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I don't agree with 100% of the article, but overall it is convincing. I've been worrying about this stuff for a while, the article puts it into words fairly well.

A lot of people don't trust "experts" anymore. The article touches on that, in relation to climate change denial, etc. But I think there is also something more specific there regarding science. Universities and colleges have become very liberal, with hardly any conservatives left. The public is aware of this, and constantly sees on the news the actions of progressives on campus (demonstrations, censorship, etc.), while conservatives are in the closet there. The downside to this liberal success is that the public image of "scientist" is now tied to "liberal". When half the population does not trust liberals, they won't trust scientists.

If scientists were as politically balanced as the general public, the general public might trust them more. We might also have more conservative scientists say "climate change isn't a partisan issue, I'm a conservative like you." With the liberal dominance of academia, we've lost those things.
Why would they do that instead of doing what they've done until now and accumulating wealth at an accelerating rate? Jobs have been getting less stable for a while already.
Awesome! I was just doing a PhantomJS using project few weeks ago and the QtWebKit 5.6 upgrades were something I sorely needed. Keep up the good work!
I think the way forward is some sort of basic income, even if that's just 25% of average salaries across the country, so that then the company can employ MORE people, but make them work 25% less, and pay them 25% less making them happier, healthier, and the gov't picks up the bill for the lost 25% income to the worker... It'd also be a good experiment for gbi in general.
My favorite thing to do with 'dd' is to break up multi-gigabyte log files into, say, 500MB chunks, so I can easily view and search them in XEmacs (this is 'csh' syntax as I use 'tcsh'):

foreach i (0 1 2 3 [...])
dd <big.log >big.log.$i bs=500m count=1 skip=$i
end

(XEmacs is very fast at reading large files but has a 1GB limit.)
It seems a particularly poor choice of workplace to try this. Care homes need to maintain certain staffing levels, 24 hours a day, so there is a hard limit to the benefits that can be gained from improved productivity.
OK, so there's me + pg saying it's not complicated. We've said why, and have a background, experience and relevant degrees.

And there's you and N72, who haven't said why, can't put forward a single argument to support yourselves or even what backgrounds in philosophy you have.

And you accuse me of not "understanding". Pathetic. It's the precise antithesis of the very discipline you allude to support.
That's not really the reason that phrase was thought up tho..
in Italy the movie is called 'Oceania' for ... reasons.
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A bit of meta discussion that usually isn't mentioned in those advice threads:

There's a big divide between visual telescopes that you can use to see things 'live' with your naked eye, and observing telescopes that are mainly used for photography.

The visual ones are more fun, used e.g. for the Messier rally where you try to spot all Messier objects in one night. Let's say it'll be a 12" f/4 to f/10 mirror, giving you suboptimal magnification but nice and bright images. Easy handholdability, difficult to attach a camera, imprecise tracking if any at all. Telescope usually fits in your trunk and is made to be assembled each night.

The telescopes that are used for photography are more akin to classical observatories. Guiding motors are now mandatory, usually you'll have a stationary place (concrete foundation and all) to have your scope perfectly aligned. You'll use it almost exclusively computer-operated, timing the images across different color channels and working only remotely. This way it is actually possible to do research even as an amateur ... but also to capture deep sky objects like nebulae in their full color detail.

There are hybrids, but those are quite niche, and usually not best bang-for-buck. Personally I'm considering to get myself a tele lens or two, and a cheap outdated digital camera body along with it. That way I'll only need a tracking mount, and I'll have enough to dip my feet into the water.
> does prevent out certain attacks.

No, it doesn't. If I have filesystem access in the sense you're talking I can just replace the application's executable with a malicious or modified one for example, which will allow me to steal your password still.

Correct me if I'm wrong here and there is some exploit class which might allow reading of but not writing to private application data and executables? I certainly haven't seen one and this would be the only scenario in which what you're saying has an impact.

As for the theft scenario - you could just as easily prevent the theft risk by setting a password on your device which would protect it at the platform level - where it should be. It'd also prevent other private data leaks which I'd say are higher risk than your router password which is useful only on your internal network, like your SMS messages, email accounts, authenticator tokens, etc. None of which I might add ask for passwords, dumping Google Authenticator tokens is as simple as running a SELECT on the sqlite database, they're not encrypted at all.
OS X Sierra (10.12) adoption chart

https://www.gosquared.com/global/mac/sierra/#beta

Looks like people are split 30/30/30 between the last three versions with many holdouts.

Things look way better in iOS land (76% on latest version):

https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/
Just FYI for the folks here, every time Aristotle's works were translated they caused a golden age, Rome, Classical Arabia.

No scientist would ever disavow epistemology, no matter how much they pretend once an issue really comes down to it, it really matters.

For example I will link a picture out of Gregory Clark's a farewell to alms that shows that Classical Athens was ahead pound for pound than 1800's England!

Classical Philosophy is also important for learning how to rule well w/o over reliance on the industrial revolution, the entirety of science's false glory is the glory of industry and technology.

The below link shows that Athens/Ancient Assyria had a better economy than 1800's England, much better, and Roman Egypt is competitive.
https://twitter.com/SanguineEmpiric/status/81818406860496076...

Afaik, modern sociological research is proving Hegel correct see Ricardo Duchesne, the real problem is, is that the civilizational distance isn't that large, or actually doesn't exist between Rome and say 1800's England, I effectively consider it continuous if you know what I mean.
Plus there are specialized hardware instructions for them, and the expensive parts (saving weird registers etc.) are fast-pathed in Linux if they're not being used.
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Thanks for the article, it makes a lot of sense. Note that in this book, the doomsday scenario is predicted to happen 2 years in the future, so it's not quite the same as a natural disaster that has already happened. So I don't think it would look quite the same in terms of violence and how we've evolved. It's more like, imagine 30% of the population suddenly lose their jobs or something like that, you could probably see riots happening today.
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If we twist things the other way - this shows that you can buy happiness...
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For me, an important takeaway from reading this article was to consider the type of employment they trialled it on.

The trial was in a retirement home, which is by design somewhere that needs 24x7 cover. This means that any reduction in hours needs to be covered by more staff, obviously necessitating more expense.

What would be far more interesting to me, is a trial on an industry like software development where output isn't measured in number of hours but more in the product created. It would be interesting to see if a reduction in hours negatively or positively affected the quality/quantity of code produced.
"at least when jobs start to dry out, people will realize that an intermediate solution to increasing unemployment is letting people work less -- hopefully for similar pay"

That doesn't check out.

Either working shorter hours will produce the same result. This is true in knowledge workers etc., being more rested and well-being, and cutting on jabbering in the kitchen, you can produce the same net result easily in 5-6 hours a day instead of being overworked, sitting like a zombie for 10 hours. Then, while you pay the same for shorter hours, there will be no incentive to employ new workers, you pay the same, you get the same results, it is only done in shorter hours and pay-per-hour increased, but you don't need more workforce.

Or working shorter hours will produce less results. This is true in "mechanical" jobs - e.g., car production lines, or in "overwatch" jobs - e.g., power plant control rooms. Then you will need more workers and have no incentive to pay the same for less results and then pay the same for new workers to make up the results. Yes, you can pay the same numerically for less hours (i.e. when forced by law), but now producing a unit of car, flour, bread, delivering a package from e-shop, programming a feature in software system costs more and the currency will be devalued. So you will work less hours, get the same pay (numerically), but for the same number, you will be able to buy less hours from others (whether it is a product or a service).
Schopenhauer is also famous for having an anti-natalist stance.

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”

It's brushed off in first few paragraphs, but for those who are not yet a parent: you don't have to be. You can have a fulfilling, arguably happier [1], life without children. In fact, a lot of people argue against having children these days [2,3,4].
I'm fairly lucky to have a supporting and progressive family who, mostly, supported my decision for not having children. But a quick gloss over /r/childfree indicates that there is a lot of stigmatism still going on. I think it's time to do away with that.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/111/4/1328.full.pdf

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/10/david-a...

[3] http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/people-who-dont-have-chi...

[4] https://www.wired.com/2015/04/biggest-threat-earth-many-kids...
I found some of Vova's videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zG_QpwbV3E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9csBR4AcSAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGbWbWSr00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_08RmjLVrpE

I think I have Gatto's videos saved somewhere on my hard drive, I'll try and upload them somewhere if I can find them.

edit: found one of them, I think there was another video before this: http://juggling.tv/16257

brief timeline of events:
http://www.galchenko.com/oldsite/news,_2008.htm
http://www.jugglingsubculture.com/?p=112
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.juggling/5up3...
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.juggling/OcYsxJC...
Oh, but Comodo does? Good luck.
I remember when I heard that Trump had won, in contrast to what all the media sources "knew" about the outcome before.

My first thought was, "Wonder what the narrative would be on this one. I smell a bull market for scapegoats right about now."

And, hey! Whaddya know, a week or so afterwards and we have this fake news fetish.
I think because you're missing the point - which was on topic.

It wasn't about the "F", it was about the teacher's reply to KV's essay about himself, saying that the author (KV) didn't know anything about KV .

Missing that wouldn't cause the downvotes on its own - but combined with comment about the offtopicness probably did it.
How does the government pick up the bill? They get their money from us via taxes...
Here are some other OS usage stats.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

http://cdn1b.static.pornhub.phncdn.com/insights-static//wp-c...
I'm willing to bet that 99% of the performance difference will be solved by value types. Anyway, Cliff Click, who wrote H2O[1], a large machine learning platform, reports achieving Fortran speeds (i.e. maximum throughput) with pure Java[2]. This means that a C application won't even be 1% faster.

> Java can't compete with good ole simd and the like for numerical computing.

Oh, sure, for some specialized use cases of course that's true, but you could use OpenCL in Java, too. With 10+ years with C/C++ and 10+ years with Java, I'd bet on Java when it comes to performance bang-for-the-buck almost in every case (given that it's a large app), and even more than that the more concurrent, complex and unpredictable the app is (but this requires carefully looking at the design).

Value types will make Java competitive in absolute terms in more and more domains. Also, with the new JIT (Graal) you can control machine-code generation at whatever level of detail you want.

> You need to use unsafe (see: netty,aeron, and any other low level database written in java or using java as the core language with some c++)and other tricks out of the box for real performance.

They're not using unsafe for throughput but (mostly) for latency. That's a whole other matter. Also, some of those use "mechanical sympathy" as a driver of performance instead of algorithms that the JVM makes easier. I've built a concurrent DB in pure Java that relies on synchronization that would require at least double the effort if I were to write it in C (hazard pointers, etc.), and may not even have better performance.

[1]: https://github.com/h2oai

[2]: https://vimeo.com/105743312
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There is now a wine stains version too :)
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/latex-wine-stains/cd...

(although I like your workaround!)
What's the conceivable scenario where even heightened levels of "fear and uncertainty" lead to the collapse of the USA?

Also keep in mind that people are already extraordinarily pessimistic and unconfident about the country.
I am not aware of any European country where salaries are as high as 4-5k€ per months after tax.
From us employed or from us running companies with profit, yes.
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> I think we need to step back and realise that while there might be benefits to a certain technology, it's not a miracle drug.

Can you clarify what you mean by this? Which rock solid C libraries are there for working with images? I'm not talking libpng and libjepg but higher level stuff. Because most people do not use those libraries directly because they are too low level. So any higher level library is a welcome addition.

Most programming languages currently have some agreed upon image library (like PIL/Pillow in Python) and they are not standing on good foundations either.
You are correct, it is my best guesstimate on the opportunity cost of all the time I spent fighting this.

Court time: 7-8 days

Preparing 3 ring binder with ~150 pages of evidence all laid out with tabs (Exhibit A, B, C...): 5-6 days

Lost work from stress & sleepless nights: 5-10 days?

My hourly rate is hard to judge - I have 80 full time employees so I don't bill directly for my work any longer. If a client were to insist on me doing work directly for them, I would probably require $700 / hr to do so. I don't think this is unreasonable as I talked to a lot of doctors and attorneys routinely charging $600 to $1200 / hr. I think I have a similar level of expertise at this point.

My cost estimate is probably on the high side :)
This is very true, it's all noble and such, but for now now markets and investors follow quarterly earnings guidance and most executives are not even allowed to make decisions that improve civilisation - the role of a company is to make money not make everyone happy.
Let's work with that as a starting point and not some unrealistic ideas.
No degree, but working in arts and in SW development forever. As well as radio host, journalist, architect and mechanical engineering for several years.

I'm movie critic and also appeared in two movies. And made some small ones.

HR asked me the same once. I answered: As architect you are generalist. You have to be scientist, and you have to be artist. There's not so much difference, and from all the differences both have their good and bad parts. Artistic knowledge is not different to engineering knowledge. Just artists are different :)
It was only tried in France. It's a different environment.
> Well written Java will always be about 2-4x slower than similar C code.

Nope. A large, concurrent app is likely to be faster in Java given similar effort (of course, given enough effort -- which may be double -- C will eventually surpass that, sometimes even significantly, depending on usage). Currently the main bottleneck, which makes the above statement very dependent on application type, is lack of value types, and that's being addressed. In small sequential apps, there will be a significant advantage to C, which diminishes with the size of the app. The reason is that as the app grows, it gets harder to write manual optimizations while keeping the code modular and maintainable, while HotSpot can do all sorts of optimizations even with nice abstractions.
^ -- THIS totally! There's plenty of resources, and human ingenuity to make the poorest person in the world live life like mid-to-upper middle class in America does. Why can't everyone start out at THAT quality of living, and move up if they so choose... a safe home, place to go to school, etc?

I just read a short story called Manna about where U.S. workers were displaced by robots and automation, and the 10% lived in luxury, the rest were put in styrofoam living areas, given meals, but weren't allowed to leave the compound, much like a concentration camp, or prison.

Some people though through inheritance, etc were given 'tickets' to go live in the Australia project, which was where everyone got 1000 credits to spend as they like weekly in a catalog of things like clothes, etc.. They got housing and food provided at no cost. They could do whatever money wasn't really a thing, people worked if they wanted, did scientific research, etc...

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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This headline is terrible. The issue is not the cost; it's political will even by the social democratic party. As it says in the caption of the main image:

> Toyota has been using the shorter workday there for more than a decade.

This is typically lazy American reporting when considering different political systems/paradigms.
What caused this, perhaps, was continuous OS distribution updating. When OS distributions were updated once a year or so, and there was support for one version back, everybody developed to the same target. Once a year you had to update your code, and you had a year to get ready.

Containers, and version pinning, are ways to obtain stability in the face of continuous updating.
Coincidentally, it is also in the title here (arstechnica.com):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13349986

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/dells-latest-xps-13-d...

So your friend programmers may take note that it is a valid word.
I think it's simply because the election cycle was excellent fodder for the already-increasing fake news trend.

Incidentally, here's an interesting podcast episode where they track down and interview a fake news producer. I don't recall them getting into specific timelines or an in-depth analysis of the trend, unfortunately:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/12/02/504155809/episo...
And also with humans! Vibrating insoles can make the elderly less prone to falls, because adding noise can bring the signal of differential pressures on parts of the foot high enough for them to feel that they're off-balance before they're unable to recover.
No: you misunderstand this line of thinking, as the goal of this subthread is not to increase efficiency or health but to mitigate unemployment in the wake of automation. The argument is similar to a minumum wage increase, where we pay people more for the same work, and about which you can make the same backhanded complaint; only instead of helping only the people with jobs (as a minimum wage increase doesn't affect you if you do not already have a wage), it brings more people into the job force while having the same effect on the bottom line of businesses (that they are paying more for the same output, only instead of giving more money to one person they are giving that money to more people). The real issues are that it assumes work that scales well to having more people involved and that it breaks the market for low-value work; but the latter issue is the same core problem with mimumum wage increases, and the person who commented with this understands, saying this is only a way to transition a society which refuses to admit basic income as a better solution due to the "welfare state" argument (which is really the same reasonable defense of the minimum wage, as well).
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I appreciate the owning up. That's a good thing.

As for the "smart": I consider the ability to recognize when one does not have sufficient information to have a useful opinion to be smartness. :)
What is there to suggest that the arrow of causality is going in the way that you imply?

Personally, I am fairly convinced that academia and science being "liberal" is, I think, much more a characteristic of the underlying philosophies involved than some externally-imposed groupthink. "Conservatism", at least the modern variant, and "exploring and expanding knowledge for a greater good, while entertaining ideas that you don't necessarily agree with" are literally antithetical. I thought of myself as a conservative before I went to college and realized that, hey, American conservatism is not only railing against stuff like observational science, but "morally" against the existence of these fellow human beings who have done nothing wrong and deserve to exist.

So, yeah, maybe "the public" would trust academia and the whole "science" thing more if it was More Conservative, but who's to say that it'd actually work as well? It's not like this stuff exists to tell people what they want to hear--and the epistemic closure of the American conservative is such an ideological purity test that if you're not telling them what they want to hear, you're not conservative. It's not on "science and academia" to break itself for such a warped thing, is it?
The professor knows Melon did not write the essay

So the F actually is for not doing the work, not for the submitted paper. Whatever the professor said was not the reason why he gave an F, given the context it was aimed at the cheater! Which is why he gets an F.
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