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> But there is probably a middle ground that can be found.

There's a common failure mode (of both governments and other decision makers) of assuming that given two positions, the truth must lie somewhere in the middle. Sometimes one position is just wrong, and another is just right; the persistent presumption towards compromise allows wrong positions to chip away at the right one.

If you want to change laws, for instance, you need to provide evidence that the new position is actually better, not just that it's a compromise between what you proposed (and also didn't provide evidence for) and the status quo. Otherwise, the status quo should remain.
>It is a blog designed to shift the Overton Window for Jon Stewart's fanbase into normalizing extreme political agendas.

Like Jezebel being pro-feminism. What an extreme political agenda!
Indeed, if a wrong guess has value -1, and a correct guess has value 1, then the expected value 2p - 1, which is indeed positive if p is greater than 0.5. Random guessing has p = 0.5, and so gives you a base-line expectation of zero. Thus guessing is not actually punished, as such, and guessing can still be used if you have p > 0.5 for any reason.

What this simple scheme eliminates is credit awarded for random guessing. If correct answers are given weight 1, and all else is zero, then if the student knows 0% of the material, he or she nevertheless falsely obtains about 50% credit.

With guessing punished by -1 weights, someone who knows nothing an expect a result clustered around zero.

This seems fair, because:

* zero knowledge -> score around zero;

* perfect knowledge -> perfect score;

* defiantly wrong answers -> significantly negative score

Knowledge is rewarded, lack of knowledge is neither rewarded nor punished, defiant behavior is punished. This seems academically ideal. :)
> A complete simulation would require infinite means to process, memorize and exhibit.

Only a complete simulation of a universe with an infinite number of the smallest components would require infinite means.
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Echoes my experience very well. Lived easily without a car in Echo Park and worked/socialized for 5 years in all those neighborhoods.
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Don't mix up France and Europe. Yes, the EU tends to dance to France's tune, but their attitudes are not universal or even dominant throughout the Europe.
I'm pretty interested in this, but it seems the ftp links might be broken? Does anyone have a backup of this?
A lot of countries are already very weary of US Tech companies coming in and doing what they do best - drive competition, drive down costs and get people to buy their products.

All you have to do is see how India has been handling Apple, keeping them at bay and out of their country.
Devops here for a startup: We run our own repo for critical packages specifically to ensure AMI baking and deploys do not break when a package isn't available for whatever reason (and we pin to the package version).
> "Especially when these services need to bend to the whims of American government."

In what way are they doing that today? How is Netflix bending to the whim of the US government?
Of all of these companies, Amazon will be by far the most disruptive to these other countries.

The key difference here is that Amazon slowly built and perfected their model here in the USA, allowing domestic competitors time to adapt to the ever growing efficiency and disruption brought by Amazon.

Amazon can then take this perfected model and drop it like a bomb in other countries. (Not that they haven't already done so in certain segments, but wait until Amazon Fresh hits some of these countries)

Eventually, even the US is going to face a HUGE disruption with the advent of self-driving trucks. As bad as that will be in the US, it will be worse in Europe, where wages for truckers are much higher and will incentivize replacement. I predict that Europe will be much, much later to approve self-driving vehicles than the US will for these reasons.
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Yes, Keynes thought increased productivity would allow workers more free time--namely, to pursue leisurely activities.

Little did he realize workers would just channel that free time right back into their work.
I wonder if this says a lot about immediacy and consumerism. Do people go elsewhere or does time permit them to realize they don't really need/want what they were about to buy?

Impulse purchases at the click of a mouse have really changed the way I personally consume. Anyone aware of any studies on the impact of instant feedback?
This does occur in some states. Some students get loans repaid if they contract to work in rural areas for 5 years. I think this is still a symptom of too few graduates. The acceptance rate of US medical schools fluctuates around 20%, so there is no shortage of applicants. There is a shortage of available slots (both in school, and residency positions). According to an old NIH study, a student's tuition only covers about 60% of the cost of a four year med-school education. Universities are also required to pay a portion of the salaries for residents in affiliate hospitals. So lots of money going out of schools, but not much coming in.
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That's a given in either case, though.
Not OP, but it's just a giant false dichotomy. The author is trying to say that because SV can't solve literally every problem on the face of the earth that no one from SV should try to solve this one. Also, I'm not really sure what it means for "Silicon Valley to tone things down" -- what does that mean? Does it mean people in SV shouldn't protect themselves from slander and libel? Does it mean they shouldn't protect others from slander and libel? Does it mean they shouldn't use the court system to go after a cancerous and immature publication that literally ruins good people's lives? Does it mean they shouldn't use the legal system to promote their interests (notably as opposed to the "illegal" system, whatever that would be)? Too me, any of these are preposterous. It honestly sounds like the author is just whining on behalf of Gawker.
> Well well. Who knows where twitter would have been now if it wasn't for Jack Dorsey.

100% agree but now the company is in another stage, it is a public company and it is scrutinized with different standards.
In your example, you're conflating the actions of a government and the actions of a private individual. Peter Thiel isn't the government.

You are also muddying up scale. In your example, the government is much more powerful than the individual. In the Gawker case, all the parties are pretty much at parity.

There has always been yellow journalism. Gawker isn't new. What is new is that this is the first time an establishment like that got a bloody nose. Usually they're the ones using the legal system to silence those they abuse.
Ah, see I'm still catching up to most people on the merits of the story; I was not previously aware that Thiel has funded other suits.
I often think, given the number of uses of Yahoo Mail, that a social network addition would have been extremely popular. I don't think the problem was ever mobile, it was not seeing that the wind was blowing to social networks and internalizing that. They even had the best photo site to post pictures on.
I use a static site generator.
If one were to actually use this scheme for a class, I think it'd make sense to compute both the classical grade and the probabilistic grade and isolate students whose classical and probabilistic grades differed greatly (as in your example of someone who answers everything correctly, but with low confidence). The professor could then exercise manual judgment to assign the appropriate grade and also probably discuss the discrepancy with the student (i.e., they might find it interesting that they consistently underestimated their knowledge of the subject; on the other hand, a student who was overly confident but did poorly might find it interesting that they were consistently overestimating their knowledge).
I lived in China. Can confirm I was not a slave, at least not in the sense that America had black slaves.
So why can't they integrate Periscope directly with Twitter? Instead of posting a Tweet, just press a button to live stream to my feed with Periscope.
What job is currently well paid that you would do for free?

and that includes the shitty parts of the job: commuting, paperwork, emails, on call rotations?, dealing with vendors, dealing with customer complaints, etc etc.
Jekyll/GitHub Pages, mostly.
Wow, you should totally ruin your lifestyle and join the 80k club. You could be so much happier with the extra money than with time to sleep, have friends and have hobbies! At least, you wouldn't be a poor anymore...!

/s
So to keep a diverse culture ( we all agreee diversity is great isn't it?)

No, we don't all agree. Not when the "diversity" is someone looking at the market and saying "there are too many good movies. we need some shit ones". Nobody needs to diversify away from quality, which is essentially what the French laws do.

Don't mistake the bizarre fetishes of a small number of French elite with some kind of natural law or elegant philosophy. The French government have to protect their cultural industry because it produces bad stuff that even the French don't want to watch. There is no justification for this: every attempted justification boils down to sophistry.
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That would be clever, but you would probably still notice discontinuities between the distant and close objects.

But more importantly, the laws of physics would be observably non consistent.
> You may want to lock that GitHub thread soon, it's getting argumentative and not very helpful.

In open-source we call that "thursday" :)
NO! BUT THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION!

But seriously, I've seen emotion recognition, and speech recognition, but haven't come across anything that provides both in one package.
Because it takes a lot of skill to be "always wrong" (you would have to know the right answer in order to answer incorrectly). No skill is represented by getting 50% right/wrong, and indeed it scores you 0 points.
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What about sex? Is the morning the best time?
>These services are so useful and well-liked around the world that they should be considered a threat?

Just because something is well liked, does not mean it is beneficial to society overall. Junk food and facebook come too mind. I love Netflix but part of me feels my life would be better without it too.
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> patches would be detectable in a simulation

As limits. We have those, or at least our accepted view of physics has both lower and upper bounds on what we can know. How are they that different from what you're suggesting?
Why isn't it possible for a programmer to step away from their desk at any time, and another programmer sit down and pick up right where you left off? Synthesis and planning happen between your ears, and there's a lot of overhead to handing that off. It's not a simple problem.
How can you be Team Thiel and have these opinions when Thiel financially supported the person who made the acorn videos? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe
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I was explicitly talking at the US legal system, so the proper link is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_law#Cases_in_t...

Read that over. They did not have a lot of things go their way.
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Foreign governments have been surprisingly un-wary of American technology. Considering their autonomy of decision-making, their strategic industries' ability to compete for international business, and, to some extent, their sovereignty is at stake, you'd think they would put more resources into shifting the game toward data privacy.
What's a predatory product? That seems silly to me: people only buy something when they value what they get more than what they give up to get it. And how does it remove wealth from a country? Allowing people to satisfy their desires in the most direct way possible doesn't seem in conflict with the goal of creating wealth, so I'm honestly finding it hard to understand your reasoning here.

I would argue that any form of trade protectionism is not intelligent: it's very short-sighted and sacrifices actual wealth for employment. It's the type of thing that sounded and felt good to me only before I actually tried to learn a bit of economics.

Think of it in terms of a small town that passed a law banning any form of trade between residents. Technically, 100% of people would be employed. They would be employed knitting their own sweaters, milking their own cows, growing their own grain, cooking their own food, gathering their own building materials, pumping their own water, etc. So life would be paradise with 100% employment right? Without trade, people would be on the edge of starvation and extreme poverty constantly. Scale up that analogy to put the residents of that small town as countries, and you can see where protectionist policies protect jobs at the expense of actual prosperity. North Korea is an imperfect extreme example, but you can easily see what effects limiting trade has on prosperity.

If I was a politician, I'd love to pass all kind of trade policies like this because most people haven't really studied economics so it's easy to spin up your consolidation of power as protecting jobs.
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In addition to this you have the problem of dissatisfied customers using the app for the first time and then never coming back.

They have to ensure supply while they bring on new customers (has associated acquisition cost) if they acquire a customer and that customer isn't able to purchase anything from them due to lack of supply (or in the case of uber the price is too high because of surge kicking in) then that customer will churn forever, and potentially share their negative experience with their friends.

So basically, nail supply, grow customers, don't run out of cash before the whole thing is working.
My kids and I play the stock iOS version all the time. Could be outliers but we just play for the building aspect.
I just wanted to say the same :)
There are few more similar project such as Restic (Go) and rdedup (Rust).

https://github.com/restic/others

https://github.com/dpc/rdedup
We do have an idea though. Industry experts have said they think that PRISM was a dark fiber hack between data centers (even the name implies it).

Most tech companies have closed the exploit by encrypting data over dark fiber.
Except you're diminishing the importance of search results ordering. Some research has shown that ~50% of clicks go to the top two search results and ~90% of clicks go to the top ten search results.

Further reading:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-...
Recently moved to Wordpress from Tumblr, but I'm very interested in something like Hexo where I can host the server myself and just push new webpages online, which would also definitely teach me more about the web.
It's not systematic (people frequently lose in appeal!), but the appeals process allows cases that merit a more sophisticated court to get one. This case didn't belong in front of a hometown jury.
No. Descartes' apprehension of his own existence as a "thinking substance" doesn't say anything about the nature of the external world.

The simulation argument is connected with Cartesian philosophy though. It is one of the possible forms of the "Cartesian demon" argument [0]. Descartes tried prove the truthfulness of experience through a twofold proof: a proof of God's existence; and a proof of His unwillingness to deceive. He does all this in Meditation III [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations_on_First_Philosoph...
The commercial releases are different to the open source ones (they have different patches, and they do different releases), and have a different release schedule.
@sharemywin, I was specifically talking about communication at work. Interaction with client or vendor of an organization still happens on email..
Haswell or Skylake? It isn't an old one is it?
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mikeash was not advocating for a probability higher than 1. Rather, he was advocating for an infinite reward for indicating a probability of 1. We could reframe his suggestion to be, why are the incentives not symmetric? (I think there are good reasons for this, but it's a valid question.)
It blew my mind when Lego Minecraft appeared a Christmas or two ago.

I saw Minecraft as a digital interpretation of Lego; how meta that you can now get a physical interpretation of Minecraft.

Simply having green and brown pixels[0] is enough to elicit cries of joy, regardless of whether there is any minecraft logo visible.

0: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pixel-Duvet-Cover-Pillow-Single/dp/...
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I didn't say that ending corruption would "support this thingie", I identified corruption and associated crimes as an appropriate source of funding for a BI initiative, namely because there are economic studies that estimate losses to shadow economy practices to be as as high as 13% [1] to 26% [2] of a some countries' GDP.

[1] the figure by Portugal's official statistic (same article as below)
[2] the figure calculated by an independent think-thank focused on shadow economy studies (https://www.publico.pt/economia/noticia/-economia-paralela-c...)

PS: these numbers are focused on Portugal for brevity, but you'll easily find similar studies if you look up Transparency International.
Excelente! Portugal es un hermoso destino!
We're saying the same thing here, in premise. There is some value to be gained from a development ecosystem, undeniably.

The difference between what I'm saying is that the sheer magnitude of unmonetized Twitter Web users makes whatever small fish monetization increasing Twitter use with their integration look like chump change.

Now, there are several big players such as Periscope, Vine, Meerkat, that could have benefitted Twitter greatly from offering a development ecosystem. But there are two reasons why they wouldn't:

1) Twitter, like Facebook, is big enough - or, more accurately, are expected to be big enough - to be in the "acquirer" phase where they derive more value competing against and acquiring than playing with these popular new services.
However, we've seen much of the industry being overvalued and some of us believe a small company can do more, faster, on a technical level than a big company due to bureaucracy, so expectations aren't always matching up to reality.

Vine and Periscope were eventually acquired by Twitter. And Meerkat was forced to pivot.

2) There are cost-benefit analyses that neither you, nor I, are privy to which found developing and maintaining an API by relatively highly-paid employees not worth the benefits seen by its integration by other companies.

> Many startups or businesses in general look elsewhere for the information that is available on Twitter.

Are you sure of this? Businesses and other startups alike still use Twitter for engagement, and there is great information to be pulled from Twitter, assuming they have the ability to act on the metrics available.
They didn't win because they are the best, unless you mean they are the best at winning for arbitrary reasons, like random market forces.
betting everything on the guy that wanted to 'disrupt receipts?' http://www.recode.net/2014/1/15/11622364/jack-dorseys-advice...
I'm using Lektor and I'm quite happy with it. Hosting it for free on Surge.
So much better than my generation. Where our shared cultural point is sitting in front of the TV Saturday mornings watching cartoons and eating sugar cereal.

Now we binge watch on-demand TV as fat adults.
Hi! I work at Docker as well; and happy to tell that we found the cause of this issue, and managed to resolve it.

Be sure to clean your apt cache before trying again (apt-get clean && apt-get update) if you're still seeing this.
Interestingly, when you do put Facebook in as a term, it also starts to trend downwards at about the same time Twitter does.
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Hugo- It's a static site generator written in Go. Quite easy to setup and maintain.
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Maybe 4 and 5 are not quite so aligned? In democracies, governments should still be viewed as instruments of the voters to a significant extent.

Significant quantities of French voters have supported a government that tries to preserve and extend the French language and culture. In some ways, countering the influence of a large American company and the culture it imports can be seen as a legitimate expression of French voters, n'est-ce pas?
Are you saying that the rest of Europe is less anti-America/anti-Capitalism than France?
It's like how everyone was building fixies and single speeds for a while. And then it as 29ers (and 29er single speeds of course).

They make no sense for 99% of the people I see biking with them too.
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Actually that's almost exactly the same steps as for GlusterFS.

> gluster peer probe ...
> gluster volume create ...
> gluster volume start ...

But that's not even the point. You're right that the interface to a distributed storage system doesn't need to be complicated, but the implementation inevitably must be to handle the myriad error conditions that will be thrown at it. Correctness is even more important for storage than for other areas in computing, and something that only implements the "happy path" for the simplest data model or semantics is barely even a beginning. The distance between "seems to work" and "can be counted on to work" is far greater for this type of system than for most others. I think it's important to understand and communicate that, so that people don't develop unrealistic expectations. That way lies nothing but heartbreak, not least for the developers themselves. It's far better for everyone to set and meet modest goals than to make extravagant promises that can't be kept.
What do 4,100 employees even do at Twitter? It's not that complicated.
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