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Theoretically, the protection of the US Navy.
But any new job that is created can be done by the superintelligent AI, and better than humans. Even if somehow a million new service jobs are created, those jobs can be done better by an AI. So where does that leave humans? There would be no place for human labor if we cared about efficiency.

Edit: I see superintelligent AI as not mere automation, but in effect creating an infinite supply of new labor. Humans are diluted out.
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Very interesting, thank you.

So the most likely scenario is that the carriers are cooperating... Are they cooperating only with the US, or are they cooperating with other nations as well? Seems safe to assume they're cooperating with any/all nations that have a significant market for their products (ie leverage).

That's fairly scary though -- I assume the keys / encryption stays the same across similar networks, regardless of nation (given that phones continue to work abroad)? Perhaps the keys / encryption does differ by carrier, I'm not sure, but I'd definitely be curious. As long as they stay undetected, sounds like there is very little stopping COUNTRY_X from deploying these in COUNTRY_Y for their own gain, not to mention 'lower level' criminals / mafia / etc...

And obviously there are plenty of people out there (reverse-engineers, employees/insiders, et al) that have access to the keys...

Any idea if the exceptions that the FCC makes are public information, or obtainable via FOIA or similar? I'm guessing the FCC has a rigid "exception request process" in place and, hopefully, they only provide [super] limited-scope exceptions (without warrants, eh)... I'd love to see what exceptions are actually being made and what limits, if any, they contain.

Anyways, this is definitely pretty far outside of my realm of knowledge but I find the tech incredibly intriguing and very interesting nonetheless (and I agree with commentshere regarding the FCC).
I will admit to not following AI at all for about 20 years, so perhaps this is old hat now, but having separate policy networks and value networks is quite ingenious. I wonder how successful this would be at natural language generation. It reminds me of Krashen's theories of language acquisition where there is a "monitor" that gives you fuzzy matches on whether your sentences are correct or not. One of these days I'll have to read their paper.
Perhaps it's in a different timezone to EST
25 Civil Liberties Orgs Call for Open Hearings on Section 702 Surveillance
This thread is bullshit. The post is about a javascript library. That's it.
The author wrote a short blog post about the process of speed-writing the book.

http://psgraphics.blogspot.com/2016/01/process-for-speed-wri...
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How does SuperCell earn money on FB's platform? Afaik all of their games are iOS and Android only and I've never seen a display ad of any kind in Boom Beach (the only SC game I've played) although admittedly I don't sign in via FB.
It occurs to me that we could also turn the question around: What could increased prosperity for everyone do for startups? Some thoughts:

1. Financial risk is an element of prosperity. Lowering risk by improving public services and the safety net embolden more people to pursue a startup. I would spend more money if I didn't have to hoard every penny against the risk of a health crisis or period of unemployment.

2. Prosperity is the source of demand for products and services.

3. Broad based consumer demand can support infrastructure which, in turn, supports startups. An example that I can think of is the cell phone system, which really took off when "everybody" could afford a cell phone.
Does it remove the Google app that always runs even when your are not using Chrome?
*mersenne prime
consider running adware medic to attempt to remove it.
If you like videos, but not Khan, give Gilbert Strang's videos at MIT a look. His teaching is fantastic, and he wrote several of the core texts. Or you can just work directly from his books if you prefer that approach.
I agree. In one sense, there is no way this was an intended consequence. On the other hand, it would be tough to convince me to drink treated flint river water, and I thought that long before they switched the water. (I'm from the area). My gut feeling is the state, the local, and everyone in between is to blame. You are spot on with the politicizing too, its out of control.
> Isn't gasoline a commodity now?

You missed the core of my point in your haste to nitpick: "not a consumer product". As in, regular folks aren't buying it anymore.

> And isn't a self driving car essentially the same thing as a taxi?

Yes, minus one employed person driving the car.
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In the past when I had a bit rougher edges I often asked after 30 minutes in a meeting face-to-face why we were in that meeting still; was there anything to discuss we didn't discuss in the first 5 minutes? The answer was almost always no. People with these face-to-face urges and (too long) meeting urges usually just want a break from work (but paid) and/or social interaction. I like that as well, but we have bars & restaurants etc for that, not the office. I rather work flat out (focused and organized) for 4 hours and then take off or go to a bar or take a walk for the 'meeting' instead of loitering in the office for 8 hours and commute for 2.
I'm genuinely curious too -- I would certainly think that they'd require either a warrant. Perhaps cooperation from the carriers, including permission to intercept & use their spectrum, might be enough?

I'm not well-versed on how cell carriers & landline carriers differ as far as common-carrier & wiretapping laws go.
> For examples of the atrocious consequences of "basic income" divorced from free markets, see the Soviet Union, East Germany, Red China

What are those atrocious consequences? For Russia? First satellite in space? First man in space? Or do you mean for the PRC, run by the standing committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China? Which is currently the second largest economy on earth (in some measures the first)?

What are those atrocious consequences? If you want to mention eggs broken along the way, remember to mention those of the US (extermination of the Indians, slavery, company towns etc.) or England (from the siege of Drogheda to Amritsar), Germany (Sieg Heil!?) and so forth...
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This shouldn't be down-voted, quite reasonable and makes sense. Mostly, moving a zero on a scale.
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That, too. I had a 350Z, which had 287 horsepower, and was terrifyingly fast...but, it also had the brakes, suspension, tires, and cage to match. It could stop faster than it could accelerate. I can't imagine driving a car with 1975 brakes, suspension, and cage, with even more horsepower. Even though the Delorean is probably heavier than the Z, so its top speed is probably not more than the Z, even with more power; the ability to stop and turn are also reduced by the increased weight.

It really does seem like a very bad idea. Then again, people of the prior generation would seek out a 1968 Camaro or a 1963 Corvette Stingray, which could be, and often were, equipped with terrifyingly large engines. A Camaro or Mustang or other muscle car from the 60s, in particular, are kinda famous for being able to go really fast, but only in a straight line.

So, yeah, I just can't see it. Even if I had that kind of disposable income, and even though I have on a couple of occasions considered buying a Delorean (when I was in my 20s I even looked at one, but it needed more work than I was willing to put into it), the factors that led to it being under consideration just don't line up with a new one at $100,000. The one I was looking at was listed at $10k, and I think the seller was hinting that he'd take as little as $7k by the time I walked away. In short: As a project that didn't cost a fortune and didn't need to be a daily driver, it seemed like maybe a good idea.
Maybe that can be on day 3...
In a real application, you'll need to deal with moving elements, document shape will be changing, etc. Trying to solve this cases is the most complicated part of vdom libraries. If you try to do naive replace/update, it will be significantly slower.
It's not really quite that simple though. You have to look at a UBI in comparison to our current system.

How many more people will quit their jobs instead of working if we replace our current system with a UBI? Small scale preliminary studies seem to indicate not that many.

>But remember, living off the dole also means not contributing anything back to society. These people could be doing something of value, but are incentivized not to.

That's not true at all unless you think people on welfare and disability are incapable of contributing anything back to society.

Lets say we have a single parent who can't afford day care. He parks his kids in front of the TV, or pawns them off on inattentive relatives, so he can go to McDonald's 30 hours a week and make $8 an hour. I think that he would contribute more to society in the long term by staying home and raising his kids than he does making minimum wage at McDonald's.

Then we look at the economic upsides to a UBI. It is likely that a UBI will reduce crime. It will also likely encourage more entrepreneurial risk taking. And like in my previous example, a UBI will allow more parents to stay home and spend time with their children, potentially allowing the children to earn more money in the future.
Via one of the NULL-cipher suites? That's a somewhat expansive definition of "can" and "HTTPS," since most if not all browsers are unwilling to negotiate any of those suites. Indeed, most SSL libraries make it hard to use those suites: for instance, OpenSSL says (`man ciphers`), "Because these offer no encryption at all and are a security risk they are disabled unless explicitly included."

Which makes sense, since they'd have the exact same problems as an explicit HTTPI protocol, just even more confusing: you'd want to not send things like secure cookies across those ciphers, you'd have to handle mixed content with actual-HTTPS carefully, etc.
Cool your jets there, sassafras.

There is evidence of a downward trend, though probably not "most" teens. Enjoying the indignant platitudes though.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02...
given that they are not a native speaker this seems over the top.
Also maybe consider Sapir–Whorf before stating universal rules..
> 1. How to play well at a level below full strength. In chess, for instance, it is no fun for most humans to play Stockfish or Komodo (the two strongest chess programs), because those programs will completely stomp them. It is most fun for a human to play someone around their own level. Most chess programs intended for playing (as opposed to just for analysis) let you set what level you want to play, but the results feel unnatural.

The astronauts in 2001 play chess with the computer, and it sometimes loses on purpose to make the game more interesting for them.
I was expecting a OS X app to remove all the old versions of Chrome that get left inside the application package folder after each evergreen update.

NFI why the updater doesn't clean out versions that are > than, say, 3mths old.
Has any individual ever been charged for violating a Condition of Participation?
Fun fact, third party apps can't modify Chrome on Windows. If any third party app injects a Chrome extension into Chrome or alters a single Chrome setting... even just the homepage... Chrome will delete all extensions, all extension settings, reset the homepage to default, and reset the search engine to Google on next launch. A big downside is that your Chrome settings are basically tied to a specific PC, so forget about moving them to a new PC unless you sign in and sync to Google.
That is crazy.

I have no idea if you can get expense cards here, but it's easy to just get another card and connect it to another account, and then load funds onto it as you need.

Several of my friends have their cards attached to an account that's usually empty, and transfer funds when needed to the card. It takes literally seconds to transfer the money, you can do it on your mobile phone in the store.
Airbnb told to cease profiting from Israel’s war crimes
Agreed - I used spreadsheets longer than I care to admit. If you ever want to pick an agency recruiter's brain to get another perspective I'm happy to help.
USA: Extermination of natives, slavery, company towns and child labor, Jim crow etc.

England: English colonialism from Drogheda to Amristar, plus the domestic Peterloo, child labor etc. Also, how many millions did England deliberately starve to death in the 1840s?

Germany: I can list off what the Krupp/Voegler/Thyssen financed Nazi party did for a while, then go back to before that
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From my experience working with remote workers, problems tend to be bucketed under "loss of context". The remote worker misses so many ad-hoc (e.g. lunch with a colleague) workplace conversations that they end up knowing less about what is going on.
Time zone differences further complicate thing (misalignment of working hours).

Secondly, and something perhaps tech could solve, is difficulty of working on problems together. I haven't seen a good video conferencing solution that comes close to two people in a room drawing on a whiteboard.
Personally, I think this is a big part of the reason UBI will work.

Most people want to do something, and generally want to feel productive. How many stories have you heard about unhappy office drones leaving a job where they spent all their time on the internet to something more rewarding?

But where will this productive energy go? Plenty of people will still have jobs, likely doing something more in line with their interests. Others will volunteer their time and participate in the community. I think lots of people would love to spend more time mentoring young people, being with their families, etc. It could be a revolution in community participation and lead to a more healthy society.

Satisfying and productive work doesn't need to be paid work.
Ask HN: What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

I've actually been thinking about that for quite some time now. Here's what I think will help increase prosperity:

* Inexpensive housing: something like the Tiny House movement, but more mainstream and less expensive.

* Automated food production, such as my side project, AutoMicroFarm.

* Inexpensive electric transportation.

* Universal health insurance.

The above four items would enable anyone to have the vast majority of their needs met. I plan to expand on the above in a blog post.
For now :-)

https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
Certificates are free. The required competence is only marginally more than the required competence of setting up a website, and is rapidly dropping to zero more. (And is, if your website is hosted by a third-party service, which is a pretty reasonable approach for the organizations you name.)

I don't understand what you mean by "Outsourcing security without knowledge is praying for being abused." From your original argument, the website admins don't care about security, right? So the worst that happens is their setup is insecure, but their setup was insecure to start with, and the were okay with that. You aren't more at risk from outsourcing your HTTPS versus just not doing HTTPS.

I'd be very surprised to hear that people in Alaska are getting their internet via an HTTP cache. Frankly, I'd also be surprised to hear that people in Africa are, except possibly for certain mobile internet. I'm curious, where does this happen?

Even so, and especially for mobile internet, HTTPS isn't a problem. The provider gives you the phone, so they can control the software, certs, etc. on it. They can run a caching proxy server that takes "HTTPS" requests in plaintext, and sends them out over HTTPS if they can't be satisfied from the cache. (It's pretty easy to configure an HTTP forward proxy this way.)
I find it strange that you tried Webstorm and not Atom - considering Atom and all of it's packages are written in JavaScript (or transpiled to it), you can give it any functionality using the language you're already using - JS. I find Atom to be great for working with Node.js, and there's already an existing package for pretty much any functionality you could need, such as a Node.js debugger: https://atom.io/packages/node-debugger
If you can settle for 2G IMSI-catching, there are some old femtocells with SIP backhaul that could be hackable enough. Someone once tried to build a "roam-to-voip-at-home" kind of service out of those. It was just SIP VoIP backhaul without protection preventing spoofing the backhaul network. I can't recall the company but I think they pivoted to shipboard phone service.
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Don't forget as a startup noob you also don't have much experience, so when your manager/CEO says you'll get a big payoff eventually, you probably believe them.
The writing has been on the wall for applets for a few years, as browser developers have become actively hostile toward anything plugin-based and Oracle have shown little appetite for supporting them. However, those plugins, whether Java, Flash, Silverlight or otherwise, have served a valuable purpose for a long time and they have developed a maturity far beyond any of the trendy modern technologies that are supposedly ready to replace them.

So, I have very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, as someone who’s spent significant parts of the last decade developing UIs that included a Java applet, the experience has become horrible as it has become more and more troublesome to actually run Java code in a browser. It sucks for developers, and it sucks for users. None of us will miss that hassle.

On the other hand, except for when browser developers or Oracle have actively changed something, I’ve had applets doing interesting visualisations in GUIs where the code has worked fine for many years, with no changes needed other than bona fide new development. Such longevity is generally desirable, but it really matters if the GUI in question is served from an embedded device where taking something out of service to update firmware is an exercise measured not in minutes but in months.

Unfortunately, browser-native alternatives such as SVG just aren’t ready to replace those Java-based visualisations with the same degree of portability and longevity yet. I could write down a list of confirmed SVG bugs I’ve run into just in this week while building a new generation of one of those systems, and it would fill half my screen. I could file some bug reports, but it turns out that sometimes people already have, and they’ve been dismissed with WORKSFORME despite several other people reporting similar problems. And that’s just functionality that is theoretically supported, where the browsers tick all the summary boxes on sites like caniuse, before we even get into things like having at least three completely different techniques for doing animation but none that works everywhere. It’s also ignoring areas where even though the technology “works”, the performance is so bad when you scale things up that some browsers can’t cope.

I am not looking forward to the amount of time I’m going to be wasting over the next few years working around the endless browser incompatibilities and breaking updates, where the old plugin-based code would probably have just carried on working if no-one had undermined it. They’ve done it with Flash giving way to HTML5 media elements. Now they’re doing it with Java giving way to the likes of canvas and SVG. And yet I can’t help feeling that these are backward steps for those of us whose job is to build working web sites and apps, and will continue to be until these new technologies are a lot more mature and standardised than they are today.
You can when they block the construction of low-pollution utilities in their neighborhood at the expense of high-pollution utilities in poor communities.

You can understand why they do it, but you can also (and should also) still blame them for being short-sighted and selfish.
Another thread could 1) write to the same key. 2) cause a table expansion (or a shrink) which rehashes the whole table (in most implementations). Either case will cause a difficult to diagnose bug. Use a lock or communicate with channels instead. There may be other subtle things which can get corrupted under concurrent use. The map type in Go has never been implemented in a thread safe fashion so if you try and use it as such you will be in for a bad time.
>you're also limited to 5 requests per domain name per week

Huh, I'm pretty sure I used more than that when I was first setting it up with no problems.
Thanks, I'll take a look at his videos and books!
None of those are basic income or even offer remotely the same benefits as a basic income.
The article title really, really needs an extra word: "Chrome", between "Google" and "Will". At first glance I thought it would be about the search engine, which would be a very disturbing thought indeed; it's already hard enough to find the older, highly informative and friendly sites --- which often are plain HTTP.

Nevertheless, quite convincing security arguments aside, I feel this also has a very authoritarian side to it: they are effectively saying that your site, if it is not given a "stamp of approval" by having a certificate signed by some central group of authorities, is worthless. Since CAs also have the power to revoke certificates, enforced HTTPS makes it easier to censor, control, and manipulate what content on the Web users can access, which I certainly am highly opposed to. I can see the use-case for site like banks' and other institutions which are already centralised, but I don't think such control over the Web in general should be given to these certificate authorities.

With plain HTTP, content can be MITM'd and there won't be much privacy, but it seems to me that getting a CA to revoke a certificate is much easier than trying to block a site (or sites) by other means, and once HTTPS is enforced strongly by browsers, would be a very effective means of censorship. Thus I find it ironic that the article mentions "repressive government" and "censor information" --- HTTPS conceivably gives more power to the former to do the latter, and this is very much not the "open web" but the centralised, closed web that needs approval from authorities for people to publish their content in.

There's a clear freedom/security tradeoff here, and given what CAs and other institutions in a position of trust have done in the past with their power, I'm not so convinced the security is worth giving up that freedom after all...
>I find it strange that in the US full anaesthesia is the default

It is not the default. Patients are advised of their choices based on their situation. Many people get only local anesthesia.
There's nothing specified that setting a value won't cause a map rebalance or rehash. The implementation is allowed to change things under the hood.
Agree that. Its consumer problem. They always have choice to buy something and use.