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I was not saying, that he did the right thing. By all standards, he did not.

I just smiled, when I read this and thought back about Uber and what their take on rules and regulations were/are, when it comes to their business. I was really not advocating for DDOSing the service.
I'm moderately certain you can pay for AWS with any standard Amazon gift card/certificate, including the e-certificates.

There also exist cards worth AWS-restricted Amazon credit, which their developer evangelists hand out occasionally, but I'm doubtful they're commercially available. When I get one I just put it in my wallet and give it to the next startup I talk to.
Well, in the future I'm thinking about, even the few would have very little to do operating the machinery that performs all of these tasks automatically.

When given a choice between being one of the many and being one of the few, I usually choose the few.
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I'm not talking about Chinatowns. those are ghettoes leftover from the 1800s
> I don't know the answer but I suspect there would be a big outlook difference of US welfare recipients vs. Kuwait where welfare recipients have disposable income.

I'm not familiar with the Kuwaiti experience, could you elaborate?

> We have to consider if this would be relatively better or worse for society, not just would there be problems.

Agreed; though I'm wary of making big, breaking changes to a complex, evolved system. Previous attempts to cut over to radically different socioeconomic architectures in production have tended to end poorly.
no that's just a ridiculous racist thought that you came up with on your own.
I don't want to disagree with you, but I suspect there's more to this than just idle time. For example, there are plenty of retirement communities where idle time is the norm, and the social problems of poor urban American neighborhoods aren't really found there.
What other way would you recommend? I'm definitely open to other solutions. Patches accepted - but we need a way to easily get users a good default list.

I'm also not sure I'm convinced that just that list will get all of github blocked. What evidence do you have to support that? Lantern itself on github seems more 'dangerous' than just the list of sites. And none of our Chinese users seemed to think this is an issue.

I'll ask the greatfire guys, as I'm in touch with them. They wrote a great article on the last time github was blocked: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/github-blocked-china-...

Also will try to ask the autoproxy guys directly - I'm not sure if their reason for using the encoded format is the reason you say.
In short yes there are more ads, but it's actually not anything that new. Let me explain..

Around summer 2007 (when I started using YouTube myself) YouTube started its beta version of the "partner program" where they salaried somewhere a bunch of people for a year and monetized their videos. In about Dec 2007 they let anyone apply for the program doing the rev share on videos we see today. I myself became a partner around March 2008. Anyway until about May 2011 the program ran like this, you applied, waited months normally for a reply, and hopefully got accepted, or if rejected tried again and waited..... In May 2011 they started trailing out a program where accounts in good standing could monetize videos w/o ever applying for partner, launching the start of the "monetization" program. In about March 2012 they basically killed off the apply for partner program and replaced it with this where basically everyone on YouTube was a partner. It's been since then that any video COULD be monetized, its just as time has gone on more and more people actually monetized them.

My dates may be slightly off as its thanksgiving evening and I'm doing this off the top of my head but thats basically how things have gone. It's really nothing new...

FYI I run a website that reports YouTube & Twitch statistics called Social Blade so youtube data is something I've been watching for quite a while now. Hope that helps :)
Well MtGox clearly has a problem with USD withdrawals, which is why this arbitrage opportunity exists in the first place and doesn't seem to be closing.

If they fix the USD withdrawal problem, which I suspect they will do as they start to lose business to the other, better exchanges, expect arbitrage to obliterate the price difference between MtGox and other exchanges.
That was the first thing I looked up and there was a quora post claiming you could not pay for AWS with an Amazon gift card.

http://www.quora.com/Amazon/Can-I-use-Amazon-gift-cards-to-p...
So you consider it to be a cultural artefact?

What about antisocial behaviour by those who've inherited high status?
Can you name any handset that do that?

I've honestly never seen it before, and I'm curious what manufacturer would actually do this nowadays.
If youtube will come with paid plan like 99$ for year without ads in videos,user surely go for that.
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That makes quite a bit of sense. Thanks.
SQLite can get so many tests partly due to the relatively stable requirements. In an environment with fast-changing requirements, it is not likely to have so many test cases for regression tests. In this type of environment, what I observed is either 1) the team has no time to update the initial test cases and causing a large batch of tests not being run 2) team spends significant time to fix and debug tests, slowing down the progress in adding new cases
This was designed by Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, and who's still doing work in this space, except instead of a single very simple core like this, he's making chips with 144 extremely simple cores. http://www.greenarraychips.com/
The machines of the future will convert energy into wealth. They will do this by performing a large number of automated tasks for us. We will not have to work - it will be redundant to work.
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Lantern's main goal is fast access, Tor's is anonymity. We know the Tor developers, and recommend their tool for when people must be anonymous and secure. Lantern aims more at mainstream users who just want to avoid censors for fast access to the open web. It also uses some different approaches, see https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-... for some info on the tech.
It seems to me like there are still lots of problems to solve. Many STEM jobs still go unfilled even though they tend to pay more. If you want to build the next Android or iPhone, you need large teams of people, for instance. Some people will choose tennis while others choose medical research? I don't think anyone has mentioned the fact that there aren't enough hours in the day for people who do research or creative work.

Personally, I image that if we could put 7 billion people to work on the more important problems, we'd still need a lot more fall short on resources.
I think it varies from person to person; I know people who love it.

I found it tasted, quite sincerely, like cardboard. I was reminded of the Adams line about "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea".
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It does cost money to run that database.
>That doesn't affect the ethics of something

According to you and what you think is right and wrong.

As you can see from the comments, not everyone agrees with you.
There's something off about that cosy consensus view, quite apart from the fact that it is so open to manipulation. It's basically highly conservative and only accepts the status quo.

The reality is that what may have seemed a completely out there view can become the new normal within a surprisingly short time when the environment or culture changes. Apart from politics, you see this in everything from fashion to music, business etc. (e.g. predicting the death of print or record shops, or 'did I really think I looked good in that - what the hell was I thinking?')
Good counterexample; though those in retirement homes are generally not from multi-generational welfare backgrounds. I'm not sure if I'm undermining my own argument here.
For those having trouble getting past the hype to the actual content of AIXI, lesswrong has a nice article [1]. From the article:

"The AIXI formalism says roughly to consider all possible computable models of the environment, Bayes-update them on past experiences, and use the resulting updated predictions to model the expected sensory reward of all possible strategies."

I will add that the prior over models comes from a measure of model complexity, which is a reasonable way to construct a prior.

While I think the idea of connecting deep mathematical formalisms with actual AI goals is mostly hype, these formalisms are still interesting in themselves. There is something very intuitive about how AIXI works, but that doesn't mean it is going to practical for a large range of problems.

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/AIXI
I think damian2000 was making a distinction between an exchange holding funds on behalf of customers and an exchange that trades with its own money.
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No. There is a perfectly good term which has been around for a very long time: Strong AI. In no context does this mean "ML + NLP" (which, by the way, AI itself hardly means). I think terms like AGI are just rebranding.
I can imagine an usecase - if your relative or friend is unexplainably not found at home or office, so is effectively 'disappeared' from you - then in a pre-internet era you might not want to search all the hospitals in new york to check if (s)he's there.
From the comments on thestar.com...

Border agents may have access to confidential medical records of Canadians which they are using to screen visitors, but it certainly wasn't necessary in this case; a quick Google search turns up that she wrote a book about it, published under her own name: http://ellenrichardson.ca/bio/index.html

Whether we should be denying entry based on this criteria is certainly debatable, but the medical details in question in this case appear to have been made public by Ellen Richardson herself.

There may be a discrepancy with the dates, as the book and BIO obviously reference the initial incident from 2001 but I didn't see anything pre-dating this news about 2012 in 5 minutes of searching. At this point though, there are already grounds for denying entry, and 2001 vs 2012 becomes he-said-she-said.
Assuming you're referring to the US (which you may not be), how is this "multi-generational welfarism" viable when benefits are restricted to a five-year lifetime cap after 1996? In addition, there is a work requirement while receiving welfare (welfare-to-work).

Food stamps do not have such a limitation, but would hardly be able to support the long term lifestyle you describe.
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I think "work" is necessary, at least the connotation that implies one has to strive for more or give up something in exchange for a tangible reward. However, work just for the sake of working is unnecessary and detrimental to the person that must endure it.
> you need to know width for that, and you don't, bad idea

You also need to not chop off accents. "café" cannot become "cafe…"

> i18n password? very bad idea

Because string types are so broken.
Most financial institutions operate as a black box in that regard. Until you actually withdraw something, you know nothing about the internals or where your money / security may really be.

From a programming perspective, it doesn't really make any sense to make real Bitcoin network transactions for every buy and sell order; an internal database can keep track of all that way better. Arguably, they could steal all your Bitcoins if they wanted to anyway, so it doesn't really matter how they handle the internals.
I fear a world where people don't need to aspire to something to better their lives (ie studying, learning a skill or educating oneself) wouldn't be a very nice world to live in at all. If we didn't need to work, what reason would there to learn to read? If we were rewarded with land, shelter, food and comfort for doing nothing, what would the incentive for those who will inevitably be responsible for keeping everything together?

Plants don't grow without care and attention, electricity isn't as simple as sticking two wires into a powerpoint or setting up solar panels, if nobody worked, nobody would study and if nobody studied there would be no people left in the world.

Money, sad to say motivates people, it motivates the disadvantaged to strive for more, it motivates the rogue developer with a wife and kids to attempt to build the next big thing knowing the reward will be a comfortable life where the family doesn't need to worry about money.

Perhaps there is a better way, removing class barriers, maybe there is no such thing as lower class, you are either middle or upper class. A system where even a school janitor has an opportunity to do something more and earn a decent living.

We can only dream, but I doubt for a very long time will there be a shake up to the class wars and pay discrepancies amongst professions.
Consider what the world, sorry universe will be when anything you can conceive of is a function of energy vs time.

Set a self-replicating constructor going. All it has to do is harvest sunlight to produce more solar cells to capture more energy until it has a sufficient supply to expediently build that new house you ordered.
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You're spot on - social graphing/big data isn't some kind of facebook-exclusive superpower.
I agree the implementation isn't sound, but there's nothing wrong with the concept of a shaft passer.

As an example of why it is conceptually feasible, remember that you could computationally (or mechanically) determine when a shaft is closing in and open a gap in that particular support at the right time, maintaining ability to pass torque through all other supports.
Pretty aggressive/pessimistic!

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Link to a no-registration-required PDF version of "Fast String Searching" mentioned in that post

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13....
I'm Australian. My understanding is that the effects of the Clinton reforms are somewhat disputed. I don't like the idea of time-limiting welfare based on arbitrary cap. It's a case of "fixing" the metric, not the problem.
How much did you make off bitcoins or other cryptocurrency?
Ive heard some friends making 6 to 7 figures off it.
What is going to happen when "one of these guys" refuses to sign up for your large government work program? Is the government going to enslave them in order to keep them from being idle? Is this going to be voluntary?

Think about Fuller's quote - we have people making tools for inspectors to inspect people. What do you suppose is going to be the overhead for your massive make-work program? And what is going to be the environmental cost of this program? Who absorbs the externalities as the government tears up the environment in the name of employment? In other words, quis custodiet custodies?
I don't see any problem with it. Google are providing a free service to everyone (brands, content curators and those who consume it), why shouldn't they monetise that asset? A site like Youtube consumes so much bandwidth and space on a scale most people cannot imagine.

I am surprised the whole ad strategy wasn't rolled out a lot sooner.
> Plants don't grow without care and attention, electricity isn't as simple as sticking two wires into a powerpoint or setting up solar panels, if nobody worked, nobody would study and if nobody studied there would be no people left in the world.

People would do these things out of curiosity, or because they want to see what happens. The need to know, learn, understand, and create wouldn't go away. Intrinsic motivation wouldn't go away. Indeed, I can imagine these becoming stronger if one could devote most of his waking hours to learning about the variety of topics that interest him.
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So why does poetry exist and what are hobbies?
can you sell the futures short? is there anywhere to sell btc short?
it's already unnecessary. Look at how many people are employed in the service or entertainment industry. We have people who can earn a living travelling around the world teaching obscure dance styles. This is not 'work' in the way that you mean, but it is definitely 'work' in the economic sense; it is one person engaging in a trade of their skills for another person's money. What automation will do is to free up individuals to do these sorts of exchange which would have been impossible with a less efficient use of resources; what economics does is makes sure as many people as possible are doing this 'new work' not just for S&G, but also in the service of others.
Here is a more honest article (in Finnish) from someone who have used the device for a day:
http://mobiili.fi/2013/11/28/jolla-vuorokauden-kaytossa-tass...

English translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

According to the article the biggest problem seems to be Internet-connectivity, the reception is sometimes bad and it has problems connecting to WLAN. The browser is also quite slow and needs improvements.
Boredom is a powerful motivator too.

A couple months of laying around doing nothing will drive most people crazy and they'll begin asking themselves what they want their life to be about.

And even if they don't contribute anything, should all people be required to useful to others or can't some just choose to be left alone if they are self sufficient?

In a world of scarcity I can see the argument of forcing people to contribute if they want to take back but what about a world of abundance? You and I are breathing abundant air, for free, and nobody is getting angry right? What if other resources like electricity were as abundant as Tesla once dreamed?

I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. These are just thoughts worth consideration.
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Nokia Lumia 520 which has similar resolution (480 x 800) is 79$ and in fact you can get one for 49$ today. Off contract. I know that HN is not fond of WP but just comparing hardware here.
Yeah but to fill the STEM jobs you need educated people to do so. To get educated people you need to make the process of education far less expensive and risky for the individual, only then you will get more people through the STEM education.

I'm kind of old (35) and a CS student, I started fairly late in my 39ies. But I only was able to do so because I payed a high price for that. Nearly everybody else at my age has a family with kids, many of them even have bought their first house. Not me, I'm studying, I'm one of the very fiew 35 years old students at the university.

And yes there are legitimate reasons why I couldn't start to study earlier (which I won't get into right now). What I want to say is that education is _very_ expensive for the student, even if here in Sweden I don't even have to pay for the university myself. Many people who would be able to learn and do the STEM jobs can't because they're stuck in survival mode earning a living at a job which doesn't help humanity, instead it is only there to keep someone ocupied.
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I'm sitting at 6 figures now, but haven't cashed out a whole lot yet. I still think it will succeed long term so I only pull out money as I need it.
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Youtube doesn't show in-video ads from where i live. (Africa)
You mean spoilt kids behaving badly? You can be given material needs without having to work but you will still need to work hard to become a dancer, ride a skateboard, play the piano etc. Maybe the root problem leading to antisocial behaviour isn't financial but a lack of cultural values?
Agree on the Java ecosystem. I deployed a toy app using Tomcat a couple of months ago, and now I have no idea how to update it. I lost the "tutorial" I found and can't remember what it was (stupid mistake), but still, the fact that I had to resort to a pretty unknown tutorial to deploy something shows how desperate I was.

I'm looking for another language with similar philosophy to Clojure's, but with a better ecosystem.
I really would like to see Facebook broken up via the Sherman Antitrust Act, or some such legislation.

As I see it, the "network externality effect" which keeps such monopolies in business could perhaps be mitigated by creating a sort of social network "DNS", which could be created by the government or a private corporation. Facebook/Google+/etc would be clients that would make requests for someone's data via the DNS. So it would basically serve as a "Bridge" or "Facade" to use a design pattern.

Example if Suzy is on Facebook, and Lucy is on Google+, when Suzy rquests Lucy's photos, Facebook sends an API request to the DNS "request_photos('Lucy', 'Suzy')", the DNS sees Lucy is on Google+ and forwards the request there.

The purpose of the bridge/facade then is to make it not really matter where a person stores their data or what client they use to view others. You just need some sort agreed upon API for determining where the data for each person is, an for sharing data between services.

For someone with more strict privacy concerns, the DNS for such a person could simply record that the person uses this social networking service, which doesn't allow requests from outside. Again the benefit here of the API would be that to add yourself to that service would be as simple as "upload_photos(serverX, request_photos('Suzy', 'Suzy'))", etc.

I'm sure there's a million things wrong with the above, but just a random thought.
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The workers at the Ballard locks in Seattle used to use these because of some safety regs (for a short while). They all hated them because they jammed up all of the time.

Wish I knew the name of the mechanism they used, it looked interesting enough to get me talking to one of the workers about it.

Edit- the best I can find is either something called a 'starpass glider' mentioned on page 14 of http://s7d9.scene7.com/is/content/minesafetyappliances/Horiz...

or http://www.saferack.com/lifeline-cable-systems-fall-protecti...

The system I saw at the locks seemed like a better engineered system, from what I remember.