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Say that the simulation time period is 1 billion years. To the post-singularity, a few thousand years is the minor details in history, like what Napolean had for breakfast the morning before the Battle of Waterloo.

Let the thoughts flow as far as you'd like, but come back to reality once in a while. After all, your ideas are conditional to your body.
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Your argument is poor, too. I see people starting conversations in subways all the time, and occasionally start them myself. I've never regretted it. Driving back from work in a bunch of cars, it's of course impossible, and it's amazing how easy it is to get angry with other drivers.

It's easier to meet people in a city, where the 5 miles of a bus ride can cover a neighborhood of a hundred thousand people and hundreds of venues to meet them, while the freeway ride in a suburb will cover less than ten thousand. And what does living with someone have to do with it? We're talking about interacting with people outside your house. I think US urban planning has certainly sucked, and the sprawl will hurt us socially as well as economically.
Intelligence, having been born as a biological defense mechanism, is evil. It is a weapon. For an intelligent individual, being (or, rather, appearing) "good", is just another layer of defense - this time against other, likewise intelligent, individuals. "An armed society is a polite society."

Spying is a form of intelligent behavior. ("Intelligence.") So is stealing (and not getting caught, if possible). And, no doubt, hacking [1] is, too.

Wouldn't absolute intelligence mean absolute evil, then?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-ukraine-idUSKBN14B0C...
Can people listen to audio books while driving? I find if I'm doing anything more complicated than washing the dishes I lose track of the book.
Palantir is hardly a startup
Apple uses XNU which is a hybrid kernel based on the Mach 3 microkernel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
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These laws also protect you against the manager who didn't like you, the terrible boss, or simply the co-worker who had different business goals than you.

There characters are far more common than cases of thefts. Don't want them to have lasting implications on your career.
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This isn't the US, but cell phones make M-Pesa possible, which is very positive: http://www.jefftk.com/suri2014.pdf http://www.jefftk.com/suri2016.pdf
His actions were perfectly consistent with his attitude toward global mass surveillance.

In particular since there wasn't an individual document that stated "we are surveilling the American homeland in addition to the remainder of the innocent world", Snowden choose - I think history vindicated him in this regard - to grab many documents and let journalists choose what to publish.

I think the journalists who disclosed the documents did a wonderful job selecting what to publish directly, what to report on, and what to black hole. They chose to report on what was in the public interest.

The public interest included revelations about mass surveillance of allied nations, espionage to help American business prospects, memoranda for allies to spy on one another's citizens, backdooring and infiltrating American products and standards so that they could be military weapons overseas and a great many other things.

Another wonderful outcome of Snowden having provided a large collection of documents to journalists is that in reading them as a wholistic collection gave journalists the context to understand the motivations and methods of mass global surveillance - indeed it allowed journalists to effectively question American official denials about its behavior. America had been guessing what was taken and so it wasn't sure about what it could get away with lying about. Journalists were able to publish documents that contradicted the official narrative coming out of the White House when it tried to downplay the massive illegal and unethical apparatus.

In any case, it's wrong to abuse Snowden in this case. Journalists made the decision about what to publish. I don't remember anyone's privacy inside the agency getting ruined, but if that did happen the blame rests with the media.
What have you found to be a good introduction?
This is one of the most concise and accessible explanations of fine-tuning CNNs that I've come across. I hope someone finds it as helpful as I did.
I Wonder if we should favorite witness statements taken shortly after the event instead of involving witnesses in the trial?
Seriously... I dont know why I bothered clicking the title thinking it was a new company. Just the same datamining company that helps government agencies helping a government agency.
The stable ABI was originally supposed to come with v3, though. They pushed it back earlier this year. Now it's "probably v4".
Ok so I suppose you're referencing what I found to be interesting about your first comment: you can compare IPv4 to Bitcoin in terms of artificial scarcity, which you're also saying makes it a somewhat meaningless comparison.
Yeah, I'm with the scientists on this. They had built the first bombs only a couple years after the first nuclear pile (a sustained nuclear chain reaction), and it was clear what they were trying to do was massively in excess of that. Taking a moment to make sure Earth didn't become a nuclear pile would be great.

n.b. That first nuclear pile was in December 1942, which is way later than even I thought it was. This stuff was happening fast.
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The angel-immigrant stigma is just as biased as the evil-immigrant stigma. You make great and valid points, but you're going to downvoted to death. I however gave you an upvote. Merry Christmas.
I think they're largely limited by the greater public's threshold for acceptable casualties of their own soldiers during war. What the AI'ing of war does is to remove that natural limit and raise the amount of death and destruction a military can inflict without pushback from the general population.
They weren't kicked out of California. They moved to Arizona and are running their self driving cars there instead.
I would build mixed-use development neighborhoods, and create spaces where people would be able to meet together for events, etc. I'd move highways that go straight through the downtown area and reroute them around the city. I'd make cities more walk/bike/subway/bus - able and work on smart regulation that would allow for mixed-use development so people could work-live-play in different areas.

I'd also fix the schools. But that's a much larger discussion.

This is my opinion.
It's not standard. There are more compilers out there than gcc and clang.
The future grand masters who are 10 years old atm will be far in front of the current crop of grand masters due to improvements like this.
> Subscription services will still be an option, even in a P2P Web, but we are trying to reduce the natural monopoly of the dataset (no walled gardens) so that might make affect service revenue by increasing competition. I'm not sure how destabilizing it will be.

If a service can be destabilized by the lack of a walled garden to lock in users, then it's in society's best interest for that service to be destabilized, because that means there are other competing services that users want to use, but can't because of the size of the existing service's network effects.

The status quo of services competing mainly by the sizes of their network effects is completely hostile to innovation, experimentation, and user choice. Any efforts that could disrupt this status quo has my full support!
Hi, I'm the executive director of CNCF (which hosts Kubernetes) and the co-author of our landscape document, which has a section on storage [0].

I'll just state the obvious that you're very much correct about stateful storage still being the most immature aspect of the Kubernetes and cloud native story, but there are definitely tons of folks working on it. And in the meantime, people are succeeding in production using last-generation solutions on bare metal or provider offerings in the cloud.

I'll make a quick pitch that if you are a cloud native end user interested in engaging with the community, please email me about joining CNCF's end user board (my email is in my profile). We just dropped the price from $50 K to $4.5 K, and it now includes 5 tickets to CloudNativeCon/KubeCon ($1.7 K and 2 tickets for startups).

[0] https://github.com/cncf/landscape
Except he didn't blow the gasket on the launchpad. He just dumped fuel everywhere and threw a match as maintenance crews and innocent civilians were standing around.

He didn't have to release all the documents in the manner he did. He could have leaked them to Krebs on Security or something else. Krebs is very trustworthy at protecting sources and data itself. Instead he just dumped it all to the world with disregard for the damage it would cause and the innocent lives it would impact.

There's a difference between drinking coolaid and realizing there's drugs in the coolaid so you blow up the entire party coolaid is served at damn the consequences to the innocent waiters and waitresses tending the party.
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Of all the comments you could possibly post, ranging from concerns about the 1st or 4th amendments, to arguments in favor of what this article posits, "Palantir is hardly a startup" is what you take away from this article?
> I feel/have felt more isolated when I don't have close connections with people around me but I am around a lot of people.

I really like Venkat’s write-up about masks[0]. Large cities, dense yet impersonal, strain our voice masks. Smaller communities, what you likely experienced in the rural area when you were not outside alone, can be psychologically healing but on the other hand strain our exit masks. Everyone has their own tipping point—you seem less susceptible to exit mask stress than me, for example.

[0] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/20/pretending-to-care-pret...
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Unfortunately that's not how the state thinks.

Washington knows that it has a lot of levers that it can pull to influence public opinion and narrative (just look at the poor quality and compromised character of international reporting in the US).

Snowden as a concept is a threat to Washington's legitimacy. Not only because he exposed massive illegality and wrongdoing on their part, but because if he's considered a hero then:

1. they are the villian. That's bad for state power.

2. it could inspire more leaks of more illegal and ethically questionable behavior. Which could start a spiral.

From a purely game theoretical point of view, Wasthington has to insist that it's the good guy in this situation and it was Snowden who was behaving irresponsibly.

Given the collective approach that the US government is known to take (e.g. it gets to write the history books that children are educated with) and the opposition to this narrative track among informed and disillusioned Americans are not collectively organized over the long arc of history probably Washington can have its way.
US citizens don't have access to free college and healthcare but somehow illegal immigrants do?
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In practice humans don't usually care about such arguments. They'll carry on as usual until something bad actually happens. I'm sure there are plenty of crippled people who regret not wearing a seatbelt, or people with skin cancer who regret not wearing a hat. Not to mention situations on a larger scale like building a lot of nuclear weapons or increasing the C0_2 level in the atmosphere.
You lose quite a bit of optimization opportunities along the FFI boundaries.
>"They are not all accounted for, the lost Seeing Stones. We do not know who else may be watching!"
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Yep. That's exactly what I've noticed.

1) A recruiter will do everything to place you at one of his [very few] positions. No matter how bad it is for you.

2) Recruiters inside a firms are competing internally against each other and they each have different portfolios.

Better have the right recruiter who's got the right companies in the right industries for you.
Is that actually the case, or perhaps humans try a lot of sub-optimal opening lines?
> Instead he just dumped it all to the world

Sure you're not thinking about someone else? Snowden gave his files to journalists, not WikiLeaks.
Thiel calls himself a libertarian, but his involvement with Palantir demonstrates that he is just as much a big-government statist as the people he criticizes.
This startup helps hackers track Peter Thiel's immoral startups.
I haven't tried omnibus but I'd vote for docker too after being spoilt by setting up and maintaining a Discourse instance. They've done an absolutely fantastic job in making installation and updates painless.
In regards to paying taxes and social welfare resources, they actually contribute quite a bit:

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/02/...

And in a perverse turn of events, they probably help some social welfare programs (ie Social Security) because they can never receive those benefits.
I upvoted you because I believe it was a well put opinion. But I have some doubts (I dont live in the US). Do illegal immigrants are allowed to free college and free medical expenses? I would imagine any kind of formal register required to use these services would lead them to be arrested and deported.
Agree with this. Revenue is deceptive when you're undercutting the competition, especially when there's no profit to show for it.

And pay incentives for drivers are not only the surge charges but how many completed rides. That's likely to make sure there's enough supply on the road.
According to the evidence, yes, consumers will be willing to pay more: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/ww...

Uber has been profitable in the US before, there is no reason they can't do it again.
>Hopefully you'll leave this talk a little dumber than you started it, and be more immune to the seductions of AI that seem to bedevil smarter people.

I rather like the smarter people stuff - it's kind of exciting to figure how AI could solve human problems and stuff like the OpenAI initiative seem a sensible precaution against things going wrong. The arguments against seem a little reminiscent of arguments against global warming that say what do all these 'experts' know? I can look out the window and it's snowing as much as ever.
There are proprietary compilers for embedded chipsets that don't support this feature. Granted, these are fewer and further between than they once were, but they are out there. It really depends on how portable you want your code to be. Even though it is widely supported, it still isn't a standard language feature.

If your goal is to have a library that runs on most Unix-like and Windows systems, then '#pragma once' works just fine. But, if there's a possibility that your code would be deployed to an odd platform, it's probably best to use traditional header guards. I'm so used to using header guards that the appeal of '#pragma once' isn't that great for me.
didn't really mean it was ridiculous for them to think about, just that it seems so now in retrospect.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/12/u-california...

One example. Read up on it. This is a public school, funded with your tax dollars. Tax dollars that will be spent on people who break the law, throw it in your face, and then demand more free stuff.
Sort of anecdotally, I think the big difference is whether it's voluntary or involuntary aloneness. Even the difference between 1 person and 0 persons to just call/talk to is huge
There's a serious misunderstanding by the American people that the NSA concerns itself with terrorism/counterterrorism. It does not. It's a technical agency who attempts to collect as much information as possible. It provides some information to some other agencies some of the time.

Other agencies are in charge of counter terrorism intelligence such as the FBI, DHS and NCTC.

Disclosures about their global surveillance program had much more to do with human intelligence (mass propaganda), industrial espionage, and diplomatic intelligence than terrorism.

The media seriously misinformed the American people about the duties and prerogatives on the NSA, mostly to link the NSA and its excesses to something equally controversial, however, untrue.

Anyway walking back from that line of reasoning: yes. Insurgencies around the world have had their operational security studied for decades and they are very sanitary wrt carrying around cellphones that have their batteries in, etc.
That's the problem: there isn't a way to ratchet it up over time. It stays anchored at the lowest common denominator. It's tough to find counterexamples; see, for instance, the waking nightmare that is the XMPP ecosystem.

Obviously, email is the best case in point. There's been a decade and a half of concerted effort to get some baseline level of crypto security for email, and all of it has run aground on the installed base of dumb email clients.

To believe we should be cavalier about the risk of this happening again is to assert that we know enough now not only about how to design a secure group messaging system, but also how to safely implement it, that we should freeze the current state of the art in amber by standardizing it.

Personally, I can resolve this for myself quickly. I log into my Linux server, type "man 4 random", see that we can't even properly standardize the secure way to generate a random number, and quickly conclude that I'd rather use a single system that Moxie and Trevor are actively designing and evolving than adopt the consensus protocol of a menagerie of different unrelated messaging projects.
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Wait I'm confused. Are you literally upset by this? Why is enforcing the law and following policies so everybody can make a successful transition to become a US citizen a bad thing? If your illegal, and most likely your not going to pay your fair share for the entitlements and services you and others use then I have zero respect for you.
Oh, and that makes it better? Do you have any idea how many people are in nursing homes? My wife happens to be a doctor and she happens to have a lot of experience with nursing homes.

How about nationwide?

Also, could you provide a link to verify what you are claiming will start on January 1st?

Please don't try to put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. The personal estate grab by the government is without precedent.

And, for what? The care people get at the kinds of plans that shove you into Medicaid isn't anything to boast about.

Obamacare is a disaster. Thankfully the new administration seems poised to tackle this head-on. I hope they do a good job while still providing for a reasonable path to healthcare for those who have financial limitations.

It is society's obligation to help them. Yet the way this happens can't take a form that makes it insanely worst for the rest of us and, at the same time, has the government make a grab for people's estates. This is just wrong whether it happens in one state or all of them.
Relevant discussion elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241223
To me the fact that Chinese exchanges are consistently $20 higher indicates that Chinese buying is probably driving the price. But you should always be skeptical when someone tells you a reason for price movements, because the truth is the only people who really know are the people buying and selling.
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Engadget? Aren't they part of that revenge porn outfit that was sued into bankruptcy a little while back?

In fact, I recall that Peter Thiel helped fund the lawsuit against them. Huh. What a coincidence.
The issue is that in this case "vastly smarter" is not smart enough to truly understand the cat. It's conceivable an AI with tons of computing power could simulate a cat and reverse engineer its brain to find any stimulus that would cause it to get in the cage.

I also think this isn't a very good analogy. In this case we're talking about manipulating humans, where we already know manipulation is eminently possible.

Heck it wouldn't even need psychological manipulation. Hack a Bitcoin exchange or find another way of making money on the internet, then it can just pay someone absurd sums to do what it wants.
It just might be smart enough to figure out a way around that.
Thus this negative hit piece against him perhaps?
"About the ugliness, I agree."

I understand how pleasant it is to use a tool that you spend a lot of time in day in and day out that is beautifully designed and just looks and feels nice. I remember slightly drooling at how some fonts in a competing editor seemed to have a subtle glow. I would have liked to have that in vim, and maybe it is possible. There are some other GUI improvements that could make it look/feel nicer.

However, as a power user give me function over form any day. It's like the choice between taking a long, beautiful path vs a short, ugly one. Or maybe the long beautiful path can't even go where the short ugly path goes.

Most of the time, I'm using my editor to get things done, and done as quickly and efficiently as possible. I'm not using it to admire how beautiful my editor looks or show its looks off to friends.

If I have a choice between getting my work done in 2 seconds vs 5 minutes, I'll choose the 2 seconds. There must have been hundreds of times in my life where I've done a really complex set of editing tasks in vim (or emacs) in a couple of minutes that I know would have taken me hours and driven me insane in a traditional editor.

After learning vim (and emacs) being forced to use a traditional editor is like cutting off my arms. It's like being forced to drive a car that can go only 5 miles an hour and only make 90 degree turns. Super painful and it may not even be capable of doing what you want, and certainly not quickly, efficiently, or pleasantly. Though certainly the more sophisticated traditional editors are far better than primitive traditional editors like notepad or nano (though some people still swear by those and will not even think of leaving them!).

It's really hard to get across to people only used to traditional editors the sheer power that vim and emacs have. It's something that you really have to be a veteran of these editors to fully appreciate -- and that usually takes years.
Are you for open borders? No? Then illegal immigrants are going to exist.
> ... the Naked Capitalism post about their inevitable doom is gaining attention ...

Not only am I glad that post is gaining attention (the entire series is excellent), I'm glad Naked Capitalism is getting attention. It's my favorite finance blog.
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Navy SEALs are not superhuman. A single adult tiger would slaughter just about any unharmed human with near certainty, even a SEAL. Even armed with any weapon other than a firearm, the chances of besting a tiger and coming out without being maimed or mortally wounded is close to zero.
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"Donald Trump may not have paid federal income taxes for 20 years, but the undocumented immigrants he rails against certainly have, according to the head of a Latino civic engagement organization."

This is the FIRST SENTENCE of the article. Sorry, but if the first sentence is bashing someone who follows the tax laws because of a political reason, I am not going to be able to say that is a credible source. The article has a strong political bias for illegal immigrants.
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