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>Isolation is one of the main challenges faced by gifted individuals, especially those with no social network of gifted peers. In order to gain popularity, gifted children will often try to hide their abilities to win social approval.

That seems to suggest the cause of the problem is a lack of high IQ individuals. If the majority had a high IQ due to IA, nobody would feel isolated by their high IQ (although then the low IQ minority might feel isolated).
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These are beautiful. It's a shame that the underlying drawing library is proprietary, though. Many animations are missing, and I'd love to contribute. Number 36 looks like it would have been fun.
Even if I wanted to put everything into the cloud, our main office has 2 MBit upload on a good day, with no infrastructure improvement in sight (old building on top of a hill in rural Austria). And even our branch office only gets 10/10 MBit in the middle of the country's second-largest city.

We're going to keep local servers for a looong time to come.
Some discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230363

and relevant here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660770
This isn't an argument against them being the "walking dead."

If nobody was using them anymore, they'd just be the dead-dead. The "walking" part comes from their existing support base propping them up.

"Oracle and EMC are fine, just like 286s!" is not an argument that would comfort an executive at those companies.
There are currently investigations in the EU if FB did fullfil the requirements to use the tax loopholes they are using. If not, FB did not pay the taxes they are obligated to pay.
I often think they think up the acronyms first, then try to fit them to a plausible mission.
You can fix a VBlock yourself quite fine if you stay within its constraints, though the point is to get out of the business of fixing this stuff yourself - it's undifferentiated heavy lifting. Wire and walk away as a transition towards data center zero. Yes theyre isolated by design, but unified management isnt hard to do. I've seen places save tens of millions getting off IBM or EDS outsourcing replaced with converged.
While doing this for your own profile could be useful for you and some metrics you may want, someone else could be a bit more nefarious.

On a high profile/traffic blog, web app, or site - could just include some targeted, random, or interesting LinkedIn profiles, and then all of these people would be bombarded with misinformation about who's viewed their page.

Want to confuse sales team at XYZ Startup Corp., sure have all of their profile links in hidden IFrames too...
Gerrymandering of Congressional districts could only affect the Presidential election results in two small states, Nebraska and Maine.

Eliminating the Electoral College and moving to a nationwide popular vote for President would have essentially no effect on the motivation to gerrymander.

On the other hand, if all 50 states allowed each Congressional district to choose its own elector (and presumably elected the other two statewide), it would represent a massive shift in favor of the GOP, and gerrymandering would have very little to do with it. Instead, the concentration of Democratic votes in urban areas would be decisive.
The idea that all taxes are just costs passed onto the consumer is patently abusrd, if they could easily raise prices to that level and have people pay, they already would have. It effects profit margins much more than it does the prices they set.
I can also remember my teacher explaining calculus and doing stuff like deriving the formulae for volume of a cone, it was pretty interesting to me; I remember having lots of ideas for engineering problems that could be solved with techniques like this.

I know the system is different in the US, you start university earlier I think? Are the students taking this class 17-18 yrs?

I'm curious to know more about what your syllabus and exam is like, are there past papers online? Here is the maths exam[0] I took when I was about 17 (it's been a while) http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/Images/249523-question... By the way, I doubt I could answer any of the questions now...
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Facebook, Google, Amazon (while big) are nowhere near the majority of the servers used in the world.
I assume they make a preflight HEAD request the same as CORS, in which case they would have to be very sloppy to make that count towards the stats.
They sensationalize this as "worst", but I'm sure many pilots would choose jobs such as this over the mundane task of operating a large airliner if the pay and career prospects were equal.
I gave my opinion on Oracle elsewhere in this thread. Basic just is that Oracle will be fine because they're a business software company -- all the companies on this list are manufacturers of technology infrastructure products. The model through which companies acquire tech infrastructure is changing from a product model where infrastructure companies build/design differentiated products to a services model, where a much smaller number of companies are buying increasingly commoditized infrastructure hardware and selling access to it as a service.

Oracle doesn't do this; the bulk of their value comes from software that is much more difficult to replicate.
My dad was a career U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. After returning from combat duty in the Korean War, he did a tour of duty as a ferry pilot. He made the North Atlantic crossing many times in single-engine jet fighters, often in winter. The planes usually crossed in flights of two or more aircraft. My dad said that he and his squadron mates had an informal agreement: If one of them had an engine failure, another one would get behind the troubled aircraft and try to push it to maintain air speed. Fortunately they never had to try it.
The bus is a symptom of the problem: people don't want new people joining their group. This isn't specific to San Francisco or even housing. Get rid of the buses (which by their nature cut down on pollution and traffic congestion) and people would find some other topical to complain about.

You see this all the time in New York. After living here a few years, I'm pretty sure the only way to deal with this is to ignore it. People are going to complain loudly about new people moving into their neighborhood. They can't stop inevitable (people are going to continue to move to urban centers) any more than I can.

The article hits it - it's easier to complain about the buses and tech gentrification than it is to fix the actual problems - high rents brought upon by the same anti-new-development, nimby attitudes trying to keep the tech buses out.
> they're also still paying local employees. Those employees will spend their Uber revenue and pay taxes, just as taxi drivers would.

This is drifting off-topic, but it's worth noting that Uber's short-term plan is to somewhat reduce the wages of people who drive taxis (or "share rides," as they call it), and greatly reduce the tax cities collect on that activity. Their long-term plan is robot cars with no paid drivers.
If your takeaway from this article is "if only I had more time to write an algorithm" or "if only I could get my hands on some better data", you're missing the point here.

That geeks with computers were going to win all the money should have already been obvious to anyone who hangs around here. The scandal here is that employees of these two sites have been effectively colluding with each other to dominate each other's contests. So even if you had implemented your can't-lose algorithm, you'd still be losing.

As to buried ledes, how's this?

Neither company would say how much its employees had won, but Justine Sacco, a spokeswoman for FanDuel, said DraftKings employees had won less than $10 million in her company’s contests.

Infamous Twitter pariah Justine Sacco is working again. Good for her.
So the thing is, yes, that's true. Lots of companies can get by with Cisco/Dell/EMC stuff and don't need the ultra-high-end datacenters of Amazon/Google.

And if Cisco/Dell/EMC stuff was bargain-priced and the ultra-high-end stuff was expensive, well, there you go.

But the problem is, if you want your stuff hosted on Amazon-class hardware/network topologies, it's really cheap to do so with AWS (or Azure, or whatever). And the Cisco/Dell/EMC stuff is painfully, ruinously expensive.

If the high-end thing is also the cheap thing, what's the rationale for buying the low-end, expensive thing?
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Working at real scale, I'd choose some cages in a datacenter I can walk in and place offices at over AWS anytime.

Btw you'd cry if I were allowed call out some companies that still run lotus notes.
No, what they are doing is pointing out that just because something is legal does not make it moral.
For additional commentary, there was previous discussion of this topic a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329733
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An interesting point. I think your citation adds to the point though.

In observing my "normal" peers, honestly, they do a lot of very strange things just to be considered normal.

I mean, it's pretty expensive just to keep up with current trend of sunglasses size or sock length, just to be seen as normal.

Not to mention that you have to hold your hands a certain way and talk incoherently.

There is a lot of "normalizing" behavior that becomes unnecessary when everyone has the capacity to see how inane and impractical such behavior really is.
OP would have to be pretty oblivious to life if he needed feedback for that interaction. He saw that someone was in a conversation, tried to interrupt, and then was offended when that someone didn't want to be interrupted. Look, if someone's doing their own personal business, don't try to interrupt. And if you do, at least be understanding that they had no obligation to stop what they were doing just to humor a stranger, so there's no right to be offended.
There is a great TED talk about this: http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_...
Overpriced, really? Dell sells desktop boxes sufficient for office work with three years on-site support for under 400€, and fast servers for under 1000€ kitted out.

If that's overpriced I really need to talk to your hardware supplier.

(Of course, they all have high-end products, but the breadth of the offerings is usually high enough that they're always an option. They're not stupid.)
> It seems obvious to me that IA is where the tremendous benefits to society occur. Imagine a world where everyone has the equivalent of a genius IQ today. A lot of problems suddenly disappear.

Except most `genius IQ' don't end up as high achievers or even happier persons.
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Can't spin off a subsidiary that is already a separate, publicly-traded entity. VMWare is only a subsidiary because another corporation, and not a real person, owns a majority of the stock.
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I agree especially with respect to the secrecy surrounding this whole thing. But which leadership of which countries? Who, to be specific?

And which select corporation's interests?
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How much of that immense expense is due to various factors that can be summed up as "obstinance", and how much is due to actual, practical, tangible factors?

I'm not being snarky - I've seen many a large business make many a horrible decision, not due to a dispassionate evaluation of the pros and cons of each option, but because the people in charge hate change. And it's not that said change would be necessarily painful or demonstrably bad, it's an irrational bias.

Change hate appears to scale linearly with organizational size, more specifically, number of managerial staff.
My core takeaway is that we each of us have needs for order and tolerances for uncertainty and that the theory and research shows how these vary under environmental conditions: A higher threat level edges us away from our tolerance of uncertainty and toward our need for order.

Awareness of this may help prevent overreactions (personal and political) to circumstances with which we are uncomfortable (discomfort being perhaps subconsciously as threatening).
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> Probably because the law isn't either fit for purpose, or clear enough for someone to litigate.

No UK tax authorities use courts as a measure of last resort. They persuade companies to pay unpaid taxes. See, eg, Vodafone who came to a deal. These bills were billions of pounds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9330102/HMRC-cl...

Although see also this:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/dec/06/hmrc-tax-deal-v...

etc.

It's very expensive to sue these massive companies. It's probably a good thing that deals are made to reclaim some of the tax.
> "Yes, but I'm not talking about evasion. Evasion would be illegally saying "I earned nothing" and hiding the money. Tax optimizaton by out-smarting the system is legal though."

There's a difference between the spirit of the law and the implementation of the law. If tax laws were perfectly implemented then the loopholes would not exist, but that doesn't necessarily make the intention behind the laws unclear.

You've decided to follow the legal options available to you rather than honouring the intended use of the laws. You can call it 'tax optimisation' if you want, but it's just tax evasion under a different name. I can understand why it's tempting, I've probably done similar acts before on a smaller scale (things like avoiding customs duty on some posted items), not something I'm proud of.

> "We're still having an extra tax on sparkling wine here in Germany. It was introduced in 1901 to finance the German Imperial Navy to rival the British Empire [1] ..."

If you have such laws, then efforts should be made to remove them. Is it harder to remove them than using tax loopholes? Yes, but it's still the right thing to do. Don't German citizens have the right to start a citizens initiative?
Like all marketing it can be used for good or ill.
It is something that we approached internally very carefully.
Not trying to deny what you say is true, but just out of curiosity, is there any proof that Apple is doing this and how do implementations of this lobbyism look like? Just trying to understand how all this works.
For what it's worth, when I was still in college trying to decide between pursuing a math Ph.D. or going into the tech industry as a programmer, I remember being advised to think very hard about Berkeley as a graduate school due to the reasons cited above.

So, while this is just anecdata and I ultimately chose the second option, my experience researching graduate math departments is that Berkeley is specifically known for this practice and very few other departments are.
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Wow, SIMD.js looks neat, thank you for pointing me to this! They even has Intel involved with this.

WebAssembly looks very very promising too.
3 different kinds of NaNs is pretty rad too. No idea what's happening here:

>>> x = 0*1e400
>>> set({x, x, float(x), float(x), 0*1e400, 0*1e400})
set([nan, nan, nan])
>>> set({x, float(x), 0*1e400, 0*1e400})
set([nan, nan, nan])
>>> set({x, float(x), 0*1e400})
set([nan, nan])

EDIT: it gets worse:

>>> x = 0*1e400
>>> y = 0*1e400
>>> z = 0*1e400
>>> set({x, x, x})
set([nan])
>>> set({x, y, z})
set([nan, nan, nan])
Simple 1% revenue tax on companies with revenue of more than $15 million would fix the issue. No other taxes, just revenue one, no tax credits, no refunds. No hiding costs, no going offshore, no creative accounting. One tax on all revenues that will hit your account. This would also help to cut out all the middle man driving prices up and make the logistic chain quite small.

Some countries want to experiment with this starting with foreign corporations, we will see.
> Btw you'd cry if I were allowed call out some companies that still run lotus notes.

I worked for one (Raytheon). :/
Or are they? .. ta ta ta taaaaaa!
Not denying the cost of AWS (I priced out S3 the other day and it's amazingly cheap) however there legitimate business cases where companies won't put data in the cloud (and in fact I've found more clients are asking about those in light of the press around Snowden/NSA/GCHQ).
Lotus Notes is a fine example of what we're talking about. Yes, companies use it, but no company is ever going to switch to Notes. The companies that use Notes in 2020 is going to be the ones that use it in 2015 minus the ones that quit using it. That's what "walking dead" means.
I think EMC handles acquisitions better than many companies. It would have been nice if the acquisition was other way round (hypothetically). It would be awful if Dell messes it up.
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Why shouldn't they?

There is ICAO and there are rules concerning the filing of passenger manifests and radio contact to break ADIZ (air defense identification zone), but what purpose would it serve to ban international or blue-water flying?

For the most part, the light airplanes being discussed aren't anywhere near the trans-oceanic airliners as the lights will be at FL250 (25,000') or below and usually below 18,000'. Bicycle or scooter on a highway is a completely different concern, IMO.
Stories like this make me question if corporate tax even makes sense. However well designed, a tax code with today's complexities is going to have holes. If a savings of even one per mill may mean millions, corporations are going to spend insane amounts of money to hire the best experts to use every last loophole.

Why don't we cut down everything to a couple of manageable groups that can be tightened down? I think the following set of taxes should capture mostly everything:

- Personal income including gifts, inheritances, capital gains, all on a set of progressive scales. This should include work benefits (like company cars) and probably include loans taken out.

- Use of public resources (property tax, vehicle registration tax, RF use...), taxed based on the specific usage (e.g. vehicle weight, or even kilometers driven).

- A consumption tax (VAT) could be added, although this doesn't seem necessary to me.

Thinking about this for a couple of minutes, I don't see any obvious problems. Applicability of the personal income tax would be a crucial point, and care would need to be taken to avoid loopholes. Why aren't tax systems as simple as that?
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Serious question - What's a fake name? Plenty of people go by names that aren't the same as on their official government ID, even childhood nicknames. Your name is whatever people call you. There's no reason why future employers need to know your "legal" name on a job interview. When you get a job you need to fill out some HR forms and that's basically extent of it. Your coworkers/boss/clients/customers aren't obligated to address you by what is on your government issued ID. Probably half my office goes by something different than what's on their government IDs. Many childhood nicknames and many middle names. Even commonly used diminutives - Peggy for Margaret for example; JP for John Paul; Dick for Richard. If my legal name is Margaret Samathia Jones and I put Peggy Jones on my resume is that going by a fake name? You may have changed your name at marriage and are addressed by that name in personal circles but still are addressed as your birth name in a professional circles in order to better preserve your professional contacts. In plenty of professions it is extremely common to establish yourself professionally under a stage name or pen name or other types of "fake" names. Your legal name may be "cutesy" so you are addressed professionally by an assumed name.
Yes not to mention the thousands of companies that have to deal with Ex/Im laws that cannot move to "the cloud". Not to mention the CIOs that will have to tell there lawyers that all there IP is leaving the network...but don't worry, it's still secure. The list goes on.

The other thing is the writer seems overwhelmingly fond of Pure Storage...until they are bought by one of his Walking Dead. Instead of calling these companies "Walking Dead", he should be highlighting more the approach Microsoft has done. What Dell/EMC, IBM, Cisco, HP, and more will start to see is that they can operate in both worlds. Amazon will never turn over there stack to a company so that it can operate inside that companies physical control, but the listed companies (like Microsoft) can make there stacks available "in the cloud" and palpable to the public furthering there market.

To me, whereas Amazon and the like have plenty of growth ahead of them, these "Walking Dead" have higher ceilings although it will take quite a bit of inertial change. I can see IBM already working and heading in that direction. If they (like Microsoft) become another success story, it will be hard for the others to ignore that strategy.

But the author got his clicks and his eyes...so I'm sure we'll see of this.
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Why not? The reason you can't get on a highway is because it's dangerous to others, but here the risks seem minimal (large area, other planes usually have radar, etc).
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When you say blocksize do you mean block size limit or are you talking about miners not including low fee transactions so they have a smaller block and thus lower latency?
Well it isn't just the CoffeeScript of Erlang for reasons like having better string implementation, macros, subjectively better additions to standard library, protocols, etc...

Whether those reasons are significant enough for you to use Elixir over Erlang are another matter, but it wouldn't be classified as just another CoffeeScript when compared honestly.
You will be further shocked to know that, assuming I planned my route correctly, I could fly from Florida to Washington or Maine to California and not have to file a single piece of planning paperwork, nor tell anyone where I'm going, nor talk to anyone on the radio if I didn't want to.

Exactly like you could do in your car.
Gerrymandering has more to do with local elections than presidential -- unless you're suggesting that the outlines of the states are 200 year old conspiracies by and against parties that didn't even exist yet.
I would rethink statement, that AI doesn't change people. In my opinion it does it indirectly. AFAIK it's well documented fact that Google has changed the way our brains work. Would it be possible if Google had no AI? I ask, don't realy know.

How about computer games? I daresay that experience created with them can be beneficial to inteligence. Interaction with AI in games happen to be interesting to take a look at.

Except that think that process of creating AI is an IA experience. If you want to make AI you wonder what make you inteligent. As you observe your outcome you understand your inteligence better. Better understanding better inteligence.

All in all, I don't get why AI would exclude IA (or oposite). Although I'm grateful for sharing an idea of IA.
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