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> This paper isn't actually about whether or not type 3 societies exist.

Ah, I see. It's a play on words. "Apparently" is meant as "is visible", not in the sense of "this is true". Astronomer humor.
1) countries in developed countries quite regularly spend $100K-$1M to treat illnesses in poor people. I think a larger concern would be that they would choose to spend $50K to freeze a severely ill poor person than $1M to treat that same person.

2) as long as immortals don't have more children than mortals, then immortality has a surprisingly small effect on population growth.

The effects I'd be worried about would be the effects of having the majority of the world's wealth and power being held in the hands of immortals and cryogenic trusts.
This helps to automate the dumbest and most dangerous practice of new developers.

Don't "write" code you don't understand.
Reversible vitrification is a serious field of research that actually appears pretty close to realization for use in the fields of tissue engineering and organ transplant. A number of independent research groups are working on a variety of approaches. Some sample reading:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34190/...

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2169002...

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/nov/discovery-co...

It is also the case that a rabbit kidney has been vitrified, thawed, transplanted, and it worked for a while. See:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/

I think that progress towards reversible vitrification of organs is one of the most important drivers of growing support and acceptance of cryonics among those who write and opinionate. It is hard to throw out the evidence for preservation of fine structure in the brain when there is earnest progress towards preserving the similarly fine structure needed for organ function.
There are many things claimed on the internet, but they are not all true. If you would like to explicitly link to a claim you think is valid, please do. Otherwise your comment reads like, "Oh yeah, I read it on the internet!"
The Google article specifically says they were able to solve the problem on the (tiny) CPU in the phone by using vector operations on the CPU. Again, this is a tiny doodad for power-starved devices that lack any micro.

Have you played with Apple Accelerate? They've been baking this stuff into their chips for quite some time. Apple's FFT outperforms FFTW. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/#section=...
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The prompt is nagware. The code is opensource. If you want, you can go and modify the file that issues that prompt—lots of other people have. Google for it, and you should find the solution.
Both the developer guide and developer reference under https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-documentation. Deep reading but you will really understand the subject afterwards.
It doesn't matter that he's a "huge" fan. It matters that he collected outside money to make it, and was planning on making money from sales of the video and licensed products.
I don't know about you, but I consider it pretty hard to hold both views simultaneously: to respect someone and consider him/her an extremist loon who is out of touch with reality.

"I respect this lunatic whose views are divorced from reality"... isn't this damning him with faint praise, and therefore confirming user _RPM's first sentence?
Seems like the perfect opportunity to insert a plug for my project: http://liblikely.org/
Bad press, but good riddance. I can't imagine Apple has much use for out-of-touch "activist" investors clamoring for short term growth and dividends while complaining about their lack of "innovative" new products like … television sets.
There are so many stores on android, I will be surprised if there isn't any that only accepts games without IAP.
Easy: you either get immortality or you get to have children, but not both.
Because having a right to something and actually getting said thing are sadly two quite different things.
> How then do we deal with population growth when people don't die of old age?

That's not nearly as much of a problem as people think it would be.

About 60 million people die per year, and about two-thirds of that comes from age-related causes.

Something like 75 million babies are born each year, and that number is gradually but constantly shrinking as standards of living rise and people have fewer children.

The most likely result in a world of reliable anti-aging treatments would be a gradual slowing of new births to a trickle long before the reduced death rate ever became a real logistical problem.
It's probably the primaries, but I am reminded of one of the best and worst times in recent American politics; John McCain deflected a woman calling Obama an Arab by explaining "he [Obama] is a good man with whom I happen to disagree".[#]

Stallman is the prime mover behind the Free/Open movement from which we all benefit, and has a coherent and credible world view - with which I may occasionally disagree, but which I cannot dismiss or ignore.

He has stuck to his principles and deserves his recognition. And surprisingly, like McCain, He is never going to "win" - but the game is better for people like him in it.

[#](http://www.politico.com/story/2008/10/mccain-obama-not-an-ar...)

Ps - that may come across as troll bait but the McCain comparison seems apt - from the UK at least.
Our common ancestor 'is' what?

We are separated from mice by 80million years of evolution -- 40million from the common ancestor, and 40million to the other modern species.

Or simply 40million years of divergent evolution.
I've always wondered; is there a "last" galaxy in any direction, such that for an observer in that galaxy, no further light or radiation can be detected from that direction? (outside that galaxy)

That, must be a terrifying place to live in......
I drive a 1996 Civic and feel about the same way. I'll get a new car eventually (and getting an electric does sound awfully appealing, once they start selling models with good range for a reasonable price), but a lot of modern "features" like over-the-air updates seem awfully big-brotherish to me.

One of the things I like about my current car is that it can't be remotely bricked by the manufacturer, it doesn't have any built-in location tracking hardware, there's no way to wirelessly access any of the critical electronic components, and no need to apply security patches.

It's hard to think of modern cars as anything other than a rolling malware vector. Some of these cars will be on the road for thirty or forty years. What happens when the manufacturer stops patching their bugs after three or ten or twenty years?
Good riddance. Apple literally can't issue enough dividends or buyback enough of their stock to not grow their cash stockpile.

Why shouldn't Apple just go private?
How so? Had they found printed cyphertext in his house, would he be in jail? Or, more cogently, one sheaf of random numbers and one of cyphertext?

The point is, the whole "lock" analogy is wrong. Encryption is not an unbreakable lock, nor is it a game-changer. It's been there for hundreds of years at least, as long as there have been cyphers.
He doesn't understand the difference between a "right" and something that would be really nice if everyone had.
Maybe you can explain what is the mechanism in what salaries are fixed but inflation grow.

"Cut the military budget by half "

You will not hear me complain about that.
Indeed, I would paint myself much the same. However, I've been around this business long enough that when I look back on areas where I have disagreed with RMS, there are a disturbing number of times where RMS turned out to be right in the long run. So now when I find myself in disagreement with RMS, I think long and hard to clarify exactly why I disagree -- which is certainly a valid definition of respect.
Lots of misunderstanding in this comments section.

Movidius makes low power neural network processors for mobile application. The Myriad V1 is used in google tango and the V2 (what the USB stick has) is used in the new DJI Phantom 4.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/16/11242578/movidius-myriad-2...

The Myriad chips are interesting because they combine MIPI camera interface lanes on the same chip as a general purpose NN/CV processor and an SDK suite of hardware accelerated computer vision functions (edge detection, Guassian blur, etc).

here's the white paper for the chip: http://uploads.movidius.com/1441734401-Myriad-2-product-brie...

Because programming these chips essentially requires having the hardware, and because the hardware was very hard to come by, programming these chips was mostly limited to Google, DJI, and other big partners.

With this release the everyday developer has access to these vision processing chips, and the barrier to development entry is considerably lower.

This is not meant to replace your titan X gpu.
1/ Convert the number to base 3.

2/ Each digit represents an intersection on the goban, assuming the following mapping: 0 = no stone, 1 = black stone, 2 = white stone.
> no one will accept your patches to bump up the 21 million bitcoin supply...not so democratic.

Why would anyone willingly dilute their own money?

> legitimate critiques are always brushed off with really absurd replies

> And then we look at the environmental costs, and that's not good. Or the deflationary economics of the system itself, and those aren't good either. Or how it seems a lot more like an elaborate ponzi scheme, and that's not good either.

These are not legitimate critiques without real data to back them up. Without real data they are conjecture based on emotion.
Amazon's rationale for its lack of profits is well known... Why does this rationale not apply to its cloud business?

Is the cloud business so good that it generates profits regardless of the investment it makes... or is the retail business so bad that it can't generate profits regardless of the investment AMZN makes in it?
Off subject, but I'm surprised better rear view cameras/sensors are not being manufactured right now. I'm not talking about just a camera though.

Could anyone imagine a a smart camera, with a display. The camera/computer would assist the driver in seeing better at night. Would calculate the odds of a police cruiser behind you. Would warn of potential danger, like an animal on the side of the road. Would warn you if you are being followed. Would be so well designed, you still used your rear view, but kicked in at the needed times? Would map out likely spots police hide? Could even be tied into physiological body sensors? "Today is not a good day to drive? Watch out for ice. Watch you temper?"

The camera/sensors would have to be easily installed, like a stereo?

I would buy one if programmed right, and the cost was justifiable.

Then again there's someting beautiful about a simple chrome rear view mirror. A driver knowing they need to drive with all senses fully engaged, with no assistance other than experience, and good coordination.
I want to see a followup report on the actual conversion rates...
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I respectfully disagree: consensus is not an important building block of the scientific method.

Also: it is generally held that someone who has completed a PhD in physics is an expert in their small aspect of physics, and that they understand well a broader aspect of physics. Getting a PhD takes a lot less than a lifetime (fortunately).
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MySpace's core business was crappy irrelevant display ads laid out over a crappy CMS, with what we would today call a very small MAU base. MySpace at its peak was around a third of the size Twitter is today in terms of MAUs.

Facebook has algorithmic targeting of ads second to none on the planet (most of which happens entirely outside the purview of ad blockers) and pretty unrivaled view of what customers are doing across devices. On top of which they have several other businesses that could one day grow more profitable than FB itself.

We can talk about whether Facebook's model is sustainable, whether demand for behavioral targeting ads will hold up, or if the likes of Instagram and Oculus can ever turn really profitable - but a MySpace style collapse is more or less out of the question.
Why? Go is a terrible language with a terrible community.
I kind of worry about service providers also being content producers while simultaneously coercing consumers into agreeing to contracts with binding arbitration.

Judge, jury, and executioner?
Google indeed seems the strongest competitor now for AWS, but there are far more providers who compete - see a comparison: https://www.cloudorado.com/ . We just need to choose them to avoid monopoly or at least oligopoly.
The IIHS published a study[0] a little more than a year ago which found that the Smart Car wasn't actually that bad in terms of driver deaths per million registered vehicle years (2011 and equivalent earlier models, 2009-12).

In its class (which only had 3 cars), the Mini was safer than the Smart but the Hyundai Accent was much much worse.

But there were lots of bigger cars that were at the same rating or worse:

* Buick Lacrosse 2WD

* Cadillac DTS

* Cadillac Escalade 4WD

* Chevrolet Camaro

* Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Ext 4WD

* Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Crew 4WD

* Chevrolet Suburban 1500 2WD

* Ford Expedition 2WD

* Ford F-150 Super 4WD 39

* Mercury Grand Marquis

* Toyota Avalon

* Toyota Tundra Crew Max 2WD

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Driver_DeathRates_sr5001_e...
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Isn't this exactly what XML (or for that matter XHTML) was supposed to do?
That's a myth. Show the evidence please.
DNS based load balancing has a lot of caveats due to how clients can hold onto stale information. To do better means stepping up to running anycast via BGP, a signifigant jump in complexity. That's why services like Cloudflare exist.
It looks like they have developed an ASIC for ML. The obvious use case would be mobile devices where performance/power and latency (versus going to the cloud) is a concern.
It sounds like you're suggesting austerity, which comes with its own set of problems. Between inflation and austerity, I don't think there's a clear absolute choice.
The distance between 0 and 1 is smaller than the distance between 0 and 2. The number of points between 0 and 1 is larger than the number of rational numbers.
Sure, a basic VPS could be a drop-in replacement, but think of all the stuff that goes on with managing that. If you want to automate the creation of new servers then you have to script it or use something like CloudFormation or Troposphere. Either way you are immediately off the "drop-in replacement" path unless you build a middleware layer for your scripts.

These guys make their money off the companies that need to be able to automate infrastructure and that stuff is becoming more, not less, fragmented.
What's a good resource to learn? Also what other than money can/should be negotiated?
What is the significance of May 15th?
Reading the comment throughout this thread it's no wonder progress is so slow in this field. Anyone attempting to approach it from a new direction is a fraud, apparently.

I found it to be a very fascinating read.
How exactly would Apple go private? Someone would have to show up with ~$600B in cash to buy all outstanding shares at a decent premium.
There was a section about this in the _Transmetropolitan_ comic/graphic novel, if my memory is correct.

Lady gets reanimated in some sort of assembly-line mass process, gets a few days in a shelter, then gets kicked out into society at large. She then basically has some sort of culture shock and ends up homeless again.
You guys know if the Myriad V2 processor is locked (just neural networks) or it will be programmable?
There should eventually be some time when Amazon does finally cash out, presumably on some timeline as a function of Bezos's mortality. Its unrealistic to be around forever. How many companies last hundreds of years? How many tech companies last decades?
I think it's a matter of scope. You can respect Stallmans contributions to technology and "no thank you" his views on politics and society.
Ever read 'Altered Carbon' by Richard Morgan? This SF novel (quite a page-turner, btw) is set exactly in the world like that: changing bodies extends life, and the powerful understandably have more access to that, accumulating wealth.
If you really want to have a say at Facebook or Google, the best way to do that is to work there, not through shareholder votes.
While I agree with having an immutable arch is preferable but in some cases it's not viable. In one of our projects we re-use the instances like in the article since we deploy multiple times an hour. In AWS you are billed for each started hour which in this case would mean that we would pay a lot extra if we created new instances for each deploy.
I understand the arguments that people have against proof of work but unfortunately they are extremely short sighted with respect to the whole system. You could say the same thing about all the infrastructure surrounding gold, but crypto-currencies and gold have serve a very valuable purpose that gets lost in the details: they have many of the properties of ideal money.

Gold isn't as valuable as it is today for any other reason. You can dream about a theoretical currency with a proof of work that accomplishes something but it won't have the same properties of ideal money until it is more widely used, mined and attacked.

Also don't forget that space heaters _actually_ do nothing but generate 'waste heat' and no one seems worried about those.
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"Activist investors" are essentially parasites, as they are only interested in short-term profit
We may never know precisely how much more powerful the ideology of software freedom made us as developers, but there is no doubt in my mind that the work I do every day is on top of a foundation of free software and the compounding returns it yields over time.

Thanks for the software, RMS, but more importantly, thanks for the freedom.
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Employee stock vesting day. If you get stocks granted as a bonus (most of us do), they vest in may and November.

I know guys who've never sold any of their stocks. This will be literally $10k or more in their pockets, if they finally decide to sell.
Probably when stock vests for college hires.
Through things like this library, which, combined with a Sufficiently Smart Compiler (SBCL qualifies as one for this purpose), produces C++-like static dispatch for cases such as the one you're proposing. https://github.com/guicho271828/inlined-generic-function
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That's pretty much been Jeffrey Katzenberg's MO since the 80's. First Paramount Pictures then Disney. He pushes his creative teams way too damn hard, burns them out, their new original content becomes crap, then they just creates a stream of derivative drivel.
(long time Emacs user here)

He probably could have made a lot of money if he was more of a 'capitalist'. I think he's a <bleeeeping> superstar.
You missed ad hominem attacks about hygiene etc... When people run out of arguments.
On the one hand, that's a bizarre reason to block an applicant.

On the other hand, if a trivial setback is enough to make you give up the career, better to get it early.

What was the terrible realisation? That you don't want to become an accountant?
"I can talk to you about my headache and believe that I am communicating effectively with you, because you’ve had your own headaches. The same thing is true as apples and the moon and the sun and the universe. Just like you have your own headache, you have your own moon. But I assume it’s relevantly similar to mine. That’s an assumption that could be false, but that’s the source of my communication, and that’s the best we can do in terms of public physical objects and objective science."

So, in other words, he drew the same conclusion that Wittgenstein did over half a century ago (approaching it from the vantage point of language), but dressed up in more up-to-date accoutrements in analytic philosophy?
The market and the mob are two different things.
Many other countries have currencies that fluctuate wildly even with their own central banks. Is the US just better at managing it? The Yen lost half of its value a few years ago.
Shit. That last one. I turn 35 in three months. I better hurry.
> It puzzles me that American are not more aware of the problem.

Most Americans do not travel outside the USA extensively. They have no basis of comparison.

> How can so many be so convinced that America is a country with so much freedom.

Americans watch TV, and it tells them that they are free.
I have a similar process myself. What I find to be helpful is to ask myself what, in particular, went wrong. If I have a handful of cases where "some api was used wrong", then I take that as a sign of a need for refactoring to make the callee easier to use.

Another that I like to ask myself, is how I can use the compiler and its type checking to my advantage. As in, how can I make it more difficult for myself to make this bug again in the future?

But I agree with the author's point: Nearly every bug is an opportunity to learn. You should not just fix bugs, but also to understand why they happened.
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> How exactly would Apple go private?

Slowly, over time? It's not as though $600B cash is exactly out of reach for Apple.
I love Proxmox but I wish it looked a little bit more like oVirt's UI.
I'm not sure I fully understand your position. Price stability (with respect to some basket of common goods) is the primary function of any central bank...
One question not answered is whether this regime has similar long-term health benefits to a longer exercise regime. They would need to compare long-term mortality rates to really see if it is as beneficial.
Only one or two of those interview descriptions mention anything like the bullshit tech trivia this thread is about. Most describe take-home problems, extended design conversations, and technical sessions that are more like extended conversations.

You seem to infer that the phrase "just hire them" means you do absolutely zero interviewing, which was not my intention.

When I said "just hire them" I meant "do some obvious stuff, like talk about their experience, ask a high-level question and expect a discussiony answer, not short, commoditized trivia, and if based on that stuff it seems reasonable, then just hire them and don't obsess over cramming more dumb trivia filters into the process."

I took it for granted that everyone reading this would understand that basic interview (e.g. talk to someone, ask about their resume items, have a discussion) is always necessary.

The "just hire them" part is meant to say that people should not get stuck up their own ass with trying to put together a ridiculous number of commodity filters up front before getting to that conversation stage, and that the conversation stage should function more like a rolling basis hire than like a process in which you tediously examine every candidate first, then go back and eliminate and re-interview, etc.

I think the Netflix process fits what I'm saying very well.