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The way I read the rules, there's no chance of a zero payout. You're guaranteed at least $2, if the first toss comes up tails. So you should be willing to pay at least $2 to enter, since if the first toss comes up heads, you're then on for a chance to win at least $4.
"What I do take issue with is the fact that Silicon Valley derides almost any other kind of business."

Why care what 'Silicon Valley' thinks about that? The author is making a mental mistake there. If you want to build a million dollar business, you don't need to care what the big money in SV thinks at all. So, stop. It is that simple.
The art style image should be the second image. So it tried to do the artwork in the style of the photo instead.
So this Amazon EC2 Container Service Agent[1] is the AWS's own equivalent of Google Cloud Platform's Kubernetes? (Granted, Kubernetes is platform agnostic.)

[1]:https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent
http://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ourworl...
Implying that the Chinese are any more likely to be listening to the world's communications through their phones than the Americans are likely to be through their phones is farcical.
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I know zero about academia – could he also publish this work in a string of journal papers and reap the rewards (whatever they are) of both a successful and widely useful blog series and more formal academic recognition?
So then, you have an answer for how much a person should be willing to pay to play the game, based on your simulation approach?
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At least for me, the comparison to the expected payouts of the "finite versions" completely resolves the paradox. People aren't used to reasoning about infinities, especially when dealing with such tangible quantities as money. Very large and very small numbers confuse us. It's no wonder that when faced with astronomically large payouts at infinitesimal probabilies, our intuition disagrees with "the math". We think about money intuitively in terms of scales that are meaningful in the real world. We can't imagine playing against a casino with $10^100, so we would not be willing to pay $330 to play, which would be the expected payoff for such a casino.

On a related note, we don't have a way of measuring the value of money beyond quantities we subconsciously label " all the money". Is it better to have $10^90 or $10^100? In the computation of the expectation, the difference is crucial. To a human player, there is no distinction.
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More than difficult, it just hurts to pay $650 for a phone.

I bought a moto g (~$160), I think it's a good balance for me. I want to be able to use the web, basically, and voice commands. But I don't need to play any games or use it for more than communication + entertainment when bored and away from home.

I also want it to be reliable, which is primarily battery life--which the Moto G is, clocking a 2+ days with my typical use.
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In fact, if this falls under trade secret, then whoever figures it out is free to own it. Not even sure copyright would protect the original if all they are publishing is obfuscated code. If they wanted to get serious about IP, software patents are probably the only option. Otherwise they shouldn't be releasing the code in any form IMHO.
Do you think that maximizing expected utility in general is not how a rational person should act? If yes, how do you deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenster...?
> ... and a drop in jet-kerosene prices that makes older planes attractive

Based on that one comment, said in passing, the cost of jet fuel has dropped enough that airlines now are looking for less-efficient designs.

That seems dangerous. Is airline fuel subsidized like automotive fuel is? At least, I doubt the airlines pay for the massive externality of climate change.
Do you guys offer relocation or visa help for these roles? I've applied to a few IBM and Watson roles but never get a response and I'm not sure if it's because of that.
What would be ideal for you here? I can't guarantee anything (I'm an engineer on GCE, but not even really customer facing unless you count the PCI devices exposed to your VM), but if it's something simple like getting an e-mail with release notes as they're posted, I can suggest it up to the folks who handle those sorts of comms.
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Last time one of these posts came up, someone made the interesting point that this series, and especially the Jepsen project, may well be around long after everybody has forgotten about their namesake.
Yes.

I would say that the majority of adults fall into that category (not knowing they're paying $200 extra, that is), and they all manage to take care of themselves, somehow.

Many aren't very good at that, either.
what problem does this solve that is not already solved by the n scripting engines that are already out there? When would I use this in lieu of Rhino / JS on the JVM, for example?

Pet peeve of mine: people publish projects and don't position what they've built in the universe of existing things. Readers without context won't know what to do with it. A simple FAQ would be really helpful.
Infinity can be difficult to grasp.

Fortunately, there is a huge difference between "infinite" and "really large," which is often key. So applying these results to the real world often doesn't work out.

As the Wikipedia article points out, although the expected value of the game is infinite if the casino has infinite money, it's not only finite but quite small if the casino has finite money. Even if the casino were backed by the entire world GDP, the expected value of the game is only around $50.

This to me is a satisfying resolution to the problem presented.
I certainly think this will be the trend for startups but I believe it will take much longer for established companies to get out of the buying hardware business. Often times running locally can be drastically less costly than running on Amazon -- especially if you already have the staff dedicated to that sort of role.
Or just remove the current terrible tax code and implement a fair flat tax on all new goods and all services at around 7%. Cut the military industrial spending in half ( US would still have a bigger mildick than anyone else ) and presto, we're living in a star trek future.

I'm occasionally asked where the money would come from, but it's not like we don't already just print it anyways. Although a gov. sponsored blockchain type distribution of the universal minimum income would be kinda neat.
I rebuilt everything... and p6doc failed to build.

It turns out that the glr branch got merged about 5 hours ago (about the time you started commenting). I'm posting this now, before I catch up with the irc backlog, to give you a heads up, but I'd expect p6doc to be working again within a few days at the outside and quite likely by the end of today. (In the meantime you can use the web version at http://doc.perl6.org.)
I don't have infinite money and time to play this forever. And there is a certain probability that I will lose $10, $100 or $1000 and have to stop playing because I no longer can or want to afford it. I wouldn't mind losing $10 with near certainty but I would only play if I had a good chance to win some money before losing $1000 and having to stop. And I would not risk losing $1000 if the expected gain is small, say $100, or if I had to play the entire day to get there. Probably not to easy to quantify but certainly doable.
Nice. Is there a way to fetch the main out audio?

It is something I am looking already some time for a multiplatform way to get the main mix stream.
This may be measuring relative power or favorability of position for the two players. Weaker players are more polite to their stronger allies (and less likely to betray), strong players are less polite and more likely to betray, for example.
Anyone who needed that lesson but still wants to play in infosec is likely too dumb or arrogant to learn from it.
Similarly, here's another fellow rolling a Yahtzee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTwar7mFws
The author may not realize (I only know this because my mother worked for the Soviet arcade ministry of sorts in the 80s) is that there was a whole illicit angle to the arcade business.

They were all cash-based - which created huge opportunities for embezzlement for guys working there. The government had no way of knowing how many coins were actually deposited (ie the technicians could fiddle with counters or whatever) - so they could skim huge (and shared the loot all the way to the top). The vig was apparently massive.

Every now and then somebody would leave their wife, she'd write a report to the special police that dealt with economic crime and the whole structure would end up in jail.

Fun times.
Exactly, I thought the original article was brilliantly written, but I'm surprised it didn't mention these related concepts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini%27s_paradox
You only pay a fixed sum at the beginning to play. The question is, what is the upper bound on that fixed sum, and why is it so much smaller than your expected winnings?
Yes, HTTP cookies are so named because they're... well, cookies. The concept is more general and was around long before HTTP though.
If you asked for, say, 40 heads in a row, I could see it. But 10? That's merely a one-in-a-thousand occurrence. Or one-in-five-hundred if you accept either heads or tails.
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> There are a lot of jobs supporting social services, the hard part is going to be finding a way to phase in UBI without wrecking the economy.

You phase it in by starting it at a low level without replacing/reducing existing programs, and then as you ramp it up you start eliminating other programs.
Sociology is full of chaotic systems, so slight deviations in the premises can have wide effects on the outcome of the system you are describing.

I would replace your cow analogy with a 2-pendulum analogy. Depending on the nuances of what is being observed, a small change in the inputs of your system can create dramatically different behaviors. It's important to account for how you define your initial conditions and variables so that you don't end up with a model that matches early in a simulation but ultimately diverges into something that looks nothing like what can be observed in the world.
I am with you, but then I thought "why should I expect to learn something about this advanced topic, when my skills are not at that level?" So, I don't blame the author, this post is meant for people that have some pre-existing expertise.

I have some experience in ML and still am with you on the "where can I find training wheels?" department.
Sure. The question is more like, should you be willing to pay $1 million to play? And honestly, if you can't afford to burn $1 million, that would be a pretty bad idea.

However! Suppose you were allowed to modify things ever so slightly. Suppose you get to say, "Sure, I'll pay $1 million to play. But instead of playing once and taking my winnings, I want to play a million times, and only take one millionth of whatever I win each time." You haven't done anything to change the average payout of the game. But you've made it a much better idea to play, by reducing the variance.

That's what it means to say the game has infinite expected value. You really should be willing to pay anything to play it, as long as you're allowed to repeat the game over and over.

Of course, if you're stuck with playing the game just once, then lots of games look like a bad idea despite having a positive expected value. The St. Petersburg game is hardly alone here. For example, suppose you have a 1-in-a-million chance of winning $10 billion, but it costs $1000 to play. Should you play? The expected value is good, but I don't think most people would touch it. Not much of a paradox there.
It's funny how the Titanic was deemed unsinkable. Every time someone calls their shiney new think 'Un'-something, nature seems to conspire against them :)
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Assigning a finite value is a classic "Black Swan" fat-tail misapprehension. How much you would pay to play it is only one side of the equation; the other is how much you would charge to allow someone else to play it.

Our inability to reason about infrequent events means that a casino that plays this game may look like a very attractive proposition, because in practice (finite small-scale simulation) the expected payouts are quite reasonable. So it would behoove the casino to leverage itself up to its eyeballs to maximize the return on investment.

While the numbers for the "finite versions" part of the article seem quite reasonable, it's easy to forget that when leverage comes into play, a game like this can not only bankrupt the casino, but can ripple back to all of the investors (lenders) as a loss that far exceeds the profits in the history of the casino.
Man, my kids (2, 4,& 6) LOVE the new Mickey cartoons:
http://mickey.disney.com/mickey-cartoons
So do I! It has gotten them into the old ones as well; they love the Donald Duck cartoons from the 40's.
In my opinion it's better to define criteria first and then evaluate possible solutions against them.
What is more important for your code - to be fast, correct, easy to understand, fix or extend? How each possible solution scores on these scales?
I've been reading up on GIMP and it seems to handle any graphic design task I can throw at it.
The example on the front page includes this line:

int default_out_device_index = soundio_default_output_device_index(soundio);

Is that what you're looking for? Or something else?
How valuable is a Firefox vulnerability? On one hand, it seems very high: It gives you access to hundreds of millions of computers. On the other, maybe the supply of vulnerabilities that provide such access is high enough, unfortunately, that they aren't worth much.

I ask because, if they are extremely valuable, I wonder if Bugzilla can be adequately secured against the attackers it would attract. Perhaps it would be best to store this information elsewhere until they are ready to make it public.
You pay the fixed sum before every game. If you go with Ian Hacking's suggested low price of $25, I can easily see losing several thousand dollar before you get lucky and hit one of the rare, high value events.
Formality won't reduce betrayal but instead prescribe behavior that lets one fully mask intention of betrayal. When expected behavior norms aren't fully prescribed, or when they're impaired (as when one is drunk), it's harder to maintain politeness. Downton Abbey-style formality, on the other hand, lets one maintain the facade of perfect society while stabbing someone's back.
Hi, does remote means in US only or any part of the world ?
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Can I then get everything what is played by all applications on this device. Like fetch and send through the network? (Not pushing audio to the main out.)
Yeah. I've bought bottled stuff here (NYC), occasionally, and even some stuff at restaurants - but it all tastes weird and bad, and vaguely Coca-Cola-ish.

Went back last summer for my grandpa's birthday, and bought like five liters from an old woman who was selling it out of a big tank. Tasted almost exactly like I remember it, and I probably drank about two liters in one day.
I got the Moto G 3rd generation a few weeks ago, and I really like it, so I second this recommendation.

My two main complaints are that you can't touch to wake (and there's no physical button on the face) and that I don't get an SMS notification when the phone is sleeping if the messaging app is already open to the person who sent the new message (which is very, very common for conversations).

If it's not the focused app, I get one like normal.
1/10 is a literal. It denotes the value one tenth. The expression (/ 1 10) will at runtime calculate 1 divided by 10.

Most programming languages have syntax for writing all available numbers as literals.

Racket do not have builtin syntax for infix arithmetic - but there are various packages available for infix expressions.
With the previous model you could just stop paying them and keep using your current version of the software. With the new model stop paying them and you are locked out.

I want DRM-free IDEs!
Take a look that the rrrs mailing list archive.
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I clicked a bunch of links in the menu bar and they 404ed. My guess is this is a page in a semi-mockup state that isn't "really" live. The page is also in a weird mix of English and Russian, and thus it looks like this English site isn't really done.
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It's usually done to preserve a tweet that could end up getting deleted.
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$10^90 and $10^100 are identical since both would represent 99.9999...% of all dollars. Spending just a small fraction would flood the market and decrease the value of USD. Consequently, unless you have a large military at your disposal, the U.S. government will come after you regardless of the money's legality since you represent a threat to the monetary system.
It was moved from Google Code to Github. It was originally written as the scripting language for UAVs on-board flight system

https://code.google.com/p/picoc/
You have to pay for every game. Half of the time you win $2 which means half of the time you lose $3 if a game costs $5.
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You should be very proud of your partner.
From the author - Clay Christensen himself:

"Consider the hegemony of Detroit’s Big Three—General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. At one time, they dominated the auto industry, producing bigger, faster, safer, more comfortable cars with more and more features. But these improving products also “create a vacuum underneath them,” Christensen says, “and disruptive innovators suck customers in with fewer features and a cheaper price.” Toyota, Honda, and Nissan disrupted the Big Three’s marketplace by introducing smaller, lighter, less safe, and less comfortable but reliable cars that needed few repairs and got good gas mileage—at a significantly lower price. Within a few years, they had garnered a large share of the market. Says Christensen: “The leaders get killed from below.”

A Toyota car, is a Toyota car that was designed to be a car..it was not designed for some other purpose and re-purposed for transportation.

Reference: http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/07/disruptive-genius
In a way this is like waiting for a good black swan event to happen. It is going to happen and it will be great, but do you have enough money to play long enough till it happens? I think we don't play this kind of game for the same reason we are bad preparing for black swan events. If I spent huge amounts of money on preparing for a black swan disaster that might happen chances are still high that I will only get theoretical benefits from the investment and nothing ever happens during my lifetime. Similarly here, I statistically win, but in practice I have a high chance of running either out of money or out of time, because I don't have infinite of those, even if the imaginary casino had infinite money.
The seat armrest is a property of the seats (which are chosen by the airline) rather than a property of the aircraft, so you should blame your choice of airline rather than the perfectly fine 777. I often fly on Air France's 777s between Osaka and Paris and the armrests go up fully.

In terms of comfort my best flight in coach was on a Korean Airline A380: spacious and quiet; my worst on a JetStar A330 in cattle-like configuration. But I won't blame/praise Airbus: even though quietness is certainly a quality of the aircraft, the seat layout is absolutely a choice of the airline, so I now avoid JetStar like the plague.
Legible? Absolutely. But it's important to keep in mind that CTE's are optimization fences. Optimizations like predicate pushdown are not currently available. More complicated queries may benefit from being rewritten with subqueries.
>... $420B in new non-offset spending. ... It's about 2.3% of GDP.

This assumes GDP doesn't plunge because of disincentives to work and/or skyrocketing hiring costs for low-wage (now medium-to-high wage) workers. We don't have solid evidence of that not happening since no country has instituted basic income on the scale of 300 million citizens.

Your math model shares a common theme I see with many of these back-of-the-envelope calculations: they all assume a static economy where all the other variables that are affected by UBI -- which in turn also feed back into paying for UBI -- are unchanged. I've commented on this aspect elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10172421
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Yes, but it has been fixed a while ago though. No one using up to date Firefox would be vulnerable to that issue.
Everytime i read one of those post (or other about mongodb failures), i keep thinking about this talk http://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc

And why noone tried to repeat their strategies for building a robust db system : start by building an extremely robust failure simulation and testing facility. Then build your product.

Actually, i think what those guys at foundationdb did was so exceptional, that by buying the company and killing the product, Apple harmed the software industry for the next 10 years. The fact the foundationdb is mentionned in OP as the only distributed db system one could recommend makes me more confident making that statement.
I think we would happily review the three submissions.

Case 1. ok

Case 2. this would need to extra precaution (maybe 3 reviewers) + public challenge to spot any error. Then ask directly the original author. If nothing works, we can declare the paper non reproducible. But it might be heavy responsibility for the you.

Case 3. also ok and you can specify in the accompanying article there are several cases where things does not run as expected.
I can't get into http://turkmenairlines.com/, but this http://www.turkmenairlines.org/ LOL their logo rotates! I don't have to mention it's .org
> I would heartily recommend learning a new language.

I've installed a nice selection of languages tonight. Can anyone suggest sample projects to do as learning exercises? My ideas a) don't need the language, b) are too complex or c) involve CRUD, and I do far too much of that every day :)

TIA!
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That involuntarily unemployment leads to unhappiness is completely irrelevant in a discussion about UBI, which would only allow unemployment for those who wanted it - while allowing others to work.

In my second sentence, I implicitly agreed that some people might feel more dignified by working. The bourgeois moralism comes from using that to justify forcing everyone to work, as if dignity had to be imposed on people, those brutish sinful beings who have to be saved by those who know better.

And by the way, this moralist view is probably one of the great culprits for the effect shown in your links - like those people in the Philippines flogging themselves until their flesh is raw and bloody, we can do terrible things to ourselves when we've been convinced that we're lesser human beings.