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It's offensive for you to place your opinion in the context of "right and wrong", specifically that your opinion is "right".

If content owners want to block adblocker: They can! They absolutely can use javascript to detect ad-blockers and prevent the majority of all of them from visiting the site unless the adblock is disabled.

Sites like Hulu.com use anti-adblock to ensure that their terms are met and that users view advertisements or are barred from content.

Instead of making a moral argument against the legal and acceptable use of browser extensions, you should be examining the business decisions that lead to intentionally and strategically choosing to NOT BLOCK users who use adblock.

"Inventing your own terms about the cost of something produced by someone else is never ok."

I totally agree, which is why I question your invented ethical cost regarding browser extensions and advertisements.

Their terms are clear, and if they want to block certain users, they are free to do that. You don't need to invent some silly ethical argument where none needs to exist. If adblocking was against the law (like, say, shoplifting) then your argument would have merit. But it's not.

Your argument is similar, in my view, to saying "it's unethical to go to Best Buy to window shop and later purchase on a website. You should respect the terms and businesses intentions of a brick and mortar store and pay extra since you walked in the door".
I can't help but feel this is a ship that long sailed. I ultimately support the idea, but we seem to have turned into a society of hoarders, when it comes to data. And, indeed, for many purposes this is quite useful.

As far away as I think the day is, I think we are more likely to enter a society that is more tolerant of people's behavior and private views than we are of one where everyone deletes data after a time.
I'm sure it depends entirely on what area of the org you work in but in my opinion GS is not a good place for most programmers. The bulk of their programmers will be supporting applications (not writing sophisticated trading software) and in that area career progression seemed to be shockingly slow from what I could tell.

I interviewed at GS years ago and I ended up declining the job mid interview when I realized it would likely be years before I worked back up into a role where I'd have control over designing more complex systems. In short, GS seemed particularly good at pumping out sub-par code monkeys.
Are you going to claim that AT&T offering (typically) a 10GB cap / month (without huge overages) is a realistic broadband offering?

Also - yes, I'm aware CenturyLink does home internet. Not at any of four addresses, including mine and major streets in 98501 where it says they are available according to the original site.

Megapath (the one I found) does residential - in theory. After inputting my service address (and I'm in the heart of the residential area, in a division less than ten years old), here are my options:

1. "Symmetric Ethernet: 6.0M to 45.0M (* Requires Business Account)"

2. "SDSL: 192k" (fairly sure that doesn't meet any current definition of "broadband")

3. "T1: 384k to 3.0M (* Requires Business Account)"

I wouldn't call that a realistic residential broadband offering.

Apropos of anything else, it's as much as you can't just blindly point at broadband.gov and say "look, healthy marketplace!".
Oh no! I'll take a look and see what went wrong.
Their about page lists the licenses for several native iOS libraries (AFNetworking, etc) which suggests it is mostly native.
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> Is there any sure way to stop the super intelligent AI from changing its own inherent values though?

Yes: give it inherent values.

>I guess a problem with containment is that unless it's mathematically proven to be impervious,

AGI, when it eventually exists, must run according to the basic laws of learning. If you don't give it evidence that's more likely in possible-worlds with an external world than without one, it won't posit an external world.

Stopping that information leak isn't that hard, provided you have full control over the agent-environment surface in the first place. It does, however, make your "agent" completely useless for anything beyond playing Atari games.
Sir, are you trolling?
All the cap did is try to hide the volatility that was already there.
I considered something like this but it felt like cheating. The beauty of standard ascii/ansi is that it is available in any terminal without any installation and it also has the same aesthetics / resolution as the text you type. Of course I will watch after iTerm2 progress.
Holy smokes, definitely try the demo if you haven't already (midway down the page). The amount of time this could potentially save me is pretty wild. Well done!
In what way is it more difficult in C#? C# has lambda syntax:

obj.Function(() => { ... });
Unfortunately corporate culture has shifted to the point that it's seen as incredibly wasteful to give people private offices. Literally the only technology company I know of which provides private offices for everyone is Fog Creek.

Moreover, even if a startups wants to give their engineers private offices, external forces make it challenging. VCs think it's unnecessary overhead, and even some developers are turned off by the prospect when recruiting (particularly new grads).

So far the solution we've found is to have a separate "sanctuary" room. It's located right next to our main office, but it's kept completely silent. All conversations have to be kept out in the open office or conference rooms. So far it's working pretty well—when you want to hunker down and work, there's space for that but we can also collaborate easily.

It's also interesting to see where people have set up their "desk" (ie. default location, with their monitor). The majority of the company gravitates towards the open office by default, but a few writers and one engineer default to the sanctuary. Perhaps the open office is more attractive, even if it's less productive.

Personally, I put my desk in the sanctuary but end up spending most of my time in the open office.
I work in an open office, and everyone wears headphones for hours when they need to concentrate.

The thing is, these people are doing irreversible damage to their hearing. Listening to headphones at a volume that will drown out conversation is not a good thing.

Furthermore, I've never experienced as many migraines as I have before switching to an open office. I have to keep pills at my desk. Never had to do that before.
So you're saying you like working in coffee shops, but it's hard to find a seat because there's all these other people working in coffee shops?
Define "high level enough" python / ruby are much faster...
SOME blind people can see using echo location. From what I understand, children can learn faster in detecting objects with sound vs someone much older where it may take much longer. There is a pretty good Wiki on it that explains more and includes some people from the show[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
> Why couldn't they just stay a hobbyist store instead of schlepping cell phones?

Because even before selling cell-phones was a big deal, their main money maker for a decades was being a general consumer electronics store, with the hobbyist thing being secondary at best.
Presumably only those blind people who need help would use the app, no?
The actual size of the SNBs EUR holdings hasn't grown that much (EUR174 bn in Q3 2014 from EUR90 bn in 2010) and EUR allocation has actually reduced (to 45% from 55% over the same period) [1].

I believe the most recent comments by the ECB also indicate that they have no immediate plans to reduce reserves.

With a JPMorgan analyst suggesting a few days ago that a size for the expected ECB QE program of EUR500 million is missing a zero, it's likely not going to be too difficult to find a buyer if they did decide to do so.

[1] http://www.snb.ch/ext/stats/balsnb/pdf/deen/A3_2_Devisenanla...
I'm curious why you think it's more difficult. Aside from static vs dynamic typing issues, it's pretty much identical.
Well done. I like it but I'm not sure what my use case would be. I mean, if I wanted a cross compile language upgrade how do you decide between something like this and ES6?

Also, if there any language left that doesn't convert to JS?
At my office, I have a real desk and a "satellite" desk in the video editor pod. It's an easy place to go and work on something heads down or when I want a reduction in activity but not down to zero. My have nicknamed that empty desk "The Villa". It even has it's own calendar.
Stay indoors citizen. It is for your protection.
I'm assuming (maybe wrongly and naively) that those are already solved problems. I'm assuming a visually impaired person already has his/her routines to avoid those problems. That's why I wanted to hear from the users of the app. For example, a volunteer who helped someone.
That's really nice but also really expensive.
Neat idea. I generally just use Wolfram|Alpha for these types of calculations, but Frink seems more programmable and doesn't require an Internet connection.
what do you mean? You are right that in this sample I have not changed the values of the X axis but the api allows you to change its values anytime.
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True - if you owned CHF yesterday. That doesn't help you if you're thinking about buying it tomorrow, though.

More to the point, if you owned it yesterday, you just got a very sweet gain. But now, do you continue to hold it? That's essentially the same question as "would I buy it now"?
Yes, I do. If you want, email me and I'll send you what we use. It's not a big deal. Focus on the product.
I have a similar story, but the outcomes differ significantly.

When we were planning some new office space for a move, some of the staff wanted open concept, while others wanted their own space with privacy. It was a tough conversation given that a moral air was added to it -- one where those who favored open concept were collaborative and selfless, while those who wanted a private space were selfish and insular.

Regardless, we designed a new office space that had both (it was designed for significant growth): An open area, similar to what was trending in the "startup world" (cargo culting), and private areas (not quite private offices, but tall private cubicle walls on all sides, strong sound abatement, no concern that someone is creeping behind you, etc).

We moved and let people pick their spots essentially anonymously. Every single one chose a private area, with the majority selecting the most private area which ended up being assigned by a random drawing. Indeed, it struck me that the person who was the most outspoken about open concept and all that jazz was the one who complained the most about others intruding in their quiet zone (they complained about music, loud conversations between peers, etc).
For these kinds of services, the introduction of a payment can change supply and demand in very unexpected ways.

Example: There once was an experiment with blood donations, where a payment for the blood donation actually decreased the number of people who were willing to donate. Apparently, receiving a payment for an activity that seems charitable makes some people feel bad.

A similar effect might happen if Blind My Eyes introduced payments. (While this particular effect would reduce supply, this does not necessarily imply that the introduction of a payment would lead to a negative change in supply. It's just one factor.)
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I've been beta testing this and it's been revolutionary — and saved me a bunch of money.

I spent ~$250 on a pages template to use for my reports. And because I write everything in Markdown, my workflow is:

• Write in Markdown

• Open up report

• Painstakingly hand copy and reformat Markdown to Pages

• Save as PDF

• Send to client

Now? I take that markdown, drop it into Remarq, and — BOOM! — I have a beautiful report that I can send to a client.

It's pretty awesome, you guys.
I don't suppose there's any plans for a Word export feature, is there?

Unfortunately, a lot of consulting jobs require all docs to be in MS Word format... Infuriating I know.
"The first day of term coincided with the 1926 General Strike in Britain, but he was so determined to attend that he rode his bicycle unaccompanied more than 60 miles (97 km) from Southampton to Sherborne, stopping overnight at an inn."

That's Alan Turing, aged 13.

I used to walk home from school middle school across the centre of the town I lived in. That was about 1.5 miles. Was not considered weird or dangerous.
How odd. America is much safer than it used to be, but people are more afraid.

My father walked to and from school every day in Montreal when he was young, for a good half hour each way I believe. He'd go in a group with kids from the neighborhood, there were no adults.

I walked to school every morning in Canada starting from age six, alone. I didn't live far from school, but if I had lived further I still would have walked alone. Lots of kids in my neighborhood walked alone. This was the early 1990s.
Reading this, I felt real anger at our society. I have 1 year old twin girls and I am genuinely scared and saddened by the limitations that paranoid adults are going to put on us as parents, and them as children. We live in a world driven by fear detached from the real risks and joys of life.
Know it. Prove it
No.

I experienced this when I went to Colombia. Their peso generally goes for a quarter to a third of a dollar. But prices are also cheaper. Something that costs a dollar here will cost one or two pesos there. So there's the multiplier of currency / price difference.

There's also the multiplier of the amount of money people make. This one's harder to nail down, but just because something costs $600 in real money doesn't mean that that will feel like $600 coming out of your pocket when you spend it. I can spend $600 weekly without batting an eye, but someone at my relative social station in Colombia probably wouldn't be able to, their salary would be less even accounting for the currency difference.

There's also access to credit. A purchase is much easier to make when you can get someone to finance it for you.

There's a lot more to relative value than just currency differences.
To put it bluntly... our Walmart is gross and is populated by gross people. There is a lot of truth to the "People of Walmart" meme in our Walmart.
I find that to be a very strong compliment. It takes a lot to be able to understand a person.

However, as a caveat, having grown up in an inner city and attending inner city schools all my life, I often found that those whose situations were far less fortunate then mine (or a lot of the crowd in the AP and IBO classes) were far more "real" than those from middle and upper class socioeconomic status.

So while I agree it's a very strong compliment, unless you read the article (and in my opinion, experience her hardships vicariously) it might be hard to understand for some of the people who are, dare I say... less real?

I also find hardships tend to very much be involved in the lives of most "real" people. They've had the veneer of society stripped away such as when a vital figure in one's life is stripped away from them, or when they're beaten up on the way home from school at the age of ten, or a police raid violently takes away a friends father in the middle of the day.

Of course, everyone who reads this will of course nod their head and be happy to be in the group of people who are real, and shit... who am I to judge?
They're not so much competitors as FoL and FoI institutes are exploiting the comparative advantage of having vastly more famous and reputable staff who can be taken seriously by the academic community at large. I hang out on LessWrong sometimes and know some of the MIRI people, and while I appreciate the technical work they do on their subject, what they simply don't have is brand image. So they've gladly let someone with more brand-image than them take the "marketing and advocacy" parts of their cause off their hands, freeing the math nerds to concentrate on math.
What's even more tragic is that Radio Shack realized they needed to get makers back, and when they started expressing a desire to do so a lot of makers were initially enthusiastic.

But I don't think they ever really grokked what makers would want out of a local brick-and-mortar. They never did fix the sorry state of their loose component selection. The parts drawers are still stocked with 50% stereo equipment parts they haven't been able to sell since 1992, 20% automotive fuses they haven't been able to sell since 1995, 15% standard capacitor sizes for ancient stereo equipment, and 15% components a modern maker might actually need. They should have written all that stuff down and then taken a look at adafruit.com to see what components a 21st century maker wants to buy.

Yes, they did expand their selection of microcontrollers and kit projects, but that's all stuff we've long since gotten used to ordering online. It won't drive feet through the door. They needed to be backing that up with the kinds of stuff a DIYer might want to buy on short notice. A 2015 DIYer, not a 1985 one.
C#:

Func<string> blah = () => "im a function";

JavaScript:

var blah = function(){ return "im a function"};

Not only is it not harder, it's more terse in C#.
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> There are not many people that have an immediate need for any one particular item in a dry goods store on any particular day.

Small floor-plan dry goods stores aren't exactly a booming business, either.

> I think the arguments ITT boil down to: did the internet kill RS, or did RS finally succumb to its own poor management.

And the answer is "yes".

(In longer form, the internet was a key factor in a shift in the retail market for the classes of goods RS sells whose nature RS's management was slow to recognize, and reacted to poorly.)
I plan to add more samples. Meanwhile you can use a module like this to get the data for you: https://github.com/kgryte/node-metrics-os
Are you working on sense and avoid? How is it going?
The last time I went to a RadioShack, I was looking for a resistor. I checked their website, which said my local store had it in stock. When I got there, I found the electronic components stuffed in a dark corner and the smaller components were all mixed up in the wrong drawers. After a few minutes of searching, I didn't find the resistor I needed, so I asked the only employee in the store where it might be. She told me that if it wasn't in the drawer, they don't have it. I said "But your website says it's in stock," to which she replied "Oh we never update that."
Auxilium! Non possum surgere et decidi. - Last words of Beowulf :)
That depends on how you value your time, though. If your time is worth three figures an hour and this saves you several hours a month, it has a huge ROI.
ah, it uses function attributes to do that; nice.

[edit]
What about:

fn A calls setjmp, calls...

...fn B allocates, calls...

...fn C which may or may not longjmp (so not marked noreturn).
Thanks for being an early tester, and for the kind words, Kai. I'm excited to see how Remarq can help more people.
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I've been beta testing Remarq and the time it has saved me more than makes up for the cost.
An AI can still perform tasks and act for goals without being conscious or having subjective experiences. The philosophers should either engage the real subject or shut up.
Latin gave you a third brain and it will be the key to artificial intelligence?
Can C# classes compiled in this way be exposed to JS, so the main program can be in JS with libraries compiled from C#? Or is it assumed that the main program is in C#?
> What if you assume that the AI might be 100x or 1000x smarter than its guards, not just 2x or 3x smarter?

If you can make an AI that's 100x smarter than you are, surely you can make one that's only 2x or 3x smarter. Why not start with the latter? If the experiment turns out well, then you can use the 2x/3x smarter AI to guard a 10x smarter AI, and so on.

> And the main reason for developing AIs is to do things in the real world. So, unlike a prisoner in jail, the AI might be advising the government or helping scientific research, which would provide many opportunities for subtle manipulation, even while it is imprisoned

Most of the time, it is much harder to come up with solutions to a problem than to verify that the solutions are correct. If you consider NP problems, for instance, we can use the AI to find good solutions heuristically and we can prove the correctness of their solutions with a trivial algorithm. That would still be very useful, but there wouldn't be any room for foul play.
So is this a Microsoft project? they don't directly say it, but they try to make it sound as it is:

"DuoCode is an alternative compiler, powered by Microsoft® Roslyn, and integrated in Visual Studio."
That can be made even simpler in C#:

var blah = () => "im a function";
I don't say that in reference to her background (none of which I was aware of) but in reference to when I interacted with her and saw her in action.
Radio Shack was infamous for collecting customer information. "No, we can't sell you without this information."

RS will be beloved by business-school types for how many different big mistakes it made.
> programming isn't necessarily synonymous with technology

Programming is the applied knowledge of technology. Everything else is just learning - and being restricted to - someone else's idea of how you're supposed to operate that technology.
Andreas Antonopoulos, Bitcoin evangelist, did an AMA. The questions were great
I have heard that if you were to, say, wave someone through at a stop sign and they got in an accident you could be held liable.
Walmart makes me feel depressed. Piles of awful, consumeristic shit everywhere. This, plus the fact that it is owned and run by truly terrible (in my opinion) people mean I go there only as an absolute last resort. I try to buy most things at non-chain or smaller chain stores (especially those that are known to treat their employees better) when I can.
I don't have Word export on the immediate road map, but I'm not ruling it out. Sorry I can't give you anything more specific than that.