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How does this woman still have a job?

Mary Meeker and Henry Blodget are symbols of greed from first dot com bust. These two knowing cheered on worthless tech stocks that went bust, they did it right until the end. These two hucksters walked away with small fortunes in fees collected while analysts at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. They did this as everyone else went belly up. If the ratings agencies were complicit in the 2008 financial meltdown these two played the same supporting role in in the 2001 dot com bust.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB984003129896660782

Blodget is just as much of a scum bag:

http://www.lawyershop.com/practice-areas/criminal-law/white-...
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Except taxis also experience network effect. There is no central 'hail a taxi' telephone number(at least in my part of the world, might be different in NY), every company has its own numbers, own dispatch, and own rates. They all compete with each other, and while some bigger companies might ride on the too lazy dont care just come and pick me up tail of the market, majority still chooses their ride based on the rate and previous experience (nice driver, clean car, speed).

In Europe small scale transportation is as competitive as cellphone market. Hmm now I am beginning to see the problem, in US you might not understand what a competitive cellphone carrier market looks like in the first place? :) Here you can transfer numbers freely between carriers, there are usually 3-5 providers to pick from and they all compete fiercely on price, level and quality of service. Changing companies is not a mayor ordeal, merely an ~hour of work to optimize your phone bill.
Was that on Urbit's homepage? The docs? The IRC? The subreddit? Over e-mail?

Was it something like "yeah it is a functional system... hey have I mentioned how much potential you have for whenever you feel like dedicating your life to slavery?"

...or was it just the guy rambling on a blog of his under a pen name?

It's pretty obvious to anyone that the guy's views are obscenely offensive, but if the guy is strictly professional when it comes to Urbit, treats everyone with the same respect and works just fine along with many people that despise his views, how are the project's goals tainted?
No, being able to emulate a human is not necessary for understanding one and communicating with one. We can have great text comprehension (maybe even superhuman, won't that be fun?) and conversational interfaces without online learning, or without any overall model of interacting with the world.
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That is also my feeling after reading the article. He almost seems to stress that his best moments at work were the parties and the lunch time football games. Sure they contribute to the well being of a project team, but shouldn't the best moment be shipping the product out the door?
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Surge is a multiplier. It pays out a multiplied fare to the driver and to Uber. Incentives like the one described are usually applied after the fare is calculated.

Paying with cash has the same distribution of money (more or less), it's just handled differently.
It has the cult-like approach of Xanadu - use new terminology, tie it to an economic model, and re-invent everything. Also, there seems to be a cult leader.

Jargon: noun (data), nock (interpreter), mint (compiler), span (type), twig (expression), gate (function), mold (constructor), core (object), mark (protocol). It's Newspeak for programmers.

The overall concept seems to be a federated social system, like Diaspora. Everybody has a online presence which they own. But you can take your ball and go home, moving your online presence somewhere else, and it still gets found by others. Somehow. (That's a hard problem at scale.)

There's a claim that nobody can create vast numbers of identities for spam purposes because there are only 2^32 possible human identities. (That number should have been at least as big as the population of the planet. 2^36, maybe.) Apparently you have to buy address space, which is a profit center for somebody.

There's a download, which gets you their "OS" (which runs on top of another OS), an interpreter for their Hoon language and access to their chat environment.

Not sure what to think of this, but someone put in a lot of work.
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> That is a problem, because the moment that people have to pay the actual costs of an Uber ride, they may go back to taxis or driving their own cars.

While price increases do happen, they generally have nothing to do with driver incentives. Incentives for drivers are (usually) meant to build supply, not cut the cost of rides.
Generating theories which have predictive power is exactly what deep neural nets do. Reinforcement learning systems do explore their environment and perform experiments, it's just that we give them access to a limited environment and reasonably clear objectives.

Really, we cannot draw a clear line between a learning algorithm and intelligence. Any algorithm that can incorporate information from the world it is exposed to into itself and use it to predict that world is "intelligent" in a sense, and all machine learning algorithms do that.
(Various edits) Facebook's justifications for its delay (i.e., waiting to confirm that the site was hijacked, and disregarding the obvious violation of community standards) are pure baloney.

Facebook's terms contain COUNTLESS LOOPHOLES that seek to PROTECT it in all cases, let alone its taking down a murder victim's bloody murder photo at the request of her family. For example:

--Facebook disclaims all liability for to its account holders and all other persons for any of its actions.

--Facebook Account holders and site users must defend, hold harmless and indemnify (reimburse) Facebook for any liability that might be imposed on Facebook by the account holder or any other person.

--Facebook reserves the right to pull material offensive to community standards or as necessary to facilitate law enforcement activities.

--Facebook Account holder's right to jury trial for claims against Facebook is replaced by "arbitration" by arbitrators (i.e., moonlighting corporate defense attorneys, who are well-known to favor corporate defendants).

Even assuming Facebook had some reason to disbelieve the family's assertions of murder and site hijacking - which it did not - how could it possibly have been sued or even criticized if it had promptly removed the bloody photos?

In the worst-case scenario, what measure of damages could possibly be imposed on it? What financial or property damage could possibly have flowed from its removal of the material were by some miracle held to be inappropriate in light of the family's assertions of murder and site hijacking? How about ZERO.

Facebook's actions clearly facilitated the murderer's goal of terrorizing the victim's family. I'd say that violates T&C and community standards. Of course Facebook also continued to earn revenue from ads as the site went viral. In a sense it is an accomplice after the fact.

Facebook's self-indulgently legalistic behavior in this case will incent other gun-nut nut-jobs to imitate the murderer in question by offering them a free 36-hour pass to post photos of their bloody crimes

Contrast this situation to Facebook's immediate censorship of a respected journalist's mere objection to Ferdinand Marcos' burial in the Philippine's Heroes Cemetery on the specious ground of "community standards". Facebook acts quickly to remove even the most innocuous content in order to protect its own interests (e.g., avoiding backlash of Philippines' conservative extremists). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11813354

In sum... this case encapsulates what is wrong with Facebook... and with Silicon Valley's tech elite.
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And, here we go: dug up this gem from elsewhere in this comment tree:

> A "dynamic" type system isn't actually a type system.

"<foo-berly> type" isn't "type". Use my definition, god damn it! "Type" really refers to "<bar-istic> type".

(Dynamic is scary, so scare quotes are fitting, by the way).
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There are plenty of people working on this problem who aren't self-inflated racists. For example, https://sandstorm.io/ tackles a lot of the same questions without any of the deliberate obfuscation or insular community of Urbit (and, I might add, without a completely insane and un-optimizable VM underneath).
Wow that VR editor is unreal! (hurr)

Being able to build the 'world' and unleash artists into it with that would be fantastic
> it removes the incentive for the driver to dick around and do a TSP around the city to drive up the fare

With GPS, drivers can't do this.
> Is there any reason you feel the need to?

I can't cope with boredom. It feels like a prolonged low intensity panic attack to me. I will do almost anything to avoid it. In a work environment that includes making bad choices merely to avoid putting myself in situations where I might have to do boring things. I think ADHD is actually under diagnosed and a lot of people would be happier if they were taking medication for it. That's probably the reason the people this article cites are trying to self medicate for it. If it wasn't a problem they wouldn't be looking for a solution.
And why was this downvoted? There certainly is a whole lot of FUD around drugs, even completely legal ones like R.
> I remember really enjoying the last discussion.

Very happy to hear that.

> I'm not sure I'm able to understand the implicit criticism at the user level.

Let me make the criticism explicit then: inventing a new language is not hard. People do it all the time. It's an elementary exercise. However, inventing a good new language, i.e. one that actually advances the state of the art and provides a substantial advantage over existing languages -- that is very hard. That happens very rarely, probably less than a dozen times in the history of computing.

Although I have never heard Curtis say so explicitly, the rhetoric surrounding Urbit strongly implies that Nock and Hoon are languages of the second sort, that is, that they provide some benefit that existing languages lack, and without which developing Urbit would be substantially more difficult or even impossible. My question for the last four years has been: what is that benefit? Do Nock and Hoon really advance the state of the art in programming language design, or is their sole purpose to be the Shiny New Thing that gets people excited? Because if it's the latter, that does not bode well for Urbit's long-term prospects. Nothing gets to be the Shiny New Thing forever.

> It's very difficult to think clearly inside of someone else's intellectual framework.

That may be true, but do you not see the irony here? You didn't invent Nock/Hoon, Curtis did. So if you are thinking clearly, then you are doing it in someone else's intellectual framework, precisely the thing you say is very difficult.

> What Nock does seem to unlock is incredible amount of enthusiasm.

That I don't doubt. Curtis is a master marketeer. But Donald Trump is unlocking an incredible amount of enthusiasm too. Just because a lot of people get enthusiastic about something doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea.
Probably none. By having an open system, prices will invariably get pushed down (better for end users) which will deincentivize drivers (worse for end users)

There may be some equilibrium somewhere, but I don't believe it will be in the users best interest having to wait for cars.

Just my thoughts. I'm probably wrong.
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In my opinion, in the 80-90's, neural networks and machine learning used to be 10% a solid concept in terms of academic research and 90% hype. Now neural networks and machine learning are 10% a solid concept in terms of being a practical applicable tool and 90% hype. Things have changed a lot because I almost run out of fingers when trying to express the orders of magnitude in which raw processing power has increased. You can literally feed the network with anything when training and get reasonable results later in recognition. That's one impressive yet humanly vague hash table there. And no, you don't have to wait for months or weeks anymore to train new things. Not even days, necessarily.

Why people pull in artificial intelligence is both naively optimistic and quite understandable. Modelling something of a neural system is so close to how biological brain works that the parallel is blatantly obvious. On the other hand, the current deep networks do not translate to intelligence; not at all. Machine learning might be, in part, something we could describe as "intelligent" as it's able to connect dots that are very difficult to connect by traditional algorithms but it absolutely is no intelligence. Then again, we do hang out in the same neighbourhood. If we will ever create an artificial intelligence in software I'm quite certain it will be very much based on some sort of massively deep and parallel network of dynamic connections.

I'm not that interested in artificial intelligence myself. I would be interested in artificial creativity and emotional senses, but to model those there are bigger metaphysical questions to be answered first.
Limiting science to knowledge expressed in human language seems unreasonable. I think that it's the degree to which a system can understand and predict the world that matters - not whether it can explain it to us.

Might as well say that German mathematics isn't real mathematics, because it's all incomprehensible gobbledegook to someone who doesn't speak German.
This makes zero difference.

So apparently the same people, who gag you, sometimes at their discretion may remove the gag. The only thing the law requires is for them to consider doing that.
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Because people don't just see Urbit, if they end up participating long-term. They see Yarvin, and he definitely is not one to hide his worldview.

As much as some people like to pretend it's only about tech, tech is made by people and it requires them to interact with each other, and that can never be completely confined to code.
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> the solution evolution came up with was to program us to take our cue on that from the people around us

Exactly, I cannot agree more. One of the most striking examples of this is a classic experiment where people are no longer able to trust their own judgment in a very simple matter and are compelled to give an obviously wrong answer to avoid deviating from the norm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
Completely tangential, but why is

> NEW: TV SAFE ZONE DEBUGGING

still a thing that needs to be added to a brand new engine targeting the latest console generation. It's 2016. Why do TVs still do overscan? And why the hell are there still TVs being produced where overscan can't be turned off?

This will never change if we accept the status quo and actually add features to help with this mess.

What should happen is that devices and software should assume overscan to be off and then maybe allow for manual correction.
I for one find it very positive, a storage engine implemented in Go, for what I could gather in a quick Github glance.

For me, this is surely systems work.
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Did you ever stop to think if possibly it could have been worse without R or whatever?

Oh, most likely not R, because it doesn't cause addiction if taken according to prescription.
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Well, do you filter your own spam too?

The problem to me comes only when the big corporate AI systems no longer are fully on your side, like spam filters which let the "right" spam through.
Yeah, I should not make such sweeping statements. (Or maybe I should, because it's a great way to find out what other people's perspective is when they show up to correct me.)

My concern about the uses of convnets on text that I've seen is that I don't think they can deal with little things like the word "not". (The Stanford movie review thing can definitely handle the word "not", but that's different.) I'm unconvinced as of yet that we're convolving over the right thing. But maybe the right thing is on the way, especially when Google gave us a pretty good parser. And maybe the right thing involves other things like RNNs, sure.

I guess image recognition could have similar cases, and the results just look more impressive to me because I work with text and not with images.
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There seems to be at least one incorrect statement in the article.

"The point Intel is making in the chart above is that it has mastered NUMA scaling, which is no surprise since the company has been at it for decades."

SGI was one the pioneers of ccNUMA (Origin 2000?) in the late 90s. That would constitute decades.

Around the same time, Intel delivered the ASCI Red supercomputer using P6 processors with a snooping coherency scheme.

I don't think Intel had significant NUMA experience (at least in any commercial products) prior to AMD K8 (2003), and their first NUMA product would have been IA64 (E8870 chipset?) or the Nehalem microarchitecture chips. That is not quite a decade, let alone decades.
Planets can also issue moons. I believe somewhere down the line when the number of planets becomes an issue (a good problem to have, it must be said), it would be technically possible for moons to be given similar functionality to a planet. One could imagine a future in which a household, or even a group of close friends who share a planet that issues each of them a moon to hold their primary identity.
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