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What is the end goal for humans?

Floating through space with near unlimited computing power seeding planets?

Will we keep our human bodies and enjoy the simplicity of living while machines build us giant (on scales we can barely fathom) structures in space?

Will we have to teach machines the value of life and why they shouldn't take it? It would be relatively simple to teach a machine about living. Humans don't really have persistent memory when turned off, humans only have RAM, if you remove the power source, our RAM gets cleared and we no longer exist. I think a computer could fairly easily understand that.

Will advanced AI machines or human/machine hybrids instantly understand that war and violence is harmful and pointless?

What would the goals of an AI system be? To grow? To help humanity? To ensure it's own survival? To colonize other worlds? To experiment, invent, and build?

I'd be very interested in listening in on the AI meetings at Google that Kurzweil is involved in, I'm sure they're fascinating.

I can't imagine having two brains hooked up to myself or having a secondary computing device attached to my brain, would it be information overload? Will humans ever be able to near instantly learn things?

What happens when multiple human brains connect to the same network? Would we be essentially one organism?
I wonder what achaeologists think about this theory :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8
I'd call this consensus for consensus. You put your 'vote' in for a given outcome and the votes in aggregate are weighed to determine expected outcome probabilities. By tying the vote/bet to a store of value (stored POW) you might eliminate vote fraud.

I wonder what the effects of desired outcome manipulation by using large amounts of POW to vote? Ideally, you'd want 1:1 connections into the network by individuals.
"- You must manually request the latest version of cabal-install. cabal install cabal-install by default gives you a version without sandboxes."

So far as I'm aware, doing a

cabal update
cabal install cabal-install

should always get you the latest version of cabal-install.

One thing people encounter frequently, that may be confused for this, is that cabal doesn't install things system-wide, and so you have to 1) make sure that the place cabal is installing things is in your path, and 2) possibly make sure your shell hasn't cashed the location of the old system-wide version of cabal.

It's totally possible that there's a bug that's more specifically as you describe that I just haven't heard of, of course - just trying to help if I'm able.
The AWS marketing folks don't get paid enough.

https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
This is such a tired meme. They both made bad choices and were both, at various points in time, equally reviled. Gates has simply had the time and inclination to rehabilitate his image in public through an impressive array of charitable works - we don't need to continuously harp on Jobs just because he's dead now and will never have that chance.
Or greenbar.
I find that casually overlooking the root directory very often gives me a good estimate of how active the project is (and in which subdirectories it’s been worked on most recently) and also (very superficially) how clean the code base is (e.g. are there falsely committed backup/swap/a.out files even in the root dir). Of course, in most cases I’d immediately scroll down to the readme.

Unless, however, I really do want to view a file online (say because I want to check the API of some command I’m using and it is not documented otherwise) in which case I really appreciate that it is so easy to find. I really don’t understand why most other web frontends (Bitbucket, Gitweb, GitLab) make the commit log the first thing to see on the summary page. These mean nothing to me from an outside perspective.
They might be riding it up and down some too, the connections to the blob don't have much intensity.
Seems like something TeX or LaTeX could do.
I think a nice comprimise would be to allow each user a certain number of deletions relative to the karma they've earned. i.e. for every 100 upvotes, you're allowed to delete any post of yours indefinitely/permanently.

The reason for the ratio of votes to how many you can delete, is because its likely that HN karma per user correlates with the quantity of posts per user. With that in mind, someone who has made many more posts may have a need to delete more posts in the future.

This would balance the needs of the community to not have holes in its conversations, but also allow individuals to strike a particular comment from the record.
BMW's all-electric i3 ready to roll in the US
The planet survived cyanobacteria [1], which dumped vast amounts of highly toxic oxygen into the atmosphere. The planet had a mass extinction, a global freeze, but life managed to pull through (even Cyanobacteria survived). Compared to that, our addition of Carbon to the atmosphere is minuscule.

To your first question, it is entirely possible to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, but it is expensive. Consider how much of GDP was put into getting the Carbon there in the first place, and that burning fossil fuels is cheaper then recovering the carbon they emitted. The most promising solution I have heard is to take an organic approach. Instead of sequestering it ourselves, engineer the planet to do it for us. For example, we can dump nutrients into largely dead regions of the ocean stimulating photosynthesis, and let the carbon fall to the bottom (as a solid).

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria#Earth_history
Cool. My first programming experience was as a high school senior going to the CSU, Stanislaus (Turlock) computer lab to play on the Apple II's, and later on the C-64 in that lab. It was my job to be the "lab assistant" for about 6 months before starting school there. (put paper in the printers, make sure equipment stays in the room, show people where the "on" buttons are)

Yeah, a ride down Monte Vista Ave was a pretty "pastoral" experience.

Going from toying with analog electronics to getting to use an actual computer was pretty exciting, at least for somebody in a rural area who could not afford such toys otherwise. Putting simple graphics into the Apple was a stroke of genius and made it quite an experience to play with.
It should be possible to comment on posts in this thread indefinitely. I can currently only comment on some of the posts in this thread, but I could contribute to others.
So BitBucket and Gitorious and others will need to excel and beat GitHub at their game. Competition will eventually solve this the same way we aren't beholden to the same methods and sites we used 10 years ago. The next winner may not even exist yet and I expect that the barriers to entry here are not nearly as high as those in other markets that have been disrupted over the last few years.
That's a bold assertion, but based on the fees I see for disposal of real goods, not close to plausible. Adding another $10 onto a washing machine for a "disposal fee" still isn't going to make the $500 washing machine suddenly comparable to the $1100 one. And if you're adding more than about $10, you're not adding an "environmental real price", you're just taxing people because they aren't doing what you want them to do. The environmental "real price" of a washing machine simply isn't in the hundreds of additional dollars.
Yeah, I think that line of thought betrays how young the author probably is.

Back in the 90s people were complaining about planned obsolescence, when TVs and vacuum cleaners were dying after a few years, as opposed to the TVs and vaccum cleaners made in the 1970s. My parents had a vacuum cleaner that was over 35 years old and they still used it.
This could be huge in my opinion, until prediction markets become legal at least. Is there any real value in it being decentralized other than bypassing laws?

There is enormous value in prediction markets, I hate that they are illegal in the US.

When real money is at stake then people make the decision that is most rational and filter out much of their bias.

I do think prediction markets should be legal and required to be 100% transparent. The scenario where people bet on something that they have control or influence over could be dangerous.

The thing that I don't understand about a decentralized prediction market is where do the results come from? Somebody has to say, "this bet won", right?
These days, I get most of my entertainment online and store my code repositories and other permanent data on a home server. I wouldn't know how to fill 128GB on a laptop.
I don't see why this is a bad thing.

There is inherently less cognitive overhead to use something you are already familiar with. Same reason why people wouldn't give Bing the time of day.

All things being equal, and you just had to choose a public place for a remote repo, Github should be your first choice unless you have a very good reason go use something else.

I'd rather not, nor expect consumers of my code, to have to learn a completely different UI than what they are used to in order to use or contribute to my public repo.
where do I put in the promo code?
Maintaining a tank and "maintaining" the ocean are such astronomically different scales.

We are wasteful and polluting creatures, but to attribute drastic change to the ocean only to humans for the past ~50 years is almost egotistical.
And do they support this kind of smart warnings on unmatched possibilities?
The data is normalized locally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7688369

I think you are being a bit cranky about it, the text on the control panel says exactly what it is. The mechanics of the colorization aren't very apparent though.

It would be interesting to see different splits of the data, I imagine Brazil routes normalized nationally would do better with your example.
Whenever Github goes down I always wish someone would invent a decentralized version control system.

Remember at work when Github goes down everyone is just sitting there twiddling their thumbs for hours. As in "yeah my commit is ready just waiting to push it" or "waiting for the issue to be close, then we can test".

It is ironic a bit isn't it. One of Git's major selling points was -- we are tired of one centralized version system, you shouldn't need a single point of failure or be tied to the network in order to develop. And then years later we have one giant global single point of failure across the world. There is some irony there.

(Yeah, yeah, I know I can commit locally. But at some point you'll need to update issues, and publish your changes. This is more a of a generalized point. It would be the same if bitbucket went down and so on. We never it seems have gotten to the mythical peer 2 peer internet of things -- it just doesn't work it seems).
The competition you describe exists now. Having a new "winner" won't change the point being made in the article. I don't agree with the conclusion he came to, but he's pointing out issues with there being a winner whose site is the de facto place where code / project / people go.
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The proposal is to conduct a Concept Validation for a system to provide individual transportation cost competitive to automobiles. It is different from others because of centralized control and a new electro chemical engine provisionally patented by the applicant. I have recently name transportation (to be vetted).
Aha. You can spot the Apple fanboys rushing to contend this just by saying they don't use 128GB to begin with.

The entire point is that pretty much any other (read: non-Apple) laptop/desktop you buy nowadays is going to come with at least 500 GB, and generally 1 TB nowadays.

No need to get up in arms and whine that Apple is doing everything just right for your tastes.

edit: I obviously wasn't referring to 1 TB SSDs. The parent's comment said that 128 GB is pretty paltry for storage capacity nowadays, as the thread is concerning the rate of growth of SSDs.
First of all, thank you for the promo code.

One of the first things I've noticed is that the app lacks a night mode (a dark theme). I think that would be really great. It's somewhat hard to concentrate on the text with a bright white screen blinding me in the dark.

It would be really nice if the app would ignore archived texts, or even better, move them to a different section of the app, so that we can revisit them if we want to.

Maybe ability to paste text into the app as well?

I noticed some reviews suggesting a pause at the end of the sentence or after longer/unusual words. That might be a good idea, although I didn't really suffer from the lack of those pauses.

Apart from that, I just went through a long(ish) text at 550 WPM without a hitch, so it works as advertised. Nicely done!
It's funny that your explanation by analogy of death rests on the assumption the machines already understand how themselves work. There's really no reason why that should be case.
Stephen Hawking: Beware smart machines
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From iOS device: Open App Store -> Redeem

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1574#iOSdev
This is not a social problem, talking about it like one is just going to end in tears.

This is a technical problem.

There is no way to efficiently look for code across the various repository sites. Too often a search on google turns up nothing, while searching on github (or pypi or another repository of software libraries) finds exactly what you are looking for.

Until there is an effective way to search for code, people will be left no other choice than to search on a few sites (github is by far the largest, so most people will check there, and some may not check anywhere else!).

To the author: if this bothers you, fix it, but don't act like it's a behavioral issue. (Also, bitbucket has been dead for like 5 years, it's a backwater and it's not going to come back.)
Yes, that's true. The "pain" I had in mind wasn't in using `interface{}`, but in writing non-generic code. This doesn't result in a performance loss, but will result in some code duplication. (Or alternatively, extra complexity from using some sort of code generator.)

But, to be fair, in the Go world, both mechanisms are used. It depends on which costs are important.
At some point, the point of diversification doesn't hold a lot of value any more. You typically diversify to protect your assets/principal/etc. There's little that could happen on the world markets to obliterate Gates' wealth to the point where "diversification" would have had a substantially different impact on him and his family.
It is for serial killers. They probably assume that because of statistics(most serial killers are white), and not a psychological profile.
An argument can be made, that is not an open environment, because (1) they use external cameras that have the whole room in their field of view, and (2) the room is totally white.

They could not do the same out in a park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Investments_LLC
It feels like I'm reading reverse Stormfront.
What do you mean by "1:1 connections into the network by individuals"?

It would be required to have the same amount of bets bought and sold, just like the stock markets.
I don't know if it was a typo or if I'm not understanding you correctly, but 100MBit is certainly nothing special in Sweden. Plus, I pay only about $50/month for it. Maybe instead of 'world' you actually meant the U.S?
Most people can't be bothered to choose a domain, set up a web and e-mail servers for it (because if you're doing it, you gotta do it right) and then maintain it all. Even though it's on almost everyone's todo list, I'm sure.

Setting up a GitHub profile and posting a few quips on Twitter is almost effortless. So that's what we use. If someone comes a long and makes a competing product that is just as easy to use, people will switch. It won't be much of a problem.
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Oddly what seems to have sparked this blog was someone failing to find Ned's own "coverage.py" on githubs search. Ned's response was interesting - there is clearly a monoculture - they should have searched on google.

my first though was - but Ned is caught in the far more worrying search monoculture.

And my second thought was the other monocultures to fear more - antibiotics, wheat and soya...

In the end, contributing to someone else's code is hard - it requires not merely coding skills but agreements on standards, willingness to compromise, and willingness never to do so, it requires humility and determination. Anything that makes that easier I welcome - I suspect githubs biggest issue is not having people start repos, it's having > 1 person work in the same repo.

They can solve that, more than happy to live with that monoculture
Looks like some sort of cult mass prayer :).
"we are asked to provide a Github username and a Twitter handle. I suggested that a homepage URL is a more powerful and flexible way for authors to invite the curious to learn more about them"

Your website demonstrates who you say you are. Github work demonstrates who you actually are.
Look at PouchDB
If you enjoyed this, another fantastic article by HST is Strange Rumblings in Aztlan[1] about the murder of Ruben Salazar and the Chicano movement against the Vietnam war.

[1]http://s3.amazonaws.com/eob_texts-production/texts/22/129780...
Students prove real-life Star Wars deflector shield is possible
There is a slight technical difference that winds up being a more significant practical difference between the C solution (struct of function pointers) and the Haskell solution (record of Haskell functions): the Haskell functions can close over arbitrary data.
I'm sure Thompson's rolling in his grave at the thought of someone being naughty.
So where it the 'apache' of Github? Presumably that would be Gitlab, but its not quite aligned with the Github experience.

One could imagine a package you install on your droplet, ec2, linode, what-have-you, which would create a 'site' for your project which included a Wiki, a user management package with role management, automated source code backup to Glacier, automated mirror management to choice of mirrors. Install, set up your various keys (aws, ssh to mirrors, etc) and then push to it your source and make it the origin master.

You make that and then people might start creating free floating git repos, except that it will cost them some small money (like $25/month) which would discourage many people.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

It seems to me we need a technical solution to a political problem.
If you expect to get rich working for someone else, you will be disappointed. Everywhere I've worked, things start out great. You get to work on new and exciting projects.

Then, new management comes in or your boss makes crazy development decisions and your project becomes a sinking ship. I just dropped a contract that was exactly this. I got tired of being forced to make bad decisions, which I know will lead to the failure of the project/company.

This is why I started my own company. There are no limits to my salary.
For the example task we could use the multiprocessing Pool and (the undocumented) ThreadPool.

This implements the worker pool logic already so we don't have to.
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"you won't want to use it in production"

Would you mind saying why? It isn't unstable or anything, just unfamiliar, in that you can't write C programs on it. But people do use it in production.
If you make something awesome that you love, people will love it too.
Due process is for government and law enforcement; However, gathering evidence in advance to protect yourself should be [made] legal. An abused teenager should be able to record evidence and have it be valid in a court of law, to prevent it being dismissed as he-said/she-said without evidence. If you feel threatened by someone, you should be allowed to record your interactions without their permission (and likely knowledge), so that if violence occurs, the perpetrator gets punished - again, unlike a majority of such cases where nothing happens due to lack of evidence. In places where local police is corrupt or prejudiced, recording your interactions (again, without giving them ability to prevent it) is the best way to fix the problem. The same goes for sexual harassment and discrimination cases.

The whole point is that you should be able to record now, and handle any permission/admissability later; and you shouldn't require cooperation of government beforehand - it's likely for police or court to say that your case is not important enough for them; but it's not a valid reason to restrict your ability to protect yourself.

What you intentionally say to me isn't your private secret anymore - if I had the right to hear it, then I have the right to remember it and to repeat that to any court; and I should have the right to remember it perfectly&permanently on a durable medium, and hand at to any court as valid evidence. In short, it makes sense to require permission of a participant in recorded conversation, but not all participants.
Battery technology is fundamentally limited by chemistry.

The best available battery techs (generally metal-air designs which consume the anode) offer about 1/10 the energy storage density of liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The best of these, lithium-air, offers a theoretical maximum of 11140 wH/kg (40 MJ/kg), excluding oxygen weight, which is actually close to that of gasoline, diesel, or fuel-oil (~46 MJ/kg).

But at practically attainable levels for rechargeable designs, you're down to 9 MJ/kg, and on a gross energy-density basis, while sufficient for some uses, including a fair number of ground-transport uses, but with some significant operational and technical constraints imposed by the battery's own operation. You also have the further disadvantage of having to carry around the full weight of the battery even when its energy content has been exhausted (fuels by comparison are burned off).

For other uses, particularly large bulk-good transport (ground or sea), or practical heavier-than-air craft, it's simply not good enough.

And that's the best possible designs. For more viable designs -- LiON or even hypothetical graphene / carbon nanotube batteries, you're looking at vastly lower storage densities -- 0.36–0.875 MJ/kg for LiON.

The prospect of synthesizing hydrocarbons using electrical energy from renewable or sustainable sources strikes me as a highly probable future path, though I'm partial to the US Navy's fuel-from-seawater proposals, given the much higher (140x) concentrations of CO2 available in dissolved and bound (carbonate, bicarbonate) form. For more: http://redd.it/22k71x

For discussion of energy storage see generally Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%E2%80%93air_electrochemi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
...or investing in Monsanto.
I like Github, but just switched our business repos over to bitbucket. Github's pricing for businesses isn't even competitive.
> “There’s going to be trouble,” I said. “My assignment is to take pictures of the riot.”
which translates into $10M I think
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Yeah it's pretty far fetched to think humans could impact an ecosystem as big as the ocean... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing
You could fill it up quickly with big-sized software and games.
One of the big selling point of github is how little downtime they have.