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Any alternative the Left (as opposed to "democrats") is immediately dismissed as similar to socialism.

If it involves state control, it's communism. If it's a planned economy, it's communism. If it puts restrictions on the market economy, it's socialism. If it suggests increasing taxes, it's socialism. If it aims to shape market behavior, it's socialism.

If it comes from someone who has previously suggested one of these previous ideas, it's socialism.

The luddite argument is that we should stop progress because it is too drastic a change. (most of) the Left is not advocating that. However, there is a strong argument to say what got us here is causing more problems than solutions, and the same solutions dismissed earlier are now within range of implementation.

I'm not suggesting whole hog Cockshott's "Toward a new Socialism" -- most people here could tear it apart justifiably. One interesting idea is that the government charges full externality and market costs for the resources it controls, rather than the cost to maintain those resources, and distributes the excess as social credit. (Basic income suggests that one can live on it - social credit is the distribution of social wealth, but is not necessarily livable to start.)

But again, that has government involvement implications, so it must be socialism.
>"But if it were true, poorer families who are struggling financially should be made aware of this, you'd have millions sign up to host. It'd likely be a good cultural experience for both sides too."

As much as it'd "help" the poor family, I don't think you'd get a whole lot of interest from the other side. If people have this much money to spend on their children's tuition, they certainly don't want them living in poor neighborhoods, for the "cultural experience", even.
Wouldn't say it's "fantastic" but people enjoy my blog on product management / design for startups - https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/
Hey, I just tried that and it's pretty close to what I want. Thank you.

edit: close, but no cigar. It enters "scrollback mode", which you have to exit before you can type again. It's just like screen's copy mode with different key bindings.
Dishes are a bad analogy. I can wash a load of dishes by hand in 15 minutes. My washer takes 90 minutes. From a time POV, it could be worth it to pay fleshy robots to do the work.
So how to incentivize? Make a morally outrageous ad-blocker?
There's some surprisingly-literal survivorship bias here.
> you just need to find file hosting

As it were I'm working on a decentralized file hosting / data storage platform called Sia. We are probably not quite ready to integrate, as Sia does not yet support allowing others to download your files, but it's in our roadmap.

IPFS would probably also work here, given that the files are public and likely to be downloaded many times. It works like bittorrent in the sense that distribution is unpaid and not guaranteed, but as long as you have enough seeders the file can stay alive.
>> You asked the question here, not the computer.

But the computer can be coded to do causal calculus. Which is an elegant way for it to reason about the observations it sees. The data tells the machine what is a possible graph of causality, and what is ruled out. Adding more data changes the graph. Now you could say the machine can't dream up what to try to measure that's not already there, but I don't see why it's terribly different from what a person does; a person just happens to have a very wide range of experiences to draw from.

About the child and the brussel sprout, it's because they don't like the taste. They don't like the taste because they're evolved to like certain tastes, where the term "evolved" hides a complex history of genetic interaction with the environment, and "taste" hides parameters discovered during this interaction. Essentially, the child has certain priors in his head about what's good for him. Not all that different from a calculating machine.

Now the child may not understand this, because he can't consciously examine the chemicals in his brain, but the computer is built in such a way that we can, so we tend to think the computer is somehow less complex.
I feel like "bloat" is thrown about so much these days, with little credence to actually defining it in a per situation context. It would be far more credible to me to not use such a handwavey term and instead talk about what the memory differences are, and why one might use much less memory than the other. Often times one person's "bloat" is another's necessary feature to accomplish their goals.

It's like saying Django has a lot of bloat in comparison to some super basic http lib, except it has all the features I'll need to build a non-trivial app.
That's nonesense. This is like somebody claiming they own copyright on your book or code because you used their text editor.
>if the workers are having trouble getting a decent wage, where does that surplus come from? what happens to consumer confidence, and aggregate demand if people are losing their jobs?

Probably not a lot. Automation headlines are probably going to take a back seat to Trump administration headlines for a good long while. Just from feeling, it seems to be happening fast enough to be a real concern, but not fast enough to cause panic, draw attention, and quick action.
In 2013 we started GPU programming at the company I work for. We carefully evaluated CUDA and OpenCL and decided to go for OpenCL because it was a standard and we could chose between 2 vendors of GPU. I can tell you that in 2017 we do not regret our choice. It is great to be able to run our code on both AMD and NVidia GPUs, and to offer our customers to choose whichever GPU vendor they prefer.

Many people criticise OpenCL because when you come from C++ it seems a lot of work. It is true that OpenCL has an API influenced by OpenGL and is verbose. However it is not difficult to write a small framework specific to your needs and domain to factorise much of this verbosity.

NVidia does everything it can to hide the fact that their devices support OpenCL. People thinks that only ancients versions of OpenCL run on NVidia devices. That is not true: 1.2 is not ancient is still as of today the main version of OpenCL used. OpenCL 1.2 is fully supported and NVidia quietly say to its large customers who refuse to use CUDA, that they will starting to support soon some OpenCL 2.0 features.

To answer your question, I am not sure either will win, but they will both exist for a long time.
This reminds me of the first robot bird http://ed.ted.com/on/xtyd4M5V that was built a few years ago. I would be interested in knowing how difficult it is to build a robot bat once you already know how to build a robot bird. Is there any specific challenge in emulating the way bats fly compared to birds?
Agreed, though I don't personally find it annoying. I guess I'm too used to using vim that it doesn't bother me.
Someone already quoted the Peter Sully case above, that's a concrete example.

Reporting about the issue also often stresses that in order to join or the cp communities you first need to provide material yourself. That makes it difficult for law enforcement, and it grows the community's content. So even if you think most cp is not 'bought', that's another concrete way how distribution encourages more production.
I first learned about Neil Postman in the last year from Alan Kay's reading list. I've found myself wishing he were still alive to champion his ideas today - they seem just as relevant in the era of Facebook as they did in the era of television.

http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
This wasn't a GFCI, but an AFCI. According to Wikipedia, AFCI's "detect electrical current alternating at characteristic frequencies, usually around 100 kHz, known to be associated with wire arcing, which are sustained for more than a few milliseconds." I suppose the Mac Pro's power supply produced some of these indicators, since all was well on a non-AFCI circuit. I've heard other people having similar false positives with equipment on AFCI-protected circuits.
Ah, the stupidity of publishers! The paperback version is cheaper than the Kindle version, ensuring that I won't buy either. :(
Not even sure if that is true, as most measurements seem to be relative, like "x% are poorer than y%". Even if income has stagnated, it seems possible that buying power has increased. I guess many measures try to correct for that, but maybe it is not enough.

I was impressed when I visited a medieval castle, where the luxuries of the lord included an automatically served table (that is, it would be manually lifted up from the kitchen). That required a whole castle with who knows how many employees.

These days, everybody can just Microwave their food, for a few bucks. Even though (almost) everybody is poorer than the medieval landlord in relative terms, in absolute terms everybody is richer.
Its not just faces .. me and a friend had a little jam session recently and posted a picture of our cool little setup, consisting of a few pocket-sized machines (synthesizers and controllers) on our table in front of us. Just an innocent little picture of our jam setup.

Within seconds of posting this picture of the machines, my friend was getting targeted ads from the manufacturers of those devices - within seconds!

This was a watershed moment for us. We won't be posting much to Facebook in the future .. far too scary for us!
By that line of reasoning, your compile's output is derivative work of the creative effort of the compiler writers.
It's a very convoluted reference to "No True Scotsman":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group).
What is the proposed recourse? Ban Facebook from analyzing data that users give it? I use Facebook's automatic tagging because I find it useful. Should it be illegal for me to use this feature because someone might unintentionally be identified in a photo that I took? Is the argument that Facebook--or any other company--should never be allowed to develop software that could process data that could identify folks, even when the data was willingly provided by a user that's complying with the law?

I'm not arguing in defense of Facebook, I just don't understand what someone that's privacy-minded would want. If I can legally take a photo, should I not have the right to have a company analyze that photo on my behalf?
It's in the same category of "insane choices voted-in by duly-elected representatives that will somehow still manage to persuade the electorate to vote against their own common sense".
I'd argue that such hasn't suddenly become unreliable. It was always unreliable, it's now far easier to fact check (and frequently do so in exchange with experts in a given field, as happens so often here). Now you have a million eyeballs on the bogus claims / data, and those eyeballs frequently have fast, easy access to vast research sources.

Today if the President says something bogus, it'll be fact checked in minutes by a thousand people and that fact checking will be syndicated globally nearly instantly on a dozen large media platforms. By comparison, consider the process, access and distribution that existed at the time of FDR (the things you can get away with when it takes a week or a month for distribution to occur).

We have a lot of historical examples from the last two centuries, to show that data accuracy and reporting in terms of commerce, politics, military, journalism etc. were not particularly extraordinary in the past. Agenda, laziness, bad research, bad reporting, misinterpretation, etc. are nothing new.
So it sounds like you could just run your videos on vimeo, or (even better) build and host your own videos and get paid.
any junior level/new grad roles available?
I'd actually disagree. The post-war era until the collapse of the Soviet Union had a pretty clearly delineated narrative, regardless of how truthfully we adhered to its precepts(or even how reprehensible they were in retrospect). I think it's only once we embraced the intellectual indulgence of the "End of History" that we set ourselves up for failure. As Authoritarian Capitalist regimes rose to world power in the 90s and 2000s, we failed to see them as a threat to our democratic institutions (having wrongly conflated Capitalism and democracy), until they were at our doorsteps
I find it highly likely that you're going to be downvoted due to being so hostile.

If that's the case, please don't assume it's because of a conspiracy, or that everyone loves google.

Plenty of people on HN are very critical of google and centralisation in general, myself included.
I'm not sure where it should land. However, I do think there is ample evidence that anything which widens the gap between individuals increases instability.

So, should you be able to increase the ability for your "dynasty" to do better? Yes. Of course, increasing society at large accomplishes this more effectively than just giving them more money. Good stewards of a society typically have it better in the long run than greedy stewards.
That's not a bad idea for any software that is critical to one's business.
On average, there has been a massively destructive war or peasants revolt or foreign invasion every three or four generations, down through the ages of Chinese history. But I'm sure it is the same sentiment as the Dutch expression I remember from a couple of Dan Carlin podcasts, about ascending the stairs in wooden clogs, and descending them in silken slippers. The idea of a cycle where hard work leads to prosperity, leading to decadence, leading to ruin, seemingly crosses all times and cultures.
MILA, Maluuba, ElementAI are all from Canada. And when you buy foreign talent, where does the money go?

Into foreign tech economies....
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If they reduced their workforce by 90%, so that the cost of labor is now a tenth of what it was, then they may have improved overall profit.

Of course, that doesn't include overhead, or anything else.
> Judges are giving both a very good grilling.

On that note, the Ninth District YouTube account is pretty interesting if you're into legal arguments. I particularly enjoy the hearings with Judge Kozinski.
As a developer with 10 years of C# experience and two weeks (and counting) of F# experience, I'm already finding it easier and more enjoyable to do a lot of things in F#. Results may vary.
Dont know about you, but my college off-campus landlords were shitbirds who wouldn't spend a penny they didn't have too. Your 10 amp circuit from 1910 that is illegally worked to 4 rooms can certainly be blown by a laptop.
On Facebook and other social media websites, people regularly volunteer to identify their friends in photos.

That does not happen with ordinary street surveillance footage, as far as I know.

So you might have pictures of you taken by street surveillance cameras as you walk around in big cities, but your face isn't ordinarily going to be recognized by anyone.
If you don't mind asking: how do you uniquely identify the requests? Is it a composite field made up of `client_ip:timestamp` or a random UUID? What does a typical payload sent across to the TSDB look like? Also I'm assuming the services are written in a language like C or C++?
Many EULAs explicitly include a clause stating that the vendor does not hold any rights over the output of the program. (A common example is when you use a compiler to create a binary. Read what the license says.)

IANAL.
Yes, it is an arbitrary cutoff. If you have a non-arbitrary method to pick the cutoff, propose it. Otherwise, what is the argument?
Yea. Positive and negative muons and pions were found after WWII. The anti-proton wasn't discovered until 1955 following the construction of the Bevatron, an accelerator powerful enough to reach the proton/anti-proton rest mass of ~1 GeV (i.e., a Billion eV).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevatron
I personally know several people who got jobs because an acquaintance posted on Facebook.
Not necessarily. The small ships probably have much smaller crews than the large ships.
For the sake of discussion, why is that scary rather than kind of nice? Unless you take the AdBlock route, aren't well targeted ads better than irrelevant ones?
We currently live in the post-post, of course.
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> Not OP but even if the next Hitler would get all my Facebook data I still don't care personally. Am I naive?

Do you have Jewish ancestry?

Of course the next "Hitler" probably won't be after Jews. Next time it would be Muslims or immigrants or Stalinist purges of anyone who disagrees with the administration.

You don't know today what opinions would get you put on a list tomorrow.

And if you've never said anything that anyone could ever find objectionable, you're probably doing something wrong.
In fact, I would wish Facebook to contract with and take over identity management systems (ie. social security, drivers license) away from local and federal government - not to dictate policy but just to dictate infrastructure.

Is it "fear-mongering" to bring up this episode again?

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
> number of parameters exceeds the number of data points as it usually does in practice

I dont get this part.

In reality, isnt the dataset much larger than the parameters of the nueral net ?
> Just the issue of coal alone brings that to light with both the left and right having their objective truths, neither of which encompass the entire picture.

Here is where I don't get people: my default intuition when facing people with firm beliefs that conflict with mine is to broaden my picture and see what happens when I include other side's arguments in it. But it seems that this line of thinking is for some reason hard for many people. I'm not sure why.
I can't understand this. Can you give a more concrete example?
That's because you don't have anything to hide right now. But you never really know what class will be targeted next. Maybe you don't care because you're not Jewish, or not a Muslim, or not a right-winger, or not a feminist... but whatever class you are part of could be the next one everyone hates.
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As I mentioned, weak argument.
It was intended to be a joke about false positives. Thought to put ":)" in the end but decided to keep HN emoticon-free. Jokes aside, I think vigilante justice always ends up being a witch-hunt dealing harm to lots of innocent people.
Individual DNA analysis is on the way, so hopefully health science can start to study what might best work for you, individually. Maybe for now just weigh the health advise of your genetic ancestors more than some study on millions of people that show only small differences of outcome.
What is dynamic programming. First, you need know what's recursion for better understanding. If yes, you can make step #2 :)
Sessions are the killer feature for me. I have a session for each project I work on and can have all my tabs, panes, vim, etc set up and switch between them at any time. Sessions can be persisted so that even if I reboot my machine all my project workspace configurations are saved and ready to go.
Why should your value system of what is and is not a productive mental activity apply to someone else?

I'm going to go waste some time with my kids.
I wrote my own terminal emulator and screen-like program to get there... I made mine send the code for shift+pageup/down when the application is in alternative screen mode, so I could forward the keypress all the way down to the server...
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I will note that that page does mention the relevant mailing lists, and I do know that the Vimperator devs also know of the relevant bugs/mailing lists (since that is where I found them)
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>Or it could be $20,000 cheaper if you're actually low-risk and their algorithms are better than the status quo...

I'm sorry, are we now living on bizarro-earth where companies work with each other to develop new, exciting opportunities to make less money?
The alternative is that when you share something with your friends, it goes from you to your friends without being decrypted by anyone in the middle.

> If I can legally take a photo, should I not have the right to have a company analyze that photo on my behalf?

They have algorithms analyzing your photo. The solution is to run the algorithms on your computer.
I'm not nostalgic. I think that the egalitarianism and shared prosperity of that era came from certain structural features it had, which can be replicated today, rather than from peculiar, one-time historical circumstances.
And many do not. I have negotiated software licenses for 15+ years and had to fix this issues many times. Just as many software licenses explicitly only license object code, but the licensed product turns out to contain quite a bit of source code, which if not addressed the licensee is not allowed to use (copy).
Fear mongering?

Consider yourself lucky if you or your loved ones haven't been harassed or stalked because of information you've posted about yourself or your family online.

Some have not been so fortunate, and don't want to make themselves or their families any more vulnerable than they already are.
It is a very Post-Modern nomenclature to what are essentially Current Trends.
> An objective truth doesn't have to apply to every individual without exception, to be an objective truth.

I agree with this. We can objectively say, for example, that in the US many women end up as primary care providers for children. We can even note that because of breastfeeding & postnatal recovery we expect to see women become primary care providers.

But what I'm hinting at is that a lot of people are using "objective facts" as a code for extremely prescriptive speech right now on the grounds that the observation of majority means that that majority is correct, hence my mention of gender roles.

A lot of criticism of the notion of "post-modern" thought is that it questions norms previously thought to be purely objective. The degree to which one does this is of course an individual thing and we need to constantly affirm the boundary beyond which it no longer makes sense to erode the pretense of objective truth (e.g., the Sokal paper).
You probably never lived under communism. Often people got in trouble not because they were dissenting, but merely being associated with somebody that was a political dissenter.

The usual term of accusation was called: "Agitation and propaganda" for the imperialist/capitalist regimes.

So, why you might have been squeak clean, if your friend, or your cousin was not, then you were considered a problem just by association. When somebody got in jail, their whole family got 'interned' (means, they uproot the family and send them in some remote village). Doctors had to work farm fields, etc.

If you were just a cousin, or close friend then you were marked as a problem with not a clean history or biography. If you wanted the nice job, or good education, you would be rejected for it.

It seems like a far fetched distant dystopian reality, but during 1950-1990 was reality in half of Europe. Also, a reality in the US the 50s with McCarthyism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
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