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> The service industry is not going to be replaced by robots anytime soon.

Funny, the use of iPads instead of servers at many fast food restaurants was one of the examples I was considering using. Hair dresser robots for many people aren't that far out.

> we have not discovered a way to do super smart robots than can design themselves just yet.

Key word there: yet. What do we do when that yet comes to pass?

> the job market is dynamic

Do you believe the job market will continue to provide jobs when it's not profitable to? When a company has to make the choice between a machine and a human, why would it ever go with the human, when the net cost of the machine is lower than that of the human? One machine can replace a minimum of three people (working 24 hours on a job your average worker does 8 hours on), and it won't take three people per machine to maintain them.

Of course, the human could always offer their services at a cost below that of the robot - but I don't believe that is sustainable for the human. As an example, for me to be more economical than a computer for my employeer, I would have to methodically classify over 2,500 tweets to earn a single dollar. And since my employer wants these classifications done in near real time, they'd have to employ most of the town I live in, just to do this one mostly-clerical task.
I write Clojure every day and love it. I'm interested in learning Rust, but I'd like to learn it via a project that I couldn't do effectively in Clojure. Any ideas?
Maybe the family could pay for premium incarceration to be housed in the US. I am sure there are lots of inmates who are never visited during their entire stay.

And the wealthy don't get enough preferential treatment in the criminal justice system now?

The current system does a great job draining additional money from poor inmates and their families. Just look at the price of phone calls, one of the most basic means to keep people connected.

The wealthy are already less likely to be investigated (living in a non-poor neighborhood), less likely to be charged with a crime (better lawyers), and less likely to be convicted (ditto).
If you're sending state secrets you should probably check even if you have a lead desk. Things like keyghost are pretty small and hard to see.
So long as you need to work to provide yourself with food and shelter, they are. And since we as a society put so much value on how one contributes to society (i.e. their job), it's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
Thanks for your comment. I updated the promo in the blog post to reflect the exact result from:
https://assets.imgix.net/blog/woman-hat.jpg?w=640&w=250&h=25...
The comment that linked to the New Statesman article was helpful. Another good source on how much (or how little) to take most neuroscience hype seriously is the book Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel adn Scott O. Lilienfeld.[1] Eventually, someday, as the article kindly submitted here for discussion suggests, there will be some actionable knowledge for daily life derived from neuroscience studies, but meanwhile the hype far exceeds the reality. As the article points out, "Paul Fletcher, professor of health neuroscience at Cambridge University, explains that this is the major obstacle for progress in the field. 'Nobody has a credible idea of how brain processes produce mental processes, or even a vocabulary with which to articulate such an idea, should it suddenly come to them in the bath,' he says. 'Good science is usually about linking levels of description: showing how an observation at one level – say, the genetic – ultimately manifests in a physiological process or behaviour or symptom through a series of intermediary facts each expressed at intervening levels… We just don't have these linkages in brain-mind science; it's like the brain observations are made in one language and the mind observations in another, and there is no clue how to translate between those languages.'"

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-Seductive-Appeal-Mindless-...
Study: 6th mass extinction already underway – and we're the cause
So the perfect business model is one that hides as much pricing information from the consumer as possible.
CCA has had a few big years:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002194...
Another option that has been around for a number of years is:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtconcurrent-index.html
Yes, but if you care about reading in exact numbers from text, floating point is usually not the right tool for the job.
Good job on the 3-SAT encoding, it was very clear.
You are 100% right. Parole and probation violations are a common misstep in our system, and account for an enormous amount of our prison population. I can speak from experience. I had a one-year probation sentence, on the very last day with only a few hours until my probation was set to expire (I even had a preliminary release letter from my probation officer with the date and time of expiration and had completed my final assessments), I was packing a moving truck preparing to move out of the state. I did not intend, nor was there any possible way I could have finished packing and had everything wrapped up in that time, to leave prior to my probation being expired. Instead an off-duty sheriff deputy who knew I was on probation just happened to see me packing decided he was going to stop and arrest me for on a violation for attempting to violate by moving. Although when I went before the judge 24 hours later he dropped it, the fact of the matter is that I was still violated, spent 24 hours in a holding cell waiting to see the judge, all because someone was a little overzealous in their job and had a zero-tolerance attitude.

Now I see and hear the stories every day of individuals who are violated for the dumbest reasons (i.e. bus crash in front of probation office, witnessed by probation officer, individual taken to hospital, violated for missing probation appointment by same officer that witnessed the accident in the first place. Given a 90-day sentence for violating their probation. And those were the facts as provided by the officer, not the individual. The officer essentially was laughing at how much control they have over someone's life in these incidents.).
What exactly IS GNU Social?!?
"You're in an industry reaping disproportionate benefit from loose money policies, leading to a trend-chasing culture of overpaid nerds making web apps."

This is how software engineers undervalue themselves and damage their own profession. You will never see doctors or lawyers write a statement like that about themselves.

The line about "loose money" is laughable to anyone who's ever actually tried to raise funding.
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Switzerland is ten times smaller than France, and in general the people who live there are far better off (GDP per capita is doubled between France and Switzerland ($90,000 vs $45,000)).

It's much easier to form a consensus when your constituents are all affluent. It's much easier to govern a small country than a big one.

Switzerland clearly works moderately well, but the barrier for success was far lower than for France.
From https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/tree/master:

GNU social is a free social networking platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short status updates, do polls, announce events, or other social activities (and you can add more!). Users can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Google+ or Facebook, but is much more awesome.
Sorry, should have specified that it's for California (both cops and guards). And it might be a highball figure (I didn't search too much).

From your article:

> There's also a lot of range between salaries in different parts of the country. In San Francisco, one of the least affordable cities in the country, cops get paid the most to reflect the cost of living, with an annual mean wage of $99,000. Meanwhile, cops in rural Mississippi earn the least: $29,870.

Similarly, prison guards also get paid more in California.

Whatever the case, I think cops do get paid a bit more, but I think it's much harder to get the job. Police might be penalised a bit for being in a glamour profession though (there's more people who want to be cops than prison guards - not many movies have a prison guard as the hero).
How do I define a constraint to ensure referential integrity?
> If a prisoner is raped, the prison should incur liability, civil and criminal for allowing it to happen. When guards initiate violence against prisoners they should be liable as well. This should be the case for both private and "public" prisons.

Here's the problem - you can have safe, large-scale, and cheap incarceration. Pick two.

You can have safe, large-scale incarceration by sticking everyone in solitary and never letting them out of their cells, after all, but I doubt many people would consider that to be acceptable.

If you want to treat prisoners with dignity and respect, you have to pay for it. The current model is the result of budget cuts upon budget cuts upon budget cuts coupled with vastly increased "demand" created by the War on Drugs. When you're incarcerating everyone for having a dime bag of weed, you're running a Walmart-style prison instead of a focused rehabilitation facility. If we, at the very least, decriminalized possession and only went after dealers, prisons would immediately improve. Fewer prisoners means safer conditions.

> Frankly, this alone proves that government cannot be trusted with the business of distributing justice. Which is why I'm an anarchist.

I see this as misguided. Yes, the government sucks at distributing justice. But I don't see the absence of government doing any better. You'd effectively end up with mob rule, which is typically governed by the biggest asshole. At least with democracy, the asshole has to keep the electorate somewhat happy. The very first thing that people did after settling the American frontier was to set up government to deal with justice. It beat forming a posse to kill your enemies whenever they pissed you off.
Cheers. I'm pleasantly surprised.

Sadly i don't have mounds of time right now to write bigger answers, but i first need to figure out what your knowledge is, because we're not quite on the same page yet.

> every developer gets to merge their own feature branch into master.

Are you sure you wanted to say merge? If the master branch is rewritten into a new branch, feature branches on it would need to be rebased normally.

Is there a reason that you're saying "every developer gets to"? Normally they'd only need to rebase when they wish to integrate it back into master anyhow, which is likely to be conflict-free if they didn't rely on the feature, and also likely to be conflict-free if they wait until you've re-added the feature in a fixed state. And if they decide to rebase before you re-add it, then they'd have to deal with those conflicts exactly the same as if they'd merge before your revert-revert.

Do your developers do the SVN thing of continually merging master into their feature branch? Typically that is a bad habit which should be replaced with rebases of the feature branch.

Why do you care if history gets rewritten? Because you fear it would create more work, or because you consider history inviolable.

> we actually appreciate there being a mark in the revision history about this.

I think tags with descriptions would serve the same purpose. Do you see issues with that?
It's perfectly fine as long as you know the rules. Virtually all JavaScript code is heavily reliant on exact answers from floating point (since floating point is all you have) and it continues to work. :)
The continuation of StatusNet, which was the codebase behind identi.ca until the owner wrote pump.io in nodejs and migrated to that.
I started doing that a while ago, although by mixing the name of the service. What I do now is also use some letters from my login email, to make the password unique for the domain and for the login I'm using.
I'll play the devils advocate

> Not just US, UK was also part of that agreement, and they also have done nothing to help Ukraine.

Which 'Ukraine'? The government which was democratically elected (and deposed by protests) or the new government. Let's for a second imagine that the "Occupy *" movement was cozy with the Russians, and managed to topple the US administration of the time. Which America is NATO obliged to protect?
It's not overblown anymore than "cloud computing" is overblown. Misreported, maybe, but there is a huge shift happening in the industry right now.

If not, why else would this exist http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-supercomputing-solutions....?
If you think it’s rude to look at co-authors’ data, you’re not doing science
In Colorado, misdemeanor probation has been "privatized" and is managed by a for-profit entity (Intervention, Inc. & Rocky Mountain Offender Management Services [RMOMS]).

I've been through their "system". I'm convinced it's a money making scheme. Their "case managers" (you don't even get a probation officer) are paid $12/hour and are implicitly instructed to find ways to charge you more money. I've had one lie to my face about a state statute (that I had memorized, word for word) to try to get me to pay them more money.

A first-offense, low BAC DWAI in Colorado set me back >$20,000 over 2.5 years and 3 lawyers.
Am I the only one who thinks donating blood is a bad idea based on personality of the donor? I know that this article refers to organ transplant, but I also have read articles talking about how blood donations can affect personality:

http://www.medicaldaily.com/can-organ-transplant-change-reci...
https://www.google.com/search?q=2%25+of+3%2C900%2C000%2C000%...
It really is that bad. I would've gladly taken 90 days in county jail vs. years of probation for a first offense misdemeanor.

On the flip side, my county's jail offers yoga and fresh fruit daily.
I call this the police-judicial complex; they have a "problem" in that between the end of the demographic Baby Boom and the partial reversion of the soft on crime '60s and '70s, there is much less real crime. Per the thesis of Arrest-Proof Yourself (http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Dale-C-Carson/dp...) that means in much of the country they'd have to downsize if they didn't "feed" upon a steady stream of what the authors refer to as "the clueless", most especially the sorts of people who can't realistically follow all their probation restrictions.

Obviously much, much better than them suffering layoffs. And I'l criticize the media again with their "if it bleeds, it leads" bias, how many in the US realize crime is down so much from that old peak?
Most assholes are just ordinary average assholes. Great assholes are the exception and occur at no greater frequency than great non-assholes in the general population.
I wonder why they didn't use plain JSON arrays and a lisp interpreter, so much structure seems unnecessary.

https://gist.github.com/aynik/5ffca6ba09ea08b92f71
Babycastles
The reward comes from writing good comments. Writing good comments early on good articles tends increase that reward. Rewarding early upvotes would just encourage voting rings.
Pseudodoxia Epidemica is dense, strange and delightful. Probably my favorite chapter is on the Amphisbaena [1] (a serpent with a head on both ends), which Browne dismisses as basically being too weird to exist. Then he can't help but throw a jab at philosophers:

"And therefore this duplicity was ill contrived to place one head at both extreams, and had been more tolerable to have setled three or four at one. And therefore also Poets have been more reasonable then Philosophers, and Geryon or Cerberus less monstrous than Amphisbæna."

How funny is that -- the idea of the Amphisbaena is so wild, how more plausible is having three or four heads at a single end? (Geyron being a multi-headed giant, and Cerberus a multi-headed dog.)

Further, Browne does mention the existence of multi-headed serpents (snakes), but those too are anomalies:

"Which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents; whose productions being numerous, and their Eggs in chains or links together (which sometime conjoyn and inoculate[13] into each other) they may unite into various shapes and come out in mixed formations. But these are monstrous productions, beside the intention of Nature, and the statutes of generation, neither begotten of like parents, nor begetting the like again, but irregularly produced, do stand as Anomalies in the general Book of Nature. Which being shifts and forced pieces, rather then genuine and proper effects, they afford us no illation; nor is it reasonable to conclude, from a monstrosity unto a species, or from accidental effects, unto the regular works of Nature."

Really wonderful writing; I couldn't help but share.

[1] Of the Amphisbaena: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudo315.html
I want that sofa.
It's a scripted hypertext document trying to pretend it's an application.
37.2 Trillion: Galaxies or Human Cells?
But those algorithms would be very limited in usefulness. Systems such as imageidentify.com should be at least trying an ensemble of algorithms, many of which I suppose should be invariant under translation and rotation.

Edit: There's a comment about invariance in this thread [1] and apparently CNNs are not invariant under rotation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9750133
I don't know how many people use gravity forms, but your landing page is very nice!

I imagined myself as a customer, for my launch rock placeholder page... in that case I'd want to try the service for a week and see if I liked it or not. If the cost of service is low enough you could use a trial like this to drip feed people via email and convert them.

Dunno how well that converts vs a start-paying-from-the-first-day.
Yes, they used the code itself (which was legal due to the 3-clause license), but didn't credit until publicly shamed. There was a huge stink back in the day because of it.
Those bookstores were there before the import restrictions
Genius. Maybe go the same route with organ donation, let you brag about how many people you saved on the way out. "And Joan is survived by two loyal sons as well as two children who formerly had leukemia."
Indeed. While I think this is a problem (see my comment on the Cash for Kids atrocity), I've never ever seen any sign it's a big problem, as in there being all that many private prisons. Between the political power issues noted by others that push for government prisons, and people's instinctive realization that this is dangerous, I see this at worst being a self-limiting problem. Especially after the first scandal like the Cash for Kids atrocity surfaces with Republican politicians to blame.
I'm not trying to disagree with you, I have a 7 month old son, but what about the joy you felt seeing her being born? I know that isn't a mundane thing and that you likely won't have it but a few more times but there are experiences that children can't have, that are, at least, as transcendent as a child's first taste of chocolate.
Ball lightning
Legally, creating a company without humans is impossible, but in practice, well:

Registering Planet Money's Delaware company took one day and three emails. The company that set it up for us asked for absolutely no documentation. I gave them my real name, but I could have been anybody from anywhere in the world.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/27/157421340/how-t...

Of course, opening a bank account to receive the income of those rides would be a different story.
I have this crazy idea that you could build Clojure on Rust the same way Clojure sits on top of JVM right now and it could provide you with some interesting benefits.

First of all Rust doesn't implement a GC but it has very precise memory management semantics which means integrating in to a GC should be possible and safe.

I believe Clojure immutable data structures would allow you to (theoretically) build a fast/simplified GC because immutable data has some very nice properties :

* no cycles except trough reference types which are explicitly marked - this means you never need to scan old generation to collect the new generation

* data is immutable which means copying can be done in parallel

* mutable references are explicitly marked and isolated which means you could have a very minimal pause to update references

And Rust could safely encode all those requirements in it's type system to make the interop safe. No need to sprinkle write barriers all over the place, localized and isolated mutable references (you can modify the update semantics and track them easily), minimal pause times, parallel collection, etc.

I think there are other interesting things you could do, for example Clojure is pretty static for a dynamically typed language and protocols map nicely to traits I wonder if you could somehow remove the dynamic typing and just have compile time type inference figure out the types (requiring explicit types when the system can't infer the types) - this would allow you to send Clojure down to LLVM along with Rust. Or maybe you could have an interpreter for the truly dynamic stuff - but then you'd need to figure out how to export metadata.

Also I'm sure that the only sane/safe way to do it would be to restrict the kinds of objects and that would require serious thinking too.
Really wasn't expecting a Terry Davis comment at the bottom.
My understanding is that all of this (wedge/alternating products, etc.) is considered a part of linear algebra, and has been established that way for quite a long time. It's hardly the first idea of translating between geometry and algebra (there's a whole field called "algebraic geometry" going back to antiquity, come on!), and it's not the "universal language of mathematics" by a long shot.

> This entire analysis of Clifford Algebra was based on my own foundational assumption that mathematics is not a human invention, but more of a discovery of the essential principles of computation in the brain.

And now I'm suspicious. I prefer an objective mathematical treatment and not one with some self-described "radical" agenda.
Landlord here. I won't rent to violent felons (murder, sexual assault, etc.) strictly as a liability issue. But I consider it an ethical and moral obligation to not discriminate against people convicted of crimes that don't reasonably make them a threat to the neighbors of my properties.

I firmly believe that one of big drivers of recidivism is housing discrimination based on the mere presence of a criminal record.

EDIT: cleaned up a bad sentence
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> This post was written in conjunction with Canon, as a contribution to their #GetThroughIT campaign, which celebrates the launch of the Canon Color imageCLASS MF820Cdn/MF810Cdn printer series for small- and mid-sized businesses. Canon sponsored this article, but the opinions are my own and don’t necessarily represent Canon’s positions or strategies.

I was wondering why there was such a stretch for an article while reading it; many broad strokes, generalizations and assumptions about some mythical unicorn that's just amazing and connected and everything rainbows.

The truth is, not everyone can be like this; maybe not even most. And even those that are, have weak spots.

So really, what was the point of this? It was really just content for sale, without any actual meat or meaning.
Man you should have named it Rudis