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You're right that this is a good option for people who care, but most won't bother. Windows 8.1 will have most drivers for ethernet and wireless cards which means that the majority of people will be connecting to the Internet before creating a user account. This is a very good strategy for Microsoft to maximize the number of Windows installations connected to their online services. A marketing or sales person would spin this around and say that it's good for users because they'll get to experience Windows connected to the cloud without having to jump through any hoops after installation.
1) get a remote-friendly job that fits your skill set and ambitions. Move every quarter or so. Stay in one place for a while.

That's kind of the best of both worlds. It's actually pretty tiring travelling AND working at the same time. You will have a large amount of context shifts which will destroy your productivity.

I also wish remote work is more common. While it usually works when you know a company really well (e.g. small company with known, trusted colleagues), not many companies are actively trying to make remote work possible.
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i'll take on that argument: yes. uppercase is more or less redundant and, hopefully, will one day be phased out. we're already seeing language move in that direction; even acronyms and abbreviations are often written lowercase nowadays. lots of things would be much more convenient, and we could do away with 2 or 3 keys and 26 characters.
If you're asking about the equations etc, the site uses MathJax to render LaTeX.
I wish I could start a tech focused university without any sports at all. Be interesting to see what happened.
Yes, absolutely!

Are you thinking a curated list of curators, or a social network where anyone can be an expert? Or something in between?

It's great you're tackling the whole learning frontier
Evidence that it was possible using reasonable efforts and with reasonable implicit levels of education for everyone on welfare to maintain a healthy diet would be a good start.

Note that "healthy diet" means more than "enough calories".
I think the 'digital nomad' lifestyle is an interesting one and definitely worth experimenting with (especially for folks in our industry who truly can work from anywhere in the world), but it is hard to sustain over time.

If you're trying to get stuff done though, I think a good strategy is to pick a place and stay there for a few months, rather than being 'on the road' and traveling around from place to place. You can still be 'location independent' by renting an apartment for 3 months in a foreign country (like the Costa Rica example that was on HN a few weeks ago). But at least then you'll have more of a sense of routine, waking up in the same place every day, and because you have a full 3 months to explore the place, you won't feel as obligated to rush out and see the sights all the time.

It also really helps to be able to set yourself up in an office with an ergonomic chair, external monitors, and proper mouse/keyboard. That might be a bit more difficult to do if you're in a foreign country, but you can definitely buy used and sell again when you leave.
I think what they meant was the reasons the work had been funded and how that played into the larger system(s) it was intended for.
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True, but the complication is that people building the final production system /choosing the implementation language, OS etc (engineers) are not usually the people who use MATLAB or R.(Computer Vision Researchers, say).

There might be a few (rare) people who can do cutting edge research and do production grade engineering, but I'd be surprised if this were the default for the average team member, even for a system like Watson.
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Two issues with the whole discussion:

1) There exist quite a few single player cardboard board games so assuming they're inherently multiplayer doesn't work. Mostly wargamer sims. I have a copy of Steel Wolves and some of the Field Commander series. Also the * Leader series where * is Phantom, Hornet, Apache, probably others. There are some card game "sims" that play pretty well as one person, the new pathfinder card game comes to mind. Pretty much any "multiplayer" game which depends on cooperation works pretty well solitaire. On the other hand, something like Federation and Empire is going to be difficult to "pretend" you don't know the opposition's secret plans.

2) There's two ways to share DF that I know of, one is the PBEM style where a group gets together, and each guy plays one game year and then does a (usually) entertaining and hilarious creative writing history of his year, repeat until final meltdown. Boatmurdered is probably the oldest, genre defining story. The other way is pretty much VNC/screencasting style play where many people fight over control of a mouse and yell at each other on video conferencing hardware. There are pretty good screencasts like the Vanguard of Valor series, his casts are a bit beneath my current level... my current level achieved (in part) from watching his casts, so a master/apprentice interactive screen sharing would probably be very fruitful (watch as I build a well without flooding anything or drowning anyone, now you've watched so you make one the same way, repeated for a zillion other tasks...)

I don't see any inherent contradiction in the game play or UI with having multiple UI windows open on a single DF game; it wouldn't destroy any game play mechanics to have ten guys on ten screens each running one level of the fortress, or having one guy dedicated to each DF-ish task, like one guy doing nothing but .mil, another doing nothing but construction, another one (or several players) doing nothing but workshop babysitting, perhaps another doing nothing but food gathering. I don't know of any technology to implement this, is there some patch you can download or some set of forums I'm not reading? I have just enough DF experience to be dangerous; not an expert or noob.

A fairly obvious startup idea would be some "dual controls" software library that could be applied to most any game for tutoring purposes. Not just DF but any game written to use the library. The social models would be interesting; compete to see who's the "best" instructor and "best" apprentice? How to handle what is griefing vs lack of skill?
No, I'm saying

"if you're going to make an absolute statement which completely dismisses a massive source of suffering, you need to prove it in some convincing way."

So far you have said

"I just looked up op craigslist, and there are tons of postings for unskilled jobs"

and

"I know disabled people working for much more than minimum wage."

Neither of these anecdotes comes close to being proof, or even significant evidence, that

"If you are incapable of getting a minimum wage job, you are either lazy or disabled or mentally ill."
Ah, I hadn't seen that -- thanks for the link.
Minus the GUI though, you can build something that's functionally equivalent to Time Machine, and it shouldn't take much more time than it takes to read `man rsync`.
I think that at a visceral level we are uncomfortable with education--it is undemocratic, anti-egalitarian, hierarchical--and are happiest when we can turn it into something else: a sports program, a jobs program, daycare.

On the other hand, I suppose it does serve as advertising. Probably a lot more people know of Stanford because of its occasionally excellent football and basketball teams than know of it because of what it has done for computing.
You don't need a private client key for just encryption, the public key of the recipient is sufficient.

For signing, you'd need a pub/priv keypair, but this is not implemented here.
See the various conversations in other threads on this post from people who do indeed believe that life on food stamps is perfectly pleasant and reasonably-provisioned...
Without doubt, this is the most important lesson I've learned in my professional career.
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ML is a great example since, as you mention your bottlenecks are likely solved by hanging your hat on Lapack and getting out. The complexity of the application derives from data manipulation and feature selection. The first is a definite win for higher-level languages and the second... might be, but is really too large a hodgepodge of techniques to say.

I'm personally beginning to find that Haskell is really nice for this situation because it helps me separate stupid-programming-bugs from improper-algorithm-implementation-bugs very efficiently. This saves a lot of time when I'm looking at the output of a high-dimensional, non-deterministic program and wonder what might have gone wrong.

And I've written some Clojure ML code that was quite close to Java speeds several years ago. For ML, you're either going to get the answer immediately or be waiting a while. As long as your constants for language choice aren't 2x-5x it's not a big deal. When everything is Fortran anyway, the constants aren't 2x-5x.
When you have an app as well as a website, users generally prefer the app because it has a better experience. Even if your website is mobile optimized, users prefer native apps, at least on iOS. I suspect part of the reason is that iOS widgets (at least until iOS 6.x) are more intuitive than HTML. iOS 7 seems to eliminate this advantage, and Apple has given up much of the differentiation. iOS 7 looks closer to Windows Phone and Android, and even web, so it is unclear whether going forward, users will continue to prefer apps over websites by the same margin.
$.get("/static/pgpkey", function (key) {
// store key
// hook to submit button click event & encrypt before submit
});

for the pgp encrypting he's using http://openpgpjs.org/
Ew, I didn’t know about that, thank you, I don’t know why neither.
"education--it is undemocratic, anti-egalitarian, hierarchical"

That does not have to be a innate property of education. It's just how science education seems to work, and other education mock science education.

Not saying it's the wrong mode for science education, but.
Is there any benefit of doing this on the client side?

The message is sent through HTTPS anyway.

If HTTPS was compromised, the javascript code signing the message, and the signing key, and everything related to handling the clear text message would be compromised too anyway.

This is redundant with HTTPS, but also useless if HTTPS is MITM.
I feel precisely the opposite way. I used to work on developing network algorithms. Our simulations used C++. It was phenomenally unproductive, because in addition to the inherent difficulty of the problem, you had to deal with the limitations of the language. Its a pain to debug C++ in a straightforward "move bits around" app. Its even more painful to get distracted by stack smashing bugs when you're trying to figure out the emergent behavior of a complex algorithm.
Erm, not really seeing your point there.

How does a projection that in the next 10 years we'll need more unskilled laborers prove that right now there are enough jobs for everyone?
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I'm not sure what this adds over applying PGP on the server?

The way to intercept the message with the server doing PGP would be to either MITM the connection or breach into the server to intercept before encryption.

In both cases you could just as well modify the javascript served to the browser to defeat the PGP done in the browser as well.
" we should look to soviet Russia"

I don't know, the children of our nomenklatura do pretty well already.

I also don't think that your picture of 100 years ago is quite on the mark. Good solid students who were not neither brilliant nor rich (by the common understanding of the word) did manage to get degrees.
I studied this stuff a few years ago when I made a sundial. I understood this better - and now understand why that figure 8 symbol is printed in globes - from learning about an analemma:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

This is also why the earliest sunset in December 9th (Not the 21st) at 4:12PM
Even staying in one place for 2-3 months means having to continuously find those stores, amenities, etc. Sure, it's more stable to stay a few months but having to constantly settle in new places is tiring...I can't imagine having to do it every week or two!
No idea why athletics is bundled with colleges, but I would guess those expenses count as advertising?
Eh, it might be a bit useful if there's a passive adversary on the server. They can read traffic, but not change anything. Pretty unlikely scenario, so it doesn't really buy you much.
That's what I surmised too, but the language in the piece is really confusing.
I've always found this article -- "Evidence Based Scheduling" -- by Joel Spolsky to be rather compelling:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html

I'm curious if anyone else has tried it?
No discussion of interest rates?

Its all in the supply and demand.

Bubba can afford a $700/mo loan payment. In 1980 at 20% interest that means he's going to pay the university $30K. There's no way they're charging a penny less than he's capable of paying. Now run the numbers in 2010 at 3% and at $700/mo there's no way the university is going to charge a penny less than $150K. Either way its the same monthly payment, so what does Bubba care?

Works pretty much as interest rates steadily smoothly collapse to a multi-generational low. Not so much fun for the big players as interest rates revert to historical norms (or spike up to just as high of an unusual outlier)

A long term loan is a long term loan. Doesn't matter if we're talking about school or house.
>And this is without paying the athletes, who should be earning their market value.

Wait a minute. I'll agree that student athletes ought to be paid something, the current arrangement is exploitation. But I'm not sure that starting a athlete salary arms-race is the answer.

And what about students who (end up) contributing disproportionately through research & development (patents, and patent licensing)?

>I'm however surprised to hear that football isn't a big moneymaker for universities.

Isn't everyone? Someone finally addressed the myth that pouring money into athletics is like buying golden egg laying geese. Good.
This can protect against malicious browser extensions recording POST/GET-transmitted data (toolbars!!!), as the content will be encrypted at that stage.

Furthermore, this helps against content disclosure if the server is compromised.
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This seems to be the norm here in Europe. Our university does have a very diverse offer of sports activities (everything from running, dancing, boxing or paragliding to jazz and waterboarding), but it is more a hobby-thingie and doesn't touch normal study-life at all.
A lot of poor are... blah blah blah.

Look, not saying it's easy to be poor.

Just saying the Panera CEO is doing this to raise awareness about the low minimum wage. He's incapable of living as a poor person, of course he has luxuries -- namely the knowledge of how to escape poverty.

Do we need a raise in the minimum wage? Sure, I guess. But more we need to empower poor people with skills that build the confidence to get themselves out of being poor.
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If your browser is untrusted, you are doomed.

> Furthermore, this helps against content disclosure if the server is compromised.

If the server is compromised, openpgp.js is compromised too.
You've gotten to the first step, which is to provide 3 estimates. The next step is to break estimates into smaller parts, estimate them individually, then roll it back up to build a pseudo-statistical profile of probable outcomes.

This is the PERT 3-point estimation technique. It's taught in every project management course in the world.

It so happens that almost nobody uses it in practice, because it is a pain in the rear end to do in Excel. It also so happens that I'm working on a tool to make it easy[1].

All I have right now is a landing page, proof-of-concept code and some articles. Oh, and a pile of research papers and books. It's turned out to be a deeper rabbit hole than I expected.

[1] http://confidest.com/

edit: how come "professional" is the only word that was spelled wrong on the landing page? Because Murphy is hilarious, that's why.
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This one is my favorite: http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software...
I'd never seen SocialSharePrivacy either (It's linked in the page code), but it's an interesting idea:

http://panzi.github.io/SocialSharePrivacy/
One important lesson to take from McConnell's book is that you should not rely on a single sort of estimation. Serious estimators will estimate in distinct ways and then compare the outcomes. If they are widely divergent, it's time to investigate why.
That's what I mean -- having to pay for a Windows license you're not using is a strong deterrent to using FreeBSD on AWS; people who might prefer a FreeBSD server end up using Linux instead simply because of the cost difference.

You're far more knowledgeable than I (or pretty much anyone else!) about building FreeBSD AMIs, so if you say they should be provided directly by the project, I'm happy to go with that. I would just like to see 'FreeBSD' appear as a "mainstream" option when choosing the OS for a new EC2 instance. (See gonzo's link -- the dialog shown in the picture has 15 Linux distributions available; it'd be nice for FreeBSD to be on that menu.)

Will the licensing issue for the smaller AMIs go away once the PVHVM drivers are fully implemented? I don't know a whole lot about Xen, so I'm curious to know what needs to be implemented to fix that problem.
Might I add that a good tool, a good programming language, let's you think about other things than implementation detail. It let's you express things in a more direct and concise manner.

Very smart, very forward thinking people might choose Java or C/C++ because they don't want the extra effort of learning/using a new programming language. But it certainly doesn't mean it's the better choice. Lisp was for example developed explicitly for the use in artificial intelligence by John McCarthy, a very forward thinking and smart person who greatly advanced the field of AI.

I would say that when your problem is a one-of-a-kind, you'd rather think about the problem at hand and think of the implementation as little as possible.
How is education undemocratic? Just because it's a good idea to defer some decisions or evaluations to people who actually know their stuff, does not mean that individual rights are in danger.
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Oh man, yeah, decision fatigue. I've been a freelancer (web work and later technical translation) since 1996 and we've moved, kids and dog and all, from Indiana to Puerto Rico to Budapest, at will - and the one thing that makes it difficult is that you're always asking, "Should we be staying here or going somewhere else now?" It never stops. The kids are having allergy problems? Let's move to the Caribbean! The Caribbean is too relaxed and the schools suck? Let's move to Europe! Europe has horrible winters? Back to the Caribbean!

It gets old. And expensive. And the business takes a major hit every time we move just because of the distractions - and it's a continual stress when we don't move, a stress that normal people don't even think of having.
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Baseball did it right with minor leagues. Football needs to follow. College should not be a minor league football franchise.
The idea would be to allow adverts while still blocking tracking - sure it would still be possible to block them, but less people would want to block them.
> What I think you're missing is people don't believe them not paying for music causes harm.

I'm aware of that. But I don't think the guy I originally responded to thought even that far. That's why I responded. He's just completely oblivious to the fact that people putting music up for sale actually do expect others to pay for it.
I hope to try the digital nomad route in a few years but I have a different take on it.

I'm not looking to sustain a working vacation--I'm interesting in experiencing day-to-day lifestyle in different cultures/suroundings. I'm thinking of staying around in terms of months or years, not weeks.

Also, I probably will only try it if I have my own enterprise I can run on the road. I'm currently working as a freelancer but wouldn't think about hitting the road until I have more direct control on projects.

And while I get my ducks I a row I would love for someone to do an airbnb for digital nomads. If it would be easy to find a place to work and place to live I'm sure I'd me more likely to try it. And I wish some countries would see the revenue opportunity of this! (I'm looking at you Spain, Italy and Greece.)
There's a whole layer of difficulty between remote working-from-home and remote working-while-travelling.

A good office provides a suitable environment for almost anyone to work in.
This will cover a lot of seemingly minor stuff - a desk, an ergonomic setup, sufficient clean bathrooms, a coffee machine, a place dedicated just to work, a dedicated telephone line, comfortable temperature/atmosphere, a motivational working culture, etc.

If you're working-from-home you need to set all that up yourself and do it properly. It will take some time to set this up and get it right, but you just need to do it once. You might end up with a situation that's better for you and benefits everybody - but if you don't do a thorough job or if you can't motivate yourself to work then you're simply not going to be as productive as you would be in an office. (Worth it? It depends)

If you're working-while-travelling - this is now a whole different level of difficulty - you need to set this up in every place that you stop. A fancy hotel normally has most of this covered for you, but a mate's floor probably has none.

To manage working-while-travelling, you need to learn exactly what is important to your work environment and how to find it - so that you can set it up each time that you move.
(Worth it? It depends but it's hard)
The author keeps mentioning that "most people", but I can't find where that conclusion comes from.

And arguing that we should use two spaces to replicate a standard of longer spaces is at best a crude approximation.
You can make the argument that this story reveals important features about taking estimation seriously.

1. The author gave a point estimate, instead of a range.

2. The author didn't decompose the task. They took the highest level view and performed a back-of-the-envelope calculation. A closer reading of a differently-scaled map would have revealed many of these delays, giving at least one or two orders-of-magnitude changes in the initial estimate.

3. The author did not seek out historical data or models for this kind of project. Hiking and bushwalking are well-known. There are tables of travel time which can be used to establish a better idea of the outcome. Experienced walkers could have been sought out for their expert judgement of the initial estimate.

It is not as good a parable as people make it out to be. The problem was not an unknown or unknowable problem domain. It was due to ignorance of the basics of estimating.
> Linux doesn't come with a backup app either

False. Most linux distributions comes with free backup tools included in default installation.
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Ah ok, I think I get it. It is talking about a complete revolution of the earth. It is not talking about a day as in day/night. And it is not really a revolution, it is about the time it takes for the sun to be in the same position from one day to another.