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My xbox one is a significantly better experience than the Apple TV. Despite what I've ready in other comments I actually find the software to be borderline unusable and very unpolished.

For instance on setup I entered the same apple account password more than 4 times despite having synced from my phone... I then had to enter it every time I wanted to purchase something despite checking the setting that did not require a password for purchases. Entering my long-ass password on that tiny apple remote is really frustrating. It doesn't have Amazon prime video -- voice search for apps, or really anything that makes it better than my xbox one. I can't upload my own videos to it to play or play from a network stream.

I can say "xbox watch HBO" and suddenly it switches from my game to my cable box and tunes to the correct channel. "xbox open netflix" and suddenly I'm on netflix.

Of course microsoft just redesigned the entire interface for the xbox and now that sucks too...
You can tell it missed by a few inches from the video?
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i don't think people actually use the expression "web scale" seriously, but i can't tell if they're joking. poe's law or something.
Erlang and BEAM are much more mature than Pony. If maturity is a primary concern, you shouldn't be looking towards Pony at this point. Play around with it, sure, but not take it to production. We had a special set of reasons for going with. We find the concurrency model to be easy to reason about, love the type system and love the performance. You get C type performance.

Pony is stable enough for us to make the tradeoff for what it gets us in terms of lower resource usage, excellent latency and general performance characteristics.

All of the BEAM languages are untyped. Pony has an excellent type system that can make guarantees about the correctness of your program at compile time.

BEAM languages can draw on OTP which is a huge win. Pony has a very small standard library at this point. The library size is offset by its excellent C FFI but if you are looking to do distributed computing where performance is not a primary concern, you are better off with a BEAM language.

Erlang has QuickCheck and a wealth of other tools that aren't available for Pony right now.

Pony was the right language for us, we believe in it and its future but for most people right now, it's probably not the right choice. I'd be happy to talk over email if you have more questions. Feel free to drop me a line: sean@monkeysnatchbanana.com
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I agree. If you don't ask for it, no one will ever pay you.
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command, inspired by a tweet.
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Or kill us in the process as the most expedient way to get rid of medical problems that affect humans.
I just started using Arq, but it looks like the format is documented here https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt and there's some open source tools that can work with the format. https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator and https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/rsc/arq/arqfs
Also check out datalog.

Datomic is a database that uses it as its query language -- it is really nice to work with.
This is a big reason. Unfortunately the industry is full of old and/or poor tech that is already fragile as it is.

All modern ad networks (like ours) are completely HTTPS ready but the transition will be slow due to momentum with existing vendors.
And highly dependent on the region and demographics of the visitors, so the numbers can be way higher (or way lower if you are lucky).
There are many different "Paleolithic" viewpoints. Some are low carb, others are higher in carbs. Some are high in protein and some promote moderate levels of protein. Typically though, a Paleo diet is higher in fat and the consumption of processed foods is not suggested. It's all about consuming things that are minimally processed, low sugar, whole foods. Your actively level and genes have a lot to do with what is best for you in terms of your diet.

Many people assume that a Paleo diet primarily consists of meat, but that is not necessarily true. Many Paleo followers promote the consumption of things like yams, sweet potatoes, and some fruits like berries. However, if you listen to someone like Rob Wolff, he regularly promotes the massive consumption of vegetables, roots, and tubers. He even promotes sustainability, supports local farmers, and talks about animal welfare. Even though he recommends not consuming gluten, he doesn't suggest you replace it with gluten free stuff. He goes one step further and suggests completely eliminating grains (e.g., wheat, rice, oats), which are a staple in vegetarian and vegan dies.

A lot of people fail to realize or accept that many Paleo followers were once vegetarians and even vegans. But eventually, usually after many years, they realized that it wasn't working for them and had to try something different like Paleo.
Right, but startups do employ large numbers of competent engineers. VC money drying up means those engineers start competing for the same jobs. Quantitative easing has caused stock prices to rise, mainly tech stocks. This means tech companies can offer absurd salaries via stock to compete for talent. This drives up salary across the industry. If their stock goes down, as it will with rising interest rates and market downward forces, they will pay less for top engineers. This will have industry wide effects.
The development team at a company I worked for stated they had technical debt. They said they would spend the next year eradicating it. Then didn't even try.

You want to know what technical debt really is? The result of procrastination in the realm of tech.

It's not even worth giving it a funny name like technical debt that upper management doesn't really get. They understand what procrastination is.

You can't spin procrastination. It is what it is.
Except that it's unreliable, the website says so. Let me ask again, is there any plan without $390 onboarding provided by Gitlab that gives me following features:

1. Hosted Git.
2. Reliability.

There is none. I don't know why you seem to be trying to deny it. Your business obviously works with Enterprise. If I was a big corp, I'd be all over you. I'm not sure with Gitlab's compulsion with trying to make everyone happy. Even when they don't have a product that fit a nominal need in market (the 2 points above), they constantly try to insist that they do.
Bitcoin is interesting because it attracts comments like this. Make no mistake, there is a turf-war going on; a true battle of mass popular opinion.

People do good things and they do bad things; but for some reason Bitcoin has crossed the threshold of being technically understandable so people resort to trusting people instead of ideas; so you end up with a lot of narratives (on both sides).
I think the main argument (regarding fears of AI) is that, by the time you've solved the aforementioned problems, it's too late. AI can learn so quickly that we won't be able to anticipate it properly.
A lot of those sorts of problems would disappear if you had smarter than human AI running the government. The people vote on the rules, the AI plans and executes the rules. No more corruption.
You might want to share a few more details if you want those claims to be taken seriously.
i think your friends, network and environment dictates the kind of success you have. the things you mentioned, going to good schools, getting into a career with plenty of successful people around you, begets that kind of success.

but i also know a handful of folks with success that did not go to good schools or have great careers but achieved significant business success: an oil rig machine parts manufacturer, a fabric mill owner, a latex manufacturer, a luxury furniture reseller, that have achieved success because their friends and networks are the kind of guys who will keep having goes at different businesses and products until something sticks. most of these businesses aren't cutting edge technology but there is a lot of value in unifying supply chains that are still very dependent on trust and know-whos, as well as having a bit of edge in the business negotiation process. their success had little to do with which schools they went to, only that they surrounded themselves with other people who made business their focus.
I'm not sure if this story has been told this plainly elsewhere, but it probably should. I know plenty of people who got very paranoid of Skype after MS bought them.
This is correct, hidden services are fully encrypted from the users browser to the tor relay running the hidden service
It's been obvious for a decade that the "go to the factory every week for 40 years and retire" job sector is on the decline, a decline which has accelerated rapidly more recently. There is no place in our economy for a bolt turner to earn $25 an hour, end of discussion.

This is why I like the idea of at least reducing the cost of a college education, or preferably eliminating it. A regular high school degree is quickly becoming useless to have, if you don't have some white collar skill-set to apply after your school, you're going to be very hungry. It's not fair in my mind to raise the standards of what it means to be "qualified" without giving the various social groups a fair chance to get there.

And of course the problem here is that there aren't enough service jobs for everyone, which is also why I support basic income so that while we retain the option for people to achieve more if they want to that we don't leave everyone else who either doesn't have a particular skill (yet) or just doesn't want to out in the cold to freeze and die. If nothing else, they're valuable consumers.
I dislike frats more than your average joe, but this blog post is not worth your time reading. The clickbait title was 110% irrelevant to the content, which consisted of nothing more than "I browsed the TFM website, counted some numbers on profiles, maybe talked to some women/men, and drew conclusions from the TFM comment section. The author claimed she had bias, and thoroughly showed it.
I guess there's a pretty big difference between making AI that is 'perfect' at the game vs AI that is believable / indistinguishable from a human.

I mean do we want all AI endeavors to be towards believe-ability or being best at the job they're designed for?
Not so much stack as legacy. Have you seen legacy architectural decisions? They're impossible to get rid of. It's surprising how much the initial architecture can hinder change.
That in itself isn't such a bad thing because an economy can't actually function if everyone has a degree and expects a high-value white-collar job. The problem is that no effort has been made to guard against the outflow of jobs for less skilled workers that pay well enough to live comfortably.
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And good luck if you are in a chroot'ed jail, or out of file handles. (Hence why OpenBSD added arc4random(), now based on ChaCha20.)
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I've seen nothing that persuades me even a little bit away from the most common theory, which is that it's basically a hoax. It's a pseudo-occult book produced by some creative individual for fun and/or profit.

There are some contemporary alchemical manuscripts which are written at least partly in code, for example, but the illustrations strongly suggest that Voynich is pure fantasy.
> If you can teach an AI to hunt, kill, and avoid being killed...

then you've taught an AI to be a predator.
Solution: block HTTP ads.
> It wasn't that Google wasn't capable of building a good social network.

The the author doesn't dispute this. Building the site was "trivial," but determining what to build was the real challenge. And they failed at it, because they didn't understand the users' needs.

Users didn't need a "me-too" social network that was just a facade of the old social network with a fresh coat of paint. If you want to win over users, you'll generally need to either (a) provide something that users need and that the competitor has overlooked, or (b) provide a 10X-better version of something your competitor provides. Google+ didn't come close to doing either.
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That's basically how we run things at my company. I'm the front end dev manager and I make the decisions on who to hire for the team. All of my dev's have a set of skills that includes backend dev work, they are just specialists at first end customer facing applications. It's worked really well so far.
Er, "not the most important" is not the same as "not worthwhile" or "not really freaking cool". But when you open an essay with "the most important task for us humans to achieve is..." you're imposing an order on tasks and a ranking for your stated task at the top of that order. I'm challenging the ranking that puts building strong AI at the top.
I personally disagree that college is the solution. Some people lack the financial stability required to excel in what is essentially a long, expensive vacation learning things that won't directly impact their earnings. I vehemently believe in liberal arts and the importance of people studying philosophy/literature/etc., but studying impractical things is a luxury.

Other countries have robust retraining programs, so the bolt turner could become something else when bolt turning isn't useful anymore. This works in tandem with trade schools, which are also better-supported by governments outside the US.

(And I also am a huge fan of the concept of universal basic income!)
This explanation feels like the explanation by someone else on this page for why Skype failed on mobile...good insight.
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Why would you teach an AI how to kill humans and animals?
If you like Permutation City, you might also enjoy another of Egan's works, Diaspora. http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/1597805424...

"Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and friction. Many of these have left the solar system forever in fusion-drive starships.

And there are the holdouts: the fleshers left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth—some devolved into dream apes, others cavorting in the seas or the air—while the statics and bridgers try to shape out a roughly human destiny."

Egan's books have been some of the most thought-provoking I've ever read as far as science fiction technology. A lot of the works were out of print until recently; I'm glad to see there's been a resurgence of interest in his writing, and the availability of his works.
But strong AI may figure out how to save us.

One argument says AI may become smarter than us and decide to kill us all, either on purpose or by accident.

But why not consider that the AI may be kind, it may help us and give us things. After all, smart humans are generally kind. Most of us wouldn't think to kill a dolphin, why would an AI think to kill a human or a dolphin?
Because like all rockets it was designed to handle any expected aerodynamic loads with a certain margin with minimal mass.

Essentially the right parts just popped like a balloon. Falling on your side involves much different loads than being propelled into orbit. There's little value to designing a rocket to withstand such a fall.
It wasn't specified anything was required of its subjective experience, the only requirement was for it to be immortal. There's a jellyfish on earth that is also immortal[1]; when it's hurt or sick, it can revert to the polyp stage - it's cells would transform, and it grow back into jellyfish with a new body. This process can repeat indefinitely. Each time it does this, it is likely it has a new set of subjective experience, but at the same time, the distinct set of subjective experiences are experienced by the same biological body of cells. If a biological being can be immortal this way, why can't AI's?

Humanity cannot conquer death, but this does not take away the immortality of living beings that already exist in our world.

Take a look at this 80,000 year old trees[3]. It's one living being in multiple trees with a single root system connecting all the trees into one being.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
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AI researchers are trying to make AI smarter. Game AI can already be easily written to win 100% of games but that's not the point. Gamedevs are trying to make AI more human-like. I'm not sure the two overlap.
We just launched support for free SSL on all our plans at https://www.netlify.com, doing what we can to help getting HTTPS everywhere.

Won't help on mixed content or broken ad providers, but at least give people a place to put a project on a custom domain for free with HTTPS :)
People living in densely populated area should be the prime target for zero emission cars.
And that is a problem cities can solve. There is no problem to hook a few power plug on the street ( eg: BMW had a strategy for cheap, small charging station specifically target to create a large number of slow power point. )

Beside the cost, European cities are keener on getting rid of cars entirely, so they are reducing the number of parking spaces as years goes by, so you may be right after all, the zero emission solution for people living where I live is to not have a car at all ( which is, to be fair, not at all unrealistic. There is a strong possibility that the technologies to solve my few "not conveniently covered by public transport" will come from some sort of rental/uber before electric car is actually practical where I live )
Oh sweet, they fixed that! For a while their it had no Apple TV 4 support.
The thing is: There isn't really any such thing as "the memory of a process". What about a page of a shared library that hasn't been loaded yet, but is mapped in more than one process, for example?

Also, if memory is guaranteed to be available at a later point, it cannot really be used for anything, as there is nowhere to put the contents of that memory the moment the process it's reserved for wants to use it.

But there are two APIs that can be used to implement the same goal: Linux has a procfs setting "oom_score_adj" that can be used to decrease the risk of a particular process being killed (commonly used for sshd for obvious reasons) and there are the mlock()/mlockall() syscalls that you can use to make sure some address space is backed by actual RAM rather than potentially swap.
While I agree that the tokens must be expired on logout, it's hard to gain access to the token via MITM because the API requests are performed over TLS [0]! This point seems glossed over in the post. You would need access to a client app directly to be able to inspect its storage or sniff the traffic yourself to determine the token being used.

Access to an unencrypted client device is usually game over for most apps' data security anyway.

[0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=v1.peachapi.c...

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Great summary of current state of the art with links to interesting projects: GVG-AI, VGDL...

Videos games are also essential for AI pedagogy. Creating Pac-Man agents in Stanford's AI class is a great example. Most players can barely get a "strawberry" but to see a trained agent mimicking human expert level play is eye-opening.

Quick reminder: Global Game Jam 2016 starts Jan. 29 and NYU is hosting its annual jam!

http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/event/global-game-jam-2016/
When you "guard against the outflow of jobs for less skilled workers", you are both implying that those people are capable of nothing more, and guarding against rapid progress in less advanced countries where the world's poor suffer terribly from poverty.
My understanding was that the connection prior saw the cleartext of the final destination's packets.

SSL was the way to make sure that end to end was encrypted so that nobody could read the data (mainly login/password info).

I think the only way to see is to be part of the tunnel architecture and see if my thoughts are right or wrong.
> When you think about the difficulties of such a loosely defined problem, it's hard to buy into the real-world fears of AI.

My belief is that one day, in the not too distant future, we'll be saying that it's hard to believe we ever considered such things difficult for AI.

Consider that an AI can literally keep "reloading the last save file" indefinitely and simply try different commands until it finds one that advances the game successfully. A little bit of guided learning to confirm that its doing well, and suddenly you've got an AI that plays Skyrim.
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You should definitely check out Byron (Bay Area Skydiving) as well. Between then and Lodi I don't think there's much reason to bother with the the other DZs.
The Soviet Union forced farmers into collectives, and it was a disaster and was ultimately abandoned. Oppression of rural populations by urban centers can be extremely costly.

Not saying urbans can't impose their will on the countryside. But the resistance would be fierce.
Reading the post and this thread makes me feel very lucky. I didn't attend either a bootcamp or college, simply got to know people who coded a lot and did lots and lots of tutorials and made a few demos to get in as an intern (on the recommendation from one of those people). I'm now a pretty senior developer at a startup. I'm not sure how to recommend people get into the industry - nobody seems able to or willing to take the time to hire greenhorns anymore unless they come with a degree.
I think the denial is the important lession here.

Plenty of people knew it didn't fly, and it couldn't have been that hard to fix it if you really wanted to do it,
if you were prepared to drop p2p. But still it was a hard descision to make.

Why do you think it's like that?
I think it's worth pointing out that education is a filtering mechanism, if a terribly inefficient one. After basic maths and literacy are learned, it imparts little on the average student. A collage degree is a proxy for a reasonable IQ and moderately high conscientiousness. Thinking of education as an inefficient filtering mechanism helps illustrate why our frenzy for more education is misguided. Certainly more efficient filtering mechanisms (like a test-based credentialism where instruction and assessment are separated) would be very useful but they will not increase the amount of people with the mental characteristics (high intelligence and conscientiousness) that are becoming increasingly valuable in the modern economy, nor will it decrease the portion that lack these things. Panning does not create gold.

I think a good assumption is this separation was and is a basicly unavoidable result of technology and economics, not any policy or set of policies. We wrestle not with flesh and blood:http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/07/we-wrestle-not-with-fle...
So after you've figured out how to create a system that can learn complex things like that, wipe it and teach it something you want it to know. Seems like the obvious, logical course of action. You know?
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Didn't it land, then fall over and explode?

Also, didn't this portion of the rocket land before the satellite was deployed?
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Far from it. I am a decade in to my career and will likely not be impacted by these trends. I am more concerned with the next generation of developers entering the workforce. They could be first generation of developers to be worse off than we are now (compensation, job stability, etc.)
Solution to what? Publishers still have to enable HTTPS on their sites and they'll only do that once all the resources on the page are HTTPS compatible.
But what about disk corruption?