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Hyper-V also ships these days on client Windowses too. I personally was quite pleased that I didn't need to install third party virtualization solution anymore on my workstation.
Huh, what were the aforementioned profile and this article if not slower-moving, step-back perspective type articles?
I wonder if women would have the same feeling of "weirdness"? Personally, I'd initially feel weird because of the possibility of being seen as a man that's "staring" (read:perving) at images of a female at work. Of course, that wouldn't last long, nor would I stand for being called out on it if my actions happened to have been seen by someone willing to complain to me about it.
Well, having been through the ridiculous temporary worker / immigration process in America - coming from Canada with a solid job offer and even an American lawyer, I'd say that would be a great place to start.

The American tax system is riddled with complexities that make business difficult. A flat tax as proposed by Ted Cruz (the only good thing he has proposed) would make doing business vastly simpler.

But the vast majority of regulatory hurdles are industry specific and there are thousands of them. It would take a serious political-backed task force to go through them all to find the worst.

Here is a good article on the subject, featuring good examples:

> Under Massachusetts regulations, a hair salon owner who wants to sell her shop to an employee must first temporarily close down. A funeral director can't hire a part-time apprentice—only full-time is allowed. The state's legal size for a sea clam differs from what federal requirements specify.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702042763045772612...
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The Finnish social security agency (Kela) is currently implementing a study on basic income. You can read about their experiment here: http://www.kela.fi/web/en/experimental-study-on-a-universal-...
Please no. Death to tipping!
good point, i continue to be impressed by the guardian.
As a skilled developer I can trade time for capital, but time is the most valuable thing any of us have, so I have to be very careful about taking on commitments that will use up a lot of my time.
Nope - the unemployment rate is dropping. Currently it's half what it was in 2010, and is almost at the pre-recession levels.

Again, if you look at automation over the centuries, it doesn't destroy jobs, it leads to people switching jobs.
I couldn't agree more; Brendan Gregg is awesome. I finally created an account just to say this. His materials on Linux performance analysis and monitoring[0] are phenomenal. The analysis and observability maps he made are quite helpful to see the big picture and put specific tools in their proper context. I also particularly appreciate his materials on perf.

Maybe I'm being too much of a fanboy, but I appreciate good materials when I come across them.

[0] http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
How does this work with a broken immigration system?
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
mass = volume * density. Water has a (nearly) fixed density. So for any given displacement, less mass allocated to the hull means more mass allocated elsewhere.
Bob says he is a better driver than Lewis Hamilton (the current Formula One racing champion). He puts forward as evidence that he got into his car right before the Formula One race, and drove in his old car at 40 miles per hour until the race was finished. Then he measured the distance from where he started to where he finished (which was about 60 miles). He compared that to the numbers for Lewis Hamilton, who ended up a few feet from where he started.

Bob went farther than Lewis Hamilton, in a much cheaper car, with no pit crew. Hail to Bob, the 100X Driver!

Your scenario is much the same as the above scenario. Different businesses can extract different amounts of value from programmers. Just like you can't tell a high performance car from a low performance car in a school zone, so some businesses are not tackling hard enough problems to differentiate between programmers. In regards to delivering a CMS, there is not much John Carmack or Jeff Dean could do to distinguish themselves in terms of value to the business than someone who just graduated from Wordpress bootcamp.

In the above scenario, if you are just a run of the mill business, that just needs a CMS to post PR pieces, then Alice is the right choice for you. There is also no point in even discussing 10X programmers because a 2X programmer would be a complete waste of money. If on the other hand, your company is looking to "disrupt" CMS, you want Clyde.
The public benefits somewhat from by reducing the amount of taxi on the street due to external factors (pollution, accidents, congestion etc).

The problem, is taxi companies benefit by further constricting supply beyond that point and regulatory capture means incumbents have far to much say. IMO, rather than let some companies sidestep the market by pretending not to be taxi while acting like taxi the correct solution is to issue more Taxi Medallions.
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This article, and its reflection on the creative process, on the insecurities felt by those who take part in it, on the pain of how long it takes to get anything done resonated very strongly with me. I think there's a lot to learn here for those of us in the business of creating software or businesses.

It's also written by one of my personal heroes, Robert Caro.
I trust Andrew Ng more than any of those people, when it comes to machine learning.
See rich people as a counterpoint to your argument
It's an interesting list... To me, improving provision of medical service and education definitely seems possible, as a lot of current problems are due to the fairly artificial constraints in the system. Removing them, or going around them, can really do a lot.

Things like child care and finance are not as obvious to me though: these are already competitive industries, with very price-sensitive clients too, and (IMO) mostly sensible regulations, so if something both cheap and competitive was possible, why hasn't it happened yet?

Also, as for "Equally credible alternatives to university education": I'm not sure if I get this one right, wording is a little confusing -- you mean the problem being that people feel forced to spend lots of $$ to study things they won't actually need for their jobs? IMO, to answer that, we also first need to answer why exactly is it the case currently: e.g. no government sponsorship of community colleges is going to help if the reason is that education is primarily used as a signaling device... (Edit: I see your response to another question -- namely a startup offering an independent alternative to screening on education -- and I agree that this can be promising. Not easy, but promising.)
We need to figure out an alternate way of living for people who are intellectually incapable of contributing to a modern technologically advanced economy. A basic income is a good start.

There is another dimension to this problem though; national borders and status.

There are a TON of really smart mexicans and other immigrants of every nation who are stuck into an effective caste system based on their status.

In fact, modern American society would literally fall apart if all the mexican service workers were raptured.

My point is that while we look at those who cannot contribute to a technologically advanced economy, we also are pigeon-holing many many others who are based on the complexities of citizenship status problem.
To play devil's advocate:

- no routine that gets you going

- less time with your friends and colleagues

- less team lunches/nice dinners

- getting dressed can help you mentally make the switch to start your workday and can translate into higher productivity

- you have to spent money for office equipment

- more interruptions (you are at home, surely you can do x)

- you have more sick days, since kids are bags of disease

- no eureka moments after water cooler chats

- extra cost

PS I'm a fan of remote work
It does seem attractive, all the empty land out there.

But the point of cities is to be near lots of other people all the time. There's a tipping point of human flourishing from the intermingling.

Great cities outlasted empires. Interaction density is the important thing, and it grows combinatorially with human density. There's no way you're going to get rural logistics to that level.
Aside from the tree search perspective, MCTS can be thought of as an extension of upper confidence bound approaches for multi armed bandit problems. This stuff is all about exploration vs exploitation tradeoffs - which is something quite different to Minimax / alpha-beta search - those prune branches when they logically prove that evaluating the branches cannot improve the decision of which move to make.

A multi armed bandit problem offers you one decision to pull one of n levers, so it's like a wide shallow game tree where the root has n leaves.
I'd like an explanation of how he could demonstrate #5, silent construction of tunnels, in the guy's park or area of choice in a reasonable fashion.

I would think a good challenge on that is to ask he demonstrate by constructing a tunnel in secret that opens up in my current enemy's fortification.

Of course, Leonardo could respond with "I don't tunnel for free!"
My point is that if we're going to introduce a concept like basic income then we need to start being really clear about the difference between effort in exchange of money, and effort which contributes to your satisfaction. Not sure how I'm missing the point.
Garbage collection doesn't need to be a low paid job. 1 garbage truck can service thousands of homes with just 1 driver (and bins that are designed to be grabbed by a mechanism on the truck). So you could pay a fantastic wage with a very modest contribution per home.
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Joke answer: totally, if you're going to play seriously!

Serious answer: besides the ongoing need of the 'elite' for childcare, most proponents of basic income argue that people would not just play video games all day. If you think about everything you or other people might want to do in your free time today, even - how many of those would you prefer to do without simultaneously minding children?
> The reduced sense of self-worth is likely a result of the cultural stigma against joblessness.

And is this a problem? Societally speaking, shame and stigma are great motivators. If we remove them as motivation for work, will society really be better off?
Guess what the person who graduated last in medical school gets called? Doctor.
I think it's absurd that there are millions of kitchens in NYC. There is a project in my old town - Syracuse - that I think has a lot of benefits: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/coliving...

It's kind of a modern take on boarding houses. Actually, I think that the optimal situation is much closer to a boarding house.

Take 10-15 units, remove the kitchen and laundry entirely. Use the savings to pay a full time cook and laundry staff (2-3 people) to cook at-cost meals and do laundry.
"Loaded TCO" means gear, space, power, cooling, transit, people... Those are high-level, and I don't remember a bunch of things that went into the 5-year TCO model but it was complex.

If you have the talent and scale it's certainly doable, and like I said, we were at less than half of AWS. There are plenty of examples, one that comes to mind that is NOT hyper-scale is Server Fault.
* In my opinion, the US healthcare system is a horrifying impediment to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. To answer your question: I wish startups would disrupt the healthcare industry in the same way Lyft/Uber disrupted transportation, AirBnb did for short term rentals, and Amazon did for online purchasing. These are controversial examples but all I ask of you is to go back a month before these respective services were announced and examine the convenience factor of your life vs. what it became after the existence of these services.

While I liked how refreshing Health Sherpa was to use compared to healthcare.gov of the early years, I think a more fundamental disruption of the healthcare industry is needed. All the various middlemen with their high overheads, the plethora of paper pushers, coders (what a travesty of a fine word), etc. Some examples of healthcare niches that are ripe for disruption include supplies for disabled individuals, building provider networks not beholden to the Hades of the regular insurance industry, enabling medical tourism, etc.
Cue the sound of 100,000 static-hosted S3 bloggers grabbing their free Amazon SSL cert and setting up CloudFront. And man that AWS console sure is wonky.
What does this have to do with free speech? You're allowed to say what you want, and I'm allowed to close the tab and not read it.
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I don't see why we aren't doing something like this. Especially when you start looking at how much it might cost.

Birmingham, AL has a population of 212k and a yearly budget of 390 million. (https://ballotpedia.org/Analysis_of_spending_in_America's_la...) When you consider the USA govt spent about 70 Billion on R&D in 2016 (http://www.aaas.org/page/historical-trends-federal-rd). That would be about 0.5% of total R&D spending.
It may very well be 'regressive' -- in the sense that it regresses back to before some of the public went essentially limp, to before political correctness comes before natural human rationale in people's pattern of thinking, it regresses back to relative normalcy instead of ridiculousness.
Sounds good. I wonder when Google Cloud Storage will start supporting https on static websites hosted through them:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/website-configuration?...

If they don't then they're not keeping up with hosting on Amazon's S3, which does support it.
He's a professional 2 Dan in the Chinese Weiqi (Go) Association (source: http://gobase.org/information/players/?pp=Fan%20Hui).

EGF and AGA have only just in the last couple of years started giving professional rankings, so most professionals in Europe and the US still have their professional rankings from China, Japan, or Korea, rather than European and American associations.
It's not a counterpoint. For a rich person, each additional dollar is worth less than it is for a poor person.
It can be hard to cook a proper meal for yourself when you work three jobs, don't have a full kitchen in your home, move on a regular basis, etc.

If only it were so easy.
Just set mine up for free, today. Letsencrypt.org works great. I recommend the simp_le client.
As a TA, I've actually seen students do this in numerical analysis.
Here are 7 pages which you may have already read, but may even still wish to read again while considering ideas such as UBI; especially if you are a critic of such things.

By Keynes' estimation, those who are discussing such things right now are right on schedule.

John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930) http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
People down-voted this because they hate outsourcing due to code quality etc, yet they didn't down-vote a managed wordpress hosting solution.. seems like a double standard.
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> When people discuss the value signaling provided by elite universities, their first example is usually "the diligence and hard work it takes to get into the university"...

Graduation rates at universities for the elite are nearly 100%. Getting into the club is the only hard part and everyone involved knows that.

Empirically, what's required to get into the club is being wealthy enough to afford the private schooling, tutoring, and extra circular activities necessary to help your child game the admissions process.

As long as people value these prestigious brands, the elite will continue to buy them for their children. It's got nothing to do with education itself, which could be obtained any number of ways already.
Yes, and in the hands of a brilliant artist, mud and coffee stains can make a lovely painting. That does not mean art teachers should use mud and coffee as the only tool for teaching one how to paint.

Unfortunately, most high school math teachers are undertrained, underpaid, overworked, and pressured to focus on exams. The two-column proof is a crutch. It's not the only awful part of high school math education, nor is it the sole bane of a student's math education (I never said it was). But it is the most egregious example of bad math education.
i don't think it has to be a raging ego. Everyone's like this to a degree: we're trained to think this way from birth. Why can't one enjoy their virtues without comparing them to others? i study mathematics for fun; i was half as good as the kids who ended up going to grad school in my class; only a few of them will end up professors. The fact that professors of mathematics completely outclass me does not impact my enjoyment of my own mathematical ability at all. In fact, i am thrilled when i get to talk to an expert in the fields i'm interested in.

Being second place in a cooperative system is not bad. People don't mind that. Being second place in a competitive system is bad. People are scared that machine intelligence will be in competition with them; i think it's better to just reframe the relationship.
Problem is that a country like Denmark have all those things more or less and we still have more or less the same issues although to lesser degree.

The solution to the problem isn't hiding in what we already know although many of these things of course would be hugely beneficial to people.

The underlying problem. Technology is still going to be there.
agreed, but it also referred to his google coverage being constantly subject to pressure of getting scooped. my point was that an nyt writer should not care if someone beats them to a story, they if anyone should have the luxury to trust that their readership would rather see a well-researched story than a breaking one.
I think you're reading this suggestion more ambitiously than I intend. I'm just saying that financialization has eaten up more and more of the economy while providing a dubious return on investment and creating a large NYC-based elite, and that anything startups can do to bid the costs of financing businesses down will probably help.
A good first step would be for governments to stop doing everything in their power to make sure the cost of residential housing increases every year more than the rate of general inflation. I understand _why_ they do so, homeowners are a big and powerful constituency, but it is an incredibly inefficient and counterproductive way to go about doling out pork. This means things like eliminating the mortgage deduction, property tax deduction, special cap gain rules, getting rid of Fannie, Freddie, FHA, forbidding the Fed from buying up MBSs, eliminating the homestead exemptions, and getting rid of no recourse rules. Not sure how much of a role start up can play in this sort of political reform.

A good next step would be decoupling education from housing so that the purchase or rental of a home doesn't implicitly include quasi-private school tuition. Here I see a good role for the private sector. While for-profit charter operators can be very controversial, excellent charter schools with scalable models are a necessary precondition to selling the public on a voucher system which implicitly buys you larger catchment areas and has the desirable decoupling effect. If the private sector can do that, godspeed as far as I'm concerned.
My memory of that interview at the time was that it was terrible. I imagine it contributed to Larry and Sergey deciding talking to the press wasn't as good a use of their time as doing things.
I was watching a video[0] the other day and Eric Schmidt said since the Playboy interview they have not given any more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRxFRgNpns
Instead you have companies like YCombinator and Facebook requiring people to move into an already overpopulated area to do work that could just as easily be done over the wire.
The problem is the cost... If we can't pay for people's health care, I wonder why we think we can pay for everyone's living expenses.

Suppose one person needs $100K to survive. Is it moral to let that person die, and instead give $10K to 10 people as basic income? That's a real resource allocation decision that has to be made.

I will consider the argument that the government would be less efficient at providing food and shelter than giving people the money to do so... that could possibly be true on a large scale.
Thinking through the deeply complex problem of how to display a static heading, image and three bullet points? This is master troll material. I LOLed greatly.
I think it's more difficult to get to the truth.

This article seems credible: https://pando.com/2015/01/09/the-hidden-cost-of-being-an-ube...

But, what it shows as the "income after op cost" isn't the real truth. That figure ($12.62/hr in Chicago, $34.04/hr in NYC) would be basically 1099 income. You would have to pay self employment tax (not trivial), and forgo whatever benefits a cab company might provide their employees.

If you look for average salary for cab drivers, and compare to the above, you would gather that cab drivers do better than Uber drivers in Chicago, but worse in NYC.

I can't find any credible sources where it seems 100% clear that the comparison is thorough, and apples to apples.
I've had friends who are reasonably well off compared to the rest of the country and in doing the math realized it was just easier for one parent to stay home for X years raising the children.

Of course then they are out of the workforce and 'unhirable' when they try to re-enter it.
You're absolutely right, I agree. I think this reaction ("Oh no! My 'private' IPs are known and being scanned!") is probably one that comes from having spent a lot of time with a personal network behind the NAT of an IPv4 router, which necessarily provides a wall to internal network scans. Using IPv6, NAT is no longer necessary, and therefore it can surprise people that aren't expecting that behavior. I thoroughly enjoyed the write-up though!
Interesting article.

What I have in mind is the instances when I read a paper (read: dozens of papers on a refined area), the methods section leaves out 10-99% of the details, and I spend significant time and effort searching for the details if they exist at all anywhere.
At work, our main product is an image manipulation and display software so as you might expect we use a lot of placeholder images when designing the UI/UX flows.

If you peek over our leads shoulder, you'd see she nearly universally uses close up facials of 'sexy' men or whoever happens to be the latest group of fashion models on ANTM.

People use images that appeal to them. They're not going for broad universal appeal.

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Also I find it highly ironic that people in this thread are suggesting we replace fully clothed images of a woman who became famous for doing a children's TV series, with images of Lena Söderberg 1972 playboy centerfold because it is 'traditional'.

If people will take offense to Emma being 'sexy', I'm not sure what they're going to do if you use the full spread of images that the famous "Lena" shot was cut from. After all the point of this image viewer is to show different images, is it not?
Well, that's exactly my point. A lot of people do things that satisfy themselves and can often help others, but when you need to work to live you get greedy with your time and money. A state that provides basic income frees people to find their sense of self-worth, not assign it to them.