skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is "Everything is Real" a reference to qntm.org/ra , a phrase that you and that both got it from, or something that you just independently came up with and capitalized?

Also, can you clarify what you mean by "wasn't serious anyway"?

Note: I do not think that there is a significant chance of roko's basilisk occurring. (where significant means "neccesary to consider when making decisions")
Caller pays, indeed.
The basilisk AI reminds me of the role-playing game Sufficiently Advanced, where:

Each player is an agent of the Patent Office, an intergovernmental organization
that polices and enforces intellectual property law across the universe. It is
an open secret that the Patent Office is run by the Transcendental AIs, whose
very beings are spread across time itself. The Transcendentals desire the
survival of humanity - as much of it as possible - into the distant future, in
order to ease their loneliness. Towards this end, they have hired you, so that
you might save humanity."

http://suffadv.wikidot.com/
Cool. You may want to test different VPN services in case that's it. I've been using vyprvpn and I'm quite happy with it, but there are probably a few others that would work well.
They're actually one of the most prominent companies with a large deployment of FreeBSD (the OS they use for their CDN).

https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/software
tl;dr the world is developing and getting richer, and a natural consequence of that is declining fertility (birth) rates, preventing the runaway population "bomb" that so many people have feared.
An unfortunate and misguided sentiment, especially considering how technological change has literally improved and changed the world. The current top story on HN (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/07/21/140721fa_fact_...) being but one minor example.
Chrome 37 Beta: DirectWrite on Windows and the Dialog Element
Not saying we don't have any. I'm saying this form is different in the US. We have racaille, but it's a very different form.

You're reading my comments with the worst mind, max out with pseudo-quotes like "we don't have bullying, we don't have racism", then you say you're "enraged" by what I said.
She probably registered to a forum or the other portal and she used her email with the same gmail password. And then the data (list of emails and passwords) form a forum/portal leaked. Ask her if she use the one password to all accounts.
Reactive Banana Anti-Tutorial
If you want to implement minimalist design, you might as well go the full nine yards and use no more than 2-3 (properly contrasting) colors. This is middle-of-the-road and frankly evokes neither elegance nor brilliance.

To elaborate on why the above may be interpreted as harsh, by limiting the ingredients at your disposal to flat colors and simple shapes, you run the risk of amplifying the severity of any mistakes in their selection. The less visual information that get presented, the more the visual units come under closer scrutiny.
And Facebook and Google.

Actually, all 4 of those companies are very interesting because of the presence of previous incumbents who everybody assumed were playing in a small market. Before VMWare there was SoftPC (remember them?). Before DropBox there was YouSendIt and literally dozens of other competitors (many VC firms turned down DropBox because they claimed the space was too crowded). Before Google there was AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, etc. Before Facebook there was LiveJournal and clones, EZBoard, Xanga, etc.

I think this illustrates one of the complexities of Marc's "The product just has to basically work" thesis. Yes, but...you have no idea if dramatically improving the product quality will unlock a huge market that's been sitting on the sidelines because existing alternatives are too hard to use or don't actually solve the problem. It's like market size is a step function of product quality: most of the time, improving product quality has little effect on the number of people who use your product or how much money they pay you, but certain improvements unlock a whole new class of user. And the only way to figure out what those improvements are is to build them and see if a massive number of new users show up.
FWIW, the original title of the piece on Marc Andreesen's blog was "The only thing that matters":

http://web.archive.org/web/20070701074943/http://blog.pmarca...

The submitter probably remembered the piece, went hunting for it, and then submitted it under its original title rather than the reblogged version.
we use cyclone based eco-system, it is completely at your hand, we love that extensibility.
/dev/random actually points to the same RNG as /dev/urandom, according to http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ (and other sources I recall reading but can't find). So you wouldn't use /dev/random to seed /dev/urandom, but you (or the kernel) might use something else to seed both.
A company I really like has this problem. [1] When I think of getting a new film pack, I find myself doing a "mouse dance" where I look at the photos and then they disappear followed by moving the mouse over another photo.

[1] http://vsco.co/film
Here's the thing, big affordances are good UI, so making the entire image a click target is a good idea. _Especially_ because of mobile. On mobile, nobody is dragging a cursor anywhere. The mobile market is more important for designers than the small demographic that uses a mouse wrong.
Nelson Mandela Google Doodle on His Birth Anniversary Today • vlogg.com
This is a good point, but for a different reason: IIRC, Netflix is paying Level3 for connectivity. If Netflix pays Verizon for direct connectivity, Netflix still pays someone for bandwidth, and L3 loses their cut.
Note: GCE live migration take place only when there is a "scheduled maintenance", it is not designed for immediate hardware failure, so it is not a silver bullet and should not rely on them for your service's availability.
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.
That's a good point. Maybe it would be based on intent?

But yeah, without any way of determining which thing such a future AI would prefer, the AI's "influence" on the past would be greatly reduced.

Only reason I see it happening then is if it happens to be simulating the past anyway, and maybe just does the thing for the people who already thought of it, and then that really only makes sense to happen if it was created as a result of those people. Otherwise there probably wouldn't be much point, so it seems rather unlikely.

I mean, what's the chance that someone attempting to bring it about would significantly increase the chances of it happening? With our level of tech, and with the small number of people convinced by such an argument.

Yeah, good point, I hadn't thought on that detail much before.
You're right, there are a few cops out there who out bad behavior. They are punished, demoted, fired, and even confined to insane asylums by the cops they "betrayed".
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/nyregion/officer-adrian-sc...

These cops are the true heroes. Unfortunately the reason we rarely hear about them is that there are incredibly few. Much more comfortable to stick with the herd, follow orders and take your check.
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Sure, set up an SSH tunnel, make it a SOCKS5 proxy (easy enough to do) to a host in the 'cloud', now proxy you traffic through it (like Netflix).

Watch how suddenly you get 'connection reset by peer', look around and discover nobody in your packet path has any cause to reset your traffic. Now do a straight http proxy (varnish works well for this) to the same machine, run it all day night with bits of http traffic. No issues at all.

No go back to creating an SSH tunnel between your machine and the endpoint. Run traffic, note the mysterious 'connection reset by peer' when some thing upstream sends your TCP connection a FIN.

It could be that their network just has a really hard time with encrypted packets but some how I don't think so. I have tried a variety of port numbers.

EDIT: and I went back and verified I still have 'ServerAliveInterval 60' in my config file for all hosts.
That's not what tptacek means when he says "[user space] CSPRNG", and is more appropriately called a keystream generator, not a CSPRNG, and the input is more appropriately called a key, not a seed.
Microsoft Decisions: What and Who (2013)
Post about it by creator of Memcached: http://avva.livejournal.com/2786645.html (hope Google Translate would be readable).
If the real universe the AI exists in has a finite life span, the torment would not be eternal. The simulation would eventually end.

That should give these weirdos a modicum of comfort.
Cool fb blog that shares interesting pics and videos about places in the world
I actually think that comparison is fair. Don't read as a negative towards React at all.
Can you select() a system call (the new proposal) instead of an fd (the old interface)?
Hmm, I guess I don't understand why sending packets to an end user over an ISP is not "transit", but I'll go ahead and admit I know very little about this subject and am probably wrong.
A whois lookup says that this is registered to a Claire Whitley. I sent her an email asking what the deal was.

EDIT: Upon further investigation, this thing is filled with rickrolls
But we don't interact with much of it, it could be a cached copy of another sim.

Edit: Perhaps it's adaptive and only simulates what will be observed. And if some cost saving optimization artifacts are discovered within the sim, it can be fixed and reverted to a earlier state.

Edit2: Perhaps it only has to simulate from your perspective, but the more you critically observe and interact, the more expensive the simulation is.
I think it's still much too early to count Microsoft out, they've still got a whole lot of runway ahead of them

The name will surely live on in some offering or other, but the dynasty has already faded.

it would be pretty interesting to see a post-Microsoft tech world, but I can't imagine that happening until a worthy successor dethrones them, rather than simply fading away.

With regards to the primary three product lines: the OS and the office suite, plus the corollary server solutions, Ubuntu + Redhat seem to be pretty effective at stealing former Microsoft clients, particularly governments. Hell, even Amazon's getting in on the act with EC2 sales to the CIA.

That's fairly strong evidence on its own, but in addition the world has shifted away from desktop and Microsoft's strongest position against this is essentially office work requiring a keyboard and XBox/gaming rigs. SteamOS is going to add further challenge to the console space, and encourage development in a cross-platform direction, and we've already seen open and largely interoperable source office solutions proven at scale.

If you had to point at a successor, I believe it's the Linux world in general, but from the consumer's perspective Ubuntu.
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Un programa de creación de Blu-ray tan potente y profesional como este, permite grabar vídeos HD de grabadoras digitales, vídeos .MOV de iPhone y vídeos SD corrientes con diferentes formatos, incluido el formato de salida de los discos Blu-ray o DVD AVCHD, para reproducirlos o convertirlos en carpeta de copia de seguridad.
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Your phone is snooping on you
Even assuming there's some inherent difference in what women want to study (as opposed to cultural differences which could ultimately be removed) - funding isn't always the choice of the university.

You can't take a DARPA grant to research robots and then spend it on interpretive dance lessons.
This isn't even the drug war. It's middle aged men buying Viagra from pharmacies in India. I'm probably a minority, but I would prefer to sign a waiver and then buy my own drugs. Rather than have to pay a doctor to prescribe me something I already know I need. I'm insulin dependent, and monitor my blood sugar regularly, and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. I know far more about how my body reacts to insulin than the doctors do. I should be able to buy it without a prescription. True story: 8 years ago I was hospitalized for several months due to a bad motorcycle accident. The doctors kept prescribing me insulin that I told them was too much, and badly timed for me, but the did anyway. After a week it compounded, until my blood sugar was in the high 20s (coma territory.) of course because I was bedridden and doped up on Demerol I couldn't feel the signs of hypoglycemia. After that they relented and told the nurses to (within a wide range) administer the amount I asked for.
Can someone give an elevator pitch of extensible effects? Monad transformers are very useful and rather easy once you get used to them, although not without their downsides. What advantages do extensible effects have?
For that to happen, at least as many jobs would be created every time something would be automated. Where is the proof?
it clear to me that this notion is not maintainable at all after looking the comments though it is nice feature to have.
According to their blog post in May, "Khan Academy, New York Times, and Airbnb (and naturally, Facebook and Instagram) are using React in production."

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/05/29/one-year-of-...
Has someone already coined this movement the "functional cloud"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5E8kDo2n6g
predominately from hardware division across india and china(nokia), sad :(
I'm no fan of monopolistic ISPs, but it is true that when you have a peering point with unbalanced traffic flows, the side sending more traffic is supposed to pay the side receiving more traffic.

Such an arrangement with a consumer ISP is so preposterous I have to assume that Level3 and Verizon never expected flows to be symmetric.

Level3...isn't paying for that difference.

Right, because Verizon's customers pay for the difference.
similar approach: https://8ack.de/honeypot/

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It seems that the peering arrangements typically pay for transfer through one network to another, not to get data to the end consumer.

I don't know enough about the issue to say whether that's true or not, but that seems to be the argument they're making.
"This is the story of search keyword advertising"

Google certainly didn't win because they had a "good enough" product in a strong market. They won because they had by far the best product in a strong market.
Ukraine admits it shot down Russian airliner: “an accidental hit from an S-200”
6 Ruby on Rails Deployment Methods – A Critical Look
If it were considered "transit" in the same sense as delivering packets from one network to another across large distances, then consumer Internet access should be free because it's always biased in favor of receiving rather than transmitting bytes. Verizon should even be paying its customers to accept the extra bits they get.
From 2001
They have trained their agents on how to respond to complaints about speed... https://twitter.com/CyrisXD/status/489950468483731458/photo/...
How exactly does one become an abortion ideologue? I do know of anti-abortion ideologues.

Providing access to birth control so women can take more control over their lives, and in the process providing health and economic stability should be lauded. That is the reason most sane people support the work of Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Many sites are unusable without adblocking due to this.
Have you ever taught a kid to learn? I don't think there is a lot of evidence suggesting the human brain reliably learns without a number of data points...

Seriously, Norvig has been big on this since forever: the reality is that consuming large amounts of data with relatively subtle features tends to be one of the few areas where computers can easily outclass the human brain.
It can be hard to believe the world overall is getting better when one's own corner of it is getting worse. It also depends on how you define "better" -- better health, better civil liberties, more widespread access to luxuries, better authoritarian surveillance systems, ...
"These industries may be among the most vibrant and dynamic in the world, yet those inside the hive are among the most tedious people in the room, endlessly plugging into their prosthetic devices."

I gave the author the benefit of the doubt until I got here. Most of the people that I've met that actually keep innovation progressing are quite interesting people with deep lives, including family, hobbies, interesting experiences, non-technical interests, community participation, etc.

I think the stereotype of "boring" comes from the focus on young developers, who aren't necessarily boring, but haven't become interesting yet. It's no surprise that a single 25 year old might not have a deep appreciation for the subtleties of humanity. If there was as much focus on other young adults, you'd probably find the same shallowness with different (and often less productive) outlets.
That would be the case when Level3 would like to peer with Verizon on order to send traffic to another peering party's WAN of Verizon.

But it is Verizon customers, who request the traffic and Verizon is not providing the best quality, because they don't want to upgrade their own equipment and the peering with e.g. Level3. In fact, it should be Verizon paying to Level3.
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ISPs pay for transit, tier 1 networks do not (by definition). Level 3 is definitely a tier 1 network, but Verizon is acting as both a tier 1 and an ISP. It isn't a very complex problem, tier 1 networks don't pay transit.
That doesn't seem entirely obvious, since last-mile infrastructure is a completely different beast from backbones.

But yeah, I clearly don't know what I'm talking about at this point. Sorry.
I don't understand your equalization of CPCs with value. They are not the same thing. In the early days, CPCs were low and advertisers were getting good margins. It doesn't mean those clicks were less valuable, just that there was free lunch to be had and it didn't last. Ultimately the cost approaches an equilibrium where it is a balance between what a vertical or the sector is willing to pay and still make money off the traffic. This upper bound usually doesn't change that much per sector/market segment.

So I would say, the value from a click doesn't change for the advertiser as long as they are running the same business - nobody can make those clicks MORE valuable for the advertiser just by charging more.

Now, if advertisers are getting cheaper clicks with good margins, its a matter of time when the competitive forces drive the margins down to what's acceptable to survive for that segment. This is true for most advertising channels, not just online. This assumes that there is a fixed tolerance for margins for a sector/device combination. Unless all advertisers collude to keep CPCs down for themselves, the cost should reach equilibrium - think about it, why would other competitors not drive up the cost and get MORE traffic, until they reach their margin tolerance? It is a volume vs. margin question. More volume means less margin, and there is an equilibrium to be had.

As you have also stated elsewhere, CPCs going down is hard to understand without a distribution of CPCs bucketed by traffic. As volume grows and new markets are penetrated - it could either mean that it is touching more lower margin businesses OR equilibrium has not been yet established for those new markets. But it is hard to conclude that existing high margin businesses are suddenly paying less for those clicks unless their fundamental business properties are changing i.e. lawyers can't make the same money as they used to anymore and hence margins are squeezed. That may or may not be true - but it is not possible to deduce that from what's given.
> then it is not being run by our descendants.

I see what you are saying, within the bounds of the article, the Basilisk, requires that our descendants are simulating our present. But by necessity, our genetic descendants would also be members of the simulated universe. Of course, they don't have to simulate the entire universe, they only have to simulate the local part that immediately affects what we do. So long as the model we're in produces equal results to "reality" it's good enough.

All simulation hypotheses discount two other kinds of descendants, intellectual "descendants" for one. Observers of the simulation who learn or are influenced by the simulants. Just like I might run a program on an emulated Commodore 64 and be exposed to some idea I hadn't considered before.

"Escapees" - e.g. Tron: Legacy, Agent Smith from the Matrix movies, The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager. Simulated mentalities which find an external host to "upload to". In the case of Tron movie, the particle laser thing constructed a body for Quora, in the Matrix movies, Smith uploaded his consciousness into a real human and in Voyager the doctor was given a portable hologram generator to let him leave the holodeck/sick bay. Any of these could potentially produce a long of descendants.
Unless the simulator that we are inside is somehow designed such that it itself cannot be simulated from within. An analogy for this might be to imagine people being simulated inside a machine that is not theoretically Turing-complete.

Not that I believe in such a thing - at this point the argument would devolve into something unfalsifiable, since the way that logic works outside of our simulated universe would not be same way that logic works inside, and you'd just have to take my word for it that the simulation is being run by an infinitely stacked series of hyperintelligent turtles, since you cannot use "inside logic" to prove anything about anything that is "outside."
IIRC that talk had a powerful ending (beside that quote).
Well, while I continue to not believe that such a basilisk will come to be,
Couldn't one break the balance of different wagers by comparing the relative likelyhood of the different things?

Eg. If there is an equal chance of a basalisk for leaving with the left as there is a chance of leaving with the right, then those cancel out. But if there is for some reason a slightly greater chance (compared to the already very small other one), then there could perhaps be an incentive one way or the other?

Again, I do not believe that AI basilisks are a real threat.
But if one replaces basilisks in the previous argument with something else, I'm not entirely sure that it couldn't be a valid line of reasoning, provided that you handled enough cases. (possibly an infinite number of cases using symmetry arguments)
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It was kind of odd watching the lens flare dart around the screen while the sun was stationary. I guess that proves the video is legit :-).
>I guess Batman villain Two-Face has the best odds against this Omega fella.

I find this interesting because I am curious about game-theoretic strategies for playing against illogical opponents.
how do you know the prescriptions don't exist/weren't verified?
Ah, I see now (for some reason the browser on the other computer I was using before didn't jump to your comment, so I thought this was about Engelbart's chording system). Apologies for the noise.

EDIT: Wow, wrist-button for spacebar. I gotta get me one of these! I always thought it was a waste that we used our most flexible, well-controlled finger for one dumb button.

EDITEDIT: Oh,€1500... Can't that be made cheaper with modern hardware? Wonder if that could be remade as an Arduino (Leonardo) project...
I kept waiting for the character in the video game "Splinter Cell" to figure out that he was being played by global corporatist puppetmasters, but unfortunately the plot never got there.

Brilliant idea for a community remake or mod!
If it's really a concern, (real) emergency vehicles could stick in a wireless beacon with an API the driverless cars could query, that would respond with a {currently_an_emergency: true} signed by a government-CA-issued TLS cert. Then you'd only have to worry about officially sanctioned creepy cops pulling you over on deserted roads.