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Discovering super-intelligent life - think of the possibilities!

This is what scares me. The universe follows long time horizons. It's unlikely that we'd find someone just +/- 10,000 years of us. It would more likely be much more advanced, or much less. And if they were much more advanced, they'd find us first. And that rarely ends well for the less developed species. We eat cows, and have vaccines for bacteria.
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I want to believe that a cat fell asleep on the space bar. Then eventually woke up and posted.
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As true as all of that may be, I don't think it's politically viable to send people to Mars orbit, without putting at least one of the mission crew's footprints in its regolith.
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I hope apolitical people today at least care about world wars and genocide.

I don't think those who did care were super-human and while I have no strong feelings about these scientists - particularly because the US did not wait a second to rehabilitate them and use them for its own good - I think everybody from that time has to blamed for not caring, because others were.
And there are 50 bombs weighing 320 kg each so less than a B52 loads worth. They can take them here to the UK as far as I'm concerned. It's not like anyones likely to want to actually use any in the foreseeable future.
"One might prefer a Pi with a suitable smartcard attached..."

It's what my pal "Thoth" is essentially working on minus the Pi part. The EAL5-6 rated smartcards have significant effort put into SW protections and tamper-resistance. Not stopping high-end attackers with physical access in all likelihood but might keep out riff raff. He's putting mail and/or file encryption on them to protect keys against host compromise. Tells me the Ledger Blue is the best of the new, more-open ones as they know what Red-Black separation is, implement some of it physically, have trusted path, and act on some feedback. Check it out.

EDIT: Given this is open source, I forgot to mention multiple smartcards & SW TCB's can be combined in voter configuration with trusted hardware & software to reduce risk of vendor subversion. Unlikely that all the major vendors would work together or be compromised by same group unless threat profile is too big for most to survive already. :)
Well, maybe. I have not kept up with GopherJS; how are they doing on code size? And while you can certainly run Dart on an App Engine Managed VM, there is no free tier like with Go.
Instead of going for the quick take, spend your time writing one article a week that's higher quality with the intent of virality
I find it kind upsetting that it doesn't seem that this guy has actually been to the US, and yet he's being extradited there and charged by the US.

I can just imagine China arresting me for acknowledging the existence of Taiwan.
Odd, that was one of the main uses of our VCR. It never seemed complicated to me (tune VCR, record. Change channel on TV, watch) Maybe it was a lot easier in Europe with the SCART hookup?
The trouble is it depends how you define 'backup'.

E.g. if you are using zfs send/receive to do backups, and there's a bug in zfs send/receive....

Some people advise making sure you backup using different techniques/strategies/software, but in practice that gets quite difficult to manage, and you quickly end up going down a very deep rabbit hold on your quest for independent backup strategies.

Consider this example: I'm aware of at least one instance where a faulty tape drive damaged the tapes used by that drive - in a a way that caused those tapes to damage other drives in the same way. The damage spread like a virus. Unless you have "blue" tapes, and "yellow" tapes, and "blue" drives, and "yellow drives", an issue like that won't be contained.

But you do the combinatorics on all the kinds of issues like that which need to be addressed, and quickly you'll end up spending your whole life backing up data. Which will sort of solve the problem, because you won't have time to create any data which needs to be backed up.
Because they bundle 200 channels of crap with the 5 channels that you actually want forcing just about everyone to overpay for what they're receiving.
Does anyone know if there is data somewhere on how much money has been spent by governments (specifically the USA) on attacking copyright related stuff?

My main complaint about this is that I'd rather my tax dollars be spent stopping crime that causes physical harm.
To further clarify, if a Bloom filter query is O(K) where k is the number of hash functions, then when k=7, the filter could be described as O(1).

The constant factors here are important for practical use. Hashing 7 times is significantly different than hashing 1 or 2 times.

For the original commenter, give me a suggestion if you don't mind. How would you expect to see that info depicted in a comparison chart so that it's honest and obvious?
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Whackamole has uses. Sure diehard users will find new trackers but it makes it harder for the average consumer to pirate.

My dads favorite tv show tracker went down and he couldn't figure out how to get another private one. He's had to get a dvr and borrow my HBO password.
"it's CURRENT YEAR" is hardly refutation of the fact that it's still happening. Especially when you follow it up with a strawman about IBM.

now, let me channel dang for a second here:

HN looks down on these types of posts filled with logical fallacy (ad hominem, appeal to ridicule, moving goalposts). You would have made your point with the first two sentences alone.
> Since any evidence they do have is likely to be pretty weak, this seems like a classic "remember that USA is the boss of you" move.

I don't follow how you got from A to B there; I don't read Kerry's position as asserting American authority or sovereignty at all, to be honest. It's a standard for extradition which is a sovereignty affair as well as a legal due process consideration in our system of government, but not in the manner of asserting American authority to 'boss' Turkey around.

We refuse the occasional extradition to the UK, for example, despite having a special relationship with them and not tending to diplomatically 'boss' them around, so I'm not following your thinking here. (It's not a great example because of the 2003 treaty we have with them, but the point stands about refusals.)

I'm also not following how you arrived at the American position being a bluff.
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Owners that are paying interest on a note and passing it on to you are the reason that rents are out of control. If housing were a healthy market your rent would be the taxes+upkeep+something around market interest rates (on paid off property)-inflation. Which means you might be better off renting (economies of scale on maintenance/etc) and putting the extra cash into the stock market (or growing your business).

AKA, your rent would be significantly less than the cost of taking out a mortgage to own the same properly.

Obviously that isn't the case, and there are a number of reasons, starting with artificially low interest rates, government tax incentives for home ownership and backstoping 30 year mortgages for homes that weren't peoples primary residence.
Well, maybe. People who believe they have all this completely figured out (in either direction) are deluding themselves.
You just described what.cd.

What.cd open sourced Gazelle, the source code for the website and tracker. The core development team accepts pull requests, but they are themselves insulated from the owner and operator of what.cd.

Since opening Gazelle, many other private trackers have adopted it.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id4926. If there's a more substantive source, we can change it again.
Whip out that credit card and start buying stuff instead? Who cares if you don't use it much, it's all relative.

I like buying CDs and Bluray, then I rip them for everyday use. But its nice to have something tangible to back it up.

Plus its all legal and protected, since I don't rebroadcast any of the content, just private enjoyment.
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I whole-heartedly agree, but the reality is that it depends on your perspective. We could have uni kernel apps to run spreadsheets, but instead we now use Google Sheets, inside a JS VM inside of a sandboxed browser on top of an OS which maintains a separate copy of tons of configuration files for each separate piece of software which runs in a sandboxed environment and uses other layers of translation to do things on the hardware.

We've shown over the past 40 years that we value developer productivity much more than user resources. Most relevantly, consider the average size of a webpage: http://www.yottaa.com/company/blog/application-optimization/...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a fork _always_ possible in a decentralized blockchain? And if so, wasn't the "the contract is whatever 50%+1 of the network decides it is" always part of the contract?

Basically, anyone can introduce the fork with any arbitrary changes (including reverting any transactions, or, for that matter, creating more money out of thin air) at any point. But the fork is only viable if the majority of the network decides that they want it. So the governance model was always "majority decides"; it was just made explicit here.

Furthermore, it's impossible to address that problem by any kind of governance, because - this not being a government - submitting to the authority of the governing body is voluntary, and the way you avoid doing so is... by forking. So a fork is always an option, simply by virtue of decentralized implementation.
>A company that makes products for $5 and sells them for $5 may have a negligible stock price while creating an enormous amount of value. A company that buys products for $1 and sells them unchanged for $10 may have a high stock price while creating no value at all.

A company that comes in and produces that same $5 product for $1 and sells it for $4 is creating far more value, both for its owners and its customers.
He's no doubt observed that and is using whitespace to rail against the ridiculousness of that convention.
To add to this even more, Lulzsec got outed by a member who chose to cooperate with the FBI, and in doing so got a reduced sentence. So in many ways, your security is entirely dependent on the security of everybody else - if they don't hide their identity well, then your identity can be in jeopardy too.

If someone starts cooperating with some type of law enforcement you're screwed, and if anybody gets caught and is facing a 50 year charge unless they cooperate, you can probably bet on which one they'll choose.
Google the title and add 'torrent'. Then look for magnet links. Google was recently sued over this.
I don't read anything programming-related on Reddit anymore, but are they also now too cool to watch TV?
Regarding the second point on deletions, the cool thing about the work by Bin Fan with the Cuckoo filter is that you get the added benefit of deletion in almost the exact memory footprint as a standard Bloom. This was the critical feature that caused us to implement the structure for our use case.
This site is better than most - I gave you an upvote to show that :)
There's a simple trick the real-time and high-assurance communities use to catch stuff like this: enforce a hard limit for time each task takes to complete. Some you might give leeway to prevent DDOS'ing your users. Many (most?) things have a sane, hard limit that can apply along with a log entry or notification to ops. Keeps one user or task from DDOSing whole system or forces it to fail fast + noticeably.

Note a lot of developers use this trick anymore but it's quite powerful. Should get more consideration. Not to mention the real solution of choosing tools or algorithms with predictable, reliable behavior. Those definitely exist for the task they're performing as other commenters noted.

EDIT to add modern example from high-assurance field that shows how awesome it can be (esp see Github link):

https://leepike.github.io/Copilot/
Maybe no region lock, but the fragmentation between NTSC, PAL and SECAM means the situation was the same.

It was worse actually because it's easy to find a DVD reader that ignore zones, but if you had a NTSC tape in a PAL country the only solution was to import a NTSC VCR from abroad.

And sorry but I completely disagree on quality; maybe VHS is more kid-proof (as long as they don't figure out how to open it and pull the tape), but a DVD correctly handled will last forever while a VHS degrade over time, especially when you play it often. And if you pause the VCR for too long it's even worse.
You're free to ask your congressmen to change the copyright laws. Until then, they should be enforced: Having some manager deprioritize certain crimes because he thinks they're too expensive to enforce moves power from the legislative to the executive.

You didn't directly make this distinction, but your point about preferring to allocate tax dollars to physical crimes would be a strange way to view changing the law.
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You can do all of those things on iTunes or Amazon Video. Why would the movie studios run their own content distribution when it gives them little competitive advantage.
Never mind the data usage, how about the House ENERGY committee focus on the woefully inefficient battery usage the app has? I mean, that directly impacts their area by way of forcing heaps of people to charge devices far more often.
>>Only because it happened slowly do they call it the same ship.

They don't call it anything. That is precisely the paradox here.

The pace is irrelevant because after time duration X, for whatever value of X the ship is not the same as before, or is it? We don't know!
When I click around the site, page loads are instantaneous. Very nice user experience.
Perhaps is just me, but I don't think the points in the list of "unsolved capitalism problems" are that hard to solve. Going quickly over them one by one:

Those unable to work are destitute -> People help each other naturally, if a family or a friend has problems you help him/her. There's always something useful anybody can do, it needs not to be a physical task nor require top-tier cognitive skills.

No public goods. No legal system, police, defence, education, or roads. -> "Public" property is just collective private property, we can still have those by associating with peers we choose, also known as voluntarism.

Over-exploitation of shared resources. -> If there are no public goods then there are no shared resources but ignoring that line of reasoning, everything should have a human owner, just to protect it from other humans. Autonomous machines also may own and protect places that are uninteresting for humans.

Cartels and monopolies lead to inefficient resource allocation. -> Cartels and monopolies can't survive consumer association and boycott, if they do, then prices must be fair again.

Information asymmetry leads to inefficient resource allocation, e.g. over-priced goods sold to unsophisticated buyers. -> Can be solved with better, freer education and software (electronic personal assistants).

Significant resources allocated to sales and advertising. -> Augmented reality ad-blockers could probably solve this once and for all.

Ownership of intellectual property restricts use of best-practice processes. -> If there's no global enforcement, then virtually there's no such thing as intellectual property.
>What's the point of being a dictator?

A lot of them seem to steal money / do corrupt things first and then an attraction of being a dictator is you can live your life without going to court / jail. Erdogan wasn't so bad till the "audio recordings in which Erdogan was reportedly heard telling his son, Bilal, to urgently get rid of tens of millions of dollars." thing. Since then he's been a going bit more dictatorial.
But that approach was what made Ethereum unique. If it is abandoned, then why should anyone use it, rather than the more popular and better established alternatives?
On prem is the only option for us. Developers don't want to pay (and I don't blame them as a dev) but the people who DO want to pay want everything behind the firewall still.

Hybrid cloud is sort of being looked at but the rest of the world is still happy being on prem. Certain workloads have to be behind the firewall.

That being said, docker and the like is making this easier.
I agree on the last part, and I think the particular weirdness here is a result of ZFS historically mentioning the value of ECC a lot more than other FSes. I think this probably makes people think that ZFS in some way depends on it more than others, rather than simply pointing out that there's a disturbingly high chance of encountering a problem without it that applies to everything.

And sure, if you're building a frankenbox, ECC is probably not an option, or the sort of expense that takes it out of the frankenbox category. I do hope that folks wouldn't store important data on dodgy hardware, but that is about more than RAM, and also none of my business.

I don't believe I'm misinterpreting people's reactions - I've witnessed people assert that ECC is a scam, waste of money and similar. Even after I point them to that link I posted above, they still seem to believe that It Won't Happen To Them. ("I don't have millions of machines.")

In any case, I still find it frankly bizarre that people run the risk with important data. If you asked people if they wanted to buy a CPU that had an ~8% chance of undetectably lying to them, I'm pretty sure the vast majority would at least want to spring for the premium one that allows at the least detecting the lie.
This time it also didn't use .com/.net/.org domains. Although the article mentions that one of their servers was in Chicago, Illinois. I wish more details would be provided about that.
It's not my opinion that learning counter-steering is a safety issue, there's a reason that practically all motorcycle safety courses teach it, and that reason is outlined in the Hurt Report on motorcycle safety.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_Report

"28. Motorcycle riders in these accidents showed significant collision avoidance problems. Most riders would overbrake and skid the rear wheel, and underbrake the front wheel greatly reducing collision avoidance deceleration. The ability to countersteer and swerve was essentially absent."

Wikipedia's article on counter-steering with respect to motorcycle safety begins with:

"Even more so than on a bicycle, deliberately countersteering is essential for safe motorcycle riding"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering#Motorcycles

You're free to argue against it using logic and analogies to pilot training, but both safety data and public opinion don't seem to agree. I would counter that pilots are most definitely taught that pushing forward (up) on the yoke causes the plane to dive (go down), that is somewhat analogous to counter-steering. They are also taught that turning left causes a left roll.

But this didn't answer my question either - counter-steering is so-called because you steer counter to the direction of turn, which is true. Even if it weren't a safety issue, why would it be inappropriate to name it? It is a thing that's different in some ways from other types of steering; we should have a name for that. We have names for everything.
Haven't rental companies operated like that forever? It's probably better value for the car companies as renting is usually more transient (and the customers are more affluent than avg), while car sharing has become a sort of lifestyle choice.
Yeah, absolutely. You get the same "feature" from Counting Blooms - i.e. if an insertion would overflow any of the counters, the filter can knowingly reject the insertion.

This is both a feature and a limitation. In our use case, our filter grows predictably, and every few months a rejected insertion triggers a resize/rebuild from source data. Because we could tolerate a full rebuild, we chose for now not to implement the technique of growing the filter by adding successively larger filter segments with lower fpp guarantees, though that is an option.
Seeing as I have the freedom to code in lisp, etc., much of Design Patterns may be of questionable value. However, knowing my own weaknesses writing code (every piece of code I have written is terrible), and my relative newness to programming (I've been doing this on and off for 7 years, but rarely seriously), Refactoring seems like it may be of value.
This one is actually way easier than Super Hexagon! You can use a memory cheat tool to look for the current scores, then watch for changes in those addresses. I'd be happy to hunt that down and write up an implementation if you want; I'd love to have the Hue lights in my theater change for Rocket League.
If I was making millions of dollars from illicit activities I would practice incredibly rigorous opsec. I realize modern lifestyles don't align with any kind of anonymity but come on. Here's a short list:

- No Apple

- No Facebook

- No Google

- Don't live in a 5 eyes or affiliated country

- Know the extradition and legal precedent in all countries visited
The point of this post is that even though the regex behaves correctly (input x produces expected output y), you also need to consider performance constraints.

Without fuzzing, it's going to be pretty difficult to come up with enough test cases to thoroughly test a regex.
I am currently replying to you. My eyes see my phone screen, my hands feel the phone vibrating, my brain is thinking about the words to type. If I go into a red box that makes a copy of me and puts him in a blue box, and we are awakened, my brain would say "According to my sense of sight, I'm in a red box.". There is another person in a blue box, which objectively is me as well, but subjectively..?

If I go to bed and my copy goes out to party, I can't say I experienced a party. Friends can say netsharc experienced a party, since the copy will behave 100% like me. If they ask "is that really you?", my copy will believe he is, he has my/his memory, etc... even if he asks himself if he is me, he will say yes. But I still would have missed the party!

Another theory asks you to consider this scenario: every week/month, they replace 1% of your brain with its equivalent, identically functioning electronic part. After 1 week, your brain is 99% biological and 1% electronic. Surely you'll still feel like the normal you. What happens after 100 weeks? And what will happen if the data in that electronic brain is uploaded to the cloud/a robot? Or copied to another e-brain?
This kind of thing is what's better on platforms like freebsd
"the entire site became unavailable since the load balancer took the servers out of rotation." I don't care about the regexp, this is bad SRE, you can't just take servers out of rotation without some compensation action.

Never mind that it looks like all web servers where taken out of rotation, even one server down could cause a cascading effect (more traffic directed to the healthy ones that end up dying, in a traffic-based failure). One action for example after n servers have gone down, (besides getting up other m servers) is to put (at least some) servers in a more basic mode (read only/static, some features disabled), not guaranteed but that could have prevented this and other type of down times.
Historically, the population has voted for dictatorial islamists -- and has been saved only by secular military intervention.

It's the standard problem of having a democracy that votes to end democracy. In America, we get Trump, which is debatably similar...
The rocket guys saw the slave workers that died for their toys. They were not just apolitical.
I understand your concern. I am very careful. Ahimsa and non-coercion are primary to my nature. <3 ;-D

The cat will "blow me off" sometimes if he's stalking or napping and doesn't want to come in.