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IdeaPad, 2GB, 500GB.

Ready to give up on it around 2 years ago, just seeming slower and slower, I installed a very minimal OS (Ubuntu, but the 40MB USB installer) then added Gnome 3. Great decision. The machine is now very pleasurable, far more than my work PC. I do most development remotely.

Low end Lenovos tend to have quite poor batteries, compared to higher end ThankPads or Macbooks. They seem good at the beginning, but degrade after just a few months.
The great grandparents inherited farms and worked them until old age when their children would support them. They saw the value of their crop drop dramatically relative to how much they could harvest in their lifetime vs the cost of living, and almost always have to sell their farm for a retirement.

The children (probably a half dozen of them) could not afford land (nor could the parents - land prices were on the rise and was scarce for the first time ever in the states), and farming was on the decline, so they moved to the city. They worked in sweatshops that exploited them for incredible amounts of labor without any workers protections. But because their parents tilled the fields and they bought their crops with the penance from their boss, they adapted to a world without farming.

The industrial revolution was never driven by the farmers hanging up their hoes and moving to the city. That happened, but in small quantity. What happened was that a generation of farmers made a generation of not-farmers and when they died their farms were sold to megafarm corporations rather than tilled by their children because the efficiencies of farming made their plots generate too little crop to support a family.

The difference is that here, the obsoleted class does not have a store of capital to cash out on like the farmers did - when farming died, you liquidated the farm at 50 and lived off the sale until you were 60 and your kids would support you until you died at 70.

This time, the obsoleted class will be 40 year old truck drivers who have done that for twenty years - and they will be left in crisis with no savings and no viable pivot in the economy. It will be interesting.
Why state the obvious?
Yeah, but how about the implementation?
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When the unemployment runs out you don't have much of a choice.
what happens when a whole bunch of people call for a driverless ride after an event

They will pay more.
PG noted that getting rich is largely about running errands. In fact most of what society regards as 'work' is like this. What one needs is a hard problem to work on.
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Whatever Bay Area city I enter, it shows the same S.F. postings.
Related: https://github.com/cdglabs/ohm and Alessadro Warth et als work on OMeta.
See parsing/unparsing in http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/
Flip it around: it took 1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs to beat him!

I'd be ecstatic if I could keep GNU Go on 1 CPU from wiping the floor with me... :)
Yes. More generally, governments monopolize the use of force. Against corporate surveillance, there's at least a chance of resisting. Against governments, you put your life on the line.

Anyway, it's a thoughtful essay. But I'm a simple person, and I tend to prefer action to contemplation. Interfering with corporate surveillance starts with simple steps. You block tracking and ads. You harden browsers against fingerprinting. You use operating systems that respect your privacy. You compartmentalize your online activity enough that surveillance won't hurt you, using multiple devices and VMs, that connect via VPN services and Tor.

It's not simple, I admit. But it can be a fun game. For me, anyway. Most people still don't seem to care enough to bother. And I don't know what it would take to change that. So it goes.
It doesn't have to be like that. None of my cars are less than 12 years old nor worth more than about $5K. Insurance is pretty minimal. Nobody bothers them on the street (though I don't generally leave them there overnight). If I had to move and sell them I'd get pretty close to what they are worth, and I'd buy something similar at the next place.

Parking is a pain, that's always been the case in urban areas.
Yeah, that's kind of true, I found myself seriously considering going to lawschool, sick of programming, when I finally realized that all I really wanted was to work with competent people.
Every week I receive emails with random letter J's inserted in the text. Took me a while to realise that Outlook is auto-converting them to the Wingdings smiley which corresponds to J in other fonts. The problem is that none of the email clients I use renders it correctly.
Actually the better way to look at this is human are like genes to AIs. Just as our genes generally get what they want from us despite having no thought, it is possible we could fulfil the same role for AIs.
OTOH the US has been driven by the Protestant work ethic for centuries. Many religions praise hard work and not just savoring the fruits of life, so an inverse correlation between faith and devotion to labor seems unlikely.
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The main problem with Go is that it was originally pushed by its developers as the perfect language for these applications, and it's still actively pushed as a systems language in some circles.

The Go language FAQ still states that no "No major systems language has emerged in over a decade". Besides ignoring the system languages which did emerge, this sentence misleads the reader into thinking that Go is a systems language.

And I'm not talking about garbage collection here, which is often cited as why Go can't be a systems language. GC makes it hard to write some of the applications of a systems programming language, such as OS kernels and games, but it's not mutually exclusive, and OSes have been written in GC languages before (Lisp Machines, Singularity with Sing#). It's the entire approach: Go offers its own scheduler (which is really great, but if you need to use something else, you're in for some pain) and no support of writing dynamically linked modules. It makes go very inconvenient for most common system applications, unfortunately. Essentially, it's manages to be less high level than C++ (it has fewer robust typing and features), while not being low level enough to beat C++ in the same time (very inflexible binary target, GC-only, no inline assembly).
That's quite the non-sequitur
> I suggest you keep pestering them

I've had the motherboard replaced twice and the keyboard once and their last technician incorrectly assembled the main board which put it under a lot of physical stress. So I don't actually trust them to repair it anymore.

As for the internals, there are a lot of parts and the cabling is all over the place. I think it feels steardy because it's lightweight — I would not do anything to twist or bend it the tiniest bit. Compared to a macbook, or even a dell/hp, the lenovo is on the fragile side in my opinion.

EDIT: and worst part is that inlet vents for the fan are on the bottom. So "lap"top? not really, it takes 5 min for the thing to start cooking after used on your lap.
Workforce participation is at a 20 year low, considering the introduction of women into the workforce (who previously were a sleeper population of housekeepers and caretakers of children and elderly, which are now just general businesses) it is the lowest it has ever been.

Likewise, the glut of minimum wage labor (and the gradual transition of most of the populace into low level service workers) and the lack of well paying careers outside tech going forward, with the propensity to attempt to automate all of it as soon as we are able, means it will keep getting worse.

Point me to any use we will have in the next ten years for just a human being without any specialized training that will see significant enough gains to offset all these obviously continuing declines in workforce participation and available work. And even beyond that - how many tasks are we going to have for anyone but programmers? Is any industry going to grow rather than shrink?

We are going to try our hardest to automate as much of every industry there is as we can. We won't eliminate your doctor in 10 years, but Watson and similar AI will replace 90% of his job, so that one doctor can handle 10 times as many patients as they do now. You might insist on a meatbag barista, but once a barista bot can sense your phone is nearby and makes your coffee for you before you even get to the counter just the way you like it at any location anywhere, most people will much prefer that convenience, and the cheaper coffee is just a nice perk.

All professions are under threat - even programmers are being threatened, not the forward thinkers who found startups or push new ideas, but the cogs that work in big inefficient bureaucratic business software - it is often solving the same problem, that better languages, frameworks, and general solution are working to replace. Local IT admins have died an unsung death in the last five years as cloud infrastructure has taken over the industry, for example.
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Unicorns aside, it’s a good time to start a business
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Is this Poe's Law in action?
“I think that New York [City] is the new model for the New Concentration Camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves where the inmates ARE the guards and they have this pride in this thing they’ve built. They’ve built their own prison and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners and as a result, they no longer have – having been lobotomized – the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or to even see it as a prison.”
- My Dinner With Andre
Those are implemented by lapack as part of an nd4j backend.

Yes we have double precision - we have a default data type with the data buffer.

If you're curious how we do storage:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j/blob/master/nd4j-buff...

We have allocation types and data types.

Data types are double/float/int (int is mainly for storage)

Allocation types are the storage medium which can be arrays,byte buffers or what have you.

If you have a problem with the docs - I highly suggest filing an issue on our site:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j/issues

We actually appreciate eedback like this thank you.

For net lib java, it links against any blas implementation you give it. It has this idea of a JNILoader which can dynamically link against the fallback blas (which you mentioned)

or typically openblas or mkl. The problem there can actually be licensing though. The spark project runs in to this:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4816

If we don't mention on the site, it's probably because we haven't thought about it or haven't gotten enough feedback on something.

Unfortunately, we're still in heavy development mode.

FWIW, we have one of the most active gitter channels out there. You can come find me anytime if you're interested in getting involved.
No offense, but yes people are absolutely talking about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment

This is one of the major reasons you're seeing pushes for basic income. The future simply doesn't have enough jobs to support the amount of people who want them.
Yeah, I really can't understand this point of view. I find most people interesting, however different they may be. I'm lucky to be surrounded by talented people but I don't see it as a new stratum of goodness, people are shitty or great on every level.

On the contrary I dislike negative people who can't see anything good in what surround them and have a cynical view of the world. I don't think I would have liked working with you.
> The biggest problem I see is giving people cash. Why not instead give each adult a voucher for housing (just barely adequate for cheap housing) and each person $5/day food stamps (or something similar), regardless of income.

You haven't explained whatsoever what the "problem" is. Like saying "there is a big problem with nuclear energy. Why aren't we just using windmills." So... whats the problem?
> At least here in the US, money problems are (mostly) a money-management problem.

I don't think so.
Similar story here, been doing the crazy startup founder hours for half a decade now, haven't really lived much outside of the office in that time. Feeling also trapped: if I drop out, then I'm somewhat giving up on all of the people who over the years I had to convince to join me in a vision that I'm becoming tired of. It'd very likely lead to the collapse of a source of fulfillment, purpose and income for many people, but at the same time I suppose I have only one life and don't have to be a martyr.

What's something someone with a strong entrepreneurial, technical and managerial background (and very good pedigree) can do for maybe 20 hours a week and still pay the bills? I would love to drop out of the race for a few years and smell the roses.
To your point (1). Uber and Lyft have already figured this out with surge pricing.
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Would also love to hear the answer to this.
I don't know you, but you get my respect for that statement.
If it's that or be fired, I think most people would do what they're told.

There are some people, however, that will, in sheer determination to do what is expected of them, stare anxiously at their screen, hoping to focus their attention to the task at hand. No distractions, just a text editor waiting for some text. The problem is, the thoughts just don't surface. They try to psych themselves up, remember that their lively hood depends on it, that they don't want to let their coworkers down, etc. Sure, their gut tells them that they're working on the wrong solution to the wrong problem, but they remind themselves to keep a good attitude, remembering that this is what their employer deems both valuable and necessary. The hours tick by. It's 6pm, but they're convinced that they'll be able to turn it around. A couple more hours pass by. "If I just get this done, I get to spend time with my family, or go see my friends, or have some semblance of balance." It's 10pm. They cry for a bit, manage to get a bit of work done, and shortly after 1am, they hop in bed and call it a day. As they doze off, they lament their inability to power through uninspiring work (particularly work that they know could be obviated by better practices/tools/business-sense/etc.)

If you've _never_ experienced something like that, then I suppose you either don't have ADHD, or you've only had phenomenal working experiences.
> MIT/Apache licensed projects makes you feel that the less open licenses aren't as bad as Stallman says..

This is a slow process. We won't agree the problems with MIT/Apache until something really bad happens.

Say for example, we all use routers for internet. Mostly it contains GPLv2 linux and busybox + binary blobs. Most of us don't care. But if someday someone finds backdoors in those, we won't be able to change its firmware with our own/with the one's we trust. this bug was fixed with [A]GPLv3.

If we don't act now, we shall have to regret later.

But most of us won't act. Though we know that some fast foods might aid cancer, we won't stop it until we or someone in close relation with us have cancer. That's a human nature.
What kind of API do you need that requires metaprogramming?
If you're interested in selling a few shares now, then I would recommend EquityZen. The process is very simple.
What he's saying is that if AlphaGo played optimally, there'd be No point in playing.
Because there's a bit of a feedback loop with success. If others see you as being successful or impressive (on whatever axis they care about), this attracts them to you, and having a more admirers increases your social power and influence, which gives you more opportunities and better chances of success in your future efforts.

This also explains patio11's formula for career success, which is basically:

10 Make something awesome

20 Tell people about it

30 GOTO 10
I used to wonder why people avoided dentists, but recently I cracked a molar and had to go to see a dentist.

I was recommended a dentist in town, I showed up to a nice office full of nice people, they looked at my tooth and said they might be able to save it. So far, it was a pretty good experience.

Then it got weird. They took me to a room with a business person who would discuss my "payment options and treatment plan". I got this weird pushy salesman vibe, where they said it would be between ~$900 - ~$1,700 to salvage the tooth. I asked if we could just do an extraction but they only responded with "Oh you don't want to do that!" (playfully) but legitimately not saying it was an option.

So being uninformed and kind of surprised I just went along with it. She had me sign some paper saying I accepted the treatment plan (another red flag) and said she would "waive" my fees for that day (since you know, I'll be back tomorrow with 10x the fees).

Then, the next day I show up for my procedure, and the tooth is cracked too far down for them to salvage it, so the dentist decides he is going to do an extraction.

Ended up with just a $200 bill, and boy was a excited.

They of course tried to set up some kind of maintenance plan where I come in every quarter for checkups, but I declined.

Overall it just feels weird to have such a sales focus feel with something more medical related, and I didn't appreciate being steered away from all of my options, they could have just set me up with an extraction from the beginning. It's my mouth, why can't I decide if I'd save $2,000 to lose a molar.
One could always tax capital a little bit to offset this. Like a 0.1% of capital, so that person who has 15M will pay their 15K annual basic income.

On the other hand, that person will generate interest income, which is taxed normally anyway, at a much higher rate overall.
Are you suggesting that people can't use alternative services just by typing a address into their browser? Or are you saying that if you dislike your goverment polices like unjust wars or surveillance state you don't have to pay taxes for them?

"children" uses ad hominem attacks. Force is great when the force is directed against dissenting views, but not so cool when your views are in the minority.
Political compromise is what lead to the mess as it is today. Constantly compromising with residents has lead to a ridiculous situation where there has become a false notion that "they don't have to change".

SF changed already, it changed in ways to find coping mechanisms to deal with the damage being done to its future. The entire city of SF cannot continue to be the tech hub of the world and composed of (excuse my hyperbole I don't have accurate statistics on hand) 90% comprised of historical property that cannot be torn down or changed ever in any way.
You're making the assumption that human desires would matter to an AI.
Not really. Jeopardy is all about buzzer timing[0]. With Google search, you're always going to be slow on the buzzer. That's okay, though. The actual trivia is pretty easy. It's designed this way to be accessible to the average TV viewer.

[0] http://www.pisspoor.com/buzzer.html
Hopefully it's more like "what kind of safe do you keep the keys to your other safe in?"

I think the point is in relying on something that is fundamentally secure, not secure because it is obscure. If I print my private key on a piece of paper and pin it up by my desk that's something I shouldn't tell people, but if I have it locked in an unspecified safe deposit box, there isn't much harm in describing what the deposit box is made out of.

It does make you less secure, but a good security plan starts from assuming your adversary knew all that sort of thing in the first place.
Thankfully the dog has just been found (10 hours after it went missing).

p.s. I see a lot of them in San Francisco. Where do you live?
Exactly. Moreover, it's not like there's an immediate cause-and-effect of "use plain HTTP, get owned immediately". Instead, their credit cards and personal info would hit the black market, get aggregated and sold months down the road.

And even when that DID happen, it's not like the fact that their bank account is drained and their identity stolen is immediately determined to be a cause of X transaction on Y date over Z website.

In other words, it is hard to connect plain HTTP to identity theft even for the more-savvy let alone the common government worker.
or when "criminal" gets so broadly defined that everybody qualifies when the authorities want them to.

Right, this is the scenario I was trying to suggest. And as someone who has had some above median but still indirect involvement with politics in the past, I have to worry about the probability of this going up with proximity to people planning on running for office, or journalists, etc.
what do you mean about digging through folders twice?
All MBP fans flocking to downvote a comment which just lists a person's 'feelings' or his opinion. :) Seriously?
I thought GP's point was laid out well enough in the rest of the comment.
Critics of index investing always overlook the fact that there are many different indexes out there. The criticism always hypothesizes that everyone will put their money in an S&P 500 or a total stock market fund, while the reality is that indexers do all sorts of slicing and dicing with their index funds.

By reading just a few posts at the bogleheads.org forum one will quickly see that a ton of people overweight small caps and value stocks (and often the combination of those two factors, small cap value stocks). Some use an S&P 500 index, some use total market. Some hold international indexes (in their different flavors too - developed markets, emerging markets, total intl market, intl value stocks, etc.). Some overweight REITs in their portfolios. The combinations are infinite.

I personally believe that even if everyone indexes we'd still see significant activity in the market because not everyone indexes the same way. Also, a lot of indexers like to dedicate a portion of their portfolios to active investing once they reach a certain net worth - I myself plan on doing so.

The bottomline is that criticisms of indexing are either made out of ignorance or fear, or they have an ulterior motive behind them (such as promoting a firm's actively managed mutual funds).
Great article. This is why I only carry $1 bills.
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Everything has two sides. We are going to see the other side of ETFs one day. And it is not going to be pretty. I read an article in WSJ over last weekend about problems with Blackrock gold ETF that was suspended. Apparently some believe that etfs can get in big troubles one day. They can have either liquidity issues or crash significantly more than their underlying securities. There could be a run. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-07/blackrock-... Not first time. This was last year: http://www.barrons.com/articles/the-great-etf-debacle-explai...
I want to learn how to program, which language is the easiest?
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In most functional urban centres there is a balance between commercial and residential tenancy which leads to a "virtuous cycle" where by the growth of one supports the growth of the other, both are allowed to grow and they both contribute to the revenue of the region though appropriate municipal/state government systems such as taxes and fees for essential services.

SF got all kinds of broken by trying to have one without the other... How would increasing the burden on commercial residents help the situation in any way other than reducing demand by driving them away?

Remote work is a possibility I think it's more of a long term cultural shift that is unlikely to solve the current problems without resorting to regulations enforcing remote work. Regulations which would be shifting the burden to commercial residents and relevant that would just be