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> Critical thinkers can accomplish anything. Critical thinkers can master French, Ruby on Rails, Python or whatever future language comes their way.

I guess an example of this is the Italian girl that won last year's Dyalog APL student competition: http://www.dyalog.com/news/102/420/2015-APL-Programming-Cont...

She was studying Latin and Greek, then was exposed to APL, enjoyed it, and was apparently very good at it...

Fine, that makes some sense. But, if the goal is learn APL (or any programming language), why not just learn APL? Is it really true that learning French prior to Ruby on Rails gives you a unique advantage?
Fixed.

I can imagine that even if it is difficult to replicate broad perspectives independently it is worth trying to do so. I think the internet will certainly make it easier to do so now, too.

Additionally you have a lot longer than 4 years to engage with material. Autodidactism eventually wins because it is unconstrained; though the educational experience might get a lot of breadth out fast.
The strawmen and me hold quite different positions.

See eg http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-c...:

> How doctors choose to die

>When faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment. An American doctor explains why the best death can be the least medicated – and the art of dying peacefully, at home

To be clear, there are a few different kinds of health care along multiple dimensions, like

- price

- expected mean utility (as measured in quality adjusted life-years gained)

- variance of utility (which I am ignoring here)

I am saying that at current state of technology, if we exclude the expensive stuff with near zero or even negative utility, the remaining demand for big items fits an insurance model rather well.

Yes, I agree that we should probably do more preventive interventions---like exercise, decent nutrition, vaccinations, etc. These are mostly cheap.

And even though they are good for people already, the insurance company might very well decide to just pay for them (and perhaps even pay people extra on top with discounts etcs to nudge them even more) to save itself money in the long run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

EDIT: There's of course also expensive treatments that provide a lot of quality adjusted life years, but the need for these are more like a lottery. (Eg treatment after a car accident or massive burn, or certain treatable cancers.)
What do you mean by feature request?
Had never heard of RemoteFX before, thanks.

Looks like it works on almost any new GPUs now.

Question - Could I use hyper-V and RemoteFX to do something different - enable CUDA/GPU passthrough from a Windows host to a Linux VM?

I'd like to do some deep learning training on my Windows GPU machine without dual booting into Linux.
It isn't knee jerk reactions to liberal arts degrees. The world needs better books, movies, tv shows, painting, music, etc.

The thing is, that was once thought a decade ago or so, was that a liberal arts degree did not qualify someone for a programming job as much as a computer science or engineering degree would.

Python and Ruby on Rails made it easier to program, when it was thought that a liberal arts major can't program we used C and Pascal, pointers, had to do garbage collection on our own, had to allocate and then free up memory, etc. Programming Languages evolved with Java and C# that did away with pointers, does garbage collection on their own, and allocates and frees up memory when an object is closed. Then Python and Ruby on Rails made it even easier.

Microsoft had to make a Express and then Community version of their Visual Studio Dotnet languages to compete with FOSS languages, Borland suffered and kept getting bought out, suddenly there FOSS languages got easier to use, understand, and program in.

I think every degree should have a Critical Thinking class and maybe a Small Business class to learn how to balance a checking account and learn to save money instead of living paycheck to paycheck. How to run your own business and make it a startup by bootstrapping what you saved working a job.
> But mainly, I see a strongly inverse correlation between the level of apocalyptic doom in a story and its likelihood.

That's a rather odd thing to say for a topic that's been researched by thousands of experts for decades. As if we have to resort to Bayesian priors because no other evidence is available.

I mean, if someone yells "Your sofa is on fire!", you wouldn't sit there and muse "Hmm, that sounds pretty dire, but the severity of the claim is inversely proportional to its likelihood..." You would just get up and see if that's the case.
Found these for CEPH that indicates there's fast deployments for Infiniband. Don't have more data as I've been out of HPC a while.

https://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/solutions/ppt_ceph_mel...

http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/JohnKim_CephWithHigh...

Also, look at Sector/Sphere which was made by UDT designer for distributed, parallel workloads for supercomputing. It has significant advantages over Hadoop. It's used with high-performance links to share data between supercomputing centers.

http://sector.sourceforge.net/index.html

http://sector.sourceforge.net/pub/Sector%20vs%20Hadoop%20-%2...
They need lower prices to subsidize costs and exterminate the competition, then the prices will go up.
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I agree that more technical projects require more cleverness/training, but most things don't require genius. Terry Tao, field medalist, argues strongly that one does not need to be a genius to be a professional mathematician. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t... Likewise, this implies that one does not need to be a genius to program difficult things.
They come from digital cameras, cgi and editing software all delivered over the internet
Would love to see a compare / contrast between FB/GOOG/MSFT's offerings in this space.
It's great to see so clear response here, thanks.
>I mean, who cares what kind of sex HH has or Peter's sex preferences are? That's salaciousness disguised as news.

It is not salaciousness if the person being talked about is responsible for funding startups that intrude on people's privacy and makes huge profit from their personal data.

Was Julius Caeser's womanising a 'salacious' detail or a contributing factor to the way his life played out?

Weather you like it or not, celebrities ARE a very important aspect of life and not just in America. If you scrutinize news more than half of it is celebrity related -- and news organisations are catering to a demand. More specifically, they are catering to the human tendency of loving gossip and people watching; always have.
Its a standard feature on mobile, it does require the providers app installed, and there are a limited number of supported providers:

https://maps.googleblog.com/2016/03/your-car-has-arrived-mor...
Those cameras write a hell of a script.
RabbitMQ is a great tool, but you should always test your deployment with a tool like Jepsen. Rabbit has historically had issues with multi-node clusters related to split-brains and dropping ack'd messages following network partitions. In contrast, I've had very few issues using Rabbit shovels, a store-and-foreword plugin:

https://www.rabbitmq.com/shovel.html

ps: s/foreword/forward/
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It's a very good question. You have asked a genuine question but I think it can be a great rhetorical question. I feel like developers nowadays blindly learn these "new technologies" just for the sake of learning new technologies, even though they will probably never build anything that really need these technologies. Maybe you get some street cred for knowing more but if I were you I would rather spend my time and energy actually "building" and experimenting things than just learning some esoteric technology that you probably don't even need.

Probably not the answer you were looking for, but I can't help but think it's pathetic how developers tend to think they're competent at what they do just because they know how to use the latest popular build tool, deploy tool, and some new framework that you probably will go out of fashion in a few years. (I'm not even exaggerating. Coffeescript used to be the "it" language but not anymore, people used to rave about grunt, then moved on to gulp, then webpack. Probably next year it will be something else. Same goes for Backbone => Angular => React hype cycle, you get the point.)

Just to share my two cents, you mentioned knowing these "React", "Kafka", and "Heron" will get you a better job, but that is far from truth. Let's say a company is hiring a frontend developer. Chances are they won't hire just because you know React. It is assumed that good developers can just pick up any new technology and learn quickly so just knowing some trendy technology won't make or break anything. They will probably test you to see if you have fundamental "vanilla javascript" capability.
Niggers, duh.
> I'd say this problem is best solved not by having no cryptographic identities, but by using disposable identities.

A problem with disposable identities as usually implemented is that they are too cheap and easy to make. This makes it easy to make a new identity every place you want to be an asshole. The end result is that places get tired of this, and ban such identities from their spaces.

I think what we might need are semi-disposable identities. You can make a new one whenever you want, but it costs something to make a new one, and that cost goes up with each new semi-disposable identity you make.
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Now this is just getting silly. Comparing a lightweight laptop to a modern tablet with a peripheral keyboard, the primary difference is a mechanical hinge.
Oh wow this is exciting. Dropping the cost of the hardware is definitely a welcome chip away at the consumer barriers to entry with VR
Or "we might start blocking ad blockers, in which case you won't be able to see it, so your performance may suffer"
Yeah, like greggman said, I was mainly referring to SSH, though I've also transferred repositories with a flash drive before. I once worked on a project with a coworker where we used git daemon to pull from each other, which is technically a server, but easy to set up and we didn't have to bug the IT department about getting a real server to use. It worked surprisingly well.
What’s likely to happen with real estate in the SF Bay Area in next few years?
Reasonable lower priced option from china:

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or slightly lower priced slightly older version on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNI-T-UT-338C-Indoor-VOC-PM2-5-Air-Q...
In a steady state, the basic business is extremely capital efficient. Pedal-to-the-metal-all-out-global-land-grab stage benefits from lots of capital.
I'm not so sure about that. If you were talking about subjects that might be disagreeable to people in your country, maybe it's sex toys or homosexuality, if those topics start coming up in ad networks then that's still going to be a problem.
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Google is, at best, on par with them. What bother me isn't that, but how little power an individual has compared to either of those two entities.
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"the Uber CEO got upset with Sacca for trying to repeat his Twitter move of buying up secondary shares in Uber from other initial investors."
One thing to ponder is that many of the people that introduced the various problem spots mentioned, are the very same people that are today working on systemd.
So only American companies?
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"Wrong-think" as a phrase is one of those thought-terminating clichés. People are voicing their disagreements with his professed viewpoints, yet you are using that cliche to dismiss them without addressing their viewpoints. This does not lead to a vigorous discussion in the marketplace of ideas.
In your typical commercial project it would be pretty foolish to use anything other than polygons, just because that is where the tools, engines, and APIs are at.

Still, from the perspective of making something unique looking, many people seem to like voxels. It is almost comparable to the preference of pixel art over vector art. As a warning, if you do anything with voxels, even just something Minecraft-ish, you will be opening the floodgate for many technical battles. :) From a conservative perspective, it is hard to justify the use of them.
Plenty of people can envision a $100B to $1T valuation at some point.

I don't understand your point about seed round investors since they are sitting on some of the biggest returns ever in the history of investing.
I wanted proper full screen to work so I switched to ITerm at a friends reccomedation. I've never looked back. It's ust so flexible as well also with the different themes you can style it with
Also the original X-Box had the same processor as the Macs did at the time, PowerPC if I'm not mistaken. There were X-Box developers with Macbooks, or so I've heard from someone I knew who worked for Lionhead and Microsoft.
Yeah, there's a lot of selection bias with this sort of thing. The average computer science graduate is probably going to go on to become a software engineer or otherwise work in tech in some way. This means that you will meet all of the average CS graduates every day. The average liberal arts major will not go on to be a software engineer. The only liberal arts major software engineers you will meet are the ones who are interested enough in programming to bother learning it and talented enough to become proficient in two mostly unrelated fields.

I do think there's a lot of value in studying non-technical, potentially useless, even esoteric things, but this argument is not extraordinarily convincing.
> The only strategy I can see

A more cynical version: they're trying to pump up their valuation, IPO, and dump their stock before anyone notices.
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You can also check /privacy to see all of your searches/location data/device data/Android app usage information/<other things>.

Worth noting: you need to disable that even if you're logged out because shadow profiles are enabled by default.

Also worth noting: even if you have a completely clean Google history like I do (which is a pain in the ass because you have to delete the data for every single day one by one), they keep the data for six months, so if you turn on the personalized crap in less than six months, they'll already have some data available to personalize your content right away.

I tried turning it on for a month just to see if I'm missing something by having their personalized crap turned off, but nope. Their services were even more useful and kind of creepy in whole different ways (for example, when I join the new WiFi network and open up YouTube, it's going to recommend me videos that Google tracked that people watched from that IP. Checked it a couple of times because I couldn't believe that they would do that.)
If that were true people with only one eye would be nauseous all of the time.

As I understand it (which I may not) -- this paper (which purports to be the only paper to have tested this effect), says that they test divergence by having the images displayed at various distances to replicate varying levels of divergence.

They see that the closer it is to a realistic vergence/accommodation match the more comfortable the eyes.

However -- it should obviously be easier to tune a 3D image which is at a realistic distance than one which is not.

It seems to me, they may very well just be showing that effect, just showing that it is easier to adjust the illusion to render realistically at distance. This would make perfect sense.

This would then just argue for better tuning.
Yes, it was intended that way. The entire digression is. :)

Google wouldn't hire mercs anyway, they'd probably use drones and robotics and AI.
My guess would be 90-95% locals in most/all towns.
"Uber becomes the cab of choice for 2.5bn people, the rough number who have cell phones."

I don't think they'll get anywhere close that number.

- First, it assumes that Uber has no competition, but there's Lyft, Didi (in China) and lots of local cab companies, some of which even have apps of their own.

- It's much easier to afford a cell phone than it is to be able to afford taking cabs on a regular basis. Many of the 2.5bn people who have cell phones live in poverty.

- Many of the 2.5bn people who have cell phones own their own cars, and would only use a cab if they were on a business trip.

- These 2.5bn people live in many countries, not all of which will agree that Uber drivers can be independent contractors. Uber might not want to enter markets under those conditions (they left Austin merely because of a dispute over background checks[1]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652614
Hi Locke,

Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry it took so long to schedule the interview with me. This was because of our company summit in Austin, but we should have made this clear to you up front.

1. Currently we ask for compensation information early in the process (during the screening call https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/#screening-call ) and the person asking will note the information in our applicant tracking system. We don't give feedback at that time. We're working towards a global compensation structure where we can tell candidates the compensation earlier in the process. Due to having people in 26 countries this will take quite some time.

2. I'm very sorry for this. I was not aware that an offer was made to you when I talked with you. The cause of the offer being made prematurely was that we wanted to inform you that we couldn't match your floor. Due to a misunderstanding between me and the person that made you the offer this was communicated to you as an offer instead of a heads up about the maximum compensation.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience being interviewed by me. Your private feedback about this was great and I'll follow up with you about the changes we made to made future interviews better.

I hope you're OK with me responding to your post. I assume it is OK since you're also posting in public.
Most sane package manager i have encountered will place a copy of the new script or config file next to an existing one of there is some level of mismatch.

And rarely would you not get a system to boot to some kind of login prompt with traditional init. If the fear of not getting a GUI is what is driving he adoption of systemd, then i really worry about future generations of admins...
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Is this really a worthwhile discussion? Seems like you are just playing devil's advocate for the sake of it.
Same here. I do wonder what is up other companies are up to while Uber is doing this. What about Lyft?
No mention of Jepsen tests, I look forward to a @aphyr call me maybe talk/blog post detailing all the issues.
I don't know about London, but in my area an UberX ride is 4-5x the price of a bus ticket (~10km). This only gets worse as the distance grows. Public transit is not Uber's competition and it'll never replace mass transit.
Even just within programming, I'd say ever successive language you learn gets easier, as you're able to apply labels to patterns you see, and think abstractly about language features.

I don't think that if your goal is to learn RoR, the best way to accomplish it is to learn French first. But if you take two programming newbies, and one of them knows a couple foreign languages and the other doesn't, the former will have an advantage.
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So degrees like Philosophy and Economics aside, since rigour is assured no matter the university, my issue with the statement:

"How can this be? It’s very simple. A well-­rounded liberal arts degree establishes a foundation of critical thinking."

Jumps the gun. The brevity of my counter argument may belie it's truth:

Selection bias perfectly explains his experiences.

Of course I'd rather an English major that has learned to code at the level I require over a Computer Science major. The English major that is able to hustle his or her way into a programming career almost certainly has a greater IQ than the average Computer Science grad. What is not seen is the vast sea of English majors not going down that path, but rather ending up in a career that is far less challenging.