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But in the past year we’ve had a few engineers who needed to move (due to various life events). We didn’t want to lose them, so they became remote employees on our team. In some cases it worked really well.

Remote work is a big part of the future in development. It is a big favorite of developers who are self starters, good communicators and deliverers.

Over time it will take longer to build bigger things and people do indeed move in some cases every couple years for many reasons, doesn't mean they aren't as committed because they can't be within 2 hours of an office. Remote works biggest benefit is keeping a team of professionals on the team even if lives change and locations move, might even be a big advantage to those currently that can do it well.

Every remote capable organization has better communication virtually and better external views of themselves. This is also key for working with clients/customers (almost always remote) and other offices (again remote offices in the same company). Remote work can even improve intra-office communication/information flow as many times even though you go to the office, you work with many people in the building or the building over remotely just closer in vicinity.
I recall that in the beginnings of World War I, planes were primarily used as surveillance tools. So the germans and french would send their planes above a battlefield, and the pilots would see each other, sometimes even wave at each as they passed by.

A little bit later someone brought a shotgun on one of the planes and the rest is literal history.
I suppose that will come naturally anyway as age progresses, when one will need less sleep ?
That is an unfortunate way to structure things.
There is a related post at the bottom of the linked article about exactly that.
> Safari has technical restrictions so that Whisply cannot directly save files on Mac - in contrast to other modern browsers. We hope that Apple removes these restrictions as soon as possible.

I hope Apple doesn't.

> Until then Whisply uses a small Flash script to perform the file save. This works until OS X 10.10 Yosemite - however, it does not work on OS X 10.11 El Capitan because Apple has introduced additional restrictions for the usage of Flash.

Thank you, Apple.
It sounds like you may be best off seeing a psychotherapist that may be able to help you better understand and control your novelty-seeking. Your pattern sounds self-destructive and it is obviously causing you distress.

Also: have you considered contract or consulting work? If you have the freedom to travel around for work, it can be more dynamic and rewarding than your current pattern.
I'm not saying we don't know whether climate change poses a tail risk or not (it obviously does). I'm just saying that claiming uncertainty isn't a good reason to avoid action.

In general, if there's a poorly understood but potentially very bad risk, then (a) more research to understand the risk is really high priority (b) if that research doesn't rule out the really bad scenario, we should try to do something to prevent it.

With AI, unfortunately waiting until the evidence that it's harmful is well established is not possible, because then it could be too late.

What AI risk research could involve is laid out in detail in the link.
I agree chubot++, the knowledge you gain (ROI) is more important rather spending time reading possibly non relevant "filler".

At university, certain professors (aka one really naughty chemistry professor) expected complete mastery of the subject and would have several questions in the examination that were not even covered by the assigned reading. (He expected us to read the entire textbook anyway)

I also prefer technical manuals in PDFs and just CTRL+ F through them as needed.
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There's a big difference between Capitalism in general and completely free-market, unregulated Capitalism in particular. The market is an amazing instrument for technology development, if we had priced in the externalities of carbon twenty years ago, as originally planned at Kyoto, Capitalism would already be half way along to solving the problem in the same relentless way that it always pursues profit.
To start waking up earlier, I set my alarm clock five minutes earlier every week. I gave myself permission to hit the snooze, but the alarm was going to wake me up regardless. When I'd freed up about 40 mins or so, I switched my gym routine to go in the morning rather than at night. Totally worth it.

I hope to maybe be able to get some work or chores done in the morning eventually.
Still crashes (well, actually "WebGL snag") with Chrome. GTX 560 Ti, nvidia driver version 10.18.13.5354.
Abstracts of everything, to just get the facts. Yes please!
>American's apathy and frankly ignorance is what gave scumbags a series of blank checks with immunity. Americans didn't do anything learning about Iraq WMD's, 2008 frauds, Snowden leaks, and so on. Largely nothing but griping.

Hold on, I think you're giving the average American way too much credit here. My mom has at various times said that the police state is a good thing, the FBI should be able to view anybody's data for any reason, and groups the state names as terrorists should be denied freedom of speech.
I think 90–100 minutes is perfect. Anything longer and I'd prefer multiple episodes.
Not to be too pessimistic, but this basically sounds like someone wants to create a more-burdened/less-free clone of FFOS.

Mozilla was in the best position to pursue FFOS in the purest possible manner (as they're not necessarily so driven by profits) -- glad there's interest, but I highly doubt Acadine is going to make a product I want to install on my phone
Kudos to you for embracing the remote culture (partially).

However, you should take it a step further and not "fly them out to visit HQ" but instead:

Take the entire team out for some team-building and working from a different locale (you can stick to the US - as most remote-first companies do).

Your company is not exactly the same as the next advertising-eyeballs SV startup, so perhaps getting out of the Silicon Valley hype-train and "pat each other on the back" environment, exploring a different area/wilderness will open your team up to greater innovation and lateral thinking.

See Automattic for a reference-point of how to do it.
Having a bit of fun with the building lights during that hackathon: https://twitter.com/sebr/status/674917395798949888

(Disclosure: am an Atlassian employee, though not in the photo or that team.)
Churchill is the equivalent of Saddam Hussein, Hafez Asad or any other ruthless blood thirsty Arab despot and I find it bewildering why he's still admired by certain segments of the population in the west unless they share the same value system and morals (or the lack thereof) and then I find it more bewildering why they dislike militant or radical Islam vehemently since they have a lot in common with the adherents of those ideologies.
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I own a one-man consulting company, through which I am doing some contract work (mostly in algo trading / finance, and yes, I do realize that poor financial software engineer sounds like a joke, which I am). But finding new customers and _especially_ managing the administrative side of this business is getting increasingly harder for me.

I do see therapist occasionally, but it is quite expensive (especially given my loads of debt) and doesn't help much. I was diagnosed with ADD, and therapy helps with some focus related issues, but not with novelty seeking behavior. :(
In all my years as a software developer the morning hours were just absolutely perfect for me to get the hard stuff out of the way. I reserve afternoons for the drudge work, but in the morning I have much better cognitive ability.

Better yet, if you work from home you can wake up at 6am, start your workload early and you have the entire afternoon off for whatever you need, it's a sweet system!
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I've given up on this. A single late night will derail your schedule for a couple weeks (if you're being honest with yourself about how much sleep you need.)
I've noticed the same thing re: lifting late. I get the best sleep when I go to bed immediately after lifting.
Waking up early means going to bed early. That remains the hardest to do.
I am not 100% against abortion, especially when it comes to the health of the mother. I still think it's barbaric but it's the best option we have with the technology and treatments available. However I am against unregulated abortions. If an abortion is to be done, it must be under the guidance and consultation of a medical doctor.
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I've been thinking about buying a light therapy box[0] and adding an esp8266 or similar to connect it to my home network. I could position it above my bed and have my phone's alarm trip it on. It would be interesting to see if it gave me a motivation boost throughout the day in addition to helping me wake up.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Verilux-VT20WW1-HappyLight-Intensity-I...
I'm a morning person now after years of living on the west coast working for an east coast company.

The sad part is I don't get any of the "free hours" benefit. If I'm up at 5am, everyone else is too (8am for them). I'd have to get up at 2am to get any extra time and that's just not gonna happen.
Counter; installments (if you're a well known author) might mean you make less money, b/c people drop off after the first part & never buy the rest. Whereas before, even if they got bored & didn't finish it, they'd already paid in full.

(Installments aside, Seveneves needed heavy editing. Great plot, but probably about 1/3 cruft. I get it; you studied orbital mechanics & it's cool, but the 100th detailed explanation of orbital transfer is too much)
"poorly understood but potentially very bad risk" is something you could say about the risk of an alien invasion.
Are you going to do all this work by hand?
It might be best, then, to speak to a psychiatrist versus a therapist, if therapy is not working well for you, especially with an ADD diagnosis.
Not necessarily only that.

If I lived in one, would that have significant negative impact on my social life? Loss of status? Prejudices transfering to me as the tenant? People avoiding contact? Would it be unproblematic to invite people over?
Then you need to have insurance, of course. A life insurance could be used to pay off such costs, which I'm sure happens in many cases. It's the uninsured cases that make the news.
Good old Homo Sapiens is already disappearing thanks to Homo Oeconomicus.
I don't see a problem if we move on to Homo faber next.
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> And that action is...what exactly?

I would guess A. the development of "known safe" high-level primitives, and B. a coupling of education in the craft of AI with education in the engineering of AI.

The "profession" of developing strong, general-purpose AI should basically look like a cross between cryptography and regular old capital-e-Engineering: like crypto, you'd constantly hear important things about "not rolling your own" low-level AI algorithms; and, like Engineering, the point of the job would be making sure the thing you're building is constructed so that it doesn't "exceed tolerances."

The research goals in the field of "friendly AI" are thus twofold:

• work in understanding possible computational models for minds, to understand what sort of tolerances there can be—what knobs and dials and initial conditions each type of mind comes with;

• and work in development of safe high-level primitives for constructing minds.

Both of these are the subjects of active papers. Note that these can both also be described as plain-old "AI research"; they're not just abstract philosophy, these papers are steps toward something people can build. The research within the subfield of "friendly" AI just has different criteria for what makes for a "promising avenue of research", e.g. ignoring black-box solutions because there are no knobs for humans to tweak.

> MIRI ... spearheaded by

MIRI is two things, and it's best to keep them mentally separate. It's a research organization, like Bell Labs—and it's a nonprofit foundation that funnels money into that research organization.

Yudkowsky is the director (head cheerleader) of the nonprofit. He doesn't really touch the research organization. The research org will succeed or fail on its merits (mostly whether it hires good researchers), but the leadership of the nonprofit has not-much to do with that success or failure, any more than AT&T had any impact on the success or failure of Bell Labs. You can believe in the research org known as MIRI even if you actively distrust Yudkowsky.
And of course the real title is "The big question: are books getting longer?".

Re: article, it's disheartening that good books suffer from this as well. I've recently read "The power of habit" and "Think fast and slow". Both are great, but both would be much better at the half of their size.

For most non-fiction content the magazine article is too short (3-8 pages) and only skims over the issue. It's evident when you read an article on something you're very familiar with. However book is too long (300 pages) and introduces filler and repetitions. I find that Special Reports from The Economist are quite good in size and depth (15-30 pages). My ideal would be around 100 pages, but those reports are still my go-to place if I want to read something.
It seems likely that there will always be at least one group of second-class citizens. The overall quality of life for humans appears to be increasing as the decades and centuries go by, but -frankly- I don't see our tendency to create outgroups going away for a very, very, very long time.

Not to be mean, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how your contributions to this subthread are related to the topic broached by rm_-rf_slash.
It may be that, in Shinto Buddhism (the predominant religion in Japan,) the "ghosts" of microorganisms, insects, etc. don't exist, or aren't worth worrying about, because they're part of the natural order.

Also bear in mind that, if one believes in reincarnation and animism, "ghosts" on earth may be considered a special case, when the expectation is that most spirits rejoin the karmic cycle (or whatever.)
BTW : just came back and upvoted you since I de no reason why you should be below zero either.

That said I fail to understand the voting on both sides here :-/
It's extra funny when you read this sentence, understand how business goes on in China, and then read Li Gong try to backpedal from the fact that everybody knows what is really going on here, saying "We carefully chose to incorporate in Hong Kong instead of the US, or mainland China for that matter, because we foresee geopolitical factors that may impact our global business down the line."

Yep, sure. I'll choose to follow the money over the rhetoric.
Plus it ignores the fact that however racist Europeans are, the new immigrants are far, far more racist. I deal with a lot of different ethnicities and I would say that Jews and Chinese are about as racist as Europeans. Americans have this sort of implicit tolerance, as if they aren't even aware of race, and yes I know it's an act. But no American (I know) will refuse to hire someone because of their skin color or religion. Europeans, Chinese and Jews will, but that's pretty much where it stops. No Jew will refuse to sell food to a non-Jew, no matter how "holy" the food is (they may -and will- overcharge, but so will Europeans and Chinese, and why not ? I will generally go there because it's special, so paying double ... meh. I don't necessarily like "the tourist treatment" but ... Just don't get in a cab (because they'll charge you hundreds, not because it's unsafe that's not what I'm trying to say)).

There are -constant- incidents of muslims attacking people over perceived insults, entering a mosque (despite the fact that most look like teahouses), and half of the teahouses/cafes in Brussels make Hell's Angel clubhouses look welcoming. Muslims will attack women who merely pass them on the street merely for dressing provocatively, for being the wrong nationality (Moroccans attack Turkish women, for example, although truth be told, I've never heard of the reverse. Turk men will attack Moroccan men plenty though, I've even once seen a Turkish women participate in said activity). They will attack native Belgians for "stealing their jobs", they will attack European politicians and people working for them.

And of course this has turned Brussels into an extremely non-mixed city. The ghettos are ethnicity based now. It was mixed for a short while, but now the different neighborhoods are very clearly delineated, and the only mixing is old native people - who can't leave - and the very specific group that screws up the place and chases everybody out.

And the worst of it is. It's not the generation that immigrated that's the problem, it's the second and third generations that are doing this. The first generation mostly has at least serious reservations about islam, some actively hate it. I've read an article about a muslim immigrant who "asked" an imam who lived in the same block as him to leave, with a shotgun.

Europe will be a racist hellhole in a decade or so, not a "bastion of tolerance". Europe was a bastion of tolerance at the end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s. Today, it's racist. By necessity, because of the constant violence. And it's getting worse, not better.
I'm pretty sure that I would have put Anathem away if I had it in paper. Unfortunately it wasn't and I was trapped in a good example of an horribly overstretched big book.

Sometimes there is a good idea hidden in those kind of books but most of the times it's just a cheap shallow story you've read before in a different setting. I consider it a sign that the author either was forced to write a sequel/prequel or that he's just a bad writer. Most of the times, I don't touch those authors works again.
Tried many things after the diagnosis: medication (Concerta/Vyvanse), meditation, counseling, self-help. Some things worked, some things failed. It is hard to find ADD specialists in Switzerland; I am lucky to have even this amount of help.
Not at all. We have good reason to believe we will eventually make contact with an alien species. How do you know we will eventually achieve AGI? We humans are evidence it's physically possible. Well we space-faring humans are evidence it's physically possible we'll make contact with ruthless space aliens.
You should use the “ask” link rather than the “submit” link in the title bar if your submission is a question rather than a post.
Kind of off topic but it always bugs me when I see people using 'average' as a metric. Average is awful, it is a lossy metric that doesn't capture distribution. What if there are only very big books (600+ pages) and very small books (100 pages), we can end up with an average of 325 pages which is actually not any book.
Of the researchers they hired (some of them don't appear to be active researchers right now, like Trevor Blackwell), they're all are deep learning researchers...
Here's one that must be a million words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson
It's a pity that you're now outside of the edit window for your original comment. You could have taken a second stab at saying what you meant to say, rather than something pithy. :)

> However I am against unregulated abortions.

The sentiment "Abortions are immoral" is a significant driver of efforts to force all abortions to be illegal and -thus- unregulated. You might think about expressing your stance in a more nuanced fashion in the future.
I don't mind long--if it's well written. This essay had a beginning, middle, and end. It was obviously edited. It was a tight essay.

Did I read the entire piece--no. I just don't like the man enough to spend that much time on his life. I heard one story about the man from my best friend. Since that story, I just look at Sinatra differently, and there's no magic, or mystery.

That said, I skimmed the essay. It was written well enough to skim. That's all I ask for in a author.

I used to think TL;DR was just an excuse, but I was wrong.
> The study was partially funded by the California Walnut Commission.
Ehhh.... Reminds me of the story about when the Soviets were cloning the B-29 to make the Tu-4. Supposedly Stalin ordered an exact copy of the American bomber, and so the copies were made exact down to the bullet holes.
It sounds like you see profit as the sole motivation of people's actions.

If someone owned all the water, they would have not just profit-making potential, but they would have a lot of power. In particular, they would have the power of life and death over virtually everyone on the planet.

In a free market utopia, these people could kill as many people as they liked by simply refusing to sell them water, and believers in a completely free market wouldn't lift a finger to stop them -- because, after all they're just freely doing what they like with their own property.

The world is full of people with malicious motives. The prisons are full of them, and there are plenty more outside of prison. Wars, ethnic cleansings, and genocides have killed people by the millions. Some of this was done for profit motives, but some done for other motives.

Don't for a moment think that people like that would hesitate to use the power in their hands to harm those they hated or wanted dead for whatever reasons of their own.

Then there the sociopaths, who would let others die simply because they think giving them water would be worth their bother, or maybe because they were just more interested in other things.

Also, you don't have to buy up all the water in the world to be able to wreak havoc. All the water in a particular water-scarce region might be enough.

Of course, water is just an example and an analogy. The fact is that free market believers have very little to nothing except faith in the free market that would prevent the concentration of wealth and power (in whatever form) and the subsequent abuse of such at the whims of those who wield it.
Unfortunately the more complex the work the more difficult it is to peer-review it. Most peer reviewers don't want to look stupid and so there is a higher chance that they'll give the thumbs up rather than question the underlying work. This leads to strong selection for presentation styles that obfuscate research. The more people who can actually understand what you're doing the more people who will be able to challenge you if you are wrong.
I'm not a CNN guy, but your question can't really make sense given my understanding of neural networks. In short, the output step of a NN has to include a classifier. That is, there's a matrix of probabilities that the NN generates. The higher a given probability, the more likely the input is to match the category associated with that value. For example, a NN trained to distinguish "light" from "dark" may output a matrix with value [0.3, 0.7].

To train a CNN on "everything" means you have to have an arbitrarily large output matrix. Can you list every possible category of everything? Probably not. Even if you could take a swing at it, it's hard to get enough data (and time!) to train the net on each category. Small datasets result in overfitting of the training data, and poor overall performance. How big a data set would you need to properly train a sufficiently-sized CNN with an arbitrarily-sized classifier?
Muslims embraced science before Christians ever thought about it and Al-Andalus rule in Iberia and the scientific development overseen by Muslims there is a great testament to my viewpoint. Furthermore, Islam had a reformation movement albeit unsuccessful hundreds of years [0] before Christendom is engulfed in reformation debates (wars).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%CA%BFtazila
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