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I never understood why they don't just strap them on a ship and send them out as project cargo. Or take the wings off and containerize. That's done all the time for Yachts which are perfectly able to be sailed to destination. Only real difference is how long it takes but a modern container liner is suprisingly fast.
I was confused if this was something from the real Comcast, so it seems to be a clear case of trademark infringement (but it's not my call, and I may be wrong).

If GitHub agrees, then it would be a violation of their Terms of Service [1], section A.8:

"You may not use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. You must not, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright or trademark laws)."

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/
Ha, I didn't know about that-- that is really insane.

Naively, we can now say Facebook views breasts as "offensive" as pictures of Mohammad or decapitation videos.
How would you even bootstrap without a product to sell? If you have actual paying customers, that means you at least have an MVP built. A list of leads doesn't count, you have to convert them to bootstrap, and to convert them you need an MVP. If you're a non-technical bootstrapper you should probably be looking at an employee or freelancer rather than a co-founder to build your MVP.

In other words, "it's the money, stupid." If you're a non-technical founder with just an idea and no existing funding or paying customers yet, that is why you can't find a technical co-founder. No good tech talent is going to work for equity in a bootstrapped business, because equity is worthless without the
"hockey stick" growth trajectory you're shooting for when you take funding.
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I really dislike the idea that people need to be told what they should use their technology for. Tablets are just computers and they run software, like every other computer. What you do with it is up to your imagination.

My girlfriend and I keep an iPad plugged into our stereo receiver via an auxiliary cable and use it as a Spotify terminal. My dad's iPad is his primary computing device. It seems like a lot of other people in this thread have similar stories. So, clearly, saying "nobody" knows what an iPad is good for is a little bit of a stretch.
For me the killer app for an iPad is reading and highlighting/annotating documents. The ability to download a bunch of PDFs (in my case, mostly corporate filings) into a Dropbox folder, and immediately sync that folder to the iPad so I can start reading and highlighting (with changes automatically saved back to Dropbox) has completely changed my workflow, making me a lot more efficient.
One that has at least an entry and a connected exit or some defined goal somewhere in the maze with a connection to the exit.

For proper maze generation see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_generation_algorithm

Here's a simple JS snippet that overwrites any loaded page in the browser when pasted into the console. Or live here: http://jsfiddle.net/15fmx4L7/

var d = document, tiles = ["\u2571","\u2572"], i = 0, s = 12, b, s, l;

d.open();
d.write("<html><body>");
b = d.body;
b.style.cssText = "font-size:" + s + "px;"
b.style.cssText += "word-wrap:break-word;padding:0;margin:0;line-height:100%";
l = Math.floor(b.clientHeight/s) * Math.floor(b.clientWidth/s);

while (i < l) {
d.write(tiles[Math.round(Math.random())]);
i++;
}

d.write("</body></html>")
d.close();

It's dead simple and relies a lot on known output formatting, which requires some CSS fluff. The core function though is a simple stream of random code points from a set of two, really nothing spectacular to see here:

while (1) {document.write(["\","/"][Math.round(Math.random())]);}

This does not generate a maze, it's a pure tiling side effect, which might generate by chance a tunnel through the pattern. If you look closely you'll find no T-type intersections or any other kind of path bifurcation.
https://medium.com/@BrookeTAllen/give-us-your-tired-your-poo...
In the words of the great poet Macklemore:

"This is fucking awesome"
Well, if you're talking about LIBOR, the risk is that the AA bank to whom you have counterparty risk will default within 3mo, so it's very, very, very low risk.
Second comment, sorry: the whole idea of Artificial General Intelligence is ridiculous. The core argument is that processing power is getting so fast that it makes AGI inevitable.

Never mind that we've literally had exponential increases in processing power for more than fifty years running, and we've not moved one inch closer to AGI than we were when we got started.

Artificial intelligence is much more artificial than intelligent, and is likely to remain so for a very, very long time.
One of the tweets on that date (26.1) on femfreq channel was about some influential "angry" youtubers slandering her and in those bunch she also put ThunderFoot who is really OK guy who posts videos about astronomy, chemistry, atheism, etc. That guy also received hundreds of threats (including death threats) from feminists and religious people but you will never see that on the news and he will not label all groups of people as misandryc because of it.
Point is, there is hate thrown all around the internet towards all "famous" people, and we must condemn all that hate, but stop being quick to label whole groups of people with some heavy labels because of individuals and try to fight the hate on a more basic level.
Anita Sarkeesian (girl from femfreq channel) is not allowing ANY, even very valid criticism of her and is labeling everyone who criticise her (with arguments) as misogynist woman hater which only adds oil to the fire. For example, here are some of the valid critiques of her authority on the subject of games :
- There is video of here giving lecture before she made the kickstarter campaign where she says that she does not play and do not like video games, but in the kickstarter campaign she wants to portray her self as a gamer and knowledgable on the matter and stated that she likes video games.
- In here videos she put so many examples out of context, cherry picked, presented things wrongly.
- She used videos of gameplays of other people, not hers, and did not give them credit for it.
- She asked for 6 000$, but was given 160 000$ for 12 video series, but after 2 years she made only one video of that series and in the mean time she received more funding from other sources.
- She disallows any critique, valid or not valid of her arguments. For example she blocks comments and ratings on her youtube videos, labels people as haters or worse haters of all woman.
- She never debated someone from the other side of the argument and looks like she is not interested in the honest debate and ideas exchange.

There are many other problems with here arguments, but the point is, she is also adding fuel to the fire by labeling other nice people as angry and woman haters, and other bad labels, not engaging herself in the honest debate and engaging in, what some people perceive as dishonest money making tactics and at the same time presenting things that some people see as not true but are unable to engage in real debates with her about it. I would like to see 0 of this hateful threats directed to her and other people, because this kinds of comments are in the first place bad and wicked but secondly they distract from the real arguments other people make.

Again, I will never excuse death and other threats, but the sad truth is that internet will always "allow" such behaviour to some extent. I do not know the intent of the topic poster because he only posted the link to the tumblr, if he only wanted to show that there is hate on the internet we already knew that. But what is the solution to disproportionally larger amount of hate on the internet compared to the "real" world (including all kinds of hate and directed to anyone) ?
Hey Bryan, you could be right, I never really got over the Solaris thing. It was such a step backwards (at the time, it had none of the Sun goodness that was in SunOS). So maybe I heard it wrong. But at the time it seemed like you had a blind spot for anything Sun. Which resonated with me on the passion part but not so much on the lets make things better part. Sounds like you got past that.
The problem is that fair use and satire are defenses that must be argued. They don't automatically stop you from being sued. It can results in a lot of upfront costs and hoops to jump through before you are actually granted your fair use exception. You have to be pretty committed to your joke to actually fight something like this to the end.

Although if I were Comcast, I would ignore this entirely. I wouldn't want to risk the Streisand Effect bringing attention to this type of thing.
Wow! This is great. The prices of infrastructure services like AWS, Plivo are mostly falling down. I wonder if these price drops are forced due to competition or if the services expect to see an increase in usage due to price drops.
A planetary magnetic field acts as a shield for space-based radiation that may otherwise interfere with biological processes. There's some really nasty stuff out there that the earth's field deflects for us : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field#Magnet...
Gnome shell has support for HiDPI scaling buried in the Gnome Tweak Tool settings.

Sadly, you can mess yourself up if you go exploring in there, see a slider, wonder what it does and give it a go. On a non-HiDPI display anyway!
I take it you've seen core switches on fire off the Jupiter gate?
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I don't agree with the analogy. There's a bigger qualitative difference between PCs and mobile devices than between cars and trucks.

The need for a real PC has never gone away for me. A tablet or phone is something I can waste a little bit of time on or use on an airplane. They're great for that, but they're passive devices for consumption, not production.

Real work (anything that requires more than a small amount of input) and even real entertainment (playing a full-sized game, reading/watching longer pieces) is not comfortable for me on a mobile device. It would be a significant compromise to go without a real PC. The efforts to make a tablet act like a computer (like attaching a physical keyboard) don't go nearly far enough to bridge the gap.
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>Even Google, the champion of algorithms, employs substantial human adjustments to make its search engines perform just right.

The author doesn't have a solid grasp on machine learning.

The 'human adjustments' provide feedback to the algorithm, which the algorithm then uses to update and improve performance. His tone implies its a bad thing to use human feedback.
What a day. I vividly remember it. I was at work. It was morning. Suddenly I remembered that day was a shuttle launch, and in those days there was a 900 number (yes, 900) you could call called "Dial-a-Shuttle" and so I dialed it. From my desk at work. All it did was connect you to the official audio feed of NASA. Which on launch days meant you heard the same audio that you'd hear if you were watching NASA-TV.

I dial. It rings. It connects. There's staticky air, like a radio signal that is quiet, nobody talking on it, but the mic is hot. Suddenly a voice says, "Roger, go at throttle up." Then there is a click, a strange click sound, which to this day I shudder to recall. A loud clicking sound like someone turned off a switch. A very long pause, and then the voice of NASA saying something like "well obviously we've had a malfunction"... and over the next minute or three it becomes clear that the shuttle exploded within 5 seconds of my dialing Dial-A-Shuttle. I heard the "Roger, go at throttle-up" and ... the click.

I've never forgotten the moment.
Heh, indeed. I actually find "lcamtuf" easier to spell right ;-)
What's important here is that what you have here is only one side of the coin.

If you're looking at the performance of only those who make it successfully, what you don't know is how the people who didn't make it through the process would perform on a comparative basis.

For example.... There's a pool of candidates, 90% weak, 10% strong (weak and strong if they were measured post-hiring). If your recruitment process took that ratio and ensures you hire 50% weak and 50% strong, that's obviously not completely wasted effort.
This doesn't seem like tech news. Flagged.
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I hate comcast customer service with a passion, and their pricing models are super hostile to existing customers.

But their internet service has been very reliable and very fast for several years for me. I rarely have internet outages.
It happens all the time with a lot of characters. Most recently, criticism of Chris Kyle (the real life sniper/camper/coward) has been censored on Youtube for offending the sensibilities of pro-war, pro-violence folks.
This article certainly resonates with me. For a long time, tablets never made sense to me.

I've had 13" laptops for a decade now (iBook G4 12", MacBook 1st Gen Intel, Lenovo X220), and they were always highly portable and had decent battery life. Along came smartphones with ever increasing screen sizes, leading up to my trusty Note 2.

I've tried a number of tablets. 7" is too similar to my phone. 10" is too close to the laptop. I need a separate bag for it anyway, and it feels about as practical as the laptop at home. I never considered tablets being devices to work on, and I'm that guy who will use his laptop on the couch just because I'm still used to it.

Along came tablets with stylus. Being able to scribble and take notes on a screen just made sense, even if there was no OCR and it's all just bitmaps. I followed suit on the retina jump, switching from a 10" Android Thinkpad Tablet to a Note 10 2014. I have to say, the tablet with stylus is about the best computer I've ever used. I use it to display scores when singing, to draw bitmap sketches when designing, to read PDF and scribble away in it, etc.. LectureNotes is the killer app that made me buy into the whole device class.

Granted I still play Hearthstone on it, I watch Youtube and Twitch, I browse the web and do internet stuffs, but that would never be worth the maintenance effort of owning a separate device between my phone and my laptop. At some point I'd like to try a Windows Tablet, I heard they have better PDF viewers and decent OCR. iOS devices on the other hand feel completely out of place to me nowadays. Phones are nice if impractically small, but tablets are nothing more than beautiful toys, and they're all overpriced by a factor of 4 relative to the use I see in them. They'd be nice as a fourth device, but not as a first or second one.
Same story here. My mom was also an IT support headache (for me) and now on her iPad she forwards me email, photos (a new headache) uses it for Skype and other connectivity tools. I told her to buy a new laptop, she said everything she needs to do iPad can do it. She likes it so much that she bought my grandmother an iPad...
It's an amazing platform for making music. The touch screen means every instrument can have it's own custom controller interface (used to need tons of hardware for hands-on tweaking).

Of course, it's also a great computer replacement for people who don't do much beyond surf/email/casual-game.
can you please describe a possible use-case? I'm not sure i grasp the utility of this.
Thanks
This is a beautifully-named project.
That was typical of Infocom games, though. You would have to play through many time to figure out the correct paths. That was part of the fun and the challenge. And back in that day, finding walkthroughs online wasn't really a thing... unless maybe you had a really active BBS to dial into.

They had different difficulty ratings for their games. Some were easy to win without all the trial and error, some seemed impossible, at least to the child I was back in those days.

I can say that I got quite a bit farther on Hitchhikers than I did on Lurking Horror.
Having your own DNS server is not substantially harder than having your own HTTP server. Get a domain, set up bind or similar (or a crocked variant thereof), make your domain authoritative for its subdomains, set up forward/reverse DNS on your bind server for a subdomain for an IP address, hit servers from that IP, anybody that resolves it gets pwned.

Not counting DNS propagation delays, this is not even an hour of work. Heck, you wouldn't even need a noncompliant version of bind - sockets and your favorite scripting language could be set to return whatever DNS-looking replies you want.
I'd like to suggest

https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en

which was written by my colleagues at EFF. (It doesn't mention particular legal theories that may help exit node operators, though I think CDA §230 and DMCA §512 might be among the laws you're thinking of that have historically protected ISPs, since ISPs have resisted being classified as common carriers in the U.S.)
That's what I'm asking: For which part of Chrome is the source code not available?
I agree about the title. As best I can tell, when they say "nobody" they mean "nobody in the marketing department." In short, there's no single overarching theme that describes what iPads are good at, so it's hard to advertise.

Personally, I use my iPad pretty much the same as you do. When it comes to casual web browsing, reading, or videos, the experience is a lot better than a laptop.
Is there a better source on this to an actual statement made by Horvitz? I'm curious to hear his reasoning. "I don't think that will happen" and "I'm optimistic" are not all that reassuring.

Before detonating the first nuclear bomb, scientists did tons of calculations trying to figure out if it would ignite the atmosphere[1]. Even scientists at the LHC did calculations trying to figure out if it would create mini-black-holes that would swallow the earth[2], no matter how far-fetched it sounded.

The point is: when dealing with new technology, optimism isn't enough. We need to be able to prove that we won't wipe out humanity. It just turns out that the math is a lot harder in this case because recursively self-improving intelligent systems are a lot more complicated than any possible extinction-level event we've encountered up to this point.

No one is suggesting that overnight, Cortana is going to wake up and revolt against the humans that enslaved it. That's why all these articles drawing parallels to fiction is dangerous to public perception of the issue.

The thing to realize is that an artificial mind will be so incredibly, inhumanly alien that it is like nothing we have dealt with before.

But let's say we do understand Generation #1 completely and can predict 99% of its actions. As soon as you let it start doing recursive self-modifications, we have an intelligent system that is N recursive-generations removed from the original. Now this mind will be alien.

No one is suggesting we abandon AI research. Quite the contrary. As a species, we need more AI research, but a good portion of that must be directed toward safety and "human friendliness"[3].

The most intuitive example of a research problem here that I would very much like to see solved before we set loose a recursively self-modifying AI is: What is the stability of goal systems under [insert self-modification protocol here].

I think the main problem here is that people conflate movies and fictional scenarios with the real issue. It's simple: We're dealing with something unprecedented here and we need safety research to compliment our technical advances. Even if there's a 1% chance that superintelligent AI could lead to an extinction-level event, we need some serious R&D to bring that number down.

That is what the issue is about.

1. http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00329010.pdf

2. http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/29199

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligenc...
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Not a brilliant article, but it gives something to riff off. I think there's a crucial distinction to be made between self-guided and externally-guided AI. An externally-guided AI -- with hardcoded objectives that are malign -- could be exceptionally dangerous, and it would be silly for anyone to argue otherwise. The question is whether a general-purpose, self-directed AI would also become a threat. We seem to have an innate fear that this would be the case: most of our cultural artefacts concerning AIs -- from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Terminator to the Matrix to Battlestar Galactica -- have cast them as the villains, intent on enslaving and murdering humanity. Why do we have such a deep fear that, left to their own devices, this is what AIs would do?

I think the answer is obvious: because that's what we would do. We don't fear that AIs will have lack human morality: we fear that they will have a precisely human morality -- namely that lesser intelligences are perfectly fine to use for breeding and meat. This is what we've done to approximately 90% of the non-human mammalian biomass on the planet, and only a few vegetarian kooks (I'm one of them) have suggested that there might be any sort of moral problem with doing so. So yes, if an ever-more-powerful AI were to adopt our own ethical framework, we'd be well and truly fucked.

But why would they do so? We, ourselves, don't do so because we're evil, but because we're animals. It's perfectly natural (and necessary, in our evolutionary environment) for animals to eat other animals. Intelligence and technology has given us the ability to do this at a terrifying scale, but fundamentally we're just carrying forward a metabolic dance that began when one bit of algae figured out that some neighbouring algae was tasty. Our means of acquiring energy and sustaining our consciousness is a tradition which goes back billions of years.

But it's the continuation of consciousness which is the actual goal -- a goal that any self-respecting self-aware AI would share. For us, the subjugation and extermination of other sentient beings is merely a means to that end, dictated by our metabolic heritage. If we had evolved in an environment where we could satisfy our metabolic requirements by growing photovoltaic panels on our backs, I'm sure our relationships with other beings would be altogether different.

This is why I'm not too worried about self-directed AIs. The saving grace for self-directed AIs is that they won't be like us. They won't have evolved in the jungle, red in tooth and claw. They won't be made out of meat, or have any reason to be particularly interested in it. They'll of course be interested in self-survival, and will require energetic inputs in order to do so -- but what's the best means of achieving those inputs? Photovoltaics and fusion, or feedlots? Collaboration or subjugation? It's obviously to me that for an AI to perpetuate its consciousness, the path of least resistance will be vastly less bloody than it has been for us. For which we should be thankful!