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I'm not saying that Linux is wrong or higher cost. I can't know enough to make such a claim. I'm merely saying that one cannot dismiss Windows as obviously higher-cost without examination.

> goes into branding...which Linux doesn't have any reason to pursue.

I strongly disagree, though I suspect we have a different view of what "branding" is. Branding isn't just logos and advertisements. Branding is creating a certain intuitive impression in the minds of prospective customers and partners. This can often involve serious technical investment. To give a specific example, look at the company DigitalOcean. They try to maintain a brand of "easy to get set up and learn how to do stuff". To do this, they pay people to write good tutorials and they spend a lot of effort designing their user interactions.

As a result, when run into someone who wants to learn how to set something up on a Linux server, I point them at digitalocean. Yes, their branding involves some nice graphics, but it also involves solving problems for their users.

Windows at times spent a lot of effort on solving engineering problems in service of their brand. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html

Canonical actually spent a fair amount of engineering effort on branding for Ubuntu, but they just didn't have the resources to create a clean experience around things like wifi and peripherals (at least by 2013, when I switched to OSX).
Vimana are not unique to India and there are references from all over the world and include the Egyptian Saqqara Bird, the pre-Columbian golden airplane models, the Greek Icarus legend, the Chariot of Ezekiel, the Nazca runways (lines), The Abydos carvings, The Tassili rock paintings from Algeria and the Chinese references to Lu Ban’s wooden aircraft that flew great distances. Naturally, these references are often dismissed by modern historians as simply impossible but there can be no doubt that humanity has a collective memory of have once been able to fly in ancient times.
I keep a close eye on calories (used to be very overweight) as a rule, and comparing days I eat meat and days I don't, even when calories are the same, I end up much hungrier.
Eh. The barrier for entry for an AGI does exist, though it is currently undefined, since we don't know what it is. The reason I say that is there are at least 7 billion general intelligences running around this planet (and many more if you consider animal intelligences) It is important to define it that way, not that it is impossible, just that it is unknown how much effort is needed to create an artificial one.

This distinction is very important when comparing the threat of AI with other significant threats. Before nuclear bombs were built we could not tell you what the difficulty was in creating one. Now that difficulty is well defined, and we can use that knowledge to prevent them from being built by most nations, except the most well funded.

If the barrier for entry for AGI (then ASI) is lower than we expect, then the threat of AI is significantly different than if AGI/ASI can only be created by nation states.
People derive satisfaction from their labor, but they also derive fatigue, frustration, and dismay from it. There is a reason why people generally demand a for doing non-hobby projects. This means it is, on balance, a cost.
Err. Great engineering failures are never one mishap creating a problem. They are many issues all meeting at a critical point. The problem with intelligence is unexpected emergence, a higher order problem occurs out of simple parts in an novel and unpredictable way.
Are you trying to imply that Youtube is a monopoly? Aren't there others like vimeo, etc.? Besides, there is nothing from technology perspective to make it a monopoly. All you need is a server rack and a bunch of web developers who can build such a site, right?
Also please fix incorrect grammar in title. Why not use original artivle title?
Is there a specific reason why you would want to open source it?

Just my personal opinion: users don't care if your app is open sourced or not (Unless there's a clear reason for it to be open sourced, for example providing transparency in cases user privacy is critical)
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Cars have become worse, probably due to safety standards. The lower ceiling height, thicker pillars, and cab-forward massive dash boards with highly sloped windshields. I'm thinking about getting a Mercedes commercial van; that ought to fit, and I can sit upright.
And not the rest of 8000s? Oxygen levels and temperature aren't characteristics of proximity to "outer space"?

Idiots, idiots everywhere.
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It might be easier than that. Data Broker companies are the ones that run those stupid "Which LOTR character are you" or "What color are you" quizzes that are popular in some social media circles. They do it to slowly build psychological trait models of the people taking the quiz. This allows them to sell that information to marketing companies.

Access to that kind of data would help an AI determine the people that are more susceptible to manipulation. Add in records on health care, as you mentioned, and information on debts and you have data that can help an AI gather as many human minions as it needs.
Good points. I'd just like to point out that, there are "political redundancy" reasons to diversify to multiple (cloud) providers: you could easily get in a billing dispute with a single vendor - if that means your entire business grinds to a halt, then that puts you in a very weak and vulnerable position.

I don't know if the extra effort of using eg. Google and AWS is worth in order to "stay up when AWS goes down" - but it might be worth it to stay up if/when AWS cuts you off for some reasons (quite possibly due to human error, billing, a take-down notice or other legal dispute etc).

None of that helps if you might accidentally find yourself on the wrong side of the "war on terror" by publishing news - in such a case all your US funds and assets might be frozen, and you would need a non-US presence in order to stay up while sorting out the potential error. But I suppose it's no worse than being subject to other kinds of arbitrary censorship...
It seems implausible that all of the aliens would agree to ignore us, even less so for them to consistently arrive at that conclusion in an independent manner. Then again, Earth might be exceptionally boring and consistently uninteresting to spacefaring aliens. Who knows? Maybe life is really rare.
I'm for repealing rent control - if we repeal Prop 13 at the same time.

For some reason, landlords want their cake and eat it too.
Google knew that Youtube will turn into the largest video search engine, so they bought it strategically. Otherwise someone else could have swooped in and acquired the largest video search site, which would have left Google vulnerable in many ways.

Summary: userbase/community was what drove the network effect, which made it impossible for Google to catch up, and that's why Google made the decision to purchase Youtube.
In the past, single human brains have come close to destroying the world, and lots of people have access to supercomputers, so the barrier doesn't seem insurmountable.

I don't think you need AGI to cause a catastrophe. A narrow AI specializing in cyberattacks could be catastrophic, and is probably possible with current techniques.
How is conflict of interest generally handled in this sort of situation?

Given that Elon Musk is personally major investor in SolarCity and Tesla is a publicly traded company with obligations to its shareholders, would Elon be removed or limited in his ability to control negotiations with SolarCity? Even though it seems like an acquisition of SolarCity would fit within Tesla's overarching strategy, price negotiation could probably be affected by Elon's interests within SolarCity.
Biometrics are either just "what you know" or "what you have", depending if the sensor is trusted.
Now to make it self hosting. ;)
Cynical yes, but some people do really good work and just end up in the position because of it.

Too much painting with a broad brush and trying to redefine a word normally reserved for an Ace team member.
Incorrect.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/850373.html
> was there some technical aspects to YouTube that Google couldn't or didn't want to build themselves?

Google had very much the power of building a YouTube-like community themselves, but buying out a competitor is a short-cut since it has the positive side-effect of removing that competition in our business. After buying YouTube, Google didn't have to waste time in building a community around a new product or "converting" the YouTube masses to theirs.

This short-cut way of acquisition is nowadays preferred by large companies rather than risk everything by doing innovation and "real" competition.
Wow. Sounds like a huge shell game that Musk has set up among his companies. It's betting big, which should be expected from Musk, but it seems a bit odd to be so personally intertwined with public companies and making decisions accordingly. It also seems unduly burdensome to the companies in the "portfolio" which might otherwise perform well.

In fact, it's really the two more innovative companies that seem to be heavily subsidizing the more commodity-oriented business (SolarCity) and taking on its risk. Not sure I understand that play.
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Huh? We have flying cars. They are called planes, and they take a lot of maintenance to keep from falling out of the sky.

But let's change the question up a bit... There are billions and billions of flying intelligences on this planet. Birds, insects, even mammals. Nature has already created that. We've created things that are even better at flying fast and carrying more weight. So simply looking at 'flying cars' and saying they didn't happen so AI can't happen is at the least, very ignorant.

If nature can create something randomly, we can create something directed in a shorter period of time (well, we don't really have another 4 billion years to try). AGI is an eventuality.
This does a great job at making a point (and concisely, too!) but I think this is the paragraph that stands out the most:

"In the past, every time a prominent piece of technology was removed from my Apple hardware — most recently the CD drive and the Ethernet port — my response was ambivalent because I had already been happily using the alternative for a while. Wi-Fi, despite its flaws, offered countless advantages over Ethernet, leading to rapid adoption. Steam, iTunes, and Netflix had made me almost forget that CDs were still a thing by the time I got my Retina Macbook Pro. It almost goes without saying that these technologies were standard and universal — nobody would have accepted them otherwise. But there’s no Next Best Thing in headphones. This is an entirely artificial change."

I despise Apple products because so many the decisions seem to be about Apple and not about me. Amazon has the opposite philosophy, and I'm a voracious consumer of Amazon products (even though I find their ethics to be suspect). Amazon gives me no choice because they are better than all their competitors. Apple makes me beg for a competitor and even accept compromises in order to get away from their anti-consumer decisions (like this one).
The induced demand does not come from those who already live in the area buying/renting multiple units but from new people migrating in (that's why I included the "...otherwise desirable areas like [LA/SoCal]" in my original comment).

For areas like LA, you can assume that there is a very large pool of people with at least some desire to migrate in (just like NYC, Chicago, etc). One of the primary throttling influences on this migration is the cost of housing, just like one of the primary throttling influences on "Will I drive to location X" is "how bad is traffic between here and there?" (what is the cost of driving).

Increase the housing stock (build more roads) and it will almost immediately be soaked up by those eager to migrate in (drive), before it has the chance to sit on the market for a while and exert downward pressure on prices.
Greedy people cause all kinds of problems now. I don't know why people aren't concerned that a greedy AI could be even worse.
Are you sure? Isn't notawacist critiquing the notion that the way to reduce particular types of crime is to eliminate from the local population a subset of society whose label is correlated with that crime? In fact it is animats whose post contained words that would usually be considered unacceptable in mainstream American discourse:

> No more black people, and no more gunfire.

notawacist goes on to point out that there are crimes of which white people are the predominant perpetrators.

Note also that notawacist's reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11950969 to the inflammatory sentence ostensibly identifies notawacist as holding a standard anti-racism pro-diversity position:

> I have no idea why black people or other minorities might feel like they are unwelcome around the hackers of Hacker News when they post comments like that.
This project is awesome, but I'd be worried about my hand brushing up against all that lead every day for years. Or am I being too paranoid? In any case, easily solved with some casting epoxy.
I 100% agree. I was just saying that ULA has floated the idea recently.
In my personal experience of nearly 20 years in the industry, there is a nearly perfect correlation between "people who continually find themselves giving quotes to the media" and "assholes."

That's among those I've worked with. I know there must be those who don't fit this type. But they haven't been in my personal circles.
This is the main reason I will only consider full-size pickups for my primary driver going forward. I cannot accept the limited visibility and poor ergonomics of sedans. I'm not exceptionally tall, at only 6'2".
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Parent said "most of", and I think that's pretty much correct regardless of how vibrant of a community Imgur has. Most traffic to imgur is via embeds or links from another discussion forums. The former case obviously provides no exposure to Imgur community, and even in the latter case most people are there only to look at the picture, not to engage as an Imgur community member.

The whole point of this discussion thread is that Imgur is f*ed because they aren't independent enough. Otherwise there's nothing to worry about, right?
According to this (admittedly rather old) article, Gmail will fully delete deleted emails within 60 days:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/does-delete-forever-in-gmail-re...
The Harvard CS50 course was redesigned because the previous version appealed to much to condescending people like GP who had no patience for classes that teach beginners.
As a 200cm/6'6" man, I think the optimum height is 6'4" - you get all the benefits of being tall (social prestige, being able to breathe in crowds) and fewer of the disadvantages (clothes still fit, beds still fit, buses and planes still fit, don't hit your head on doorframes or light fittings anywhere near as much).

If only I could go back in time and tell young vacri to stop growing at 6'4" :)
I don't believe it's a technical problem. It just hasn't completed the internal AWS process for HIPAA certification to be added to their BAA. Postgres is in the same boat.
JSON enhanced CSV might be a more suitable name. After all it is valid CSV and invalid JSON.
These aces are called schools and community centers and they welcome volunteers
There is an even easier way:

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No.

A human being 4.12E+12 meters tall, standing on the equator, would have their head moving at the speed of light due to the rotation of the earth. At that point, their experience of time would essentially stop, and reproduction would cease. Also, cosmic rays and lack of O2 would begin to distract the subject from reproduction with cumulative effects from suffocation and radiation burns long before evolution could raise humans to the aforementioned 4 billion km height.

There are other considerations (viz. angular momentum, occasionally passing the human through the Sun at roughly knee height, lunar collisions, &c.) So, anyway, no, we can't keep getting taller.
IMO it's not too much of a wart to import it from the future in order to straddle 2.x/3.x.

print() works, without a __future__ import, in Python 2.6. And 2.6 is already well past end-of-life; anyone using a version of Python which doesn't support print-as-function without an import is someone whose timeline for a Python 3 upgrade is "never" -- they'd have moved to at least a later 2.x by now.
>all evidence shows low carb diets are equally effective regardless of ketosis or not.

Well I will take my anecdotic evidence (and my girlfriend's, and two friends') over your scientific studies. Fat and protein make me feel full well below my caloric needs for maintaining the same weight; I am hardly ever full with carbs, and even when my stomach feel fulls, my brain keeps wanting me to eat.
When you say it's "usually used as a common term", that sounds like wishful thinking. It seems you want to take the term back and distance it from The DAO.

But new efforts like this won't call themselves "a DAO" anymore than a new airship would be called "a hindenburg".
Pigs are very cheap to raise, they'll happily get to slaughter weight quickly on "waste" foods. They don't need lots of land and they provide lots of meat for their relative size.
You assume they would be standing up.
Just tested it out - I thought it was going to be a live chat app. I'm not disappointed per se, but definitely was not what I thought it was going to be..like Zopim etc.Essentially it is just a link to FB messenger?
They won't be abstaining from the shareholder vote, though.
I had a swim class like that in USA. The French exceptionalism is a tacky gimmick to hang a book off of.
A geosynced satellite would have the same only half the time problem. If you want to correct the angle all you'd need is a mirror.
As Alan has said, the importance of funding is more about finding the problem. There's a lot of wandering and false leads involved (though, finding out the false leads is nevertheless valuable. It's still new knowledge). In terms of hardware, the thing to anticipate is what computing power will be necessary for accomplishing things decades from now, and paying the bill for that, not considering what one can buy from a computer retailer today, because that doesn't create the excuse to think of what computers will be able to do.
This does make some sense from an anthropological perspective. For tribal people, being excommunicated from the tribe was a death sentence. This is also the reason that people fear public speaking so much (the risk of losing favor with the tribe).
No, not necessarily (re Elon being limited or removed). In fact, that's very unlikely.

For example, Berkshire Hathaway has occasionally run into conflicts of interest over its long history. They've usually handled them by being as transparent and open about the details as possible. In one famous acquisition, they intentionally over-paid for the company they were buying that they already held a large stake in. They told the SEC during a questioning about it, that they over-paid by a bit because they wanted their new shareholders to be happy, long-term partners. The SEC regulators apparently struggled to understand the premise, per Buffett's biography.

I would suggest in Elon's case, that his best bet is to be extremely open about all details of the acquisition, including how the price was arrived at. Tesla should pay a bit more than what would otherwise be normal. The more transparent the better. There's nothing to inherently restricts Elon's role here, regulation wise, but he does need to be a bit careful so as to avoid setting up an easy lawsuit.
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Do you know what "those entities" do? They teach Scratch just like Apple's program.
Q: Why do those programs exist? Lex and yacc originally come from Bell Labs. Why wouldn't they use what you recommend instead?

And when I look at the credits for lex and yacc today I see some very capable programmers. Why do these programs exist? I may be biased somewhat as I use them regularly for small tasks, but my question is an honest one.

Also, someone else mentioned swi-prolog. I think gprolog is just as easy and is noticably faster. Curious what HN readers think are the advantages to swi-prolog.
Understanding which features to create and why is significantly more impactful than just trying new models on the same dataset.
Check ou this paper

http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939/...
Nice example of how positive momentum of AWS leads to more defensibility (a dedicated third party site) of market position. Reinforcing positive cycle of success.
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At DockerCon today Microsoft chose a Linux hosted SQL Server to demonstrate Docker container support (See Mark Russinovich blog on azure.microsoft.com). SQL Server customers are clearly not on LInux, so why would MSFT demo a product that is a year away from release, on a platform that implies a migration for current customers? Does this indicate that the SQL Server division has thrown in the towel on Windows Server, and is focused on Linux for contianer support? The WinDocks analysis here: http://windocks.com/blog-2/Developers-Perspective-on-Windows
1. MySQL replication is async by default; see [1]. That means commit returns before replication to peer is complete. Committed data can be lost if master's disk is destroyed before a slave replicates it. NDB has synchronous replication but it has other limitation. 5.7 seems to have a semi-sync mode now.

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replication.html

4. For complication, you need to find out and configure the binary log position. Also because replication is on the binary log, if you ever truncate the log, you can't simply add a brand new master. You have to do a backup on the primary and restore to the new master, and then set up the log position to just prior to backup. Just lots of extra complication.
I started poking at this out of curiosity, and a desire to begin sharpening my TensorFlow axe, and one thing remains unclear. They give you two spreadsheets, one being the training data and the other is the tournament data (what you need to predict on). Each entry in the spreadsheet is 21 features and a single binary class. The latter is what you predict. But for the submissions they request a probability, not a class. They don't explain what "probability" here means. Does it mean probability of class 0? Probability of class 1? Probability of the moon exploding on a Thursday?

Overall interesting idea. Undecided whether it's real/scam/fake, but definitely very interesting at face value. I just wish their documentation was more clear. Seems kind of important...

EDIT: Found a comment on Reddit that indicates that it means probability of class 1 (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3wdr9e/num...)
Not all ice creams, some of them. When I say marked I mean in general if you ask the store; doesn't need to be actually marked (though some foods are marked this way, even if they contain gelatin)
Oh, not saying Indian beef cuisine sucks, saying beef-eating is not in the majority :)