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I think if funding is an issue, they should simply shut Nestle's operations down.. their permit is expired, period... if they want a new permit, part of that deal would they should have to fund said impact study. It's really not a difficult problem with a difficult solution here.

It's pretty obviously a combination of apathy and corruption.
In the US the bank gets paid by Visa for each transaction.

In Australia the bank pays Visa.

So yes, I think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US. Clearly so.

Also, in Australia a Visa transaction is handled by Visa, while in the US the transaction is handled by the card issuer. In Australia we get Visa/Mastercard cards with our bank's barding on it, in the US you get the bank's card with Visa/Mastercard payment clearing.

At least that is how I understand it. All I know is that each Visa debit/credit transaction costs me $2.50, while EFTPOS costs me nothing. Same card, different button on the EFTPOS terminal. PayWave is Visa, not EFTPOS. Pay that $25 tank of petrol with PayWave, get slugged 10% in processing fees :(
I'd never ever work with a person [I don't want to use bad words] like you !
This was true in the end of twentieth century, but it is changing now. China, India, Iran, Russia are examples of such countries. Each one has serious domestic problems and is, individually, little in comparison with US/EU economy, but nevertheless, they have enough resources for AI research, which is significantly cheaper than nuclear/rocket research, for example.
"almost all of them said they liked the work itself, but cited discriminatory environments as their main reason for leaving"

If the work environment is not to women' liking and has no bearing on outcome, where are all the successful companies formed by women who want a more friendly environment?

"This is a huge, unnecessary, and expensive loss of talent in a field facing a supposed talent shortage."

Again, if true, some enterprising person should have found a way to tap all the amazing talent.
Actually freshly squeezed orange juice is not completely void of fiber, even if you try to sieve it out. Not sure why are you so certain that fiber is such good stuff anyway.
Brazillian here. Thanks to this article I remembered the many bootleg games we had here in Brazil.

For example, we had this hack called "Futebol Brasileiro 96" (something like "Brazillian Soccer 96") that was a modification of "International Superstar Soccer Deluxe" for SNES. It had brazillian teams and translated menus and narration to Portuguese, however the translation was so broken that it was funny. A clip of this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b82MzyafDzg. I still play this game sometimes, because the narration is unique (it is more of a Spanish them Portuguese).

Another one is a hack called "Ayrton Senna Racing", modification of "Nigel Mansell F1 Challenge". This seems to be a much better hack, however I didn't play it when I had a SNES. The translation seems fine, except for the lack of accents in the words. Clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKeB1AXsUqY

Or this one, called "Omega Brazil '97", hack of my favorite racing game of all time: Top Gear 2. I had the original game, not this pirated version. But it is still funny (anyway, Omega was considered a luxuous car in 1997, this is why this hack used it). Clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJQkjHhc99M

The hacks are not limited to SNES however (the article even shows some "official" hacks made by TecToy for Sega Master System/Mega Drive (Genesis)). I remember various hacks for "Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer" (a game that was much more popular here in Brazil them "Fifa", at least until the PS3/Xbox 360 era). The majority updated team formations, translated menus to Portuguese, changed the music, etc. Some even included Portuguese narration, in some cases the sound was just ripped from live TV soccer games. An example can be found here (and it seems to be a recent patch, from this year): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fpv4nhcAfY.

The gaming industry is much better nowadays. You can find current generation consoles in local stores, with official imports instead of going to the grey market. There is even popular series (like FIFA/Pro Evolution Soccer, Assassins Creed and GTA) that has official translations to Brazillian Portuguese, including in some cases dubbing (the last Mortal Kombat is an interesting example since some people criticized the performance of one of the artists that dubbed Cassie Cage). The games are still expensive though, but Steam helps in this case. However I sometimes miss the old times.
They are being pretty conservative here, praising Silicon Valley for quick growth and predicting an eventual slowdown. It would be more interesting to speculate on what might happen if growth didn't slow. What if the tech boom came close to the dream of unlimited growth? What would get in its way, and how would the industry be unable to respond?

Software isn't constrained like other things, but it can run into cultural opposition or government regulation. We'll need more raw materials than we have on the planet soon. But assuming we can reach out past the atmosphere for resources, we don't know the limits of automation and specialized, productive programs.

We might run into resource issues before we hit the productivity plateau, but whether it comes from Silicon Valley or somewhere else, we might be moving toward a lot more growth than we see today.
Does "social network" mean anything more than the other buzzwords you derided?
Maybe "Drawn and quartered", but that entirely depends on the programming the warlord prefares.

After all, AIs might become the Kalashnikov's of the future: every self-respecting warlord has a gold-plated one.
This is all great stuff. It pains me how difficult it has been to get my org to resemble anything remotely close to this. There is simply too much resistance to change here. Being a more junior employee myself has made it even more difficult to enact change.

I was on a project for 5 months late last year/early this year where we ran things like this and it was a dream. Don't think I have ever loved my job so much. Unfortunately that project was scrapped. Been on the lookout for a new employer where these practices are the norm though it is hard to suss out the fakers who claim they do these things from the real deal.

Are the practices/culture outlined in this article typical of many Silicon Valley shops? Or is it just as rare there as it seems to be elsewhere?
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Chrome has had this feature for years. You can create separate Profiles for YouTube, Gmail, etc. I do this with Facebook to minimize exposure to the Like Button virus.
Ask HN: What should I do if I feel burnt out?
I'm a 23 year old developer working for a medium size startup. I made the switch to my current employer about four months ago from a corporate job. While I enjoyed the move for the first three months or so, I do not feel the same now.

The reason is that recently one of "star" developers at my current employer was poached by another company. As a result, most of his work (which I had no clue of) came on my shoulders. The code that I inherited is unidiomatic and written in a way that only the author could understand. And now, since I "own" the code, I've been putting extra hours and working on it as much as 15 hours a day to understand it and make fixes (which has become my day job). Despite of all this, I've failed to deliver on most deadlines (as the managers had higher expectations from me). To add to all of this, I've been diagnosed with hypertension, that gets worse with stress.

Given this, should I risk being labelled incompetent, by telling my stakeholders about my problems or should I put in the long hours needed to get stuff done (as that's what people in startups do).
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Plus will have lot of potential if they move away to make it as n identity service and a social network. They should invest more to create something similar to Google Now to streamline Google products experience.
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It is more like a car dealership putting their dealership license-plate holder and the car make/model sticker on the back. And the crappy non-replaceable Navi system.
Especially considering Nestlé's resources. It's not like you are taking away a permit from a local community cooperative or something like that.
Reminds me of TempleOS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptGpy5NDplM
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Yeah, I agree that you need to be careful navigating these kinds of relationships. That said, I think part of the reason we've been able to do deals like this is because we're so clear that we're on the side of the businesses using Stripe. If we were pushing an ulterior agenda (our own wallet, a particular payment instrument, etc.), we'd close off other avenues. You can only work with Alipay and Visa and Apple by being neutral. (And, yeah, the bank/Visa symbiosis is indeed... nuanced.)

Thanks for the kind words about Stripe!
I try to usually stay away from such debates, but I've thought a lot about the point you're making: if people are being irrational with respect to hiring then clearly the solution is to start a company that isn't ageist, sexist, or any -ist by formalising the hiring logic and finding people who share something deep - like a passion for building things - in common. But after talking to people and many, many companies, I've come to realise that, although a "market correction" is inevitable, markets can stay irrational longer than most people can stay solvent.

Change is inevitable and sooner or later a company will come along which will swoop up all of these people and apply them towards an audacious goal, but the time at which the stars align and such a company is born cannot be predicted and most people can't hold on until that time. Hence their desire to fix it through advocacy, which is quite understandable.
The competitiveness of the Android handset market gets even more brutal. 4.7" to 5.5" is flooded with phones that are that are $199-$399.

This is not including models that are 12+ months old that are discounted but still have solid specs.
Take a 1-2 week vacation.
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Yahoo Groups is still very popular.
Well you already know where it leads. I think if you have a smart manager, a good long talk might be in order; explain that if you feel the urge to bolt and find another job, it's probably not a good idea for anyone involved.
Explain that as much as you are ok with 'pressure' there is a pressure point where it breaks, and you feel it's not far off...

If you don't have a smart manager, well, take off QUICK. I had a burnout in 2006, took me the best part of a year to recover, and that was actually quite hard.
Ok this article is good but the tangent into the singularity is just stupid:

>In fact, forget about worms—we barely have computers powerful enough to emulate the hardware of a Super Nintendo.

He just disproved his own point: Emulation is hard, but it's possible to run much faster software directly optimized for your system or build it in hardware.

>If you talk to anyone who does serious work in artificial intelligence (and it's significant that the people most afraid of AI and nanotech have the least experience with it) they will tell you that progress is slow and linear, just like in other scientific fields.

What?! Has he actually talked to anyone doing "serious work in artificial intelligence"? I am certain they would not say it is "slow and linear".
> Etherum allows you to treat digital entities as if they are physical. I.e. it creates scarcity in an otherwise abundant digital universe.

I always hoped I could see a post-scarcity physical world in my lifetime. Now you are telling me that there are people trying to present me with a pre-scarcity digital world? No, thank you. :)
This may provide some insight:

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-needs...

The nice thing about that post is that they (Jetbrains) are pretty honest about the whole things e.g.

"First and foremost, it’s about our own productivity."

"The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. "

"The final point is less obvious but still important: new programming languages is a topic that many people really enjoy talking about, and the first days that have passed since we’ve unveiled Kotlin prove that."

"And we’d like to reiterate that our work on Kotlin does not in any way affect our investment into other development tools, and in particular the Scala plugin. If you’re already happy with Scala and have no need for another new language, we’ll continue to do our best providing you with first-class Scala development tooling."
I'll run with your thought experiment.

The article's very first example of unconscious gender bias suggests that ~2/3rds of investors prefer the same pitch delivered by a man than by a woman.

So there's one example of women following your proposed approach needing to overcome structural disadvantage in order to obtain investment. The article goes on to enumerate more examples of this disadvantage, etc.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that even if there is a pool of amazing talent (which I'm confident that there would be) then the playing field is NOT at all level.

edit: which was roughly the whole point of the article... ?
1. Startup Hype

2. Feeling of lagging behind with tech trend

3. NO innovation / challenge at current work

4. HN

5. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright (from Shawshank Redemption)
You can pry my channel 14 from my cold dead hands.
Maybe "can't work in the industry" could mean only to avoid work where there was a direct relationship previous to the retirement?

For example, let's say a Nestle competitor that doesn't have any stakes in that particular area of influence of said gov. official, then there's no issue.

I know this would be hard to put in practice, but then again, the benefits should be enough right?
You saying equivalence checking at each layer is not normal in commercial, SOC design? That it's essentially only the shops using the best EDA tools and such?

We have a difference in terminology. Co-simulation and equivalence checking refers to different things in HW and neither are what you are referring to.

Co-sim is when you have two models running in simulation and you could possibly compare them through time for mismatches. Or you run some sub-modules of the design in a Verilog simulator and other sub-modules in your HLS tool simulator and the modules can interact.

Equivalence checking is usually referring to different type of tool called the formal equivalence checker (FEC). It performs analysis of the two models without doing simulation with weird algorithms like decision trees. This is usually used to compare the Verilog RTL to the gate-level netlist as an additional quality control measure. If you can imagine the synthesis tool, it's optimizing the logic you expressed in RTL and possibly put a lot of different gates and signals. The FEC checks that usually.

When you have two cycle-accurate models, you usually would try to do FEC. But it's typically both Verilog models! There's probably no Chisel-Verilog FEC or "any HLS"-Verilog FEC tool!

So what you are referring to as co-simulation is typically just called simulation. That IS standard at each layer so you would be correct: everyone does simulation. It's just a question of how thorough.

What MyHDL offers in co-simulation is something more. The ability to mix the MyHDL designs and Verilog RTL designs into one simulation. So if you had a 3rd party mem cache in Verilog you could connect it to your MyHDL CPU and run a simulation.

Industry tools do support co-simulation as well! But for me it's a good surprise that MyHDL manages to knockoff that feature because the other HLS don't seem to be able to. Maybe they can though, I am not sure. E.g. Chisel can create a C++ model. I am sure I could hack something together given time.
I don't think predicated execution is unheard of, ARM has the same concept (although it's limited to flags instead of what seems like one-bit registers). The feature has since been dropped in AArch64 though.
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Interesting from a licensing point of view: the GPL does not require you to redistribute changes that are 'internal' to your organization. You are not redistributing the program itself in this case, you're just letting someone access it.

For some people, this kind of end-run around the GPL is the poster child for the AGPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
Heh. Once the TPP comes into effect, Nestle will be able to sue the USFS for "loss of future projected revenue" if they ever actually enforce the contract end date.
It would have been extremely difficult because MySQL community edition is GPL and Amazon does not allow GPL code to be modified by the internal teams as far as I know. They might have changed their policy though...
I don't use stripe nor a Visa fanboy but I know this industry very well -- I spent awful lot of time there.

> Whilst this is true, it's also true that until 2008 Visa was owned by the issuing banks, and since Visa IPO'd the banks have maintained significant investments. So I don't think it's quite as clear cut as "the banks vs the networks". They have a somewhat symbiotic relationship

This is not really the issue. Yes, Visa was owned by banks (so was MasterCard) but they have always taken between 5 and 10 basis points of each transaction (it is not like the fees came down after becoming public). The interchange is high in the US because they ABA and other groups lobby aggressively to keep them that way. Also, given the prevalence of credit cards in the US, the networks have been able to negotiate aggressively with the merchants. When Visa introduced their Signature card product, they increased the fees arguing their product does not have a 'fixed limit' so consumers will spend more which will help the merchant so they should pay more in fees. Amex makes the argument even more so and that's why their interchange tends to be in 3-7% range -- most merchants are not smart enough to do the math and say their customer segment is not really the 'typical' Amex segment and if they don't accept Amex, the customer would have just used a Visa / MC instead. So these rates prevail.

If you ask me why rates are different across geographies it really comes down to the will power of the govt. to set the terms. Most emerging economies see Visa / MC as a threat as their entire country will become dependent on a foreign entity to process payments. They generally tend to set pro-consumer regulations (but largely to annoy Visa / MC/ et al.).

To my knowledge only in the US (maybe Canada) where it is illegal for a merchant to discriminate against a credit card user. After a lengthy lawsuit, the networks and the merchants settled that the merchants can give a 'discount' on cash transactions but cannot put a surcharge on card transactions. The math is the same but the psychology very different.

I wish the rates are fixed amount per swipe and not a % of the transaction amount. Why should it be? If the networks operated seamlessly and allowed new entrants, it would have been like today's cloud computing pricing (almost a commodity) but alas we get only IBM style pricing.

I hate credit card companies from the bottom of my heart but until there is another payment vehicle that is just as convenient it will be stupid of any entity not to partner with such providers.
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My Question is 'WHY ? '

And you should ask yourself too 'WHY?'
Again, if true, some enterprising person should have found a way to tap all the amazing talent.

Only if you actually believe the market is 100% efficient and everyone has perfect information. After a few bad experiences, someone isn't going to keep trying the same jobs, they are going to move industries.

Yes, there probably are companies out there that are good to work for as a woman in tech and they probably get some advantage from that. But it doesn't just magically solve the problem for everyone in tech and it isn't easy for everyone to find those companies that are actually good without significant investment in time and effort.

It takes time for attitudes to change, and in the meantime it's still bad for women in the industry.
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8% is going to hurt at different levels depending how much you have to spare - compare the pain caused by losing $8 of the $100 you have for the week to the $800 of $8000 for the week. One of those people is going to have to make real sacrifices, and it won't be the guy with $7200 left over.
> Where does this inherent distrust come from?

It is quite simple. It comes from looking at the concerned incentives.
Move along now. No loitering!
> but it would be awesome to see a PostgreSQL compatible frontend

Why not just use PostgreSQL directly?
Nope, haven't heard of it before. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip!
Fraud rates in the US are very, very low. I don't know the stats top of my head for CNP (Card Not Present or Online Fraud) but in general the industry as a whole was running at around 8-12bp couple of years back. It is not something that will materially change interchange rates. International fraud rates tend to vary but not 0bp. Many European countries adopted Chip and Pin early on, which reduced fraud rates but not to the point that will explain a 60+% diff. See my other comment on lobbying in the US.
Look, you don't have to give me 20 dollars, we can compromise, how about you give me 15 and keep 5.

There's nothing odd about rejecting a compromise when there's no validity to the demands.
Do VC funded female founders hire a disproportional percentage of tech women? The delta between women tech employees in male and female founded firms should tell us if a discriminatory environment is the cause.