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> Which - keeping in mind that at the time I had absolutely no idea this would all blow up the way it did - caused me to yell quite loudly at Roko for violating ethics given his own premises, I mean really, WTF? You're going to get everyone who reads your article tortured so that you can argue against an AI proposal? In the twisted alternate reality of RationalWiki, this became proof that I believed in Roko's Basilisk, since I yelled at the person who invented it without including twenty lines of disclaimers about what I didn't necessarily believe.

I don't understand what Yudkwosky's trying to argue there. "Even though I don't actually believe in it, I yelled at him for invoking the wrath of the nonexistent basilisk that I don't believe in"?
My favorite PC game by far. I'm hoping this happens.
mozilla wrote an app in Go?
a) Traditional, <£1m revenue farms. b) >£100m revenue mega automated farms (eg the dairy farm in UK news). c) Mini farm with modern tech (LEDs, hydroponics).
As judged by you.
I'm sure. Mutt gives me direct control over how it processes MIME attachments with particular content types. I'm using this to make sure that text/html only gets parsed by a confined converter. See my link for details.
I felt like if he stuck with this original tech review site, his income would have grown more steadily, and while he may have missed out on some "rich" years, the overall results would be a website/company with value.
Back in 2001: http://www.thesecretofbluewater.com/atlantis2-i.htm
Absolutely, might be running a whole network of blogs by now.
>>In contrast I hate hyperbolic statements like "the middle class is vanishing" which pretty much has to be literally untrue

Why does it have to be "literally untrue"?
Having watched both B5 and DS9, I would agree that they have similarities, but a great number of them are coincidental, overblown, or convergent evolution. For example, in DS9 they eventually get the Defiant and in B5 they eventually get the White Star, but any series that takes place on a space station is eventually going to want some way for the characters to get off the station and take trips.

Did Paramount see that B5 was in development and decide, "we need a space station show too"? Yes. Are the two series especially comparable? No. There's ten times as much similarity between the backstory to Star Trek: The Next Gemeration and the writings of the Argentine Marxist J. Posadas, who believed that nuclear war on Earth (World War III in TNG) would inevitably lead to visitation from benevolent communist aliens (first contact with the Vulcans, as shown in Star Trek: First Contact) who would usher in a utopian paradise of communism (as repeatedly established in TNG, where Picard gives passionate speeches about people no longer caring about accumulating wealth and that there's no money in the future).

But back to the point with Kimba: the article I jj posted in the comments repeatedly mentions references to the notion that Disney was explicitly working on an adaptation to Kimba until their effort to get the rights fell through, to storyboard artists using stills of Kimba as points of reference and to quotes from people involved in the project implying that it was an adaptation.
The SSD can be upgraded if you're willing to do it yourself. Obviously it voids the warranty but it's doable and not that difficult.
If it's a unique image, then presumably Google reads it and pre-caches the image on receipt. So all you'll get from 1 pixel image is confirmation of email delivery, which is something you get with SMTP anyway.

Of course if Google wait to cache the image when you actually read it, then this isn't true. But I'm prepared to give them more credit than that.
It depends on the project. I tend to go with a digitalocean vps managed through cfengine3. I have a default template that I can set up quickly and change to match what I need.
Why would you want a complex password for a bank in the first place? The only reason that would be necessary is if the bank had hopelessly woeful security and there was a risk of their encrypted passwords being stolen.
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This would probably not be trivial, but perhaps it would be better to upload this to Github in Markdown format? Github would allow comments, suggested changes to the original text, version control, etc.
I disagree. He probably makes a bit of cash on that but he has a lot of case studies that show legitimate success. He's the kind of guy who explains exactly how he did it as well.
Has anyone looked at the source of his site? www.futureclaw.com
Interesting discussion. I don't know if I have ever read a serious definition for segregating the income streams. There are people who are 'oor', people who are 'not poor', and people who are 'rich'. I've always assumed the people who were 'not poor' and 'not rich' were the folks being referred to as 'middle class'. If you read pg's essay on money he discusses "wealth" versus "money".

That difference, for me, explains why you need a bigger salary in the Bay Area to cover basic expenses rather than say El Paso, so a $150K salary in the Bay Area might make you exactly as "wealthy" as a $50K salary in El Paso.

So then the question for me is, does wealth define rich/middle/poor ? Someone with two houses rich? one house middle? no houses poor? transportation? food?
Claims of bias are not the same as bias. The same Wiki you link to indicates the BBC has been accused of both pro and anti Muslim bias, for example, and a Reddit /r/worldnews thread is pretty absurd as evidence.
in norcal tech lingo it's called "selling shovels to the miners".
I agree, but another thing to consider is that income is only part of the picture. There is also wealth. Non-liquid assets are a good example: if you live in a $5 million McMansion that is fully paid off, but only make $30k a year, you're still solidly upper class.
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I am a huge Linux fan. Love it. It's my preferred operating system, hands down. I ran Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 1330 for all four years of college while I was getting my CS degree.

My first programming job after college came with a Macbook Air. Since then, I've never bought anything but a Macbook. It's just a better built machine and I have no qualms paying a premium for quality. I use a Macbook Pro for my job now and I can't imagine using any other machine for programming.

I could care less about OSX. It's the quality hardware package that Apple gives you. Yeah, you can get better specs for cheaper elsewhere, but nothing retains its quality over the years like a Macbook.

The Macbook Pro 15" Retina is what I would recommend for a serious dev, but any Macbook down to the MBA would do.

It's similar to buying a car. After college I could've bought a Ford with all the fancy features for cheaper, but I went with a Toyota because Toyotas are just better built cars that will last.

EDIT: I always buy refurbished Apple. You get a great discount and still are eligible for Applecare.
Pretty incredible if all this is coincidences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72AVvgRNf2Q
When I checked last, there are some popular email apps that don't provide an option to disable automatic attachment downloading - like Dropbox's Mailbox and Google's Inbox.
Wow - blast from the past, I loved descent 1 and 2. I thought this was going to be a new / digital version of the board game descent though.

Don't know which I would be more excited about.
> It's a huge market, and a difficult problem to solve.

It's a market I expect will go away entirely. You can get VPSes for comparable pricing to shared hosting these days - DigitalOcean is $5, Heroku is free for the first dyno, etc.
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The most useful thing I can think of for HippyVM is some sort of *aas play. Maybe they offer a service like google app engine or heroku who's default vm is faster (and therefore cheaper to run).

If something like New Relic didn't work on your vm you could offer a competing service that utilized jit-specific tracepoints. People who care enough to want a faster vm and have money will probably want great performance insight, and vm developers are uniquely positioned to offer that insight.
You mean like happened with Gnome 3 and completely pissed off a large portion of the user base? I'm an advocate for sane defaults, but 'opinionated design' doesn't always nail the mark.
That's my experience too. For some reason the desktop after startup looks amazing... but as soon as I start playing around with the applications I get a lot of crashes, things in the desktop that don't make sense and general slowness.

I think I've made this comment before, but it almost feels like new KDE releases are optimized for screenshots: it looks great, until you click on something.
Misleading title. They never "went" to YC as we normally understand it, they "applied" to YC.
To be honest I don't really see the need to have different passwords for web services that I don't really care about.
My quick feedback:

Nice and simple, seems fast enough. I like that it's a responsive design.

I need an option for oldest first. (I can't use a feed reader without this option.)

Needs j/k for next/previous entry.

Top bar should scroll out of the way when reading entries so it doesn't take up so much space.

Default font should be something more readable than Helvetica/Arial. (My suggestion: Source Sans Pro.)

(Disclosures: I am a happy paid user of FeedHQ, but I like trying new feed readers.)
>I'm somewhat surprised that anyone would have spent 10 years flailing in this arena and not learned that.

"I’ve always had some type of entrepreneur trapped inside me. [...] I decided I’ll start a blog and make money via AdSense ads."

This is not the thought process of someone with the competence to know how to learn effectively. It sounds like someone who just wants to be a cog in a money wheel, both learning as little as possible and creating as little value as possible.

It is especially telling that they think their age is somehow relevant in the picture of how much money they are making or what their credit limit is.
Goddamn, that's atrocious.
> EY's definition of good is ruthlessly utilitarian,

Note that people frequently misunderstand Eliezer, especially wrt the basilisk. (Though it's not clear whether you're thinking about the basilisk in this paragraph, so that "especially" may not be relevant.)

With this in mind, can you give an example of a specific moral claim where you think you disagree with Eliezer?
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>so a $150K salary in the Bay Area might make you exactly as "wealthy" as a $50K salary in El Paso.

So, kind of an aside, the Bay Area example can work out much better for you, if you're a property owner. Since, while you're paying a lot, you're also getting a lot of equity compared to most other places and that equity (assuming a bubble doesn't burst) is the same anywhere you take it. I've met many CA/NY transplants who have brought a lot of equity with them and driven up housing prices because not only are they used to paying a higher % of salary, they also have CA housing equity, I guess what I'm saying is the inflated cost of housing isn't necessarily a sunk cost/equalizer in the long run if you can plan accordingly.

It's making lower and middle class areas into upper and middle class areas rather quickly (not the only reason of course).
> I find it interesting that the HN community is usually deeply anti-copyright until they're own works or the works they like are used seemingly without permission. Then we all become copyright nannies and strict copyright lawyers.

Generally, I'd say the anti-copyright community gets angry when it is copyright advocates that commit copyright infringement. It doesn't really have to do with whether they like the infringed work - but when the very people who are actively working on maintaining, or even worsening the copyright situation (such as Disney) get away with infringing it leaves a very bitter taste, and is hard to forgive.

People get angry when it is OK for Disney to break the law and make millions doing so, while a random kid doing it on a much smaller scale without earning a dime gets fined into oblivion. The hypocrisy and the injustice is worse than the crime itself.
Agreed.

Take a look at what Sysdig (https://sysdigcloud.com) is doing. Free version, paired with an enterprise version with more features and support.

The founder previously created Wireshark and adopted the same strategy. It worked (they were acquired by Riverbed a few years ago).
Ask HN: Freelance client screwed me and I'm having trouble moving on. Advice?
Four years ago I took a client looking to build a site to help startups. He was a classic red flag, trust fund biz dev type -- no skills, full of hubris, but well connected and seemingly capable of paying for work. Despite my misgivings, it was early in my career and I needed work.

We met and documented his requirements in an email. I took 1/3 of pay up front, worked for several months, and delivered. He was happy with the results, we went live, and I invoiced him for the last 2/3. He stopped responding to emails and phone calls.

After a lot of pressure, he responded and said I had misunderstood -- the last 2/3 was contingent upon funding, that he had not received any compensation so far, and I should be thankful I had been paid at all. These were complete lies.

I foolishly did not draft a contract -- a mistake I never made again -- although all of our communication was over email and I did have an email laying out requirements and payment terms.

Lacking funds for legal representation, I swallowed my pride and moved on, shutting down the site. I lost out on a high four figure amount and struggled to pay the bills for several months as I recovered from the loss.

Meanwhile, he presented the site in job and business school interviews and landed himself a job at an investment firm adivisng startups. He worked there for a while and raised a seed round as CEO of a company that -- get this -- provides business and accounting support for freelancers.

Now, four years later, I am established and can afford legal representation. But I am having trouble letting this go. I think about it often. The money isn't the issue -- it's a matter of pride. He used me, lied to me, and is now starting a business purportedly to help freelancers. He's trying to hire freelancers to build it. I have no doubt he'll use his scummy tactics on others in the future.

Any thoughts on what I should do? Thanks a lot for reading.
I am getting error when using go

[root@ForeignLinux ~]# gccgo hello.go -o test
/tmp/cc06PbMI.o: file not recognized: File truncated
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Go

anyone experienced this?
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I have positive feelings about the effort of Gnome to sandbox applications. When you want to run closed applications it is obvious why you would want to sandbox. Even with open applications there is an additional security layer which is _very_ valuable because security related bugs are the normality, not the exception. The permissions system in android has had a good effect on privacy since you can deny access to private data for individual apps, and if need be to not make it crash you can just feed it empty or random data.
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Seems like someone might even be able to create a startup around that concept :)

Currently in progress: https://snowdrift.coop/

Even better: Their application stack is free software under the AGPLv3. It's written in Haskell using the Yesod framework.

I'm unaffiliated, by the way.
(At the time, Raft hadn't been invented yet.)
I visit forums like Wickedfire from time-to-time. Most of the people there want short-term riches with little to no effort.

In fact, the business I started 4 years ago, which is still profitable today, came from an idea I saw in Wickedfire. Only, all of the people in the forum that tried it got banned because they wanted to do it the scammy way..and I built it like a real business and gave people real value (and still do).

Even the guy in the article seems like he thinks like a gambler and not a business owner. He makes $100K and what does he do? Blow it on expensive cars, trips, and other luxury items. He should have taken the money and created a service or software based on what he has learned from affiliate marketing. Another route could have been a legitimate marketer. He might be in a happier place now.
It seems like he deeply believes in it. I don't think he realizes it's just a modern version of Pascal's wager
sorry to hijack this thread but i would like some input regarding a good windows development machine. I have used a macbook pro retina bootcamped to windows 7 (that i really love) but was wondering if going with a native windows machine would be better?
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Doesn't google pre-download all images before hand and serve the user a cached copy?
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I though the "diamond ring" this was a US-only business, but since you mentioned Amsterdam I'm not curious. Is it a thing in the Netherlands as well?
> caused me to yell quite loudly at Roko for violating ethics given his own premises

As far as I understand this part of the sentence, Eliezer got angry at Roko because he did something that in the same thread he stated is unethical.
YMMV, but I've got Ubuntu running stably on a Dell Precision M3800. Very solid laptop if you're okay with the 15 in screen form factor.
Don't agree with this. I think improving Javascript's API for the DOM is a much better path forward.
I first installed Ubuntu either a few days before or a few days after the Hoary Hedgehog release. I recall using the Gnome version first and then adding in the Kubuntu packages a few days later.

At that point, I was fairly used to Debian and I'd used some of the other "shiny" distros at the time (like Linspire, shudder) but Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) was one of the first distros to work with my Atheros Wi-Fi dongle without significant amounts of pain. I mean, it was still a pain but I was able to get it done.

Ubuntu -- and Kubuntu especially -- was my obsession for a few months in the spring of 2005. I still remember torrenting episodes of a brand new TV show called "Grey's Anatomy" (that had taken the time slot of my beloved "Boston Legal") that had just debuted and watching it in variations of Mplayer in Kubuntu. Funny. Grey's Anatomy is still around a decade later too.

These days, I only use Linux on the server and very, very rarely on a test VM, but I have an enormous amount of respect to the KDE team and the Kubuntu team for keeping on keeping on.
I don't understand how this will work - first of all, how do you just show up at a random address to receive equipment, and second of all, how does this at all stop the NSA from just putting its spy devices in everything that Cisco ships out? Seems to me that in the former case, you run the risk of getting ripped off, and in the latter .. well, the NSA will just find other ways, besides interfering with the UPS man, to get its tendrils in your soup, so to speak ..
It's a market I expect will go away entirely. You can get VPSes for comparable pricing to shared hosting these days - DigitalOcean is $5, Heroku is free for the first dyno, etc.

I'm not convinced the market will go away.

There are plenty of people who:

- Want hosting
- Don't have the technical abilities and/or time to set up a VPS
- Just want something that works - right now this very second
- With an easy-to-use control panel
- And want to pay $5 - $10/mo for the pleasure

Cheap hosting for non-technical and/or busy people is huge and I just can't see it losing market share to VPSes.
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"There is an alternative to suburban hell. The traditional city humans have loved for thousands of years is still possible. [1] There are even great accessible, affordable examples in Burma and Brazil. In places like North Korea and the USA, the destruction of traditional free ways of life has been more complete."

This is nostalgia. For most of human existence, we did not live in cities, sipping lattes in outdoor, safe, cafes with clean water. We lived nomadically or in small tribes and villages. The invention of the city brought disease, slavery, slums, corruption, and a whole host of other problems. The "traditional free way of life" was not living in a city where you couldn't be a farmer, but had to work for someone else on someone else's land.

Comparing North Korea to the US is just a non-sequitur.

This reeks of hipster snobby elitism.
12m+ parental leave (that can be divided between both parents) are quite common in continental Europe.
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It's not that weird. Disney is an 800lb media gorilla. When they rip something off it's punching down. I am a poorish dude in a bedroom when I rip off Disney I'm punching up.

Which is why I don't give a shit about Disney ripping of kimba in this case. Tezuka is/was a media giant in Japan and the Lion King didn't really do anything to harm the Kimba IP financially anyway.
Check out that topic more carefully. As far as I remember, it was a toy example pointing out where the naive application of utilitarianism goes bonkers, and from what I can tell, Eliezer doesn't actually subscribe to "torture over dust specks".
The problem isn't subjectivity, it's groupthink. "Good but wrong" posts are better than "bad but correct".
THIS. I have the exact same feelings. Same with the 'Kubuntu is 10 years old' link on the homepage. I think we just grew up at the perfect time!
Well, yes? If Roko's basilisk was true, it'd be unethical to spread. It turned out to not be true, but if Roko was reasoning from the premise of it being true, or even possibly-true, then the action was still unethical.
Imho, if you're primary purpose is learning web dev, better get a Mac so you can focus on that rather than sidestepping on learning how to configure a linux machine. With a Mac, you don't have to look deep into the web to get things working.

Dont get me wrong, Linux is a terrific web dev OS.. just putting myself in the author's seemingly newbie shoes.
I've heard comments like yours before but this time it made me consider the other side of it. I wonder if your reaction is due to being a power user. If you've been a Windows power user for a while you're probably accustomed to doing things like setting PATH or other environment variables, installing/uninstalling things, starting and stopping services. If you have something that's a little "too much" like Windows but things are in a different place, that may be worse than starting from a mental framework of "completely different now." Particularly, I wonder if it is easier for nearly computer illiterate people to transition from Windows to something very close to Windows, or something else entirely.
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More like, "he believed that he'd accidentally invented an eternal torture machine and then he tried to turn it on, and I yelled at him even though the eternal torture machine didn't work."
I think you actually want the default to be pretty vanilla. Opinionated design tends to polarise opinions which means put a lot of people off. KDE - especially now with the "get hot new stuff" interface - is very easy to mod and there are loads of style packs available.

The sort who'll be attracted to a specific look are also more likely not to go with the default IMO. Personally I like my UI like my DE - out of the way.
Maybe you could use the:

Skyscanner API: http://business.skyscanner.net/portal/en-GB/AffiliateNetwork

The companies where you could connect direct it is Amadeus or Sabre the GDS but it is really hard to close and agreement with them, the best in a API where you can send the user to the website of the airline like Skyscanner.

Best,
I like to say that gold rushes make the showel sellers rich, not the gold seekers.