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> Is there actual evidence of this? As in, actual statistics rather than grandiose claims of AI destroying the human race?

I'm not talking about AI, I'm talking about replacing people in service jobs who were needed for some particular function provided more by their brains than by brute strength.

For instance, consider self-checkout machines replacing casheers in shops. It's already happening, it makes shops employ less people. Not zero, because automation is not a binary process, but less. (Also, n=1, I used to do inventory in a shop as an external contractor, because they couldn't count up everything in one night with the staff they had; that ended pretty much overnight when they got themselves automated inventory trackers with barcode scanners, which reduced the number of people needed by half.)

So is automation replacing people in services? Yes, you can see this everywhere around you. Do those people end up jobless? Not yet.

> Why would someone pay someone else money to perform "bullshit"? You only have instances of this when it is mandated by regulation, not in a free market.

Because it's not obvious bullshit, per leaflet example I described. The nonsense nature of work done only becomes apparent when you look at the whole chain of services provided. At each link, someone is paying someone else for a job they need to get paid by someone else entirely. And as long as you get paid, why would you refuse the job, or care what happens with the artifact you've built later? So there you have, some chains of services are direct mind-to-thrashcan work. Others run against each other, in a zero-sum-game, each cancelling out the results of another one. They exist, because at each step someone is paid to do something that the other party needs.
"some of which consisted of forced adoptions of native children to white families."

They still are doing that, and at a higher rate.
My local shopping mall solved the "unplug someone else's car to charge your own" problem very simply: The charging station is in front of two parking spots (which are reserved for electric vehicles), has two cables, and the cables are too short to reach to any other parking spots.
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May be you are really was hacked? :) If it's possible, I would suggest to find someone who got skills to explore your devices, analyze your emails and find out, whether that was harassment from some strange person or real hack.

I would be definitely very nervous if someone hacked my devices.
> Well, but that's not too different from the use of Italics in English orthography, which also includes sound effects and foreign words.

True. But using italics with foreign words is not a de facto English language rule.
If you like city building games and have not tried Cities: Skylines yet, you definitely should! It does all the basics right, is truthful to the genre but has a modern feel to it. Not too complex but rich and versatile. In particular, the traffic simulation is very impressive! And it's one of those games my wife enjoys playing so we can have some quality time together.

Only negative thing I have to say about it: once my city starts getting bigger, it gets a bit sluggish on my old crappy PC. It is one of the two games that is forcing my hand to buy a new gaming PC.
It's probably very difficult to evaluate oneself 'objectively' but that said, if it's affecting your life negatively, you may want to get a medical diagnosis. Your sudden paranoid-like behavior could be caused by any one of many different physiological, neurological, or psychological things.

Also 40mg of adderall seems like a lot, if you're on adderall xr.
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> I most certainly do try to find these "they're making it strictly worse than had they not intervened" arguments, but the popular expositions never make them

But the author is not making any good arguments in favor of mutually advantageous exploitation either, and there are good ones. He is also guilty of making naive arguments! This very topic has been debated at length by philosophers. Why reduce it to ridiculing the other side while not showing any clear, educated thought on the author's part, either?

> You really don't have to go far to find a protectionist argument that's 100% "dey took are jerbs"

And you really don't have to go far to find arguments like, "we're da job craters!" and "we're making the world a better place, woooo!" (which is the level of arguments the author is making)
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There are passive printed ones. Ugly, but often tolerable and often useful.

Then there are those active ones. Blinking lights, bright to the point of light pollution. I hate those things and they are everywhere now too with more sprouting up all the time.

Count me in for the latter. I'll gladly continue to tolerate the former to get some relief from the active ugly everywhere...
Is Doing an MS in CS After an MS in Applied Math a Waste of Time?
I am a graduate student at one of the Canadian Universities, and I will graduate with a Masters Degree in Applied Math this coming December (my GPA is ~3.9/4.0). I am aiming towards getting a job in industry instead.
I decided to do a second Master’s degree starting Fall 2016 in a different field where I can learn useful skills that I can use to get me a job in industry (I am more interested in Canada, but I don’t mind to go to the US as well).

My questions are the following:

1. For those of you who are in Computer Science/Engineering: What major do you recommend I should switch to in order to learn extra useful and applied skills that will increase my chances to land a good job in industry (and also where I will be using and benefiting from my math background)?

2. Is Computer Science (Machine Learning/Data Mining) the best option to switch to (in your opinion) for someone with a strong math background?

3. Do you know other areas within computer science that have promising job opportunities and where I can apply my math background?

4. Do you recommend I should get a Bachelor’s Degree (which will last only two years because there are many Canadian Universities that offer Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science as a Second Degree) in Computer Science instead of Master’s Degree? I heard that employers like to hire people with Bachelors only because they don’t have to pay them much (among other reasons), unlike the people with Masters who are regarded as OVERQUALIFIED by many employers

5. Are you aware of any good Master’s programs in Canada In computer science/engineering that you recommend I should apply to for Fall 2016? Please tell me the name of the program and what specialization/research group you recommend I should get in touch with (I am interested in doing my Masters in Canada ONLY because I am a Permanent Resident of Canada and I want to stay in Canada for at least the next two-three years).
Cities: Skylines is what Simcity (2013) was supposed to be.
There is a much more similar case from a few weeks back: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/3iycro/fl_i_am...

The poster thought they were being spied on by law enforcement, and that a drone was entering their house and moving around the iPad they had set up to monitor the premises (!). They posted some of the clips to YouTube but none of the commenters saw anything suspicious.

It turned out to be a paranoid delusion caused by a combination of stress, sleep deprivation and Adderall, which is the exact situation in this thread. I would highly encourage the OP to read both the original post and the followup.
Thanks. I tried to keep my post somewhat objective but biased towards the more outlandish aspects of my claim.

> what value would someone get

People do it for the lulz. I posted a snarkey advert saying I couldn't find anything outside of Wordpress tweaks on Craigslist and included a bit about security and people asking to hack Facebook. Said it would be cool if someone in security was interested, but doubted it due to their market value, was looking for a wed developer (like me) or a designer to collaborate with.

> got a message with a ridiculously long troll response about being a ms in CS who casually designs machine learning algorithms but does know the basics of building a computer from scratch. Take my word for it, total troll.

> got a message asking to hack Facebook fake arcade slots for points. Really needed "fake coins for this game". Was pushy.

> got a response asking what country I was in because "what they wanted might be better served by someone not in the us for a couple reasons..." Was pushy.

> was told I was a "script kiddie" even though I never claimed I was a hacker and said I was a simple web dev. Link to Metasploit video and other black hat resources

> several other messages

> had upgraded to El Capitan. That day I had 50gb of traffic on my network. Typically 2.5-5 or less.

> couldn't reach cloud flare network.

> during boot to recovery halfway through load my screen would blink and reset the load bar.

> phone was getting killed battery wise drained while off

> tcpdump outgoing requests to random servers. Not sure if I read results correctly but some did not seem like requests that made sense. I have icefloor on and ALF set up. Maybe legit, just seemed weird to go to random servers.

> console showed 4000 errors. Many are related to El Capitan and don't know how to interpret them. Several seemed sketchy but maybe this was me misinterpreting them. I saved some of the logs.
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How is your "nature usage" going? What I mean is how often are you outside? I mean in the woods, not the city. At the beach, you know, nature.

The stimulation our brains get by beeing in nature is very important for us.

When you are outside and all the little, tiny millions of natural information tidbits that are coming from everywhere, they are important for our mental health in general. Outside, look at the waves, at the leafs of trees in the wind, bugs humming around and everything. Those pattern are important.

In the confines of our cities, which give us solace on other levels, and the simplistic abstractions of our GUIs, which we love, these natural stimulations are lacking.

May I suggest to you to go outside, hiking, kayaking, paragliding, stuff like that, regularly and often?

Take a walk to the nearest park every day, look at the trees for a while.

Do something physical - start a martial arts or so.

On a personal note: I hate it too. Working out is so dump, your brain is empty while doing so and that sucks. I know. I am not a "jock" by any means. I am bored by it, I understand.

But. From my point of view tere is a clear spiral down that beins with not having enough natural stimulation going on. For decades now, I suppose?

I also want to second the other poster: it is good that you reached out.
Stimulants make you paranoid, dude. Cut down on the Adderall, and you'll be fine.
"Last Week Tonight" is satire. It says so on its web site. Satire involves the use of humor to exaggerate or ridicule. It is not serious news and if that is your source of news, you are foolish.
Formalization could be done in interaction with the computer.
For a basic example today, we can look at how Google correct your query and suggest other queries, or any other form of auto-complete and auto-correct
Actually, Adderall could very, very easily be causing this. In the same vein of the guy who had CO poisoning, there was a man who was paranoid about drones doing surveillance on him.

https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/3iycro/fl_i_am_...

It seems like it could be in parallel to your situation. I highly recommend having someone evaluating your dosage, as well as whether it's an adverse effect of the Adderall itself.
Hyperlink to the recommendation: https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-techn...

It's under the "Develop a strong understanding of algorithms and data structures" part.
What you describe can have many explanations, and is nowhere near an extreme diagnosis such as Schizophrenia.

Anybody's brain can react the way yours did to stress; many brains are less able to handle stress; stress comes in many forms, including PTSD, drugs, alcohol, anxiety, and even lack of sleep.

You shouldn't be taking Adderol without medical supervision and whoever is supervising you taking needs to be qualified to handle this.
The stimulant usage, of which aderall qualifies as it is an amphetamine, can lead to Stimulant Psychosis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis
I'm not really convinced S-exprs are particularly good examples of representing trees and graphs to humans while expecting them to be as easily readable and writable as the graphical forms.

You lose spatial intuition with this representation. You could make up for it on small trees somewhat with indentation and vertical spacing, but you'd lose it again for larger trees and graphs. We don't pictorially represent our trees like this [1], for instance, which is roughly how the S-exprs visually appear.

When I author graphs in LaTeX, it is often easier to run through a compilation cycle to see what the result looks like and which edits are needed, rather than mentally reasoning about the edges by looking at the code.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/43Dc8YB.png
Yeah a basic CLI is super easy. I mean at the sophistication required to be as usable as the parent post implies may be more difficult.
In what universe will it be more effective to use "cargo drone routes" than it is to use rivers?

Also, if this is so miraculous, why do the future images look like poor Africans living next to a robot building?
I played C:S for a while at release, but quickly got to the point where everything but the traffic simulation aspect just felt really thin, gameplay-wise. Didn't really measure up to SC4 to me. Have patches/expansions/mods deepened the experience much since release?
That is nonsense. You obviously know nothing about Australia.
Any discussion about city builders without discussing Cities:Skylines is crucially out-of-date. The game set a new, extremely high standard for the genre. Each denizen has a family, a career and travels around the city as an autonomous entity fulfilling his day to day errands. The consequences, especially on traffic, is a fascinating thing to comprehend.

Where the latest Simcity was a low quality sham, Cities:Skylines was a wonderfully put together game that anyone interest in the genre needs to play.
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EDIT: I've reviewed the Reddit thread linked in another comment! (The Co2 guy)[1] Given that the original Reddit report was written as cogently as you've been writing I would suggest taking similar and related steps. I don't have anything more specific to add. Get things back to normal. Also you report physical illness, so this would go hand-in-hand with some similar reason. (For example, Co2 guy had severe headaches, that he didn't mention but which were a symptom.)

I've deleted the earlier version of this comment (in which I asked you to speculate on a motive for the email) as I think that it is more important to address the things that could cause these thoughts. It would be different if you didn't feel sick or weren't taking a high drug level.

I see a lot of similarities, especially because you mention physical illness (although the OP there didn't mention his headaches until prompted.) Try to solve them, as they're quite serious. Bear in mind that your judgment may be impaired at the moment, and that your family are concerned. Try to solve the external source of the issues if at all possible.

[1] Here is the thread I mean: https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_posti...
Here is a video of Mark Davis showing off the cassettes before they were digitized. Interesting collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5TYw2bkOk
Very interesting article, refreshing as well to see a criticism of systemd based on technical details. Unlike most other criticisms of systemd, this author does not resort to personal attacks and insults against Lennart Poettering or fear-mongering appeals to tradition. I still think systemd is an improvement over the previous sysvinit, but the author seems to have found some real conceptual flaws with systemd that are somewhat unsettling.

I hope this article can start some actually useful conversations about init systems that do not fall into the pitfalls of FUD and negativity that seem to have surrounded this topic in the past.
You could always visit a doctor who specializes in these things to get evaluated objectively. Also cut the aderall.
Right, but I would call a claimed improvement that actively blocks bigger improvements a non-improvement or even harm. I think we're in perfect agreement.
TMAP Next is a good read. It's a little heavy, but there are some very insightful chapters on the what and the how of testing.
I agree completely with your excellent response. Thank you.
Why are you taking Adderall? I just read the symptoms of ADHD and that is not something worth medicating for especially with amphetamines. You're a human. We're all different and some of us have more energy than others. It's ok to be hyperactive and not be able to concentrate if that's who you are. Try cutting sugar from your diet and meditating instead of cramming yourself full of Adderall. Anyone would go crazy pumping that shit in everyday. If that doesn't help after a week or two find a professional psychiatrist.
Funny that the url of the post is "/a-billion-dollar-shell-game-in-seychelles.html"
>radio interface (RF) chips that traditionally were off limits to all but the most advanced chip makers like Qualcomm. These chips rival CPUs in complexity.

This is interesting, I want to know more about why are they so complex?
Yes, based on the question, this is the only advice in this thread that should even be considered.
If the future of interfaces is foing to be text, i think it will be more because minecraft playing children than slack users, just my 2c
Definitely cut down on the stimulants. This is the first step to evaluating your paranoia.

You're healthy enough to get help, friend, you can't be any crazier than the rest of us.
Here's an interview with Peter and others who knew him a few years ago on ABC TV news program 7.30: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3571974.htm

"LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Tonight, long overdue recognition is finally being paid to one of the nation's greatest athletes.

Peter Norman won a silver athletics medal at the 1968 Olympics in the 200 metres in a time so fast that he still holds the Australian record more than 50 years later.

But that Olympics was Peter Norman's last. Many people believe he was overlooked for the next Games and forced into retirement for participating in a black power demonstration at his medal ceremony.

Finally, more than 40 years later, Federal Parliament is offering a posthumous apology."
My bad! I just thought it'd be "humbler" to post it as a Show HN.

I suppose the whole website being on GitHub so anyone can use it as a template for whatever they like doesn't count as "usable", doesn't it? :-/

https://github.com/trumbitta/octohire.me
No, but my torrent is just the list of unique domain names and 147MB gzipped.
In general, do not write your own crypto system unless you are a crypto expert. The rule is to not suggest people use your system until you are an expert.

What is your attack model?

As Bruce Schneier said, "There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.”

For example, do you consider timing attacks as a vulnerability?

What is your user model? As written, your code requires the user to peer into the implementation. For example, Cape.h exposes the "swap(a,b)" and "MAX_LENGTH" macros, which may collide with user code.

You also have a "char result[MAX_LENGTH]" but 'result' is filled by user-specified data. Hence, unless the API user does a check against MAX_LENGTH, this can cause a buffer overflow.

If the encryption strength is 0, which is documented as a possible input value, then the "% _encryption_strength" is undefined. Quoting from the spec:

> the binary % operator yields the remainder from the division of the first expression by the second. If the second operand of / or % is zero the behavior is undefined
Actually, this manifesto is anti-environmental out sourcing. Specifically the authors beliefs seem to say that for example, Europeans should pursue agricultural intensification at home instead of compounding and exporting their environmental support needs to Latin America and Africa through policies against GMOs and intensive chemically supported production.
> "You have also now way to know if these 0.5ct/kWh are correct. And that article is actually sales material from the plasma fusion company."

The article I linked to contained an estimate. The point I'm making is that nobody knows what the final cost will actually be. If you want to play guessing games then you should be happy to know what information is available to base that guess on.

> "The wikipedia article on this topic suggests that no progress has been made since 2012."

Progress has been made since 2012, though the progress has been slower than it could've been as there's been a lack of funding. This year the focus appears to have been on improving one of the key parts. The team update their website fairly frequently, last news update about the project was made less than a month ago:

http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/news-and-archives/lpp-...
Please note that Japanese words themselves can also be written in katakana, sometimes as a sort of emphasis. Other reasons can be it being a brand/name, or because it is easier on the eyes, or because the kanji are too difficult. So it's not like every word written in katakana is a foreign one.

That said, most words written in katakana are probably foreign.
Nice Article. Unlike what Der Spiegel wrote... They quickly associated the protestors with: Pegida, NPD, Front National, Bulgarian Ultranationalists, American Tea-Party and Donald Trump.

"Wer nichts Schlimmes daran findet, sich gedanklich bei Pegida-Bachmann, Marine Le Pen und Donald Trump unterzuhaken, darf bei der Demo heute gerne hinter dem Plakat mit dem Chlorhühnchen herrennen."

Unbelievable.

Source: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ttip-bei-der-demo-...
From what you've been going through it sounds extremely likely you are experiencing stimulant psychosis, but the best way to approach this objectively is to have your psychiatrist do the assessment.

PLEASE contact your psychiatrist / psychiatrist's office about this RIGHT NOW -- call them and make an appointment or otherwise discuss treatment options over the phone, tell them you're concerned you may be experiencing amphetamine psychosis or something else -- they are trained to make this call and have seen it thousands of times before.

Time is of the essence, it's much more effective to seek treatment before a condition worsens. This can be a dangerous state to be in, and there are treatments that will help you get through this safely.

If there's nothing going on, they will help you confirm that. If not, they may save your life.

It's possible, if not likely, you may need to briefly visit a hospital for supervised treatment -- understand that's a perfectly common thing and the most safe, smart option.

It's also worth noting that there are effective non-stimulant treatment options for ADHD now if that is what you are being treated for. So getting treated for this won't mean you can't still be treated for that -- your psychiatrist will help you find an optimal plan.

If your psychiatrist is unavailable or you do not have one, contact your primary care physician's emergency line. If you have neither of those providers, you can contact me and I can find you the right number to contact for assistance for your state/region -- my username @ gmail.

Also happy to talk through anything with you as well, same email. Wish you the best!