likely to replace 50% of all *existing* human jobs
That is a true statement, but I don't see AI advances generating more than 2%-5% of new jobs.
Unless you care to tell me where 50% of new replacement jobs will come from? AI trainers?
Furthermore, most databases do not actually delete records, just flag them as "DELETED". Such records might be actually deleted/overwritten when a "Compaction" run is
And, even more, HBase (which is modeled after Google's BigTable) keeps everything stored with older timestamps, even if you overwrite the old record. This feature gives you the cool ability to query "as of TimeX" (i.e. what the answer would have been yesterday). So you likely only deleting your data for the "current" queries, but not for the past ones.
The President gets access to a whole lot of eye-opening cold hard reality and quickly finds that what they talked up on the trail is usually either impossible, a really terrible idea, or both.
Sorry, no. Do Presidents have a custom-made reality?
More accurately, the President promised lots of impossible things during campaign and never has any intention of delivering on said promises. (That one is not limited to Trump at all).
How can a company continue to operate and attract investors / high valuation with $2.8 billion losses?
California "requires ride-hailing companies to have a zero-tolerance policy for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs,"
That's a deeply meaningful policy definition. What about someone who had too much coffee?
Also, are some companies in California allowed to have a 1-tolerance policy?
Um, yeah, no kidding that AI (a fancy term for advanced data analysis, mostly) will be useful to businesses, instead of the stupid chat bots now being displayed.
Perhaps they could rename to "You'd never install us voluntarily, Inc"?
I disable McAfee "add-on" install with Flash updates all the time. And yet just a couple of months ago I had to uninstall it anyway (something else snuck it in without asking)
All this cashless society has the main problem that during any serious cataclysm that kills the communication infrastructure the trade just stops.
Also, on a more immediate note, I don't particularly want to pay 30c+1.9% fee every time I pay back my friend for buying my movie ticket or lunch.
(or a monthly fee to have zero-cost transfers to a pre-approved list of friends)
consumer would get a $10 coupon to the Microsoft marketplace and the attorneys would earn $3 million.
I understand why attorneys do it, but why do the judges approve the "Here's a $10 coupon that costs us nothing and requires you to buy something for $50 from us (in which case we'll earn $30 on this transaction)" settlement?
The underlying expense and architecture mistakes "scalability" for actual throughput in processing. It's proven extremely unstable in tasks larger than a small proof of concept
Can you elaborate on some reasons?
I was part of a research paper some time ago, and Map Reduce does have the advantage of in the ability to resume (rather than restart) queries on failure and better handling of ad-hoc queries (compared to RDBMS).
1) you have a staff of elite programmers like Google or Facebook, who have CS degrees from top universities and are accustomed to picking up new programming languages and tools on a continuing basis;
I disagree.
MapReduce is actually great for teaching people about parallel processing! I have been able to teach a distributed computing course to non-CS (primarily data science) MS students because it achieves parallelization without most of the complexities associated with distributed query processing. With Hadoop streaming, all you need is basic knowledge of python (or similar) to write your own custom jobs, even without Hive/Pig/etc.
That to me is one of the greatest accomplishments of MapReduce. Bringing distributed computing concepts to the general audience.
2) your business has a pressing need to crunch terabytes of logs or document data with no fixed schema and continually changing business needs.
That part is true. Almost no one has that much of a data processing need. But it is still good for teaching distributed / remote computing to non-CS majors.
No patent in the world can restrict me from doing what I see fit with the things that I own.
Yeah, I heard the same things about DMCA.
It didn't restrict what you could do, but it did prevent others from building tools to help you do it.
So you do whatever you want with that printer cartridge. But I hope you can build a custom fireproof printer, because printers you can actually buy will crash and burn trying to use "non-approved" cartridges.
then I go to those vendor's sites directly and order off the vendor's eComm store directly. (And if there's a price difference, I contact support before-hand and get my item priced-matched with the Amazon deal.)
Can you elaborate or give some examples?
I have googled for things I find on Amazon to price-compare, but in best case scenario the price is the same and shipping cost is high making it more expensive in total. Do you also get vendors to match shipping costs?
You must be thinking of Groupon product "deals" that are usually 20% more costly than same item sold by other retailers.
So Google wants to add paid audio clips that don't sound like Ads but are descriptions of timely partner products?
Yeah, good one:
"That might not be, in the early instances, anything that has to do with commercials at all. It might just be something something that adds value to the consumer without needing to be commercialized."
What if we, the customers (not consumers!) do not want to have value-added shoved down our throats? Whose value is it, anyway?
Plus note the "in early instances". So they will run this program for a few months, before it is just regular paid ads?
I have far more confidence and trust in Comey, than I do President Trump.
Based on what?
The fact that Comey blatantly violated the law by interfering in the election (sending a big announcement of Clinton investigation right before election and then retracting it in a few days?)
I put in an SSD and ran the Mint install to see how it would work, and everything except the camera worked out of the box.
The distribution will also matter. There are too many out there.
I do consistently hear good things about Mint lately, so it will be first on the list to try.
The people on metered connections, or those who care enough to set their non-metered connections to metered just to try to get some control, may finally be pushed to try something new.
Don't worry, they'll be sent back to Microsoft by the RTFM crowd and issues with gaming, miscellaneous required software and hardware support.
I'm always impressed at how well Mint has worked on any recent installs, and I haven't come across any showstoppers for my use.
Let me ask you this -- have you had to research your hardware first?
Last time (a few years ago, admittedly), I complained about issues getting WiFi in Ubuntu to work, I was told (here) that I should have researched my hardware better before trying to install.
Don't get me wrong, I prefer Linux for work and for command line convenience. But as a personal computer there are still some gaps.
Now I'll wait for being down-modded by everyone claiming that their grandma has been running custom Linux for years without ever noticing that it replaced her Windows box. (I would really like to meet one of those grandmas!)
Corporate tax itself is a kind of double taxation: a corporation is made up of people who pay income tax
Ok, I am not a tax specialist, but isn't corporate tax applied to profit?
Wouldn't people's salaries (on which they pay income taxes) count as a corporate expense and be deducted from the profit already?
The problem with corporate income tax is that it is always possible for a mutlinational corporation to shift its profits to whichever country offers the lowest tax rate
I believe the solution is to prevent shifting profit (forbid "licensing" costs that transfer profit from one country to another).
remember the court battle in which the E.U. argued that Apple owed more taxes to the Irish government, despite the fact that the Irish government didn't even want those revenues? This is the kind of absurdity that results from corporate taxes.
Not absurd at all. Ireland tried to do something E.U. membership explicitly forbids. Whether they "wanted" these taxes from Apple is completely irrelevant.
99.9% of the people flying have a cell phone, but keep coming up with these potentially insightful thoughts.
And the phone never runs out of charge unexpectedly.
Also, a phone would never refuse to connect to internet when you are trying to download your ticket in line in the airport (happened to me a few months ago).
If that was true human drivers would already be out of a job, since about 5000 people are killed every year in trucking accidents.
Let me rephrase the original poster a little bit:
"the first time some driverless 80,000-pound semi has been hacked remotely and piles full speed into a busload of kids..."
An accident is one thing, but human drivers cannot be hacked.
A student of mine just had to delay his application to a cybersecurity PhD program because the website has been defaced and disabled.
Illiterate/. editor strikes again. "Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Web Browser" should read "Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser."
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Oh, you think this was accidental?
What if said "Your browser trying to kill you, here's one weird trick to stay alive"?
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likely to replace 50% of all *existing* human jobs
That is a true statement, but I don't see AI advances generating more than 2%-5% of new jobs.
Unless you care to tell me where 50% of new replacement jobs will come from? AI trainers?
Furthermore, most databases do not actually delete records, just flag them as "DELETED". Such records might be actually deleted/overwritten when a "Compaction" run is
And, even more, HBase (which is modeled after Google's BigTable) keeps everything stored with older timestamps, even if you overwrite the old record.
This feature gives you the cool ability to query "as of TimeX" (i.e. what the answer would have been yesterday). So you likely only deleting your data for the "current" queries, but not for the past ones.
How deleted are the data?
Deleted from your view only. As most databases, it will only flag records as "deleted", but not overwrite it.
Are they deleted by any and all third parties the data may have been bought by or shared?
That's a brilliant idea. Every deleted item is shared with HiddenAlphabet division and then purged from the main Google server.
llegal immigrants are just regular people, so you may know some of them without realizing.
NO, illegal immigrants are people who have NO LEGAL RIGHT to be in the country.
Yes, but I believe most people think "bad hombres", not "my neighbors". Case in point woman who voted for Trump thinking only illegal immigrants with criminal records will be deported.
Maybe you think everyone should go, but many people assume a more nuanced definition will apply.
The President gets access to a whole lot of eye-opening cold hard reality and quickly finds that what they talked up on the trail is usually either impossible, a really terrible idea, or both.
Sorry, no. Do Presidents have a custom-made reality?
More accurately, the President promised lots of impossible things during campaign and never has any intention of delivering on said promises. (That one is not limited to Trump at all).
these methods "performed significantly better than the ACC/AHA guidelines,"
Yeah outperforming the general written guidelines is totally the same as outperforming a live doctor.
"Helpful tool that may substitute rule-of-thumb guidelines for doctors", maybe.
a net lost of $2.8 billion
How can a company continue to operate and attract investors / high valuation with $2.8 billion losses?
California "requires ride-hailing companies to have a zero-tolerance policy for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs,"
That's a deeply meaningful policy definition. What about someone who had too much coffee?
Also, are some companies in California allowed to have a 1-tolerance policy?
Um, yeah, no kidding that AI (a fancy term for advanced data analysis, mostly) will be useful to businesses, instead of the stupid chat bots now being displayed.
How appropriate that a previous story talks about AI algorithms deployed in the real world can be easily confused by knowledgeable attackers.
Should McAfee (the company) change its name?
Perhaps they could rename to "You'd never install us voluntarily, Inc"?
I disable McAfee "add-on" install with Flash updates all the time. And yet just a couple of months ago I had to uninstall it anyway (something else snuck it in without asking)
*Voice of Smithers*
So in your analogy Smithers is Netflix and Burns is Hollywood?
All this cashless society has the main problem that during any serious cataclysm that kills the communication infrastructure the trade just stops.
Also, on a more immediate note, I don't particularly want to pay 30c+1.9% fee every time I pay back my friend for buying my movie ticket or lunch.
(or a monthly fee to have zero-cost transfers to a pre-approved list of friends)
consumer would get a $10 coupon to the Microsoft marketplace and the attorneys would earn $3 million.
I understand why attorneys do it, but why do the judges approve the "Here's a $10 coupon that costs us nothing and requires you to buy something for $50 from us (in which case we'll earn $30 on this transaction)" settlement?
Some of the contributors are upset
Parent link (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149028593819547) is highly informative.
The last sentence of the email is particularly enlightening:
If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you have no objection.
Even the most obnoxious EULAs do not assume consent if they cannot get your response.
The underlying expense and architecture mistakes "scalability" for actual throughput in processing. It's proven extremely unstable in tasks larger than a small proof of concept
Can you elaborate on some reasons?
I was part of a research paper some time ago, and Map Reduce does have the advantage of in the ability to resume (rather than restart) queries on failure and better handling of ad-hoc queries (compared to RDBMS).
1) you have a staff of elite programmers like Google or Facebook, who have CS degrees from top universities and are accustomed to picking up new programming languages and tools on a continuing basis;
I disagree.
MapReduce is actually great for teaching people about parallel processing! I have been able to teach a distributed computing course to non-CS (primarily data science) MS students because it achieves parallelization without most of the complexities associated with distributed query processing. With Hadoop streaming, all you need is basic knowledge of python (or similar) to write your own custom jobs, even without Hive/Pig/etc.
That to me is one of the greatest accomplishments of MapReduce. Bringing distributed computing concepts to the general audience.
2) your business has a pressing need to crunch terabytes of logs or document data with no fixed schema and continually changing business needs.
That part is true. Almost no one has that much of a data processing need.
But it is still good for teaching distributed / remote computing to non-CS majors.
No patent in the world can restrict me from doing what I see fit with the things that I own.
Yeah, I heard the same things about DMCA.
It didn't restrict what you could do, but it did prevent others from building tools to help you do it.
So you do whatever you want with that printer cartridge.
But I hope you can build a custom fireproof printer, because printers you can actually buy will crash and burn trying to use "non-approved" cartridges.
then I go to those vendor's sites directly and order off the vendor's eComm store directly. (And if there's a price difference, I contact support before-hand and get my item priced-matched with the Amazon deal.)
Can you elaborate or give some examples?
I have googled for things I find on Amazon to price-compare, but in best case scenario the price is the same and shipping cost is high making it more expensive in total. Do you also get vendors to match shipping costs?
You must be thinking of Groupon product "deals" that are usually 20% more costly than same item sold by other retailers.
So Google wants to add paid audio clips that don't sound like Ads but are descriptions of timely partner products?
Yeah, good one: "That might not be, in the early instances, anything that has to do with commercials at all. It might just be something something that adds value to the consumer without needing to be commercialized."
What if we, the customers (not consumers!) do not want to have value-added shoved down our throats? Whose value is it, anyway?
Plus note the "in early instances". So they will run this program for a few months, before it is just regular paid ads?
I have far more confidence and trust in Comey, than I do President Trump.
Based on what?
The fact that Comey blatantly violated the law by interfering in the election (sending a big announcement of Clinton investigation right before election and then retracting it in a few days?)
I put in an SSD and ran the Mint install to see how it would work, and everything except the camera worked out of the box.
The distribution will also matter. There are too many out there.
I do consistently hear good things about Mint lately, so it will be first on the list to try.
The people on metered connections, or those who care enough to set their non-metered connections to metered just to try to get some control, may finally be pushed to try something new.
Don't worry, they'll be sent back to Microsoft by the RTFM crowd and issues with gaming, miscellaneous required software and hardware support.
I'm always impressed at how well Mint has worked on any recent installs, and I haven't come across any showstoppers for my use.
Let me ask you this -- have you had to research your hardware first?
Last time (a few years ago, admittedly), I complained about issues getting WiFi in Ubuntu to work, I was told (here) that I should have researched my hardware better before trying to install.
Don't get me wrong, I prefer Linux for work and for command line convenience. But as a personal computer there are still some gaps.
Now I'll wait for being down-modded by everyone claiming that their grandma has been running custom Linux for years without ever noticing that it replaced her Windows box. (I would really like to meet one of those grandmas!)
Corporate tax itself is a kind of double taxation: a corporation is made up of people who pay income tax
Ok, I am not a tax specialist, but isn't corporate tax applied to profit?
Wouldn't people's salaries (on which they pay income taxes) count as a corporate expense and be deducted from the profit already?
The problem with corporate income tax is that it is always possible for a mutlinational corporation to shift its profits to whichever country offers the lowest tax rate
I believe the solution is to prevent shifting profit (forbid "licensing" costs that transfer profit from one country to another).
remember the court battle in which the E.U. argued that Apple owed more taxes to the Irish government, despite the fact that the Irish government didn't even want those revenues? This is the kind of absurdity that results from corporate taxes.
Not absurd at all. Ireland tried to do something E.U. membership explicitly forbids. Whether they "wanted" these taxes from Apple is completely irrelevant.
99.9% of the people flying have a cell phone, but keep coming up with these potentially insightful thoughts.
And the phone never runs out of charge unexpectedly.
Also, a phone would never refuse to connect to internet when you are trying to download your ticket in line in the airport (happened to me a few months ago).
If that was true human drivers would already be out of a job, since about 5000 people are killed every year in trucking accidents.
Let me rephrase the original poster a little bit:
"the first time some driverless 80,000-pound semi has been hacked remotely and piles full speed into a busload of kids..."
An accident is one thing, but human drivers cannot be hacked.
A student of mine just had to delay his application to a cybersecurity PhD program because the website has been defaced and disabled.
Illiterate /. editor strikes again. "Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Web Browser" should read "Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser."
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Oh, you think this was accidental?
What if said "Your browser trying to kill you, here's one weird trick to stay alive"?