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In the hypothetical, the aliens haven't been wiped out yet by the singularity. As I see it, that leaves two options.

1) The aliens never stumbled upon AI. Considering that they've mastered interstellar travel, then they're likely very far ahead of us technologically. If they haven't stumbled across it, it's pretty unlikely that we will either. It's like quarantining otters because we're worried that they'll accidentally make an anti-matter bomb.

2) The aliens developed the singularity, but defeated it. Perhaps the Gulgaflak theorem provides a logic bomb that stops singularities from occurring. Maybe they tamed the AI into a benevolent force. Whatever it is, they have a way of handling AIs that are, again, more advanced than what we can develop. We don't quarantine otter because our tools are WAY better than theirs.

3) The aliens figured out AI, but decided not to use it. A species wide decision was made to not develop the technology once they figured out exactly how to do it. Considering the short term, local benefits to someone for cheating and doing it anyway, it's essentially the prisoner's dilemma, multiplied by everyone on the entire planet times all the centuries between their discovery of AI and their discovery of life on Earth.
Before anybody else gets funny ideas: the claims in that article aren't entirely correct.

First of all, I find the claim about 35 hours being the average a bit dubious. It may have been the average some years ago, but today it's probably closer to 38-40 hours, with service jobs (from retail to agencies) often adding unpaid overtime to that. On the other hand our work laws are pretty employee-friendly (e.g. a mandatory uninterrupted resting period of 24 hours per week in case you have to work on sundays) and larger companies are more likely to follow the letter of the law.

The rules regarding Facebook and private e-mail have more to do with German privacy law: if the private use of work computers is explicitly forbidden, there are less legal landmines involved with intercepting or monitoring Internet use. In practice many places have an informal policy that allows these things, just not officially.

The bit about employees not hanging around after work is also inaccurate. For many people a lot of friendships (and relationships) involve co-workers. In fact, this is one of the reasons there was such an outrage when Walmart tried to implement its US work policies in Germany (which forbade romantic relationships between co-workers -- not that that rule would have held up in German courts to begin with).

There are indeed more days of paid vacation and families do receive preferential treatment when it comes to scheduling vacations during the major holidays or summer break.

The difference when it comes to "Handwerk" is also very striking. Mediocre pay (and rampant moonlighting) aside, craftsmen are generally held in high regard and like most professions take a lot of pride in correctness and precision. This probably again goes hand in hand with Germany having a lot of laws, rules and standards for various fields of work (e.g. you can't just set up a shop as a car varnisher, you need a formal qualification for that).

Also, bureaucracy. Although the sibling is right in that you do usually get the expected result if you follow all the rules, the paperwork can be daunting. Most people joke about the tax law in particular, but we have laws, rules and standards for everything. German law generally tends to define even edge cases clearly rather than leave them up to interpretation by the courts, consequently the legal system tends to be less shady than in the US, but trickier cases can still take years (but on the plus side, they are much cheaper than in the US).

Also, universal healthcare.
Expeditious is used rarely enough, and 'expedited' services are spoken of frequently enough, that I don't think that expeditious would at all capture the notion.

Things that are expedited are put on a 'fast track,' obstacles removed -- and, frequently, corners are cut.
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I think you're right
"...no, you don't, you can't."

Yes I do. And I can.

"Being older doesn't prove anything"

Indeed it doesn't. I know because I pay attention.

I'll put it another way - you can be young and not know. You can also be old and not know. However, you cannot be young and know. But you can be old and know. Old is usually, but not always, measured by time.
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Figuring out a good business model (or a way to survive without one) is indeed the challenge here! I'm not sure that AWS's margins will support this (and historically they haven't been great at supporting open-source anyway)

The fact that so much of the world's private source code is on a single public website (GitHub), which has repeatedly been hacked via relatively easy exploits, is pretty frightening to me.
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Really nice work!

The Model 4p must have had a better disk controller and software than my Model 1. The Model 1 used a Western Digital 1771 controller that required a pause between writing a disk command and reading the status. A few NOPs would do, but early versions of TRSDOS missed the pause out, causing frequent crashes.

I never did movies on it, but in 1980 managed to get it to record a few seconds of recognisable speech using the I/O line in the cassette port. Filled the massive 48k memory in no time.
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He, this remembered me the Portal 2 AI safety tags:

http://io9.com/5897036/the-rise-of-the-machines-as-told-by-w...
Would Perl be a good langauge to learn if you were looking for a niche?
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Uh huh, and once we realize the networks are compromised in this way we're just going to let it happen. Forever until we're all dead. And the machines are going to trust the dude with enough money to buy a factory. And the dude is just going to buy a factory and infect it for the machines. And then stuff like that is going to happen until we're all dead.
I've used an early prototype of this, it is absolutely wonderful for visualization / prototyping / wireframing!
Layers of films can be stacked to produce a broader absorption band. Since they aren't concerned with transmission then essentially they can build as many layers as they want to block the spectrum of interest (ignoring cost, of course).
Perhaps a larger concern is the dependence on thin-film interference to the incident angle of the light.
There's still findutils, inetutils, binutils and other collections part of the GNU base system, though. The core daemons are all separate projects, as well.
Wow. Thank you so much for this.
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> We have firewalls. We know how they work and how to implement them well. For all intents and purposes a typical NAT-setup is bascially wide open from the inside and out.

Now consider source routing.

Yup.
If the WiFi uses encryption, DNS is encrypted too.
I've run into problems with large-ish files in git repos, binaries accidentally committed etc. I'm genuinely curious, is there a good way to use git for the size repositories that you mention?
Wow, thanks for pointing this out. I just tried it out for myself, and indeed "rep movsb" is consistently (and sometimes significantly) faster than the standard C memcpy for aligned copies larger than 16KB or so on my Intel Core i5 (for unaligned copies, it seems to be on par). It is slightly slower or on par for smaller sizes. There is no noticeable difference between rep movsb and repmovsq.

Apparently, libc hasn't caught up to those micro-architecture changes yet :/
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I'm trying to build a following with a pre-launch of a blog following projects I'll be tackling next year (http://timnuwin.com)

Even though I've mentioned it a few times in IRC + google plus and collected a few emails, I don't want to spam them and piss off the users who don't want to see it. Thanks.
The truth is, I don't understand the point on having to download MBs of stupid animated images I will not even look at when I expect to see a commit diff.
gifhub galore :)
Intriguing post! For those who hadn't heard about DRBD, it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Replicated_Block_De... - it makes failover incredibly simple to integrate by pushing a lot of distributed-systems responsibility down to the filesystem level, but in doing so it forces you to have a single-master setup, and you can't take advantage of parts of your domain model that are well-suited to eventual consistency. Thinking about it, now that Riak supports strong (quorum-based) consistency on a per-bucket basis, Riak-backed scalable Git hosting would probably be relatively easy to implement. Looks like you were building your own system - did you ever release the code?
"Front-end" for 80% of companies still means Photoshop/Dreamweaver and maybe a bit of jQuery.

In places where "Front-end" actually means HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, single page, MVC, etc, the salaries are comparable to back-end programmers.
Yeah, I wondered when They turn it on again.
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This negotiation is rather weak since it doesn't recognise the passage of time. Once the viruses have reproduced to their satisfaction, they can renege on the deal when humans have a weaker negotiating position.

That is to say, "Don't negotiate with terrorists."

Fortunately the human/mammalian immune system does not typically permit this kind of deal. With a few exceptions: including HIV.
Not sure why the author would bother analyzing claims she has already decided were false.
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Am I missing something? I don't appear to be able to do anything on the main screen.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4zlhcun6w26512s/Screenshot%202014-...
Most reports don't show significantly changed memory usage though (some increase slightly, others decrease slightly).
FYI, Fossil[1] does distributed/decentralized bug tracking & wiki just as with the code.

[1] http://fossil-scm.org/ by the author of SQLite.
I think it's great too, but I shudder to think what it might look like 5 years from now. I can only figure that there will be dead gifs everywhere
Great suggestion on targeting all the sites. Just pushed an update that un-checks every site with the "All Sites" checkbox at the top. I'll look into scraping the Who's Hiring feed next...
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Agreed. (MVP)
Bitbucket is excellent for that use case. In fact, github often isn't even an option since even the largest plan is limited to 125 private repos. Bitbucket, meanwhile, has no limits on the number of repos (it's a fee per user instead)
Even if the article were instead titled with the more accurate "How to refute..." it would nevertheless be interesting and worthy of further discussion.
This has been tried many times before, with better-but-still-lackluster results. Sunfish is impressive because it's written in Python and in a tiny number of lines while still being readable. I LOVE Sunfish, but it is among the weakest chess engines in existence. That deep learning could not break even against Sunfish seems rather unimpressive.

The author seems to have a not-very-deep understanding of computer chess. Some examples:

>Better search algorithm. I’m currently using Negamax with alpha-beta pruning, whereas Sunfish uses MTD-f

MTD-F is not better, just a different way to accomplish more-or-less the same thing. MTD-F is a binary-search equivalent of the alpha-beta family of search. In fact, naively switching to MTD-F will probably result in worse playing ability. It takes some time to get it tuned right, and even then it is not objectively better.

>Better evaluation function...By generating “harder” training examples (ideally fed from mistakes it made) it should learn a better model

This is what every beginning chess programmer on the Computer Chess Club message boards and rec.games.chess.computer has wanted to try for the last 20+ years. It has been empirically demonstrated that for best results, the evaluation function should remain simple and fast. Improving evaluation rarely fixes "dumb mistakes". That's what search is for. Efficient search makes up for a multitude of evaluation mistakes.

>Faster evaluation function: It might be possible to train a smaller (but maybe deeper) version of the same neural network

If the evaluation function was reduced to literally take zero time to execute, it would not help significantly. It's a linear improvement being thrown at an exponential problem.

I would LOVE if there was a new approach to computer chess, but the current "smart brute force" approach is so far advanced and successful, it is hard to imagine another approach being competitive.
You cannot have non sci-fi proof of future events, it will always be unmeasurable theories.

So you can choose to wait and see, and maybe it will be too late or to hard to act when you have sufficient proof.

Or you can choose to start thinking about it now, and see what we can do to to set up safeguards. And perhaps those safeguards will be useless, perhaps not. That's called prevention.
While the economy isn't zero-sum, resources like land are. Warren Buffett isn't taking money away from people, but I still believe income & other inequality would rise if people lived forever.

I think all of those problems are worth addressing, but I don't think we should be in a mad rush to cure death itself. It is a vital part of returning resources to the cycle of life to be used anew. I think our world would be worse off if humans lived forever, it would be stale and stagnant. Finally, I think we should fix some other problems that our overpopulation and thirst for growth are causing before we try to cement that growth with eternal life.
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That implies increased security as well.
Yeah, I got a job proposal via Linkedin last week for a Front-end (JS/Node/Angular) position in London and in the description was mentioned £500 per day, which is almost my monthly salary!!!

The problem is that I'm not planning to go abroad for the time being.
Git is great for smaller binaries. Ideal in fact, given that it stores differences between revisions as binary deltas. For large >1GB files, I believe the diffing algorithm is the limiting factor (I would be interested in getting confirmation of that, though). For those files something like git-annex is useful (http://git-annex.branchable.com/)

I've used git to push around a lot of binary application packages and it's very nice. Previously I was copying around 250-300MB of binaries for every deployment--after switching to a git workflow (via Elita) the binary changesets were typically around 12MB or so.
> It is by far a superior experience to Facebook, given how intuitive, fast and sleek it is.

It's riddled with childporn and sick/illegal stuff like that.

Is that's your definition of "superior experience"?

It's a crappy Facebook clone,always has been and always will.
So don't use it. Problem solved.
Shooting large amounts of light into the sky does not improve security. Adequate street lighting does not require that much wasted light.
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Please try and keep your attitude in check. Your tone is not helping.
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This will be quite useful for me, thanks!

If I apply to work at a company remotely - how do I know that I'm not getting screwed over (not paid)? I'm 19 and some of my friends have gotten screwed over by a few foreign employers whilst working remotely. Do You have any tips to find a good place?
It actually isn't out till 2015.... so this is just asking if you are interested. Perhaps it's an MVP -- with a signup form....and if there is enough interest they will pursue it...
Fear is a demonstration of non competency?
So there can never be harmful technologies?

If someone more knowledgeable than me on a subject fears it, well I think it's worth at least listening to him. Not dismissing his concerns arrogantly.

And when those person are one of the greatest scientist and one of the greatest entrepreneur of our time, both with some kind of expertise in AI, well...
AI is also, at present (and in the foreseeable future) science fiction.
Pavel is widely seen by the Russian developer community as a sort of a douchebag who flaunts his wealth in ways that would seem crass to someone from Silicon Valley. Just look at the guy throwing paper planes made from money at a crowd of onlookers: http://youtu.be/2pxTpFqX6rI?t=25s
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Hear, hear!

npm is without a doubt the best module system I've come across in my years of development. RubyGems is kind of a pain, .NET dependency management is a joke, Python is super fragmented, and Go doesn't have one. Godeps is an okay tool, and `go get` is cute, but I have yet to use a package manager that couldn't stand to borrow a thing or two from npm.
1324 -> 232. If you say 70% reduction VS 100% increment sounds like you are talking the same stuff and it is possible to compare 70 with 100.

The reality is even in the above edge case: 2x memory, 6x speed.
Most Master's degrees in Computer Science, in the US, are awarded as part of 3 types of programs:

1) For people returning to school without a CS background.
2) As an "add on" to a Phd program.
3) As part of a combined 5 year BS/MS degree.

Very few are awarded to undergraduates with CS backgrounds that are going only for an MS.

That's a long way of saying, it is perfectly normal for people with all manner of backgrounds to receive Master's degrees in CS in the US and someone with an EE undergraduate probably has a leg up on most of the other candidates.
I guess it is good that my city is aiming for 100% LED street lighting then :)
Both Zuck and Durov were approached by secret services by their respective countries. Zuck caved in and gave up Facebook information to NSA. Durov decided to fight and ended up exiled.
It would be nice if Chrome let you disable animated gifs, without disabling all images.
You're right and exactly because of the lack of serious JS projects in my country the front-end salaries are pretty low. If more larger Node/Angular projects appear, the salaries would get high as these technologies are a lot more advanced than just styling few buttons with jQuery.
There are many different aspects to shared object support, there is support to some of these aspects today (you can link against shared libraries, for example), and there are on going conversations about supporting other models.

This is a recent thread on the subject:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/0_N7DLmrUFA/qGRb8...
> When people refer to VK being a clone of Facebook

The 'clone' label comes mainly from the fact that the site was originally a copy of FB right down to the colour scheme. The two sites have diverged significantly since then, of course, but if you'd removed the logos and presented the two sites to someone in the first couple of years, they would have been hard pressed to pick them apart.

VK is also remarkably popular in Russia, etc, because of the massive amounts of copyrighted music and film material stored on the site that Durov steadfastly refused to remove. It helps with your popularity when one of those 'many features which FB does not have' is an unlimited stock of pirated content accessible for free....
You are not the first to wonder that! Back in the early 90s some scientists actually tried it on people with severe AIDS http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~piecze/Lancet.PDF - some seemingly improved, but the trial was too small and preliminary to be conclusive. When they published those results, there was a huge backlash about ethical concerns and the research got shut down.

I took a class taught by Dr. Pieczenik about 5 years ago and he still believed this idea would work if it was allowed to proceed.
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That would only happen if someone was like him and was being micro-managed by a manager who wasn't familiar with him yet. John Carmack is crazy productive, the vast majority of Quake (and predecessors) was written by him. Anyone with a head on his shoulders watching over him for very long would see him outperforming possibly the entire team and trust his judgement.
You are not making a cohesive argument. First you were arguing that OP was essentially saying we shouldn't "give a fuck about anything." Now you're arguing that we should "start thinking about it now." Those are two completely different points.

You can do research and testing without fear mongering.
Atlassian Stash is also a good solution. I believe it is $10/annual for the first 10 users. https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash
Depends on whose libc you're using. Good implementations definitely take advantage of rep movsb where it's fast.
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Nope, that just means they can waste light while wasting less electricity :)
Hmm, I'll have to take a look at git-annex, I've run across it but never investigated. Thanks!
A very naive view targeted at equally naive Western audiences. Repression in USSR after WW2 was negligible compared to 1930s.