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I strongly disagree. There is always value in policing the powerful.

If we're going to celebrate the wins (and we should), we have to soberly examine both the losses and the externalities. If these accusations are true, it is our industry that gave him the wealth to cause this kind of harm.
It also seems to "allege" that he already paid $10M. That would be an odd thing to falsely claim, no?
I think they view attacks on trump as apolitical since "he doesn't represent the mainstream of the party". Turns out the "mainstream" of the party is more deranged and racist than even most liberals suspected.
Their inkjet line of crap are the worst printers I've ever had to use and continually clean themselves out of ink, even when you aren't using it. If you unplug it and plug it back in, the damn thing will clean itself for a proportional amount of time. So it will use ink at a nearly constant rate regardless of whether or not you use it. It is totally some kind of fraud.
I'm going with something like "beef labelling procedures law"
Basic income is supported by the libertarian party. http://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-case-basic...
Speaking from personal experience with a bunch of people that live way too close to zero or negative net worth, it's not buy a new TV or pay rent, it's buy a new TV or maintain a 6-12 month safety net in case everything goes to hell (which you might need, one day, to pay rent). But hey, that's what loans and credit cards are for, right?
I have a Dell 1110 which I bought when I was a student. Same story except that I've put 1500 pages through it over the past 9 years. TCO: $300.
Makes sense until people stop buying them for laser printers.
>How is it possible to terminate a guy in the US with unproven allegations?

The allegations of that specific lawsuit may be unproven but the previous "settlement" of $40m "hush money" that's attached as an exhibit to the end of the lawsuit (see the scribd link) appears to be factual and not a forgery of MG's signature.

Since many reasonable employers wouldn't hire someone with such a settlement made public, it logically follows that they would also fire someone for such a document damaging the company image. Any judgement of innocence or guilt on the allegations down the road is irrelevant to the damage done now.
The simpler option is to buy a high quality laser printer. I'm on the same cartridge in my HP4200N for almost 10 years since it's good for 12,000+ pages.
Note that forcing HTTPS will reduce your ad revenue. Google itself warns about it:

"Some important things to know about the SSL-compatible ad code: HTTPS-enabled sites require that all content on the page, including the ads, be SSL-compliant. As such, AdSense will remove all non-SSL compliant ads from competing in the auction on these pages. If you do decide to convert your HTTP site to HTTPS, please be aware that because we remove non-SSL compliant ads from the auction, thereby reducing auction pressure, ads on your HTTPS pages might earn less than those on your HTTP pages."
Do you really not understand how human trafficking and slavery works? Getting out of that situation is not nearly as easy as "just going to the police". There's lots of books on the subject you can read to learn more.

> How is it possible to terminate a guy in the US with unproven allegations?

At-will employment. Anyone can be fired at any time for any reason. Innocent until proven guilty applies to the legal system, not to employment.
They are not "above the law" because there is no law that they've actually broken. As far as I can tell there's no law against providing secure end-to-end encryption to your customers, and no law requiring that encrypted connumication be tappable.
And the economic preduction. And the influx of wealth into underdeveloped countries. And all of the people not dying.
They are quite complex and the consumer versions are commodity items. There are printhead - ink - paper interactions and the electrophotographic process for laser printers requires optimization to print on different media. There are lots of things that can go wrong - and do. I have spent much of my career in an analytical lab analyzing these problems. Such problems raise costs and with commodity items, very high yields are required to be profitable.

Years ago we had a professor (I forget the name) from MIT come to our Research Labs and give a talk on his research. He was using game theory to study product research, development, and manufacturing. When all was said and done, he concluded that if you were not first or second to market, you spent significantly more money to enter the market and your probability of being profitable was much lower.
It doesn't surprise me that there are edge cases where you need paper. It surprises me that those edge cases are numerous enough that you would own a printer and deal with it.

All of my boarding passes are covered via phone but on the occasion that I need a pass for an airline that doesn't have that option I would just spend 5 minutes at a kiosk to get it.

On the occasion I have to file a gov form that isn't available digitally or I can't fax (via email), I'll just get it printed at whatever local place can do so.

Point is that home printing really isn't a necessity anymore, and depending on circumstance it's debatable if it's a time/cost savings. As a result I would expect the home printing market to get more and more expensive.
Not true - there is an initiative in the UK started years ago to phase out checks, but it faced a lot of backlash and delays and is not anywhere on schedule. Checks are uncommon in the US as well, by the way, but you can see from the statistics I linked that cash and checks are still used in both countries.
Video sequences will not be secure enough. 2FA with hardware tokens is the only practical solution that's secure.
Seems like just yesterday (actually seven months ago), I was saying dbn's aren't good at go yet in an argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028908

i guess it's time to play with dbn's again. At least I have accumulated a few more Titan x cards in the mean time.
It's the per-page cost. A toner cartridge will print several-thousand pages before it runs out, but most people don't print that often. The base cost on a color laser might be $300, while for an inkjet it might be $50. If you never burn through the sample cartridge that comes with the inkjet then you're ahead of laser because of amortization. However, if you manage to run out of ink more than once then laser will end up costing you less, assuming you print equal amounts with both printers.
Well to be fair I bought an Epson inkjet printer (Workforce something) several years ago and never used up its original cartridge. Granted I don't print much but I was still fairly impressed.

Of course that doesn't invalidate the point of TFA. Also they have an ink dump that is chipped - when it is "full" they force you to buy a replacement rather than just empty it.
HP 4200N. It's not light, but you can get them cheap and they run forever. You turn it on and Linux, OS X and Windows automatically detect it on the network and can print. No hassles and no nonsense. I've had the same cartridge for going on ten years since it's good for 12,000+ pages. I'm sure I should do the scheduled maintenance, but it's good enough print quality for my needs.
An I Ching throwing program was the first program I wrote on my own, and is still an exercise I like to go through when teaching myself a new programming language.
> Microsoft can't sue Linux

Not Linux the OS but the Linux Foundation. I'm no lawyer but I think that the Linux Foundation is a juridical person, i.e. an entity that can be sued.
No one can really predict the future. But given the number of times AI pessimists have been proven wrong in recent years and the massive increase in AI investment, my best guess is that truly human-level artificial general intelligence is in fact around the corner.

Considering what a large impact this will have, we must take that possibility seriously. Not to do so would be foolish.

AIs can play chess, recognize speech consistently, drive cars, win at Jeopardy and now Go. Deep Mind has some general capabilities. We must anticipate programs with even more general intelligence.
Before the net and big data, investigation for facts based on analyzing clues and motive led to warrants for discovery of information. Even these warrants were only for concrete evidence. They did not allow for the administration of 'enhanced investigation' to draw out the thoughts of the suspects.

What has changed is that the phone has become an archive of my life and contains much more information than just a phone log. Invading my phone is equivalent to invading my brain. The govt already has mountains of metadata. Suspects are not invisible - they already are tagged by association. And email data, text data, and telephone data is all old. Even without decryption, there is so much of it that analysis cannot be done by humans. And by the time it gets to a human it's hours to days old - STALE.

Fresh intel requires surveillance. Drones are as small as flies and just as numerous. Real time surveillance of suspects by robot swarms is far better than analyzing cryptic email messages. Another change that has further enabled tyrannical control now is that tech allows mass surveillance, whereas in the 'good old days' , the govt had to be focussed and behave with more care simply because they did not have the resources to wiretap everyone.

Misuse of data ALWAYS happens because people are people. In the good old days, we would shudder at the idea of a guy like Trump with his finger on the nuclear button. giving him the ability to look into anyone's ledger is just scary.
Which is why a c++ underbelly is so important. The computations shouldn't happen at the java level if a scientific lib is being done right. I'd say scala isn't a bad alternative to that (which we have nd4s which is a wrapper over nd4j)
Not true at all. Buy a good management solution (we use PrinterLogic) and buy good printers.

By getting rid of crap devices, putting the good, self-service management system in solution in place, and proactively replacing consumables, we took something like 75k annual printing tickets down to around 300.

Those support interactions and dispatch cost like $1M/year, so eliminating them paid for 100% printer replacement in about 18 months.

Because we bought thousands of printers at once, we made the vendors quarter and were able to extract additional concessions re:reliability guarantees, etc. So if our estimation of the quality of the devices are wrong, we're shipping a lot of printers back.
Maybe planned retrogression instead of planned obsolescence?
Sounds like Haskell may be appropriate for your use case. It has green threads, a great REPL, and extremely powerful polymorphism (which provides a safe and clean alternative to e.g. macro/template-based metaprogramming, although Haskell has that too if you need it).
This is because of ethical reasons: one of the conditions that Deepmind made with Google in their deal was for an "embargo on using its technology for military and intelligence applications."

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/16/demis-hass...
1) A housing voucher would cover analogous issues in the US.

2) Being poor in a poor country is very different from being poor in a rich country.

3) I don't know the details of the program, but it likely involved different amounts of accountability and social influences than a basic income.
The Brother color lasers also are happy to print without color toner cartridges present.

By contrast, HP's cheaper color lasers require the cartridges to be present, and if they run out and are left in the machine, they cause banding over your printouts. This is due to their integrated drums wearing out, so you have to replace the color toners even if they're not being used (or hack around with transferring chips onto less-used old cartridges, even black ones so they're seen as colour ones).
> If you aren't watching ads, then you're effectively not paying for the content.

What if the user doesn't watch ads but allows Google to track them outside of YouTube, and then Google uses that data to sell higher priced ads elsewhere? Ads you may allow because not all websites are obnoxious about how they serve ads. That is another way you are paying for YouTube content. It's disingenuous [via your original statement] to state that not watching YouTube ads means you aren't paying for the content. Users are already paying for the content in a lot of other ways that aren't immediately transparent. Hence why I said you're incorrect. You are leaving out information to support your stance and make the issue black and white when in reality, it isn't so simple.
> 4. The printer will not function (Scanner or Fax) without the full cartridges (black and colours).

My parents recently scraped an Epson all-in-one. Something had broken inside and the printer insisted that there is a paper jam and refused to do anything, even scanning.

They took it apart trying to figure out what's wrong. This thing had probably hundred moving parts or more, mostly made of plastic. It was so overengineered I'm surprised it had ever worked at all.

My favorite part is the CD/DVD tray which takes like 10 seconds to eject because the drive is hidden deep inside and the device has to rearrange some of its guts to bring it to the front. As much as I admire people who were able to pull it off, this is sick.
Some people like to print photos. Unless some things have changed, they are better at printing photos.
There's a good interactive tutorial at
http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/

The community has also collected a lot of good Go resources at Sensei's Library: http://senseis.xmp.net/

Good luck!
I'm not promoting any central planning. That certainly would be a disaster. The reason I suggest a voucher and food stamps is because they give the individuals the flexibility to apply them to their situation.

Edit: Also, it's definitely not just my parents. Look around you, there's payday loans on every corner. My parents only took a couple payday loans that I knew about. Their money-management issues are a drop in the ocean of similar problems.
The parent here makes a good point, and your comment appears to represent a common misconception about neurotransmitters. Both dopamine and serotonin can do different things depending on the system and the receptors that are actively present. Serotonin, for example, is mostly in your gut, not cortex! From wikipedia:

"Approximately 90% of the human body's total serotonin is located in the enterochromaffin cells in the GI tract, where it is used to regulate intestinal movements."

Dopamine is more specific, playing an important role in the limbic system, but is not limited to it. Its functions are not completely understood, and again depend on the receptor.

Better to think of the function of neurotransmitters as dependent on both system AND receptor. The function of neurotransmitters, like dopamine, can be simplified, but others, like glutamate, are extremely complicated.
He is claiming he was being extorted.
> What if our only evolutionary value is to give rise to machine intelligence

There is no prescribed script about what our evolutionary value should be. We will be whatever we ourselves make of us. Unless something unexpected happens -more advanced aliens intervening with our specie for example- Our human instinct is to grow, explore, discover, compete, share as much as we can. AI should be seen as a tool to our goals. Not as an end by itself. There is of course the possibility that we may loose control to the AI. That is not our desired goal, but it could happen. In that case our future will not be our decision. We will be at the mercy of whatever the AI choose for us. That will depend on what kind of AI we built, and how the rampant AI chooses to modify itself. But we will strive to reach our human goals. Because that is the human nature.
We came to the same conclusion. My wife is a teacher and we often print her notes, tests, homework assignments, and worksheets to be copied at school. The B&W laser "just works" and is both fast and economical.
Yep, my Brother MFC-something-or-other laser went about 10yrs I estimate before something went south with its brains. Never had a problem with the cartridges or any of the mechanicals, but I didn't use it often either. A brand new Brother MFC-L2740DW laser sits on my desk now and if it lasts 5 years I'll have gotten my $170 out of it.
For online tickets, you can usually download them. If not, I just take a screenshot (both Android and iOS have built-in support). I've traveled on Ryanair just fine using them.

For maps, there are plenty with offline support: Google Maps, HERE, OsmAnd, etc.

I'm not criticizing your approach, just saying that I've never felt that need. Official paperwork, on the other hand, is still a pain; our local governments seem particularly adverse to digital documents.
Looks great, especially nice since I can put it on my linux machine which I prefer to use.

How does it match up against Camtasia in terms of putting together a presentation? Like can you add text and fade in/out images on top of the video?
I guess, he was aware of that ...
Lasers only. It's really the only way to go, especially if you only print occasionally. They last forever compared to ink jets.
Coupons. Forms that can't be accepted electronically. Shipping labels. Tickets. Letters one is going to mail.

At work I've actually printed out database queries before so I could take a pen and mark them all up.
People and most businesses are dumb and overweight procurement cost over TCO.

You can get a good printer. It just doesn't cost $79.99.
"No, I'm afraid you aren't quite beautiful and lovable enough, just the way you are, my daughter. I need to take thousands of dollars out of your college fund, traipse halfway through a country torn by decades of civil war and genocide, and drag your name and photograph through the international media, first -- for the sake of an abstraction I looked up on the internet. Then you'll be my precious little princess."
It's probably best to not think in terms of a binary ADHD diagnosis, but rather on an attention spectrum.

Students low on the attention spectrum (but either just above ADHD diagnosis or without the resources to get diagnosed) are probably more likely to self-medicate.

So, the fact that some students who self-select for self-medication show improvements isn't necessarily evidence that someone in the middle or upper end of the attention spectrum will see improvements. However, it does suggest a need for research into the effects on randomly selected non-ADHD-diagnosed people.
>>Far as the argument, it's weak because none of the claims they made last time came true. If anything, the U.S. is spying on and locking up so many Americans they might need to cut back so they can stop putting dangerous people back on the street.

Most of the increase in prison occupancy is due to drug offenses and this has been dropping since 2008ish; not due to 'spying'

>>Prosecution is so one-sided in FBI's favor that plea bargain rate is 97%.

This is 97% of the 92% of cases that are not dismissed or dropped by the prosecution after charges are filed. So only about 89% of the cases brought by federal prosecutors are resolved by a plea bargain. This also covers cases that are not brought or investigated by the FBI at all. The vast majority of criminal cases brought by prosecutors are slam-dunks(after all, they wouldn't charge someone otherwise). You don't need to believe the FBI in any case. Most criminal cases around the world are resolved very quickly and with a high conviction rate for the prosecution.
A basic security problem is figuring out who you can trust. You often need to trust something by default (hence root CAs in operating systems and such), or you need to have a mechanism for building trust (e.g. networks of trust such as sharing GPG keys).

And unfortunately we have seen plenty of examples of how screwed-up a default-trust scheme can become. Laptop vendors have abused their root-CA authority multiple times now, in recent memory. You don’t want the keys to the kingdom in anyone’s hands.

Besides, no matter how many assurances you give me today, I have no idea how careful you are when hiring people or how well you secure your Magic Keys. In the end, they get out in the open. This is why you can’t allow for even a single hole in the system.
Sadly, if the parent finished reading the article they wouldn't have found any solid argument whatsoever.
The often raised argument in defense of UBI is the automation of production.

Well, work isn't just about producing goods. We work to solve problems. And there are plenty of problems and challenges that machines won't solve for us ranging from cancer and dementia to clean energy to global warming. Not to mention some nice-to-haves for the long-term like space colonization, life extension or nanotechnology.

Saying that humans should not need to work is like saying this is it. We're done here. This is the world we want.
Cicero famously argued that if Rome 'gave away' Campagnia, they would lose their 'granary for times of war'.
We are very much considering opening up the chat logs!
Just because you or me see no prescribed script, doesn't mean it's not there. You make a philosophical point here, but my point is more than that.

"We will be whatever we ourselves make of us" sounds meaningless to me. The universe obeys certain physical laws, evolution is directed and follows a specific pattern. We have up to this point been bound by both. Occam's razor says this will continue to be the case.

I think we are already at the crossroads where we can more than speculate about the function of machine intelligence in evolutionary terms, but hopefully sooner rather than later we will have actual _evidence_ that we can look at and use to refine our assumptions.
I know of one attempt to design such a game: Arimaa. Playable on a chess board, Arimaa has an even bigger game tree than Go. It's a great game, and fun to play, but as an anti-computer design it has recently failed.

There has been an annual humans vs computers challenge match every year since 2004, and in 2015 computers won with David Wu's software "Sharp". Despite the very high branching factor, standard chess AI techniques turned out to be applicable when combined with high quality hand written heuristics for positional evaluation and candidate move generation. The software is described in detail here:

http://icosahedral.net/downloads/djwu2015arimaa_color.pdf
Building a 3D Engine with JavaScript
This exactly. It's not like they buy TVs instead of paying rent. Of course very few are that stupid. The problem is that they charge up their cards and blow their safety buffer on the TV/car/etc.
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That may be a valid approach. The parent comment is merely pointing out that your proposal is technically distinct from "basic income", and therefore should be labeled appropriately.
I don't smoke, but I do use nicotine gum from time to time to help focus. I find it faster acting and more effective than caffeine, with a shorter half-life.

I should probably talk to my doctor to see if I have ADHD, instead of occasionally self-medicating.
You don't need to be a millionaire to abuse women and take advantage of sex trafficking.

This is hardly an indictment if silicon valley.
The Go Files: AI computer clinches victory against Go champion
"move 37", the infamous "shoulder hit", is a reference to what happened in Game 2, in which AlphaGo was black.