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I'm fairly depressed by this continuous attack on getting higher education by Peter Thiel. Previously he famously offered students money to drop out of college. This is especially scary considering his sphere of influence and amount of money-power he can throw in. Why someone as smart as him would do this?

To me it looks like he has got it all wrong here: Higher education is not an investment. It's not a preparation to get a job. People should not be considering higher education as a way of getting lots of money in future. Higher education is an opportunity to delve in to subject that you dreamed about all your teenage life. Did you wanted to become astronomer? Physicists? Mathematician? Painter? Were you interested in learning why biggest wars in history happened? How our ancestors lived 10,000 years ago? Do you want to build airplanes? If you asked these questions and were intensely interested in some subject, higher education is a tremendous gateway to do what you love for rest of your life as opposed to possibility of becoming millionaire first and then do all these things. No one should be persuaded to be turned away from it. Not everyone needs to be in rush for making million and retire before 30. Some people wants to do what they love to their last dying day. Not everyone needs to be startup founder either. As Guy Kawasaki said, jobs are for rest of your life (even if you are "boss" - it's still a job), education is just those few early years when your brain is hungry and eager to absorb everything. Your best years should be spent in studying something cool and worthwhile rather than selling underwears and rental apartments to people. You should take advantage of it. I consider advising youth to drop out from their selected area of study with a lure of making millions in startups a sin.
// Buffer 32KB to Memory, after that buffer to 100MB chunked files
buf := buffer.NewUnboundedBuffer(32*1024, 100*1024*1024)

pool := NewFilePool(100*1024*1024, "") // "" -- use temp dir

I seem to have a twofold feeling about this code: on one hand I really like the brevity of these statements, but on the other hand it does come at the cost of being rather cryptic: without the comments one can only guess what exactly is going on. To the point that should I want to use this in my own code and make it understandable I'd almost would be forced to either copy the comments as well or else wrap it in a method with another name or. In such cases it probably would have been better if the original API already had done this.
>> "Would you mind elaborating on this or posting some links with more evidence for this?"

I'm not the GP, but I suspect api has in mind something like this [0]. The money quote from that article is this:

"At that 2.3% growth rate, we would be using energy at a rate corresponding to the total solar input striking Earth in a little over 400 years."

The obvious first-order thermodynamic consequences of that fact for the temperature of the surface of the earth are pretty undeniable.

[0] http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...
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PCI-Express, SAS, SATA, and many other protocols use an 8b/10b encoding — encoding 8-bit bytes in 10-bit words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding
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Also jpswade, I spoke about Cachet at Staffs Web Meetup in March. Did you miss it?
Expansion can be due to a lot more than mere birthrates. First and foremost expansion will happen only when there is means to do so. And, 'means' can be driven by a combination of curiosity and necessity. On earth people have gone somewhere far off (migrated), because there was the place to go and the means to get there. In many cases that (migration) was the option over having to fight (or find some form of accommodation) within the local social & political system.

If this is why an intelligence can spread out on a planet, couldn't other intelligences (if they exist) spread out for similar reasons in the galaxy.
I know, I can't believe we've made front page, again!
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Description: https://github.com/stared/tagoverflow#tagoverflow

Also, try it for other sites (e.g. http://stared.github.io/tagoverflow/?site=biology&size=32) and for questions only with a given tag (e.g. http://stared.github.io/tagoverflow/?site=stackoverflow&size...).
Probably because it doesn't happen for others (fine on my machine for example) so they assume you were trying to win clever points by doing something that obviously breaks it (e.g. zoom) and by doing so missing the actual point entirely (that this demo is possible at all).
Can this run js live on the page?
> Incoming downvotes from pot advocates in 3, 2, 1...

Please don't do that. The guidelines ask you not to do it. It poisons discussion.
Aliens Are Enormous, Science Suggests
But you would be ignored...
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Are you arguing that tuition costs for everyone should rise so that there can be more athletics-related personnel?
Yes the real word tends to value thing like your phone bill being absolutely correct and auditable and not prone to bizarre edge cases that the completion winners don't care about
The next time you're looking for sushi in the Castro, I suggest going a dozen steps past the old Barracuda spot and down the stairs next to the fitness shop. Down in the lower level is my favorite neighborhood sushi joint - Sushi Time. Alternatively, try Eiji (next to Kitchen Story at 16th/Sanchez), or Amasia Hide's Sushi Bar at 14th/Noe. All reasonably priced (think like $20-30/person and be stuffed) and far better than Barracuda IMO.

All those places pale in comparison to some of the best sushi (IMO) in town though, if you're willing to spend quite a bit more. Check out Kusakabe in the Financial District :)
Yeah, 92-95 was really when people started switching to PCs from Amiga, and it really wasn't quite the same. There were big gaming and demo scenes on the PC during that time (it was around that time that I found out about and fell in love with the demoscene, but on PC).

Windows 95 almost killed the demoscene completely -- it took years to really recover. All of the investment in demo toolchains simply stopped working. For quite a while I ran some kind of hacked version of Windows 95 that booted directly into the MS-DOS build that ran underneath (this was before NT eliminated that layer) just so I could still do demoscene stuff.

But it was clear that this wasn't going to last. The scene really had to take a few years to step back and reevaluate and rediscover itself in order to understand how it could continue moving forward.

The modern scene is really a new scene that's risen from the ashes, and in an age of such powerful home machines that many of the traditional rules and categories no longer make sense (hence the old-school and retro-machine competition categories).

I'm not sure exactly when it revived...maybe 2003-2004? but it's definitely demoscene 2.0. But it's definitely come back super strong and as big and vibrant as it ever was and it seems like in the last few years a renewed interest and rediscovery in the old pioneering work has started to integrate into the overall scene. New productions on minimal hardware are truly awesome stuff, and productions on old systems that are informed my modern ideas are truly amazing.

It's like a Renaissance is occurring the scene and we're in the middle of it and we really have the passion and energy from the C64 and Amiga scenes to thank for it.
Thanks for the inputs, mate! I use stre.am as well.
The comment you were responding to wasn't referring to the 1970s, it was referring to the repeated cries of Malthusian catastrophes dating back to Malthus himself. The unexpected technology mentioned was a 50-fold increase in agricultural productivity per person working in agriculture. Several times in the last several hundred years, similar patterns were pointed out. All of them were solved with technology they had no way of knowing about.
Yeah. You know something's wrong when 98% of federal cases are pled out.
The Fermi paradox is based on the vastness of we can observe. It says nothing about that which may exist beyond (not hidden) what we observe.
Thanks. I had seen that calculation before, but had forgotten about it. It is good to remember that we will eventually come up against limits from basic physics.

Though, to be a bit picky, showing that we can't indefinitely sustain our current trajectory is a different argument than saying a collapse is inevitable.
I think it makes perfect sense. The alcohol solves different flavor molecules than water, and having both present can actually activate new flavors. This doesn't work with a whole mouthful of sake, of course...
Someone has been trying to build that out of a totaled (but still driveable) Model S and a Westfalia body - http://cafeelectric.com/stretchla
The Work-Family Imbalance
There is a review in the FT today of "The Future of Violence" a book in which the authors apparently (I haven't read it) assert that as technology improves the risk of a violent individual to society increases (because that person has more leverage).

This raises an interesting problem : to make it as a society may require a high level of dynamism and aggression. To cope as a society (as technology becomes more potent) passivity and sensitivity may be necessary. It may be that there is no balance, and that if you have enough vim to create a technical society you will reach a point where progress becomes impossible due to progress so far.
silencio gave some great suggestions, but I just wanted to say that, in general, pretty much any sushi place you can find in the city is probably better than Barracuda. That place served sushi that would have been appropriate if it was one of those really cheap sushi places, but they charged quite a bit more than the sushi was worth. I even tried getting Omakase there once and was served sushi that was worse than a normal sushi combo order from any other place I've been to.

To be fair, I haven't been to every sushi place in the city (or even every sushi place in the Castro), so maybe you can find worse places, but overall I was just very disappointed with Barracuda.
I remember this; it's because the Federal gov't treats The Keys like the proverbial red-headed stepchild.
My Python implementation https://github.com/niedbalski/python-bugspots
The Myth of High-Protein Diets
The terms we know in the Drake equation make it very difficult to say it is unlikely for intelligence to arise more than once. ~100 billion stars * ~100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Exoplanet surveys seem to be suggesting at least one planet per star on average. In addition, chemical self replication seems to happen fairly easily given the right chemical conditions, which don't appear to require much more than liquid water.
This is a great book. I had the good fortune of working with Karl and a couple of the other Subversion founders (Fitz and Ben) early in the Chrome project at Google. This book served as an invaluable resource for the team to learn about open source development as we established the Chromium project.
In particular, the above link says:

"Section 107 [of the U.S. copyright law] contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research."

It doesn't sound like the intended use in a commercial application falls under any of these protected categories.

"When it is impracticable to obtain permission, you should consider avoiding the use of copyrighted material unless you are confident that the doctrine of fair use would apply to the situation. ... If there is any doubt, it is advisable to consult an attorney."

It would be much cheaper to get competent legal advice from a lawyer now than it would be to defend yourself against an infringement lawsuit that might be brought against you by the copyright holders. And if you don't have the resources to defend yourself in court, it won't matter whether your usage of this content is "fair use" or not.
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I didn't mean to misunderstand your point, but I think it is not that clearly made in the original post, and now that you've said it clearly, I think it's a little irrelevant to the bigger question of governance and social change.

You're raising legitimate complaints about the brokenness of our voting system, and I agree. I'd like to see other voting systems put into place at local/state levels, with an eye toward implementing them nationally; something like range voting, or one of the other "pick your favorites" voting schemes.

Where I get the biggest sense of frustration in your post, it's the sense that we can't do much with our votes, e.g. when you said "the odds are against any form of profound change" and "I personally find voting to be not worth one's time".

Well, yeah, a vote on its own isn't enough to make the change you want to see. You do have to get involved, if people aren't already organized at getting your ideas out there, to get it to the level of being voted on.

My pot legalization example, I voted on that, but I know people who were involved in the GOTV efforts, the initiative process, the whole nine yards. But the whole years-long campaign culminated in a vote, the final test of "does the public buy our argument?"

Tell them about how it isn't even worth bothering to vote.
Your formula is incorrect; time is more of a factor than mileage, when it comes to vehicle deterioration. This is why you routinely see taxis with more than 300,000 miles on their engines.

Furthermore, automation itself will reduce wear-and-tear. I worked on the driverless pod system at Heathrow Terminal 5. One of the things we found was that wear-and-tear on the system was almost negligible -- probably less than 10% of what you would see in a human-driven vehicle. This was partially due to the fact that it was driving on a smoother surface than an ordinary roadway -- but also due to the extremely conservative and consistent acceleration/braking behaviour which the vehicles achieved, which put much less stress on many parts of the system. Although those are essentially hand-built prototype vehicles, I expect them to last ~400,000 miles before requiring significant refurbishment.

Based on these observations,I feel quite comfortable predicting a dramatic decline in the rate of vehicle sales within the next several decades.
The problem is that if you exclude the scenarios that obviously didn't happen you are still left with no likely scenarios given the present consensus understanding of biology and physics.

The timescale for megascale engineering to occur throughout our galaxy as the result of the launch of one megascale engineering minded self replicating probe is small (1 million years) in comparison to the age of the galaxy (13 billion years). It is unlikely that we are sitting here while someone else is in the process of doing it; that's not the scenario to focus on.

All it takes, remember, is one small group in one sufficiently advanced culture to start this going. Some (post)human group will clearly do it at some point if we as a species continue. Why hasn't someone already done it, where "it" is visibly engineer the totality of the future light cone?

The problem is less one of why don't we see Dyson spheres and other similar type II projects within a few hundred light years of our position, and more one of why do we see no obviously altered galaxies among the hundreds of thousands cataloged to date. At this scale the zoo hypothesis looks stretched, and the simulation argument begins to look more plausible.
Interesting story but nothing seems exactly wrong with any of it. Is it the case that prosecutors mostly make reasonable indictments because of the potential embarrassment of having a grand jury naysay them, or should we just scrap the grand juries because prosecutors will anyway only bring supported charges? As a small optimization I'd suggest using a single judge or a smaller number (5?) of jurors for the same purpose.
I feel like we could say that about any code. It doesn't sound cryptic to me. It does require to read the doc (http://godoc.org/github.com/djherbis/buffer#NewUnboundedBuff...) but I'd argue that's the case for everything.
I have all the things you're striving for and it feels like my colleagues, friends do much more than me much more easily. If you look around it's very easy to find people who have a much harder time. I'm beginning to suspect that it's relative.
The physical connector is J1962, not the "OBDII" port. OBDII encompasses multiple network layers (datalink, physical, etc). Prior to the J1962 connector there were other physical connector allowed.
It seems like AI has become more capable but has stayed in the realm of "dumb AI" (not incapable just not human-like). Indeed, by no longer aiming at duplicating human consciousness, machine learning has found more and more niches.

But this doesn't mean that right now, the corporations and governments that are deploying this AI and indeed displacing human choice are "provably aligned with human values". Indeed, it almost sound like there's this hope that humans will build machines that treat people right after humans themselves have failed terribly in treating each right. I'm skeptical that this could work.
I think you misunderstand what I said -- not millions of calculations, millions of individualized data that uniquely identify a person, then use it without telling the person how.

If people know you are using information to serve them a better ad, and agree to it, no problem -- if you have not made that clear, or use it for other purposes that they are not aware of, then it is a big problem and should be illegal.
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I'm not sure he was talking about an annualized rate.

On a sidenote, why is economics so wrapped up in astrology?
Maybe intelligent ife is the universe is in fact quite abundant, but having followed the trajectory we are on and exhausted all its natural resources that would support becoming extra-solar civilisations, they collapse back to simpler, less technological agrarian societies?
Astrophysics is as solid as particle physics and plasma physics; it's the other laboratory used to confirm fundamental theory. The models are very good. There is a natural explanation for every well observed phenomenon that fits all known physics, and wherein the models match up to the observations. Astrophysics really isn't the place to be looking first for issues, I'd say.
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"To optimistically give it the benefit of every doubt, this study says that Google put too much emphasis on success in programming competitions when it was making hiring decisions in the early 2000s."

It's kind of unbelievable that anyone is even bothering to say _anything_ in this thread without addressing this point. Of course people sometimes overvalue competitions, and if it's true that Google did it, that would explain the effect whether competition winners are typically better or worse than other people who interview at Google.

Do I know it's true? Of course not. But it's such an obvious question to ask that your first question should be "how did measure/rule out that effect?". And if there's no answer, you go back to the drawing board and try to answer it.
What if "dark matter" is actually stars enclosed in dyson spheres? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Does it refresh all functions? Including the anonymous ones in already attached event handlers?

I have done something similar recently but it requires any live-reload-able function to have a name.
The truth is we all struggle. We are absorbed in our own problems, so we don't often realize what others go through.
Everyone experiences failure in their life. I don't think you can measure "struggling" by looking at metrics like the quality of your first job.

I've also worked since 16, nobody covered my transportation or sent me to college. My childhood home was about the size of the garage for the home I now own as an adult. You are not defined by your family nor upbringing though they play a contributing role. But you're probably going to need some goals.

Think hard: What are you most passionate about in life? What are your aspirations?

Now think harder: Does the way you spend your time on a day-to-day basis match up against your passions? What are you doing to successfully achieve your goals and aspirations?
Could it be possible to use this with headless node applications for debugging?
> To me, Linux lacked a lot of the aesthetic aspects of the Amiga. It had no games scene, the culture was older, more academic or "heavy industry" and didn't have multimedia in its blood like the Amiga scene did.

Sure, nothing comparable with the Amiga. But coming from Windows 95, Linux was at least programmer friendly.

My biggest frustration coming from the Amiga was that I wasn't able to display anything on a PC (at least, not with the limited knowledge I had at that time). With the Amiga, it was easy, no need to worry about system calls, you just wrote at the right place into the RAM et voila. And it wasn't complicated to make things move using the Blitter and the Copper. It was something a kid could do.

EDIT: talking about the aesthetic aspect of the Amiga, I think it was a beautiful computer too. People always praise Apple for making computers beautiful. But to me, my Amiga 500 was much better looking than an Apple II or a mac from that era.
Was this the module you were looking at?

http://www.auvidea.com/index.php/theme-styles/2013-06-22-21-...

I'd heard the GPU was getting better docs, and I wondered if it would help handle this.
Maybe it turns out Dyson spheres are a bad idea for some reason? Maybe Dyson spheres are out there, but constructed in such a way that they don't look obvious to a distant observer? Maybe the idea that advanced civilizations exponentially consuming energy as per the Kardashev Scale is a flawed and anthropocentric premise based entirely on what we know of our own civilization, and a lack of observable stellar engineering doesn't necessarily mean a lack of advanced life?
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All we can hope for is a healthy body, sound mind, access to education, freedom of thought and expression, freedom from violence, a functioning job market, and perhaps a decent safety net for when things really do all go to shit.

All the rest, as they say, c'est la vie. Striving, wanting, yearning is absolutely a part of the human condition. Good luck in all your struggles.
I think it's unfortunate this has been downvoted; I think that many people feel the same way you do. It's probably worth thinking about whether your colleagues' life is really as easy as you think it is. What you see of them is probably them at their best; you probably don't see their hidden financial struggles or family struggles or professional struggles. Most people don't talk about anything like this. So personally I think it is brave to ask this question and I wish I saw topics like this discussed more often.
Don't compare yourself to other people. Just try to improve upon yourself. Set smaller goals, so you can feel a pattern of success and build some confidence (which you'll need with the ladies, and getting a job). A cover page on your resume with your sob story and some positive inspirational messages about how you don't give up might help get you in the door with prospective employers. Just try to be happy. If you're upset or depressed, it shows, and people don't want to be around that.
I live in Norway. This is just baffling to me. The only way I can think to make sense of it is to draw a parallel to suicide clusters [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
Haha, exactly! That's what I find strange too.