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I think your view is small minded. One it's possible that you learned nothing during your PHD or more accurately you learned what paths not to go down.

Your knowledge doesn't disappear sure but your opportunities particularly the ability to put that knowledge to use does.

Not zero sum? It's been completely zero sum for he past forty years. Average incomes are stagnating, the cost of essential goods is rising. Furthermore the developing world's propsperity has increased but at what cost? The cost of much of the middle classes' prosperity in the developed world.

You are actually the anti-intellectual. You would tie the gaining and practice of knowledge to exclusionary institutions.
> whether or not to continue

I think it's possible to continue ethically: Just tip according to the amount the ride costs/ is worth.

Using the numbers in this article should help. It seems like paying the amount of the ride in a tip would lead to an ethical amount.
So you're saying intelligence agencies should be run outside of all scrutiny and oversight?
Not sure about that. ESGN is old technology, since submarines don't need that much accuracy. For example, space probes, ballistic missiles, smart artillery shells/rockets/missiles and so on would all appear to have multiple orders of magnitude better accuracy than submarines, in the fractional ppb ranges, rather than tens of ppm. [0][1]

0. https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Procee...

1. http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~Jonghyuk.Kim/teaching/Inertial...
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Education is not a one-dimensional scale of more/less educated. I'd want customers, vendors, employees, neighbors, and citizens who are sufficiently educated in whatever specifics are useful for their lives to be meaningful and happy. If we as a society can stop thinking that getting a B.S. is the only sign of smarts and high status, and recognize that things like trade schools or specialized job training are better for vast portions of the populations than imprisoning oneself in debt, then I think we'd be better off.

>Do we want to return to the Middle Ages?

I'll take the universal literacy of modernity, but there's actually a lot to learn from apprentice-based systems in previous centuries.
I think it's not quite the same as what Gawande describes, but a similar enough idea.
“It’s an asset class like any other” says a lot about how market economics affect people’s conception of value.
If you drive both for Lyft and Uber your income structure may satisfy that criterion.
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More importantly: "the phishing site would also have to ask the user's permission to enable WebUSB access to their Yubikey, and then tap the physical button on the key."

So don't do that. It would be nice to know exactly what this dialog looks like, but it seems low risk?
How do you know they only "filter for non-Norwegians"? According to some people in this thread, the intelligence agencies should operate in complete secrecy.
> I haven't been to a place in my country where a train station, bus or tram stop weren't within a 10 or 15 minute walk distance.

Then you obviously don't live in the US, because this country is lousy with places like that. Because the density is low.

> Shift work is rare, though IIRC from my legal course, a boss in my country is required to accommodate your transportation needs when organizing work hours.

Shift work happens in every place that needs to operate 24 hours. Power plants, news outlets, emergency services, etc. And I'm not aware of any laws like that here.

> Because buses have lower maintenance costs and those two people still need transportation.

> As mentioned, the cost of running the buses is lower or equal to Uber even before accounting for maintenance costs on the Uber.

How do they have lower maintenance costs? A bus carrying two people costs more than a sedan carrying two people.

You can't just average the peak efficiency and off-peak inefficiency together and claim the average is high enough to justify the off-peak operation. It's the incremental cost that matters, not the average.

> What do you do when no Uber is available for you? The bus will arrive at the bus stop at the time noted in the plan. Maybe 5 minutes late but it'll come.

> I find it hard to believe that an Uber driver would be available in my region at 3AM in the morning, driving me about 50km home. While being cheaper than the bus or train.

Have you actually tried it? Drivers work those hours because people are consistently needing transportation home from bars.

Obviously you'll have less luck if you're standing in a corn field in the middle of nowhere, but there are no buses there either.

> Even people in the city will require transportation since very very few people are lucky enough to live within walking distance to work.

But people who actually live in the city will live walking distance from mass transit. And if you get the density high enough then you can efficiently operate mass transit 24 hours. For example, NYC has subway lines that operate every 20 minutes even in the middle of the night, because the density is high enough for the ridership to justify it. But you can't afford to do that in the suburbs.

> If you only look at individual transport units (a single train, bus, tram) then of course you'll find lots of them operating below the efficiency of a uber.

Then why keep operating those instead of having those people use Uber?

Nobody is saying to stop operating the trains and buses that are actually full.
> Really? Learning how the history of your country has no value? Learning how to write properly, how to construct persuasive arguments is of no use? Learning how to break an argument down into smaller parts and analyze it for soundness has no practical application?

Shouldn't these things be covered in high school? Perhaps having a 13th or 14th year of primary education would allow for these concepts to be covered in sufficient depth. Then universities could concentrate on specialized concepts pertaining to the student's major.
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I have a friend who I play chess against and every time he's about to lose he offers me a draw. And will continue offering me a draw until I win. Not happy to see the AI performing like that bitch MukyMuky.
There is a lot that is factually wrong with this article. Python is not easier because it is an interpreted language. C++ is interpreted too. In fact, python does compile, hence the pyc files. I could go on like this for a while but the point is, the author doesn't know what he or she is talking about. That doesn't mean python shouldn't be used, but that this article fails to make the argument.
>I just took it. 85% conservative it says. But the fact is I am more like 85% liberal.

Not poking at you as a person sincerely.

By whose standard/spectrum? I'm fairly liberal by US standards but fairly conservative by a lot of others. I have generally found unidimensional measures of political leanings really unuseful because of their summativeness.
CS 97 is even mentioned in the article, but perhaps the C++ course is required for graduation, while 97 might not satisfy that requirement?

Unclear from afar...
no it doesnt work. the insurance companies restrict reimbursement even for those people who pay premiums. I have seen deductibles now in the $5000 to $10000 range. The costs and fees have been inflated beyond reality to facilitate their profit numbers for their EPS ratios.
What force is strong enough to likely overcome China's vast advantages?
The UK has invaded everywhere and has a total ban on handguns after the school shooting incident.

(also, perhaps surprisingly to Americans, school trained me on guns at 14: http://atc.wikia.com/wiki/L98A2_Cadet_GP_Rifle )
...Think I can see what you mean.

> "I would rather eat a piece of fruit than a piece of paper."

The hell kind of question is that? Of course I'd rather eat a piece of fruit!
In speaking with various drivers I've had I either hear that driving for [Lyft|Uber] is great, or terrible. There's rarely any in between.

I've had drivers who had worked with them for years, and seemed to be really happy, also new ones who were happy. Perhaps they have lower living expenses, or this is more pay than they made at other ventures, or uniquely fits their lives.

And I've had others who are really frustrated with the app, the GPS, traffic, the company, their compensation, the Pooling services, riders, etc.

Of note these are generally in the same geographic areas roughly (Boston and SF is where I ride most and flip between services as needed), so in theory it's sampling from a similar population.

One thing in particular I've asked drivers is if pool-services work ok for them. About half say yes and seem to love it, and the other half grumble that it never makes them any money.

I really wish I knew the other factors that go into this to understand the root causes better.
Did you read the article?

>It’s important to note, though, that the agent is not approaching this problem in the same way that a human would. It’s not actively looking for exploits in the game with some Matrix-like computer-vision.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7szc5h/announceme...

r/politics is just as tilted left and used by propaganda groups as r/donald is tilted right. If you think either side has a monopoly on rationality and pure intentions, you are deceiving yourself.
You use the internet. Their problems are already yours.

The only situation in which self-hosting or ditching BitBucket/similarly large providers will help protect you from the fallout of historically-large, catastrophic attacks is if you do all of your development on the same local network as your hosted server (and don't rely on any internet services to access it).

And even if you diligently self-host every part of your own services (not as easy as just plop a gitlab/gitea install on a host you own and start it up), you have to deal with the fallout from internet-breaking DDoS attacks and other malicious activity if you want to use the internet to run or use your code: from congestion caused by compromised devices in your network "neighborhood" (same/similar ISPs or last-mile providers) to DNS outages to BGP hacks, we have seen time and time again that, if not exactly centralized, the systems that comprise the usable internet are certainly highly interdependent. Large-scale attacks of many kinds compromise them.

Instead of tantrums, it might behoove users to understand what kind of SLAs they can promise in order to operate their self-hosted services in such an interdependent environment. Some examples:

Do you need local power? A local ISP to be up? More than one? If you have more than one internet link, how do you pair the connections--if it's via BGP, what happens if the central authority on that has issues? If local power is down, does your local ISP's connection stay up? How long does it stay up (is there a node/amp somewhere on the line that cut to battery)? Do you need to access internet services by hostname? If so, do you do local DNS caching? If so, how stale can it get in the event of a loss of external DNS? Most importantly: how much (it's a nonzero number unless you're developing for yourself, by yourself, on your LAN) dependence on external services are you comfortable with, and how much time are you willing to spend eliminating the long tail of such dependencies?
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There are ways to engineer on AWS to basically never go down barring massive, systemic, cross-region failure.

Granted, there's no economical way you could self-host a Gittea instance to avoid this.
I really don't mind the goofballs, it's their enablers, the modern art dealers, critics and collectors, that I have a problem with.

I even like some of the things that came out of the movement from an aesthetic point of view, for example much of the stuff that came out of pre-PC IBM. But I don't consider it to have much artistic merit, if any at all.
Agreed. But we need competitors to seed the next generation. I agree any decent SQL competitor is not going to unseat SQL in the short-term in the general industry, but experimental and specialized projects would use them and gradually improve them. This approach has worked in the empirical language space, which had/has hundreds of active competitors, but RDBMS-land is sparse.

Somebody pointed out that one can create user-defined functions in most SQL dialects, but that's generally for the value level, not the table label. It's still too dependent on per-case key-words for table-level features. I don't believe this is an inherent limit of declarative languages, as the SMEQL drafts suggest.
I think Taleb is from Hammurabi's general neighborhood, by birth. I wonder if he already knew some dialect of Assyrian/Babylonian/Aramaic already. They're still used, mostly liturgically.
Unfortunately no. However, I do not personally use reddit etc.

I think we need to do everything we can to highlight injustices in the power applied to force only one viewpoint to be heard. In addition to this social justice warriors need to receive negative social and life repercussions for their tyrannical actions.
People seem to believe that a system is a fuction of a set of rules and initial conditions and you can modify such and arrive at different results. For example you think a free market enonomy results in a functional health care system and therefore if you institute it you get the desired result.

A system isn't a blank slate it has all sorts of existing issues and players who benefit from the way things are. Currently lots of players are profiting from the way things are.

If you removed all regulations things would start out mostly the same and players would naturally tilt things so they could give out less money and take more in.

There is no reason whatsoever to believe that individual actors would act to ensure the greater good for society even if in the large scale this would be beneficial to society as a whole including them.

A manager at a firm thinks first of what benefits himself, then his firm, then his customers, then society as a whole.

People that put aside profits for the greater profit of humanity are actually selected against by the economic principles you adore.

The health care insurance model exists to help people pool and save expenses for rare misadventures like breaking your leg.

Its unclear how in any rational world this applies to people that are signifigantly ill and need ongoing treatment with known values.

If you knew you were going to crash twice this year and every year thereafter what would your expected insurance rate be and how would the insurance model help you pay for that?
Strasbourg was French from 1681, then German in 1871, then French in 1918. Then only briefly German in WWII.

So it wasn't German very long, only 50 years.

As for Montreal, it will be interesting to see how the city evolves. I notice more English in my neighbourhood than when I moved in (8 years ago). But, there is also more French in the old anglo neighbourhoods of the west.

One factor is that a lot of "allophones" are perfectly fluent in both English and French. When you add in the francophone tendency to switch to English when dealing with anyone who shows even a whiff of not being a native francophone, a lot of francophone majority neighbourhoods may see English conversation.

(I'm perfectly fluent and speak French in public. But for the life of me I can't francophone friends to speak French. I think they all want to practice their English. Also, the Quebecois that care about Anglicization probably don't move to urban montreal)
I think all these suggestions could help. But it seems highly unlikely that a single company (even a powerful one like Google) can categorically solve the problem through these methods.

The reason I asked about your view of feasibility here is that you seem to be arguing that Google (and others with diversity preference in hiring) are making the wrong choice. But the alternatives you seem to favor are not a real choice Google could execute. It's not like they thought about massively altering the perception and delivery of STEM education to all kids, figured out an effective affordable method to do that, and then just did diversity hiring instead because the VP of HR felt like it.

You could certainly make the argument that there's a better choice they could make, or that their apparent choices are doing more harm than good. But right now you're comparing against an impossible straw-man so it's hard to take the argument seriously.
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Perhaps, but y=x+1 and u=v+1 are the same, even if they use different terms. Likewise, y=x+1 !== y=x-1, even though they use the same terms.

It's really unclear to me that much harm will be done if everyone speaks the same language, and it's clear to me that there will be great benefits. That's an easy position for me to take as a primary speaker of the world's dominant language. It's also no skin off my back if other language groups wish to continue maintaining their own languages. But I guess that those which aren't strong enough will fade over the centuries, as many already did in the past.
Man. This is exactly what happened to the democrats.
> I don't know if you've ever met an artist, but most of them are quite unsocial and naive people

God, I wish you were talking about me so I could use it as a quote. That's hilarious.
You're ignoring my point that the task of finding someone a job, and finding someone for a job, are fundamentally different tasks.

I'm also expecting to pay /something/ for the task, even if nothing suitable is found, hence why the expected fee is lower.

As it is, I've yet to find a company that offers this service for any price - yes, there are plenty of headhunting shops that offer the service to employers - but no one offering the opposite - 20-30 years ago, (I'm told by my friends who work in HR) this was indeed a service you could purchase, but no one offers it anymore.
Oh, well here's what he was talking about,

> The Harvard kid who was the only Tor user on Harvard’s network at the time that he sent his bomb threat.

> The Freedom Hosting and Silk Road hacks (problems with the web apps that were hosted as Tor hidden services, not with Tor itself).

> Exit node sniffing (an issue with people using plaintext protocols on the internet; people are just as vulnerable when using airport wifi, though perhaps they’re less likely to have an attacker on their network than to be using a malicious exit node).

As you can see those are problems that Tor can't solve. Micah wasn't talking about some inherent flaws in Tor's design.

> If your threat model includes state actors, then Tor's current shortcomings are non-trivial and should be treated as such.

Doesn't change the fact that Tor is the best low-latency anonymity system currently and using it is better than not.
I fail to see what else he could mean...
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Reminds me of why the Rosewood Inn has all them jewelry stores...
Considering how many Icelanders speak English at quite a high level, they seem perfectly capable of contributing to large scale projects around the world. Conversely, diversifying languages, cultures, and geographic locations seems like a more stable strategy for ensuring long-term human survival, compared to a fragile monoculture.
could be several reasons. It was a good book, timely. For HN-relevance specifically, maybe http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
And I'm pretty sure the UK still has video games?
For everyone else to be rewarded a PhD, the bar would have to be lowered to the point where the PhD literally represents nothing.
Same thing with me when I was referred to orthopedic surgeon for a lump in the soft tissue. Before even seeing me they called me in for a pre-appointment x-ray. It was never explained to be why a lump in the soft tissue would need an x-ray. I kinda went with it because it was such a surprise but I really wish I questioned it, seems like such a waste. Especially since the doctor ordered an MRI after seeing me.
I think you're underestimating yourself.

I can control my own actions, so my worry about heart disease can inform my dietary choices.

We can control gun violence by influencing culture or changing laws, so gun control is an appropriate subject of worry.

We cannot control the sun going supernova. We shouldn't worry about that.
Voat is the least censored forum I know of, but has the unfortunate problems of the communities it's become famous for. That being said, perhaps that should start being a point in its favor from how much aggressively the "HN immune response" seems to be shutting down any attempts to call out the blatant whitewashing here.

After watching how aggressively my comments were marked dead, I turned on "Showdead" and came to the realization that the dead comments were far often more substantial than those allowed to persist; at the very least it may be worth others doing the same if they want to keep trying to utilize this platform.
No, not within limits. It's a descriptive economic model. The modern us version isnt the standard.
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You'd have to collect the guns for it to be effective. There are over 300 million generally unregistered firearms in private possession today, that might get a little tricky.
Whoa there. Pretty impressive accusation as you're describing malpractice. Why don't you cite a source or two?
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Getting to that point of equilibrium takes some spending, however. Lots of college debt, rent, moving expenses to get where you want your career to be, etc.
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