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>ACLU, EFF and NRDC do this regularly.

Exactly this. I think the liberal media, liberal bloggers, etc has lost its collective mind over this. I haven't seen so many hit pieces against an individual at once, ever. Thiel went from SV weirdo genius to a Trump-loving anti-christ in one week.

I think the media wants to be untouchable and if they want to publish videos of Hulk Hogan having sex for ad impressions they will do so. Pushback by the saner side of soceity is not tolerated by them. Its incredible anyone is remotely defending Gawker here.

I think most educated people are seeing through this bullshit. Sex tapes aren't "journalism" and entities like Gawker and their simplistic "outrage journalism" for ad impressions are not morally defensible. I also don't believe "outing" people is journalism either. Thiel deserves the same privacy as any other closeted person. How did the liberal SJW brigade become homophobes and sex tape distribution defenders so quickly? It boggles the mind.
I've changed the phrasing, thanks. Men and women are enthusiastic users of technology.
>Ear pads lost their shape? Replace them.

The only problem I have with your comment is this line. It sounds great in theory, but in practice I've found that getting replacement earpads for my Sennheisers is not that easy: new earpads are almost as expensive as the headphones themselves! Or I can get cheap Chinese ones, and they aren't even that cheap, and have simply terrible fit and thickness.

Seriously, I think there's a great market opportunity here for someone who wants to make OEM-quality high-end headphone earpads. The Chinese ones I've tried actually seem to have decent enough feel quality, it's the size and fit that are all wrong (they don't really fit the headphones, and the pads are too thin, and many don't have the mesh inside).
I think that if you want to copy a conscious being, you'd have to copy the body as well.[1]

There are a lot of 'memories' stored in the body, and the brain and body (and endocrine system) are inseparably intertwined in my opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
Im afraid I'm missing the point about "sending processes rather than messages".

The modularity thing sounds pretty much to well designed objects to me, but it seems that you're trying to make a difference between that and processes.

What do you have in mind or, better said, which could be a concrete example of it?
See William Riker and Thomas Riker from Star Trek.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Riker

William Thomas "Tom" Riker was a result of a transporter accident in 2361 that created two William Thomas Rikers, genetically indistinguishable from each other, with personality and memories identical up to the point of the duplication. One of the duplicates continued to be known as William Riker. The other chose to use his middle name and be known as Thomas Riker.

Thomas and William clashed almost immediately due to the resentment each felt towards the other. The eight years of living different lives made them entirely different men – William evolved into a cautious and duty-driven officer while Thomas remained impulsive and reckless. As a result of conflicts with William – who was by that time a superior officer (a commander) – Lieutenant Riker decided to leave the Enterprise. He chose to use his middle name, Thomas, to distinguish himself from his counterpart. Captain Jean-Luc Picard managed to get Thomas a posting on the USS Gandhi where he could continue his Starfleet career. Upon Thomas' departure, William seemed to have accepted Thomas' existence and gave him his trombone as a parting gift. (TNG: "Second Chances")
Blame Canada, Or, the Myth of the Shallow Talent Pool
Do we really believe our body's are going to process 'fake meat' as 'real meat'? I am highly skeptical of that aspect as well. Moreover, we are removing a very natural element out of food (killing an animal for meat) out of the picture by growing meat in a lab, this is a very primal element that technology has forgotten.

The problem stems from current livestock farming practices. Fixing that problem is far easier than trying to create lab grown meat, and in the end will be healthier as it doesn't require a change in our biological system.

Plus food is not complicated. Humans have made it complicated over the last 50-60 years. Food has been a basic necessity of life, yet most struggle with every aspect related to food, from acquiring it to cooking it.

Don't get me wrong I see this type of innovation as being very important to long-term space travel or planet colonization but for everyday human consumption I view this as a waste of time and energy.
There's a major difference between the two. Floppy drives were of seriously limited utility by 1998 and it was only getting worse. 1.44MB was starting to be a pretty painful limit. Software was starting to come on CDs instead of floppies. Documents were starting to need Zip disks, USB drives, CD-Rs, or networks.

Can you imagine using floppies today? You wouldn't be able to fit anything on them. A single smartphone photo would already be too big. They were already doomed, Apple just happened to be the first one to stop shipping them.

Contrast this to the ubiquitous headphone jack. It still works great. It does exactly what we need it to. It does its job as well in 2016 as it did when it was created in 1964.

With floppies, Apple saw the writing on the wall and moved faster than other companies were willing to. If they kill the headphone jack, they will be trying to force a switch that otherwise wouldn't happen. Data keeps on growing seemingly without limit, but audio hasn't changed in decades.
The more interesting question to me is if a good enough copy can be made that is functionally same and what that means.

Reminds me of the Ship of Theseus but with the human body/brain.
Jesus Christ, what did he do to you?
This is a great example of the absolutely terrible moderation here. This is a very good comment, pointing out how someone can either pay about the same money and get a much higher-quality product, or save a bunch of money by going to a different vendor (dx.com) and buying in bulk (since the OP admits he loses his headphones frequently). Personally I'd be happy if someone quickly pointed out how I could save 87% on something I buy regularly.
If you've got a philosophy that doesn't involve biting any counterintuitive bullets, please share.
An important point is that you need to own that public (sub)domain, even if it is only for use on a private LAN.
Practically no one will buy such a dongle out of belief that the audio quality of Lightning port earbuds is so vastly superior. Such is the Apple loyalist (once upon a time I was one of them). ;-)
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I'm certain in this context "rights" refers to the rights regularly afforded to human beings (as in the european proposal), not to the rights we might assign to non-sentient animals.

In any case, it seems to me that we don't understand consciousness and life enough to truly define any requirement for rights any better than the meaning of 'sentience'.
Retail stores are much more connected to their local communities, and more worried about individual customers. They also believe more in the old saw that for every 1 person who complains, there's 9 more who just walked away. And finally, there usually is real competition in place for any given retail store.

Big global manufacturers don't really see that, and don't care. If people are going to continue to buy from them regardless, they have little incentive to listen to their petty concerns. While there is significant competition for the iPhone (called Android), Apple is extremely profitable, far more so than Android, and there doesn't seem to be any limit to how much Apple can squeeze its customers.
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Where? The only mention of "wireless" is a brief acknowledgement that wireless audio sucks and Apple will ship wired headphones.
Thanks for yet another very smooth upgrade! I even forgot to back up the server and I have nothing to regret. I just hope that you'll fix this one tiny UI problem I noticed:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19004

Other than that, I'm perfectly happy. I love the progress!
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the analogy is baloney. floppy drives didn't get removed from hardware just because they were "old" or "made the computer fat," ... floppy drives were removed from computers because their entire raison d'etre was becoming more rare - the Floppy Disk. It was actively being replaced by CDs because it wasn't sufficient as a storage medium any more.

So for the analogy to make sense, 3.5mm plugs would have to be dying, actively and ubiquitously being replaced by ... whatever. Lightning? USB-C? But they're not. The 3.5mm jack and headphones in particular are probably more common now than ever before.

I personally would love to see the headphone jack become more useful in lots of different ways. Square managed to make a CC reader that plugged into the 3.5mm jack. Impressive, using it as a data port for simple data. Can we do more of that? What if a 3.5mm cable was a way for your phone to connect to various IoT devices to pass the basic setup data like your wifi SSID and password instead of this goofy process of broadcasting it's own wifi network that you have to connect to. Any app can push signals out the headphone port, and it works the same across iOS and Android. Maybe I'm an idiot and that'd never work but the point is: 3.5mm isn't dead. It's very much alive and kicking.
yeah i read the scope. but since the border between scheduling, configuration management, monitoring etc... is extremely blurry, with a high number of interconnection between systems, and lacking any kind of standard contract between them, i'm more wary about the introduction of these features.
Yes, Supercell made a fun game but there is no way it is worth billions when so many other apps and games receive chump change for their development efforts.

Part of the problem is that if someone actually does buy a “gem bag” or whatever they’re selling, it amounts to a single-vendor gift card (and not one that can buy very much).

I think it would have been much cooler if all gems were tied to the entire platform, and they worked in any game. For example: if you play game X for awhile and earn some gems, maybe that time spent can be used to “buy” progress in game Y. The platform could enforce some minimum time limit, e.g. no one can develop an app that rewards gems at a rate greater than some number per hour up to the time since the app was first downloaded.

And if it is possible to purchase gems, they should only cost money when they’re used. That way, you don’t have to buy a “bag” of 300 gems that you may never entirely use; instead, you can divide your rewards among all the games you like (including new games that come along).
Maybe somebody should write an RFC... Not sure how complex this would be to support in terminals in general though. After all, you may suddenly need much more information per cell than the 2 ints for the code point and color...
I appreciate that you're trying to clarify my post, although I did not intend my use of parentheses to imply that the enclosed fact was not important. But I'm unclear on what your ultimate point is. It's certainly not true that well ordering is "completely irrelevant", and I think you must know that if you have the confidence to make such a bold statement, which makes me wonder why you made it in the first place. It plays a very prominent role in many proofs of these facts for the positive integers. It alone is not sufficient to establish unique factorization, but I never claimed it was.

Are you agreeing with me? Disagreeing with me? What sort of response are you expecting? I'd like to have a productive discussion about this, but you're giving me a single bread crumb to go off of here.
> Now, with the obvious note that bitcoin is not fraudulent

Which makes it not a ponzi, really that's all there is too it; fraud is a necessary pre-condition to call something a ponzi. No fraud, no ponzi.

If you remove the fraud element as you are attempting to do, then virtually every investment counts as a ponzi, all insurance counts as a ponzi, because paying investors with money from newcomers is a thing common to a lot more than just ponzi schemes. The world is Ponzi SCHEME, the scheme means fraudulent, scam, etc. If something isn't fraudulent it is not a ponzi no matter how many other traits it shares with ponzi schemes. The comparison is thus not justifiable.
I think for smaller companies it could make sense but Netflix is big enough and visible enough that if AWS cut them off, I think you'd see a huge exodus off of AWS of people fearing they would be next ... simply not worth it to Amazon to shoot itself in the foot like that IMO
>If the fine bankrupts them, all the better!

What were your thoughts on the RIAA bankrupting people by suing them for $250k/song pirated? All for the better, right?
I actually read the title and thought it was an X project for wireless power transmission.
Since there isn't a computer that seems conscious at this time, the idea of machine consciousness is supported by thought experiments. Here's one old chestnut: "What if you replaced your neurons one by one with neuron-sized and shaped substitutes made of silicon chips that perfectly mimicked the chemical and electric functions of the originals? If you just replaced one single neuron, surely you'd feel the same. As you proceed, as more and more neurons are replaced, you'd stay conscious. Why wouldn't you still be conscious at the end of the process, when you'd reside in a brain-shaped glob of silicon? And why couldn't the resulting replacement brain have been manufactured by some other means?"

http://www.jaronlanier.com/aichapter.html
There's a pretty good handle on it, in the form of the ideal class group[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_class_group
The article came off as a disjointed rant at Peter Thiel. Why won't I be able to sue the next Gawker? That wasn't really answered in the post.
I'm pointing out that this is all speculative and dangerously close to science-fiction.
The fact that you know you are aware, shouldn't be even possible to begin with. What I am getting at is that I don't think there a physical explanation for it. If that is the case, then there is no reason for a robot to have rights, regardless of how human it seems.
Coincidentally, the headphone jack on my Lenovo laptop just broke last week, and it's been a huge pain. I didn't realize how much I depended on it. I wear ear buds to listen to music during work. I have bluetooth earbuds, but they are bulky and it's a pain to have to re-pair them, re-charge them, etc., and bluetooth even stopped working on my laptop once until I rebooted. I have a USB headset I usually just use for videoconferencing or recording videos, but it's even bulkier and awkward to wear for a long time.

So I got a USB to stereo adapter for a few bucks, but I find that the audio levels are not as smooth as with the regular headphone jack. The sound goes from a little too loud to virtually silent with just one tick of the volume control.

I've already been researching new laptops even though I wasn't expecting to get a new one until later this year, all because of a simple little headphone jack breaking. The only other alternative I guess is to use my phone for listening to music instead.
Show HN: Easy localising of React apps with plurals, numbers, dates and times
Do Apple fans actually believe that Apple earbuds are high quality? I recall even a top Apple exec once admitted at a public event that the best thing they could say about their earbuds was that they were the highest quality ones in the iPhone box.
The UBI doesn't cause that, though. Progress causes that. I don't think a strategy of "let's not automate so we have busy work for everyone" really cuts it.

The best people, at least in industries where it fits, will move on to consult on the proper operation of the automation and others will become artisans doing highly crafted versions of what otherwise is mass-automated.

And some might move to other localities where the automation is too expensive to create or support. Automation has a cost relative to the market in which it's created and requires highly skilled people to create and maintain, whereas labor can be paid on a sliding scale based on their local cost of living and usually cost less than automation maintenance. That scales to low budgets better, especially if you don't produce quite so much of something as to hit the break-even point for automation.

UBI, in this context, is a mitigating strategy to keep the rest from becoming welfare recipients while they retrain or retire early. That would be a hell of a lot worse stigma than simply having a lower standing of living.
My new laptop has, for no good reason other than thinness, decided to be without an Ethernet port. To compensate it came with a USB Type C Ethernet adapter, about the size of a zippo lighter.

In what world does it make sense to shave a millimeter off the device itself, but then require me to be dragging half a dozen adapters around?

I'm already packing AC adapter, HDMI->VGA adapter, USB hub and this new Ethernet adapter everywhere I go. I bet these are approachng the same volume as the laptop itself.
This is speculation. We don't even know what general intelligence on a computer will look like, therefore we don't know what constraints there will be, therefore it is speculative to say there won't be constraints on exponential scaling.
Google backed Freshdesk takes on Salesforce with a new tool
Cloud-based software provider Freshdesk, the first company outside the US backed by Google Capital, today launched a new tool to rival Salesforce.

https://www.freshsales.io
"Glue code" is not just (or particularly) about "application extension" (e.g. as embedded Lua in game engines).

Traditional "glue" has been called any language that connects between different programs and systems (e.g. take data out of system X as CSV, preprocess them, input them it program Y, do something with the results etc.

Which Python is used for a lot, in the scientific (physics and biology at least) communities. And yes, wrapping C, fortran etc libs too.
Drifting off topic a bit, but Electric Imp has an interesting approach to the configuration problem. Their devices have a light sensor, and the phone app sends the SSID/password by flashing the screen. You hold the phone to the sensor for a few seconds and then it's all programmed.
One thing that should be clear in these argument is that many people intuitive sense of the nature of consciousness.

It seems absolutely obvious that there's something unique in a human brain-body that can't be encompassed by just information. It's often denoted by "living, breathing, feeling".

There's no more concrete argument here. A person whose awakened from general anesthesia still "feels like they are the same". A person who, hypothetically, had all cells in their body replace themselves through cell division (say some youth-regaining process more complete than the ordinary aging process, which replaces quite a few still) wouldn't face the "am I really me" question is the same way as that exact duplicate on Mars.

I think these "identity issues" have to do with our internal processes of psychological adaptation. Each human is constantly changing and has a multitude of impulses - yet we each have to pursue our interests as a single being who deals with other single beings. So our brains have a reflexive tendency to form a sense of unified consciousness.

One might say that these are "just psychological issues" but I think it's reasonable to say that this reflex towards unified self-conception is very important for the thing humans do, at in the world as a unified whole rather than a collection of, say, feedback loops.
To explain a bit more: I was looking for a easy way to localise a React application and to my surprise none of the solutions solved all the problems (either translations OR numbers etc), and none of them (imo) offered an clean interface. This is bascially a wrapper around a few libraries, a webpack loader and a CLI tool for extracting messages.
You're thinking hi-end number crunching for mega systems and simulations.

Most low end everyday stuff in scientific and numeric computing is written in Python (including in Python wrapping fortran libs, e.g. through NumPy).
It's also worth pointing out that "freedom of the press" in the US means freedom for businesses that own printing presses. Removing stuff from autocomplete is an editorial decision. Removing and reordering stuff in search results can be an editorial decision. As someone who tried (and failed) to compete with Google's search engine, I don't think the US government should regulate editorial decisions of search engines.
your apps stop updating, and when web service apis change your app stops working. ios is nothing like your copy of photoshop 5 still working.
Only in the sense that his reader base is made up of a mix of Apple fans and haters who can't look away, and the over-the-top Apple promotion feeds both groups.
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You've omitted the huge, overwhelmingly outweighing disadvantages of intelligence in machines, which is that they don't work. Given that research progress is incremental, there really isn't reason to believe we will jump from narrow AI to super-smart AGI, instead of narrow AI to dumb AGI to smart AGI to super-smart AGI.