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> it seems disingenuous to either believe that many separate things can have a synthesized experience.

This isn't an argument, it's merely an assertion of a point of view, and one that isn't obviously true. The evidence on the other side of the argument seems much stronger than your argument about our visual field. When you look at all of the examples of brain damage causing peoples personalities to change dramatically, well you have a high hill to climb to say that who we are isn't material in nature.
Hummm... No...

I am just exposing fact that weren't so obvious at first sight...
So i made him listen to it and he didn't seem interested. He instead turned to his staple videos instead, some black midi and lot, lot of "Klasky Csupo."
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Any favorites? I'm watching LOCO, as it is releasing earnings tomorrow...
"Grow" is both transitive and intransitive.
I've honestly never understood the point of even dealing with large banks. My credit union doesn't charge any fees, regardless of how much I have in my account. Free overdraft protection, extremely low interest car loans and used car loans, etc.

Oh, and they didn't become insolvent handing out crappy mortgages.
I doubt it. Isn't Unreal Engine still written in C++?
That was an interesting read. So in full disclosure I've been an iPad user since they came out (the company bought everyone an iPad in 2010 when we launched the search engine, and I upgraded it to the Retina one when that came out)

I was waiting until I could order and iPad Pro, then saw the video demo of the Surface Book and ordered the core i7 one right away. It is entirely possible the Microsoft took money off Apple's plate in my case (we'll know for sure when I can actually get my hands on an iPad pro to play with). My Surface Book arrived last week and I've been playing with it ever since.

To understand that my use case is replacing books and notebooks. I want to have a library of books where ever I go, and the ability to sketch as well. In 1997 I saw a prototype 200 dpi OLED display at IBM's Almaden Research lab, I ended up buying an Illiad 2 from iREX which was about 157 dpi and a watcom stylus circuit for about $800. The plan being all docs and notes on docs and sketches.

Between then and now I've going through several iterations each adding a bit here or there, cursed the Plastic Logic folks for killing themselves by reaching too far, and finally found the 10" iPad (retina) to have the screen, and battery life characteristics I could live with but drawing really sucked.

When I saw the iPad Pro announcement I felt it was the closet thing yet to the ideal paper notebook and infinite library replacement with a couple of shortcomings (limited local storage, possibly limited drawing experience) and then saw the Surface Book announcement which has a different set of short comings (primarily cellular connectivity).

So while I vastly prefer IOS over Windows 10, I really need the ability to access my library on my local network, or through SD cards. The drawing experience on the Surface has been perfect, the display resolution also best of class. The application selection less than stellar, and the lack of cellular connectivity means I have to tether it to my phone when I'm out and about.

So had iPad Pro come out last February I would already own one. Now I'm not so sure.

The Surface is wicked fast, and yes 50% more expensive than an equivalently equipped iPad Pro. From a fundamental engineering capability standpoint I think it holds its own, from an apps standpoint I'm still evaluating various drawing apps (wish I could find one that created the ruler tool when you put down two fingers)

I really love the idea of having two compelling solutions available!
The alternative is imprisoning people without evidence. I'll take guilty people going free anyday.
That's how it starts. Which, presumably is the same vector for Square Cash.
I haven't even heard of that! Oh, it's another project with the drummer, Morgan Ågren. He does a lot of cool stuff (including the educational drumming TV show from which that link was a clip).

While googling I found a kickstarted documentary about him from 2013.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/morgan

I think I'll watch it right now. :)

Mats Öberg, the keyboardist, is also an excellent jazz pianist and seems to play on loads of new Swedish jazz records. Here's him with his own jazz trio. He also has two very beautiful solo piano albums (they're on Spotify and iTunes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOykrVfIgc

While I'm geeking out... that Mats/Morgan song "Hollmervalsen" is named for Lars Hollmer ("Hollmer waltz"), a composer who played accordion and keyboard and was an important part of the Swedish progressive music scene in the 60s/60s. That scene split into a more political part and a more freaky part, and we're talking about the freaky part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Hollmer

His band Samla Mammas Manna ("Gather Mother's Manna") made some truly remarkable music. They took influences from Swedish folk music and combined it with Zappa-ish jazz rock. With the song "Musmjölkningsmaskinen" ("The Mouse Milking Machine") from 1974 you can understand they were an influence on Mats & Morgan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDbgp1RX4M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samla_Mammas_Manna
I assume that those are pretty minor compared to getting the contract though.
I agree that the risk is lower, but the RSU analogy is imperfect because the value of the underlying stock is the same for all holders. In this case, one class of holders - the senior investors - will get more of the value, and this value is taken away from other holders who thought they had more. If Larry's stock value went up when employees and GOOG went down, there would be pitchforks out in M View.
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I think this is a really important point that is overlooked. Other solutions get what Intel offers, sure they can suggest but they can't tell Intel "Hey don't waste transistors on that feature, make the cache bigger." Or other things that Intel does to widen the appeal of its machines.
> This is an art project

What art is this producing? Will there be a final product I can look at, watch, or listen to?
Heh, I appreciate the encouragement :) However, good explanatory writing about tech is extremely difficult and time-intensive. If I were working full-time on writing about CPUs (or other tech) and trying to do the kind of stuff I used to do for Ars, I might be able to manage two articles a month... maybe realistically it might be like 1.5 articles a month. And that would be going at it full time.

I'm just not really sure that at this point in my life (I just turned 40), that I want to trade, say, three years of my 40's for about sixty or so CPU (or other tech) explainer articles. I dunno... I might... I'm not saying that I /don't/ want to do it. In fact, I think about it sometimes, because there's a whole lot to be said for doing something that you're really good it and that people appreciate, even if it's sort of niche and random like writing about CPUs. So maybe I could be talked into it. But I also think, maybe I'd rather try and write a zombie novel, or a graphic novel, or something else random. Who knows... First-world problems and all that...
Hmm, no one seems to be talking about the use case I'm interested in with the pro, namely watching Netflix/iTunes/VLC, which is currently ~90% of my iPad use.

I use an ancient iPad 2 on a stand for this now, I'd like the pro for the bigger, better screen, and speakers. Don't care about the rest, which has been overkill for several generations. Wish there were a cheaper model. ;)
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If it's not, and the governments that make up the EU and its citizens don't agree, they can change the law can't they?

It's an absurd situation that the law explicitly allows something that's continually covered in the press as immoral, and to have governments complain about the status quo through the press, instead of changing the law which is what they're empowered to do.

So yeah, I hope everyone does the equivalent of registering in in Luxemburg, because that'll force a resolution to the issue. Either we say that's OK and that becomes the new norm, or we fix the tax code.
I don't really think that's fair. I like and respect Gruber. I just think he's way wrong about this.
Stallman in fact is quite a centrist and a pragmatist. The problem is that the software freedom landscape is so incredibly shifted towards the non-free end of the spectrum that he appears to be a radical. We can easily conceive of a radical splinter group of the FSF, the SLF (software liberation front), advocating:

1. Only the use of the AGPL license. No other license is considered free, because all other licenses can be used in some way to limit the freedom of users. As soon as a license more free than the AGPL comes along, only that will be the free license. (In contrast, the FSF promotes the Apache license, the LGPL, and similar, when it is strategic to the free software agenda.)

2. Never interoperate with non-free software. To do so is to condone actions that may prolong someone's lack of freedom. The fact this may be necessary for their work or personal life is irrelevant. (In contrast, most GNU software runs on Windows, which Stallman probably sees as no different from it running on the proprietary Unices he wrote it on.)

3. Do not allow the execution of non-free code, if your free program executes code. (In contrast, gNewSense or IceCat will execute any x86 or javascript you throw at them, even if it doesn't have licensing metadata that identifies it as free.)

The FSF and Stallman are in fact quite tolerant in an absolute sense compared to our hypothetical SLF. This doesn't even go into the other strategies or tactics such an extreme group could engage in, such as firebombing the Microsoft offices or forcibly liberating source code. Instead, the FSF restricts itself to very tame boycott politics.

You in particular have a gross misunderstanding of Stallman's strategies and tactics, even if you might understand his goals. Stallman is a moderate. He thinks pragmatically, even if he's sometimes wrong (protesting DRM at apple stores is probably a waste, as is protesting furriers, but sometimes you can't help but want to speak out).
It's a funny way of showing love to a sport when you subvert the rules that make it fair.

Uber and AirBnB are subverting rules and breaking laws in hundreds of municipalities. Do you think they don't care about what they're building over there? Is it just money-money-money and no serious interest in technology? Does that mean, by proxy, that Paul Graham only cares about money?

Is it really so hard to believe that people can have more than one thing that motivates them? Why did Ray Ozzie join such an evil beast? Surely he's just motivated by greed!

Black and white thinking will be the death of us all.
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Are you suggesting that arguments for banning secondhand smoke in public places are equally valid arguments for banning flying and driving?
You'll find this Reddit thread useful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3kjpwe/how_to_easi...
You are selectively using parts of the thread to your advantage, and skipping over the rest.

The thread began with someone making a claim that nicotine usage is linked to CVD. You brought up that so is caffeine (which is a distraction from the core argument). To which I countered with the glaring difference between nicotine and caffeine consumption. You then attempted to make an argument that e-cigs somehow don't effect bystanders (nicotine et al), which is absurd as shown in the links provided.

> Please don't call me names.

I admit, that was a little too far. I meant to say your single sentence arguments are deliberately obtuse and misleading.
It would be great if CMU alumni, faculty, and students petitioned the university's IRB to investigate and its administration to return the funding.

CMU Research Ethics Reporting: https://www.cmu.edu/research-compliance/report-problem/index...

CMU Research Misconduct hotline: https://www.cmu.edu/research-compliance/research-misconduct/ or call 877-700-7050 for 'anonymous' reporting

CMU IRB contacts: https://www.cmu.edu/research-compliance/human-subject-resear...

CMU Office of the President contact page: https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president-suresh/contact/inde...

Also of note - Ethical Tor Research Guidelines: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidel...
This is super cool! I'm going to start using this -- your project looks great too (thanks for making it open source!).

You should totally get a real domain for this, as well as some SSL certs to protect info flying over the wire.

If you want some sponsorship, hit me up, we might be able to work something out! randall@stormpath.com
Another useless article about "consciousness".

"We share a conviction that no philosopher or
scientist living today has the foggiest notion of
how consciousness, and its inseparable companion
free will, emerge, as they surely do, from a material
brain."

That's reasonable enough. Nobody seems to have a clue about how "consciousness", whatever it is, really works. If someone did, it would have been implemented in a computer by now.

"We mysterians are persuaded that no computer of the sort we know how to build—that is, one made with wires and switches—will ever cross a threshold to become aware of what it is doing."

Nah. Now he's just mouthing off. There's a long history of this sort of thing from philosophers. Aristotle claimed humans were special because they could do arithmetic. Now we know that arithmetic is simple, in the sense that it takes a very small parts count. Hubert Dreyfus, in 1972, said computers couldn't play even a decent amateur game of chess. Now, any laptop PC can trounce grand masters.

What AI isn't doing well yet is predicting the consequences of actions: "what will happen next", and "what will happen next if this decision is made". Basically, the technology to get through the next 15 seconds of life. This is the beginning of common sense, and really ought to be worked on more. We have the tools now to go at that problem. Self-driving cars have to do some of this, and answers may come out of that technology. This is an essential technology for robots which operate in an unstructured world.

Once that problem has been solved, we might be in a position to talk about "consciousness" from a non-clueless perspective. Higher level thinking is mostly a strategy module for the "next 15 seconds" control system.

At least the article doesn't use the world "quantum".
Woa, woa. Wait a second- why is the mother the one that has to stay home and raise the child with her "kind and nurturing" homemaking skills? Why can't the dad stay home with the kids and leave the mom be the "strong independent" woman she wants to be?

Society vilifies motherhood? Then all the dads who want to put the borked society back together again can take up the mantle of the caring parent. Be my guests, eh.
I haven't so I can't really vouch for it. I suggested it because it seems like an interesting new player in the space and looks powerful.
Of course not. But if he was more motivated by money than technology, I doubt he would have spent four years building a company trying to sell a product that nobody wanted. (Microsoft basically had zero revenue for its first four years.) He would have been better off going into real estate, and I think he was smart enough to know that even at 19.

I love computers, but I don't start companies just to say I start companies. I expect a financial return.
patio11 wrote on Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/patio11/status/664551822120476672):

> Tor is having a fit of institutional pique that researchers are compromising the network's privacy guarantees by, well, looking at it.

> If you write security software, and you're not praying that loyal opposition hits you with everything they've got, you're not doing security

> Tor is intended to be, and is marketed as, robust against nation state adversaries. It cannot possibly be so if it worries about academics.
Honestly, I didn't really follow this line: "if we take drugs we get stupid"

You obviously haven't taken much drugs! Some do in fact make you smarter.
I like the csh/bash brace expansion for the byline email addresses:

> {candea,skawamo,fjk,gregjf,fox}@cs.stanford.edu
Yes exactly. You thought you owned 1%, and all of a sudden you realize you owned 0.9%. And now that's 0.9% at a lower valuation, so you got screwed twice.
So that blurb on the FCC site isn't the law. The fines are issued under 47 USC 333, but on its face that only prohibits interfering with any "station licensed or authorized" under that chapter: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/333. Is a WiFi hotspot a "station?" It's not licensed either. Though it is "authorized" to operate in the unlicensed band.

Using deauth packets, versus actual jamming, sounds like it wouldn't even violate unlicensed band requirements. Last I checked nothing in the FCC regs requires you to respect 802.11 or other protocols while operating in the unlicensed band. You're supposed to abide by power limits and things like that, which the hotels were doing.
In China, it is also very convenient to send money by cellphone by scan some code. It's that easy.
T-Mobile exempts video from data caps, but lowers resolution to 480p
It is? Given that Square already does merchant payments it would be a pretty odd direction.
> Who is this for?

HS and college kids who don't need a gaming station and stream everything. If mom & dad can't afford it, the grandparents can.
Unless you are a genius inventor that's going to reduce everyone's carbon footprint the best thing you can do to help prevent global warming is to kill yourself.

Also, what if I just don't care?
It is really nice to see an app that doesn't harvest one's contacts / location / other unnecessary data that a user has to fear will be sold or misused.
In the example:

(foo [1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9])

How does one change it to:

(foo [1 2 3]
[4 5 6]
[7 8 9])

?

edit: Ah, it works if you put all the forms on one line. I suppose it would be considered non-standard to indent that particular syntax in such a way.
This does not appear to be the case at all. Women are merely encouraged to be both now.
I don't remember the book (or this review of the book) ever suggesting consciousness existed outside of the realm of physics or the natural world. In fact, the opposite: it tried to show how consciousness might have come about through natural means (feedback loops).
Russia had official government contract awarded to a research institution to de-anonymize Tor users. The contract has been canceled by the institution recently. English version:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-22/russia-s-p...
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Same here! I actually just started showing up at 6 AM, shorter commute, better work, and no guilt if I leave before 5.
There's a difference between white hat and black hat. Working for the other side is not white hat, and arguably security software writers should only welcome white hat research.
Every 7 years at the end of Shemitah, the jews sell tons of stuff and trigger markets to collapse. Right now in Q4 of 2015 we are facing this same problem.

They also had a network of street gangs through Europe, they could steal and the threat of violence was enough for people to let them get away with it.

The jews had a lot of connections but as a normal citizen of Austria or another country you couldn't really join them.

There's some other cronyism and random bad behavior they don't so as much any more.
Hadn't seen that, thanks for the correction. Makes a lot of sense.
Very neat demo, I hope it gets integrated into the major Clojure IDEs soon as it could make the onboarding experience smoother. I'm happy with just vim though -- I never liked the fashion of editors inserting/deleting/replacing non-whitespace characters (even that took a while to get used to) when they think they can to 'help' me.
It crossed my mind that all you really need is the right engines and some means of control ...

http://jetbeetle.com/JB_body_products.htm

Cost for 150lbf thrust about $15k
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It would be fascinating to see a MacBook powered by the A9X rather than Core-M.
Based on the benchmarks, point 2 would be solved.
Point 1 is an unknown but the iPad Pro battery is barely smaller than the MacBook's, it'll be interesting to compare battery life.
And I'm sure Apple would have more leeway on point 3--it's just a question of profit margins.
Higher level thinking is model building from sensory input. I have not seen any system out there that learns to reason about 3D space by just going around touching/feeling things and then incorporating that feedback with other senses. Everything starts with a model built-in and then tweaks parameters through some kind of optimization mechanism. Which is fine but that's not really intelligence in the sense of coming up with novel models and incorporating it into pre-existing models.
I use it with my roommates for rent - I think the sending limits are higher than Venmo. Otherwise it seems to work much the same way.
1) Money is created by giving out loans (fractional reserve banking), so I assume you're talking about some other way of creating money. What, exactly, would you do to the Fed to change governance?

2) I believe that's already a goal, though there are certainly perverse incentives. How does this plan correct those incentives, specifically? I'm looking less for goals and more for action plans.

3) This sounds like bitcoin, but I don't see how you can abolish the idea of debt entirely or even why that's desirable. Say I don't have enough money for food (or whatever). If I don't even have the option of going into debt, I starve?

I could see more use for something like debt horizons or forgiveness (i.e. debt expires after a time), but we more or less have this already with bankruptcy, though obviously there are plenty of flaws in that. And then it's hard to get anyone to give you more money because, well, you've already shown that you probably won't be able to pay it back.

I do find some fundamental disconnects on what money is, though. It seems like the idea conveyed there is a simple number in a bank account, but in actuality it's far more complex than that. Ultimately the numbers on your account aren't what's important: access to goods and services is. There are also issues with the idea of trying to rate limit everyone from becoming "too rich." You might prevent future Rockafellers, but you'll also get rid of future Elon Musks.

It seems more useful to prevent people from falling off the bottom than trying to shave off the peaks at the top.
Or, tweaking the law along the lines that corporate executives are vicariously liable for the job related misdeeds of their underlings, if it can be shown they did or should have known about the goings on and did nothing to stop it.

Suddenly, there will be a lot more care about ethical behavior..
>only a subset of s-expressions are valid Lisp programs.

Sure, but the thing we're debating is whether "all s-expressions are valid Lisp programs" (that would be a miracle actually), but whether Lisp syntax is all lists.

And all those examples are still lists -- that the lists can also contain other items inside them, or that underneath they are implemented as cons etc, doesn't really change that.

>Comments are not expressed as lists.

They are not retained anyway when the strings are parsed to the "live" AST (AFAIK), so they are an exception to the other syntax in that too.
Yeah, but CMU allegedly got paid a pretty big chunk of money for it. If they were just doing research, whatever. But $1m? That's a whole lot of taxpayer money.