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Conducting an audit doesn't necessarily mean that you check everything. Often, auditing is looking for evidence as to whether a particular procedure was followed or not.

For example, say you're auditing a large company for compliance against a information security management system under ISO 27001, and you're checking to see whether the organisation you're auditing actually does keep its operating systems patched and its anti-virus software up to date.

You'll certainly ask questions about whether, how and how often the updates are done but you're probably not going to check every single server, desktop and laptop because that would be too expensive. What you'll probably do is check a sample, and if all the devices in the sample are all up to date, you'll tick that box and move on.

If, on the other hand, you find that half the desktops you check haven't been updated, then that's evidence that the updates policy isn't being followed, and would trigger further investigation, and probably a failure on that specific audit point.

The equivalvent check in the VW case would be to run a test of the engine's emissions. It's not unreasonable for the methodology used to be based on that used by the regulatory body, in which case, it would have passed the audit.
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That's is what he means by good: one with enough competence in the field to do actually useful work. If you manage to do useful work in physics, that work could translate into a Nobel Prize just as easily as any other useful work.

A bad theoretical physicist is one who only understands enough to sound smart to their friends. AKA, a crank.
It may happen rarely, but the positive impacts of things like, say, the printing press are too profound to be dismissed that easily
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trustless. This word, so wrong for what bitcoin stands for. Please, I beg you, as a technologist, to refer to it as trustfree. The semantic meaning of trustless is completely wrong.

Edit: Before you mention that trustfree doesn't exist in the lexicon, i will point out to you that the concept of a trustfree anything also hasn't existed, but now does, through bitcoin. :)
The problem is not a lack of two-bit cartoon mice in the public domain. It's that this one particular two-bit cartoon mouse is being protected by a very wealthy corporation that has lobbied for extending copyrights to the point that very little will enter into the public domain anymore by aging out.

Want to do something with a story or novel or song from 80 years ago that no living person was involved in producing? Sorry, you have to license it. We don't know who the license holder is, but we won't fund you because we're afraid someone might turn up once we release your remixed story/movie/song and then there'd be a lawsuit and that's just a mess.

Our cultural heritage (for better or worse, not sure I like seeing Disney and company like that) are locked away so that it's very difficult to do anything with it, compared to properties from anytime before Mickey came into existence.
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Personally I got connected to a lot of small businesses with problems by working at a coworking space. Found clients, but also providers there, all in a friendly atmosphere.

Otherwise, you can try to do some networking at events targeted to business owners...
I wasn't arguing against any charities being involved, just a change to the model. I.E a combination of Watsi and the BRAC mentioned in the article.
readlines() just to pick the first seems weird if you expect a single line. I'd read the whole thing in one go with read(). Then I start wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to keep the stream open and just iterate over new messages line by line and avoid the overhead of loading an executable, importing libraries etc. on every request
A good test for whether you're hypoglycemic is to set an alarm to go off every waking hour for three days, and eat a handful of nuts (or something else with a low glycemic load) every time the alarm goes off.

I did this and felt waaaaaaaaay better than normal mood- and concentration-wise. Realizing that I have blood sugar issues is the most important thing that's happened to me in the last five years except for having a kid.
Or Uber wants to provide a reliable ride to riders, and they have to make certain assumptions in their dispatching algorithms in order to do that. Or they want to make sure that anyone can get a ride in any neighborhood in a city and drivers aren't discriminating for pickups (which is why they're often much more reliable than taxis).
Here's a Specific case: A classifier to bucket input text(email body containing 1 or more sentences) into booking, refund, other (3 buckets).
That's only half an assertion. Can you say with certainty that the US government is not controlled by the media corporations either? Judging by the political "activism" regularly displayed by Fox and CNN, I think it's fair to say that the media exerts a lot of control over the executive and legislative branches.

For two entities to be independent, there needs to be little control in both directions.
Won't the strong magnetic field squish the electron orbitals somewhat, causing a minor effect on chemistry? (an even stronger magnetic field would be toxic, in a way)
> I don't think that Wikipedia definition is commonplace usage.

Perhaps, but my training was in (mostly medieval) history, and that is the usage I'm most familiar with (I am not a native English speaker, either).

> And to be honest, I wouldn't even call the singularity culture a religion. It has no supernatural beings (no gods as you, but no angels or whatever as well). No magical beliefs. By that I mean things like the idea that prayer can heal. No ways to worship.

None of those are required of a religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

In particular, consider the Clifford Geertz quote: "[Religion is a] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."

But again, my terminology is academic rather than reflecting everyday use.

> No prescriptions on how to live your life.

With that I would disagree.
I didn't end up actually paranoid, that's an exaggeration. But many people for whom this is the first encounter with these topics, do get confused and "brainwashed". Some people can't really understand the implications in the first place, so they of course won't be impacted.

I don't have enough time now, but at some point I may try to summarize the specific patterns of thought that are most problematic in their treatment of counterfactuality, acausality, simulations, free will, anti-inductivity, signaling etc.

I'm not saying he's devious. I think he probably believes what he says as far as I can tell or care. But it's irrelevant.

And about normal people: there are writings scattered around the internet about similar experiences and there are probably more in private exchanges (as the posts themselves describe). I even read about things akin to support groups. Of course I shouldn't blow this out of proportion, we aren't talking about masses of people here.
I am guessing you missed the snark, either intentionally or not.
I think Michel Thomas' courses are vastly different from every other method, too, including Pimsleur. No reading/writing, only verbal communication... it's awesome.
Hey folks! I really wanted to give a detailed example of this -- but I'm not open to releasing YesGraph's full product roadmap publicly.

So if you are open to it, then I want to do some FREE growth consulting here. We'll build up your roadmap. Caveat: I will definitely share it publicly because that is the point.

Email me: ivan@yesgraph.com
It's not that the public should be concerned for Disney's profitability, but that it is much easier to simply split the cases and let Disney have a much smaller victory in just the space they desire rather than a larger victory that affects all of copyright.
I was gullible enough once to eat up his philosophy. Because he's not trivially wrong. He tries to take credit for developments that aren't his, present good ideas mixed in with nonsense and you just swallow it all naively, unless you've previously thought through the stuff. His casual dismissing of the mainstream can become your style as well, and you can feel you become part of something special, something that transcends most people's levels. It's really not unlike Scientology.

Sorry if I come across as warning too much. It probably depends on your personality type. If you are a very reflective and self-critical person, you can tie yourself up with his philosophy I can tell you that much. Now, granted, the consequences of something don't tell much about the truth of that thing (just like the "God exists because if God exists then I feel safe and happy and gives meaning to my life" is a bad argument.), still - keeping in mind that we are discussing whether a novice should be advised to read Yudkowsky - I think there are better choices.

I absolutely think that if you're above average smart but lack the factual, lexical knowledge, then reading his stuff can be detrimental to your intellectual development. You're better off without it. Yeah, you can make the case for going through such experiences, just like you can make the case that going through drug addiction and recovery can make you a better/stronger person in some sense, but as a first approximation it's better to stick with mainstream literature. That's the main point I'm trying to argue for.

And I have to add that it's weird and frustrating to argue about this because obviously those defending his ideology are smart enough to come up with good counterarguments. It's nothing like debating with, say, Young Earth Creationists. These people (perhaps including you) are often intelligent, tech/math/CS-literate people. The point of disagreement is of a finer nature that is hard to even discuss because that whole aspect is usually dismissed as "useless philosophy".

It's somewhat akin to https://xkcd.com/793/ where someone who masters one technical field feels an immense power or superiority and becomes a bit smug.

Feynman had the cred to be able to say "If you don't like it [the way nature works], go somewhere else; to another universe maybe", but talking in this kind of confident way requires a very solid background. I'm not talking about prizes, simply actual results. And I know it's difficult due to the nature of the topic (studying a hypothetical unknown-probability event that can wipe out everything), but this sort of cop-out is just not convincing.
I'm trying to figure out whether I more want to laugh at that -- or invest in it.
I'm happy to think on this with you, although it might take a little time to think about.

One short answer I could point you to regarding this question is a topic called "local interpolation" using a compactly defined Lagrange basis with a prescribed size (perhaps size 50) of the parameter space. I talk about this in the context of kernel-based finite difference methods in remark 19.8 of my book: some of the references I point to there are (http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/090769570, Hangelbroek is an outstanding author) and (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042711...). I think it's also possible to look at this question from the framework of moving least squares/approximate approximation (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-56103-0_8) or maybe even quasi-interpolation, depending on how you think about it (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01279020).

If you'd like to talk about this offline, email me (see the blog post). I'll still post any thoughts I have here.
My first thought was something XKCD related. I was dissapointed.
1ML is basically SML with first-class modules. It's very recent research (paper appeared in ICFP 15) so I'm not surprised there isn't much coming up.

EDIT: I'd like to add that the video from ICFP is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Wn-mXWcms
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mmm... depends what country you grew up in.

But I'll say if you can do derivatives, you know some math, up to that, you know of math.
I have no idea what he truly believes in and I don't even care too much. What I care about is the effects of his writings. Remember we are debating whether his writings are to be recommended to someone who is new to philosophy about science, algorithms, cognitive biases etc.

The Basilisk is an organic outgrowth from it. And it's just one of many. They follow naturally from the tenets of the religion, they aren't outliers or "bad apples".
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I would say that the condition of people in a food bank in the UK would be a couple of orders of magnitude better than widowed women in rural India.
Are you here to discuss the cryptography of Telegram, or just to slag Signal?
> but online-intermediated work is here to stay

Here to stay but may be soon regulated.
I do think this is an unfair characterization of food manufacturers. In a real sense, they only make what WE want to eat. And we only buy, for the most part, what we WANT to eat. So there's a arms race that's been building ever since food became an industry. When one brand of bread adds sugar to their recipe, consumers love it and all the other brands must follow suit. Breaking this cycle will just as hard as breaking the industrial inertia towards fossil fuels.

Opting out of this is hard, expensive and against our natural desires. Or, to reiterate my other post, "Soylent, FTW."
If the goal is to get more people coding, the biggest problem that I see few people (besides Hartl) solving are getting people from absolute zero to a deployed project.

For web dev it means starting at a computer with just a web browser and showing them how to get a functioning site running which you can send a web address to outsiders, even a very, very minimal one. The definition changes with robotics, or other coding disciplines, but the absolute key is developing tutorials and tools which help people go from zero to minimal app deployment.

Once you get someone there, they can build on it using tutorials.
Wouldn't that be a pyramid scheme?
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I don't have the details in mind but checkout https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handoff#Implementations

Since digital, handsets validate the tower they are talking too, this info is stored on sim or device depending on model. So to intercept 2g, there is some work
See https://youtu.be/DU8hg4FTm0g
Not exactly "changing the world" if the guy who makes a $10K electric vehicle sold about as many as the guy selling a $100K vehicles (WITH more generous subsidies to boot).
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No it is not OK to site 10 year old data to discuss a more recent phenomenon. The reason the word hyper is used is because the velocity at which these changes are happening is increasing.

There is plenty of more reason data that could be referenced.

What theory? There was no theory posited in this piece.

I have no idea what Google scholar nor do I see why the is relevant. If you type the two words in to Google search there will be no shortage of results.
Lovecraft's genius was in taking science at face value and stripping away the sentimentality. You want an infinite universe? Then don't be surprised when some random cosmic event wipes humanity away. You want to say humans came from the ooze? Then you can't really say we're all equal in the eyes of the Creator. In many ways his views remind me of PG's 'Taboos' essay- we can't really come to grips with the thought of a super-volcano wiping us out tomorrow so we just kind of keep going with our lives.
There are valid reasons to write code to determine if your vehicle is being tested. Modern cars contain all sorts of computerized safety features that would go active in the typical test scenario thereby preventing the static tests that the EPA and others do.

So the car detects wheels straight, only drive wheels turning, and so on, so it disengages the features that would active traction control, reducing engine power, and more. The key here is that VW engineers went further and used that as they indicator to run the full emissions process and only then. There is no viable reason to have any toggle on emissions processes except perhaps with regards to cold weather starts.
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Sure, lmgtfy:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660427/

which is a study from 2009 on the phenomenon.
> Traditional education is a mess.

True.

> but if you really want to get things done, it's more efficient to self-study and concentrate on the really important things, skipping all this mess that is education.

Also true, at least some of the time.

However, it does not follow that the uncredentialed person telling you that education doesn't matter is therefore right in the rest of what he/she is telling you.
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It's a Garden Path Sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
I'm the guy quoted in the last segment from Slate, and I beg to differ!

"We’re improving page load time, removing intrusive ads, and working toward fewer ads, but for those that stay we want them to be more impactful,” Stern said. “We want the kinds of ads that people who read fashion magazines — that’s not me — but the kinds of ads that people say are part of the experience of reading the magazine.”
Topic that I not should have posted here in Hacker News
Administrators and moderators of Hacker News, please sorry me I have posted the topics that I not should have posted here in Hacker News.

Several people complain about topics that I posted in several mailing lists. marc.info/?a=140224970600003&r=1&w=2

This is the reason of I apologize.

I ask this because I probably be in future a good programmer famous and I do not want to talk about the topics that I should not have posted here in Hacker News.

I decided prevent substantial harm to important relationships that probably I will have in future with other developers.
You never got a birthday card in the mail with a $10 bill inside?
Why would a security concern (which would apply to mailing anything of value, not just cash) imply any legal issue?
You can't compare things to today’s bond market, because you don't know what the risks are. It's all historical data vs. other historical data.

As to solid returns today, regulated public utilities companies have ok returns and low risks. It's not zero risks and the upside is limited, but many people consider them the benchmark for low to moderate risk investments. (Though you still need due diligence as leverage can still kill them.)

Effectively zero risk investments on the other hand have a huge price premium.
> What left ideologies can libertarianism coexist with?

The general name for ideologies of the left that incorporate libertarianism is libertarian socialism, and there's a lot of far-left libertarian ideologies within that scope of that label (probably the most widely recognizable by name being anarcho-syndicalism.)
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Huh? I can negotiate a salary, that doesn't make me a contractor. A separate haggling phase of a contract is not necessary for a contract to have legal force. It's the agreement to the letter of the contract.
The costs, though, are actually about the same, because you're likely paying that contract worker more than an actual employee would be making.
Chase freedom has 5% cash back with Amazon. This month it's actually 10%. They did recently cap the monthly rewards at $150 total, which is a bummer.

You can get 20%+ cash back (up top $10k in purchases) with discover if you use it with Apple Pay this month. http://www.uscreditcardguide.com/discover-apple-pay-22-23-or...

And yeah, that's real.

I never pay full price for anything ;). Even my taxes.
I agree that Uber is flouting some reasonable, still-relevant regulations[1]. However, the insistence on "Uber needs to provide medical insurance, retirement funds, etc" is ... well, it comes off as a bit quixotic. If you did "lay down the law" one day, does that mean workers magically have all kinds of freebies?

No, it would be paid for out of the same revenues that Ubers drivers are currently being paid with. Instead of "$1/mile", it'll be "$0.30/mile, minimum mile requirement, and you get health insurance". Out of one pocket, into the other.

[1] "If someone is driving for your service, you must verify, not just trust, that they're insured, whether or not you provide that insurance yourself."
I wonder why the top-level comment which just trashes a whole group of unnamed people in the most condescending way possible isn't considered uncivil

It's because I do not trash an arbitrary group of people. Instead, I condemn very specific emotional states resulting in very specific kinds of behavior -- ones which are specifically recognized as being uncivil and inherently intellectually dishonest. (And if you think otherwise, please provide quotes and justification. As I've noted elsewhere, you have this habit of assuming falsehoods about me and writing them in this thread, and never acknowledging them when called out.)

My understanding of your objection is this: Either you are embarrassed because you do these things, or you feel that I have concocted the above construction to purposely tar certain (unspecified) groups in a dishonest way. Please note that in your comments, you apparently jumped to conclusions about my political views. Can you provide quotes (relevant) which say what they are? (You'll be able to do this somewhat with sibling quotes, but this doesn't logically help you in terms of demonstrating you did not jump to such conclusions.) My objections are to particular psychological states and succumbing to the resulting cognitive distortions. You then proceeded to provide a demonstration of precisely these phenomena! Thank you!

I haven't thought my posts were toxic because they get good replies and they don't get downvote-hidden.

Strange, but some of your longest posts were very clearly downvote-greyed, particularly the most salient one referenced in this thread. This seems counter-factual.

Another falsehood of yours: You stated that I discount emotion. This is another clear example of your jumping to conclusions. Emotion cannot act as an "oracle" but nowhere do I state that it is worthless.

Let's break this down simply. I spoke out against (unspecified) misguided words and actions in the name of "activism" which are motivated by anger and outrage. I say that the same psychological mechanisms that are involved in out-grouping and hate are involved. You then produced a very long post trying to justify (unspecified) words and actions through the magnitude of crimes of oppressors, and apparently did this in a way many interpreted as a personal attack against me. (Then edited, apparently)

I would ask this -- what psychological state are you in, where you can have such a strong reaction to a opinion about unspecified words and actions? What psychological state are you in, where you keep on jumping to conclusions, writing falsehoods, then fail to acknowledge them?

Is it correct to say that you are attempting to defend and justify some prior words and actions of yours which were guided by outrage? Are you defending intellectual dishonesty, stereotyping, and emotional bullying done in the name of a cause? I sincerely hope you are, because in doing so, you have done much for my own cause. (Which is politically neutral and specifically against a particular group-psychological phenomenon.)
What about Lyft doing apparently 3x more cancellations of Uber rides? http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/12/uber-lyft-slap-fight/
They can just get the state to pass laws to allow it...