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>>Not really...and I apologize if you think that is my meaning. I guess I look at it from a truly business standpoint and any business wants to acquire an "asset" at the lowest possible cost. Whether that be property, IP, other businesses or employees.

This is the same type of logic that makes people view Human Resources departments with disdain: viewing people as "resources" as opposed to, you know, people.

The fact that you are comparing and equating employees with other types of assets is especially disturbing. A chair doesn't have dreams, feelings, or a family to feed. So it makes sense to get the "best deal" when you're buying one. But humans have those things, and treating them as fairly and humanly as possible should be the priority.

This may seem like bad business sense to the uninitiated, but companies who follow this practice tend to have a lot of competitive advantage in the sense of fierce employee loyalty. If people know you're treating them fairly and with respect, they will return the favor.
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To all those who aren't yet sold on this idea, consider it like this: what if consciousness is not a consequence of organised systems, but rather a property of all matter. Who's to say that the slime mould doesn't have consciousness? To get all new-age and spiritual about it, maybe this could extend to any level of organisation, and the very act of conversing and connecting with other people is an expression of collective consciousness.
The way I see it, this idea is to the traditional view, as the traditional view is to solipsism.
Yes, in my experience, the religious are fond of saying, "You atheists can't prove God does not exist." Yet it's quite simple to prove that a particular God with a particular set of attributes [edit: does or] doesn't exist.
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I use Android with Nexus instead of a desktop like Ubuntu, when possible.
Ask HN: What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?
Your sense of nice conflicts with Erlang's goal of supporting reliable systems. For example, Erlang is not designed using the paradigm du jour. It may seem like Erlang borrows from functional programming, but Erlang's designers invented all that independently because it supported writing reliable systems. Concise and maintainable are antagonistic qualities, and so Erlang's designers sacrificed all the conciseness they could get away with.

Erlang is not deisgned to be nice, elegant or have any other property people normally advertise their language as having. Erlang is designed so that programmers at Ericsson could write better code for phone switches, with constant feedback from said programmers. That's Erlang's mission statement, originally.

If you want concise actors, Scala with Akka allows you to write pretty unreadable code if you want to.
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To be fair, a lot of these corporations patent all this nonsense just because the patent system lets them and allows them bargaining chips to be used in deals and battles.

Regardless, I never believe CEOs of big companies will keep their word. Its a shame apple could loose more by patenting these silly things than they could gain. This could be a good candidate for EFF's silly patent of the month.
Spruce Goose, although the design conventional, was an oddity both for its size, very limited use, and backstory.
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You have managed to derail the conversation away from the science and imply that America is falling behind in space. Claiming the US should be even more dominant in space seems odd given the lopsided reality. Maybe you are invoking American exceptionalism.
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1. Actually most people just want a "fair respectful share" as opposed to "the best deal they can get". The race to get the best deal emerges from the need not to fall behind the few peers who decided to be greedy (or business-savvy as some like to call it). It goes viral. There are many interesting insights around that in sociology and game theory. Like the playouts of the pirate game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_game.

2. Well, yes. And whoever is pissed off just go find another job. This way everybody gets to see who is right and who is wrong and learn to respect each others jobs more. It should be noted that a mismatch in the understanding of ethics is just as bad as salary mismatch. Tech workers are encouraged to share all their knowledge while sales/business keep their knowledge and connections private, which naturally makes them more valuable. For example, there is no such thing as open-source business development or open-source sales leads database. Tech workers kind of made the leap, but in terms of sharing the business people are essentially assholes. There is no right or wrong here, it's just an ethics mismatch.
Has anyone tried this on their github account? I'd like to see what the commits look like.

Edit: Looks like it's just hundreds of hello world commits. I was expecting unique code for each commit! :)
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So here is another example of not understanding the basics of statistics.

The statement was 'more likely to fire than give a raise'. This does not mean that these are the only two options available. 'More likely' just means the chance is higher overall, whether it's 99% likely to fire or 2% likely to fire.

It's also not what was said - it wasn't "chatting led to a concern", it was "self-reported, self-selecting study says X". That stuff really is a red flag to folks who have a decent grounding in statistics.
I think the reporting from The Guardian a few days earlier,[1] mentioned in this article, provides some good perspective on the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) from across the Atlantic Ocean from this Washington Post report.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/15/us-wins-harde...
It'd be nice if those sort of thing became common enough that the BBC had get some syntax highlighting/code formatting set up.

Not that the BBC is some monolithic entity, but it's still interesting that they chose to publish this. No doubt some would consider it a political statement.
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An atom is not "red" or "warm". There are properties that are only properties of an organization, not of the individual.

I think a lot of philosophical hurdles will be gone when respecting boundaries more. In this case not so much physiological or neurological boundaries, but "(machine) learning" boundaries. A system is separated from its environment by a Markovian boundary. If not, it would not be able to built up a representation of "that out there". It would "be it", but not "represent it". I think much of the questions around "self" and "consciousness" can be solved by postulating mechanisms that use such Markovian boundaries within the (artificial) brain.

Information requires a transmitter and a receiver. These can be the same entity separated through time. For example by writing something down that you read the next day the two of you (your old and new version) communicate with each other. But, separation, physically or temporary, makes a system more than some kind of chemical soup.
IF economic trends are any indicator, those kids have a very bright, prosperous future ahead of them.
I don't think it's glamour though, is it? I mean, Musk is not the best public speaker, and yet his presentations are amazing in spite of this. And they're amazing because they're real: backed by logical thinking, real engineering, and an appeal to first principles. Anyone can make a flashy presentation, but I don't think that's what we're celebrating here.
And still, a lot of exceptional people are working at these universities.

If you, as professor, for example, start a research project that is interesting, you also often get funding from the industry – part of which goes directly to your salary, too.

So, exceptional people still have chances to get exceptional pay, but only if scientific organizations like the Fraunhofer Institute or industry corporations are interested in it.
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One of the reasons that these kinds of things aren't often enforced is that they are very hard to prove.

Companies are rarely stupid enough to openly say that you've been fired or given a low performance rating because of this specific act, but do something like this and you'll quickly find that you've got a non-specific "troublemaker/not a team player" reputation starting to be attached to you and once that happens, it's almost impossible to shake.
> I see little children having curiosity about those "cassetes" thing, but it is a five minutes thing.

Oh, cassette tapes are great for people with kids! Unlike CDs or vinyl, you can hand over the collection with only limited risk of damage, as they are substantially scratchproof and unbreakable even when used as ballistic projectiles or impromptu teething devices. Durable medium!

(Occasionally one will have its guts ripped out, though. Nothing's foolproof.)
The door doesn't swing both ways though - people don't get a salary cut when supply later exceeds demand. If you wanted a salary system that did respond to job market fluctuations, you'd have to open up to the possibility of getting cut pay.
What is wrong with Scrum Masters?
You might be thinking of software on ceefax: they had pages in the high numbers which contained gibberish to the viewer but which could be read by a BBC Micro with teletext adapter
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> You tell a lambda citizen that the iPod has 2GB of storage capcity, it doesn't "speak" to him.

I don't really agree with this 'us vs. them' thinking. I'm a technical person, but 2GB doesn't really mean much to me. What bitrate are my songs encoded at on average? Do I use VBR? What bitrates can I get away with? etc. I'd have to do a rough sum in my head, and the only answer I'd get is 'in the 1000s' anyway, so it doesn't give me any extra information. The fact is, even for technical people, approximations and hand waving are great as starting points. They set expectations.

I feel like anything more complicated than that (hard numbers) only have the potential to be misleading anyway, because they let us think we have more information than we actually do. It's only when you actually start working things out that those numbers (so how many GW does a city need? a typical house? what's the variance in these numbers?) become more relevant, but that's not the sort of thing you can do in your head anyway.
Tesla started as a niche electric sports car company 4 years before the Model S.
I think you're talking past each other.

In both cases you need discipline to correctly interact with shared data.

The point is: some languages enforce discipline with compilers. Some rely on engineers to enforce it themselves.

Of the two, compilers appear so far to be more consistent.
Racism, sexism and politics play a far smaller role than you might imagine. It's a matter of skills, for example, in 2001 there were more than 16,000 Asian Americans who scored more than 700 on the math SAT. While there was less than 700 black Americans who scored more than 700 on the math SAT.
So sure, in aggregate black males earn less than asian American males and white Americans (asian Americans also earn more on average than white Americans, are whites being discriminated against?), but if you compare apples to apples (similar education, experience, test scores, etc) then there is virtually no gap.
The dogma is that statistical disparities demonstrate some form of discrimination, this assumes that there is an equality of performance which is virtually impossible to find in the real world.
It's also 12,600 times Steve Job's salary when he was CEO.
> I do all of my programming and everything on Android for the last 4 months.

On a Nexus 6? Or on a 9-inch tablet? Why?
How can you?
I'm going to break something to you - work, recognition and pay is a popularity contest in many organisations. Someone who is seen as a trouble maker gets alienated quickly, regardless of talent, skin colour, gender or looks.
I have managed a few large teams (100+ people). My observations were:
- gender was not a factor in income, nor was race - but being one of the "players" was important (regardless of competency)
- performance appraisals were popularity contests (ratings were often changed or negotiated with senior management)
- people that caused trouble (regardless of gender, race) were ostracised. Language was also a major barrier, or cliques that established for one reason or another. They usually worked against the culture management tried to create and were seen as a threat.
- good people were nearly always paid well, unless they pissed the wrong people off.

So Colin spoke the truth (as far as I can tell). It is very hard to change a bad culture unless the person at the top is committed to it.
I fought a number of injustices and was kicked in the balls many times (metaphorically of course). You learn what you can and can't get away with or end up on the outer - truth be damned. I was often respected for my principles but seen as foolhardy for my commitment to truth. From my experience, gender and race is no basis for judging decent & compassionate management either. I worked with some brutal men and women over the years. It doesn't take Einstein to sort the Wheat from the chaff, people normally knew - although terms like "makes stuff happen", "doesn't take prisoners", "hard ass" were some alternate names for these brutal types.
I can't speak for all work environments, but I've seen hundreds of salaries and appraisals over the years. I can not guarantee my experience reflects the broader world of business.
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You are right about the timing. I believe the fragmentation started at Berkeley, and was greatly expanded by the mini-computer manufacturers. Ironically, far from this being a consequence of AT&T attempting to commercialize Unix, it followed from AT&T not being allowed to do so (there is another irony in Kamp being a BSD user.)

And while I thoroughly dislike having anything to do with autoconf and its relatives, I have to admit the need for something like it, on account of decisions beyond the control of the FOSS community and the contingencies of history. Even the choice of m4 may have seemed more reasonable at the time, given fewer alternatives (though there was Perl, and perhaps TCL, to choose from.)

While Kamp's description of the current situation seems accurate, his attribution of blame does not, and his lament that things could have been so much better is influenced by his somewhat inaccurate hindsight.
Sigh. No mention of logic verification that there are no race conditions. Problem has been solved by Dr Holzmann at JPL
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> Soldering a crimp really only helps if you've done a poor job of crimping; but it's relatively easy to inspect a crimp. If you solder, you could cause a previously excellent crimped join to be not so great, and it may be hard to see if the crimp opened a bit due to heat, or other things.

Solder joints are also more likely to crack and fail than crimped joints due to vibration. You solder as little as possible in air and space craft.
At first I thought this was going to be a joke about the F-35.

Then I remembered Hacker News hates jokes.
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The thing I "want" is sentience. It's the Qualia problem.
You're getting what you want out of that thread and not what was written:

She had a good friend who helped her create the spreadsheet and his PBs weren't rejected. As in, they both shared the same responsibilities for getting this thing going, but he was being treated differently. She doesn't name him out of respect for his privacy, but later in that thread he names himself.

He was brought in as a point of reference for her claim she was being treated differently.
My contender for silly-loking plane is the Caribou. The article has sillier planes, but this one needs to be added to the pot.

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If it were 2 that was driving it, companies would be equally quiet about grades. If you're annoyed that Jeff in sales is earning so much, you'll probably be equally annoyed that he's two levels higher than you.

However, in my experience most companies like to make a big deal about your grade. I know the level of pretty much every person in my office, and whenever anyone gets promoted, they get announced in front of the entire company.

The real driver is around option 1. The company doesn't really care whether you know that there's people in other departments or at more senior grades getting better paid than you. They'll just tell you that those people are doing more valuable jobs for the company.

What they don't want you to find out is how much that they are prepared to pay other people for doing your job. If you find out that the person they've just hired to do the same job as you is on £10K more because that's what the market is paying now, the company has suddenly got a pretty annoyed member of staff with a pretty good bargaining position.
The bonuses are awarded at the boss' discretion. If s/he didn't like her, there would be a bias against her. It's no different in social circles, discussion forums, etc. it's not necessarily performance or knowledge that gets the kudos.
So, it's very likely she was being overlooked because the boss didn't like of respect her. I am making no comment or judgement on her.
They also, as I remember, used to broadcast data at the top of the picture (possibly just about off-screen) during 'The Computer Programme' or one of its follow-ups, that a BBC Micro could decipher with some kind of dongle.
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The title of this post seems a little inflammatory. The main story is the borderline-illegal heat she got from management for providing a forum to share salaries, and the difference in treatment regarding the peer bonuses, which may or may not have been "technically correct" according to internal Google rules.

The only comment relevant to the post title I could find was "pivot tables that did spreadsheet magic that highlighted not great things re: pay", and to go from that to "exposed company-wide pay inequity" seems like a bit of a leap. Absent any further details about what those things are, how is this not just speculation?
> No matter how expertly this is pulled of, human jealousy is still a risk.

I always hear this argument, and I wonder how often it really applies. I have coworkers who do basically the same job as me but get paid twice or more what I do for it. I don't sit around being jealous, I think about how I know it's possible for me to get paid that much and that's something I can aspire to. I suppose in other words, it's information about the salary ceiling. (Of course, that's still an incentive for management to try to make sure I don't know other people's salaries.)

I've never heard anyone, in this environment or at my last job, complain enviously about other people making more money than them. The most I've ever heard on the subject is me and a couple other guys shook our heads discussing another guy who made much less money than we did and definitely deserved more.
But even then it's usually not strong enough to e.g. serve as a strangulation device a younger brother might employ on a older, yet not much bigger one. Or so I've heard.
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cool

... but ifconfig and nano ... really?

:P
You could probably create a script for that - just get it to make commits at the right dates and such.
> Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout; that sum of money is greater than the entire fifty year running budget of NASA.

I'm not disagreeing with the general sentiment, but I don't like when people mis-use this example. The bank bailout was repaid in full--it was a loan. It didn't in the end cost the government anything.
Sorry, this is nonsense.

It's fair in a world where all people are equal. Since people are unequal this is the opposite of fair.
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And I think it divides the community and makes discussion of these topics difficult if not impossible. I don't really like communities where certain well thought out, even completely innocuous or carefully worded opinions are discarded automatically and treated with ridicule just because of some dogmatic allegiance to whatever topic. I get that it's the internet and people tend to be perpetually angry and combative about stuff, but other topics that don't regard feminism are much easier to discuss. Maybe I should just try to avoid all of the gender or race topics on HN because it seems like questioning anything just leads to flame wars.
Getting fired has always existed as a correction mechanism for companies.

If your performance:pay ratio is off and the supply of developers is high, there's nothing stopping them from letting you go.
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That's my point - there is no "natural" course to setting salaries. There is only the current course and potential new ones, but neither are "natural".
Join us for the very first ReactOS Hackfest from Friday, 7th August to Wednesday, 12th August 2015, in the German city of Aachen.

Discover Germany's most-Western city in the direct neighborhood of Belgium and the Netherlands. Within the historical city center, Aachen offers a scientific environment and a high density of pubs.

Let's catch this atmosphere to code the week away and achieve great results as a team!

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Join us for the very first ReactOS Hackfest from Friday, 7th August to Wednesday, 12th August 2015, in the German city of Aachen. Discover Germany's most-Western city in the direct neighborhood of Belgium and the Netherlands. Within the historical city center, Aachen offers a scientific environment and a high density of pubs. Let's catch this atmosphere to code the week away and achieve great results as a team!

It is now time to plan your trip! Flights and Accommodation won't get cheaper.
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Holy Shit! I am the author of this library. Wow, I can't believe something I built is #1 on HN now (:
via https://www.designernews.co/stories/52617-john-cleese-on-how...
Maybe a related question:

Where does the idea of materialism fall?

Is the idea of materialism itself part of materialism?
Yup, I saw a lot of people complain about this, despite having DKIM and SPF
Many universities publish everyone's salary yearly. Everyone always says Google feels very collegiate...