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Great point. What people today would think of as "intelligent machines", children of future will think of same things as mere "technological tools".

Once this is widely established, things like "laws of robotics", "moral dilemma of autopilot" and "AI and ethics" will be just bizarre ideas of the past. Asimov's laws are already viewed as one of "misguided ideas of the past" by many, although there still are some rusty minds out there believing in things like that.
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Woops got it thanks.
Let me answer a different question: where do you go for civil, insightful commentary?

I recommend gathering a group of "morning cup of coffee" people with an intellectual bent. This works particularly well among more academic neighborhoods, but can be done elsewhere.

Get 3-10 people you know (or get to know these people) that are generally aware of the world, from different walks of life/professions, and start meeting a few days a week at a local coffee shop. Ensure the shop has a copy of better publications across the political spectrum. Talk shop. Talk the world. Talk whatever.

The internet is good at information. It limps quite a bit when asked to do conversation.
I'm not sure the article answered it's own question, or provided any evidence that things are actually getting worse but it's hard to tell as it felt like the author was dancing around what he wanted to say, like it was going to be a hard pill to swallow for his audience.

I liked the bit where it said that white people were on one side of the argument and cosmopolitan, better educated white people were on the other side. Which seems, since <adjective> white people are a strict subset of white people, like a very obscure and convoluted way of saying that stupid and/or racist white people are on the Republican side of the argument.

I'm assuming this is supposed to be a wake-up call for the non-racist, non-stupid Republicans to up their game so they don't lose power for the next generation due to demographic changes and pandering to a slowly dying base. But I think it's far too timid to be heard over Trump's bluster, even for the National Review reader.

edit: hah, didn't notice there were reader comments at the bottom, oh well, this definitely didn't reach the people it was supposed to reach. They think this article is liberal propaganda.
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You answered it yourself: freight. Basically everything about the 747 was optimized around requirements for transporting freight (including fuselage width and placing the flight deck above the main level).
> no apparent histamine release

a lot of people, including myself, get very itchy from kratom, and i've always attributed that to histamine release. could it be something else?
Agreed. There are several heavily modded subreddits for this. /r/neutralpolitics, /r/neutralnews, /r/truereddit, etc/
The content is exactly as I posted it above. There is an @@ before "a link".

I was just saying that this seemed exactly as arbitrary as "[", which is what drool said it was avoiding.
I have over 500,000 BIS lifetime miles and I'm still exited by the takeoff roll. Airlines are starting to retire 744s. If you have a chance, find a way to ride in the upper deck. It's quite something!
Tesla may have disabled the Model X's door safety sensors
That's intuitive. What isn't is how much harder it becomes with longer text. Imagine there is an abstract measure of "smartness" of your algorithm (that would intuitively have some relations to your model size, teaching sample size and so on). My question could be worded as "what is the asymptotic smartness complexity of the summarisation problem?"

Btw, I'm not aware of existence of such a measure, which I take as a signal it's infeasible to formulate (or I'm just ignorant).
http://www.curbed.com/2016/8/31/12691516/self-driving-bus-ve...

you can at least ride in one (if youve got bus fare)
Holy fuck, that site displays full page ad on top of the page and when you scroll down, it scrolls back up. After certain time you can scroll down.
Its not really a single rule rather a combination of more regulations for botanical mixtures and difficulties with patents such that drug companies always prefer to isolate and market molecules rather than mixtures. The idea is to know and control everything about the drug.

In cases like this and basically all opiates that's clearly a dumb policy since concentrating the active ingredient promotes abuse and probably eliminates the other ingredients which induce the nausea that prevents abuse and makes kratom safe :/

Few died in the opium dens of the past. Today opiate addiction gives you a decent chance of dying in an od and its due to this policy.

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One thing that the article doesn't really elaborate on is why different valuation strategies exist (and are allowed to exist) within GAAP.

Accounting should be done in a way that maximizes the usefulness of financial reporting for strategic and management decisions. In some cases, firms are required by regulators to adopt specific practices, but there is a fair bit of freedom given to the CFO.

VC firms must make wise financial decisions and satisfy their LPs with some degree of transparency. The accounting strategy chosen must accomplish both goals.

In many cases, it makes sense to be very pessimistic about valuations, and doing so often reduces tax liabilities.

On a side note, the whole "mark to market" scandal from the 2008 financial crisis was a case where firms typically marked assets in a way that matched their management goals, but at times failed to reflect short-term price fluctuations.

Regulators thought that forcing firms to mark assets to a known market price would result in better financial reporting. The problem was that the balance sheets containing those assets were also used as underwriting capital. So a market price increase (or bubble) in the assets was suddenly leveraged into a lot more risk capital by the firm (whereas before the rule, the CFO would not likely have wanted to mark the assets that high).

This resulted in industry-wide increases in risk capital for "free" because of asset price spikes, and following that it led to increased investment. The problem was, when the price fell back down, the firms were over-leveraged. It's generally a bad idea to use highly volatile assets as underwriting capital.

So while "mark to market" sounds good, it can enhance natural fluctuations (minor boom/bust cycles) in a destabilizing way.

The art of being the CFO of a VC firm is likely a very interesting thing, and it would be fascinating to learn more about how this happens across the industry.
I found the dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12396856
Something Awful, D&D forum. Maybe not insightful but at least civil. $10 accounts mean being a shithead has consequences.
"When the facts are against you, argue the law; when the law is against you argue the facts. When both are against you, call the other lawyer names."

For financial services the equivalent would be either talking your portfolio or your returns. In this case, the mark-to-market portfolio looks bad and the returns look bad, so they've resorted to arguing with newspapers.
you would be surprised. For how many languages do you plan to localize? How many date-formats for the built-in clock?
What about a virtual keyboards and input methods?
do you support EPG? hbbtv? a rudimentary browser and everything that goes along with that?
So you want to support netflix, are you ready to be certified by them, including system security and are you ready to give up everything lpglv3/gplv2 because of the anti tivoization clause?

Will you support multi-tasking? wayland, x11 or something entirely different? You will want to make it usable from some kind of remote.

Do you have QA to test all of that and are they knowledgeable about all the internationalization issues?

You will need a specialist on tuning and decoding of ATSC, DVB, hdmi inputs, upsampling (motion interpolation) to 100hz, 120hz and above. color enhancements, dynamic brightness, the list goes on and on.
A slack channel linked to the community of edge.org would be pretty good.
> LetsEncrypt's certs are not trusted on Blackberrys (including BB10 devices), and because Blackberry's big thing is 'a secure OS' there's no way to side-load[1] a root cert.

> Although dwindling rapidly - there's still some big business out there that are still issuing Blackberrys to it's users.

What business are you in that Blackberry users are a factor? What percent (or total number of users) would be impacted?

Only time I've seen a Blackberry in recent memory is as a stock image on a "Why RIM failed..." article.
Same in Chile. My friends and family here in the US always question why I'm rubbing an onion on the grill.
Yes, this is the rough idea, except that it was "designed exclusively for the moto Z". The fact that one proprietary mod standard didn't take off is hardly strong evidence against the general idea, and especially the viability of an open standard.
How does this compare to ZFS? There seems to be some significant overlap in functionality, but ZFS is more mature, so I'm wondering if bcachefs has charm points I'm unaware of.

(Besides the SSD cache persisting across reboots. ZFS has a patch in progress to fix that lack, so it won't last.)
> I've been wondering: would it be practical to build a reddit/HN like system where the comments you see are by authors you've upvoted before, or authors they've upvoted before?

Only showing upvoted authors would only reinforce your personal echo chamber, see also: Tumblr.

Only showing downvoted authors would, going by my Reddit voting statistic, expose me to 95% dick jokes and 5% authors that have valid points I disagree with (mostly on such disgustingly controversial topics like "Lenovo makes better Thinkpad laptops than IBM did").

> Currently we give every comment a single universal score. It's hard to come up with a simple set of rules that encourage useful participation long-term, but this system would highlight the insightful stuff through the noise.

/. tried it, did it ever work out? (Honestly no idea, I've never been deep enough involved in it.)
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People also predicted there would be fully functional human replacing kitchen assistants by the year 1960. Just because someone overestimates or underestimates things, it doesn't affect how slow/fast it may progress. So adjusting future predictions based on offset of past predictions just makes no sense.
Also, aren't BBQ bristle brushes magnetic? Wouldn't a simple magnet over the spot have exacerbated the pain and triggered a closer look?

Not that you'd have known to use a magnet to test it, but now it's certainly something that could be considered on a checklist of cheap/free things to check before more expensive/time consuming/invasive procedures are initiated.
every strongly moderated place will do. HN and some subreddits like r/science, r/askscience, etc. are of very good quality. can't stress enough that moderation is the key.
That's quite funny considering some friends and I occasionally took a few grams of kratom in college to help us study the day before important exams. For us, it was almost exactly the same effects as drinking a few cups of coffee, minus the jittery-ness and with a horrible taste.
I heat plates where I serve the steak. It helps to keep it hot while you are eating it.
That's a really interesting idea. If that existed here I would subscribe to you now.
The wording of the original comment could be reasonably interpreted asdescribing a rise of 2% month. That's a pretty good rise rate!
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I don't understand at all...

Home automation is, by the nature of it, a series of distinct functions spread throughout the home (e.g. front door lock, garage control, temperature control, lights in each room, sprinkler system, washer/dryer alerts, etc); so you're going to need each of these geographically separate things communicating into a central control "hub."

You cannot physically move these things into a module on the central control hub. Most of them have to be in the location they're already at (e.g. physically in the front door).

How does making the control hub a modular unit help with the complexity of home automation? If anything it further adds to the complexity. A lot of the solutions now just use WiFi networking and a standard protocol.

I'm just not understanding your concept at all.
HN - Discussion is generally civil, and snarky or underhanded commends are generally downvoted swiftly. Not much in the way of political and economic commentary, and the discussion tools (e.g., the platform, notification, etc.) are just OK.

Quora - There are pockets of intelligent thought, but discussion is limited to an answer and maybe a couple comments. And there's a ton of noise and not nearly enough moderation. But some of the content is really good and the Quora Weekly Digest remains one of the more interesting emails I get every week.

Newsvine - I haven't been active here for years (since 2008-2009), but it used to be a great community with good discussion and a strong focus on politics and recent news. I think it's gone downhill.

I haven't waded into sub-Reddits yet. I really got out of arguing with random people in the internet. I have better things to do with my time, and (echoing the OP) most comment threads are filled with assholes and comments like: "Wow. You must not have finished elementary school."
no you won't, the VC doesn't report to a random reporter and numbers change all the time (WhatsApp last public valuation was of 1.5 billion (Sequoia held them at this position) and it sold for 19 billion)
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While gaming oriented, there's a great group of people who discuss pretty much everything over at the Quarter to Three forums. https://forum.quartertothree.com/
How does that relate to the just-world fallacy?
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HN is really bad about this and I don't know why. My guess is that a small number of people are actually submitting and for whatever reason this circle uses WSJ a lot.
I have actually have a condition that means I naturally release too much histamine, so I take a lot of antihistamines. When I take prescribed opioid drugs, e.g. tramadol, dihydrocodeine, mophine, the itching can be absolutely unbearable.

With kratom I don't notice much extra itching at all, but I suppose we all act differently to things.
WoSign seems to give away all the signs of malicious CA. Why haven't browser vendors banned them (both) already?
Ask HN: Experience with a think tank?
I'm sure many of us have a 10,000 foot perspective, any inside perspective? What do they do day-to-day? Who starts and/or funds one?
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for local community elections etc we actually use nextdoor.

I am interested in one topic now that more and more school districts are going pork-free these days but don't know where to discuss that, so yes I'm unsure where to discuss civil topics outside of local issues.
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Ah, interesting. Haven't worked with Bugzilla for years, didn't know they added this.
I wonder if these two things are related

"Twitter Stock Jumps After Co-Founder Says It Should Consider Selling"
"http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/twitter-stock-jumps/"
I think the example with function application is a bad one here - moving the element potentially leaves it in an undefined state. It would be a better example if the code did something with x instead of calling a function on it.

So I don't think you'd want to forward it. Note that you also need the element's type to forward it, which isn't possible in general with the example's signature.
There are plenty of well-designed battery/protective enclosures for smartphones. Thus those who want the extra battery life and are prepared to deal with the extra thickness and weight can do so.

Now if you want 2 weeks of battery life on a pocket supercomputer, well, good luck with that.
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What's the point of that wasted effort? What you're asking is "if X has no contributors, why don't Y people become contributors and start contributing?"

Currently there are differences between code bases. If the OpenOffice team wants to abandon OO codebase and distribute a version of LibreOffice with some splash screen and text resource changes, then they're free to do so, it's open source.
Good idea.

It's like or at least similar to Node.js vs. IO.js. Finally they agreed to use IO.js branch but go with the Node.js name.

So it would be great of LibreOffice would be rebranded to OpenOffice. And it needs an web initiative to compete with GoogleDocs and Office365 - I know there is already some kind of prototype, but make it a high priority project.
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That's actually a pretty good description of OpenOffice.
Xfce was just perfect. Sadly, xfce 4.6 unintroduced manual context-menu in favor of autogenerated one (from cryptic sources). It also introduced many good, but menu changes broke my workflow. I was so disappointed that I left entire Linux/FreeBSD after years of using it. Now I have mac, and it is just great for years.
> It's always been too buggy, by which I mean, obvious visible UI bugs immediately after installation.

Really? I've installed Mate on ~10 computers, and have never run into UI bugs. I run Mate, my two kids run it on their computer, and I'm sometimes on that one helping them with school related stuff. Never run into UI bugs. I don't doubt that there are such bugs, but in my experience they're pretty rare (unless the project has taken a recent nosedive, always possible in open source).

I've run into some UI bugs using Mint Cinnamon, are you sure you were using Mate and not Cinnamon?

Do you remember what the bugs were? If it's something you can remember, I'll see if I can fix them so that future users don't run into them.
Besides HN, a friend of mine created a Facebook group of friends where we have those discussions.
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Sounds like an insurance nightmare.
I wonder if this is related to Apple joining Twitter

https://twitter.com/apple
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"I love this tenderizer and highly recommend them, just look out for busted blades!"

Waaa???

If the blade can delaminate in that way, I would in no way recommend them.
Sounds exactly like the documentary on Smithsonian.

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/747-the-jumbo-revolu...
The Ars Technica forums are generally quite good. The non-tech forums require being a subscriber, though.
Metafilter is great, partly due to the $5 posting account cost. I've lurked there for years and not posted.

CrookedTimber is the last of the oldschool blogs-with-comment-sections that I follow for this purpose, although it has some serious problem posters.

HN isn't really politically or economically focused so you kind of have to slip under the radar.
> but I don't think we'd like the outcome

The NHS is fantastic.
The abstract says the attack allows "flips over arbitrary physical memory in a fully controlled way." If I'm understanding that correctly, it would be trivial to then restore the old key alongside it, leaving the victim none the wiser.

Also, as others have pointed out, this is a hardware issue and the clear solution is to swap out the vulnerable RAM. Yeah, paying more is an "easy" way to have peace of mind (if that's even an option for you as a "cloud hoster"), but that's just backwards IMHO: a security vulnerability on the host's side should not translate into an upsell.
/.'s moderation system sort of gives you this, but not the connection to the authors of the posts. You set a score threshold for visibility. The discussion system hides things below the threshold, but doesn't hide the thread itself (like reddit does, IIRC).

* (Score: 5) Some stuff
* (Score: 0) *Hidden*
* (Score: 4) Actually, if you read ...
* (Score: -1) *Hidden*
* (Score: 3) Blah blah blah

Posts are also moderated by kind (offtopic, funny, insightful, etc.)

So all those crappy first post and Natalie Portman posts were easily filtered out, and good (at least better) comments were left visible.

EDIT: Other things they did well:

Moderation was based on karma, a hidden score. Karma was calculated by several things, but the two key things were:

How were your posts moderated (better means better karma)
How were your moderations meta-moderated.

Meta-moderation: This was a really neat concept. Basically, people went back and (anonymous to both of you) rated a post's moderation as good or bad. That is, if you posted something genuinely useful or interesting but someone gave it a negative moderation, the meta-moderation system would (in theory) catch this. It didn't change the moderation, but it rated the moderators.

They also only allowed you to moderate in discussions you didn't comment in. If you commented, all your moderation was undone. And you had limited (5?) moderation points to use at a time. This prevented anyone from going on an abusive moderation streak (fuck that Jtsummers guy, I'm going to mark all his stuff down).
In a word: no.
Bacterial growth is exponential until a limit is reached. You can find many examples. Doesn't really have anything to do with the article or OP post though.
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We moved to Sparkpost and hit a few bumps at first. However, after working through those and paying for a dedicated IP address, the service has been reliable and suits our use case. I do have the sense, however, that they need to hire more support personnel.

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