiar word and break protocol by answering individually instead of following their proper neural behaviors to allow the person to answer the question themselves. (If that seems a little too disconnected from reality to even picture, then it might help to imagine a natural born human who undergoes a surgical process involving nano-machines that replaces their original neurons with the described self-aware neurons one at a time.)
While the presentation succeeds at conveying an appealing vision, it dramatically lacks substance. What is "one pixel" supposed to mean? I'm not a child. Give me square kilometers. Or how does the price compare to competitors? Maybe I'm different than most, but I actually care more about the numbers and cold facts than nicely prepared hot air.
I'm curious, is this still on MSW? How would one find it?
You're technically correct, the best kind of correct. But fact is, usually two distinct people will try to tell their language apart from their neighbors. See: Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian (all three based on the Shtokavian dialect, not even a different dialect of the same language)
Except tons of Python code depends on C. This project depends on Pandas. Pandas has C dependency.

So to run this there's code that needs to be compiled anyway.
Does anyone know if this sort of simulations are still based on a Modified Nodal Analysis?
Can anyone recommend some other good links on angel rounds?
Multithreaded programming is not inherently more complicated than everything else, but finding bugs caused by multithreading is inherently more difficult than finding any other kind of bug.

It all comes down to this: You can't reliably find concurrency bugs via testing. You have to prove they don't exist or you will never know. "Don't do it!" is one way of proving that multithreading bugs don't exist.

But I find it annoying when people act like it is always down to choice. Sometimes we need shared mutable state for logical reasons. We can only avoid it where it is an implementation detail.
This hit us at work really badly: we use GApps, and everything from our internal list server (which we can't replace with GMail aliases because $REASONS) was being sent to spam ... and there was literally no way to whitelist this across the company automatically.

You know how Google treats its free customers with utter contempt? I can assure you, they treat paying customers with the same contempt.
www.hearthstoneplayers.com

Right now I've replaced the banner spot with an Amazon link with a more relevant ad message.
Shades of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, the predecessor to the B-52. "Six turning, four burning" because it had six piston-powered pusher propellers and four jet engines in underwing pods for take-off boost and high speed bombing runs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

They also experimented with tracked landing gear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_can...

A parasite fighter for bomber defense (the XF-85 Goblin):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

And as a test bed for nuclear aircraft propulsion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H
It's just as fucked-up for our use of GApps, and customer service is just as absent for paying customers as free ones.

Microsoft could own business email again just by answering the phone.
Thanks, I'll have to look even more into OSL (vs. GSL or RSL). I would hardly use the word 'worthless' just because RIS mode was introduced last year. The basics of what the prodecurally generated textures book taught me back then, still apply. Geometry, math, building up patterns in software, etc... Not to mention, the basis of such shaders just need to be translated just as GSL can be relatively simple to translate into OSL as the videos by Thomas Dinges show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LQXjIDWtz0
> 2. They want to avoid a hostile work environment where people are pissed off because they don't feel Jeff in sales should earn so much.

I've been in workplaces where everyone know each others salaries. Development shared sql database with the hr department so the "information leakage" was obvious. But nobody cared and it didn't lead to a hostile work environment.

I cant say knowing what your coworkers make never leads to hostile work environments. I can only say that I find it illogical that it would (why would it piss you off if someone negotiated a good deal?), have never heard of any work environment becoming hostile because of it or experienced it myself.
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>And what had been presented as a really performance driven, no discrimination, reward metrics, was perceived to be yet another 'management beauty contest' where managers could swing bonus dollars toward people they liked (regardless of their performance) and away from people they didn't care about.

No matter what it is, people are going to favor other people they like over people they don't like. When it comes down to an individual making a decision against two people, this will always come into play, subconsciously or not. You have to be incredibly naive to believe that you'll still get favored for bonuses if everyone hates you, no matter how good your performance is. This is why being likeable/liked is part of good performance.

If we're talking aggregate bonuses, may not apply, but anytime it's a 1v1 thing, yes, of course the amount the manager likes you is going to matter, even if it can't swing the decision in your favor in that particular instance.
Just tried apt install emacs. Launched. It works!

I'm finally proud of my Nexus 9 with keyboard.
To keep then entertained when they're not waiting? Not necessarily, there could be other facilities that are underutilised; restaurants, theatres, et cetera.
Is this got something to do with how DNA molecules were formed?
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