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Well, you do this for fun. For every person like you who likes to brew his/her own beer, there are other people who just want to buy a beer to have something to drink while they're socializing with friends. The real benefit of innovation is that you're free to choose which things you care about enough to do them by yourself, and have all the others mass-produced and cheaply available.
I don't have a microwave. The only use I'd have for one is heating the occasional ready meal for my child, or heating milk for drinks. These are rare so I haven't bothered buying one. I have a fridge but it's not plugged in.
Sorry for being "that guy" - but this article reads like a sensationalist press release, without actually releasing any (new) press.
Some forms of wealth we can produce more of: food, clothes, shelter, electronic doodads.

Some we can't: land (including natural resources), social status, political power.

We should aim for a society that produces plenty of the first type of wealth, and aims for fair distribution of the second.
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RVM takes three commands to set up. And I don't even know Ruby.
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Sometime I think , these guys travel from future and manipulate markets in their favor to be filthy rich
> Holywood story-makers don't believe that reality is good for the crowds.

This probably makes it sound more intentionally evil than it is. I think the real truth is that "Hollywood story-makers don't believe that reality is good for the box office."
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The negatives of the split shift will drive up the per hour wages. To illustrate: say I'll work all day for $64 but I have some bare minimum I need to live on, maybe $60. If I cannot make $60 in the 2x 3hour shifts, then I have to look elsewhere. As people look elsewhere, the price to fill the job will rise. Furthermore, there are side benefits of split shifts, like being able to do a workout midday, running errands or seeing your kids, having a walk in the park etc. etc. These side benefits are the kinds of benefits that come to all workers when we utilize skills more effectively. When all the dishwashers were laid off due to dish washing machines, we rejoiced because people dont have to do menial work anymore and can pursue the higher callings of human life. Its scary, but beneficial to all.

>"And to whom does the difference accrue"

A portion of the difference will go to those who made the software, A portion to the capitalists who invest in the software, A portion to the business owner who implements the software etc. etc. A portion will be passed onto consumers as price competition.Like the economist article says, it can take time for the market effects to settle out though, maybe not now, maybe not in 5 years, but eventually everyone will be doing it, saving us all 10 cents on a combo (or whatever contrived number)..
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It's a very MVP simple implementation that works well for most cases. Kudos.

That said, looking at the code, I'm not sure why you call it an AI when it is very rule-based so the code itself is not able to have any "intelligent" behavior when the input falls out of the predefined rules.

More importantly, as you seem to be the creator of the underlying BigDb project, is there any actual data in it past the precise examples given in your README?

http://thebigdb.com/recent
The only recent examples visible are about the weight and dimensions of the iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S4 vs Nexus 5, as in your NLP examples.

http://thebigdb.com/random
Gives the same results, I expect random takes the whole DB as the sample set.

http://thebigdb.com/search?q=everest
No result found.
Do you have a timeframe for these speed issues? darcs has been considerably sped up over the past years.
Unless you're heavily into using Compass or Foundation I don't see any major reasons to favor it over Less as far as features go. Both are really powerful.

One advantage of using Less is the existence of (php) libs so you can compile on the server. If you're developing for WordPress users for example you can expose some variables (ie colour scheme) and recompile stylesheets with minimal fuss.
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You should sell it on eBay...
I think the kind of power being talked about would be more like raping a woman then using your money to make the allegations go away.

Your example is a free exchange.
Well, we can clearly see how good are the predictions made by this field ;).
And `git log -p` is great for reviewing recent changes by your co-workers too!
Actually calling something "human nature" is lazy, inaccurate and harmful. It's giving up on the issue, it's simplifying psychology, it's encouraging inertia and the status quo. It's saying "Sorry, nothing can be done, it's biology".

This goes for many things, not just the desire to have lots of money.
You need to implement DHCP Snooping at Layer 2 for it to really work, and these days I think all major switch vendors support it. Unless you're building a Linux L2 switch I don't see why you would want to implement DHCP Snooping.
Here is a real world example of where I agree. There are times where you want to generate specific CSS based on some variables or what not. Say breakpoints or a grid system or other things like that. In those cases, it is way simpler to write a loop to do that than do it by hand for the exact same reasons we use loops in programming where it makes sense.

Do loops belong in your style? NO.

Do loops belong in the thing that generates your style? YES.
Here's what my Chinese teacher said on that topic: 'We found that everyone being equal and poor is bad. The plan now is to let some people get rich first and go from there.'
How she reached that believe I'm not sure of, but I could follow her line of thought.
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This is not human labor, this is human fun. We won't automate away thing we actually like to do.
You are right that other people have it worse often through no fault of their own, but this doesn't mean "privilege" is a useful concept. You are also privileged by being born into the late 20th century instead of a medieval village. You are privileged by not having any disabilities. You are privileged if you are attractive (which correlates with a lot of good things.) You are privileged by hereditary IQ (correlates with income.) Especially what country you are born into.

By comparison race and sexuality are only tiny factors. On top of this, even if you are white, straight, etc, you can still have a shitty life through random chance. What use is it to divide people into these specific categories when there are millions of other factors as well?
So what about someone instead saying "A black person is more likely to be stupid (to be concrete: having lower math SAT scores) than a white person."

That doesn't judge their character but you still can't go shouting it whenever anyone brings up black people.
I think that he left out any interest just to make the statement simple, obvious, and to avoid contest.

I'd be willing to bet that somebody from a background in Wall Street and derivatives markets is not going to stuff their cash under the mattress.

If you want a complex statement that can be challenged, 10%/year on that $3.6mln last bonus would result in $360k pre tax.
A Democracy game of Uno sounds like fun... especially with alcohol involved.

I get your point, thanks -- true, game theory often fails to account for the reactions people have when there their self-interest is concerned. If I could fix that, I'd probably rule the world :)

Thank you for your help! How does the other stuff look? I'm going to freeze edits on that page for now, and discuss it here.
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> The large investment banks actually have a code they can append to their orders so they can jump to the top of the order cue.

Source? I believe you but I'd like to be able to quote an authority if I'm telling someone else about this. I've gotten into this HFT debate with colleagues, and I'm pretty sure none of us knew about this nifty trick.
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Sounds to me like that's more a result of your family, smarts, getting into the right college, etc than being white or male.

Possibly, though being white (or male) has influence on whether you get into the right college (or go to college at all).

Being white or male might have helped a bit, but I'm a white male and I didn't get paid 500k right out of school. If EVERY white male make 500k starting the day they graduated I'd believe that your theory holds true. But they don't.

This is a baffling claim. So no one has any privilege over anyone else unless they are among the 1% top earners in society? I can't even comprehend such logic.

In any case, it's not my theory (I was just explaining it), and it's hardly without merit: this has been demonstrated in studies, such as [1] and [2].

[1] http://d.pr/f/guzI

[2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873
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I suspect that if someone actually did the work to port systemd, upstream would be nicer.

I have mixed feelings about the BSD & Hurd ports. "You shall not crucify Debian Linux upon a cross of Hurd" and all that.
This is an excellent resource. On Bento, I have so many tutorials and walkthroughs on the basics of Git (it's a very readily accessible teaching opportunity) that it's gotten somewhat unwieldy. In many instances, some of the material is very base, and I've been looking for something more thorough without being too specialized.

This gives an excellent walkthrough of how Git works, but not only that, serves an excellent exercise on JavaScript. Bravo.
Exactly, privilege is complex. The world does not work in absolutes.

The postmodern feminist has a very simplistic and Western-centric (particularly American-centric) worldview where being white and male makes you prosper, but being black or white and female makes you suffer.

This fails to address for countless nuances and by default simply stating "You're white, ergo you're instantly privileged." is just false and dishonest.

It's also funny how the end goal is to foster social equality, yet when you have every single slightly different group forming its own political advocacy and demanding radical shifts in human behavior/special accommodations, you're only stratifying things even further. I guess this can be warranted if people focused on actual issues, but instead most of our attention in the Western world is focused on people making ribald jokes in public places.
Upstart also has the issue of being non-portable as of right now, so either way a porting effort has to be actually undertaken (even if Upstart is saying that it's planned)--And Debian is adopting large amounts of systemd for other systems.

Lennart hate is fine, but let systemd stand on its technical merits (or lack thereof, if you really feel that way).
Nice first step but ver 2.0 should have Kevo door locks. Maybe not on the fire exits, but the office fridge or microwave.
It's older, but I enjoyed Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. It came out just before Windows 95 was released, so naturally it focuses mostly on the early years. It seemed to be a pretty balanced portrayal of Gates from those years.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0887306292
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Not endorsing these guys since I have no idea what their availability is in practice, but isn't 3 nines a fairly common SLA? I believe this is what I get at Linode and Digital Ocean.
Did he really just make an entire service just to not have a myspace page?
Does your "average member of society" creates any wealth, or just sits there waiting for the redistribution he is entitled to to arrive?
Well here's one data point: my building includes gas in the rent, so there's no incentive for me to buy an expensive and costly to run electric kettle when a stovetop model can boil an unlimited amount of water for zero marginal cost.

(I'm originally from the UK, but I adapted pretty quickly when I moved to the US and saw the price of electric kettles).
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The range is wide, though. I've seen at least one residential postcode which covers just two addresses.
> ... a fraud and an asshole. The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming

Are you talking about AirBnb and their Craigslist scamming?

> He's only interested in money.

Meanwhile venture backed start-ups are doing God's work, right?!
> If EVERY white male make 500k starting the day they graduated I'd believe that your theory holds true.

While we're busy setting absurdly high evidentiary bars, let's make it a cool million.
It is no coincidence that we're seeing the theme of decentralization cropping up everywhere. Consider an investment approach based on the assumption decentralization is getting ready to eat the world.
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> then I have to look elsewhere

Where, exactly, in a world of reduced job opportunities?

> ... side benefits ...... workout midday..., , ...walk in the park ...

For the people in question these pastimes are probably as realistic as having a Rhino shooting in Namibia.

> ... A portion...

You make it seem like a beautiful win-win situation, like a well deserved 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 ... + 0.1 split. The current discussion revolves, among other things, around the question if it's more like 0.99 + 0.01 and if that is like it should be.

With a reasoning like yours, I always wonder if there is indeed some underlying substance to it, or if it's sheer hope and faith in some Austrian god?
Everything you said is very much correct.
On the "AI" title, I know there is a long debate about what constitutes an AI and what doesn't, and I'm sure you're also aware of it, so I won't go there :)

There is no data in TheBigDB yet indeed, I've just (re)launched it as I'm releasing Akiva: you can take them as both proof-of-concept of each other, if that makes sense.

Obviously, the dataset in TheBigDB will grow with time, and the skills of Akiva will also.

Thanks for your questions :)
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I don't even think this is the first vm in the networking part of the kernel.
> He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud.

Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...

> he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money

Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!
I don't doubt their 'smarts' (I've been a reader/subscriber for nearly a decade). But when it comes to Internet/e-commerce/cloud, I've rarely ever found them as cutting edge. Of course their tech special reports are always a great read, but the focus there is mostly deeper, cutting-edge science/R&D etc.
Everyone with some financial literacy knew that the housing market was a bubble, the Economist wasn't exactly an oracle.
The "Hadoop ecosystem" is getting less and less about MapReduce, and more about other execution frameworks that can share HDFS with it.
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I would add qobuz[1], for innovating in hifi, lossless streaming and dailymotion, the only video hosting platform (other than vimeo) that survided against the youtube[2] behemoth I'm aware of. Also netvibes still exists.

[1] http://www.qobuz.com/

[2] http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=dailymotion
Assuming that they keep the files longer than a few days.
Hi, I wrote Lightbuild.

BlinkStick looks great, but for us, the main advantage of using the Hue bulbs is that the entire team is instantly alerted when the build breaks (the blinking definitely helps!). I'm not sure it would have quite the same effect if it was a comparatively small LED plugged into a single dev's monitor.
From what I've read Jobs wanted a completely different future for Pixar (something like 3D rendering software for the masses) than what Lasseter, Catmull, and others wanted. It was their pushing for the future they saw and desired that's the reason behind the success of Pixar as we know it today. Jobs was supposedly looking to sell off Pixar and viewed it as a failure until Disney showed up.

Putting Pixar's success on Jobs alone is a huge disservice to the true believers that actually built Pixar.
re: the risk of insurance companies using the data to reconstruct identities: Mark Davies, the centre's public assurance director says "I think it is a small, theoretical risk"

this guy is either (a) a liar or (b) horribly naive or (c) misinformed by his experts (or all of the above)

Even if the data are "pseudonymised", if they still contain age, gender, ethnicity, postal code, and even a small smattering of medical info (or other info) then it's pretty much a done deal to link the records back to a person.

Think of it this way as well : even if they can "only" narrow down a given record to 100 people, so what? They just treat those 100 people the same (i.e. poorly).

This sets a horrible precedent. One's medical records ought to be one's personal, private property, and any release of such ought to be with the express permission of the owner (i.e. the patient).
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Bodek is a failed trader, and one who apparently can't read exchange API manuals (here's BATS explaining it for him: https://www.batstrading.com/resources/features/bats_exchange...). Now he's trying to make money from sensationalism and poorly written books.

That aside, Hide not Slide orders are an interesting case. They exist only in US equity markets, and they're a great study in unintended consequences. US equities are quite fragmented (the same security can be traded on several different exchanges), so well intentioned US regulators introduced something called the NBBO (National Best Bid Offer), ostensibly to "protect investors" from getting a worse price on one exchange. What this meant is that different exchanges trading in the same product could never be "locked" - you could never have one exchange showing say 101 on the bid when another has 101 on the ask (because in theory then they are crossed and should trade). Pretend the tick size is 1 for following discussion...

This leads to a situation where every equity exchange in the US may be trading 100/102 (with an empty tick in the middle), but as long as one remaining exchange is trading 100/101, you aren't allowed to insert a bid at 101 on the other exchanges (since the interpretation of the rule is that this would be unfair on the resting 101 offer). But HFTs are all very keen to be the first to fill that 100/102 gap in the spread - to be the first on that new queue is an advantage since you get filled first. And obviously that one holdout exchange will soon get filled and the price will tick up. But the other exchanges legally can't accept a bid at 101 yet.

So exchanges started to either reject orders or "slide" them - you submit that 101 Buy and they slide it down to a 100 Buy. Which leads to this:

10 SUBMIT BUY@101

20 IF RESPONSE = "SLIDE TO 100" THEN DELETE, GOTO 10

All of a sudden the exchanges are being flooded with messages, as algos are pinging the exchange constantly wanting to put that 101 bid in. Which leads us to 'Hide not slide' - the exchanges promise to sit on your order until the NBBO ticks up and put it in the queue then. The problem is that these order types, while documented and available to all who are connected to the exchange directly, aren't usually going to be available to someone who is trading through an intermediary - a broker or some retail trading platform. So that's the story of how a well intentioned bit of regulation ended up disadvantaging US investors.

US equity markets are full of weird quirks like this, the NBBO needs to be done away with.
Brilliantly done. Thank you.
I wonder how articles like this always consider management to be safe from automation. If there is something that can be done better by computers than humans, it's unemotional number crunching (like risk assessment or other decision making).

You still need to enter the right questions and numbers and then act on the result, but I see quite some slack in that field that could be optimized away once the right product shows up.
What I want to know is when do we get a movie about Woz?
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The video background on the homepage packs quite the punch, really draws you in - for a minute I thought it might be some kind of WebGL.
Think about it that way: 85 richest people own only about 1.6% of the total wealth of top richest 1%. Which is probably about 0.3..0.5% of total worldwide wealth. And 85 people are not some monolithic force, even as they have some similarities, they can't agree on anything (see U.S. Senate which has about as many people - can it agree on much?). So the threat of these rich guys to the world is purely imaginary.

It is unfair to compare capitalists to proletariat in their wealth. Capitalists make money from capital, so a capitalist without capital is no more. Proletarian does not need any money to get his income. If you compare incomes of those 85 guys to poorest people they will make up a combined income of some poor 3rd world country like Cuba or Belarus, or at biggest like Romania (implying average returns on capital, inflation adjusted, of about 6-8%). Not half the world, not even close.

Top 1% will be yes, more like like Japan, but hey, Japan has under 2% of the world's population. So again there is little 'threat' or rich.
Not true and it omits to mention that increasing the inequality was intentional. Not as in a consequence of technology but politicians mandated that more profits and less wages would be good for the economy and implemented policies that made it so.

Here is what happened in Sweden which you can see is third in increasing the 1%'s share. Sweden has lots of companies that export stuff to the US and other places. Now they get paid in dollar which they convert to Swedish kronor.

So a Swedish company sells cars to the US and gets $100 million/year. Convert it to kronor and you get about 1 billion. Government decides to help them so they decide that Swedish currency is only worth 50% of what it used to (yes they can/could decide that). Suddenly, they the company now makes 2 billion per year.

Meanwhile, Swedish people buy TV:s and game consoles from the US. All that now cost double of what it did since their currency is worth half of what it was.

So what should the Swedes do? Demand salary increases to offset the higher prices of course. Since the (exporting) companies makes double the profits, they should be able to double the salaries. Except it wasn't so easy in the eighties to just demand that especially not when the government opposed salary increases. Salaries did rose though, but not nearly as much as they would have to keep pace with the increasing profits.

Btw, this is not a simplification at all. There is a tape of the prime minister at the time saying that "salaries are to high and that's why the krona needs to be devalued." Similar things happened in other countries too.
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