skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair comparison, but I didn't intend any monopoly on fear. All I'm saying is that the risk of GAI should be taken seriously, calibrated along with the other problems you mention. There's a lot of room between 'irrelevant' and 'the most important issue' :-)
I'm happy enough to use it as a "third copy" - for never-expected-to-be-used recovery if both my local and remote backups fail.

I know it'll take either a lot of time or money to restore from Glacier, but if my home and work backups have both gone I'll either not care about my data any more, or I'll be perfectly happy to throw a grand or so at Amazon to get my stuff back (or, more likely, be happy to wait up to 20 months for the final bits of my music and photo collections to come back to my own drives).
Crash safety in a modern car intimately involves all parts of the vehicle's infrastructure. I doubt it would be possible to componentize without severe compromise.

Major car manufacturers sometimes can't even get it right on their own products. E.g.: http://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/hyundai-tucson-slammed-...

As for the insurance question, that's just absurd. Your bicycle insurance isn't anything remotely similar to car insurance.
Isn't the other side of the coin, though, that in these types of systems you can actually get a lot "wrong" and they still work? That is, in the example of a sand pile, if you get the rate of adding sand "wrong", it doesn't really matter: much the same thing happens. That's kind of the whole point.

Whether that means that in simulating the brain it may turn out that you can get a lot wrong and still have a successful outcome is TBD, but I'm not sure the expectations are as solidly negative as the article suggests.
Ultimately the new iPhones will come with the new headphones and they will be undoubtedly superb with many third party headphones including Beats.

Much like the non standard power adapter, Apple users will just go along with it and, in most cases, not grumble in the least with their new Apple bling.

Undoubtedly there will be adapters too, more like a dongle for the old headphones. Apple being Apple could make such adapters only work if they are genuine Apple. Again, users will accept this like they accept ethernet and monitor dongles on their laptops now.
Compare to Google Drive at 100 Gigs for2 bucks and no bandwidth charges that I'm aware of.
So in other words, O(n) where n is the number of elements in the trie? That's rough.
Does this site really start downloading a 124MB torrent right after opening the page (sintel.torrent)? If so, why would that be a good idea to do?
CDs don't even have DRM in the general case. However, local laws can still forbid ripping (e.g. here in the UK where after a brief period of legality it is once again illegal to rip a CD).

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removed material that might have derailed things further.
Our ancestors at one point in time had a diet consisting 60-80% of animal flesh. Do you think that this is what nature solved? I mean, technology has given us a way to rise above the evolution.

We do not have claws, or teeth that could pierce an elephant, lion, gazelle. It doesn't seem that nature solved anything. Or us, drinking cows milk? Did nature solve the digestion of human to consume milk of another mammal? Was this a thing in past. I do not think so.
Running a server containing users’ data (especially an e-mail server) in 2016 without full-disk encryption is like running a web server without HTTPS. Just don’t. It’s a privacy disaster waiting to happen.

This can happen in any country, even to a silly cock joke site like this, and your users will be hurt by it, possibly for many years to come. There is no longer any excuse not to do it.
Thanks for the robo-call quality advice.
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Wikimedia and US Gov I'd expect to be pretty representative of web users in the USA as a whole. They both show Chrome with a considerable lead.

However I purposefully didn't try to interpret the stats there to allow people to make their own mind up.

If the "Net Applications" stats are correct then any insight as to why IE users visit Wikimedia sites so seldom?
> Don't you agree?

Nope. I wouldn't want to PR this any more than I would want to patch PHP. I'd rather run the other way very quickly and use a well designed technology.

To use an analogy, they didn't forget to lock the front door, they forgot to put locks on the door in the first place.

It's more egregious than client-side validation; it's no validation at all.

For the sake of being constructive, the application designers should read up about the security of any technologies they're using and make sure they understand the risks involved. They're developing an application that is meant to be used for sensitive information (about security breaches, no less) so they really need to make sure they know what they're doing. They can't rely on PRs from passerbys for their security.
There's a wiki dedicated to them (http://breakintochat.com) and a blog with interviews with door game authors (http://breakintochat.com/blog).

People are still WRITING doors, too. Musician Shooter Jennings of all people released a door game recently, and he offered a Bitcoin prize to people playing it. (http://breakintochat.com/blog/2015/09/18/shooter-jennings-cr...)

There's an active mini community of folks writing new Javascript doors for Synchronet BBS software (http://synchro.net). These are still ANSI games but they are more action-oriented.

So yeah, not entirely forgotten.
You say that as if its a bad thing. Isnt the evolution in development within making it more intuitive? I love the 10,000 line man page as much as the next dev, except I Dont. Docker solves a problem, standizing scalability and microservices without the need to think about whether its on the same or diff machines from developing the application. Honestly, I think it could be better. I wouldnt mind if the volume concept was easier for me to wrap my head around. I would like the cleanup process to be less worrysome. But thet have built an awesome solution and it opensource. What more can you ask for?
There's only a license for USB if you want to use the USB trademark, or if you want your own Vendor ID. Pretty much every chip with USB already has paid the money for the Vendor ID because it makes headaches due to collisions, etc, much, much less likely. However, if you need an id, http://pid.codes/ has pids for your use for free. USB over DisplayPort, the company almost certainly has paid for a USB vendor ID, for much the same reason. If you're making a few million chips, the amortized cost of the license becomes less than a penny. Displayport, if you don't want to carry USB, there's no requirement to -- the displayport connectors on my video cards certainly don't carry USB.

Regarding similar protocols, there really isn't anything. One of the lessons from the Bad Old Days is that not having a centralized registry is that you get frustrating conflicts and huge interoperability problems.

With radio spectrum allocation, it's fucked up for a number of reasons, and dissolving it would cause even more problems. Radio astronomy needs clear areas of bandwidth so they can look over the sky and analyze, emergency responders need the same so people can be directed quickly, local broadcasters need it so that people can actually broadcast. Cell phones need them so they can communicate with towers. Radio technology is /complicated/ and at higher frequencies, it only gets moreso. That's why devices need licensing -- if someone screws up the radio hardware/software, it can easily impact more than themselves. Abolishing any sort of spectrum allocation would only lead to a commons that would quickly degrade and send us right back to corded devices.
Argh, typos. For the record, here's what I meant to write:

I've used the phrase cargo cult startup to describe this phenomenon (after Feynman's phrase "cargo cult science"): going through the motions in the hopes that your intended result will happen, without understanding cause and effect.
It's time to get rid of connectors on phones. Inductive charging is here. Bluetooth stereo headphones are here. They all have WiFi and a cellular link. White iDweeb earbuds are last-cen. Get rid of the holes, hermetically seal the unit, and make the thing completely waterproof.
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Have you looked at the price drop in the last 72 hours?
Apologies. I'd skimmed this earlier and thought we were only talking about desktop browser share instead of overall.
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Thanks, didn't do enough due diligence; searching for the URL yielded no results as it appears to do an exact match.

The URL after the # appears to change on each GET of the article:
https://medium.com/backchannel/a-teenagers-view-on-social-me...
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Yes, you're right wrt the GUI. I'd kind of tangentially gone off about the 'I need a better GNU/Linux distro - I'll use a derivative of Debian' angle. I had a look for a package list for current Ubuntu Server LTS (now 20 months old) but couldn't find one. I expect it includes upstart, given the vintage. Nonetheless.

Could you please explain this reasoning:

> Being "heard of more often" translates into the most up-to-date package manager

I think you're agreeing with me when I say Ubuntu is heard of more often, and you say it's well-known.

Support -- have you compared the length of support for Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS releases? Did you conclude that Ubuntu has long-term support and Debian does not?

Can you also explain what you mean by:

> [Ubuntu has] wider software compatibility than any other distro

I'd be curious what software runs on Ubuntu that doesn't run on, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, etc.
I've read many arguments concerned with machine intelligence and the risks it poses, but I haven't read that book. Does it tackle explaining why we should conclude that a machine intelligence would even communicate with us, much less seize resources that we need? I rarely see it addressed, and have never seen it addressed to my own satisfaction; what it is about humans that would be worth the trouble of eliminating. I'm also really interested in the communication question. I do not see any clear reason why a machine intelligence would develop "individuals" or would develop the ability to communicate with us.
It's a relatively small download (for desktop) and it demonstrates its simplicity.
The problem is you could say the exact same thing about an alien invasion (you could literally substitute appropriate analogues in your statement), but you'd be laughed out of the room.
A bigger issue with trying to force meal choices is that you are then attempting to raise the kid instead of allowing the parents to do so.

Just because you don't agree with how a parent decides to feed their child, doesn't give you the right to arbitrarily take away their choice.
What is the difference between a Computer Programmer and a Software Developer? Software Developer has over a million jobs and is growing fast? And then web developer is another category? Are jobs actually disappearing or are they being recategorized?
Yes, and given the $1B in funding that OpenAI has, I'd seriously say that too much attention is given to the AI "risk."
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There is so much truth in this: "Quote the specific passages you disagree with. This forces you to calibrate your mental model of what someone said with what they actually said."
I would quite happily own an EV if it had a few hundred km range and access to slow chargers at work or while shopping.

Park car, plug in to GPO. Go shopping, come back an hour or two later. Sure, it won't completely cover the day's driving but it will stretch the time between visits to a fast/super charging station.

The car's range is a buffer between fast charger visits.
According to their chart, the poorest 50% have lost about 1/3 of their total wealth since a peak in 2010, while during the same time period the richest 62 people have almost doubled in wealth. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/FA06/production/_...

I wonder how the wealth of the poorest 50% is estimated, and what the causes are of the change. Seems like a very sharp decline.

Would also be great to see a few more demographic buckets on this chart, and to see the time frame extended back 30 years earlier.
The post states he paid $150 yo retrieve 60gb of data. For $150 you can buy a 5tb hdd drive.

What usecase could the price delta make sense to have a 4 hour feedback loop and all of your important data locked in someone elses data center.

the usecase where your data is so properly massive that this makes sense && you don't have the storage infrastructure in place, is so narrow that it doesnt make sense.

It is basically one research student's crawl data

Edit: also, s3 is pretty cheap. So again, i dont really see the usecase here. How much room is in the market between your own physical or digital system and amazon s3 or an equivalent. you would have to have a massive amount of data you dont care about and be very price sensitive.
Fair. But there is no open source implementation of Lambda right now, as far as I'm aware. Hopefully if there were such a thing Apex would support it.
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Ultimately there is too much to oxidise or otherwise corrode, rubber parts, e.g. those tyres can't avoid oxygen even if they can avoid use. Maybe materials science can come to the rescue with fittings that do not perish, therefore enabling things like jets (cars and other things) to live on a bit longer, or to stretch their metal-fatigue lifetime out longer.
Our main differentiation is that we are blockchain-agnostic, so can be used on any blockchain or distributed ledger that is available via a web-accessible API. Additionally, we also (like ethereum) provide field types, relationships, and indexes - enabling full CRUD-like functionality to any blockchain. Not trying to compete with Ethereum, just trying to bring some of its functionality and flexibility to other blockchains...
> "Instead of an economy that works for the prosperity of all, for future generations, and for the planet, we have instead created an economy for the 1%," Oxfam's report says.

It's hard to take this seriously when global living standards have done nothing but gone up over the last 30 years.
There are some use cases listed here, and they seem pretty reasonable to me: https://aws.amazon.com/glacier

Lots of businesses have data retention requirements, and it can be difficult and time consuming to make sure this data is backed up in a way that is secure and can survive a catastrophe.

The author's use case (and most other personal use cases) might not be a good fit for Glacier, but he's not the target market.
Because there is little overlap between AGI researchers and machine learning researchers (or even regular AI researchers, but there's a bit more overlap here). AGI is a mix of philosophy and traditional AI (logic, agents, planning, value functions, etc.). The survey would have much more credibility if it were conducted of researchers at a machine learning conference like NIPS or ICML. Or even a top AI conference like AAAI.

Let's just say that we would not be worrying about AGI if it weren't for the advances in machine learning, which has little to do with AGI research.
I suppose part of the neat trick of it is that because we don't have to know, Amazon can switch it out for something else anytime it's convenient for them, or some new tech comes up. Or split thing up among several methods and compare costs. As long as they structure their operations such that nothing is ever lost and everything can be retrieved with a few hours notice at any time, they can try anything they want.
Too many people have tied "economic inequality" to "poverty and lack of social mobility", it is like there is some sort of constant preamble on the definition. And in my experience (and I've only tried this twice so take it for what its worth :-) talking about opportunity inequality gets you the social justice discussion, talking about financial inequality gets you the unicorn/startup discussion. But is economics simply finance + opportunity? Or is it the first derivative of that expected value over time ?

Then the whole conversation is sidetracked by aspirations of the whole population versus aspirations of the few.
3 days ago they sent a newsletter about their new (alpha quality) b2sync tool which essentially is a “rsync to backblaze” utility.

This makes their offer very interesting.
The framework that was used to create the MVP is already open-sourced (Blockstrap) and once we have officially launched this new product, it's base protocols will be open and available with working code. Still have some fine-tuning to do and wasn't expecting to find our way on to Hacker News so soon :-)
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SOX compliance, legal requirements to save communications, etc. There are a lot of places where there are needs to maintain a huge amount of information that you're probably never going to need again.

Not all products are for all people. If you foresee a need to recover a large amount of data all at once, then glacier's not for you. If you might occasionally need a filing from 6 years ago, then glacier would be great.
This makes me so happy. If we can get good support for WebRTC and getUserMedia the web will be able to keep going as a decent platform for apps.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=stream

http://caniuse.com/#feat=rtcpeerconnection

We're really at the mercy of open platform-minded engineers at Google, Apple and Microsoft though! I wonder what we can do to help support those folks.
This is not a very good article. inaccuracies aside it is also not well written and I'm not sure what the point is supposed to be. Misremembering the past isn't really an end unto itself in my eyes.
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"The problem turned out to be a bug in AWS official Python SDK, boto."

My only experience of using boto was not good. Between point versions they would move the API all over the place, and being amazon some requests take ages to complete.

After that worked with google APIs which were a better, but still not what I'd describe as fantastic (hopefully things are better over last 2 years).
Like I said before: rules are stored in my brain. So far reliable and portable :)
That would be a threat solely if AI were very expensive and only realizable by a very small group of people. Computers have caused significant damage to our society because of mostly cultural reasons that are going to work themselves out over the next decades. Once people realize that the exact computing technology which made their jobs redundant is equally effective at competing against their prior employers, and that they have the stupendous advantage of having near nil overhead while their ex-employer is a monolith unwilling to adapt properly, that harm will be ameliorated, IMO.

With AI, though, I think we have good reason to believe that the change would be much more sudden, and much more widespread. You can freeze wages and scalp every bit of productivity increase for yourself and shareholders as a corporate owner and get away with it for 30+ years (as has been done). But if even, say, 15% of the total workforce were laid off in the first year... things would change rapidly. It would be quickly realized that the displaced employees could easily simply get an AI for themselves, and price the ex-employer out of business rapidly. Nothing motivates like fear of starvation. Computers were only able to result in the problems we're facing today because it was a slow constriction of suffocation, cost of living gradually chipping away at the frozen median wage, rather than a brick to the back of the head as the introduction of generalized AI would be.
A recent graduate from an Ivy League university in the US with thousands of dollars in debt and an job offer in Wall Street is accounted as poorer than a farmer in Congo by Oxfam.

This shows how stupid it is to measure wealth without taking human capital into account.
Colleges have a hit or miss on this. A lot of liberal arts colleges still seem to have student employment opportunities in the dinning hall.

In my large public university? Sodexo and poorly paid off site employees for 100% of staff.

Another failure of unmodelled externalities in capitalism, I think. If a kid's lunch costs $5 to involve them in the preparation process on site vs. $2.50 for a minimum cost contractor preparation... which is the better deal?
I didn't mean it figuratively either!
I removed the post as I thought we were talking about desktop only.

IE is used far more at work whereas Chrome, safari, Firefox et al are used more on personal devices. You'll actually see a rise in ie use during the business day if you track hourly on many sites.
I did not mean to imply that the union employees of airlines got a fair deal! I think a big problem from a shareholder's perspective is that airlines periodically use bankruptcy protection to renegotiate their deals with everyone, including the unions. But the shareholders aren't the only ones getting screwed.
Dropout does very little to solve the lack of data problem, speaking from experience.
So Paul Graham complains that Russell Okung seems to use a different definition of economic inequality. And leaves it at that instead of giving his definition. Nice try.
"Eat to live, don't live to eat," is a Poor Richard quote recommending frugality over gluttony. I guess any proverb can be turned around as required.
A Seattleite here, I know someone who bought a townhouse near Dollis Hills station on Jubilee line. £750K. Seemed like an eye-watering amount for a crummy looking neighborhood. What am I missing?
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The methodology is pretty bad: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding.... It implies, for example, that China has zero people who are extremely poor (bottom decile), while more of the very poor live in the United States than anywhere else but India. This is just Facebook fodder.
You can very quickly build wrappers around Lambda code to be able to use its functions in a traditional webapp (at least in node). If you need to use a different vendor you can change it relatively quick.
I think he did give his definition. He said "It means the variation between different quantiles' wealth or income." Last line of the first paragraph of point 2.
I think the hype that you (and the author) are talking about exposes an interesting problem in products that target developers. Overwhelming popularity is generally awesome for a business / product, but in this case it seems that over-use may actually be diluting the core value-prop of Docker. If people were silly, which sometimes happens, I could see a snowball effect where Docker is generalized to be wholly un-useful, which would be terrible for the product. Not that that will happen, but an interesting thought.