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Languages don't create bug, people create bugs and there will always be bugs. Instead of looking for the new hotness just study your chosen language more, carefully research your problem, spend more time designing your system to be fault more tolerant and test the system to find the bugs you do have. If we're talking only about languages introducing bugs it's best to have a mature language that works best for your problem and that you are proficient at.

I agree. Programming languages are tools. They help structure problem solving. They provide convenient notations. They have hidden gotchas (sometimes). Some languages may be a better match to a particular problem than another. Programming languages are not a substitute for thought, careful design, and analysis. Language flame wars, endless comparisons, strong assertions of language goodness, and anecdotal tales of greatness are fun to read, sometimes provocative, but in the end remain (for me) unconvincing.
The New Tree of Life
An impressive collection of tips!

Highly relevant plug: for students / fresh grads wishing to bridge the academia-industry gap, we offer a free Incubator programme [1]. There we mentor talented students from partner universities on such practical matters.

We do specialise in machine learning, but most of the tips here apply 100%. Surprisingly -- at least to many ML students coming from academia -- even (especially?) the "be boring" bit of advice. People can get so hyped up about the latest ML fads that they miss the forest for the trees, so to speak.

[1] http://rare-technologies.com/incubator/
>Drugs like LSD and psilocybin put your mind in a state where you perceive knowledge that you don't actually have.

I'm not sure altered perception is by definition "false" or "untrue." It's hard to be objective about experiences that by their nature are outside our objective reality.
The non trippers don't see those moments as eternity.
Stone Soup has to start with someone putting in at least a stone's worth.
China let 13 North Koreans defect through its border
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The Future of Big Data Is Bigger Than You Can Possibly Imagine
In that case, I stand corrected.
I have not seen or experienced everything, but from my perspective, social justice seems to be the philosophical opposite to natural rights.
Funny how, using your own logic, Google didn't take down Moldbug's posts. BTW, have you stopped using Google products since they endorse this kind of speech on the platform?
Mazda selling vehicles produced under a joint venture with Ford is not the same thing as Ford having another brand.
Yup. I am with you.
So the count of how many trees there are now was off by an order of magnitude.

And we are supposed to give credence to an estimate of how many there were 10,000 years ago? What makes you think that's any more accurate?

This kind of sloppy science is ruining people's confidence in science. I know it's supposed to be an iterative process, always getting better, but there should be some self awareness built in that early iterations should not be relied on in any way!
I've been thinking about this for a bit now. I read up on the Act that details the duties of GCHQ, and whilst I'm pretty uncomfortable about it (also, I'm not a UK citizen) it looks like this was indeed within their purview.
There are people who get paid to manually plant trees. They're called Tree planters. Seeds seem more scalable but the industry appears to use saplings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wPTwlGGJs

Maybe a drone could complete the two actions instead.
1. Jam rod thing into ground, pull it out, dump dirt
2. Stuff in tree

A guy on Reddit claimed to have planted 1.25mm trees this way:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24jgsy/ive_planted_12...

Young trees need water until they're established, so I wonder how many little trees actually survive.
I always wanted to learn OCaml because I thought ML was a very nice language. Great how a rewrite of the JS code cleared up a lot blurry implementations. I wonder if F# could be applied here as easily. Funscript and Websharper compile to JS from F#. F# is opensource, and always suffered in published benchmarks, because the slower Mono platform was used due to MS licensing restrictions on using the faster .NET platform. Now that MS is opensourcing so much, and recreating bash in Windows, F# is going to be more applicable I think in operations too.
> Why was 1% chosen and not 10% or 0.01% for that matter?

Because it's a simple number to write.

Lay-people using this term have no idea that the 1% includes doctors and lawyers, they just assume it's ultra-rich bankers, executives, and hedge fund managers. Yes, that means that if you're incapable of understanding context it might sound like they're talking down on doctors and lawyers. But I assure you they're not.

> And "railing against" != confusion. If enough people believe something, certain people in that group can do some pretty messed up shit without exactly "railing" first.

What are you even saying?
You keep trying to bring the topic back to numbers in a computer rather than physical goods and services. Why?

Also, clearly the Germans do reap the benefits of their labor.

Blatantly false.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/balance-of-trade

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/greece/balance-of-trade

You even acknowledge this one sentence later: "Germany needs a monetary union so that it can be the exporter it is."

I agree that the Germany government is, in part, responsible for policies that make Germans poorer and Greeks richer. So what?

It seems like you want to blame Germany since unfortunately the only solution for the Greeks is for the Germans to keep sending them even more stuff (even though the Germans didn't make the Greeks unproductive).
In my humble opinion both platforms are turning into a place where people would like to complain or bitch about some things that bother them.
Was Google services (search, email, drives, apps) impacted at all?
SSD, RAM ? I think maybe it affects performance
Basic Entreprenuership
Hmmm... would this have affected Netflix?
Perhaps the grandparent rationally fears retaliation?
I do consider it noteworthy. I hadn't heard it, and I appreciate the info very much. It is utterly shocking. I apologize; I didn't mean to come off as dismissive. And rereading, I did. It kind of didn't sink in properly.

And the "meh" you've run into ( dude, you filed FOIAs - holy schnikies! ) is also rather appalling. Including mine.

These guys are doing this out in the open? Damn. You'd think they'd be open for predation after something like that.
Doing unto others how they would have done to you, had your side not won -- how is that a virtue? That's like taking prisoners and violating the Geneva Convention, because they would have behaved that way to you. Unfortunately, this is the kind of nation the United States has become. (Really, nations, plural, because we've forgotten how to be a loyal opposition and hang together.)

Everyone thinks their side is just. The lesson of history is that one can recognize the truly just and enlightened through their magnanimity. Those who did wrong should be punished. Sure, but going around bullying those who thought wrong? There's something really shortsighted and twisted about that. How isn't that simply McCarthyism through legal socially-enforced means?
I wonder if it was an issue with their Maglevs[0]?

[0] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub44824.html
Apple pulls third-party Reddit clients for NSFW content
Not to diminish Carmack's significance and genius, but, from waht I can tell from the first minutes of the interview, he knew he was going to be awarded, so je had plenty of time to prepare and rehearse his -- very inspiring, I should say -- speech.
I'm a fairly introspective person and I wouldn't say that it shook my world view - in the sense that I went in with a scientific world view and came out with one. I do have a better empathetic appreciation for mental illness and psychosis though (read And Then I Thought I was a Fish if you want to scare yourself). A trip makes you realize how incredible differently someone else's mind can perceive the world.

The challenging or scary part for me at least is when you rely on your own mind as a place where you can reason about things and then you start to worry if your ability to do that has been compromised.

The anxiety attacks after made me think that I really was dying or had a brain tumor or something and since I knew that the drug could no longer be in my system I got scared. I could no longer rationalize it as temporary affects of the drug. Researching all of the psychiatric information I could find online started to convince me that we know very little of how consciousness and mental illness actually work and I felt stupid for taking such a large risk.

Another thing I found scary is that a lot of healthy, normal people believe things I find absurd (like religion) and the information we're exposed to growing up seems to act as the training data for our neural net. I think consciousness emerged out of some evolved way to handle feedback and I didn't want to lose my ability to be able to reason about things.

The physical sensations after were really unpleasant (elevated heart rate, depersonalization, seeing visual patterns) and might have been caused by the anxiety that the LSD seemed to trigger. Also I had really low Vitamin D which seems to correlate with these kinds of issues too.

The fear of death I used to think about more than most people in a kind of distant way, but this experience made it feel imminent and traumatic - I think you're right that another life event could have caused similar symptoms.

I do worry less about things that aren't about people dying so maybe that's a good thing. It also comforts me a bit that everyone on earth is in the same boat, we're all sharing it for a limited time together and can work to make amazing things. Sometimes though, when I really think about the inevitability of dying it's still hard to go to sleep.

I think most people don't think about it.
Yeah I've been feeling behind the wave since I didn't hop on the VR bandwagon when Oculus was on Kickstarter. But Carmack and Abrash both repeatedly emphasized how much work there is to do in almost any presentation they give.
I saw that too.

My anecdata: In 1992 I was 5'10" and 210lbs. I switched from caloried drinks to non-caloried drinks (coke -> diet coke) and have up sides (no more fries). No other changes. Lost 30 lbs and pretty much stayed that way. Pretty much no real physical activity. Don't know which it was, the drinks or the sides or both.

Stayed that way until I moved to Japan in 1998 where most restaurants don't have diet coke. They're only non-caloried drink was tea which got me addicted to tea.

That's probably better for me than diet-coke but tea stains my teeth :(
Several years ago I worked for a very large company in a rather small group (about 40 people) that worked on what were then challenging image recognition problems. I think that most work in these areas is done either in large companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. or in a few small startups that are founded specifically to tackle these types of problems by people with very strong backgrounds in them (often from academia).

What are the qualifications needed to get into those positions?

In my opinion the ideal background would probably be an undergraduate CS major with a minor or a lot of course work in applied mathematics (at least at the level required for an EE or physics type degree) who has developed very strong practical programming skills. This would ideally be followed by a masters or PhD in machine learning. Many people get into the field without these kinds of qualifications through self-study, however (unless they're looking for a job in academia or a place that is specifically considered a "research lab"). The minimal requirements to learn the field are probably being comfortable with applied math through linear algebra and vector calculus with at least some statistics and probability along with strong practical programming skills.

Aside from all this the sine qua non of getting a job seems to be getting good at handling technical interviews.

Are they significantly better paying?

I doubt it. That's mostly a question of supply vs. demand (see next question).

Are there more skilled people for these positions (like in academia), or more positions than skilled people?

This is a complicated question. On the one hand the field seems to be exploding now and there are potential applications in practically all areas of human activity. There certainly aren't enough qualified people in the world right now to even scratch the surface of what can be done.

But that doesn't necessarily equate to there being a lot of jobs. I don't know what the job market is currently like but in 2011 it certainly wasn't easy for an experienced person to get a job in this field (it might have been easier for a young person with strong academic qualifications, however).

The problem is that developing a machine learning application to the point of generating revenue is typically very difficult and can take years. From the point of view of most investors it makes more sense to put money into developing a mobile app or a SaaS or something technically much simpler. Also even if you do want to found a machine learning company finding enough skilled people is probably not easy.
And they won't be down again in a long, long time.
Hey now, we do want 100% uptime but let's not get hasty.
Zoom in on just about anywhere in Oregon and you will see a strange halftone pattern. Checkerboard logging.
That's the only sane thing to do.

It is impossible to ensure 100% uptime, and it gets increasingly harder to approach that as you put more separate entities between yourself and the client. The thing is, you'll be blamed for problems that aren't in your control and aren't really related to your service, but to the customer. For example, local connectivity, phone data service, misbehaving DNS resolvers, packet mangling routers, mis-configured networks, mis-advertised network routes, etc. Every single one of those examples can happen before the customer traffic even gets to the internet, much less where you have your servers housed.

All you can do is accept that there will be problems that are attributed to your service, rightly so or not, and work to mitigate and reduce the possibility the problems you can, and learn it's not the end of the world.
This allows unlimited small outages:

"Downtime Period" means, for an Application, a period of five consecutive minutes of Downtime. Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than five minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods.
I tried that at the Van Gough museum but got creeped out at seeing everyone ignoring each other and staring at walls and had to escape to a nearby park.
>Doing unto others how they would have done to you, had your side not won

This is such an elegant and concise summary.
I'd love to be wrong, but you just need welders for a sales promotion sculpture...
You don't own the bank, they owned the computer. You aren't responsible for what happens to money the bank loans out since that money isn't yours.

From the article:

"Bultmann and Robinson had publicly advertised that they operated a Tor exit relay node—a node in the global Tor network, whose purpose is to give users the ability to browse the web anonymously. They said they operated the node as a service to dissidents in repressive countries, knowing full well that criminals might use it as well, much like any other communication tool."

So yes, they didn't know which drug dealer they were renting to or which packets were from drug dealers (or child pornographers) but they did know it was possible. And with Tor I think it would even be considered likely.

There seems to be a difference between say running a Tor exit node and running a commercial VoIP service. With VoIP the operator is required by law to record and make available certain information to LEO. Tor by design prevents the operators from having that information. I'm not sure what the legal consequences are but it seems to me that in any other "communication tool" situation the operator is expected to at least make an attempt to prevent illegal use. With Tor that isn't possible so I don't think it's really "like any other communication tool"

Bultmann and Robinson knew they might be enabling criminal behavior with their own personal equipment in their home. I think it's easy to at least see the perspective of law enforcement in this case or how the legal system could find them at least partially responsible.

I'm not saying this is what should happen but I don't think we have a clearly defined right to run an open proxy as a get out of jail free card.
Modern science hasn't even started to appreciate the existence of consciousness let alone validating which is the better method. The Himalayan yogic and tantrik traditions have gone to the depth of consciousness, dimensions, multiverse ETC, and literally have thousands of books written on the subjects (both practical and theoretical). There aren't only drugs but better mechanisms like mantras, rituals etc to actually experience different dimensions literally as you experience this physical dimension. Our mind acts as a filter to have us only perceive the quantum part of the reality for which 5 senses capture input. The rest is too magnanimous to even try to pen it down. The mind needs gradual training to be ready to experience those states or else it'd just damaged with information-overload as in case of LSD etc.

10k hours of intense concentrative meditation and you'd not remain a human forever.
The expansion of consciousness would let you perceive dimensions at your will, move about in other worlds with subtle body and in this world you can literally look into someone else's mind and thoughts they're having.

But this science was, is and would never be available online, rather under direct guidance of an adept, who'd only impart it to worthy, selfless individual. as it stands a very good chance of miss-use by selfish individuals
This here is right on.

I will add that if you can afford the time and effort to do so, it would be good to design your system in the beginning to work on multiple providers without many issues. That means trying as hard as you can to use as little provider-specific things as you can (RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, BigTable, etc). In most cases, pjlegato's 1) will still apply.

But you get a massive side-benefit (main benefit, I think) in cost. There are huge bidding wars between providers and if you're a startup and know how to play them off each other, you could even get away with not having to pay hosting costs for years. GC, AWS, Azure, Rackspace, Aliyun, etc, etc are all fighting for your business. If you've done the work to be provider-agnostic, you could switch between them with much less effort and reap the savings.
Am I being unclear here? I don't believe in free speech. It's an inconsistent, dogmatic belief except as a legal principle, and governments purporting to honor that legal principle almost never respect it when they feel threatened by speech. I'm not claiming a moral high ground here. I'm exercising my speech, and I fully accept the consequences of my speech. It is precisely that my speech has consequences that makes it worth exercising.
Can you talk about this? I have been spectacularly unsuccessful at using ECS (and currently run my VMs on a vanilla Debian ec2 instance)
Underwater drones for border security and more
+1 for John Prine
I'm happy with the one product of theirs I have. They have multiple products on Amazon with several thousand positive reviews each. I don't know if that means they will be reliable in the long term, but they seem to have one of the best names on Amazon to me.
For full disclosure I am the Co-Founder of SKWOD (forgot to mention it in my previous comment).
This is why Pandora's Key was a fruitless business endeavor
Who is "we" in "we'll replace these services"? Because it sure won't be me or my organization. Just like everyone who reads this comment, we will hope someone else will do it.
Yes, I'm using two different providers and sync them up using master-master replication.

For DNS I use DNSMadeEasy's DNS Failover feature that automatically fails over to a different IP address when it's unable to ping the server.
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I brush my teeth because I don't want them to rot out of my face and make my life difficult. And I'm writing this comment because I think your perspective is amateurish and stupid, and maybe I'm really just a compulsive asshole.

You're pounding round pegs into square holes and just ignoring the shredded bits that went flying when you did that.
In fact it is probably all Javascript. The formula editor at the top is an Ace editor, the spreadsheet itself is based on https://github.com/openfin/fin-hypergrid, which is an incredibly enourmous piece of software I had never heard of and which I don't understand at all what it is trying to accomplish, but I can see it renders to canvas.
Many programmers in Russia and some eastern european countries probably wouldn't even see that as a "side deal"
I was so glad to get away after 5 years of 24/7/365. I had to drive home 5 hours from holiday once, leaving the rest of the family behind, spend 20 minutes sorting stuff out and drive back - the untold joy of pre-cloud startups :)
he most likely didn't feel the difference at all!

He knew that something was wrong, because he crossed the runway threshold at 250 - 260 knots, rather than the typical 130 knots. He wouldn't have gone that fast just for grins, but because that's what he needed to do to keep stable and airborne.

That's a big difference.
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1) Most of the ads are ignored or just skipped
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3) Companies are spending those billions without consumers actually watching or retaining their ad.

Idea: ATM (Ad Triva Money) could solve all those three problems by creating trivia on commercial ads and passing on 80% of advertising revenue to consumers who answer trivia correctly. This makes watching ads interesting and fun, increases retention and provides financial benefit to the end user.

I know it might sound crazy but I would like to know your honest feedback regarding the idea. Do you think building such an app is even possible as most of the mobile advertising is now automated and generated through code?

Note: I am a solo founder with no technical skills (a major drawback) and have been trying to find a technical co-founder without any luck. Do you think it's better if I learn coding myself?

Any little feedback is greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot for your time!