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Yes it does.

For application developers there is a consistent set of APIs that are expected to exist in each version of Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, Windows Phone...

On GNU/Linux one needs to bundle the libraries with the application, preferably static linked. But no one is going to do with with GNOME or KDE applications, for example.

Then there are the deviations each GNU/Linux distribution does from UNIX daemon management and paths.

So application developers are forced to choose a set of gold distributions and let everyone else to figure out how the application might, compile and run on their own system.
> I don't agree at all, and neither do many experts. It may not be very intelligent currently, but it's certainly getting there.

Which experts say that? Besides, it's not a question of time. Even if strong AI is achieved next year, we are still at a point when we know absolutely nothing about it, or at least nothing that is relevant for an informed conversation about the nature of its threat or how to best avoid it. So we're still not within sight today even if we invent it next month (I am not saying this holds generally, only that as of January 2016 we have no tools to have an informed discussion about AIs threats that will have any value in preventing them).

> We don't need to know the details of a machine learning algorithm to talk about reinforcement learning. We don't need to know the exact AI algorithm to talk about how certain utility functions would lead to certain behaviors.

Oh, absolutely! I completely agree that we must be talking about the dangers of reinforcement learning and utility functions. We are already seeing negative examples of self-reinforcing bias when it comes women and minorities (and positive bias towards hegemonic groups), which is indeed a terrible danger. Yet, this is already happening and people still don't talk much about it. I don't see why we should instead talk about a time-travelling strong AI convincing a person to let it out of its box and then use brain waves to obliterate humanity.

We don't, however, know what role -- if any -- reinforcement learning and utility functions play in a strong-AI. I worked with neural networks almost twenty years ago, and they haven't changed much since; they still don't work at all like our brain, and we still know next to nothing about how a worm's brain works, let alone ours.
so what prevents the other 77 altcoins from starting their own p2p market?

this sh!t is old...
I'm as cynical as they come, and that's still more than I thought they were actually collecting. Counting every picture viewed? Every minute spent in the browser? I was thinking along the lines of "unexpected shutdown".
She was also a girlfriend of Larry Page [0] before Lucy Southworth- that was her ticket to the top.

0: Personal sources
> Even digging into any kind of HA strategy is cumbersome to say the least (short of a 5-6 figure support contract). It's one of the things that generally stops me from considering PostgreSQL for a lot of projects.

If you're going to be hosting your db on something like AWS EC2 anyways, then just buy a db product like AWS RDS, and pay for the HA option. Ends up around the same price as if you'd set up everything yourself (assuming you were going to host on AWS anyways, and not going with a low cost option), and is very easy.
I can relate to accumulating "stuff"... when I move to the town I'm currently living in, one of my goals was to not acquire anything new that I didn't need. Two years later and just thinking about moving makes me dizzy because I have so many things, most of which are pretty frivolous and I would just donate/throw out when I move. Frivolous, but I'm going to miss it all anyway...
How about this... Everyone gets two copyrights for their lifetime x 2. Five copyrights for their lifetime. Ten for 20 years, Fifty for 10 years, Everything else expires after, say, 2 years. So you get to protect your most important works, but the rest of us get to take a crack at the things you couldn't quite get right.
The notorious "calories in, calories out" is so unscientific and is in my view a criminal oversimplification. It ignores things like epigenetics, hormones, thermogenesis, metabolic diseases, digestion problems, microbiota, etc. Yes, counting calories can give you some rough idea about things, but it's so rough that it's useless for the purpose of dieting! Calories from fats and carbs don't get metabolised the same way either! When I see MDs giving such advice, I smell quackery! I cut my dietary intake by over 1,000 from fats (I was putting ghee and MCT/coconut oil in my coffee) without actually compensating or expending less energy. I didn't lose a gram of weight!
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Colony collapse syndrome is not a threat to the food supply, and does not appear to be on the path to becoming one.[1] It has increased the cost of pollination, especially for crops which flower early in the year (before beekeepers have had time to create new hives), but is not an imminent threat. For the reference of the uninitiated, CCD/CCS has increased overwinter mortality from ~15% to 20%-30%.

[1] http://www.perc.org/sites/default/files/ps50.pdf
Just out of curiosity, why do you mention WWII specifically as a time when some people were living in the stone age?
NutritionFacts.org should rebrand to VeganPropaganda.org, because that will reflect its mission much better! Otherwise, it's the most single-sided nutrition site I've encountered so far!
Swordfish is great on a phone. The picture for Jolla looks different if you are not in the US speaking from an Android/iPhone centric point of view. There is really nobody else taking Linux on mobile this seriously.
I see a similar phenomenon in Vietnam where I am. If you ban market capitalism but the country still needs housing, jobs and the like then the contracts to build that tend to go to the politicians and their friends.
Don't really agree. I feel pretty safe in saying there's a general negative connotation when the words "Feds" and "raid" are present in the same sentence. It may be true that the words themselves don't necessarily mean anything negative, but I bet most people would agree that the tone of the words is negative sounding.
CNBC infiltrated everything financial, esp. since Fox Business came into existence. Nightly Business Report and Yahoo! finance, used to have separate coverage, but now NBR is pretty much CNBC and Yahoo! has pretty heavy CNBC presence. But still Yahoo! finance is the only Yahoo portal that has some semblance of quality. I want to like Yahoo! Tech esp. with Pogue in the ranks, but the UI of Yahoo! tech is a bit cluttered to me. Yahoo! sports, MM's refresh killed that thing.
We found the bug. Just signup and then click on buy as a workaround.

<We were supposed to route you to login/signup page when you clicked on payment without being logged in and I promise it was working couple of days ago but we broke it yesterday -- just to make sure that we're following the golden tradition of breaking site on the launch day :)>
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Feds don't mind popping their heads on the evening news every once in a while. What better venue than CES?
Manufacturers (Samsung, Foxconn, Panasonic) step up search for low cost alternative to China

http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1863709/manuf...

Japanese companies (Toshiba, Citizens) head for exits as China loses steam

http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20150611-Something-in-the-ai...
Chinese growth was becoming less dependent on exports as global demand flattened out:

http://www.usfunds.com/media/images/frank-talk-images/2012-f...

The current growth slowdown is largely due to decreased domestic consumption growth:

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Blogs/2014/0...

Of the top listed companies in Shanghai, most are banks, petro, insurance, energy, etc. that are domestic driven (the SSE website is down at the moment but the list is here: http://english.sse.com.cn/listed/list/)

I don't think there were many expecting that a public company investment in China would be supported by exports.
What milk though? UHT nonfat milk is not milk, it's what they fed the pigs with to gain weight. For years, I've been drinking raw milk without any issues. In fact, I have UHT milk spoil and never the raw kind. Never had any stomach upset, nothing! The taste is without a match! No need to homogenize - in raw milk, fat is evenly distributed. It's medicine, not food! You should try it! Organic Pastures is widely available in California! And as a bonus - try their raw cream and cheddar! Yum! In fact, the cream has the most precious nutrients in milk, it's much healthier than butter.
> Not sure how the colors are similar?

The fact that it does look similar to someone is feedback. Take it how it is, but at the end of the day someone is going to think it's inspired by ProductHunt. :)
It works now. It didn't for most of 2015. The index page would send you to broken pages (but if you went to GitHub you could find the info).
> And after you explain that, explain how having something vaguely in common with religion automatically means it's wrong.

No one is saying it's wrong, only that the discussion isn't scientific.

It is not only unscientific and quasi-religious; there are strong psychological forces at play, that muddy the waters further. There are so many potentially catastrophic threats that the addition of "intelligence" to any of them seems totally superfluous. Numbers are so much more dangerous than intelligence: the Nazis are more dangerous than Einstein; a billion zombies obliterate humanity; a trillion superbugs are not much more dangerous if they are intelligent or even super-intelligent; we intelligent humans are very successful for a mammal, but we're far from being the most successful (by any measure) species on Earth.

This fixation on intelligence seems very much like a power fantasy of intelligent people who really want to believe that super-intelligence implies super-power. Maybe it does, but there are things more powerful -- and more dangerous -- than intelligence. This power fantasy also helps cast a strong sense of irrational bias over the discussion. This power fantasy is palpable and easily observed when you read internet forums discussing the dangers of AI. This strong psychological bias tends to distract us from less-intelligent, though possibly more dangerous, threats. It is perhaps ironic, yet very predictable, that the people currently discussing the subject with the greatest fervor are the least qualified to do so objectively. It is not much different from poor Christians discussing how the meek are the ones who shall inherit the earth. It is no coincidence that people believe that in the future, power will be in the hands of forces resembling them; those of us who have studied the history of religions can therefore easily identify the same phenomenon in the AI-scare.
Could not agree more. I always value time over money.

I've gone even further, I calculate almost everything in time now. If can safe $100 by waiting in line or doing some other time intensive task... How much of my time is that worth?

I came to about $100/h. I.e. if I need to spend more than one hour of my spare time to safe $100, I won't do it. (Doesn't mean I make that much or whatever, just that that's how I value my spare time)

For the people who work for me if there's a weekend chore (watch a software release, off hours troubleshooting, etc), I always offer one-for-one time off and only then financial compensation.
Which happens to correspond with an old saying:

"Money doesn't make you happy, but lack of money does make you unhappy."
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Excellent point. Many schizophrenics have poor quality of life, but support from friends, family, and society and large can prevent it from degrading further, and even make it a lot better. Some people with schizophrenia can even be relatively functional, even without medication, if they have a good social structure. I could be wrong, but from what I've heard, with therapy and decent support, they can basically recognize their hallucinations and most of their delusions as internally generated and try to ignore them. That's still a terrible way to live, and they also still have the negative symptoms (which even most serious medication can't treat very well, if at all), but schizophrenia isn't necessarily a doom sentence.

And especially with medication, it can be manageable. John Nash, for example.
I'd rather be smashing imperialism

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ed-stamm-and-others-c...
Taught by the CEO of 21, no less
Words are (1) public domain, and (2) eligible to be trademarks.

Suppose you make paper, but instead of white, it's light blue. You sell it under the brand "Blue Paper". You can (I believe) trademark that (for example, your logo probably has the words in a particular font), but you can't stop anyone else from selling blue paper as "Blue Paper", because that's purely descriptive of the product.

Similarly, once a video featuring Mickey Mouse is out of copyright, it's perfectly OK for people to sell that video. And it seems to me that they could defend using an image of Mickey Mouse on the packaging, under the same logic -- despite the fact that the image of Mickey is trademarked by Disney for the purpose of selling cartoons. It's not obvious that the trademark is actually protective there.
Does anyone else think that Bitcoin will become a popular course in colleges across the country? Who will be the first to dedicate a whole department to it?
in this thread: people who don't understand economics
What's wrong with April 30th?
And operator understanding their tools applies to MySQL as well. You can set it be more strict, but default is lax.
Not sure if reverse is possible with PG.
If a criminal is free, perhaps they can be reformed. If an innocent is convicted, they will suffer as a criminal.
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Thank you. I have far less hope than it seems, due to something recent that closed some doors forever. But you made me feel a bit better, if only for a fleeting moment.

Please have a wonderful year.
OK, we shed no tears for patrons of child abuse. The issue is that once we allow a state agency to trample the 4th amendment for an admittedly noble cause, we open the door to these techniques being used to dragnet for violators of any laws, just or not.

Why wouldn't the judges who signed these warrants sign similar warrants to catch suspected terrorists? What about people who visit sites that allegedlly support terrorism? What about sites that support illegal activity such as Marijuana cultivation and use? Online piracy? Trading in technology that subverts copyright protection?

Welcome to the slippery slope...
Yes in US snapchat is huge. Especially among college students and highschoolers.
Do you offer any sort of anonymization?
I'm Bulgarian, I know a lot of Russians, I've been raised with the Russian culture during communism, and I've been living 16 years in California. Russia is a powerful country, but I think China is a much bigger threat to the US than Russia!
> Have you ever been in China?

Yes, I've been to China. Btw, have you ever read the thread? I was responding to OP's statement 'nobody else is going to come in and take those customers except Chinese companies'

> The world GDP has already shifted back to the East after it shifted to the west due to the industrual revolution. The economic future lies in the Eurasian continent with Russia/CIS, India and China.

Yeah that like sounds something out of Zerohedge. You're gonna have to provide some evidence.
Your point of view honestly makes me sad. It's the kind of industry-centric thinking that is killing culture.

Under this premise, investing in the arts is a waste of money, when you could invest in UX studies. Investing in the humanities is a waste of money, when you could invest in data analysis. Hell, why even have academia at all? Wouldn't it be better if education was managed and provided directly by the industry?

This fetish for optimisation only ends up hurting the sense of humanity in all of us. Not everything has to be done with the purpose of being disruptive, or in a frenzy for efficiency. Some people are just goddamn curious about bees and will study honey bees (as useless as it may sound) because understanding nature is a goddamn delight in its own right, even if it doesn't yield the next billion-dollar idea.

That innate delight and curiosity is where science is born. Let's appreciate that. It applies to STEM too. Maybe some academics don't care about your problems or in fact solving any problems at all, and decided to be in academia not for the "potentially-groundbreaking research" but just the thrill of finding new stuff and uncovering the beauty in the universe, don't you think?
I'm unclear on whether the author is yearning to become blase about whether his ideas are valid, criticizing his own writing, blaming his pandering statements on imbeciles, or being cleverly ironic.

He laments having to tone down something he thinks might be interpreted "uncharitably", and in the very next sentence blames it on those who commit "uncharitable actions".

> At times I’ve been tempted to just turn off comments entirely on my blog, and just flat out avoid participating in comment threads on the web

I can relate to internet commenting frustrations, but this conveys real issues with hearing any dissenting opinion. Turning off comments altogether on your blog is like fearfully plugging your ears with your fingers to drown out anything that might be valid criticism.
Amazon has merely a slice of ecommerce. They have a commanding lead only in their type of ecommerce: being the new age Walmart of the Web. That leaves room for the other 80% of the market (in Walmart's case, they couldn't dominate most categories eg: dollar stores, Target, Costco, Home Depot, paint stores, convenience stores + gasoline, banking, pharmacy, clothing, tens of thousands of boutiques, grocery stores, Macy's & upscale, jewelry, video games, electronics, liquor stores, and on and on).

You have to do what Amazon isn't doing. Ultimately as ecommerce doubles in size in the US over the next ten years, Amazon is not going to get most of that. It's a staggering opportunity in terms of scale.

They couldn't beat eBay at auctions. They couldn't beat Craigslist at classifieds. They can't beat Priceline or AirBnB. They couldn't beat Google at search. They couldn't beat Apple at phones. They won't own online restaurant ordering. They will probably fail at trying to own services (Angie's List, legal, health, whatever). Amazon is going to lose in most things not directly tied to what they do today.

Amazon's inability to dominate the other 80% of ecommerce, is your opportunity.
> They got a warrant.

I understand that they got a warrant for the server, but can it really be so broad so that it gives them the legal right to hack into any computer that visits the site?
As someone who casually browses articles about DRM technology, I'm really impressed by the partial descriptions of Denuvo's method. They seem to have found a way to thwart piracy (for some large value of thwart) without disrupting the user's experience in any observable way (no phoning home and no expensive game-loop calculations.) They haven't released many details about the system, but the little bits that analysts have been able to piece together are really clever.
> But assuming that the waiter is already reaching minimum wage this month, then refusing to tip means that the waiter is only earning $2-$3 per hour for the time spent serving you.

They cannot very well be earning less than minimum wage per hour if they already have gotten more or equal to minimum wage for the month in tips. Do you mean they are earning only $x per hour over minimum wage for serving you?
Toymail (YC W16) is hiring an operations lead
Our Company
We're an Amazon and Verizon backed, early stage tech startup in the current batch of YC, but based in NYC. We're building a groundbreaking way for kids to exchange voice messages with loved ones, without putting them behind another screen. Kid friendly and parent approved, Toymail enables kids to communicate remotely with their loved ones right from their toys. Our founding team are the serial entrepreneurs behind Clocky, the runaway alarm clock that has sold over a million units. We have deep roots in the startup and consumer product spaces. We value people who communicate complex ideas with fluency and attack problems creatively with simple and focused execution.

The Role
We’re looking for a Head of Operations who loves our mission. You will collaborate with our CEO, engineers, operations, and eventually marketing and sales teams. We'll be working together to scale during YC and beyond with Generation 2 of our product, to be launched in Spring with everything from operations, usage analysis, and biz dev. Please inquire for specific job duties.

Preferred Qualifications

•Strong communication skills to communicate execution strategy to all parts of the company.
•2-3+ years operational experience.
•2-3+ years experience in financial reporting and/or analysis
•Experience managing teams
•Passion for making onerous processes simple and quick
•Highly detailed and process oriented thinking
•Problem solving skills to navigate complicated issues
•Super organized
•Great communication skills
•Experience in similar position and hunger for greatness
•Comfortable with rapid development cycles and tight schedules
•Experience working in start-ups and entrepreneurial mindset
•Desire to grow and build nascent technology

Required for Application
•Must have documentation for working in the US
•No calls please. Email gauri@toymailco.com

Location
Mountain View until March, 2016
NYC – 335 Madison Ave (Grand Central Tech).

The Interview Process
We’ll start out with a simple conversation. At the end of that, we’ll know if we could make a good team. If all goes well with that, we’ll bring on more team members for our second meeting and do some higher resolution Q&A. We make hiring decisions fairly quickly, so if it’s a go, we can onboard within a few days.

Next Steps
Introduce yourself to our team via e-mail by sending an email to gauri@toymailco.com, preferably with code examples such as your GitHub, links to apps, Linked in, and resume.
Same boat. Used it for over a decade now, never had an issue. There's plenty of horror stories because so many people use it. Given a big enough size, any company is going to have customers who experienced something bad.
Why would a researcher develop an idea for making students worse off? ;p
Yeah, all I could find was this disclaimer.

While Facebook has redrawn and shares these assets for the benefit of the design community, Facebook does not own any of the underlying product or user interface designs. By accessing these assets, you agree to obtain all necessary permissions from the underlying rights holders and/or adhere to any applicable brand use guidelines before using them. Facebook disclaims all express or implied warranties with respect to these assets, including non-infringement of intellectual property rights.

And this text at the end of the copy.

Feel free to use these files in any private or public space. Please do not repackage and redistribute these as your own.

Needs an actual copyleft license on there somewhere before I use it.
I look forward to corporations buying lifetime copyrights en-masse.
Snapchat is great if you have a group of friends who care about seeing random photos of your life throughout the day. What exactly am I supposed to "snap" while I'm sitting in an office all day staring at a computer? Take photos of my food? I don't understand how to participate when my life isn't filled with visual things to show people.