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A friend and I were contemplating a robot tele-operation business. It wouldn't be right to call it a startup. It would me more like a cross between a catering/entertainment service and performance art.

The idea is this: get together some good tele-operators, some good haptic tele-operation hardware, and hire out the group as "Robot Caterers" or as "Robot Entertainers." I could picture some Hollywood tycoon hiring the group, just so he can appear to be so rich, he can hire robots from the future. (He'd have to have some dim friends for this to work.)
The proper way is a social contract: you set up a charity, get tax breaks, and in return, you're required to spend a certain percentage on charitable causes.

Zuckerburg's pledge aside, if he were to do nothing with his new LLC, he would face no tax penalties and would essentially be moving money from one place to the other with nobody benefiting in any tangible way.

The reason people are upset is because the last 30 years have amounted in an enormous transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the very rich. All that wealth - everybody's wealth - was created by the labor of people long dead, all the way down to the first humans to develop agriculture. A staple of any society has been the need to tax wealth creation so public goods can be provided, from national security to a functioning court system.

By dodging taxes (which is what happens when you make a "charity" that isn't structurally obliged to make donations) you are circumventing the social contract and depriving the public of a portion of the profits derived from being a part of that society.

Creating Facebook or any other large company with a big workforce is no excuse to not pay taxes. Those people use roads, water, courts, and require protection from the police and military. That causes additional strain on the system and has to be paid for somehow.

I don't care how he spends his money, but establishing an LLC as a charity is a poor form of philanthropy.
When your calories in is greater than your calories out, you gain fat. The point that the article is making is that one collection of gut bacteria may be more efficient at extracting calories from the same food than another collection, resulting in more "calories in."

What is disconcerting is the idea of engineering your gut bacteria to be less efficient at absorbing calories and nutrients in order to not require self control about what you give your body in the first place.
Notwithstanding the fact that "age is unrelated to wisdom" was a gentle contextual device used to dismiss the commenter's odd assumption about my age, a search for "age is unrelated to wisdom" turns up actual research papers.

"neither general nor personal wisdom have a positive linear relationship to age... age is not only not related to personal wisdom (as is the case for general wisdom) but even negatively related..."

[Mickler & Staudinger (2008), Sneed & Whitbourne (2003)]

Source: The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience

http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Study-Personal-Wisdom-Conte...
I wonder if this was announced as a reaction to Swift going open source. I could see some IBM team working on this system as a POC, and suddenly being given an urgent deadline to coincide with the license change.

Gain from the momentum and maybe turn a pet project into something bigger. I guess that's the benefit of having tens of thousands of developers...
Thank you for the heads up! I just reached out to volunteer.

On a related note, it would be fantastic to have a resource to discover research volunteer opportunities like this. It's almost impossible to find these types of research projects without having someone tip you off!
The murder of Lavoisier is one of the most horrible outcomes of the French Revolution -- which was generally horrific, mass drownings [1], Reign of Terror (the word 'terrorism' comes from this episode in French history[2]) and whatnot. That is what I think about on Le Quatorze Juillet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes
[2] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=terrorism
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"If you want to stay lean, you'll want bacteria that are not very efficient"

I hope this article isn't suggesting that it is preferable to have less efficient digestive systems so that we can all eat more. Given the environmental impact of food production these efficient digestion microbes are something we should encourage. Maybe they are harmful because of insulin spikes ? But the article doesn't mention this.
>If I were a hospital, I'd start providing cost guarantees to my patients and their insurers.

Why? Healthcare consumers are largely price insensitive. They currently have no incentive to 'shop around' and reward lower priced providers.

We are only starting to see innovative service providers that are trying to change this.[0]

[0]http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/447098694/why-most-people-don-...
So you'll display a challenge on your website issued to someone else. This certifies an attacker's key for your domain.

An authentic connection to LE is literally fundamental.
It's not about "the proper way", no one is telling Zuckerberg that he needs to donate the money. People are calling into question whether his claim that he is donating the money is truthful or not. That's not western, that's asking a question and being skeptical about the content of a press release.
I think everyone gets why he chose an LLC

- can make political contributions, People complain about it alot, but as Bill Gates said,even his own fortune is a pittance compared to what the government spends each year. Political persuasions moves the needle in the US more than charity ever could hope to. Why give up on that option?

- invest in companies, how many people here have said they'd invest in SpaceX because they think its good for the human race.

- charities have to give a way a certain percentage every year

- charities are subject to alot of rules and oversight. You don't get rich by having other's tell you what to do with your own money.

Would you feel a bit pissed if you put the vast majority of your wealth into a charity and then found out that, that meant that you really couldn't do the things that were important to you due to the tax rules imposed upon charities?

What he's doing is smart if he wants to have the maximum impact on the world.

Consider the alternative. He's doesn't ever need to sell any FB shares in his lifetime, he'll just get loans from the bank against his shares, so this isn't really about dodging taxes.
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This is no news, the problem is that people are trying to make it like a big deal.
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Health care company Cerner is requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements. Is this fair/common business practice for employers to treat employees?

"..you have not signed your Cerner Mutual Arbitration Agreement. As a result, you will not be eligible for merit-based compensation increase.."

Your thoughts would be welcomed.
Oh chill. Just put a little water in, drop it in the sink. 2 seconds max. And for a guy that doesn't cook, you sure are an expert.
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It's just a form of hedonism, nothing our society looks down upon in other areas. Optimize for happiness isn't the worst path to walk down in life.
A monopoly doesn't require that other people be legally prohibited from competing (if they are, that's a granted-by-law monopoly), it requires that you have sufficient dominance in some market as to exercise pricing power within that market.
It irks me that you would rebut this guy with this argument simply because I know that the empiricism strongly leans toward personalities remaining very stable throughout the lifespan, and that changes move together as a population than within-individual. Academics might not have yet built consensus on a general personality theory (Big 5 is more a descriptive research framework than a theory), but there is consensus on personality empiricism.

Surely there is another angle of counter. I don't believe in winning argumentation by any means, especially by scientific disinformation without empirical cause.
> reinvented the idea about a month or two ago, and ran into the existing papers

this happens all the time. i'm thankful that you took the time to post the results, because a discovery that's not communicated is not really a discovery. indeed, i suspect that what's going on in the field is as much a lack of communication as much as a lack of understanding.

i wish the author of the original article had included links to at least a couple of of the "number of tools to probe the geometry of these hidden structures."
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Well... yeah. His letter said exactly what it was.
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> (from the article) [...] It did unquestionably require more time to code in lots of low-level functionalities that were simply missing from Android's SDK — and even after all that work, the end result was still far from ideal.

That being said, it's not clear whether the improved latency on newer platforms can be achieve without using Android NDK. I haven't used it, but I know Android 4.0+ supports OpenSL through NDK, and I'm guessing that if you want low latency you need OpenSL. By skimming through the docs, it looks like that's the case, isn't that so? http://source.android.com/devices/audio/latency_app.html

So, maybe it does solve the latency issue, and I would gladly use NDK because I like C++ stuff, but I think most developers wouldn't want to do it.
yes I want to reemphasize coldtea's point. These resource forks are part of the core platform and the tools that need to use them have the code to be able to manipulate them.

Anyone who's ever worked with Macs - including software writers, tool writers, developers, know about resource forks - and it's fine because major tools have been rewritten to be resource fork aware.

Nothing's really gone wrong in the sense of reality and while there may be hiccups, you don't really see users actually complain about resource forks.

It's the hypothetical case where "people actively start storing critical data ..." etc. In this case, those people haven't done their homework about the mac platform. Like the Original Post of this HN thread - this person clearly hasn't read the docs re: resource forks and is hacking around, assuming that the mac should be like any of the platforms they've used before, and complaining when it is different.

There are also extensive - majorly detailed documentation from Apple themselves re how resource forks are used and in which circumstances:

https://developer.apple.com/search/?q=%22resource%20fork%22

That gives a ton of hits. Just read the docs. Really.

Again, I pull out the old Windows example moving from FAT to FAT32

8.3 filenames -> Long filenames contains a backwards compatible way to truncate long filenames back down to 8.3. So what if someone stores critical information in the long filename that is suddenly lost when round-tripping through an OS that doesn't understand long file names? SHOCK!! HORROR! Reality is no one does that. End of story.

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

Platforms are different! just learn what's different so that you don't get caught unaware.
Way back when before the Broken Age Kickstarter and before Microsoft bought Minecraft Notch half-jokingly tweeted an offer to personally fund a sequel to Psychonaughts. In interviews Tim Schafer (head of Double Fine) mentioned that that wasn't very realistic as a proper sequel would cost around $13 million.

It's interesting that in the news reports about this latest announcement state that crowd funding will be used alongside outside private investment.

It makes me wonder if this fig campaign is mainly about generating buzz (for both fig and Psychonauts 2) and as a way to prove public interest in order to unlock the aforementioned outside investment.

http://kotaku.com/5885525/bankrolling-psychonauts-2-was-just...
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I would be interested in hearing why you think proprietarism is such a greater problem than, and just not a symptom of, the things I mentioned and how you would expect to fix that.
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Apple added support for extended attributes to HFS+ in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2005/04/macosx-10-4/7/#extended...

Today, resource forks are actually exposed through the extended attributes interface:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/9/#tags-imple...

You can see the source code for all this in Apple's Darwin open source repository. Example: http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2782.40.9/bsd/hfs...

Please read this, written by the creator of resource forks, to learn why they exist:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=The_Grand_Unified...
Already submitted [1] less than two hours ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10677423
This is definitely not the case for general neural networks, though.
> Consider the alternative.

Well, and he won't get plaudits for "donating his fortune" either.
The proper way is: However he wants. It's his money.
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Wouldn't it still be likely to settle on a local minima when the deciding factors for the existence of a local minima are limited to those that contribute to the likelihood of a single output category, and not whether all functions are curving up?

An example I can think of would be an absurd million input neural network, where one of the inputs only has a pronounced effect on one of the outputs. It seems like it would be possible for the path of the input to output to be dragged downhill in the context of all outputs, but uphill in the context of the single output it affects.

Is what I've described not likely, or am I just completely off base?
I really don't think this deserves the level of skepticism it's being met with. What else could this guy possibly do to demonstrate that he is genuinely not interested in material wealth? Look at how he lives, and how he has (not) monetized Facebook along the way. Look at how he turned down a million-dollar-plus acquisition offer for a company he didn't care about in high school.

Whatever you think about Facebook, Zuckerberg truly and somewhat uniquely does not appear to be motivated by money. Apparently that's very difficult for most people to understand, and they attribute their own motives to his actions. He's given away gobs of money before; he's still incredibly well off with 'just' 1% of his wealth remaining; why doubt his intentions here?
First, he's not moving money currently. He's pledged to move a tangible asset to a new entity.

Second, if you had read his latest comment or understood how a LLC functions and taxes apply, you would know that the LLC will have to pay taxes on the sale of those assets.

Third, any profit the LLC makes from investments in for-profit organizations will also be taxed.

In a previous comment I made on charities and trusts, he would be more likely to be avoiding taxes if he did create a charitable remainder trust for his kid. There's an immediate tax benefit, you get to use the yearly distribution any way you see fit, and there's no guarantee the money will ever see a charitable cause.
With the individual mandate described by Obamacare, the price of not going to the doctor at all is $695 for each adult, plus $347.50 for each child, plus 2.5% of after-tax income.
I'm 6"3' and 210 lbs, about 9% bodyfat. Probably about 1,500 calories when I am cutting on this routine, otherwise 2-3k cal.
Donate to a charity and people complain it's not the right one. Donate to several charities and people complain that the charity doesn't spend money the right way. Set up an LLC geared towards allocating $45b to social good, charities, promising startups for the human race and armchair activists use it as a platform to question your true character and call into question the nature of your announcement... I wonder how many of those people have donated or helped someone in need this year.
the guy created an online yearbook. it would suck if the genius and his wife couldn't tell us how to vote.
Taxi service is not homogenous across the planet.

Taxi in SF was awful, and probably still is. But even there, there were pockets of decent service in the most profitable corners of the city.

In other places it works really well. Sounds like you live in a place like that.

Uber needs to fight the law because the Taxi lobby controls so much of it. In the Game of Crony Capitalism, you lobby or you die.
Uber wants to replace their drivers with self-driving cars. They've always been very open about this.
The question is, how MUCH of a difference does your digestive efficiency make. 5% ? 10% ?

I doubt there are people getting twice as many calories out of a meal than the average person.
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The gut flora can cause feelings of not hungry, so it's plausible they can cause feelings of hungry.

If that's true then manipulating gut flora is less about allowing people to have no self control, but about helping people get back self control.
But is it right for one person to be in control of that much money? Why do we allow individuals to amass that much power?
You act like that's not intentional. If it's a feature that's there for legacy reasons only and it's used as little as possible by the system, and not one iota more, why the heck should Finder, et al expose it to users? In the (very, very, very) rare case that a user actually needs to get into the resource fork of some antiquated file, that user (who is going to be very technical by definition, otherwise how the heck would they even stumble across such a file or care about what's in it?) can simply use the very widely known and documented command line tools or APIs for dealing with it. Anything more than that and you'd just be encouraging people to use a feature that you don't want anyone to use in the first place.

There's a difference between having a feature you want everyone to use, vs. having a feature that only exists for very specific legacy reasons in very specific systems-level backwards-compatibility scenarios, that you don't want anyone to use under any circumstances. Exposing the feature more than it already is exposed would be far more confusing and hurtful to new computer users, most of whom don't understand working with filesystems in general much less specific low-level filesystem features like resource forks.
I would be incentivized to grab a large cutting wheel for my rotary tool and remove the completely unnecessary safety hazard.

The spike itself would be strategically relocated to the sidewall of a tire belonging to a person who wrote the bill mandating them.
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If he didn't want people to nitpick it, he shouldn't have been showboating about how much money he's giving away to charity. I'm a conservative so I'm not much into controlling what people do with their money, but Zuckerburg invited this when he decided he wanted a lot of praise for being charitable and telling the world he was giving away a lot of money. It's not news that he has that money; he could've spent it however he liked without having to toot his own horn and fish for accolades re: his "generosity".
You left out perhaps the most interesting part:
>participating in policy debates

Like advocating for increased H1-B visas over simply awarding more visas directly to individuals, as one "policy debate" Zuckerberg has recently supported. Or whatever strikes his fancy at the time.
In principle I agree with your basic point and it applies to wired Internet too. However as a practical matter, you probably either need more capacity in many places--including places that don't want more cell towers. Or you end up either bumping people off at peak times or throttling everyone to unusable levels.
What time of day do you work out?
Everybody's getting way too caught up in the structure of this pledge. Yes, he could use an LLC as a way to accrue more wealth. But it's just as possible to use a registered charity as a way to purchase influence and avoid taxes. Whether it's through an LLC or a charity, the amount of good he accomplishes will be entirely down to his intentions and the effort he expends on his philanthropy.

It's too early to judge. This could be just pure good, it could be a tax dodge, it could be a PR move, or it could be good intentions that don't get followed through on. We won't know until his foundation actually starts spending this money.
I think this opens up the possibilities for Swift to be used as a web language, not just a iOS language. I have to say, Swift syntax is very similar to PHP 7. Interesting times for sure. I'll be keeping a close eye on Swift in terms of its adoption as a web language.
He is, but it's not like he also gets to say he's doing one thing when he's doing another. Or that he is suddenly immune to criticism.
The only people I see trying to make it sound like a big deal are the ones criticizing it. If not for the relentless stream of naysayers, I wouldn't have even known this whole thing was happening.

This whole thing is just celebrity gossip. It's exactly like those glossy magazines you see at the supermarket checkout line, except instead of movie stars it's tech stars.
This is still a long way away from truly understanding the representational power of deep nets, but it's the first general progress that has been made since the early 90's.

Exactly. Someone should tell Yann LeCun this --see e.g. Section 3.2 in [1], or pretty much every time he brings up circuit complexity theory to automagically imply that "most functions representable compactly with a deep architecture would require a very large number of components if represented with a shallow one." [ibid, p.14]

[1] http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/bengio-lecun-07.pdf
You'll never convince the calories in/calories out crowd that there is still room for scientific inquiry.

They are convinced. And they will entertain no opposing ideas.
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> When your calories in is greater than your calories out, you gain fat.

Wrong. Calorie surplus is neither necessary for nor a guarantee of fat gain.

When your calories in are greater than your calories out, you gain net energy content of body mass. If you have very low body fat already, you aren't going to be able to gain lean body mass without increasing net energy content, which means a calorie surplus; and a calorie surplus can sometimes, AFAIK, be beneficial in building lean body mass even if you haven't already driven your body fat %age to a very low level.

Conversely, you can gain body fat while losing lean body mass with a calorie deficit.

> What is disconcerting is the idea of engineering your gut bacteria to be less efficient at absorbing calories and nutrients in order to not require self control about what you give your body in the first place.

Why is that disconcerting? If excessive efficiency in this one function is associated with adverse health outcomes, and people with less efficient (than the level raising concern) gut microbiomes tend toward healthier weights and better health outcomes, preference for maximum efficiency in this area is a harmful microoptimization, like optimizing a firm's software development operations for maximum lines of code produced per day rather than business functionality delivered.
Whole separate question. He already has that much money and that much power.