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But that is ownership of the intellectual property itself, not the 1s and 0s that encode it.
> But then you can have both poors and equality.

Venezuela?
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I agree with your point about owning the LBRY address. The article kept referring to the people who value the name the most being the ones who eventually own the addresses, but that doesn't stop big enough freebooters from squating on address smaller creators with less funds need. I'm thinking of YouTube folks who may have to compete with large media firms without the advantage of an arbitration system. To add to that, the fact that address ownership isn't permanent also weakens the position of small creators.

I'm hopeful, though. I like the idea of a decentralized content platform.
> It's not the UI, the problem is that driver support for Linux is not as good as for OSX.

Driver support for new hardware platforms or one where the hardware producer does not help enough might not be that good: I think Intel's Skylake platform might serve as a good example – an older Linux kernel had a bug where laptops would crash when the lid was closed; now that Skylake is older the bug has been fixed.

That being said, Linux has drivers for many more stuff out of the box than every other operating system. Of course, for the perfect out of the box experience, you have to choose matching hardware – same as with OS X actually.
Why can't Apple spend its way out of security vulnerabilities?
Question: If the police obtain a warrant to search my home, and then do so while I'm away on vacation, are they required to notify me?
I stopped using Ubuntu years ago because of their development process making upgrades more complicated than necessary. When I do recommend an operating system to someone nowadays, I usually go for Debian Testing or Debian Stable.
So we should let bad things happen if someone can build a business out of it? This is, sadly, a not uncommon view around here; if the "free market" wills it, is it right.
If the post title matched that of the page title, it would be a true statement. This was the first Apollo guidance computer, not the first space flight guidance computer.
I think this reflects more our culture of compartmentalizing specific "math" and specific "science" topics and putting them on a pedestal.

Linear algebra, computational complexity, type theory, Newtonian physics, circuit design (it's weird being a computer scientist a room full of electrical engineers and being the only person who knows Ohm's law off the top of his head and what it means for the project we're dealing with right now) all of it has been a constant companion for the last 15 years of my career. The more I can get my hands on, the better.

I know my colleagues in the past [0] haven't employed knowledge to the same degree that I have, but they have also typically given up and come to me to solve even fairly trivial problems in trigonometry or object oriented design. They don't "need" math because they don't care if the only work they work on is solved problems with easy copypasta solutions on StackOverflow.

My take away from this is not that math isn't "necessary" for work. To me, it is necessary because I could not be happy living the kind of mediocre, under achieving lifestyle that it takes to willfully ignore math. My takeaway from this is that most people are just bad at their jobs. If you want to be any good (and being this site is focused on startups, I think that is a fair assumption), you necessarily have to avoid doing what most everyone else does.

[0] I'm finally out of those sorts of environments.
Also, humans have a good history of taking too much to time to do the right thing (slaves, women rights, gay rights). Added to that, there are gigantic economic forces slowing down the change this time. I'm sure human will thrive at least for the next centuries, but the current mass extinction is a sad thing.
Perhaps you're not aware of your math literacy? You knew, remembered, and understood what an arctangent is. That makes you tremendously more math literate than the typical non-STEM educated Joe or Jane.
> Does Linux add support for newer Intel and AMD chips in old kernels?

The kernel devs may not, but distros backport new stuff to old kernels constantly. For example, RHEL/CentOS 6 is kernel 2.6.32, release 7 years ago. But it supports modern CPUs.
The Great Dismal Swamp, the Fire Swamp, and the Bog of Eternal Stench... great swamps in history.
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I don't think there will be a search engine better than Google in the near future (may not forever). Best search engines today will have to throw results based on user preferences to stay relevant and compete with Google's results. Cracking the perfect semantic search (chat bots) may change this but Google may have advantage here just because of the amount of data it has.
Any great algorithm, unfortunately will be limited by the data on which it will be trained. Google has this unique advantage.
A coworker mentioned the cursor bug yesterday; I have never encountered it, but he uses Ubuntu and I use Debian. If you have no need for Ubuntu-specific software, I would suggest to just install Debian Testing, as it is more up-to-date than Ubuntu and does not have this bug.
We are currently over using the earth's resources by a factor of 1.5. If everyone on earth lived like people in the US do, we'd already need five planets [1]. I wish I could share your optimism, but it seems like nothing much is done to change this. The Paris agreement is at least a step in the right direction. Let's hope more will follow.

[1] http://m.phys.org/news/2009-11-mankind-earth-resources-alarm...
> I think the title is perfectly accurate.

No. A cranked up, ludicrous vision of the future is not a valid base for an accurate title. The bidding system has nothing to do with YouTube. The only reason why the developers are mentioning YouTube is getting attention, SEO.

The worst thing about these types of venture capital backed pipe dreams is, that they give sane decentralisation ideas, like IPFS, a bad name :(
Does amazon even have a presence in austria? I thought it is handled from other countries.
> I'm hopeful, though. I like the idea of a decentralized
> content platform.

We have one of those, the WWW.

What we need is a decentralized method for the social aspects: identity management, networking (following/liking, etc), etc. We had some of that with the early blogosphere stuff, but we largely let it slide into oblivion.
Well China started investing in renewables some time ago and are now adding almost half the world renewables. The reality is though climate change can't be changed or reversed by capitalism fast enough. And because of the financial crisis over the last few years the developed world probably doest have the money it needs to finance the developing worlds energy needs. The next 1-2 billion people from Asia Africa will start using electricity a few times more than what they are now and the developed world curtailing their emissions wont be enough.
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Part of this makes an intuitive sense, a sausage stall has one trivially accessible "throat to choke", whereas Austria's access to e.g. Jeff Bezos is much more difficult.

Starbucks, though, I'm assuming they've got retail shops in Austria? That just means they can afford better tax lawyers.
And, according to the article, more math literate than most STEM-educated people, too.
Isn't this just a little complicated for a YouTube alternative? I mean, maybe I'm being a bit silly here, but don't most people like YouTube and other services cause they're super simple to use? One domain, various videos on said domain, link to a video never changes.

This on the other hand... it feels like it was made for a tech audience instead of a mainstream one. You've got the decentralised aspect with its own protocol and app. You've got a weird payment system where someone can outbid the original creator to take over a URL for some reason or another. And you've then got the awkward content filtering/censoring side that somehow still exists in a supposedly decentralised service.

This seems like something that's gonna be pretty hard to explain to the average Joe who's merely looking for cat videos and doesn't know what a credit or protocol or client or anything else means.

I also have to wonder who the 'main' target audience is here. People that like decentralised services don't want a system where things like DMCA notices actually work. I mean, can you imagine if torrents could somehow be synced to remove all copyrighted content on request? No one would use them. And the idea of other laws (those related to 'hate speech' for example) being something you can implement on a decentralised service doesn't appeal either.

Meanwhile, you've then got the aforementioned confused average Joes, for whom a simple server/client system is about as complex a deal as they can be bothered with, and both groups wondering why an auction system exists for video URLs.

Feels like an overengineered, not quite intuitive solution to a problem.
> there's no way this is cheaper than hiring an actual person.

I'm not so sure. People are pretty expensive.

Lowes are open 6am to 10pm 5 days a week and 8-8 on the weekends. That's 104 hours per week, or ~5400 hours per year.

10% downtime and you're still looking at 5000 hours per year.

Google suggests sales associates get $11.70/hour. If you add on maybe 20-30% overhead for all the associated hiring costs, taxes and extra management needed the equivalent cost would be around $75k/year. I expect the true figure would be higher.

How much are these bots? They seem to be reasonably generic, but let's say a 5 year total cost is $200k, does that sound reasonable? That's around half the cost of a real person, so if each can replace about half of a person then that's a good deal.

And that all relies on what I think are fairly low overheads, a reasonable amount of downtime for the bots, quite a high price for the bot itself and an assumption that the bots can't do anything extra that saves time (the inventory scanning for example, or collecting more useful information).

At the very least, I don't think this is obviously much more expensive, and depending on a few factors could easily be much cheaper than a real person.
Your forgetting many versions sucked before the first or second service pack. MS tends to release things ~2 years before they are ready. Sometimes they still suck after those service packs.

Case in point at release win 98 was rather iffy, 98se was solid. XP was much better after SP1, win 7 was ok to start with but defiantly got better.
code on github: https://github.com/Jack000/bunnybot

So it's a very rough proof-of-concept right now. I mainly wanted to see if this type of robot could be done on an embedded board (the Jetson TK1). It works just barely, with the CV processes loading the CPU at almost 2x.

The heaviest tasks are the apriltag detector (findContours in opencv) and obstacle/floor pointcloud segmentation. Ideally this could all be done on the GPU, but the implementation is a bit non-trivial.
I think one of the key parts to this working in the long-run is the client that has to come with this. Like you said, YouTube already exists. It's easy. Also, I don't think most users will happily search for something by starting their search with "lbry://..." They mention the development of an app that solves all of these problems by simply giving users a simple interface like they're familiar with. I don't know how they'll deliver on that.

Your other comments are also valid. Especially the one on content creators moving to this. I think the only advantage to this as compared to other companies that have tried in the past is the underlying technology. If creators don't have to deal with a centralized organization that gives them plenty of headaches, that sounds like a win.
Good, now replace "Math" with "liberal arts." Secondary education for most fields is a waste.
The Roman army reached perhaps 640,000 under Constantine I. Compare, the current active duty US Army is about 475,000.
It's about motivations, or, in bad cases, necessity. About necessities (like not going bankrupt, or feeding a hungry tribe by claiming the land of your neighbor, etc) I'm not sure much can be done. But I do think it's about profits when it comes to corporations. Shareholders are often relatively passive and in it for the money, they aren't "mission driven" (being the best at one thing in your industry, spearheading a new way of transportation, etc). Their field or artisanship isn't their motivation, the profit is.

When you're designing a new engine, you might decide to use 10% more expensive parts to make it 20% more fuel efficient, but this additional cost might result in 10% lower sales, so the board decides against it since exhaust is just an externality. If those people were considered with ecology they might consider a lower rate of profit but instead take pride in the fact that they're helping humanity combat global warming while maintaining the standard of living.

It's easier to rationalize away "bad things" when making money is at the top of your value scale. I think it resembles the individualism of our age, people used to be more aware that they were a cog in the machinery of history, no one thinks like that anymore, it's all "be the best you can be" rather than "be the best we can be".
Look, these guys said Blockchain and Streaming, then the clouds open up in the sky, angel investors came and spend USD500k just in case
Why not just an app? Cheaper, and no scarcity issues: one for every customer.
Ants do explore. If one finds more food somewhere that is outside or closer to outside, the rest will follow. It's not technically impossible for ants to climb up the ventilation pipe either, but I don't know if their instincts would desire to reconnect with the old colony should they stray back up there.
Why are so many BASE jumpers dying?
Of course, the economy doesn't depend on masses having solid mathematical education (and knowledge), but the world would be a much, much better place if all kinds of “advanced” math was common knowledge and skill (and not just math). I am aware that that is currently a bit of a sci-fi scenario. Anyway, the author need not worry a thing — wishful thinking aside, as long as we live in a capitalist society, we're in no danger of large percentages of population being educated in any advanced subject. Or at all.
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There is some truth to it - almost all tasks can be done without higher math skills in my job as consultant.

On the other hand I tend to believe - possibly misguided - that a lot of my thinking is influenced by having gone through the math education. I may seldom need exponential functions but I know what is linear and exponential by heart. Consultants, engineers, architects and managers work with long levers and knowing how things scale up and down and when they don't matter. Understanding linear systems, frequency domain and where nonlinearity starts mattering informs quite a number of my decisions.

Math as a filter for hiring is questionable as imho. most grades. The skills that matter every day are mostly not analytical skills. Universities as they are set up are not well geared towards filling that educational need.
> First, a proof that the function yields an even natural is computed (you call that type checking); second (that's the evaluation step), the actual computation is carried out, and an element in the set of even numbers is computed.

As stated above, not all types denote sets. For instance, in a language with general recursion, (simple) types denote domains, not sets.

> But from a theoretical point of view, the total computational effort required to prove a property of a program is the same (given the same conditions), no matter when it is carried out.

You are ignoring two things:

(0) There is no magical way to implement the correct program if you don't have verification in mind right from the start. You will implement the wrong program, then attempt to fix it, then have another wrong program, then attempt to fix it, etc. That too has a computational cost.

(1) When you design your program upfront with verification in mind, you actually have a different mathematical object than when you don't. (Just like 2 as a member of the naturals is a completely different mathematical object from 2 as a member of the reals.) If your program design is split into modules (as it should be, if your program is large enough), then enforcing abstraction barriers across module boundaries constrains the size of the design space, often dramatically. (e.g., there are too many non-parametric total functions of type `forall a. a -> a` to even form a set, but there is only one parametric such total function: the identity function.) You note that verified properties could be thrown away after the verification is done, but why would anyone in their right mind want to?
Lumberjack, I agree with you. this is technology just for the sake of technology. As a user I don't see any kind of valid use case.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I need to see a more compelling use case than the "small guy producing content", considering YouTube DOES exist
I made an account just to upvote this. I think it also leads to the possibility that even if the authors simplistic conjecture that ~10% of MIT graduates actually use math, potentially this number (10%) doesn't vary with tremendously with the number of people taught. I.e. If we teach 100 people math, 10 use it but if we teach 10,000, 1,000 will. I'm in a profession where using higher level math is highly, highly encouraged although avoidable. It is incredible to see CMU level grads not taking advantage of their education. I think this leads me to believe that the application of math is more of a personal choice (do you desire to be helpful and add vale) than skill-based.
I was similar, although I charged $50 month for hosting/maintenance and gave each client their own droplet/VPS. I would typically go with the $10 or $20 droplet depending on the client, but the monthly fee was the same.
Do you see how it's a bit rude to insist that my personal appreciation of free software and open source is "ideological" when I just explained how it is actually based on my own concrete experience of being able to modify and share programs within the free software community?
> Go back to fixed function hardware?

Battlestar Galactica phones?

No, but I think we will eventually go to peer-based mesh networks with smarter clients. The reasons are:

1. Mobile devices keep getting faster and have more memory- they aren't and shouldn't be dumbed-down clients peddled by telecom companies to get them to buy their services.

2. People don't want to pay for things they shouldn't have to, like interconnectivity, if there are enough devices for everyone to pull off the network without help.
Reading someone call for in-depth study in one sentence and saying they're already convinced of their own pet theory in the next because of anecdata (anecdatum?) has me puzzled - I can't decide if it's an indictment of the author or merely ironic evidence for his thesis.
There is a lot you cannot do on a Mac, but that you can do on Linux. The point is that you do not see it until you have seen it elsewhere. How do you change the GUI theme on a Mac? How do you update all the software to the newest version? With a lot of GNU/Linux distributions, both is easy.

What users do not see, they usually do not miss. E.g. many users of OS X do not realize that some command line tools Apple ships are almost ten years old at this point until they find out that “[[” does not work in Bash on OS X or similar: https://github.com/sclorg/s2i-python-container/issues/104
>Now what about fish eaters? If you can't taste the difference between red snapper and tilapia, why ever buy red snapper?

Well, there's absolutely different taste between some species of fish. Nobody would misunderstood a swordfish for tilapia for example.

Now, some fish are more alike in taste, so that one would either not see much difference in picking one over another, or even attribute the difference from what they expected in this particular catch/bunch they bought being blander.

After all, taste can vary between different items of a single species of fish too (depending on where it was caught, how it was raised, what it ate, age, etc.).
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I learned more useful things from my liberal arts class than my CS or Math classes. Granted, I had been programming for years at that point so a single public speaking class was more useful than my first 1-2 years of computer classes. The problem is not the material, the problem is 4 years is just not a lot of time vs 13 years of prior education.
I lean towards indictment
It's weird that bankers never get sued, after causing millions in damage.
I can tell from personal experience that I only properly understood simpler mathematics when I started learning more complicated one. For instance, in linear algebra, finite dimensional (euclidean) vector spaces became a cakewalk once we started talking about functional analysis.

So, I think, even if you don't need that particular stuff in your work, it's still a good training.

Also, there has been a pushback against "rote learning" in the past couple decades. I believe that our minds need repetition in order to learn patterns and understand abstractions properly. Yes, you forget most of it, but without it, you won't learn it properly. I don't think you can be any good in any field without lot of time spent on boring and repetitive things (AKA "work").
This is pretty much the best argument I've heard on this issue. I always hear "people want this", but there are "features", like "overscan on HDMI" that nobody wants, and yet these features exist. It's the manufacturers who are pushing shit down the throats of people.
What if the effects result in an estimated 12 suicides, 1,000 children becoming homeless, and 10,000 teenagers not being able to go to college? Probation, or not worth charging?

What if someone punches you in the face and steals your wallet, resulting in minor bruising, an adrenaline dump, the loss of $42 and at least three hours spent on the process of replacing your ID and credit cards?
I think there are different segments of the market here. Personally, I'd quite like to be led to the drill bits by a robot. Having a little map pop up on my phone via AR would be 99% as good, though, sure.
It sounds like your best bet for convincing yourself is doing like the GP poster and self-inserting one.
little from column A, little from column B
Derivatives fall under the same copyright (unless fair use applies). You can't copyright ideas though.
Making profit is a good moral compass than not having any. This way corporations only care about how they can make money with the data. They don't care about the data itself which means it's only going to be used for things such as advertising or optimizing the user experience to increase profits. If they can't make money with spying on you then they won't spy at all.

A government might not have a moral compass at all. They may start mass surveillance with good intentions like fighting terrorism but when should they stop? Since they have already invested into mass surveillance why stop at terrorism? Why not use it to fight crime in general? Why not use it to enforce every law imaginable? Since we now have data ranging back several years into the past why not use it retroactively enfore laws?
I'm confused by this. EU passenger rights http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights... also apply to planes that arrive late. Hence, if they make you board the plane and wait, presumably you will also arrive late, and be entitled to a compensation.
>Blacklists. LBRY will publish and maintain a blacklist of infringing names. All clients we release and all legal clients will have to follow our blacklist, or one like it, or face substantial penalties. Especially because…

Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole point of decentralizing it to begin with?