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> Who's paying for their retraining?

Why would any one else pay for their retraining? If they can't do anything else, they drop a resume at mcDonalds - or take the same retraining offers any job centre might offer anyone else. that's what happens when you pin your career on a failing industry with no backup plan.

The government didn't kill steel, why do the steel workers get better treatment than anyone else who loses their job?

> Why did the private buyer deserve a subsidy to take over the company

Who knows - do you?

The steel workers are no different from anyone else on the dole, no more deserving. If you know of anyone willing to take over the company without subsidy, you might have a point, but there is no special treatment there.

And not wasting money excessively is different from "spend[ing] as little money on actually helping people as possible".
I started using AWS API Gateway + Lambda for these type of problems where I don't actually need a 24/7 running server.

Bots / webhook listeners do really fit for API Gateway + Lambda use cases.
This is a strategy you see in unranked dota pubs, but it doesn't work against a team that's competent enough to rotate the weakest player out, pile into their lane, or use them as bait for counter ganks.
Well, no. They are not at all alike. Stephen Wolfram has a lot more _people skills_ than Sheldon Cooper. Sheldon Cooper is the stereotype of the Asperger scientist who succeeds despite his inability to interact with people, while Stephen Wolfram has been at the helm of a tech company for 30+ years, and that's not something you can really do without having to interact with other people.
If you actually read the details, as I indicated one should, Hillary's email archive includes collaboration with Jared Cohen WHILE he works at Google, on foreign affairs related projects.
PLOS ONE is a bit special in the PLOS family of journals. They publish essentially _anything_, as long as it's scientifically correct, it doesn't matter how interesting the science is. Usually scientists try to get their paper published in other journals first (e.g. PLOS Biology), and if it is rejected there they submit it to PLOS One.
And I was, conversely, not talking about what actually happens by default, but rather what way you need to force yourself to think if you want to avoid bias when doing something important involving the corporate reputations of others—like, say, picking stocks.

If you have both information about a "brand", and information about the actual group or individuals underlying it, giving any weight to the brand will give a suboptimal result and let people exploit you. The reputational information has some value, but only if you have no "observational" information. Trying to use them both together is double-counting. Just use the information about the individuals and throw the brand information away.

In in other words, basically http://lesswrong.com/lw/lx/argument_screens_off_authority/, but with a more generalized halo effect in place of "authority."
As others have pointed out, there are several factors. One is that defects in silicon tend to exist in a given areal density. Which means that for a given wafer you'll have, on average, a certain number of defects for a given process, and that in turn translates to the same number of defective chips from that wafer. The more total chips you cram on a wafer then the higher the percentage of non-defective chips you'll get, more or less. Additionally, smaller chips typically mean faster and lower power chips.

Overall these are very very strong factors which push towards shrinking chip size at every opportunity.
We did have that kind of a subject, 4-7 grade I think. Learned basic cooking and baking, doing the dishes, cleaning the floors basic nutrition theory (macros, vitamins, trace minerals, fibres and I even think we touched into calorie counting before finishing off.)
You have to put a big turbo, 3mm seals, and suffer turbo lag, etc. almost any car can get a lot of power with a turbo but N/A power is the place for me.

I'm rebuilding my S2000 right now turning it into a 2.4L stroker for 300+ hp. :D
If you're reading this @WilliamStein, firstly, kudos for the whole effort. I think the providing Sage as cloud math software is a powerful strategy, especially with the trend of end users preferring low power devices.

I have some thoughts regarding the comment on Slide15 (making Sage good for some applications): I see that python and Jupyter are very popular for machine learning and allied computations. Can SAGE leverage this to provide a service that a large audience would happily pay for -- and then use that to bootstrap a full fledged mathematical software? (Also, on that note, is there any coherence between the leaders of Sage and Jupyter?)
From a technical perspective, I'm a moron compared to most of the people here.

Still, I was able to get my first app up and running on Elastic Beanstalk and a MySQL database up via RDS without much trouble. It's not rocket science.

Given the breadth and depth of available services, I can't imagine how you can declare "AWS is inappropriate for small startups" with a straight face.
I understand, but singling out that one experiment and its lead researcher as "the" big breakthrough was -- and is -- insulting to the hard work of a long list of others who go unmentioned. The worst part about this is that I can imagine, say, journalists with deadlines relying on your video as an authoritative source of historical information.
Yeah sure but there is a tradeoff, making larger (more fully featured) chips also reduces your yield as the chance a chip has a defect is dependant on it's size / surface area.
> However, iron does play an important role in life as we know it, even today

I would have thought the iron in mammal blood would come to mind first, but other aquatic life forms have copper-based blood, so it's not exactly required.
Human intelligence is so much more than that. I feel like we vastly underestimate the problem when we make it sound so simple. "Oh well the machines are basically the same as us, so we just have to get them to be able to solve more sub-problems and then we've got it!"

Right now the focus is on solving important specific sub-problems better humans, rather than the ability to solve a much wider variety of sub-problems.

The focus is there because there are business applications and money there. Do researchers really think that some version of a chess-bot or go-bot or cat-image-bot or jeopardy-bot will just "wake up" one day when it reaches some threshold? That this approach is truly the best path to AGI?

A machine can play chess better than a human because the human used its knowledge to build a chess-playing machine. That's all it can do. It takes chess inputs and produces chess outputs. It doesn't know why it's playing chess. It didn't choose to learn chess because it seemed interesting or valuable. No machine has ever displayed any form of "agency." A chatbot that learns from a corpus of text and rehashes it to produce "realistic" text doesn't count either.

You could argue many of the same things about humans themselves. Consciousness is an illusion, we don't have true agency either, we also just rehash words we've heard - I believe these things. But it seems clear to me that what is going on inside a human brain is so far beyond what we have gotten machines to do. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that we underwent a developmental process of billions of years, being molded and built up for the specific purpose of surviving in our environment. Computers have none of that. We built a toy that can do some tricks. Compared to the absolute insanity of biological life, it's a joke. I think it is such hubris to say that we're anywhere close to figuring out how to make something that rivals our own intelligence, which itself is well beyond our comprehension.
Why am I expecting a comment on HN is like "This is not a surprise at all! I have been using the shadows of the temples in the last three years to work on my startup..."...
For the Germans who are interested in this whole Freeman/Reichsbürgertum:

Go and have a look at the forum at www.sonnenstaatland.com, you will find most cases from Germany there. They also have a very nice ebook with the title "Vorwärts in die Vergangenheit" which destroys 99.9% of all the Reichbürger myths.
You still need to do all the same things as before. Some things you move to the client, other things you move to the dbms. There isn't some functionality that magically disappears when you no longer have, for example, a PHP/Ruby/Python/JS/whatever server mediating between your client and your database.
So near as I can tell, we can't detect the dragon by looking since he's invisible. We can't use a heat meter to detect him with since the fire lives in his (perfect insulator) stomach. We can't put dust on the floor to look for fingerprints since he floats.

Would the world be any different if the dragon didn't exist?

Similarly, if "teaching well" didn't exist, how would the world be different? What testable predictions (if any) does your set of ideas make?

In sales, measuring is free, whereas testing is more like growing carrots... If you keep pulling up your carrots to check how big they are, then at the end of the summer you're not going to have any carrots.

Giving quarterly exams will somehow destroy all learning?

This goes against pretty much all the principles of spaced repetition. I take a Hindi test every day and it sure seems to help me.
>I (maybe I am wrong) have been intending to treat team-members as "some dudes with bumps on their chest that may have various after hours habits that are none of my concern".

FWIW, this is personally my ideal working environment. I can't speak for women in general, and I'm not a moral authority, but this is exactly the kind of treatment I want from my coworkers.

>what should I do to be better?

I don't know, honestly. I know that's an inadequate response, but I'm not sure how to appropriately address ingrained societal sexism either. As far as subconscious bias in hiring goes, having rubrics and standardized interviews goes a long way at eliminating it. I'd theorize that standardized metrics for performance reviews would help on that front, too, though I don't think that's been studied.

If you browse the million and one women in tech posts out there you can see people talking about it at length, though I would be wary of taking somebody's opinion as truth just because they're female, and I would be doubly wary of taking a tech blogger at her word vs an actual female engineer. Your personal set of ethics re: equality of opportunity vs outcome also plays into what you "should do" quite a lot. Some suggestions (like formalized hiring rubrics) are completely valid whether or not you believe in equality of opportunity vs outcome, but others (like instituting diversity quotas in hiring) are not.

This blog post is well cited and worth a read, it has a few good suggestions IMO: https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/if-you-think-women-i...

And this personal anecdote is a positive story, which I think is just good to keep in mind (that not all individual women necessarily feel or have been through the standard negative Women in Tech narrative): http://lea.verou.me/2015/12/my-positive-experience-as-a-woma...
Just a note (and this is only my opinion):

The photos you see of people sleeping on the stairs, etc are probably late-night drunks, not inemuri

The phenomenon described is real, but people do it more slumped over on the train, meetings, etc. not sprawled out on the sidewalk.

Furthermore, it extends beyond salarymen on trains; my wife & teenage daughter both do it simply as a way of life almost. They could go to bed at a decent hour but usually stay up late & catnap instead.
Frankly I don't think sex robots will be worse than pornography or prostitution.
And I doubt that a lot of people consider it healthy even then.
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Ask HN: A good Firefox extension to stop scrips and animations in inactive tabs?
Anyone knows a good extension that limits cpu usage from inactive tabs?

Bonus points for lettibg me specify exceptions.
It's still ridiculous to tie it to 'race' because, a) there is no real biological classification of race, which means all of this data using such classifications is already inherently biased, and b) mere correlation again does not entail a causation, so there could very well be a third variable that ties it all together. I can think of a bunch right off the top of my head, like stereotype threat and the still all too common racism resulting in many educational disadvantages for black students.
Our Prius has been going 14 years now. I've had to replace the battery once (last year) but otherwise has been a remarkably comfortable and reliable car. It's just a shame the new Prius models are so ugly.
Thanks for this long and elaborate reply.

Clojure tries to put as many user faults into "erroneous" as possible but in the OPs complaint it doesn't have the required information at compile time because it is typed dynamically. This is the fundamental problem with dynamic typing that more problems keep ending up in runtime. Behavioral concerns like security etc. are then often addressed by runtime checks.

Clojure avoids those runtime checks everywhere for performance reasons - It is a clear design choice. So your observation seems correct that the "C approach" is used in the dynamic parts of Clojure.

Since we don't have a standard, the official documentation is the contract we should rely on and very soon clojure.spec, which is intended as a "standard as data", is going to be.
Because neither windows or linux restrict which hardware or vms you can install them on like osx does? Obviously you won't hear it from Mac owners, because they can still develop for windows or linux, the inverse isn't true thanks to Apple's artificial restrictions.
If you read all the studies, you'll generally find M/F variance ratio to be about 1.15. If you study sufficiently many subgroups you'll get a result which differs from this. But that's completely expected even if no subgroup differs at all.

Here's some discussion of that issue in a completely different context:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/ab_testing_segments_...

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunch_conf_2015/s...
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IMHO Icinga 2 is also way too many moving parts. For mixed environments, you should be able to run both Prometheus and Bosun:

https://prometheus.io/download/
https://bosun.org/downloads
Has this been implemented yet?
Not only that but the list of permissions for the app is vastly greater than the list I am willing to allow them.

I use Firefox so I can just his "pretend to be a desktop browser" and respond to messages.
Nomachine worked reasonably well for me cities apart. I believe it was adding some compression to X at the time; circa 2011.
> Race, or some hidden variable correlated to it, is highly predictive even after accounting for income and similar things.

Since you're convinced of this position, please provide a biological definition of each "race" you think shows this effect, and we'll see if the data actually agrees with your claims.
Not sure if I understand your point. Unregulated taxi is a perfect market. What does this mean? No profit for the drivers. So what has happened over the last hundred years? Right, lobbying for market controls so that drivers can keep a part of the profits. Guess what will happen with Uber...!
> the amount of power leakage (heat) is proportional to the size of the transistors

Small correction: leakage actually increases as transistors shrink. This is why high-k dialectric and fin-fets were such important developments. They pushed back the point at which leakage power overtakes switching power as the dominant source of waste. Even with these technologies, we have to do a lot of design work to reduce leakage. I can't even guess how many power domains are on modern cpus -- certainly dozens if not hundreds. Most of those domains can be switched off to eliminate leakage in those domains altogether.

I'm nearly certain you meant switching power reduces as transistors shrink, which has been true so far. Things are getting weird with these new processes, and a lot of things that we've held as fact are looking less and less reliable.
Yes. If anything, architecture skills are way more important.
It's not hype really - it's me getting fed up with authors arguing that their software solves every problem. Redis is very good at being data structures store.

In regard to Python - generators make sense, coroutines, much less. That's my opinion, but over the span of 10 years most programmers I met professionally either never used coroutines outside of pet projects or use them sparingly.

I'd actually like to see a big project with coroutines implemented using the async/await.
"Biomimicry has always been the way forward in every industry"

Care to elaborate? Certainly classical computers don't look a whole lot like the information processing of any living being (I guess one could argue that they mimic what humans do with pencil and paper, but it seems a bit of a stretch.) To me other things like say human-made engines also don't look that similar to any life form, but then I think I know very little outside computing, relatively to say the average person here, and hence I'm genuinely curios about your remark and "wouldn't be surprised to hear something surprising."
For the same reasons people habitually treat fan works as independent from commercial ones, today people are doing the work for free when in the 18th century you could make a business out of duplicating others written works for profit.

Today, while counterfeiting markets like that still exist in less Internet-rich countries, once you have the Internet, the only thing such markets still apply to are novel physical inventions, and that is never done by small entrepenurs stealing other peoples work, it is by large corporations using economies of scale to produce replcias of a novel product that can undercut the original creator.

Because there is an important distinction between goods and information. A good is valuable for what it is - a fridge because it cools, a car because it can move on roads. The utility is in the physical atomic composition of the product. With informational works, which is what copyright applies to, the value is exclusively in the encoded information - you can transfer it in myriad forms, from light to electrons to magnetism to etchings on a wall, but in those circumstances the media of transit is much less relevant than the material itself.

It was only when the transit material was itself scarce that the argument for copyright was made. When transit becomes so cheap it is effectively free where millions will send you a copy for no charge, the assumptions are broken.
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Seems that exactly one of the changes brought about by pornography is that young people decreasingly see sex that way.
>What happens when a young man gets upset at a young woman for not being as compliant with his sexual desires, or as physically flawless, as a sexbot?

The same thing that happens when young men discover that young women aren't as compliant with their sexual desires as is their hand and or sock, or if you are really advanced a microwaved melon.

Also I think it's a bit silly to focus on men only, especially considering that the sex toy industry pretty much exclusively was focused on women.
Sex toys for men only started to really come out less than a decade ago (e.g. Flesh light), vibrators have been around since the 1930's, and dildo's have been around since we learned how to carve bone.
Maybe this can be a good thing. Market competition providing an alternative for certain, shall we say, needs, means that the ones providing them in the past need to compete in other ways and provide more value.

On the flip side, you think the marriage rates are low now? Just you wait...
Will, I have been looking for ways to build a company around GNU Octave too. If you find a way to make money, please let me know. Matlab is one of the Ma's that needs a direct replacement. There's so much free Matlab code out there that needs a free environment to run on.
From the presentation:
"There's a lot of talk about how AI is going to totally replace humans... (But) I like to think that AI is going to actually make humans better at what they do ..."

Then immediately he continues that

"So it turns out that using deep learning techniques we've already gotten to better than human performance [....] at these highly complex tasks that used to take highly, highly trained individuals... These are perfect examples of how deep learning can get to better than human performance... 'cause they're just taking data and they're making categories.."

I think that brushing off the dramatic social changes that this technology will catalyze is irresponsible.

One application developed by one startup in California (or wherever) could make tens of millions of people redundant all over the world overnight.

How will deep learning apps affect the healthcare systems all over the world? What about IT, design, music, financial, transportation, postal services... nearly every field will be affected by it.

Who should the affected people turn to ? Their respective states ? The politicians ? Take up arms and make a revolution ?

My point is that technologists should be ready to answer these questions.

We can't just outsource these problems to other layers of society - after all, they're one step behind the innovation and the consequence of technology is only visible after it's already deeply rooted in our daily habits.

We should become more involved in the political process all over the world (!) - at least with some practical advice to how the lawmakers should adapt the laws of their countries to avoid economic or social disturbances due to the introduction of a certain global AI system.
Great feedback, thanks. I just made some revisions to try and make the narrative arc clearer.

To clarify here as well:

- CF techniques are definitely superior for answering the question "what else might this user want to buy?" in a generic way, when you have preference/purchase data for that user.

- Content-based techniques are great for making recommendations in a context where what you really want is something more akin to automatic curation, and you may not have the necessary preference information about a visitor to apply CF (e.g. an anonymous user viewing a product details page, vs. a logged in user who has previously bought products). A content-based approach can solve the cold-start problem for CF.

You're right that I could have done a much better job in the original post -- I've since added information to the effect of the above. Thanks very much for the comment!
That's called panspermia, and no, it hasn't been ruled out. Main problem with it though is that it doesn't explain how life as we know it came into existence, it simply shifts its origin from Earth to somewhere else
Why is Facebook so bullish lately?