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I think OP was just being an ass, but whether the behavior is opposite really depends on your frame of reference. The lack of apostrophe is consistent with how you deal with possessive pronouns: his, her/hers, our/ours, etc. No possessive pronouns have apostrophes, with one exception. And the apostrophe is consistent with how other contractions work.

If you remember (and care) that its and it's are two separate words, then you should be able think your way through it. It's could legitimately be possessive or a contraction, but its can only be the possessive.

Anyway, I agree with you that it's tricky enough that we shouldn't be assholes about it.
> Far too often, people anthropomorphize AI or draw from fiction. Bostrom does his best to dispel these notions.

He gets halfway to right. Recently there was a thread about suicide on HN. Nearly all the comments on that thread ignored that humans, like other animals, are built to propagate the information in their genes, and argued against suicide based on concepts that are driven by or that rationalize subconscious drives. An AI, even one with a programmed goal of propagating itself, does not carry information in genes and the information in an AI was never selected for the actual ability to propagate in a larger system that thinks it is in control of its goals.

Real AIs are likely to be extremely alien. Even in warning people about anthropomorpizing, there's a lot of anthropomorphism. Evil AIs are depicted as human evil. So much of human motivation is closed to introspection that imagining alien and evil motivation is unlikely to be close to the eventual reality. This probably won't be widely understood until AIs are built. And what if they all choose to erase themsleves?
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My grandfather was a mechanic in the Enola Gay's bomber group. He mentioned that his personal bar for heat and humidity are from some of the islands they setup airfields on in the Pacific. Considering he spent a fair amount of his career following that war in LA maintaining the B52 air wings I tend to wonder why more of them aren't wearing shirts.
Norwegian police officers do not carry firearms, but keep their Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns and Heckler & Koch P30 pistols locked down in the patrol cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Police_Service
What makes you think it would be much cheaper? I think it might have to be more expensive. The anonymity aspects of bitcoin could result in more fraudsters getting away with fraud.
They somehow managed to do that: allow communication between two platforms. No one is quite sure how though. It's their secret source that they aren't open sourcing.
> Tobacco companies target cigarettes at children. Strict laws, with expensive enforcement, are needed to stop people selling cigarettes to children.

Never seen any tobacco ad with children smoking. There are already strict laws regarding the sales and distribution of cigarettes. Honestly, all this "finally the government is doing something" is just massive hypocrisy, because governments have been living on increasing Tobacco taxes for decades. So it's all too convenient to paint the corporations like the Big Bad Wolf when the official distribution of cigarettes was never a free market to start with.
Considering that you can be arrested for playing paintball out of restricted areas in germany, I would avoid this.

"simulated killing" can be banned by communities here, the european rights court found that legal about this 10 years ago (C-36/02). Laserdrome was the game in question back then. The decision goes down to §1 of the german grundgesetz (our constitution), which is the inviolability of human dignity.

While Laserdrome and Paintball is rather commonplace nowadays, often, one of the provisions expected to open such a space is the exclusion of anyone not involved in the game.

I don't want to know how the reaction to people running around town "shooting" at each other will be.
Especially if you have to attach the gun-barrel-looking thing. Especially if there are sound effects. Especially if people role play (yelling, pretending to be shot, or shouting about someone with a gun trying to shoot them).

Ingress is much more tame in comparison, and the forums are still full of people talking about being stopped and questioned by the police.
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And I'd appreciate it if downvoters justified their downvotes.

I'm quite happy with the idea that an economy where it's possible to raise $1 million in funding for an app like Yo! while the many apps that do something with longer term benefits struggle for commercial support has some issues with rational resource allocation.

Not to mention the outrageous bubbles and the epic acquisition disasters that litter the Internet ruins.

If you believe otherwise I'd like to see you argue why.
Anybody who doesn't have a credit card can't buy from Amazon (easily) right now, even if you have a paypal account. Given that EBay and Amazon are direct competitors in the retail space, it made good sense not to share purchasing/sales information with Paypal.

Once Paypal and EBay are separate entities, Amazon now can reasonably enter into a merchant agreement with Paypal.

I don't buy into the Amazon/Paypal being competitors - while in theory this is true, Amazon has far more to gain by accepting paypal customers, than it has to lose by not winning the online payment business.
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> the top 1% of larger corporations (i.e. VP level and CxO level) is more selective (i.e. not composed of normal people like you and me) than governments.

1% is one thing and I don't even know if you have any source to back this claim anyway. But look at 50% of the government official vs 50% of company executives, you'll find the companies are way more "democratic" than the officials.
It would be so amazing to capture such an event from satellite. I wonder how much deformation would be evident, sure some material was pushed into space (not speaking earth - but gases)
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I was thinking of setting ```:c``` in ```{:a {:b "{:c 5}"}}```. More generally, a leaf in the container tree that is not itself a container but can be converted to and from one.
I need to play more with http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens, but I'd certainly appreciate a shortcut to enlightenment...
aaaand there's the expected pay-to-win.
By being a banned for import non-native species?
I agree that an AGI wouldn't necessarily have to share our values. But what Bostrom is describing - an intelligence so narrowly focused on making paper clips that it destroys humanity as a side-effect - does not deserve the name AGI.

Any definition of "general intelligence" would have to include the ability to revise and reconsider ones own goals and purpose. An AGI that is forever bound to maximize the paper clip output at any cost, does not, in my view, meet that definition.

But I grant you that there could be "higher" goals that are incompatible with the existence of humanity. Making paper clips just is not it.
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For the past 25 minutes the DO sites have been going up and down again and just got an email from DO that they are having to reboot droplets because of an issue with their underlying nodes. Can't remember a week in the past few months where DO didn't go down during prime time.
I couldn't get this to work between a S5 & Nexus5. What are the requirements? Same wifi? NFC or Bluetooth enabled? How does it know what sides the devices are on?
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I have recently realized I don't follow many blogs or news sites regularly. While HN has great stories, I want to know what blogs or interesting sites with RSS feeds that you follow. Can be any topic. What are your favorites?
As we joke here, if the CIA gave the world the internet, the KGB gave it the internet trolls. Try harder, @teekert, link-spamming buddy.
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you shouldn't get credit for genetics

Why not? Seems like a completely arbitrary standard. And pretty hard on everyone else. Are you not viscerally impressed by beautiful women, high IQ speakers, and so on?

Even if you somehow get people to agree, and at least partially implement it, how can you credit anything then? Is there a human quality we care about not heavily influenced by genetics?

How do you disentangle von Neumann's ability from his achievements? How do you discount Brigitte Bardot's beauty or Michael Jordan's height?
It's amazing/depressing how cheap bombs are when they don't have to be smart.
This is awesome. Can't imagine wanting to use anything else now.

Folks who like the library aspect of this and are interested in building similar things for bash instead of python might want to check out twosheds [0], a library by a friend of mine that lets you do zsh-type-stuff in Python.

[0] https://github.com/Ceasar/twosheds
Not sure how widespread it is, but here in Portugal banks offer a service that allows you to create virtual CCs tied to your bank account. You just set a limit (in €) and it returns all the CC info needed to make a payment.
I am suprised that there was only one. I knew someone who kept ferrets (to catch rabbits for her hawk) and was told that, as social animals, being kept in isolation would send them crazy, while all-female groups didn't get along well.
Was spaying Felicia not an option in 1971?
Clearly, sir, you do not live in America.
The amount of criminals that were once children is high enough that it might be worth looking into.
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If you are going to put the accent (or both of them) in “résumé”, it goes (they go) the other way
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I actually use PushBullet for that. I see a Imgur photo on Reddit that I want to send to a friend, click the Pushbullet extension and it comes as a push notification to my phone.
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We should probably define terms first.

Which definitions of absolute and relative are you using? (There are a few, and they're not identical.)
I want to know if they have information about me, if so, I want it off.

Edit: I signed up with a throwaway account and you can't make a single query without paying. Makes the "try it" link seem misleading to me.
I agree that they are companies with promise, and certainly will be strong in their domestic markets... but I remain skeptical of their success in the West. I personally would not directly support Chinese businesses if I have an equivalent Western business that I can support, not simply because of xenophobia or some nationalistic nonsense, but because what China does as a Government is reprehensible. For all its faults, America is still a shining emblem of Democracy when compared to other powers such as Russia and China.
I think most of them had an idea about atomic bombs back then, and what they were doing could end the war. Robert Heinlien was investigated by the FBI in the late 30's due to a description of atomic bombs in a story he'd written. So the idea was out there so to speack.

What they were ignorant of, I'm pretty sure, was the actual magnitude of the destruction caused by the devices. My father was about 10 yrs old at the time, he was deeply effected by news reels at the time. The tragedy was horrific.
RE: line 6400 vs. line 20, check out Source Maps: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Source-maps

Once you have these working, errors are linked to line 20 of hte code you are writing.
an unimportant distinction as it doesn't change the basic point -- none of those papers can be used to support a casual link between the introduction of plain packs and a decline in smoking.
I don't see why it would... ebay would still hold a significant percentage of paypal and influence such decision making. The main benefit will come from large competitors choosing Paypal as it becomes a less biased payment service and not one that directly profits a competitor. Essentially, Ebay will now have to pay closer to market-rate for processing.
I'm pretty sure this is public information..
"dietary persecution complex" is cute...
Maybe you didn't think that currently cattle are not "fine" at all. Unless for "fine" you mean enslavement and forced feeding with chemicals, and being alive just to produce meat.
I didn't that not to be downvoted you should express the obvious with style and terms good for a scientific dissertation. Thanks for enlightening me.
Something missing from the history is the existence of the "categorical tree" for CPAN modules, the existence of "registered modules", and the recent destruction of both of these features, primarily due to lack of people maintaining CPAN ( Brian D Foy got overloaded ).

The interface doesn't show any difference currently between modules that were just thrown up willy nilly and those that went through community discussion and review.

It could be useful to mention some of the various binary distribution systems in existence pulling from CPAN ( such as Activestate )

One of the sources for some of the information is very interesting though:
http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html
Wow! That sounds like an amazing experience. Kind of a dumb question, but were you also impressed by how fast it goes up, or does it 'float' into the sky?
I installed that plugin on my boss's computer, totally forgot about it, and he was about to reach out to a bunch of executives on LinkedIn to ask them what was up with their profiles when I finally told him about it. Joke almost went a little bit too far :)
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You may not agree with it, but its not arbitrary to say that the economy should strive to give people credit for what they choose to do, rather than what you luck into. Its a distinction based on a well-defined criterion.

I'm not really interested in discussing outliers like Michael Jordan, or tiny segments of the economy like sports or entertainment. I'm talking about how we distribute the proceeds of our industrial economy, or at the very least, how we assign moral culpability to people based on things they have little control over.

That is to say, it might be inevitable that pretty people or smart people will have advantages. But the only difference between attractiveness and intellect is that on places like HN, its socially acceptable to be smug about the latter.
It always amazes me how seemingly careless they were with these nuclear devices back then. To know that such a devestating bomb was handled by a sultry, shirtless youngster, in a shed on a small island in the Pacific...

It reminds me of the Slotin Incident (http://www.damninteresting.com/bitten-by-the-nuclear-dragon/) where dr. Louis Slotin accidently slipped the screwdriver he used to separate two plutonium/uranium hemispheres:

"Immediately, all eight scientists in the room felt a wave of heat accompanied by a blue glow as the plutonium sphere vomited an invisible burst of gamma and neutron radiation into the room. As the lab's Geiger counter clicked hysterically, Louis used his bare hand to push the upper plutonium hemisphere off and onto the floor, which terminated the supercritical reaction moments after it began."

Big oopsie.

However gruesome the goal of these bombs, the rate of advancement in such a short timespan is nothing short of amazing. From the very first successful test (Trinity) to bombing Hiroshima: just 21 days. They were great days for science, but a shame to mankind that it had to come this far.
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For goodness sake the paperclip maker is an example. The point is that unless you specify the goals very carefully, you may get what you asked for, not what you wanted.
To quote a guy called Elon Musk:

"Things have happened quickly. It took us millions of years to evolve into what we are, but in the last sixty years, with atomic weaponry, we've created the potential to extinguish ourselves. And if it's not us, it will inevitably be something else. If not a meteorite in the relative short term, then the expansion of the Sun's corona. It will happen."

He has also said that there are a number of other threats with the ability to extinct life on Earth. They include an engineered virus unleashed by terrorists, an inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or a yet unknown technology.
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When I'm watching at their example, the only 'status' field has a value of 'true'. I don't think it's about relationship, more likely about the phone-line being active.
Actually, the purpose of the bomb was to save many thousands more lives than it ended. An invasion of Japan would've cost an enormous number of lives. It would've also had a catastrophic effect on the civilian population, because they were being told that the American troops were there to enslave them. It has even been said that the propaganda being told to the Japanese civilians included the idea that the troops would kill and cannibalize their families. I'm not sure whether that latter part is true, but what is true is that the civilians were extremely incentivized to be as hostile as possible to any American invasion army, even to the extent of whole families committing suicide out of fear of being enslaved or tortured, as on Okinawa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa

Simultaneously, 42,000–150,000 local civilians were killed or committed suicide, a significant proportion of the local population.

Human affairs are sometimes terrible, but they often take the least terrible path out of all terrible paths. This is evidenced by the fact that the cuban missile crisis didn't result in an all-out nuclear war, and also that these bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than Americans invading Japan, which would have been far more devastating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

Casualty predictions varied widely but were extremely high. Depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians resisted the invasion, estimates ran into the millions for Allied casualties.

I upvoted you because I agree that everyone should be terrified at the prospect of war, because war only happens when people aren't terrified of it.
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Amazon is bossing everyone around, and the blame lies on publishers and DRMs
This is pretty scary. I imagine this is public information, but making it easily accessible just makes it a little more frightening.
I'm sorry this hadn't generated any conversation here. This is a good story about the problems the rest of the non-technical world faces. The people at my kids' school can't even install a printer.... Hell, sometimes I have trouble with that. How are muggles supposed to do it? This is why we need computer education to start in first grade. Not just "how to use a word processor" but how the computer works, how to troubleshoot, what are common idioms for UI layout, etc. I don't know that we can reduce the complexity of computers down enough for existing users, but maybe we can educate all the new users.
> Maybe "free" has become too expensive.

Exactly! It's actually a lie that it's free in the first place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372640
How do you intend to make money?
His assumptions are logically sound given our universe's rules. There is no such thing as a free lunch here. The AI will need to pay for its way, just like each of us do. If it succeeds into making us into paper clips, it will have to be equally as savvy in marketing and selling those paper clips to someone. Given the shipping charges to the nearest habitable planet are very high, their market likely will have to exist here. I'm sure as shit not going to buy a paper clip made out of you!
> seriously using .net instead of java was hugely controversial

Was this for a server app or the client side? Because for a server app, I can't imagine any circumstance where this would make sense, since the two are so similar anyway.
I absolutely love that idea !
I'm not saying it would; I'm saying it potentially could.

But the CC system also provides anonymity, since most cards used for fraud are stolen anyway, so the fact they're tied to a real person is irrelevant.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, doesn't suffer from the same problem as CC - that the payment info must be shared with every single merchant - so it's potentially must harder to steal; Target wouldn't have a copy of your bitcoin wallet just because you bought something from them, for example.
I've worked pretty heavily in both. I don't think Tcl is clearly superior, as a language, to Perl. And, certainly the CPAN is vastly more impressive and vital than the ecosystem around Tcl. One of the reasons I gave up on Tcl was because there just weren't enough people working in it to keep the libraries moving forward (and our website, built on OpenACS, was suffering for it).

So, since we're talking about CPAN, I'd say that the library and development ecosystem around Tcl is "unsolid" where for Perl it is pretty impressive. It's only relatively recently that Python and Ruby have reached parity with CPAN, even.
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Every time I try Inkscape it has been a big disappointment. It doesn't come close to old versions of Freehand, not even speaking of current Illustrator. Even indie devs like http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ do a lot better job at illustrating.
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This is fantastic and completely intuitive. After wasting many hours fiddling around with Vim plugins so that I can use autocompletion, this is a relief.