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yeah, me too
Why? It's just a strawman.
Yeah, those rich people are inherently so creepy!
The few links provided by your google search do not back up your claim of bias - they repeat the same vague assertion as you but provide no evidence. If you have evidence of this claim please be more specific about presenting it.

I also didn't claim any startups use IQ tests.

The point I was making is that what lkrubner described as "very liberal policies that promoted diversity in the work place" (namely, assessing ability via objective, quantitative means rather than subjective interviews) is now criticized by folks like yourself as anti-diversity. The legal precedent set by Griggs vs Duke Power and related legal cases makes it legally problematic.

Merit, BTW, is defined as "whatever will make my company the most money". In some roles it does involve social connections.
...or a terrible example of unintended consequences. Employer-provided health insurance obliterated the individual market which has arguably brought less liquidity and less dependability to insurance, and with it less innovation to the economy as a whole...
This is a personal tax on individual wealthy people. It should have little to no impact on the economics of where to locate a factory, which is driven by things like environmental regulations, cost of inputs, labor costs, location of suppliers and customers, tax applicable to the factory (or its holding entities), etc. Where the CEO or major stockholders choose to domicile is already quite decoupled from those decisions (as can be seen by the fact when U.S. companies move a factory to Mexico, typically the CEO and major shareholders do not also move to Mexico).
The people who make the most noise about the American Dream failing them are mostly young whites who've chosen personal, liberal arts pursuits as a career, with the expectation that society should support them at it.

Comparisons to rich people are irrelevant and envy-driven. The rich are rich. So what? Do they deserve it - why do you care?

You can make yourself comfortable without luck or brilliance. Just look around you, see what the world is paying for, and do it.

If you choose not to do something in that set, you should acknowledge that you won't get the same pay for it.

Arguments that you should be taken care of the same way aren't really arguments against the American Dream, they're just a leftward political view. Which is fine, but don't convolute them.
I'm certain I had a copy for Windows 95, running in Windows mode, not DOS... Does that mean it was 32bit or no?
Yes. The tax is only on income exceeding EUR 1 million (USD 1.4 million). This means that the people usually associated with high income, such as medical doctors, lawyers, accountants, business owners, CEO's of small and medium sized companies etc. are not affected at all or only for a small part of their income.

The tax is going to hurt a few super high earners such as a few soccer stars, a few pop stars, some investment bankers etc. The figures I have seen are more at 1,000 than 3,000.

So, it will be harder for PSG to attract the best soccer players of the world, and some CEOs, investment bankers etc. will take wage cuts or move, but apart from that I doubt it's going to have any noticeable effects. It's certainly not going to lead to mass exodus of talents from France.
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Obama must be jealous.
I'd like to have more control over my browser in general, and I think many here also share the same thought. The issue is that browser vendors seem to make it harder and harder to customise these sorts of things by removing configuration options etc. And requiring to install an extension/plugin to get this ability just makes it harder for the average user to become aware of and take control of this.
There is no free will.
"The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Margaret Thatcher.

I wonder who the French will tax next...
my completion rate is somewhere around 30%, mainly because some courses are not what I expected to be, or I realize I'm not that interested in the subject.
I don't know if it is a generalized feeling, but I sometimes tend to idolize my University years, where I was restlessly spending my time for pure pursuit of knowledge and truth (yeah, yeah :p). Really, those years were more about sweat and tears and curses about the bad teachers and the poorly worded manual and the absence of any documentation for the API provided to us (which was appropriate to face real life, I confess).

When I say I miss University, I miss the opportunity to choose classes at random and learn stuff I didn't know. I don't really miss the 8:30 classes and the long hours to produce lab assignments. I don't miss the effort, I miss the reward.

On a side note, maybe it is only their metrics about a class success and what "popular" is that are bad.
>Upward mobility in the USA has always been difficult for women and minorities; now it's increasingly difficult for men as well.

Gender and minority status are often mentioned as factors that influence success potential, but social class is seldom mentioned.
>They dare not do the same against, Russia, China or even India.

Is there proof that terrorist organization leaders are operating in those countries unchecked?
It doesn't seem like a security issue by DO in any way. It seems that the fog api (the project this 'issue' is filled for) doesn't allow a user to access the required flag to scrub the drive. Not a DO problem in any way I can tell assuming the scrub parameter is working correctly.
So I wrote the original post, and I'm always a bit afraid to wade into the comments, but I wanted to respond to this one.

Your point is that Google is prioritizing correctly. That they are just going after the big OEMs first and then the guys I'm talking about are too small to bother with. About right?

I didn't hammer the point in this post, because I've made it a few other places, but all of these OEMs collectively are bigger than any other single OEM. Collectively, this group produces between one half and two thirds of the world's phones. Most are very small, but many are now huge. Google seems to be focussing on just one or two. I think with a small amount of effort they could tap into the whole audience. It wouldn't require building a huge support structure. And the numbers are huge.
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Don't most sport stars live at (or at least have their residence at) Monaco or (insert low income tax country here) where the taxes are close to 0%?
Good question. I felt like there was some significant overlap between the two, and I think that's borne out by commentary from other people who have read both. I think a few people have even accused Kurzweil of borrowing a little too freely from Hawkins' HTM idea. But, to my mind, they complement each other well. Between the two, you get a strong dose of case for thinking of the human mind's primary algorithm being some form of pattern-matching.

For anybody who is interested in AI topics, and who hasn't read either or both of those, I'd really recommend reading both.
That lasts right up until Netflix puts a big banner on their page for Comcast customers that explains the situation.
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The article is not saying why it is the most popular course. It only says that Ng is a personality and that ML is a hot topic these days. What is this different from other hot topics like trading, big data, or social networks analysis?
The "tell" for this article is that there's no comparison with the current tax policy in France. The top tax bracket in France is 41% right now. Hollande's proposal raises this to 50%--an extra 9 euros out of every 100 earned over a million.

Also, I certainly hope that people here understand how marginal tax rates work...
> The humanities are still trying to recover from that one.

In much the same way that 'science' is still recovering from prestigious journals publishing results that mysteriously fail to replicate[1] and software engineering is still recovering from the fact that there are 85 randomly generated papers published by the IEEE[2], yes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal

[2] http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/71/35/55/PDF/0-FakeD...
You're missing the forest for the trees. The important metric to him is now many votes this "vitriol" garnered him. Answer: a lot.

Socialist politicians prey on the wealthy with support of the majority. It's a dangerous game to be playing. Class wars are coming. When the wealthy must defend themselves, they will shield behind corporations, the overlords of the populace.

You can see it. Human nature is causing societal drifts, leading to political shifts. Democracy is battling oligarchy, and oligarchy is winning.

A revolution is coming.
Tax should be the harvest of economic growth and not other way round. If government has to earn more through taxes it should ideally achieve it by increasing overall income of the people rather than screwing those who are earning more. This move for example would make total sense had France done something significant to increase the total number of millionaires in the country or helped several people to get into that millionaire bracket.
Wasn't it one of the first course of this kind? (I'm talking about the first edition, since it was renewed recently) If so, that would explain a lot, as people were attracted to novelty.
In light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6980058 and https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12..., you also need a way of verifying that your BIOS chip is a dumb EEPROM or verifying its own micro-firmware.
It's awfully hard to discern a point in this rambling piece.

But I'm not sure what she expects. She and other liberal arts students constantly complain about the 1%, but they're the ones who chose to go into a field which the market doesn't reward.

Yet they're the same people who scoff at and disparage people studying finance or computer science. We chose to study lucrative things, a choice which is equally open to them.

Ultimately, we have to confront the fact that certain industries just don't scale. We don't need more English majors or artists, so if you choose to study that it's your own choice. Welcome to the free market.
I'm the author. And I do know what I'm talking about. OHA doesn't even begin to solve the problem at hand. The subjects of my piece have access to AOSP, and could join OHA if they wanted to, but the fact is that those are not enough to support their products. These OEMs sell into incredibly competitive environments, and many of their customers want the full Google Experience and G-Suite. They'd be willing to pay something for it. My argument is just that it is in Google's best interests to become more engaged with this community. Nothing to do with how I feel about AOSP.
>How? How does your brain get to this point? I'm just sitting here floored that I live in a country where a non-zero amount of people feel the way you do.

If you are really are floored by this, you have a very weak sense of perspective. These conclusions are all very easy to get to if you follow this notion that members of terrorist organizations must be killed. If you set that as an unmovable goal, you will very quickly end up at these types of conclusions.

Try to gain some perspective. Just throwing a fit of incredulity doesn't help any arguments because the other side usually feels the same way about you.
And exactly why is disgusting?
One of the interesting things never pointed out in these threads is that though the income tax in the US was very high in the mid-20th century, capital gains taxes were low — which affect the rich much more heavily than income taxes. The "robber barons" made all their money on the increasing value of the stock in their companies, not an income they drew from them.

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

Even this France law apparently only affects "wages" — not sure what that means in France but in the US it wouldn't cover long-term capital gains. BTW, when did millionaire start to mean someone that makes over a million dollars a year rather than has that in assets?
Your attitude and response here is exactly why disclosing this was in fact "responsible".
What work does a CEO do that's worth over 1.4 million dollars a year? How many of the French earning that much do you think would prefer to leave France rather than accept a merely enormous salary in lieu of an astronomical one?

The wager that Hollande is making is that the value of living and doing business in France is worth the cost being assessed (in the form of tax). I don't think it's apparent yet whether or not he's right.
One reason people use taxis less isn't so much cost as it is the time delays in the system.

A well-planned system of autonomous cars can anticipate your needs to a high degree of accuracy, either as an individual or as a group.
Netflix might have the clout to do so, but a small startup which nobody has heard of never would.

Ultimately, the consumer mindset is never to blame their provider. They blame the website. If you come to my site and it's throttled, there's a high chance you'll click away and never come back.
Just to reassure you, I really have nothing against the Swedes or Swedish music. I listen to lots and lots of Swedish musicians. Just so long as it's Metal.
Well, it's also R*I^2 and (V^2)/R.
Unless I plan to teach someone how to code, I also need to know if a person can code. In the era lkrubner was describing (the IBM/mainframe era), no one could code due to the small number of people with a mainframe in their basement.

Nowadays we hire people who already know how to code - I don't have time to teach someone to code. That's why I'm a big fan of github-as-resume. I want you to write code to make my company money so show me your code. But since women choose not to write open source, this form of work-sample test is criticized as discriminatory as well.

Also note that certain large meritocratic institutions (trading desks, some tech firms) do hire more or less on IQ. They can't actually give an IQ test themselves due to Griggs vs Duke Power so they outsource it to elite colleges instead. That's basically what is happening when they say "must come from a top school".
Those claims can't be serious, no sane person can say such stupid things
Ok, I can buy that - your point is that you should be attempting to get an unbiased estimate of how well someone works on a team, not that it shouldn't matter. Totally reasonable. Much more difficult, but a worthwhile goal.

I feel like it might be almost impossible to remove gut feeling from the equation alogether, though, since a lot of the problems that wreck teams really do come down to "X really doesn't like Y's personality". At some level, isn't a negative gut feeling expressed by one of your team members as valid a data point as you can get to predict how well the person will work out on that team?
This is a well-documented situation that almost every provider of 'consumable infrastructure' before DigitalOcean came along has faced and solved.

It is disheartening to see the same mistakes being made.

Whilst I absolutely see their USP was always solid-state storage, and that has pitfalls in terms of how you can scrub data to avoid it being leaked, the platform should take every precaution to protect customers data.

There shouldn't be an option to 'scrub data' and it shouldn't be defaulted to off so they can save some hassle, and avoid spending a few dollars. It shouldn't be an option because it should be on all the time, anything else is surprising the customer mightily.

"What do you mean, my data leaked? Oh that's fine" -Nobody

"Why'd you pick a provider who doesn't take our companies information security seriously?" -Every boss anywhere
Statistically speaking, that's not an average experience. It's an outlier. Don't count on it.
It really seems a lot like CISPA and the Patriot Act. A popular outcry from the citizens of this country can stop it once, twice, three times, but how long can they hold out? Can we spread outrage about CISPA when its being voted on for the 500th time in lieu of any bill that might actually help this country? The fact that the citizens of this country are constantly having to fight their congressmen to actually do what they desire is the most clear example that our country is completely broken.
You're just joking, don't you?
A lack of an exodus does not indicate a lack of new interest. Now instead of investing in France, for example, some investors may invest elsewhere. Football stars may play for other teams, and celebrities may decline French endorsement deals. Corporations in France pay all of those people high salaries because of their value on the international labor market for their respective positions. By effectively reducing that rate, France forces those corporations to either increase salary significantly or lose some future prospects. Football teams, large corporations, and brands may all decline to raise salaries, and thereby France may see a reduction in culture (brands, football) and FDI (loss of foreign interest in investment).
I don't buy this at all.

Upward mobility never existed in the romanticized fashion that people like to talk about. There was never a point in time where billionaires sprang out of the ground like dandelions. The most "mobile" periods in history were when vast stores of untapped wealth were first being tapped. Westward expansion, the gold rush, etc. That's obviously not going to be 100% of the time.

Today, I guess the closest thing is the internet. And a lot of people have gone rags-to-riches (or the more realistic not-riches-to-riches) through the internet. Maybe it's less mobility than, say, a hundred years ago, maybe not.

But really, that's beside the point. Every single person in the entire world has been "moving up" for the last 300 years. Things are constantly getting better. Even if we completely disregard the social progress that's been made (think abolition of slavery), the rapid progression of technology is constantly raising everyone's standard of living.
I got the same response from them via Twitter. I don't think it's acceptable.

I worked for a hosting company that made data destruction their problem (i.e. we wiped the disks after the instance was terminated) because we didn't want new customers seeing non-zeroed disks and thinking we do not care about security.
> Perhaps the open source community is currently working on something like PowerShell's PSDrives, but adoption by the teams producing large apps would be critical to its success.

plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/). Virtually all of plan9's system services are exposed as filesystem servers (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/4/INDEX.html). Some of these may astonish you - a windowing system, a FTP client, an SSH server, an authentication agent... Overall, the system is much simpler than PSDrive - PSDrive providers are full-fledged .NET objects, plan9 FS are just directory structure plus text files. Yet they achieve roughly the same thing. (Actually plan 9 does more, but I believe in principle PSDrive can be used to do these as well.)

Similar things (exposing system service as fs) is actually possible in Linux or BSD, with FUSE. You can actually wrap utilities and expose them as file servers, and there has been some limited success. But as long as upstream utilities are not adopting the FS as the primary API (which is unlikely), I don't think it's really going to take off.
I don't think the French need to be reminded what happens to the wealthy when the revolution comes. The plutocrats have forgotten what tumbrels sound like after several generations of relatively stable late capitalism.
> Comparisons to rich people are irrelevant and envy-driven. The rich are rich. So what? Do they deserve it - why do you care?

Not when their riches come at the expense of everyone else.

For instance the Walton family who occupy 6 of 10 slots on the richest americans list benefits from an estimated $15 Billion ( with a B ) a YEAR ( every year ) subsidy from the taxpayers to support their employees who could not survive ( as in feed their families ) without supplemental food assistance; not to mention medicare, disability etc. Not to mention the fact that the company they control got to be such a wealth production engine by arbitraging it's way around labor and environmental protections by exporting it's externalities to unregulated emerging economies.

All the people who got pushed into extremely bad mortgages and then lost their jobs because the economy crashed; they were stolen from by Rich People.

All the people who've had their lives destroyed by the financial shenanigans distorting our healthcare system were stolen from by Rich People.

I don't know about you, but given the trail of destruction left behind by rich people in the past 5 years alone; we should be handing them a bill, or showing them the door.

Now, I'm sure many rich people are very nice if you know them socially; but as a class, they're killing this country and this planet.
That was not the sense of the OP.

You can read and understand, right?
No. That's only doable if you do individual sports such as boxing, tennis, golf, where you are free to take residence anywhere, or if you play for Monaco FC ;-)
I don't pretend to know either.

Could it be changed by voting? This has presumably spanned more than one party's rule in any individual chamber and in practise, the party is the only choice.

Do letters work? I'm in Feinstein's district and she makes it pretty clear that she likes things the way they are.

Protest? Does that actually do anything? It's essentially asking someone to voluntarily cede power because "pretty please". Has anything actually been changed by a march in the last decade? I'm not actually sure I'd like a world where a mob's protest is a successful way to change things.

Revolt? I don't hate everything the US Government does and I do hate a higher percentage of what some other governments do, so I'd hate to replace this one with worse. We're already pretty far to the right of most other comparable nations. The last thing we need is a constitution written after privacy has been essentially written off. I also value my personal safety, selfish as that sounds.

So I wish I knew too. Wishing on the internet that somebody would do "something" about it sure isn't working, but I don't know what would.
Why? One of the years I bothered keeping track[1], I read a hair over 50 novels (I think the actual number was 51 or 52), and a handful of non-fiction books I didn't bother counting. And one of those was Moby Dick which isn't exactly a fast read.

For somebody who likes to read and has time to read, that list doesn't seem outlandish to me at all. shrug

[1]: http://www.jroller.com/mindcrime/entry/fictionlist
Luck is probabilistic. Persistence allows one to exponentially reduce the chance of a negative outcome. If you fail, try again. And again. And again. Of all the self-made rich people that I know, their one common trait is persistence. They failed a lot. They didn't let bad luck stop them.
As someone who isn't a DO customer, the thing that most dissuades me from this about becoming a customer is that this is a case of insecure by default. How many more of those are lurking around?
i always recommend books on specific field they want to learn, if they do it then they really want it, if not.. well..
And yet they don't. It's as if perhaps there is some value to the people, culture, and values of France that justifies the cost of doing business there rather than in the fetid, lawless gulches of objectivist fantasy.
Yes. This is a shitty default peddled as a benefit for the customer, when in fact it benefits DO.