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I don't like this practice at all, just to be clear, but let me play devil's advocate for a second:

Let's say that a company is trying to hire for "a senior level position", as you put it. Let's also take it as an assumption that senior level positions are relatively unique, carry responsibility within the company, and are not a homogeneous fungible engineering role. In other words, you can't hire two people for one senior level position and squeeze them both in somewhere.

The company doesn't just interview one candidate at a time, much as a candidate doesn't interview only one company. If there are two candidates in the pipeline and the company likes both of them, it would be unethical to give both candidates an offer at the same time (since the company can only hire one person, it would need to rescind the offer from one of those two people if they both accepted).

So, the company might tell the candidate they like most: "We really like you for this position. We'll give you 24 hours to decide, and hold the position until then. After that, since we can't hold up our recruiting pipeline indefinitely while you decide, the offer may expire." If you are a candidate, getting an offer a day or two later than you're expecting could seem like a big delay, after all.

I assume that this is not what you were told, or how it was messaged, but how would you feel about a situation like that? How would you want it to be messaged? If multiple people are competing for one position, you can only have one outstanding offer at a time, which means it needs to have a reasonable time expiration so that the next-best candidate gets a chance to consider it.

Alternatively, I suppose you could say, "We're giving both you and someone else an offer simultaneously. First person to accept gets it." But that seems equally bad (especially since the candidate has no way to know whether it's even true).

It seems like the higher level a position you're interviewing for, and the more unique, the shorter a time window the company can have to leave the offer open. When someone is given the offer to be the CEO of a large company, do they get more than a day to decide?

Granted, none of this reasoning should apply to typical engineering positions that people regularly encounter, for companies that want to hire as many people as they can, and I am not trying to excuse pointless exploding offers.
> I'd be surprised if an insurance company would determine fault without a police report.

You haven't had to deal with an insurance company. I've dealt with at least five claims personally. None had a police report. A couple were well over 2k. It would be very easy for a company with Uber's resources to avoid an official report outside a regulatory requirement. If they paid whatever it cost for any driverless accident that didn't involve an injury, there would be no insurance claims, let alone police reports.
LiChess also provides post-game analyse features, allowing Stockfish to determine alternative lines, and also learn from your own mistakes.

I never used chess.com, so I cannot really compare. I'm an avid user of the linked site, and use it play both with friends and users around the world. So far it's been a great experience, and I still have lots to discover : chess studies, tournaments and alternate game modes.
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Why is liking the same TV shows a precondition to living with them? I think the real underlying problem is American's don't seem big on the "live and let live" philosophy on the micro level. Which is strange because there is so much more diversity among larger groups.
I tested the theory of "no one questions an orange cone" in college, securing myself a front row parking spot for a few weeks. Someone eventually took the cone and the spot, but I think the results would hold up to peer review :)
Yes, it's called "people smuggling" or "coyotes".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyotaje
So you're really telling me on the high end 100% of illegal immigrants pay taxes and on the low end 68% do?
> It's a military AI that correctly interprets a command to kill a particular group of people, so effectively that its masters start thinking about the next group, and the next

You know, you don't need to go that far. You know what a great way to kill a particular group of people is? Well, let's take a look at what a group of human military officers decided to do (quoting from a paper of Elizabeth Anscombe's, discussing various logics of action and deliberation):

"""
Kenny's system allows many natural moves, but does not allow the inference from "Kill everyone!" to "Kill Jones!". It has been blamed for having an inference from "Kill Jones!" to "Kill everyone!" but this is not so absurd as it may seem. It may be decided to kill everyone in a certain place in order to get the particular people that one one wants. The British, for example, wanted to destroy some German soldiers on a Dutch island in the Second World War, and chose to accomplish this by bombing the dykes and drowning everybody. (The Dutch were their allies.)
"""

There's a footnote:

"""
Alf Ross shews some innocence when he dismisses Kenny’s idea: ‘From plan B (to prevent overpopulation) we may infer plan A (to kill half the population) but the inference is hardly of any practical interest.’ We hope it may not be.
"""

It's not an ineffective plan.
Yes, they pay sales tax. Not income or FICA.
"Everytime a "what's the best language for Machine Learning/Data Science?" thread pops up,"

there will always be someone saying your statement as well.
Oh gods, I didn't keep a list. Most had no effect, but I eventually traced it to Contacts, and with the exception of a couple of even more mysterious rogue issues with the windowserver, that seems to have fixed it.
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While I agree with the concept, I think it's dangerous.

There aren't that many good companies to work for in any area (even in SV), to have 10 on sites simultaneously, and you might burn bridges for later [e.g. don't reapply before 1-2 years policy].

IMO: If there is that much interest for you, you need to charge more.
Fukushima was commissioned in 1971, Chernobyl was commissioned in 1977. That said Fukushima was a better design, and as a result was a much less significant event. Reactors built today will be 30-40 years old one day, but we also have 30 years more knowledge about nuclear power than when either of those reactors were built.
Exactly. In my opinion, chess at its core is all about presenting challenging puzzles to your opponent and solving the puzzles put to you by your opponent. An engine may show that one side is way ahead but it could all depend on finding one series of precise moves and therefore not be much of an advantage at all for a human under the pressure of the clock.
The next 20 years will see large mortality in baby boomers, who bought their houses inexpensively and didn't move around much. That's going to return a lot of supply to the market and might drive prices down. At least outside the insane areas like San Francisco and Manhattan.
Agreed. But if the goal is something like "build the largest number of paperclips", recursive self improvement is going to be a phenomenally good way to achieve that, unless it is already intelligent enough to be able to tile the universe with paperclips. Either way we don't care if it self improved or not, that's just the seemingly most likely path, we just care if it is overwhelmingly more powerful than us.

The only thing that stops me from recursively self improving is that I'm not able to. If I could it would be a fantastic way to do good things that as an altruistic human I want to do. Like averting crises (climate change, nuclear war), minimizing poverty and misery, etc...
I enjoyed Alan MacDonald's book when I was first getting the hang of things. Never read much of David Hestenes, although he has a lot of good literature.

Lately I've been more interested in the deeper workings of Clifford algebras, which is their intimate connection with quadratic forms. When I get to a computer I'll try and post some resources.
technology enables. it doesn't care about life or death. It's not supposed to.

Humans are supposed to are about life or death. Take your beef up with humans using tech to kill.
It was launched in 2016, with a much simpler interface (no accounts iirc), which evolved a lot to come to this day.

Its source code is also really interesting, it makes me want to learn Scala.
The problem arises when non-state actors wreak havoc with drones and AI with inpunity.

What would we do if a drone made by a no-name manyfacturer dropped some bombs in Times Square? Who would we blame when someone uses AI to actually sow social mistrust and subvert our existing systems?
Untrue based on what? You may not agree with him, but isn't that the point of the comment section - to comment on the subject. If everyone had the same thoughts, there would be no need for comments ;)

His statement was "financial education rather than handouts". Considering more than 60% of american's are in non-mortgage debt, this is a fair statement for both sides. The rich are in debt as well as the poor. If the "wealthier" had less debt and more available "liquid" income, it's possible to easily promote a percentage of your available wealth to those that have less. Along with poorer-side, it's quite easy to spend thing's on stuff that will not help you out of your slump 5 years from now.

There are a lot of people just don't have enough...but the majority of people are in debt, which causes them not to have enough. Either way, financial responsibility would dramatically increase the U.S. economy more than any job's package from the government (taxes increase, travel expenses increase, home buying increases...etc). Imagine if everyone in the U.S. drove a "beater" car and saved up to pay cash for their next car...imagine if you had no credit cards and everyone had to pay cash....a lot less debt, a lot more savings, a much greater economy, and the 1% would swindle down to 0.01%
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Firstly, I completely agree that it's easier to flip a centralised switch, make an incompatible change to fix a security issue, and force all their clients to upgrade to continue working.

However, I don't think that decentralised solutions have to end up in the worst-case scenario we see with SMTP (or even random(4)), or the medium-case nightmare of (say) phasing out SHA-1 TLS certs. There's a spectrum of nightmare here, and you can engineer both the tech and the governance to enforce a culture of security awareness and aggressive upgrading until things move fast enough. In practice, this means:

* Set a cultural precedent that obsolete clients are a bug, not a feature, and should be killed off or upgraded.

* Ensure that the most popular clients are actively supported to implement security features. If necessary, the standards body itself should get off its ass to do the work in order to protect the integrity of the ecosystem.

* Set a cultural norm of shaming users and developers who don't upgrade for security features - the same societal pressure that generally stops people wandering around in public if they're covered with chickenpox.

* Enforce it in the largest public communities of the ecosystem - in Matrix, this would be #matrix:matrix.org and a bunch of other huge >5000 user rooms, where if one day we had to make an incompatible protocol change, it'd suddenly be abundantly clear that folks on old clients would be excommunicated until they upgraded. We believe that users would rapidly find a way to switch client or encourage their developers to upgrade if it meant they were no longer able to participate in the biggest rooms!

* It's obvious, but: layer the protocol so that functions can be swapped out easily, just as Matrix allows arbitrary future E2E protocols in addition to today's m.megolm.v1.aes-sha2.

SMTP's woes stem from innocently trying for backwards-compatibility at all costs; not layering the protocol; having no governance model or culture which shamed ancient or obnoxious MUAs into being abandoned or fixed.

Slowness of SHA-1 phase-out in HTTPS is more the community again being conservative about backwards-compatibility, and a rather cautious attitude from the browser vendors in deploying the upgrade due to fear of upsetting everyone's expectations that The Web Never Breaks. Again, if you had more of a willing attitude that sometimes there's a security disaster and everyone has to upgrade (assuming that the software mechanisms are in place to upgrade and you haven't baked into hardware etc), perhaps people would be more willing to move faster.

So, with Matrix, we're trying to instil that attitude from the outset, whilst ensuring that the tech can support it. Time will tell whether it will work :) Better worth trying than to give up on federation and decentralisation entirely, though: privacy has no value without freedom.
I think you're confusing "these are the cons of going to an elite university" with "there are more cons than pros of going to an elite university."

It's quite possible to be mostly satisfied with something and still have good reasons to be dissatisfied, and it's perfectly reasonable to write about those reasons. I doubt Deresiewicz would say that "po-dunk State U" is better.
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Which reactors? And which had disasters anywhere close to the scale of Chernobyl? And of those, which of those reactors were newer than Chernobyl?
A significant number of undocumented workers use a fake SSN for their job so they do pay income taxes and FICA - but can never claim tax refunds, earned income credit, or their social security credits - http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/02/...
multi-day is TOO long. There is no exception to this rule.

It's not even about being attractive to juniors, seniors or mid level. It's just looking for desperate, even if you have a brand name.
By this measure, I would say Bostrom is not a crank. Yudkowsky is less clear. I'd say no, but I'd understand if Yudkowsky trips some folks' crank detectors.
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It's not frustrating at all. Source: I am a legal immigrant.
I'm not seeing how government employees violating the rights of the citizens have a right to do so in private.
Jobs today don't realistically require 4 years of post high school education, even if employers say they do. They're just using it as a filter. If you can find a way to get workers to send a true signal of qualification without blowing four years of their lives, and can pocket even a sliver of the savings, then you will be very very rich.
Maybe they're not annoying cool kids but people doing work in a new domain and trying to share the benefits.

I don't think people are saying that their solutions are better just because they're in rust. Maybe somewhere someone is, but the majority of what I see doesn't really sound like that.
But someday we're going to run out of Bitcoin!
Gotta ask and I ain't trying to start a flame war here.... how's the community compared to say, ICC? I was a big time user of ICC back in the day simply because the average player was high caliber after FICS started to become a bit of a dead zone for standard players (I like 45 5 or higher timed classic games )
Could someone sum up the needed technology stack to do bitcoin mining in 2016?

In particular, is it still in any way possible to build small scale, home-brewed mining operations or the higher barrier of entry means that only the big companies will survive?
IQ is only a minor factor in success
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$3K per capita would be an enormous economic stimulus. Or give public schools $3K per student, and you'll see huge changes. It's a lot of money.
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And you don't think the government runs their own mobile networks in war zones? They definitely aren't relying on Zain.
“A [programming] bootcamp won't ever do more than give you a white belt”
Imagine what a cat _trying_ to turn everything into paper clips would look like.
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If the premium isn't related to demand or volume then why does it go up every time there's an increase in price and volume, and disappear when volume and volatility are low?
What's up with your Navy SEAL analogy in these comments? Do you know any SEALs? Have you ever seen a tiger up close, say 20 feet or so?

One adult tiger will kill an unarmed SEAL (and any other human being) in single combat. It would barely exert itself. It would make more sense if, when you said "it only takes one", you were referring to how many tigers could kill five or six SEALs who don't have guns. Fuck it, give your SEAL a fully automatic weapon - the odds are still not in his favor against a single tiger. Large felines have been known to kill or grievously injure humans after taking five high caliber rounds.

This is exactly what idlewords' point is in his essay. Your argument about a SEAL landing on an island of tigers and somehow flipping a weird "Planet of the SEALs" scenario on them is exactly what many (most?) AI alarmists do. These ridiculous debates get in the way of good faith discussion about the real dangerous of AI technology, which is more about rapid automation with less human skin in the game than it is about the subjugation of the human species.

This sort of unrealistic scenario is really fun to talk about, but that's all it is - fun. It's not really productive, and it conveniently appeals to our sense of ego and religious anxiety. Better to do real work and talk about the problems AI will cause in the future.
If they can't produce proof of damage I'm going to go ahead and assume it doesn't exist.
I can answer the headline question very easily: because being smart isn't all that's required.
Doesn't this hurt compile times and increase exe size?
> I love when the elite romanticize the lives of the prole. It's super easy to think "Yeah, $750 apartment, a bit for food, go out for a beer once in awhile, work 9-5, great!" Until you realize that unless you play a perfect hand with every dime, the slightest expense can cripple you at a moments notice.

"Not to be rich" doesn't necessarily mean "precariously afloat."

I choose to interpret that line charitably, and take it to mean that many high impact roles in society (especially various roles in education) do not pay richly, so having the luxury to deprioritize income should mean that today's young Americans might be better equipped to focus on social impact first.

Edit: I saw that you edited your post and removed what you originally said. That's too bad. I would much prefer that we try to have a productive discussion than to just drop a curtain on the conversation.
I think that "millionaire" used to designate an incredible wealth.

If you're 60 and you have to pick between having 1 million in cash or having a roof [in a moderate sized flat] over your head, you're not doing that well.
When I was on the Harvard tour, the guide was an Ivy League groupie -- she had applied and failed to get into Harvard, went to a good "backup school", (I think Case Western) and finally transferred into Harvard in her sophomore year -- without transferring any credits.

It made an impression on me. I checked out the 2nd tier of school and found a bunch of white bread people from Jersey looking forward to a career in ibanking or medicine.

I ended up in a good state school with real people and no debt. I lost the opportunity to work at McKinsey or whatever, but I consider that a plus.
Google Hangouts consistently drains at minimum of 20% of my battery life per 30min meeting. It doesn't matter if I'm using my top spec previous generation 15", my top spec previous gen 13", or my 2016 12" MacBook. As such, using it to gauge battery life is about as fair as running a Hadoop cluster in VMs to gauge battery life. Actually, I think the active Hadoop cluster would use less battery.

The reason why their test results are ridiculously long is how little they stress the machine. Loading ten basic web pages (in the stock browser, so no Flash, and something tells me no WebGL usage either), so outside an errant background process, what's really using any watts there besides the screen?
Last I checked this was a tech website not a legal one...
Or rather twitter is now worth less than bitcoin
Can this only be used for games played on LiChess?

Or can I upload a PGN from, for example @fbchess?
Entry level engineers are generally easily replaceable.
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Yes, but unfortunately for C++ libraries that make heavy use of templates, it's the only solution. Because templates need to be specialized to generate any code, they can't be compiled ahead of time into shared or static libraries. So in C++ you have this stupid non-sense.
I don't think an income tax that punishes people for making too much money is the right way to go about it. How about instead of punishing people for being rich, discourage the filthy rich from spending money on the frivolous. For instance, set up a luxury tax on expensive cars, private jets and jet fuel, first class transportation and primary residences and hotels that are way above the average value for an area. On the other end, have tax credits (not just a tax deduction) for contributing to charitable causes, or for taking business risks that drive innovation.
Whether you believe it or not it doesn't really matter. What matters is that it is true. We can see this today, and through out history. There is an an accelerating concentration of wealth. Which is caused directly because the return on capital is greater than labor. So yes, while costs of goods has decreased, that doesn't mean that the benefits of technology are distributed evenly, or even fairly. The total cost of goods is irrelevant, if share of wealth has actually decreased, and that the economic ladder has been pulled up.
What BS. This guy can't talk to a plumber and it's the fault of elite colleges? Pleeese!
This bit elicited a chuckle...

> How will I face my classmates at our 20th reunion, when they’re all rich lawyers or important people in New York?

You face them with your head held high. You chose a career that you find fulfilling. You're improving the lives of children, passing your hard-earned knowledge on to another generation.
Let's look at it...
a family making $250k a year, don't go into debt, max out your RIA, and your easily a millionaire before retirement. Then over the past 20 years...increased home sales, salaries, company buyouts...etc. The average salary in silicon valley is $94k with 3 million people. If this is the average, only 2.5% of the population need's to make $500k or more and save for a few years.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/09/24/silicon-v...

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/05/05/silicon-valley-p...
Fair enough, but the parent was quoting their total payment (not just payroll) as 8% of their income, which is still an extreme underpayment, and equivalent to the case where they are only paying sales taxes.

That doesn't mean "yup, close the border", but we should still be careful about distinguishing the issues: yes, immigration may be below the optimal level, but it doesn't follow that illegal immigration is unproblematic in this respect.
How would you explain your good luck? Do you think it will work for other people?