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So, here's the deal about Colbert.

The left-wing has been attacking the employment and incomes of ideological opponents with impunity for several years now. Sometimes, often even, it's just a hapless nobody and done to make an example out of the target. The left has consistently ignored anyone trying to point this out, and indeed will usually turn on that person and make them the next target.

So, conservatives, young ones mostly, decided to start fighting fire with fire and using their own unorthodox and questionably virtuous tactics to attack their political opponents. It's important to realize, though, that the aims are different. The left has been collecting scalps to intimidate and control. The right is using those same tactics to create chaos and disorder in enemy ranks. It's unlikely that anyone really expects CBS to terminate their contract with Colbert, although I'm sure if that happened they'd find it hilarious and satisfying. But so long as the left-wing media is occupied defending their own (Colbert, in this case) then they'll have less time and energy to spend making life miserable for conservatives. Plus they'll have to make arguments against the very tactics they've been using.

I'm not happy with this particular turn of events. But the media had 8 years of a popular liberal-progressive president to practice tolerance, encourage a diversity of viewpoints, and defend freedom of speech for anyone other than themselves. To take the moral high ground and restore trust across political lines that has been slowly eroding for the last couple of decades. They did not, in fact did the opposite, and so I can't find it in me to condemn the conservatives for something like #FireColbert.
The doctors' PC can run just fine on an isolated network and doesn't have to be connected to the internet.
I'm not sure that the rich usually invest in terms of making loans available, so I don't think your concern will happen. What might happen is a decrease in investment, which might lead to a decrease in economic growth. (Or, alternately, to a decrease in the rate of installation of automation, which might preserves jobs...)
I personally have two different types of drinking: one for flavor and one for hydration. If I feel dehydrated then I don't want anything but water, if I am not dehydrated but want to drink something to complement a meal or just as something to do then I choose other drinks.
Please let's not bring religious arguments here. They're predictable, which makes them uninteresting, which makes them off topic.
Again I think you are overgeneralizing since I follow the careers of my class and at least 1/3 of it is doing extremely well in their careers. I think you should be able to program a "paper bag" working at companies like Pivotal Labs, Microsoft, Pinterest, Airbnb, etc. which is where my classmates work at. Maybe I'm not interacting with the right grads though or have a representative sample set, but then again I know you pulled that 90% number out of thin air.

And you know how I know what I don't know? I constantly read, get mentorship from senior engineers at my company, build side projects, etc. The learning process hasn't stopped and it hasn't for many of my colleagues.

I do agree self trained programmers are better, because frankly thats way harder.
> This has not been my experience at all.

FWIW it matches my experience. I can't think of a time I've gone to the cinema not already knowing which film I'm there to see, so it wouldn't cross my mind to ask for recommendations.
> If you don't see a dime I wouldn't call it an UBI. "Unconditional" is supposed to mean that everyone gets the same amount of dime.

I wouldn't see a dime because I make far, far more than the people who need it. I don't need help.
> The OS might reuse UID's if it wishes.

If the software doesn't manage UIDs internally then this is a recipe for disaster because keeping UIDs in sync is a PITA. It's a waste of time to do manually, but an even bigger waste of time to have to fight with the OS to get it right. If you're using NFS then you're screwed.
Can you imagine anything that I could say or explain that might convince you otherwise?
Some would argue it was what killed Nokia, too. It chose to go with Windows Phone to "be different", even though Android and iOS were already established and WP didn't have much of a market share.
This assumes that the primary reason to start a company is to become fantastically wealthy, which I would contest.

Sure, most founders want to get rich, but I'd assert most would be just as happy to end up in the 8 figure range ($10's of millions) as they would in the 9-10 figure range. (And such a reduction would require taxes on a scale far beyond what UBI would require)

Few people are going to consider starting a company and then sit down, calculate their tax burden as a billionaire and decide that it isn't worth starting Apple, Facebook or Google.
There was probably a nicer way to make that point without attacking the parent's awareness of "the value of basic human interaction."

For what it's worth, I didn't infer any value judgement about caste in the comment.
Why is it that giving money to rich people increases their motivation, but giving money to poor people decreases their motivation? This "motivation" thing sure is hard to understand!
> Also in this specific case, the people who run IT at NHS are completely incompetent

That's what you get when you defund critical services.
It's basically not possible to do that without making those things cheaper somehow. Convert the entire US federal budget to UBI and it is around 10k per person. Healthcare alone per person is already 9k. Housing is maybe another 5k. And this is before those things get more expensive as people consume more of them.
You must be kidding, the tissue escaped normal bacterial decay because it was away from normal conditions. And contrary to what the title indicates, what was discovered was fossilized remains (i.e., rock), not the original tissue of the monster.
speaking of Android: How about switching to the JVM/OpenJDK to keep pace with modern Java? Maybe deliver CDI as a standard feature?

Also, how about using cgroups instead of the custom security model? Maybe we could get reuse out of Google's security patches for Linux, and they could benefit more from the community.
Riches' motivation to do what? Continually hoard resources? The problem of hoarding, tax evasion, and generally just theft from society disguised as "innovation tax" is the problem that already exists. You're not reducing economic activity, you're just taking economic output and putting it where it deserves to go.
Why would the people reaping the rewards of ransomware use encryption that has backdoors if backdoorless encryption already exists.
Government systems should be running whatever makes the most sense given all of the relevant tradeoffs. It's really unclear why an arbitrary reasonable person would entirely exclude proprietary software from consideration.
That was a big part of the deal that "solved" the Industrial Revolution. The other big part was training the ones that managed to survive.
Why is that more believable? I mean the quorum of scientists are typically a good guide for someone not a specialist themselves.
Is it possible to use deep learning to fill out the missing parts? I am guessing that DNA is like code with a set of instructions encoded.
While I can understand WikiLeaks position, I feel like it was incredibly short sighted and uninformed of them to release the code itself. Unless you believe that they are working with the Russian (and other?) governments to destabilize the west. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.
Some APIs work really well with the pattern, but I've only used 2-3 that were "wow, that's really neat!"
I strongly doubt that. Which laws do this for education? Could you point me to a couple?

There isn't some sinister cabal of teachers, that restricts supply, for the purposes of keeping their wages high. There isn't a grotesque system of receipts payable, and the user not paying the real price of service, and hidden, unitemizable fees at my local high school (Two of those do, however, start appearing when you go to university.)

There is more then enough education to go around. The problem is that it's not evenly distributed. I'm not talking about sending every kid to Harvard, here.

Healthcare certainly has people restricting its supply, but also has the exact same problem. We have the budgets for it, we have the doctors, and nurses to provide it - but we don't provide it very evenly.
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Are FDA vetting standards really uniform across all drugs, from children's vaccines, to last-resort therapies for the terminally ill? The latter surely have little to lose in taking a risky drug -- if they can afford it.
Start from the beginning of the story to get all the context. It's an interesting read:

https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/an-expediti...

And if you like this, I recommend The Victorian Internet:

https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-intern...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/162040592X
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That's something fundamentally different from using a negative income tax to implement a guaranteed minimum income.
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I'm a front end developer who was in a similar position as you! I'd highly recommend giving this playlist a shot: https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/81f5bbcfea4e44b9b2bd...

From the description: These tutorials have been chosen to maximize learning curve, i.e. learn the most in the shortest amount of time and cover topics from basic deep learning all the way to research done within the last 1 year.

They cover significantly more material than a typical deep learning course and took me lesser time. Good luck!
Getting hit with the nostalgia of flipping through a giant book and locating the corresponding disc with the icon I wanted!
I did and think the reply's tone was perfectly reasonable given the parent comment's dismissiveness.

Yeah I do like interacting with people. Even "minimum wage workers" who last time I checked were still people.
Strange question but why is this data in file-systems and not on SQL/Cloud systems?
I have a little bit of BTC left - I mined several years ago when it was still feasible to make money mining on a desktop PC with a good video card as part of a mining pool. I've sold off most of it, I have a little bit left that I'm not especially motivated to sell.

I don't see putting money (as cash, or mining) in cryptocurrency as investing, but as speculating. See http://www.thesimpledollar.com/the-intelligent-investor-inve... for a classic discussion on the difference. I don't distinguish to be pedantic, but because the word "invest" is often used to mis-characterize spending or gambling in an unreasonably positive context.
> It seems far simpler an explanation that the dinosaur was buried by a massive flood

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like it was caused by a giant flood.
dnsmasq gets can be used for this. If your sentiment though was that this should be standard, I absolutely agree. The benefit of having a system-wide cache makes it worth it, IMO. `resolverd` or somesuch.

(I've also imagined a similar set up w/ ping, i.e., a pingd, so that local monitoring stuff could ping things without needing to parse ping output or require the ability to open raw sockets.)
Can you of yours? I agree with your beliefs I am guessing, but still this battle over who alone holds the authority of correctness is itself distressing.
> Someone in a movie box [...] is practically a useless annoyance
> Honestly, do we really like interacting with the people with minimum wage jobs? Not really.

This may not be substantive enough for HN guidelines, but you know what? Ewwwww!
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> I want stock Android and stock should be easier to update.

That's not actually true, unfortunately. The BSPs are where the majority of the work is, and zero percent of that work is different between "Stock Android" and "Weird OEM Customized" Android.

If you look at what it takes to get "Product X" from an existing Android version, to a new Android version, very little of that time is updating the crapware everyone hates, and the vast majority of that time is updating the BSP + drivers needed to get any Android working properly at all.

For instance, if you build a product, you might buy a board from a random OEM, and that board might be built around a Qualcomm SOC on it. If Qualcomm doesn't support "the next android" for that particular chipset, your basically stuck unless you re-invent all of the Qualcomm-specific drivers and tools yourself. Since Qualcomm isn't supporting it, the OEM you bought your board from isn't either, and the product itself gets stuck on old Android.

ocdtrekkie is getting downvoted for this, but he's mostly right. Google could easily solved this problem years ago by letting Android devices reuse existing BSPs, and it looks like they are finally doing exactly that.
You could always fill in the gaps with amphibian DNA.
Disagree.

Intact for a 110M year old fossil means just that, it does not mean that the tissue has not been fossilized, it means it has not decomposed as it normally would.

If soft tissue and skin follow their normal path all you'd have is bones. Intact here means that the material is still present, but in fossilized form (just like fossilized bones are no longer the same as real bones).

The 'intact' is very much important here because that means it is not just fragments.
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I am wondering what problem Workplace by Facebook is trying to solve, and if they are aware of how 99% of corporations operate? While I acknowledge that SV has for a longtime marketed a Utopian vision of how the post-modern corporation would operate, it was my understanding that this was in fact just a recruiting tool, and not a genuine expectation of how workers need to be supervised and handled. Unless they expect the system to be restricted to just Stanford grads, it is asking for trouble. "Email alternatives" are helpful in that they improve information governance capabilities and security. However, introducing a "social" element to company announcements, policy postings, etc., is immensely myopic.

What is particularly frustrating is that IT groups seem to think that HR has not added social elements to the workplace due to technical ineptitude -- rather than by deliberate design to avoid unnecessary and unproductive distractions.
There is no skin nor soft tissue, just fossilization of them.
I'm more an Android guy, so I don't have an iPhone (except for testing on mobile apps I'm working on), and so I don't know what the update situation is like. But my (limited!) understanding is that when they release new iOS versions they are available at least a couple of generations back - is that correct? Or if you buy a network locked phone is it up to the network?
I don't usually comment on HN but when I do...

Kidding aside, I've seen these kinds of posts so many times and I want to make sure that for those that are thinking "strategically" about their profession, career and passions then I would advise to buckle down with a good BS in Math at a minimum (or CS).

But why? Im your older self telling you that you will grow to really really like and enjoy programming, computers, tech etc. and may want to continuously dive deeper. And when you attempt to do that it all comes down to Math. So save yourself a ton of time and money and just do it, close all your browser tabs, cobble together all your transcripts and get into a Math program (if you already have, go get a MS in Math at a uni that has a strong CS program).
You are missing a lot of things that you don't know. If you want to do machine learning at some point you have to train a model. You need to know how to clean the data, how to create the train/validation/test set, how to measure how good your model is, how to compare to other models you trained previously. If the model is not performing correctly you need to know why. You need to know the trade offs between precision and recall. This is like 95% of your work, the other 5% is running the training in Amazon or whatever you want to use.

I have worked with people who get a training example code and apply it to a dataset. And few weeks later they were still pulling off their hair because the model wasn't working in production but they have such a great results in their test. I took a look to their way of doing the training and I could point to so many errors they were doing why the model will never work in production.

That is not cutting edge, but at some point there is a new model that works better, and you should understand why in order to improve you current model. So probably you will have to read the paper and understand it.
I used to hold doctors on a pedestal till classmates of mine who were not that smart became doctors. One blatantly cheated in high school.
That being said, what about North Korea?

If literal concentration camps or starving literal millions of people to death aren't sufficient to bring real action, is it realistic to believe that free speech of all things will be the reason because of which we will start to topple regimes that we consider immoral?

If we can achieve a consensus sufficient for action on regimes who kill and torture people just because, then it might be appropriate to consider stopping (as opposed to just criticizing) regimes that simply repress people not following an arbitrary social code of conduct.
> what was Neville Chamberlain's "peace in our time"?

To be fair, he is (now) widely derided for his policy of appeasement.

Also, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact had the little caveat of partitioning Poland... To the benefit of both signatories. Not to mention the invasion of the Baltic states.

The attempted tripartite alliance between the UK, France, and the USSR would have also given up Eastern Poland to the Soviet Union. If the UK and France drew the line to Hitler's aggression in Poland, it would have been quite hypocritical to agree to give it to Stalin, instead.
Not all patches require reboots on many OSs. Some OS's even apply kernel patches live. :) They could have taken a more user friendly approach. I understand they were boxed in a little technically, but they built the box.
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I saw this at work from the inside of a big telco that did this. They replaced one guy who needed only vague instructions to configure complex software replaced by a team of five who needed detailed step-by-step manuals written out by the vendor and still took twice as long and couldn't cope with any hiccups along the way.

I do not believe outsourcing saves money. It only does so either by cutting quality of service, or in cases where the IT department was heavily mismanaged anyway. Bring in capable management and you don't need to outsource.
I would like to see UBI tests performed in pathological areas, or areas close-to-pathology - in real world environment without hype enforced on them.
But sometimes that scarce resource is time. You pay a person for their time doing a service. For instance, waiting tables. Cleaning. Staffing a counter. Driving a truck. Nothing (or very little) is constructed there, it is just a service rendered.

And you can therefore consider financing UBI by virtue of the time saved by automating these tasks. You take that time saved and hand it back as dollars instead of translating it into additional profit.
Can't you just filter this out with an hour coding challenge?

I don't even know why you are screening these candidates, the profile you are talking about doesn't even hit our hiring team usually or gets binned within 5 minutes.

I really think you have a recruiting process problem.
Economics has been evolving from a field dominated by navel-gazing theorists to being more behavioral and research-based.

Try letting go of the 70 year old theories and read some modern research.
Some numbers:

Current US population: 324 million people, 250 million adults.

Poverty line income: $22,000 for the family of four (it is hard to estimate individual poverty line income, but it's more than $22,000 / 4. Let's say $12,000, which is $1000 / month).

Total cost of universal basic income of $1,000/month for the US: $3 trillion per year.

Total US income tax revenue: $1.8 trillion for personal income tax, $0.4 trillion for corporate income tax.
Funny you should say that regarding attitude, doctor. One networking guy who used to work in a big hospital told me he hated working at the hospital because of the attitude of doctors there. Doctors with attitude of 'I'm god' really turned him off from working in the hospital setting.
Sadly, market (profit) driven ventures usually seem incapable of making the big leaps and can only incrementally build on the status quo. It seems that a fundamental change can only be brought in by state (see ex. state funding for Silicon Valley leading to computer revolution), which will only shell out the big bucks when facing existential threats, such as war (military being a huge driver in technology, standarization, organization) or ex. epidemics. In current times, there are no imminent existential threats (solutions to global warming would require global coordination, which likely isn't going to happen), so the states mostly take a back seat and we're left with Snapchats and Ubers.
> My best guess is that we’re not going to resolve these challenges in any intentional comprehensive logical manner. At least not at first. Instead circumstances are going to overwhelm us until enough of the population is miserable enough to demand real change. That’s been the historical model and it tends to be messy.

This is why I think we need to accelerate the pace of automation as much as possible. That's the only way of creating enough governmental pressure fast enough to reduce the suffering time of the first waves hit by automation. Counter-intuitive, but the faster we get there the less suffering in the transition and the faster society wakes up to the fact that we have to take care of our own.

The right to subsistence has been conveniently tied to the ability to work because that's easy to understand, but it's always been an artificial link.
It's not just Android design's fault though. ARM does not have the equivalent of Bios for hardware discovery and initialization. So you can't have a generic OS image to be installed on any device.
> What is there to test? These aren't servers.

Such hubris.

When I worked night shift in emergency dispatch, our base network ops center pushed out an update that took our phone workstations offline. The phones that receive installation 911 calls and communiques from the command post. With no warning or notification of such an update.

Their reasoning? "We didn't think anyone would need it at 0300"
Hah, thanks for being gentle on my Dynamo versus DynamoDB faux pas — that is some seriously confusing naming.

Very interesting though. Thanks.
The Munich Agreement was the recognition of a Nazi fait accompli as a last-ditch effort to avert war. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a joint conspiracy to wage a war of territorial conquest against Poland and the Baltic states. Hardly morally equivalent.
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Totally agree with this. Nexus was good performance for an affordable price. Pixel is so much more expensive that Nexus owners are likely to balk at the price tag.
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> The problem with taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor is that you undermine riches' motivation.

Two problems:

1) Assuming the "riches' motivation" is something that would be bad to undermine

2) This probably isn't true