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If the attacker has installed malware on the target machine and has physical access to it, literally nothing will save you.
Facebook supports messaging, event calendars, photo and videos, blogs (Pages), business listings, geo checkins, a social app platform, and a web identity service....

How is that different in kind from what Google offers to consumers?

Google also offers binary blob data storage/sync, and a phone OS. Is that key?
>I'm sorry to say, but in my eyes you've just lost the right to criticize the LW/MIRI school of thought :-(

You mean the one I belong to? Like I said: go on LW and talk about "AI" with assumed context. It's just out here in the rest of the world where you can't assume that everyone automatically has read the literature on AIXI/Goedel Machines/etc and considers "agenty" AI to be a real thing.

>2) You are currently working on self-improving AI.

Hell no! I'm working on logic and theorem-proving in the context of algorithmic information theory -- really just dicking around as a hobby. If you want "stable" self-improvement for your "AIs", you need that. It's also not, in and of itself, AI: it's logic, programming language theory, and computability theory. And if I get a result that holds up, which is an open if, I'd be happy to keep it the hell away from "AI" people.

The main reason I don't consider alarmism warranted about "self-improving AI" (though I don't count any of FLI's letters as alarmism) is that I think of "an agenty AI" as something put together out of many distinct pieces. It's arranging the pieces into a whole and executing them that's unsafe, but also currently prohibitively unlikely to happen by accident. Naturalized induction and Vingean reflection wouldn't be open problems if self-improving "agenty AI" was so easy it could happen by accident.

I fully agree that one does not build a self-improving agenty AI under basically any circumstances, ever, even if there's quite a lot of guns to your head and various other unlikely and terrible things have happened, as the research literature stands right now.
With things like this there's no bad ideas only poor marketing of those ideas. Based on the way you phrased the question you may need to sell yourself on it first.
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Professors don't even grade assignments in my experience.

It's the Graduate students.
To answer your first question, Cannabis Use Disorder specifically refers to a pattern of use that leads to health problems, disability, and failure to meet important responsibilities at work/school/home. So it's not defined by use but rather by consequences of use.

Second, there are a number of large cohort studies looking at this question. Here's a recent one:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26006253
Psychosocial sequelae of cannabis use and implications for policy: findings from the Christchurch Health and Development Study.

It followed a group of 1200+ kids in New Zealand for all kinds of stuff, but in this particular paper they looked at cannabis use.

Their conclusion:
In general, the findings of the CHDS suggest that individuals who use cannabis regularly, or who begin using cannabis at earlier ages, are at increased risk of a range of adverse outcomes, including: lower levels of educational attainment; welfare dependence and unemployment; using other, more dangerous illicit drugs; and psychotic symptomatology. It should also be noted, however, that there is a substantial proportion of regular adult users who do not experience harmful consequences as a result of cannabis use.

In conclusion, it seems that some adults can use occasionally, or even regularly, without a problem on one of the outcomes they looked at. Those with a personal or family history of addiction or a psychiatric disorder are probably at higher risk for a problem.

But, it comes back the same problem mentioned before: Every study can only answer the narrow questions they have considered, How does cannabis impact the risk for vascular disease, or dementia? Perhaps it helps, perhaps it hurts.This study does not answer that question.
Cats are another matter. Unlike most other animals, they cannot biosynthesize taurine; they must find it in their diet, and it's mostly found in meat and meat products. As such, cats are obligate carnivores -- they cannot survive on a vegan or vegetarian diet.
Its not a very well described idea. Weekly as in by mail? Who is going to staple them together? Do they all arrive at once? Do you mean to just sell packets of postcards?
> That's exactly the argument being made here for going vegan.

And it works, if you ignore the field mice who wind up in the giant harvesting machines.
Amazing. The hydrodynamics text is very clear and concise. The stellar physics seems to be a short summary of Stellar Structure and Evolution, 2nd. Edition (by R. Kippenhahn, A. Weigert, and A. Weiss).
Yea like, sending a postcard each week by mail and you can staple them together once they arrive to create something like a chain or bigger card :)
Hell, the wolves dogs are descended for preferentially go for the dead, dying, diseased, and disabled animals (and the young). They're easier and safer to hunt.
The problem is that embassies usually are protected spaces where the host country police cannot intervene, the embassy personnel is under diplomatic immunity and the "worst" punishment the host country can deliver is declaring the offender a "persona non grata", but this is a diplomatic affront of the highest severity itself.

No one risks international relationships for a child or a woman.

edit, as I see some downvoting: that last sentence was not meant like I'd support that system. It's just a description how the world works.
You don't need to run into the arms of Apple.

Buy a Nexus phone. It's that simple
My proposal of a 2:1 cap on sought sentence to plea sentence makes the prosecution's life harder, not easier. I think I was pretty clear that I find the present situation with 20:1 ratios wrong.

But I'm troubled by the apparent consensus here that offering plea deals violates a defendant's rights. I find that thinking in terms of rights isn't even helpful. Think in terms of outcomes.

You seem to believe that a bigger portion of the pie should be shifted to public defenders from prosecutors. Fine, I'm not arguing that you're wrong, but the money comes from the same pot. Having an incentive to spare the public the cost of a trial when the defendant acknowledges his own guilt is common sense.
Meanwhile, kids in Britain are sparking urban planning changes by slapping mums :(

(Not entirely joking; I wonder if it's media bias, or are kids in less-well-off countries like this really so much more motivated to create and improve, where ours slack off and vandalise?)
There are tens of thousands of extremely skilled hackers selling exploits on the order of $10K to $100K. I'm fairly certain someone has been exploiting it. Not everyone is a good guy in the world.
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and what a liability those few million are now because they can't get rid of this thing without giving them a way out
Anesthesiology is a part of clinical neuroscience?
Between INRIA and Jane St, it probably won't. There's just so much work going on in Ocaml community. The thing I like most about INRIA and Ocaml academics is they often build things that are useful. Much SML projects are toys.
Sounds like a good opportunity for a browser that manages your various identities across multiple sites.
> "Mars moved to solution A"

> "Nestle says they are doing all they can (mentions nothing)".

why people still consume nestle? is it because their (free to collect) water is cheaper?
The food desert comment was interesting but I guess it depends on your definition of a food desert. I imagine if everyone is delivering their food then food deserts (as defined as regions with walkable grocery stores) would increase as there would be less grocery stores around (replaced by gigantic food warehouses).
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Didn't it start as an RTS on the Mac, and only became an FPS when they moved it to Xbox?
A lot of this is similar to the fishing industry in US, long exhausting shifts, dangerous slippery conditions, and cramped noisy sleeping quarters. The issue with minor cuts leading to infection is also persistent; "gurry" (misc fish parts) and salt water get under your gloves. There're even "mother ships," though they're referred to as tenders.

Of course this is all voluntary, and the pay is much better. There're also environmental regulations, prohibiting unsustainable fishing practices.
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I think I've been fairly clear that I find both acceptable. Thinking in terms of "rights" instead of costs and outcomes just increases the chances of a bad decision.
YouTube videos taken down for hate speech? Seems new.
Is this new? Here's a video in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9xMiFRQrs

It's of a French woman defacing a mural in Paris that said 'French women belong to African men' (to, 'French women belong to French men').

http://renegadetribune.com/french-women-belong-to-african-men-mural-gets-defaced-by-female-activist

a) Since when has YouTube prohibited hate speech?

b) This was far from hatespeech, more like a corrective - or, one piece of hatespeech being modified to another.

c) What can of worms has Google opened, putting the burden of deciding what hatespeech is, and isn't? Why would they be so crazy?
Except that the meshtags won't last forever by design.
I think the Romans could sell their family members into slavery to pay off debts, etc.
great so can I login with my youtube account now? I don't think I ever migrated it to a Google account (despite being asked to like a million times - would always say "later") and now I have no idea how to login to it.
Digging deeper under the Forums, some random tid-bits...

• Releases: http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6

◦ FPGA image: http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/apollo_mini_2000_83.jic

◦ phoenixinit: http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/phoenixinit

• Some photos: http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/

• Altera FPGA, etc. http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=3&note=3120
Thanks Android. You make life much easierr :)
I can see the motivational postcards, maybe even stapled together. But i don' t get why they have to hang on my wall? So I can see the motivation written on a frequent basis when say walking by? And then maybe think "Hey let me send this motivational postcard to someone I love" thinking this person could use this motivational postcard as an inspiration? And what is the difference (other then not being postcard) with those motivational calendars? They hang, stand or lay everywhere right? And what do you mean with Weekly?
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I love this comment. I've heard this actually voiced by developers having trouble coping with code reviews -- "I'm blocked, I can't work on anything else". Think you're right on with the idea of using it for training / research / pet project time.
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They missed Newfoundland, which is on Newfoundland Standard Time: UTC+3.5

Are there any other fractional timezones?
That was the entire reason I figured the guy was a good target for the LinkedIn ad. Excellent strategy -- even those who dislike LinkedIn have to be active on it to sift through 150+ resumes.

I imagine the candidates were sorted digitally at multiple points to narrow things down and share among those hiring. During the arduous process the weary workers take their glance away from the screen to relax for a second only to notice their company's name -- or bosses face in an odd place on the web page they now have memorized from screen burn-in and that's precisely when this ad is almost (IMO not almost) guaranteed.
I agree with the speed, quality, and market fit issue all driven by systems thinking. Diminishing happens when you don't hire well (this is from a startup's perspective). Having 100 10x-ers will obviously perform better than 500 5x-ers.

I think it all comes back down to motivation. Systems and design-level thinking is core, but there should be proper motivation.
Yes. This was a 'please come join us' post. I've been seeing more and more of these lately. Formula:

* cool tech
* long format
* looks good
* describe interesting problems
* end with link to careers page
I was looking for general commentary. My specific situation would be someone who was always interested in technology in a meaningful way since childhood but did not pursue computer science/engineering in any serious capacity.

Maybe a more specific question would be how to get engineers to take you seriously [and subsequently ideas one may have around marketing, design, etc]?
How about a very low end tablet that one would put on his/her wall and that would update itself each week with a different picture?
It should be noted that the UK has 5% of the population of India, so by sheer size of the population alone, they should have 20x the number of motivated kids, all else being equal.
Presumably anyone exploiting this would end up sending such messages to many iphones as well, where they could not delete themselves. If there are no suspicious messages arriving on iphones, that suggests it may not be being widely exploited.
How do you develop code style rules? Just team discussion, lead driven decision, etc.? Asking for a friend ;-)
What is your particular criticism of Anthropology as a whole? The point of the article is to express the idea of 'making the familiar strange' or viewing things 'through the looking glass.' If you propose satire because the description sounds too colorful or too foreign to how you would describe it, you have missed the point of taking another's perspective.
Disregarding the more outlandish claims, looking only at relatively undisputed use as an analgesic and/or sleep aid: how does marijuana compare to medications I can buy, not with a prescription, but straight off the supermarket shelves? I'm thinking mainly of aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, diphenhydramine, dextromethorphan...

Clearly there's less research one way or another, but do you have reason as an MD to believe it's less preferable to regular use of those substances?
I didn't say that all positive evidence is low quality, and I definitely didn't say that all negative evidence is high quality.

My logic works like this:

1. Cannabis has a number of plausibly pharmacologically active chemicals.

2. The effects these pharmacologically active chemicals have may help some things, and make other things worse. Both are almost certainly true, depending on which things we are talking about.

3. Many of the sources of information on this topic are biased, either by the anti-drug movement, which cannot abide any positive findings, and the pro-drug movement driven both by the counter-culture and more recently commercial interests.

4. In the face of both of these biases, US federal regulations has made study of therapeutic use next to impossible. Studies of those using voluntarily in the community, however, is still possible.

5. Of the studies that have been done, most focus on the negative impacts. Not all of these studies are good, but many of them are. In fact, a good number of them are excellent. I'm not saying it's a fair fight, but that is the state of the science in 2015.

6. Perhaps, in time, as the playing field is leveled and good randomized controlled trials with strong blinding can be conducted, high-quality evidence for cannabis as a legitimate therapy can happen. That has not yet happened.

7. Despite the absence of evidence, many people are making lots of money off of cannabis, and have a strong incentive to promote this message regardless of the evidence (or lack thereof).

8. As the benefits are mostly unknown, and the risks are quite well known (based on lots of poor research but also quite a bit of high quality research), I cannot recommend medical marijuana at this time.

9. This is a moving target. I will need to continue to follow research trends, and my recommendations will change based on available data.

I hope that is more explicit.

Also, I know it's ad hominem, but I would be remiss not to point out that linking to reddit and wikipedia is not nearly as strong as pointing to well-conducted primary literature sources. Also, take a look at the reddit link you posted. The ratio of negative outcomes of use to positive is very high.
I think you have not looked at all the signs. Why are all the Chinese exiting the market and trying to get out of the country? This runs deeper then just their stock market.
"Compute bound" refers to proof generation (mining), not to verification. It looks like ethash does the following computations per random memory access:

p = fnv(i ^ s[0], mix[i % w]) % (n // mixhashes) * mixhashes
newdata = []
for j in range(MIX_BYTES / HASH_BYTES):
newdata.extend(dataset_lookup(p + j))
mix = map(fnv, mix, newdata)

I admit this doesn't look much more involved than Cuckoo's single siphash-2-4, but perhaps we can measure it. How much faster does this run if you leave out the actual memory access. i.e. replace dataset_lookup(p + j) by (p+j)?

In Cuckoo Cycle's case, avoiding the memory lookups reduces runtime by a factor 3.
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"Urumqi simply adjusted their operation schedules to reflect natural waking hours, therefore, a store may be open from noon to 10 PM."

This is exactly why I would propose a single timezone for the entire world. Time notation is just numbers, after all. Why we still attach importance to having 12pm appear at the middle of the day boggles my mind. Why can't we just have different parts of the world start at different sections of a day?
>>Are you seriously arguing for arbitrary units rather than consistent ones,

Actually, no, that's what you're doing. You said that that whatever amount is in the container should be "one serving." That's clearly ridiculous and arbitrary in many cases, which was my point. I would contend that they (manufacturer, regulator, whoever) should choose some reasonable, non-arbitrary size and stick with it. Then at least I can compare two different-sized packages with a hope of figuring out what's going on. Using 100 grams would actually be a reasonable idea, but is not what you actually said in your prior messages.

>>You're arguing that the serving size should unrealistically small, rather than the whole bag, because it doesn't work for every case?

You're arguing that the serving size should be unrealistically large, rather than a some reasonable size, because you think everyone always eats the entire package?

Incidentally, I'm curious - when they sell a 24-pack of Coke, are they supposed to show the values for the individual cans, or for the entire case? You keep saying that people consume the entire unit - so that would be the entire case, right? What about for 2-liter bottles? What about for things that aren't junk food?
Also, the JSONLoader and file format used in this tutorial are almost deprecated.

Three.js has a newer JSON format[1], a new Blender exporter [2], and a new loader (THREE.ObjectLoader) in recent versions. They are much more fully featured and efficient compared to the earlier tools. They are more or less the preferred way to handle Blender->JSON->Three.js (at least for static meshes) now.

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[3] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/src/loaders/O...
"Bar codes on pet food in some European countries enable far-flung consumers to track Thai-exported seafood to its onshore processing facilities, where it was canned or otherwise packaged."

I'd be one of those far-flung consumers if I was given the choice? I will read tuna cans more carefully.
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Cool. I've been sporadically spending time going through the microcorruption game since I was clued into its existence a few weeks back when Starfighter was on the front page, and find it really enjoyable (if frustrating much of the time ;)

I haven't really had a compelling reason to pop into a gdb-style debugger for over a decade (sice I was in college), but it comes back pretty fast. My biggest problem is actually not letting my half-remembered knowledge from back then keep you from researching what is really going on because you think you know what's happening.
This is a great step. Now if they could just un-shit the Google Maps UI, they could approach the excellent usability of the Google of 5 years ago.
they haven't gave up on evil. they just optimized this iteration.

they saw that the most profitable info they could get was tagged pictures (in use even on their captcha service).

So they moved it out of G+, and forced everyone with an android phone to upload things for them with or without a g+ account.

that's another level of evil.
> added benefit, everyone is free to load on his device whatever he chooses. Google should have gone that path way earlier.

If Google had required this at the start, Android would never have gotten off the ground. Requiring hardware manufacturers to open source everything would have been a non-starter.
I know the media likes to paint a bleak picture of the world cause that is what drives clicks to their sites and keeps their ad businesses rolling, but ...

Doesn't it feel like the world has constantly been in this constant state of extreme suffering and extreme joy both co-existing in the modern era of humanity?

For all the talk of progress a country may paint, they are either engaging in oppressive tactics locally or abroad.

This seems to apply to a vast majority of countries throughout the world.

I don't like to blame an ideology for humanities woes, because it is just that: an ideology.

It does however seem that this unfettered capitalism has churned a greed so strong that those in power will do anything to keep their money-machines rolling.

Eg.

- Oil spills that indefinitely damage ocean-life for decades,centuries ...

- Women and Child-trafficking to keep the prostitution industry going

- Drug-smuggling, human-smuggling and all other types of smuggling to keep those industries going

It almost feels like it never got worse, it just got more exposure and that its always been there, in the dark corners where we are scared to look, because we'd much rather shelter our lives with a quasi-happiness that ignores such an extreme-suffering of our fellow man/woman/child.

I blame us all, starting with myself.
I'm curious what is the use case.

If it's 3rd-party resources, wouldn't this make things like Google Analytics unable to be updated if they use hashes? I guess this must be mostly targeted at resource hosts who modify resources maliciously, but how often does that occur?

If it's 1st-party resources, wouldn't SSL better handle the authenticity part? If they can modify resources you're loading but hashing, surely they can modify the resource delivering those.
No, why would you ask that?

Read the full phrase, not just half. I didn't say those are mutually exclusive anyway.
Even though everyone else is talking about this as an impractical solution, I think it's clever at least.

I don't know that I would ever use it, but I like the novel concept of it. If this was just a for-fun kind of project, I'd think it was pretty awesome. If you're trying to market it as a business, you're going to run into all the problems everyone else has already mentioned.
Technically that's not a postcard. I see a mail with maybe a sort of attachment in postcard form. But then I have to print it to get the physical card befor I can do anything with it. Be it stapling together with the other cards or directly sending it to someone. But why not email it then immediately i received it? Saves me lot of trouble.