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Yes, I'm hoping that as Rust matures and its ecosystem grows we will start to see some improvements in the robustness of low-level software. It's one of the few alternative languages I see that seems to have significant potential in that area right now.
But those games have always been there. Go in your local store that carries physical copies of games and count the shovelware. Steam isn't supposed to be a curation service - there are tons of those, find a reviewer you like and follow their recommendations. Steam should be as full as possible a repository of paid games you can download.
What is the top 1 percent's share of the world's consumption? Wouldn't this be a more useful metric than looking at wealth or income distribution?

Consider the following scenario: In a (conventional) socialist society the state controls an overwhelming majority of wealth. However, this would be justified by a (hypothetical) proponent of socialism by referring to consumption products being provided by this capital. Therefore, it seems the same measure should be taken with regards to market economies.
Why not just regular-hire the people since the company is failing?
> You left out collards, green beans, field beans, turnips, turnip greens, etc. Personally, I find the traditional southern sides as tasty as the BBQ/Fried chicken.

Well traditionally those are cooked in some sort of animal fat, so yes, people seem to love them.

My father in law thought he loved Black Eyed Peas. Then as his health got worse as he got older and did less his wife tried to make food healthier so dropped the ham hock from the pot. Turns out he didn't like Black Eyed Peas at all, he just liked the taste of ham.
I'm not going to do a literature search in a field that's not my own just to satisfy someone on HN, but I will give you two paraphrased quotes from classes I took:

- "How the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariate' was ever supposed to just naturally fade away was left undiscussed, and clearly never occurred."

- "Marx's writing, while a well-reasoned critique of capitalism, failed to provide a workable alternate solution."

Both of these were from fairly leftist professors. One should note that, at this point, "Western Systems" are really all that's left, so yes, there's going to be more criticism of them. The Soviet Union collapsed. And China is now some sort of weird hybrid system - and if you're seriously going to argue that there's not academics in the humanities criticizing China, I really don't know what to say.
> You can't just link to a long article and claim it shows things are different. What specific differences are you bothered about?

It is a long article listing all the differences - my original question was why did they decide to make all those changes instead of just expanding the address space. All of the changes except for the change to the size of the address space bother me.

> Having used IPv4 networks that used all publicly routeable addresses and ones that did not, the former have always been much nicer, even at a purely practical level of "I want to connect to my work VPN and have it work".

Did you setup your work network for IPv6 or did someone else do it?

My original question was about what justified an obvious problematic change that is celebrating 20 years with only a 10% adoption.
interesting idea - also potentially nauseating and/or boring for viewers. Headphones don't spend a tremendous amount of time in the same position during a DJ set - and sitting on the DJ's neck doesn't provide the most inspiring angle.

Still, cool to see someone try to merge the two.
Always fun to see this type of thing implemented in Haskell.

Here are some other examples.

This one uses indexed monads to keep the instruction stream correct:

https://intoverflow.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/announcing-pote...

And this one is very similar to the OP but from 2013, and emits 6502 assembly: http://wall.org/~lewis/2013/10/15/asm-monad.html (of course without the JIT portion).
Yeah, that's bad. We changed it to something generic. If anyone suggests a better title we can change it again.
When I was younger (in my 20's), I thought I would never move from the city center. I loved having lots of stuff close by. Getting up and taking a short walk to get some coffee and meet friends was awesome. The crowds and options were exciting and I loved my life.

Then my wife and I decided to have kids and so when our lease was up on our apartment, we took the plunge and bought a house in the 'burbs. We had two kids and I adjusted to living on the edge of the city. The unthinkable happened - I love it in the suburbs. I don't think I could live in an apartment again.
That's the question. I think it depends on why you didn't want to install the Google Services in the first place. I mostly didn't want the remote wipe and remote code execution privileges the Google Services come with. It wasn't primarily a question of privacy as such.

I doubt the security problems are huge. Most userland apps run as a dedicated user. Security problems with the Google Services are potentially much more serious.
First Qn: yes. But the rabbit is hiding in the 'enough'. Most commonly the poor uses of BT end up with a narratively argued prior + a single suite of evidence.

For a finite set of evidence (particularly chosen by someone with bias), bias + evidence can be arbitrarily far from the truth.
Yep, this is why the article pushes packages as the preferable install method. Thankfully the unpackaged binaries are officially maintained and also frequently updated.

I'm actually really surprised you showed up again. You made a post loudly proclaiming the lack of packaging, high availability, and Ansible in an article that had all those things, in the opening paragraphs.

I'm trying to think of a polite way to say this, but: putting down someone else's work based on it missing things it actually includes (since you haven't bothered to read the article) is incredibly rude. Perhaps you forgot something in your most recent reply?
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Another Rimworld player here. The parent post was complaining about knock-off survival-style games, and Rimworld assuredly isn't a knock-off. The developer, Tynan Sylvester, put a ton of thought into the game mechanics and created a simulation masterpiece--made even better by the extensive modding community.

Tynan also wrote a book, "Designing Games," which is worth checking out.

Also, the similarities to Prison Architect are coincidental. I've played and followed both games for a long time, and neither is a clone of the other. (However, I do wish that Tynan would clone PA's user interface--Rimworld's UI is clunky by comparison.)
> global inequality has been increasing despite convergence of inter-national mean incomes.

This is a misuse of terminology. Generally when people talk about "global inequality" they are speaking either of median (not mean) incomes or median standard of living, (which is most accurately tracked by median PPP-adjusted incomes). The latter is more common in political and non-academic circles, because standard-of-living is largely what people actually care about at the end of the day.

I didn't say that inequality within individual countries hasn't been increasing - and in fact, one of the major criticisms of globalization is linked to the divergence of opportunities within developing countries. But it's undeniable that globalization has caused median standard-of-living to converge globally and median standard-of-living to increase in developing countries, and the convergence of mean incomes globally between countries provides rough evidence of this..
> That is to say, if you start with any prior, will enough additional pieces of evidence always let you converge on the truth?

Yes, with two caveats. First, you can't have assigned zero probability to the right answer. Which means that if you have a probability distribution over hypotheses, and the right answer wasn't one of the hypotheses in the distribution, you're doomed from the start. The Solomonoff prior is a mathematical construct that gets around this problem by including every hypothesis that can be expressed as a Turing machine, but it gets used more as a philosophical token than an actual computing tool because it's unfeasible to use directly. The second issue is that if you have a bad enough prior, "enough additional pieces of evidence" can be an arbitrarily large amount, and there may only be a limited amount of evidence available to collect. In particular, rerunning an experiment over and over can only provide a limited amount of evidence, because of the possibility that some systematic error affects every instance of the experiment.
To truly see any trend, we would need to look at not just before the law, but many years before the law.

This is one of those sneaky tricks advocates for government intervention use (or fall victim to). To prove the efficacy of OSHA, for example, proponents will show a chart of workplace fatalities or accidents where there are a few or only one data points before the law and then show some spectacular trend that follows after the law was passed. In reality when you go back many more years it is clear the law had little to do with the trend as workplace safety had been increasing for years prior to the law.
Well, they aspire to. Their ad network is large and growing.
No, most people wouldn't.
What problem are you trying solve? As bad as problems as the academic community has (it has lots!!), names on papers is not one of them.

Science is the organic collection of all people and resources and knowledge engaged in figuring out how our world works. Having blind papers would mean I would just have to spend an extra 10 minutes reading each paper to figure out what group wrote it.

The fact that Prof. Ivy League gets her results recognized more easily then Prof. Nowhereville is, actually, an ok system. Because Prof. Ivy is more likely to be pursuing interesting problems to the rest of the scientific community, she's more likely to be trusted by other scientists to be a good scientist (i.e. not careless), and the system supports people who have "made it" through the academic gauntlet.

If Prof. Nowhereville actually finds something interesting, pursues publication, passes peer review, and it gets published then great. His results are probably worth the attention of the scientific community. But the fact that the barriers are higher is ok, because he hasn't proven himself to be as trustworthy.
Capitalism is the best system for distributing wealth and governing trade - and simultaneously one of (though perhaps not the) worst forms of government. Societies that lose the ability to maintain that distinction - from either side - are inexorably doomed. We have regressed to a point where our grasp of that dichotomy seems tenuous at best.
My hunch would be, unless it's very low-effort for you or potentially reaches a massive customer base, that the price is too low rather than too high.

I can think of almost no services I pay that amount per year for. I can think of several I pay that amount per month for, though.
The point of the statistic is not living standards, which you are focusing on. The point is who controls the wealth. A person with a negative net worth is not wealthy. The person who holds the note for their debt, is. A loan is an asset on the loaner's books, and yes, it will be included in the calculation of relative levels of wealth.
Non-avoidable seems very hard to do to me.

Within the law, there only has to be one loophole per generation. Existing structures (I have no knowledge of this stuff) may hide the transfer of inheritance. It's really hard to look at every transaction and verify that it's not inheritance.

That money can always leave for a different set of laws, so it might be convenient to go die in a different country. Crypto currencies would make it hard to identify any money coming back in as inheritance. Or people just simply leave the country and refuse to pay. How would we convince every country on the planet to enforce this tax?

It may not even be permanent. These are long time lines so it's possible the tax will be there for one presidential cycle and gone the next. People with large amounts of inheritance can afford to wait.
I have 5 kids and live in the city. I think Burbs need to go away. People should either go City or Country but mixing both has not shown to be a successful model.
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> If nothing else, this provides inspiration for me to quit procrastinating on my "ASK ME ABOUT ROKO'S BASILISK" novelty t-shirt idea.

Can you tell us the story about that party when you got so drunk and started yelling in anger at a poor random dude? Except you weren't drunk at all and the dude behaved like an asshole, but nobody cares about the truth since you're a nerd and you look cute when you're sad that we're telling stories about your drinking problems.

That's basically what happened there. I wish people stopped with this Roko's Basilisk nonsense.
They are going to start doing a better job of integrating with iOS / Android notifications if they are going to ask people to part with $200 for such limited functionality.
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So this was getting slammed by reddit, and you decided to post it here as well? These poor developers.
I think she is already wealthy enough from the VMW IPO (if not even before that). At this time, she's probably more concerned with her long term legacy, so putting this money into a charity account (DAF) is probably the best decision. The money gets to be invested tax free, and she still has the full option of what to do with it later when she's got more time and/or opportunities.
I think GP's point is that in the case of interacting with an individual patient, the Bayesian conception of probability as a quantification of degree of belief is actually more intuitive than the frequentist conception of probability as a relative frequency of outcomes under repeated hypothetical experimentation.
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Microsoft started down the headless server route quite a while back with the Server Core [0] installations (started with server 2008)

IIRC starting with server 2012 or 2012 R2, all configuration and management functionality was exposed via powershell commandlets, as Server Core was the default installation type and server management was meant to be done via winRM/remote powershell sessions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Core
I use Linux at home and I managed to sneak a Linux box into work, contra-policy. I realize I'm in the tiniest of market segments.

But the recurring "linux-on-the-desktop" discussion is inane. Are we back to the whole Lindows/Linspire circlejerk of a decade ago?

Linux has won the battles that matter: mobile/embedded and supercomputing. The goal of Linux dominating on the desktop simply doesn't matter as much anymore.
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Great response. Too many people criticize someone's work comparing it to similar stuff that's been around since just before the dinosaurs went extinct with responses like "what makes yours better?"

It doesn't. It's just something you made. Use it or not. Nobody cares.
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Yes, VCS doesn't give you a guarantee of storing your history (in an accessible way, I mean - "if a tree falls in a forest...") FOREVER, especially if you switch VCS systems on the way.

However, commenting some code out also doesn't mean it won't rot. Methods/procedures around it will be refactored, variables renamed - in long time perspective, in a different landscape it can become incomprehensible and useless anyway.

Just because some abstraction (version control) can be a bit leaky and one shouldn't rely on it absolutely, doesn't justify succumbing to some other illusion.

Commenting code out is not equal to hibernation and it doesn't make it immune to flowing time. You uncomment it one day, you discover it stinks to heaven high - especially if it was complex from the start - and isn't informative at all.

"But that's not the case here!" - well, guess what: version control failing to do what it's supposed to also isn't the case here, if you can still access commits from 1986, as someone pointed out: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?ofs=124080
How does that work? It doesn't sound like a well-defined distribution since the area under the curve needs to be 1.
Read the content in the right hand column (at your link), under the various headings...

The "Emergency Contact" must be a LastPass user, so they already have a public/private keypair. Your vault is encrypted with their public key and, when the time comes, they're given access to your encrypted vault and are able to decrypt it using their own private key.

Sounds good, in theory, but I'm certainly no cryptography expert. Regardless, I'm not sure if I trust it/"them".

(It won't matter much for me, anyways. When the announced that LogMeIn had bought the company, I jumped ship and moved to 1Password.)
One step in solving it is adding more marginal tax rates. It's silly that they stop at 400k and 39%. I'd also introduce progressive taxing on capital gains as that's a primary way the wealthiest individuals get around income tax. The estate tax should also be progressive. These ideas aren't popular and would never get passed since the government is ruled by the wealthiest Americans but they would indeed be steps in the right direction.
Making simple things simple and safe will produce fewer errors and fewer security issues. I don't see how anyone can try to argue anything else

Making things simple and safe is what leads an average careless programmmer to develop insecure websites. It's not simple to write a non trivial website that is safe for sensitive data. And the language is a small part of overall system security.

There are lots of alternative "safe" string libraries for C, so string handling is not a good argument against C.
I know you're a huge advocate for Lesswrong, but not "everybody" or "anyone" has quotes ripe for picking like Yudkowsky. Stephen Bond is not just throwing some opinion out there, he's backing it up with first-hand sources:

Yudkowsky on his simplified views of why race gets brought up:

> "Race adds extra controversy to everything; in that sense, it's obvious what difference skin colour makes politically".

> "Group injustice has no existence apart from injustice to individuals. It's individuals who have brains to experience suffering. It's individuals who deserve, and often don't get, a fair chance at life. [...] Skin colour has nothing to do with it, nothing at all."

Yudkowsky on our current societal structure, adulating the people who give him funding:

> One of the major surprises I received when I moved out of childhood into the real world, was the degree to which the world is stratified by genuine competence.

Yudkowsky writing short stories about a society where rape is legal, leaving himself ample room for plausible deniability, but putting it up "for debate":

>> "No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees. When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."

>> Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"

(https://web.archive.org/web/20131206200429/http://lesswrong....)

I think some well-meaning LessWrongers get caught in the crossfire, but I think the essay makes a very well grounded case for the blindspots "rationalists" have towards politics that suit the identity of people like Yudkowski.
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This is the way unemployment is calculated all over the world, so it does not affect the parent's point, which is comparative.
Fitting distributions is a little bit different than the usual model fitting scenario where least squares is appropriate. Sometimes people do things like construct a histogram and then do a least squares fit to the bin heights, but that procedure doesn't satisfy the usual assumptions that justify least squares (observations with independent, equal variance, Gaussian errors).

Cosma Shalizi has written some interesting posts on this subject, and also published papers in statistics journals:

http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html
I'm in a similar situation to you, but:

* One year out of college, you're in the top 30% of the US: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-p...

* You didn't mention loans, so I'm assuming you were able to graduate college mostly or completely debt-free

Just these two points mean you're doing better than most people in the US, and much better than most people in the world. You never have to worry about about food or shelter, you have plenty of disposable income, you can support your family.

Your comment seems to be phrased as "I'm as average guy, and I can be happy with what I have", but you're not average. 80K is "tons of money" for most Americans your age, most people aren't so comfortable that they never have to worry about money, most people can't throw away $100 a month without noticing.

So you're right, discussion about inequality does need a context, but your context is that you're well into the top half of society.
You propose spend 20% less time working for 20% less pay. He'll probably not accept it too, and if he accepts you'll probably not progress inside that company anymore. But he very probably won't get annoyed either.
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I can't believe this research was even published it's so bad.
The Pareto distribution has a parameter (alpha in the mathematical formulation used on Wikipedia). If the value of that parameter evolves over time that might demonstrate an evolution of economic inequality.

But indeed access to credit and amount of debt makes it hard to interpret the results on wealth. Income distribution might be easier to interpret.
You could get more specific advice with some more info. Where are you? How much experience? Looking for remote or onsite? What technology do you know well?

Generically, I like SO careers -- you don't need rep on it to apply to jobs.

The most effective application advice I could give is to make your resume and cover letter specific to the job you are applying for. Your cover letter should be treated as a writing sample that is an argument for why you should be hired for the specific job being offered.
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The thing is... fees to publishers don't contribute to funding science.
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Xfb here, no one inside the company knows exactly how newsfeed works either. The infrastructure and all of the components involved in generating and rendering newsfeed at this point (and for a while) have been far too large for any single person to understand. It's generally accepted as a mystery, even to those working on components of newafeed.

I worked on a component of newsfeed for a while, and yet had no clue how the rest of the system worked despite trying. That's the level of complexity involved here.
How do you be extra careful except by developing yet more powerful reasoning tools?
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