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I don't know. It simply works for me ever since I installed it (on linux and OSX) so I never bothered to check for updates.
I cannot help but think that if a better criticism exists, why hasn't anyone said it yet?

The whole lesswrong/MIRI thing is built around the strawman of unfriendly AI, as though it were already real. What you are asking is, why aren't there better arguments against strawmen and radical pontification?

It's like if I said, "There is a chance that mean aliens will come soon, therefore we need to start building defense systems." Ok, show me any proof that there are aliens coming or even an avenue for aliens to come here and be unfriendly.

Sure, it's a possibility that there are mean aliens who are going to attack us, but there is absolutely nothing to think that is a thing that is going to happen soon.

Granted, this is not a perfect analogy but I think it makes my point well. I am uncharitable because it's charlatanism and seems to be gaining traction - in the same vein as antivaxxers.
I used OpenCL several years ago, to integrate large systems of coupled partial differential equations on an AMD GPU (at the time rated as the world's fastest). Using the hardware efficiently required significant effort, and in the end, the result was no better than what I got from Intel's optimizing compiler and an overclocked Core i7 CPU, which had the additional (and for that application decisive) advantage of proper double precision support. Don't know how the latest hardware would stack up though.
30? Tinder expects you to pay more for new app
And if you not know the exactly name?

Example i type "browser" -> nothing found. And i am absolutely sure i have installed chrome, seamonkey and ie. ;)
The Dropbox client is running with normal user privileges on a computer that you have root access to. It should be possible to use reverse engineering/debugging tools to either bypass SSL checks or analyze the dropbox client binary to see what is being sent/recvd.
Agreed. Love the L&F but that icon is slightly "misleading," as far as typical user expectations goes.
What they did was discontinue support for their old desktop client. Third party clients still use XMPP to connect with Hangouts. More on the subject could be read here: http://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-googl...
It's just my opinion, but I still think it's a huge improvement. The oversimplification of flat design sort of put it in an "uncanny valley" of sorts for user interfaces, in my experience. I'd look at a UI and really have to ask myself whether I should be able to click on an element or not.
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Why 40-Year Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traffic Control
At the very least, I'd say the governments where these are coming from and the government on Ghana(and other dump sites).

One solution is an unrealistically broad rule: If your product is found in the illegal waste dump, your company will be fined an enormous amount (to both cover properly recycling the product and health care for those who manage it).

It will be the responsibility of the Ghanaian government[1] to properly document and report this and the responsibility of the home nation of the business in question to enforce it.

Building with easily recyclable materials is still a very very hard problem, unfortunately. Most of us just don't feel it because the damage done is well abstracted from us

[1] The reality is that these companies will most likely bribe government officials to exclude them from the list of offenders, given that corruption is insanely high.
For certain cars, yes; there are plenty around that have been round their odometers a few times. But we've forgotten the higher proportion of cars that were lemons straight from the factory or suffered early rust or electrical failures (this may be a more British thing).
The problem with this debate currently is that none of the people talking about it, Altman, Musk, Hawking (like the climate debate) etc... are anything near competent to be talking about it, so they must reference something implicitly like Bostrom.

They aren't making individually cogent thought out and articulated arguments, they are all just saying "LOUD NOISES, this is a scary thing that someone said could be bad, therefore I think it's a scary thing." If they could give some good timelines, facts and steps toward AGI then we could debate that on merits. As it is no one is doing that, the whole thing is an appeal to authority from the beginning.

So yes, the sources for these people need to be inspected further.
I didn't use the term "a few generations", that was another commenter. :)

That said, you mentioned a beneficial trait becoming neutral, and that's making the assumption that greater intelligence is neutral. It could be that larger social organizations reward slightly less intelligent critters. That would do the trick rather quickly. I'm not making that claim, but am saying that discussions around evolution and traits that we have bias toward seeing as "good" are fraught.

There's also the further issue of intelligence being a very nebulous term that encompasses tons of cognitive traits, which makes any discussion of intelligence in evolutionary terms even more difficult.

It's also possible that some of what we call intelligence is epigenetic.
May I suggest that you're starting from the premise that your kid is willing/able to learn programming and that programming is for everyone?

As your parent suggested, not everyone who had computers back than had or felt the need to program them.
Not to forget - https://github.com/rakyll/statik and https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice among many others
Light's wave-particle duality imaged for the first time
This bundles a version of cygwin.
Ok, so how can we make cleaning this mess up profitable?
Thanks. I already have the second one and it's great. But it doesn't make me a designer.

I'd like a course like the Coursera MOOCs that walks me through the steps (most importantly, makes me practice with homework on a regular schedule). Also the mundane details - what tools to use, for example (software, hardware).

To be fair I think there was actually a MOOC by the author of The Design of Everyday Things. I was signed up, but ended up not having the time :-(
The simulated annealing algorithm (with an emphasis on the schedule function)
I think you are looking at a strong case of survivorship bias. The sample of 30 year old cars that still work represent some of the best made and most reliable cars made 30 years ago. Most of the unreliable and badly made cars from 30 years ago have died and been turned to scrap.
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Continued wars. Drone strike killed an American citizen. Didn't close Guantanamo. Engaged in new wars. If all this had been done under a president named Bush the left would be outraged.
> Until we actually pay for the full cost of ownership, then we will continue to pollute. I'd love it if we also had to pay for the actual costs of our energy too - such as the costs that coal powered plants have on society.

I'd love that. But I need to find a new way to argue for it, since most of the time I mention CO₂ emission tax, I get accused of being a bad man who wants fuel to be more expensive.
That shouldn't be the first question you ask. Plenty of problems have market-based solutions. But some don't.

This is a matter of regulation and law enforcement.
He's the only U.S. President in a long time to have no US troops deployed in combat, as I recall. Definitely since WWII, possibly WWI or earlier.
or ownCloud
So killing people with drones and driving countries in civil war by that doesn't fall in this category?
I wouldn't call Obama a warmonger - after all, a lot of his efforts went into undoing his predecessor's work, getting the military out of Iraq and Afghanistan, dismantling Guantanamo Bay, that kinda stuff. Any new operations started under his presidency were relatively small and in cooperation with other international armies in comparison.
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I'd tend to agree. I've found many times that when a system is hard to monitor that it's also difficult to manage more generally, and that a rearchitecture is in order.
Ask HN: How can I automate the monitoring of conversion rate on my website?
Has anyone figured out a way to receive an alert if the conversion rate on their website drops by a certain percentage? I already use Gomez to ping my site and execute synthetic transactions, but executing every permutation that could identify poor performance can get expensive. If my average conversion rate is 1% and in the last 30 minutes that dropped by 50%, there is a good chance something is wrong and I could limit the impact by starting my investigation. Has anyone written something custom for this or found a product that supports this?
It is surprising how much semantic significance is placed on whether a language is encoded in text or binary format.

SPIR-V looks to be a completely new format, not evolved from previous versions of SPIR. This new version is being described as a "fully specified Khronos-defined standard", which is great to hear.
Saving you a click: The author's "weirdest database experience" was that she didn't over-engineer a user interface, gave a user more or less direct database access for data entry and trained her on how to use it properly for her specific task, and didn't have any trouble.
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I'd have thought it'd tend to 1 but maybe it's those dastardly spooks fiddling with the PRNG.
This is what has to happen to raise the bar.
He also said he was against warrantless wiretapping during his campaign.
We're in the process of editing all the videos down to individual session recordings. We're all volunteer, so apologies for the delays. If anyone out there would like we're happy to get extra hands with the editing work.
In practice importing diminishes options, both for the locations that find their market flooded with the standard supermarket-optimized foods, and the for the poor countries that are compelled to make their land produce the "best" for the sake of profits. In the last century 75% of crop diversity was lost, and in the decades after the Green Revolution poor countries became net importers of food. Simplistic logic that looks at effects completely abstracted from the system, would make such outcome look impossible.
Doesn't work properly in safari, seems to be missing the -webkit prefixes (still..) required by safari. :/
The official git client for windows support ssl, openssl, scp, ... , much more powerful than putty.
I haven't managed a website with this need in a long time, but doesn't Google Analytics offer conversion tracking and custom alerts?
Great method of explaining flexbox — most non-interactive explanations end up looking like Mondrians (and convey approximately the same information). Unfortunately, this demo melts down in Safari, which still requires prefixing.
I would be surprised as I like may others stopped wearing a watch once I got used to having a phone in my pocket.
What died up your arse? The link is right there. Would you like me to click it for you?
The Battle for the Web's Last Mile
Works really well on Firefox 31.5.0 on Slackware Linux. Cool! I usually experience a fair amount of trouble related to HTML5 video/audio.
The interesting thing about new financial instruments is to try to figure out the risks for all parties involved. What I'm not really getting here is that from the perspective of the company, this is like a loan with a really high interest rate and other harsh terms like the equity conversion, in exchange for no recourse. If a company had growing cashflow couldn't they just use debt financing at much better terms? And if they don't have good enough cash flow, why is this better for them than selling equity?

Will the distribution requirements be a drag on growth?

How does the company decide between reinvestment or distribution of profits?
Important takeaway for me was the concept that young children have gadgets but are "too young" for the social networks (Facebook, Twitter etc.)
Dismantling Guantanamo? Where have you been?

How many countries have we bombed? We are re-invading Iraq, we are still in Afghanistan, we are now meddling in Ukraine which is utterly insane. Much of the weaponry ISIS is using was supplied by America under Obama, the defense Budget has grown under Obama, what metric are you using to disagree?

For all the down voters how about using some facts instead of more emotional knee jerks.
Of course he is the good guy! He is the president from the USA, remember!? I saw American Sniper the other day, and it is very clear that they are the good guys, even when they are killing little kids. You can see it because it is so damn stressing for them to kill kids, that they can barely forget the experience. They are really, really good! And fighting for the good of everybody too! (well, not for the good of that little kid). They are so good!
Did China put out plans for NOT monitoring all of their citizen's communications? Because then the title of this story would make sense.
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He was against it before he was for it.
Well, there was Operation Eagle Claw to try and rescue the US hostages in Iran:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
But doing it openly spooks the consumers!
This article does not prove "steals everything" claim. Very shallow work for "Information Security Specialist".

He has shown - and others here in the comments have verified (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9136740
) - the file access. It's not a "read contents" though, but only reading metadata.

He has shown there is network activity.

He has NOT shown what exactly that network activity consists of. Without that, the "steals everything" claim is just jumping to conclusions.

As others here have mentioned, setup a proxy and look at the actual data being transferred. Replace the certificate in the client if you have to, to get around cert pinning. The most important part is to get the data. This should be pretty easy to do for someone who claims to have those qualifications.

Shallow work indeed. This reminds me of the Samsung keylogger story a few years ago where a "security professional" ran one AV software, which falsely identified the presence of a single folder's path as a keylogger, and then based on this one data point and blind faith in his AV, claimed there was a keylogger preinstalled on some Samsung laptops. This made the news and was spread widely... yet he had not even taken the most basic step of looking at the contents of that folder, which would've instantly disproved the theory.

This is an example of the right way to investigate and substiantiate your claims:

http://doctorbeet.blogspot.ca/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-u...

Sadly, we'll probably see a round of "Dropbox steals your data!" going through the media before someone steps up with the truth. I personally don't use Dropbox and don't have the time to verify these claims --- but the onus should be on the one making them in the first place.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
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I think about this a lot, there are a lot of distractions now days but when I am actually being productive I'm working on distractions for others. Sometimes I wonder if that's all computers are is a massive distraction?
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How Fab raised $330M and then went bust
I own a bootstrapped start-up that seems to fit their profile, but their numbers seem way off to me.

They take 80% of all distributions until they're paid back 2X, then 20% until they're paid back 5X.

They're offering $100k to 8 start-ups; in order to hire a few employees with decent runway, $500k seems like the minimum useful raise.

I guess we're just too late-stage for this, which is funny, because from my research we're too early stage for most VCs.

The idea of taking 100K today so we can pay 500K tomorrow just isn't very appealing.
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> Why would people expect Google to commit resources toward helping them do those things?

Because Google doesn't care how people use the web and they want them to use it as much as possible, whether it's with FF, IE, or Safari.

Once they get to the web they will be using Google products, and that's what they care about.
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SPIR-V is on a completely different level. The Vulcan API is called by the binary running on the CPU. The binary generated from SPIR-V is executed on the compute device, which in 99% or all cases that Vulkan is concerned with will be the GPU.

In the same way you don't use GLSL to program OpenGL, you don't use SPIR-V to program Vulkan. GLSL/SPIR are to OpenGL/Vulkan what browser-side JavaScript is to a webserver.
Squeezed out, indeed. The text of the article took up less than 1/4 of the full page width until half way down the content, mainly accompanied by a picture of a football team training and a 'see also' section.

BusinessInsider clearly know where their loyalties lie.

Footnote of the article: "The 10 most useless graduate degrees" http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-most-useless-graduate-...
How to “hack” Telegram or the Rise of Crypto Bullshit Bingo
I ran into the same issue, and the solution that I found was to find a smaller appliance dealer and get a commercial washer/dryer without the coin acceptor installed. The price is a little bit higher (about 20%), but in my case the washer and dryer (made by Speed Queen) has a 5 year warranty on parts & labor, and 10 year on a few specific parts.

All of the big consumer brands spend a lot of engineering resources on planned failure. My understanding based on talking to one of the engineers that works on this for a major manufacturer is that something like 50% of certain lines, subjected to medium/high use will fail by design between 36-40 months.
Intel likes to use SHA256(pubkey) for their verification schemes. I guess that reduces the amount of storage while sufficiently secure.

Details are in http://apress.com/9781430265719
Scientists Have Created Artificial Sunlight: Real Enough to Trick Your Brain
I think it's beyond the scope for the core library but it'd be a good addition as a plugin further down the road.
I disagree with Obama. Government computers have become national-security critical infrastructure. No reason for countries not to roll their own, if they can. It's one of the dimensions along which a country should be self-sufficient, along with food and defensive military capability.
"Early adopters" are a much smaller segment of the market, true, but they also buy a ton more stuff than regular people by definition. :)
I wouldn't give Reagan a pass either:

"...the bulk of U.S. foreign surveillance operations are governed not by acts of Congress, but by a 33-year-old executive order issued unilaterally by President Ronald Reagan."

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/29/new-documents-...
Fab.com’s Fire Sale Is Official
Your premise that Google contains enough business incompetence in enough of the right places to fund a direct competitor explains why they have funded Mozilla in the past. It doesn't really offer much explanation as to why Google did not fund them this year.

Conversely, even the minimum business process of some VP looking at the list and saying, "We are not going to fund a competitor," Occam Razors this year's events.
> The only explanation that makes sense to me is that HIV has emerged previously, but only in dead-end strains that have very low infectivity, rather like the HIV-1 groups N and P mentioned in the article.

Or that modern innovations like transportation and so on made it possible for it to spread before it died out.
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Pebble Reveals Pebble Time Steel and a Smartstrap System
This archive we'll be a treasure for digital archeologist in the distant future. By distand future I mean a couple of months. There obviously isn't room for archiving all changes to all the content on the web, but it's actually possible to archive github.
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Google no longer supports Mozilla in any way.
Node.js module performance
I wonder what model you would use to evaluate a startup with varying cash flow like negative cash flow for some quarters or growing cashflow for others. I understand how to model utilities or infrastructure projects using cashflows but those models are based on having very predictable cashflow.
Generational decline in testosterone levels observed (2007)
Nice! Have you been recruiting ? If yes did you find it easy to hire developpers with the right skill-set ? Did you find it easy to put together a ready-to-go development environment for them ?
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Hey,

Mail just goes to the junk folder. I was wondering how would you work around this, but I guess you didn't (yet?) :)

Cheers
Finnally I am convinced. I loved the color e-paper display and one week battery life. Now I don't feel geeky to wear one either.
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I worked in the book trade between 2000 and 2004. I did catch someone's eye once who left the store before putting all the neat piles of hardback books he had stashed under a table in his briefcase.

And I also marked Rough Trade and Lonely Planet guidebooks with invisible ink. After Robert Jordan was arrested I had to identify my handwriting to the police and be available for a court date, but never had my moment in the witness stand... there was no need
"This is something that I’ve [p]raised directly with President Xi," Obama said.
I'm in love with material design. Google spent A LOT of time designing it and focus group testing it. The idea is that everything is supposed to be obvious / apparent in how to use it. If you've used the gmail app on a smartphone, you immediately feel comfortable in any material design app.
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> Khronos is a funny beast, a bit like the United Nations. Just because these companies are all part of it doesn't mean they actually like each other and want to cooperate!

It seems to me that this is an accurate description for any technology focused consortium or work group.
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>The needs, wants, representative processes, laws, and sovereignty of other nations have reduced in relevance to the Empire's decision making process to zero.

Other nations are not obligated to actually do anything or stand up for themselves and if it is known that their rhetoric will result in zero action why would you bother listening to them in the first place?
Not that this helps the demo, but for your own apps autoprefixer does a good job of polyfilling in the previous versions of flexbox that are still hanging around (assuming you’ve got a build chain): https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer
Apparently kickstarter didn't get the memo. Site buckling under pressure.
The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world
I prefer XShell5.

http://www.netsarang.com/products/xsh_overview.html