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It's a lot easier to help a guilty person with "correctional" incarceration than it is to help an innocent person with a path to a decent life.
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In my view, neither Voltaire nor Hegel are comparable to Pascal, or Gauss for that matter. The later are men of reason and belong to a different league altogether. The comparison is indeed silly.

I have done the attempt to read some Hegel, but couldn't keep doing the unhealthy brain gymnastics necessary to read such crap. What (to quote you) "intellectual, honest, or reasoned approach to the content" can be given to what Feynman would have called "meaningless chewing around"? We don't put a lot of effort in discrediting the Old Testament, do we?

Your and your fields' inability to move forward isn't surprising though, after all, it's philosophy.

I'll put this discussion to a rest.
May not be the angle your asking for, but clojurescript relies on the Closure compiler.
Both open-source and closed-source have their problems.

Closed Source:

- Team behind it could add trackers, backdoors, etc that are difficult to detect.

- Attackers could find an exploit that will go unnoticed and unfixed for an indeterminable length of time. Or perhaps use the team's own aforementioned exploits/backdoors.

- Can't tell if their app is well-tested and well-written, which means it could be a buggy hot mess from the get-go. Which is the most common reason for hiding source from my anecdotal experience.

Open Source:

- Much easier for anyone to find a bug, including attackers. You'd hope the maintainers/community will find the bug before them, or at least take less time to fix it than if it were closed-source.

- Attackers could add their own exploit that will go unnoticed or unfixed for an indeterminable length of time.

I think the conclusion to draw from is:

Closed Source = less likely for attackers to find bugs, but more likely for bugs to persist. Can only trust in the company's reputation for code quality.

Open Source = more likely for attackers to find bugs, but less likely for bugs to persist. Don't need to trust the company's reputation for code quality.
Hi. I run SourceGuardian.com. Today I had exactly the same experience!! Whilst I was in the States for 5 weeks I tried to log in to my online banking and received the same message. I just presumed it was their security system recognising I was in the USA and therefore I decided to deal with it when home. Arrived back and made a call, but was told I needed to go to a brand. Went to a branch and they told me they could not help. Eventually I went to another branch and found a sympathetic business manager. Finally I talked with HSBC on the phone again but they say that I must do another call with them, despite me doing one already. My story is exactly the same although I'm just starting - already I have had payments denied and have been told that all funds have been frozen. Of course they're accepting deposits, I just can't take any money out!! Its a nightmare. Tomorrow I am going to see what I can do and who I can call to try to resolve this.
Not sure what you mean by "heavy", but you might give Vivaldi a try; start with the Four Seasons. It's not minimalist, but it's much lighter than e.g. Beethoven, and not as "serious" as e.g. Bach.
There's lots of potential bad outcomes short of AI taking over the planet.

It could, for example, enable a very deeply intrusive "thought police" establishment. At the moment the signal-to-noise ratio at least somewhat limits that. And it doesn't require full on "strong ai" to fix that.
Sorry to be harsh, and I guess my problem is really at a higher level, now that I'm looking at the code again. It's the entities and fields and a bunch of other higher level APIs that interact with the database that I hate. But, that's the way everything interacts with the database in D7. So, I'm wrong about the database API...it's just that working with data in D7 doesn't use the database API directly anymore, it uses entities and other higher-level APIs.

My problem is that by the time something reaches the database is it completely unrecognizable and is spewed all over the database in a half dozen tables. This is a problem of D7 much more than D6. It takes a handful of queries to build an "entity", for instance, and forget hitting the database from outside of Drupal.

Every CMS we've used in the past, I was able to use the database as the source of truth across many apps in many languages; the database was effectively the API I used to share data across our Perl and Python apps and Drupal. With Drupal 7 I can't do that at all. I have to go through Drupal to pull anything out or put anything into the database in a way that Drupal can work with it. It's just a pain in the ass. And, Drupal 7 is an awful experience for building APIs, so I can't really integrate stuff that way, either. I understand improving the API building experience is a focus for D8.

Anyway, I want my database to look like my model, and Drupal 7 doesn't do that. It spreads the model across a whole bunch of tables (I've got like 60 "drupal_field" tables in my D7 database...I have no idea what to do with all that mess). And, the APIs in Drupal to work with entities and fields and such are really ornery to work with and getting useful errors out of them is impossible. That's not the fault of the low-level database API, but it is the fault of how Drupal 7 implements putting things into the database. If that makes sense.

Mostly I've just realized Drupal doesn't fit my mental model of how CRUD apps should work, and working with it has been a real chore. I know lots of people are super productive with it, but in several years of poking at it in my spare time, I still don't "get it". I honestly still don't even have a good mental model for how the pieces fit together; it's so big, there are so many competing ways to do anything, it's full of re-implementations from one version to the next, etc. I can't make any sense out of it, and every time I come back to it it takes me hours just to get up to speed enough to make minor changes.
If you are interested, this talk says a lot about what was cool about Solaris, its place in history, the troubles it encountered, and what was wrong with Oracle's approach, leading to little-known open-source forks.

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc (entitled: Fork yeah! The rise and development of Illumos)
I feel like the main danger isn't AI doing something unintended, but AI working as it's designed to.

Imagine law enforcement with strong AI. Maybe it's OK in the US, but how about China? Or North Korea?

How about military applications?

AI is an extremely powerful tool, and it's one that can be deliberately misused.
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This is just the stupid 'vote with your wallet' argument again.

Which is stupid because

1) the average user/consumer wallet is 3/10ths of nothing in terms of economic voting power.

2) the average user/consumer can only vote for stuff which exists, and google has done a great job of making sure that there are no competitive alternatives

In this case you're "paying" with your data, which has even less voting power because you can't even opt out of that payment just by not using their services. You'd pretty much have to stop using the internet entirely.

Unfortunately many people have bought the stupid 'regulation=bad 100% free market is best' rhetoric which is totally crap for everyone except the really big fish. There's just no incentive for big corporations to 'not be evil' without the artifical incetive of being regulated and punished for treating their users shittily.
You don't need the cat pipe. Just grep on the filename

But I agree entirely. I go back to things I did even a year ago and desperately wish I had documented more.
I had a hard time starting with webpack. Because it's so flexible, there are so many choices.

That's why I made a boiler plate project with React SSR, TypeScript, and Webpack

https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx
Is there a proof somewhere which states that all NP hard problem can have a similar / generic solution?

I find it more likely that the N-Queens problem will have a very specific solution
When the hand that feeds you starts jamming food down your windpipe, it's time to bite.
I'm not a professional educator no. And I do think there's a whole separate discussion to be had about how generally awful most software education is that Im not going to get into.

However, small sample size notwithstanding, I have been involved with mentoring in an outreach program targeted at people with little to no CS experience. And these students were coding circles around "CS" grads in under 6 weeks. Sure the theoretical foundations aren't there yet, but, do you really need that much math to stand up an app, build a website, or do any of the work expected of a junior dev?

I 100% agree with you in that most people don't have the aptitude to become the next John Carmack, but, at least in my experience, that's not where the jobs are anyway. You don't need to be Linus to generate business value using Linux, and you don't need to be James Gosling to working Java enterprise apps. The jobs of the future need an army of people to modernize infrastructure and build using existing tools. These are the middle class anchors of the 21st century; I'd say look no farther than the "analyst" pipelines of the American finance industry to see this happening.
In my humble opinion, NO ONE knows if the threat is imminent, far-fetched, or imaginary.

NO ONE. Not Musk, Not Zuckerberg, not Putin. (Putin!!??)

What we DO know is that we don't have artificial general intelligence (AGI) today, and that achieving it will likely require new insights and breakthroughs -- that is, it will require knowledge that we don't possess today.

By definition, new insights and breakthroughs are unpredictable and don't necessarily yield to anyone's predictions, timelines, or budgets. Maybe it will happen in your lifetime; maybe not.

That said, it should be evident to everyone here that AI/ML software is going to expand to control more and more of the world over the coming years and decades; and THEREFORE, it makes a lot of sense to start worrying about the maybe-real-maybe-not AI threat -- and prepare for it -- now instead of down the road.
> Except every vendor doesn't. By some magic voodoo witchcraft, x86 remains consistently capable of producing a single kernel that can run on anything from Intel or AMD.

The "magic voodoo witchcraft" is Microsoft's "Hardware Compatibility Specifications for Windows".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...

Linux and the other free OSes run on commodity x86 hardware by targeting the same Microsoft-issued specification. There is no standards body or other neutral organization that defines what an x86 PC is.
They will be amoral. Or at least moral in a way we can't understand. They (probably) won't be evil super villains. Think about your interactions when you're way way better at a skill, and your interactions when you're way worse. Take chess. If you've played at all, you have lost games without understanding, remotely, why. And you have trounced opponents, that were clueless.

Agi sort of means, no matter what endeavor, you will be worse than the ai. There is no way to know how we will be treated. Maybe we are useful in some way. Maybe they'll kill us off but simulate our lives so we don't 'really' die. Maybe that's their morality.

Maybe they ignore us. I don't care about ants. I walk around and step on them, but not intentionally. On the other hand, if there are ants in my house, I eradicate them.

Who knows.
I don't see AI itself is a threat necessarily but AI and its input data concentrated in the hands of a few will be dangerous. Soon companies like Google and Facebook will pretty much know at any time what a large part of the world population is doing and thinking. There is a lot of potential for abuse there.
I set a few groups to "see first" which helps prune down the number of useless things in my newsfeed. Occasionally I'll click an ad or mark it as unwanted to try to train the FB algorithms.

The most useful things on FB are events, practicing people's names, and messenger. It's handy to try to go through the list of people who are about to go to a party so it's easier to remember them in person. Even though it is sometimes useful, it can easily take too much time.
>>Aren't ICOs more of an altcoin phenomenon?

ICOs are an Ethereum phenomenon. Ethereum isn't a fork of Bitcoin's codebase and thus isn't an altcoin.
I'm confused. They both relate to each other, don't they? For crypto to reach and be accepted by the mainstream, people need to know that everything is being done to prevent people from being scammed. It's surprisingly easy to fork an existing cryptocurrency and create your own. Anyone could create a new coin in a couple of hours, most of the time spent on the marketing site. For crypto to be accepted beyond speculators and Twitter investors, there needs to be protections in place, just like investing in the stock market is regulated somewhat.
If you want to learn how to do it better, I can't recommend this book enough, "So What?" by Mark Magnacca.

https://www.amazon.com/So-What-Communicate-Matters-Audience/...

Spend the $10 and become a better communicator.
So you could lay a power cable across the Atlantic?

It might be physically viable, but I imagine that wouldn't be economically viable.
Can you give more details ?
People don't buy and sell ICO tokens with fiat, they do it with bitcoins. If a bunch of people want to sell their ICO tokens for fiat, they first end up with a bunch of bitcoins, and then they need to sell bitcoins for fiat. This pushes the price of bitcoins in fiat down.

It's a temporary phenomenon, but the price going down can make the price fall farther, because there are a bunch of amateur traders who think it's a good idea to buy when the price is rising and sell when it's falling.
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When companies get this big they usually can't just say what they do on their website with two sentences, so IMO, this is the case where these artsy vague landing pages are passable.

I mean, GE was formed by Thomas Edison himself, they have everything from jet engines to self-driving cars. I suppose if you are the person responsible for shopping around for jet engines for your company you are not going to ge.com for specs.

Considering their size, I'd expect them to try to lure individuals(career and jobs) through their website instead of potential customers.
It's certainly true that companies seem to get corrupted as they get larger, but does it HAVE to be that way?
Many of us are totally cool with very large companies so long as we believe them to be led by people of good character.
My hypotheses is that growing companies are magnets to people of low character and if you don’t have a strategy for dealing with that, they will infiltrate and destroy the company.
Mining operations can convert Chinese electricity into bitcoin.

So use RMB to purchase electricity for mining bitcoin, convert mined bitcoin to currency outside of China (or sell for RMB to someone that wants to do that and use RMB to buy electricity to mine more bitcoin).
SmartOS is better then Solaris for servers. It's truly badass. I have an HP DL160 G6 running SmartOS in my basement.

If you learn to use zones (which you should) it can run any workload that Solaris can.

On top of that it also runs native Linux containers and KVM for virtualizing everything else.

It's hands down my favorite operating system.
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The large primes themselves don't have much use as far as I am aware, but the methods and tools developed to find them have apparently been quite helpful in other fields.

This is much the same argument for why the LHC is a good idea. The people who care about Higgs bosons proper are quite few.
Do you really think that China is capable of an easy and bloodless transition to a democratic system?

Perhaps Chinese people know better than anyone just how violent revolution can be.
Every codependent has some excuse for enabling their abuser.
There are plans to build a 6 km^2 island in the middle of the North Sea to act as a marshalling point for a whole new raft of wind turbines on the Doggerbank.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/05/north-sea-wind-pow...

It would also be a routing point for powerlines out to the surrounding countries.

My question is which country's territory would it be?

A key question since this would bestow rights on the surrounding ocean. If this is planned to be a European territory then wouldn't that in itself be novel?
I remember.

That the employers monopolize and combine and have advantages over the worker is established, but not that doing the same on the other side would be beneficial. He mentions in spirit on in parallel that any measure to try to reduce that power of monopolization would be either ineffectual or make it worse.

Within the Smithy naivete, one could argue that unionization would mean that by necessity, employers would be require to conspire to be able to deal with unions. Of course, I don't think he had the word for union, certainly not the concept we have today, but he clearly condemns how employers are also able to use force against the gathering of workers.
I will second the website optimization for all audiences in general. When I come across a vendor website and I find I am spammed by "read our whitepapers" popups or stop-right-there page, I usually judt quit, unless I find the product interesting. I also prefer if vendor doesn't ask for an email address before letting me download. I get it is needed for marketing, but if I really do like your product, I will follow up.

Finally, usually sales end up with either director of engineering/whatever or VP/SVP, so do a really good presentstion...
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I wonder what the correspondence between Vivaldi and Google looked like. Specifically, regarding this section:

> When we reached out to Google to resolve the issue, we got a clarification masqueraded in the form of vague terms and conditions, some of which, they admitted themselves, were not a “hard” requirement. In exchange for being reinstated in Google’s ad network, their in-house specialists dictated how we should arrange content on our own website and how we should communicate information to our users.

> We made effort to understand their explanations and to work with them on their various unreasonable demands (some of which they don’t follow themselves, by the way). After almost three months of back-and-forth, the suspension to our account has been lifted, but only when we bent to their requirements.

This is one side of the story. Without seeing the correspondence it's hard to decide who's being evil.
I'm not so sure it's the stereotypical "beancounter" here. There seems to be absolutely no penny pinching going on (which is the impression I get from "beancounter").

I'd say it's more the "Contract Signers" who're at fault. The devs and AWS Architect are perfectly happy to use inexpensive AWS options, but somebody _else_ goes golfing and drinking with the Oracle sales team - and arrives at work hung over the next day with a shiny new half million dollar a year Oracle licence which everyone else is now required to use.
We ignore what doesn’t fit with our biases – even if it costs us
This has been reinterpreted with cats, I saw someone wearing this T-shirt in Camden the other day.

http://www.animalsyeahyeah.com/mens-c7/unknown-pleasures-cat...
Layout and copy seem fine to me (but I'm not the OP).

Since we're doing website critique, here's some CSS tweaking (no serious adjustments) that fixes most of my design complaints:

Before: http://i.imgur.com/yopLaY7.png

After: http://i.imgur.com/iANMrgp.png

CSS: https://gist.github.com/madebyollin/41e7aaf1d7604c2ccd54b8f3...
Win some, lose some ;)
Adword/Doubleclick clients are their users, not you and me.
Ask HN: Which sideprojects turned full-time businesses?
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B2B is kind of an odd place.

some B2Bs started out doing one thing and then end up doing all kinds other random crap that clients just decided they rather have one team managing a whole project rather than spread out over 200 vendors and contractors and managing it themselves. there's nothing wrong with that! some clients are fighting to keep their business afloat instead of spending all day individually managing their service vendors. and if the B2B gets paid for that kind of work, it's sometimes worth doing.

so if you're a B2B with experience herding 200 different vendors and contractors doing odd crap for a single project, why not advertise it? alas when you do it just sounds really generic like "enterprise solutions" or even "everything". i mean, these companies in the article probably started off doing data analytics then ended up being really good at hooking up internal systems with data collection and then also doing consulting and then marketing and every other thing because their clients must have asked for follow up on their products.

to the author of the medium article. if you see that these companies do everything, why not just give them a call and ask them if they can do that one specific thing? chances are, they've done it before, and even if they haven't, maybe they'll do it for you anyway?
True, Bitcoin was already reversing before the announcement. However, NEO was definitely impacted by the news.
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South Korea and Taiwan did do it with authoritarians. They were absolutely authoritarian governments, and they each had their own mini-revolution once their societies reached a certain level of affluence.

The difference is that China's mini-revolution (June 4, 1989) failed, where theirs succeeded.
>The UK doesn't have a formal class action suit mechanism

Actually, it does.

The Consumer Rights Act 2015 created one. See Schedule 8[0] (which amends the The Competition Act 1998[1], but legislation.gov.uk hasn't updated that yet).

However, there has only been one case, so far,

[0] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/schedule/8

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/41/contents
RIF == Reduction In Force

(Saved you a Google)
If mining for plastics were ever to become profitable without emissions trading, artificial subsidies, or some sort of a carbon tax, it would essentially mean the end of civilization had already occurred.
I think the threat is absolutely real. But not in a Skynet-like scenario.

Except we're all gonna become jobless. This has started a few decades ago but with the ML advancements its gonna reach new heights.

Universal Basic Income, Tax Robot, etc has been thrown around. Let's see if they get anywhere.