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Your problem would be that such talents don't have time nor need to complete whatever assignment you give to them. What if they programmed a core of enterprise cloud system handling 100,000s threads and millions of messages/second you might be unknowingly using daily, wrote papers about it you might have read already but it didn't occur to you and you are asking them to write a concurrent ring buffer? They would just say you good bye and won't consider ever joining you unless they are in deep troubles, which is exactly state you would like to avoid.

Major talents are usually involved with dozens of side tech & social activities, charity etc. Why should they spend time in proving their worth to you? You are operating on the premise people are equal in capabilities, but they aren't, some may be way ahead of your group specifically in the area you really need, to make yourself competitive. No exceptions rule is IMO a really bad idea - it's like reverse of affirmative action, i.e. penalizing/ignoring visible greatness.

Frankly, 10 years ago I thought what you are doing was a good idea; now I am no longer sure for the aforementioned reasons. Team work is not groupthink/socialism if you want to be successful.
Hey it's no worries -- just sharing my experience and conclusion upon the product. Poor experiences aside, the product isn't for me because I think it's equally as easy to just use the specialized service (e.g., food delivery website for food delivery). Nevertheless, I can see a use-case for the wealthy and hope the best for you guys.
Thinkpads certainly heat up if you're running Linux rather than Windows.
Correlation isn't causation.

Somebody needs to check the parallel-universe France that has a longer workweek and check its unemployment rate.
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>>Obviously the $100/hr price point puts it out of reach for most people, but my expectation (as an investor) is that as the tech improves, they will be able to bring down the price while maintaining or even improving the quality of the service (I call this the Tesla strategy)

What tech?

Tesla's strategy is working because they are using the high prices of their luxury cars to pay for serious technological innovation and build infrastructure for economies of scale on the expensive components (batteries).

Without knowing what type of technology (beyond SMS) powers Magic/Magic+, and why it can't be easily replicated by competitors, it's difficult to buy into your optimism.
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I don't see exactly what that has to do with passing off solicited and compensated customer testimonials as unsolicited and uncompensated (as far as I'm aware).

And as the FTC's actions have indicated, making unproven claims of direct medical benefit is not simple puffery.
Look at this way,
Some non-zero % of startups make their investors wealthy by creating wealth.

0% of "non-startups" create money. And if they do make money, they do it by ripping people off.

So yes only startups creates wealth.
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It sounds like you're optimizing for the happiness of your junior talent. It definitely seems like the more junior members of the team should be mature enough to handle senior people being treated with the respect they deserve. After all, someday that will be them.

By ignoring past success you will filter out most senior candidates. Why would they even apply when other companies will recognize their market value more fairly?
I thought the point was Amazon is collecting this data. They are external to all the various individual app companies.
As a middle class person struggling to get day by day -- yes, yes it is.
We've had no issues attracting excellent and talented people. Most of them would be considered "senior".

You might be interested to hear that Juniors are the group most likely to be deterred by the sample. The (great) majority of candidates have backgrounds and capabilities up to or exceeding what we're asking them to do. We actually get very few under-qualified applicants.

The process appeals to people who appreciate a fair and objective approach to hiring as it demonstrates how we value those traits. We "set the tone" early by giving everyone an open and honest shake at proving their abilities, without the awkwardness of dealing with a biased human filter.

I don't agree with the premise of your salary comparison.

The process is willing to pass on candidates and wish them well if they aren't willing to take a test -- again, if it would be so "beneath" their skill and experience, that's a spooky indicator of attitude.
It's also possible that it results in an IQ increase only for a specific subpopulation that you may or may not be a part of, e.g. the linked metanalysis says that "international studies tend to find more transfer than U.S. studies" and it does not seem as though the effect for the U.S. studies was significantly different from zero.
Yes, exactly!

No one is arguing against technology or progress. But there is a legitimate issue here; our economic system currently punishes society for progress when it should reward it.

For instance, If automated driving becomes a viable technology, we have just eliminated most of the labour force in the trucking industry. This should be a good thing for society (we've freed up lots of time and labour, likely reduced error, increased efficiency, potentially even eliminated some accidents and saved lives, etc).

But in practice, self-driving trucks would be devastating to the nation. There's close to 1 million people in the US who drive trucks for a living -- it's literally the most common job in nearly every state. (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...). All of these people would be unemployed. Many would likely be shunted into minimum wage, poverty-level employment for the rest of their lives (whatever poverty-level employment is left by then -- those jobs are rapidly disappearing to automation too).

If we continue on our current course without changing something, it will eventually be impossible for companies to create value at all -- so many people will be so poor, that it will be impossible to sell anything to them. How highly can Candy Crush be valued in the future, when 99% of it's ad viewers have zero spending money? How much value can AirBnB capture if 99% of the population is too poor to travel?

The reply that "these people should all just start highly successful businesses" is a cop-out, in much the same way that telling a poor person to "just become a movie star" or "just become a pro basketball player" is. It's simply not possible for most people to do that, regardless of how hard they try. (Startups already have a 90%+ failure rate today. Adding 1 million otherwise untrained individuals won't help that figure). And it's grossly irresponsible of us as a society to shove people into poverty for failing to meet this wildly-unrealistic expectation.
Not to throw fuel on the fire but grumbling ex-employees aren't surprised. I've heard a few stories about not investing in infrastructure or even bug fixes. "They wont even look at bug fixes with major support costs." I know it's hard to triage what to do when running a company but when employees are proud of their product a breach like this isn't surprising.
Has anyone tried to do serious collaborative editing in emacs or vim? Any success there? I'd rather not learn another editor just for collaboration.
Nope! http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2014/01/17/bad-math-from-the-...
I'd really like to be able to edit Tweets.
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Be able to reimplement the code < That's an interesting perspective. However I think the vast majority of simulation work never gets that sort of scrutiny, no matter if the code is open source

Personally though I think we should give up on papers and everything should be published on an ipython notebook style page where others can play with data and code.
Steam still desperately needs a competent recommendation engine. Simply recommending the biggest sellers is a terrible solution, but appears to be what they are doing now. I am worried that Steam doesn't want to pursue this, however, because big publishers wouldn't like it. My personal Steam interface wouldn't be trying to sell me the latest AAA titles at all, for example. And Steam has thus far been very much a 'for the big publishers' affair. Sure indie devs have made some great successes there, but those were all despite Steams policies and structure rather than thanks to it.

Steam also continues to face the threat of large publishers creating their own competing marketplaces, like EAs Origin. Since Steam offers nothing unique that a publisher couldn't reproduce themselves with little effort, drowning in a sea of clones wouldn't be terribly surprising. When Apple came out with iTunes, they demanded that music publishers do things like sell individual tracks, and cap those at 99 cents. They forced publishers to take advantage of digital distribution. So when music publishers wanted to compete, they found that they simply couldn't. Their board of directors would demand that they sell albums together. They would demand more than 99 cents a track. And users would never go for it. But with Steam, which places absolutely no restrictions upon the publisher whatsoever, that's not a problem. Origin showed that gamers loyalty to the franchises they like far outpaces any loyalty to Steam.. and why shouldn't it? Steam doesn't guarantee lower-than-physical-retail prices. They don't guarantee anything, really, for consumers.

I would love to see Valve start squeezing publishers and forcing them to take advantage of digital distribution. Cap new game prices. It is patently absurd to pay $60 for a digitally distributed title when distribution makes up the vast majority of the price of a retail title and digital distro drops the cost of distribution to nearly nothing. It would require big publishers to violate their distribution agreement contracts with retailers, just like iTunes forced music publishers to violate their distribution agreement contracts with record stores, but Steam would end up being much more robust as a result.

Back to the recommenation engine, though. My nephews got their first laptops for christmas. They're 9 years old and their parents are not technical at all. So they ended up with the cheapest Black Friday craptops you can imagine. There are plenty of things on Steam that they could play, but I didn't even install it for them. Because if I had, Steam would have inundated them with advertising for games that they don't have any chance of running, and, being 9 and used to tablets and consoles, they would not understand why they couldn't run something. Finding something they COULD play would be very difficult.

Alright, I should stop complaining and just build something to solve the problem. At least Valve doesn't seem aggressive against scraping Steam data and the like.
3x redundancy doesn't actually require you to triple storage : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming(7,4)

If you check out 3x redundancy, what does it get you ? Well, you can correct any 1 bit error (not 2, because you wouldn't know which version is the correct one). Hamming(7,4) with column encoding gets you the same (better in some ways even). Therefore would you really be lying to your customers if you told them you gave them 3x redundancy if you used Hamming(7,4), column encoded ? I'd say no. Because it gets them the same : any disk can fail, and you can rebuild the data.

If you intend to serve your customers correct bitstreams in the case of bitflips on the disks, you'd need to read 2 disks even in the case of 3x redundancy, exactly the same as in the Hamming case. Of course, people might choose not to do that, but then you only have backups, not redundancy. What can go wrong with 3x replication reading from one disk is that your system updates the 3 disks based on information read exclusively from disk 1, which may turn out to be wrong data.

But Hamming only costs you 175% storage, not 300%. That brings it to ~7 months. And with precomputed lookup tables Hamming decoding is far, far faster than reading from disk (even without I bet it would still beat it).

Another huge advantage Amazon has is that EBS means they don't have to allocate SSD space unless a customer actually uses it, not just if they reserve it (and they pay for it when reserving it). So in practice you do what ? 100% overprovisioning is prudent ? Let's say compression, given that these are operating system images mostly, gets you another 30-50% or so. If they dedupe, they could get far more.

On the other hand the newegg figure doesn't include power to actually use those disks (SSDs are cheap though). Amazon of course doesn't pay anywhere near full price there either. Then, actually putting stuff onto an EBS ... amazon charges for that. And of course, Amazon needs to develop a lot of software to make this happen. So there's various other things not counted here.

So hardware costs for Amazon would be at most 2-3 months or so until they're repaid, no more.
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Try compiling the source and then tell me you still think it's a thing of beauty and well-managed.
Why not call them on the phone? They have a toll-free number for support.
Probably illegal, therefore a no-go under their TOS. And if not, well, at $100/hr ...
Are you going to support bitcoin for Magic+? Currently looks like you need a credit card to register.
That doesn't protect you as much as you think. Ddos resiliency really depends on the amount of unused (!) available capacity, in absolute value.

And Amazon, I guarantee you, doesn't have that much unused network capacity. That would be very, very expensive at their scale.
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Agreed, yet another example of somebody using Medium for 'link juice'.

At least most authors have the decency to cloak their advertising as an interesting self-help narrative.
$100/hr is a salary of $208,000 which only about 5% [1] of household incomes exceed that. Certainly not "most people"

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-p...
This crap makes my socialist leaning side come out. Another unnecessary service that no-one needs, yet people with too much money will probably use. Where's Karl Pilkington's Bullshit Man when you need him.
> It conveys that the users are rich, yes. What about it makes them lazy or douchebags?

Envy, class warfare, and socialist propaganda.

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> This provides a tamper-resistant historical record of what's occurred previously.

So git basically. Maybe instead of blockchain technology they could call it version control tech.
Steam makes it pretty clear that your queue and recommendations are absolutely NOT based upon your preferences at all. They even tell you what it is based on - a game is popular, or it's new. Big publishers might be displeased with a solution that used by-now-standard recommendation tech. It certainly wouldn't recommend any AAA titles to me as even though I have 1000+ games in my library (which I never play... I might have a problem) I haven't purchased a $60 on-release-day title for well over a decade. How horrified would Ubisoft and Activision be if they knew a lot of people never even saw mention of their latest title? And first and foremost, Steam appears to be built for them.
>Fear of competitors not being able to replicate stochastic ML results; some machine-learning and artificial neural network papers applied to Biology are stochastic. Past authors have been accused of "cherry-picking" the most "optimistic" runs that show positive results

That sounds like an ML phrasing for "fear of non-reproducibility", which is basically a fear of their research being bad.
If they do this, I might start to see some value in twitter. The 140-character limit has a strong anti-intellectual effect on the discourse there.
If I recall correctly, PG says that it isn't inequality that's bad, but poverty, and that it's poverty we should be focused on eliminating.

Do you disagree with that viewpoint? If so, why?
Film is beautiful and has a great 'by-default' aesthetic - but many digital imaging systems have been able to capture more dynamic range (and far more resolution) for a few years now, and it isn't that hard to add grain and emulate the kind of image response for popular stocks in post...

These days it's really more of a tactile choice - 'do you want to work with film' - than aesthetic.
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This problem definitely existed with official 14.04 (HVM) AMI, though I haven't re-tested this recently, they may have fixed it. It did have some kind of SR-IOV driver but it was too old.
The actual answer is much more sinister than that.

Which is kind of hilarious.
That's the best part though. We don't have to agree! And that's totally okay.

Are there companies that ask for work samples (like yours)? Yes. Are there companies that rely more on resumes and interviews? Yes. Is the ratio going to change substantially? Possibly! It's an experiment, and like all experiments we're still waiting for the data to come back.

I think interviews and references are far more important than a skills test. You can train or educate almost anyone on most, if not all, skills. You can't train people to be decent coworkers emotionally.
I actually view that lack of functionality mostly as a feature - there's very little bloat, and the website is very fast, even on terrible connections.
If you want to offer to your customers, "Fill my car up with gas, it's at 123 Fake St.", check out my startup, Purple. http://purpledelivery.com/app
Yeah, but it's difficult to tape paper on everyone's face as they walk by.
There are a lot of simple questions that are hard to find answers for if you don't know where to look, and those answers are often unique or only marginally repeatable. Take travel assistance, for example. If all you need to do are basic pre-travel concierge tasks, that's one thing, but what happens when your client tells you something like "I'm going to be driving from Denver to Salina, Kansas today with two young children in the car. I need several energy-releasing entertainment options along the route, as well as a family friendly hotel room in KC that's near the stadium and offers onsite guest laundry (machines, not full service)." None of this is hard, but it requires multiple web searches, probably a few phone calls, and hopefully some local expertise. Once an adequate database is compiled, software can help quickly retrieve viable options and minimize human intervention. Human curation will still be absolutely mandatory and expected in a service with this cost.

Note: I just drove from San Jose to Raleigh with two young kids, including a day from Salina, KS to St Louis. We found the most amazing place to stop, and I highly recommend it to anyone driving E-W or W-E on I70. The Moon Marble Company (https://www.moonmarble.com/) is not just a handmade marble shop. It has the best collection of retro toys I've seen anywhere in my life. We spent 3 hours browsing!
You have to suss this kind of thing out, and if you plain don't want to believe me that there's something enabling towards racism and sexism and other various supremacist ideologies in the LessWrong ecosystem, you don't really have to.

There is definitely something enabling about it. A lot of modern politics wants you to NOT believe black people are stupid criminals.

Yudkowsky would almost certainly endorse "if black people are stupid criminals I want to believe black people are stupid criminals, if black people are not stupid criminals I want to believe they are not stupid criminals". (This is the litany of tarski, which he endorses, applied to a specific case.) One could certainly view this as "enabling" supremacist views under the circumstances that reality supports them.

Is a fair summary of your critique that Yudkowsky is rationally and unemotionally reasoning about problems which are normally addressed via appeals to emotion, and this subverts emotional appeals to the masses to take certain actions?

I've read your post several times, and this is the most charitable takeaway I can come up with. But this sounds insane so I feel like I must be misunderstanding something.
A simple Bayesian filter trained on the tags and maybe short description text to rank games per-user would probably do everything most people want. Steams Web API is nearly useless though, so you'd have to build a whole site, and do loads of scraping, to offer that to people.
Best of luck.

Minor item: FAQ says that pricing will be available by end of 2015, which has just passed.

As for product feedback, I've literally never understood the appeal of debit cards over credit cards. I get cash back, delayed payments/free float, better anti-fraud, and better purchase protections with a credit card. So, I wish you the best of luck, but I don't "get it" unless there's a largish market that can't get (or can't handle) credit cards.
So you're saying wealth is actually something like happiness? Then I can see it can be created, but I thought he was talking about something materialistic.
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I don't know if you've ever been self-employed, but billing out 40 hours per week is very hard. $100 / hour can afford you a middle-class lifestyle (assuming 25-30 hours per week AND fully employed, more realistically you can fill 70-80% of your time).

$100 * 26 * 40 ⇒ $104k ⇒ and then slice off the employer portion for FICA and SS and you're looking at a pretty modest figure.
This bit about replacement of the business is exactly true; most people don't realize Kodak was making digital cameras the whole time film was being replaced. As a purely off-the-cuff guess, I'd bet the entire digital camera industry is smaller than Kodak's film processing work at its peak.

I live in Rochester - Kodak was literally one end of the entire city; the scale of the operation was huge.

What I regret was that it was a good place to work, though I was never there. Car dealerships would plan annual sales around bonus time at Kodak, and retirees had health care for the rest of their life, for instance.
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> Look, for example, at the collective reaction to the Fukushima disaster. If that Stoicism isn't an expression of Zen philosophy, I don't know what is.

What are you talking about? Many people in Japan, even in the media, were revolted by the inaction of the government. Stoicism is maybe what you see from outside, but internally it's definitely not the case.

And look at the recent demonstrations in Japan against the change of constitution regarding Japanese military scope. You call that Stoicism ?
Hi, this is Mike, one of the founders of Magic. Really sorry to hear about your experience here. Did you get a refund? If not, please text in to 83489 and mention this post, and we'll be sure to get it to you.

I can absolutely admit that when Magic first launched, we were over capacity and a certain percentage of orders went awry. I hate that this happened, but we really did not predict that the website would go viral so quickly. In fact, today, we still have such high demand for the service that there is a long waitlist for the regular service, and our $100/hr service is getting a lot of signups very quickly as well.

This is part of the reason that we created Magic+. We wanted to make sure that people who had a very high bar for service quality would be able to use the service right away and be guaranteed to have the absolute highest level of service, no matter what.

I completely understand that given your past experience with Magic, you might not want to try Magic+. However, I can confidently say that if you try it, you will find that it feels very different from the Magic that you tried. Your keg will be there.
The development has really dropped off, and I doubt they're many users out there in the world.