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> We have absolutely no idea what consciousness is or how it works.

We know what it is, we just don't know how it works.

Self-awareness comes in stages. We generally move through those stages throughout our daily lives. Animals display wide variations in qualities of self-awareness as well. So we can define consciousness as the sum of all of these qualities.

What I think is going to happen is that we'll start separating out lots of aspects of consciousness and explore them in software, adding more and more of them in as the state of the art of hardware gets better. The consciousness algorithms will slowly, over time, shed complexity.

Eventually, well before we get to even human-level self-awareness, we'll run into hard physical limits and realize that biology is way more effective at making the sort of compact, yet incredibly complex evolved system than any design process could be.

Biology has an advantage we don't have, it does not have to understand what it is doing, and it works ceaselessly. It can simply try over and over again over millions of years.

I predict that getting machines to become truly self-aware will be more trouble than it's worth, and that then you'll be choosing levels of comparatively-lower self-awareness for each individual component of a software system as part of architecting it. In fact, we have that tradeoff now. Do I really need to pull out ML to write a shell script?
I should have been clearer. I meant the tech-side PO. There has to be a PO in the IT org If there isn't, the product will languish under the weight of mounting technical debt and eventually die. The same often happens if there's no biz-side PO, but in those cases someone from the tech org usually adopts the product and just does their best, for better or for worse.
Nonsense. Russia would have occupied Tokyo within the month, maybe less, Japan was defeated, and thoroughly. The US needed Japan to surrender to them, not Russia, and so it was.
From the article: "Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb, and the rest — is just a glorified listing service, enhanced with some combination of real-time connections, trust-building systems, and transaction-easing tools.

I don't understand this at all. The author seems to be arguing that the blockchain, which is "a cryptographically protected shared database " is actually the major part of Uber, Spotify, and AirBnb's business. That seems like a fantastical, ludicrous statement. The author is dismissing the entirety of the business logic, management tools, and user experience as being irrelevant. It's the other way round: these business could operate with pen and paper because the storage mechanism is irrelevant. But they couldn't operate without a all the operational and user experience in place.
My advice for the non-HN crowd (which these sites are clearly aiming for in their carpet-bombing advertising on sports channels):

If you want to play fantasy sports, play one of the free non-betting sites that have been around for years. The new DFS sites you see on ESPON are full of sharks that will eat you alive.

On a meta note: it's funny to contrast the NY Times coverage of DFS with ESPN's. I think the NY Times is doing a public service here. Although it probably largely goes over the head of the audience that would most benefit by it, it has already clearly filtered in the larger public debate.

Meanwhile, I actually saw front-page coverage a few weeks ago of a protest by DFS advocates against the Attorney General's decision to reign in DFS sites. I wonder who even organized that protest.
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This isn't exactly a fair comparison.

Bartenders are bound by law not to give drunks more alcohol because they could go drive a car and kill someone. A gambler is only hurting himself when he loses his money.
Do you think they are at the office 24/7? I'm sure they are driving kick-ass cars to and from work, wearing high end clothes, eating awesome food when they get home to their kick-ass house and just generally enjoying the overall secure feeling of having a good paycheck.
That price includes VAT. According to google 599 USD is 557 EUR. Add VAT to that, e.g. Finnish 24%, and you get 691 EUR. Not that far from the 699 EUR listed price.
Well yes, an oculus without software is just a very heavy blindfold, and those are unlikely to cause nausea.
Regarding happiness (as opposed to goals), I thought this post was pretty good: https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep-growing/the-secret-to-...
It seems crazy that they would do that, but I thought the same when they got rid of the CD drive on a Mac, included only one port on the Macbook, etc. I know people claim it's to make the phone thinner, but I'm hoping there's other reasons that are driving the decision as well.
If you can submit multiple lineups via scripts, how can they not detect this? Do they use multiple accounts? Or is it just a desire to look the other way by the companies?
TIL 700 EUR is in the ballpark of 350 USD
This is a bit offtopic, but his latest book is 'Seveneves', huh? I worked on a puzzle game for the DS and Wii called 'Neves', which was named that way because there was a 'puzzle in the name', being seven backwards, and there was seven pieces in each puzzle.

I feel like I should probably read Seveneves now, even though I know it's just a coincidence they're named similarly.
...Wait. Did you just say they're developing LXC? That is hilarious.

They're SmartOS! They're on the Solaris codebase! They've had containers since 2005! Literally before it existed, it had containers!
They released minimum system requirements specifically so that you wouldn't have to upgrade 9 months down the road.
> The difference between the D.F.S. high roller and the blackjack whale, of course, is that the whale is trying to take millions from a multinational casino corporation and not from the honeymooners from Fresno who are betting away at the $5 tables.

I don't understand this bit. What's the difference? The casino is taking money from those honeymooners; and it's paying it out to the whale. The whale negotiates rules that are different than those that apply to the honeymooners. How is this different than the DFS whales?

Is the only difference that FanDuel/DraftKings allow players to engage in one-on-one challenges, vs. playing against the house?
I don't think consumers will care who is really to blame, they'll only come away with a bad experience, word will spread, and demand will drop.

To use a food analogy: You sell pizza, it is the best pizza in town, but the delivery driver sucks and food is constantly arriving cold or smashed. Your patrons aren't going to care that you always blame the delivery driver for the problems, or that the pizza COULD be good if not ruined, they're going to either shop somewhere else or quit buying delivered pizza. Same thing here, regardless who ruined the thing, the experience is still the same.
Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) is hiring React/Rails devs to build payroll/benefits
There's some great discussion about whether or not this is a real discovery on the Unmanned Spaceflight forum: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8127&...

Consensus seems to be similar to the superliminal neutrino claim a few years back - probably not a real signal, but worth tracking down further on the extreme off chance that it is.
Yeah, we might as well quit calling it AI altogether. It's a terrible name. It really encourages pendulum swinging.
Scrum is supposed to be about regular feedback and sustainable pace, not motivation.
On the other hand maybe we as a society should find ways to ensure that people with gambling problems are protected from being exploited.

(disclaimer: I have many better ways to throw my money away than thru gambling)
What will all those people who invested 300-500 bucks into Beats et al headphones do? Buy another $39.99 adapter? That was the cost of 30pin>lightning when it came out. even today its $30. A surface phone cant come soon enough :)
> Or is it just a desire to look the other way by the companies?

That's certainly what the article is implying:

> D.F.S. high rollers similarly come with demands, and because there’s no powerful regulatory body involved, DraftKings and FanDuel have been mostly free to set the parameters of play, which, as it turns out, is near anarchy, especially for the D.F.S. elite. High rollers want to be able to use third-party computer scripts that will allow them to enter thousands of lineups at once, something that your average player cannot do. High rollers can gain access into D.F.S.’s inner circle, in which they get to be on first-name, texting basis with executives and employees at DraftKings and FanDuel. They can operate under the cover of plausible deniability — if other players complain that the high roller has been using tools that destroy competitive balance, he might expect the sites to stick up for him.
It's also common to overlook that just because there is a house already bought, doesn't mean people can live in perpetually without someone having to spend money. Houses require constant maintenance. Floors won't clean themselves, plumbing won't fix itself when it breaks, etc. Even if people had alternative food and water sources, you can't house them in comfortable conditions without expending money on maintaining those conditions.
The reasons given are largely consequentialist. There are deeper philosophical reasons why privacy is important in this context. The essential reason it is important concerns the proper relationship between the individual and the state. Surveillance and intrusion violate the proper relationship and establish an improper relationship between the two. In other words, to justify the relation and thus intrusion, one hold concepts of state and individual that are anti-individualistic and place the state above the individual. The undesirable effects follow. To borrow Koneczny's terminology, a surveillance state is move away from Latin civilization perhaps towards Byzantine civilization.
There's currently a media remote.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10723568/oculus-rift-remote...
So true
Yes, it feels like a big mistake. An external box containing the necessary graphics hardware should probably be a part of the Oculus package - it seems to be setting itself up for failure by pretending to be a display, rather than a graphics pipeline.
120hz+ is super important for pro gaming, much more than the other stats. 100hz is pretty good already though.
Another problem is that the site itself does not punish rule-breakers who use scripts to gain an unfair advantage.

If I bet you five dollars that I can win a foot race, and then get on a motorcycle, I didn't win because I'm more skilled.
Profit is from the remaining monies after wages have been paid. Profit is the excess the market will bear above the cost of delivering the services. It is largely unrelated to sustainability; if it weren't that way then giving shareholders/owners the profit would break the company.
I don't know if you ever get the option to down-vote an article, but I really wish I could with this one.

The entire premise is pretty backwards as the infrastructure for all of these services goes quite a bit beyond the data and payment channels.
Waiting for this title: "Ignoring waterfall and agile fads while sticking with Boehm spiral model (1986), good management, minimal meetings/paperwork, regular code reviews, and usage-driven testing. Best decision I ever made."

Haven't seen it yet but it's worked for many organizations and projects. For decades. Surely some improvements since then but one has to wonder what the useless-to-critical ratio is in activities of the new things. It still isn't clear to me.
> the military would have absolutely no problem whatsoever dispatching those

I'm less pessimistic about that. I'm a big fan of gun control laws but I also think that the one positive thing that has come from the ongoing middle-east conflicts is that a determined militia can be genuinely problematic.

> Note that there are always provisions in the law to protect the lawmakers from having the laws applied to them.

To my original point about asymmetry, this is what we should be devoting our energy fighting.

> simply outlaw it wholesale

Outlaw what wholesale? I'm personally of the opinion that the long term end state will fall more on the side of honesty (combined with increased acceptance) than secrecy.
The problem with gambling is, there are so many other readily available alternatives. Yes, DFS could maybe cut him off if he loses "too much", though how we define that is too difficult. If a guy who makes $50k a year loses $50k, that's probably too much. If Mark Zuckerberg does it's not. DFS sites surely can't be expected to know your financial situation.

But anyway, suppose they could. There's always the world's biggest casino: the stock market. Or there are actual casinos. Or there are lottery tickets.

In most gaming jurisdictions, casinos are required to pay for billboards and the like advertising where a problem gambler can get help. (The lotteries, which are state run, never do this, and Wall Street sure as shit doesn't.) I'd have no problem with those sites putting link to Gamblers Anonymous on every page.

But beyond that, I don't think they have responsibility.
I think the biggest risk to adoption is real-world interest.

I get that VR is a fun tech, and has some potentially cool possibilities. But to me and seemingly many other people, it's just not that interesting. I don't know why, maybe I'm not geek enough, but I just have zero interest. And frankly it feels kind of like a gimmick. I'm especially averse to the idea of strapping on a clumsy headset every time I want to use it.

In fact, I wish Carmack and Newell would stop messing around with it and go back to producing quality games.

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Sony has hinted that it might cost around $400. And you also need a PS4 (which is around $300 now).
So we're reinventing init/systemd with giant pseudo-binaries in the form of containers, because this time we'll get it right.
Anyone know what the specs are for the screen?
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Also at least in Germany we had millions of games and apps in java for phones, even with touchscreen and bluetooth support to play with others.

It was really amazing to play games like [1] on phones like [2]

[1] http://java.mob.com.de/game/anno_create_a_new_world.html

[2] http://www.siamphone.com/spec/lg/images/kp501/lg_kp501_1.jpg
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Having a single test for a subtle edge case that can be missed is better than a committer and a reviewer both missing that edge case and committing code that breaks it.

I can't fathom how anyone thinks that documenting the algorithm is better than running the algorithm. The only possible explanation that occurs to me is sociological and that when someone eventually breaks the code which was only documented, you can heap scorn on those who allowed it to be broken because they weren't as smart as you are to be able to see that edge case in hindsight.

Which I guess is 'better'. I'd prefer to have a test that fails. When code breaks an edge case that nobody thought of, I'd add that edge case to the test suite. It will never be perfect, but it will work at least some of the time.

And assuming that test suites must be perfect and complete to be useful is also incredibly naive and a sign of an immature and fairly novice developer. Test suites are always imperfect, you must always guard against them and not assume they do everything for you, and yet you need to take the time to build them and maintain them since they make your code quality better when they do catch edge conditions where you weren't smart enough to see your own bugs you were introducing.

I guess some programmers are just smart enough to never commit buggy code though and don't need them...
$885 (PC you linked) + $600 (Rift) = $1485

That's pretty close.
The usual problem with gambling: regulate it too much and people will flock to somewhere else, quite often somewhere where the odds are lower towards the gambler than before.

Like with drugs, booze and smoking: banning is not a solution, especially not in our hyper-globalized world.
It's not paying it out to the whale. It's also beating the whale. They won't adjust the rules to where the whale has an edge, generally.
"It's not so much a rise of evil as a rise of nonsense. It's a mass incompetence, as opposed to Skynet from the Terminator movies. That's what this type of AI turns into."

That's the danger. I think Lanier is a lot closer to Musk on that point than he imagines, though.
> where we are often rotating between pairs, and changing tracks of work in the order of every day to every few days

These sort of working arrangements sound horribly inefficient. How do you ever get enough real familiarity with what you're actually doing when you're getting jerked around to something different every couple days? It sounds like being constantly on the treadmill.
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> Why create an ORM rather than use a JavaScript-orientated NoSQL database? (mongo, couch etc.)

NoSQL has its place, but it's usually not the best choice. Any "comprehensive" web framework should cater to the needs of RDBMS users at a minimum, with support for NoSQL as a plus.
You're not wrong, though there's more than that. I never understood the "game of skill" argument, though. Pure gambling (e.g., flipping a coin) has no skill whatsoever. Due to the chaotic nature of the world, nothing is pure skill (simple commerce, e.g., still has small risk). Poker, online sports, etc. has an element of skill to it, but also an element of risk. I can run endless statistics on blackjack hands to improve my odds of winning, but they're still odds. In the same way, DFS power players can have a massive advantage, but if Tom Brady breaks his collarbone in the first quarter, it's still luck. You are gambling that your skills are better than the other guy's (and the chaotic nature of the universe won't screw you).

I think DFS fails in two ways:

1. Corruption - All the stories in the last 6 months about FanDuel employees using insider knowledge to gain an edge on DraftKings, for example. That is screwing the fan, pure and simple.

2. Creating a Predatory Environment - The issue here is allowing power players to "rape and pillage regular players". In the same way that I'm not going to enter the WSOP, I'm going to have a much better experience playing against those at my skill level.

You could probably throw "false advertising" in there, too, but we'll let the FCC deal with that.
2016 Q3/Q4's new fancy toy may not be a RiftV2 and may have a minimum requirement of a Pascal GPU or Skylake/Broadwell-e CPU. Its just a really horrible time to buy computer hardware right now.
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But also remember that:

4. The more low-hanging fruits in terms of efficiency have been picked, the more entrepreneurs will be pressured into saving money on quality of their product - which in this case means quality of care. This is the stage when serious abuse starts. The maximum benefit of a market solution is reached when you can stop companies from progressing from 3 to 4.
When autonomous vehicles encounter an obstacle, they brake. Moreover, why in this problem, that appears in absolutely every thread about self-driving cars, is there a family in a crosswalk with no awareness whatsoever of a speeding vehicle? Are they deaf and blind without assistance? This is not a joke.

The car will be aware of the presence of the crosswalk. It will slow long before arriving at it. So the deaf and blind family will likely be safe.
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If your team communicates effortlessly with each other and the stakeholders anyway, you don't really needs scrum, at least not now. But most places where scrum has made a difference, individual maker productivity is not the limiting factor, so even an hour of disruption is worth the cost.
> That's a religious position. We have absolutely no idea what consciousness is or how it works.

Well we know that it exists, or at the very least seem to exists. And there is nothing in the physical word that we have understood so far that cannot be ultimatly expressed computationally—even if it’s usually not the most useful formalism. It is of course somewhat a leap of faith to then say _everything_ is computation (or can be expressed as computation), but I would argue that science has already made this leap in it’s infancy: The Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics… Admittedly, modern philosophy of science is a bit more nuanced but the old the statement from Galileo basically stands. Now I agree that it’s not entirely rational, but it certainly isn’t “religious”.

So yeah, I think there are very good arguments to be made that conciousness can at least in principle emerge from some kind of computation. That computation could be a complete simulation of every atom in a brain or maybe some shortcut is possible it doesn’t matter for my point. That does not mean however that I think it can be made or will be made, since has you pointed out, we have no idea what we are talking about. I completely agree with Lanier in this, the tech industry should stop focusing on this nonsense.
Not thinking about or planning to do something, but doing something.
Are the common elements in dreams the result of basic biology?
It'd be a game of cat and mouse. They would simply start multiple accounts, start using proxies, different computers, etc. Poker had this problem online. It was a bigger problem for poker though because in DFS, there's no real edge from multi-accounting. You don't get extra information like you do in poker. It's just that a sucker in DFS is getting raked that much more.

It does threaten the long-term viability of the game though. Newbies are going to come in, get fleeced, and quit.

We need actual legal sports gambling.
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Came here to say basically this, but want to add one thing: they also don't talk about reputation and management of that reputation. In order words, you wouldn't take an Uber ride with someone that has 1/5 star rating. How would the blockchain deliver this info to the user in a concise, readable way?

Seems like the author does not realize that higher abstractions don't always make a solution better.
> It's like blaming the plate for overeating.

I don't know if "blame" is the right word, but eating off a large plate does make you more prone to overeating.
Their model is surprisingly waterproof for tinfoil hatters. Genuinely elegant.
Agreed. To look at a monitor, only the eyes have to move; with VR goggles, something needs to be attached to your head AND you'd have to move your whole head to see the environment.

Also, is it good to have your eyes focusing on something that close to your face for a long period of time?

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I recommend “Securing Debian”:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/
But then you're comparing "React + 2-3 items" vs. framework, not React vs. framework