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We need treaties, banning research and development of weaponized, and especially autonomous AI (and yes, I realize that US drones already have it in limited capacity).

We should be working to stop the proliferation of these weapons; they have the potential, in the end, to be as dangerous as nuclear weapons.
Thanks for the note! Will see if it can be edited or repost
The problem modern startups have is that a developer sees he can make calls to AWS or Azure APIs and assumes that makes him qualified to define system architecture, security policies, deployment processes, etc.

"Modern" infrastructure (by which I assume you mean provisioned, destroyable VPS instances + associated services such as AWS, Azure, etc) is effectively just a new "how" - you call an API instead of deploying a config file or similar. You still need to know the "what" and the "why" to be effective.
At best, you will constrain the supply of developers willing to work on such projects and thereby drive up the price of such projects.

You won't be able to prevent them from being built. Some people are simply patriotic enough to believe that by working on such a project they are helping their country. (They're not entirely wrong.)

Others, seeing the offered money for such development being raised will be willing to work on such projects. Imagine if those positions paid $1MM USD per year. You'd have all the developers you could possibly need applying and while we don't currently, there's little doubt in my mind that we'd be willing to pay that amount to defend our country. (Witness the billions being frittered away on DHS/TSA.)
seriously! it says "putten status"
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/27/yc-backed-go1-wants-to-make...
He is probably referring to this

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
MSE is too high latency for this application.
>Do you really think Google or Yahoo would just say, "No, we don't care about being in Firefox/Iceweasel's default search list"?

Given that they haven't freely licensed their images and this has been an issue for some time I'm going to have to say the answer is "yes" because Firefox/Iceweasel download the missing images on startup.
One thing it could use is a pause between tasks.
Google's new motto:

"Don't be evil, but only after trying really hard to be so, and then grudgingly accepting that perhaps your users have alternatives that they might avail themselves of, and capitulate"

It's not as catchy, but perhaps a little more honest.
Grumble grumble... Google Reader... grumble.
Stop using perfect pictures: meaningful, realistic design is more important
He deserves much more than this IMHO, hence! #NoOffence
Yes, that's true - you have to install the SDK which takes some developer time (though minimal and nearly equivalent to copying and pasting a JS tag)
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What company is going to pay that? It's just silly. If you felt that a CEO/athlete/whatever was worth $30m a year, you'd have to pay that person $581 million dollars. They'd find some other way, that money wouldn't go to the government.
Actually Nintendo consoles were manufactured in Brazil by Gradiente, through a company called Playtronic. Gradiente's plant was part of the Free Economic Zone of Manaus, an industrial hub on the heart of the Amazon rainforest. This plant was said to be Nintendo's only plant outside Japan, though I never saw a reliable source confirming this.
From the Wiki article:

American aeronautical engineers dispute this, pointing out that as is the case with the MQ-1 Predator, the MQ-9 Reaper, and the Tomahawk, "GPS is not the primary navigation sensor for the RQ-170... The vehicle gets its flight path orders from an inertial navigation system".[20] Inertial navigation continues to be used on military aircraft despite the advent of GPS because GPS signal jamming and spoofing are relatively simple operations.
It's one of those old "jokes", like the SEX instruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX_(computing)
Maker here. We built this because we really want to make the mobile technology accessible for everyone. While we developers do have countless tools doing this and that, it is still not a snap to ship and maintain an online service. Not to mention how expensive and how painful it is for non developers who want to extend their service/workflow to the mobile.

We try to create a tool that provides a complete end-to-end solution, with highly customisable data, robust, modifiable at anytime even after launch, and accessible to everyone. The project is recently launched, we are in the early stage, any feedbacks are greatly appreciated.
It's in Chinese governments interest to see that the mass population's wealth are not wiped out, especially when they have encouraged people to put money in the stock market, even on margins.

Already before the rally of the SSE, China was not in a healthy state with large amount of debt.

Now they are printing more money, taking on more debts to prop up the stock market and they've shown everyone that they are powerless.

In the meantime,I speculate that Chinese government will go all out to prevent the SSE from sliding any further. It's government continuity is indirectly threatened. And this is why I can't speculate on China anymore, it's exactly like a casino where you are playing against the house, and they won't let you leave with any large profits and accuse you of cheating.
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Wow - way too many feels. I lived in Japan for ~3 years and this brought back so many awesome memories.

I second the notion that keeping it in pixel art form invokes a childhood-like nostalgia.

If someone made a series showing children's progression through the various computer + gaming consoles over the last 30 years I'd probably lose it.
If I had a choice of Robots killing Robots, I'd chose that any day of the week. So really, the problem isn't AI Weapons. The problems are weapons period.
Modern x86 processors invest a lot of time in rearranging instructions, shadowing registers, and the like, with the intent to parallelize instructions without having to reveal this fact to the end user.

Itanium code takes the form of fixed-width chunks, but they're a lot longer than a RISC instruction and contain multiple small instructions. All of these run in parallel. It's illegal to have any conflicts within a chunk (such as two instructions writing to the same register, or one writing from a register that another one is reading).

Itanium exposes this parallelism to compiler authors, so that a sufficiently smart code generator can take advantage of this. In practice, the sufficiently smart compilers never materialized.
Where there is righteousness in the heart there is beauty in the character, when there is beauty in the character there is harmony in the home, when there is harmony in the home there is order in the nation, when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world. - Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
It's a staggeringly bad idea but for none of the reasons put forth in the article (jingoism? Really?). The big reason is fraud. The culture of fraud is overly endemic in the grant-based system as it is and it's not clear that gaming a system of contests is not going to be the dominant mode of prizewinning.
I wonder how long before games start being developed for server side rendering.

Stuff like MMO for eg. you dont care about latency as much, your payment model already works with it and it solves several major issues :

* no hardware barrier to entry for high end graphics

* no instalation/play anywhere

* optimizations from shared state rendering, potentially advanced rendering techniques (world space lighting) - you can share computation and memory between multiple clients this way

* probably an order of magnitude harder to cheat
Rookie move, oy. Should be fixed now. Thanks Max :)
Thanks! And looks like the post's link is working now too
"Don't declare a holiday on my death, instead work and extra day, if you love me..."- DR. APJ Abdul Kalam
Manual manufacturing capacity maybe. The reason 'poorer' countries have a lot of manufacturing is directly related to human cost. 'Richer' countries produce tons of stuff. The production in the richer countries generates high technology products that are built with automated systems. This would lead to the production of the machines to be more reliable, have better materials and be more precise.

Having one person generate a better algorithm is an interesting. Having fewer, older, less reliable machines with a 90% "kill" rate go against higher end machines with a 60% "kill" rate. Who would 'win' in that one? I would have no idea.

What's stopping something like those warlords/cartels now from making drones to make sure everyone is obeying them? There are some of drones flying around, but they are nothing compared to what the United States throws over the middle east. We are already having machines fight wars for us. They are just remote controlled instead of being totally autonomous.
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I once worked in a German field engineering department of a large US semiconductor company as a student. In the department there was a noticeable barrier between one manager and the engineers. The following had happened there a few years ago: a client required a DSP to calculate the weight on a landmine switch. The departments engineers refused to work for the client bar one manager. They were threatened to be fired and they stayed on course and ended up keeping their jobs.

The way it worked was by one guy rallying, taking apart the specifications and explaining the actual moral implications to the engineers.
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I think the major factor is notifications. They basically bother you to download their app so they can bother you with notifications, which is why I think the current trend won't change anytime soon.
No problem! Just needed to ping my editor to ensure that the changes were made. :)
Well, they really hoped that would force people to use G+ more. It did not - so they understandably regrouped.
They haven't thrown it away. It's still a shared Google Account For Everything. The distinction they're making now is that they're no longer requiring that account to be tied to a "G+ sharing stream" in a publicly exposed way, which was never the most essential part of anything for them.
So sad that the death of Kalam was used for promoting a spam website. Can the administrators change the link into a better source?
The performance of this website seems a little low. I'm noticing a lot of lag when I scroll that I don't notice on other sites...

Is it because of the lib?
My personal theory is that disallowing short selling makes finding a bottom that much longer and tumultuous. Why? Because shorts need to buy to close out their positions. If you ban shorting, you have taken a large pool of buyers out of the market. You know that the only buys are those people dipping toes into the water. If you have shorting, you don't know if those are people dipping toes, closing out shorts, or someone getting ready to take a large position. It puts the healthy uncertainty back into the market, but this time in the mentality of making short sellers fearful. Fearful of a squeeze. That's what I've seen over my market experience (20 years trading, 15 years trading my own portfolio).
If you consider their parent companies, you can say Pepsi is larger than Coca-Cola in Brazil, since the Pepsi brand here is owned by AB-InBev. But Pepsi definitely did not win the Cola War.
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A surprisingly large number of FOSS developers (though mostly Linux developers in particular) use G+ and post interesting status updates on it. That's the extent to which I care about it.
The only social network from Google that had a chance... before they killed it off.
The world would be better without autonomous drones just as it would be better without guns or without bombs. The issue is that in a world in which the knowledge required to make a gun exists, it is in there interest of all of civilization to manufacture them and ensure that the "good guys" have enough of them and are sufficiently trained in their use to deter and exact vengeance on the "bad guys" who will develop, build, and use them regardless of their legality. This situation is identical. Knowledge cannot be destroyed (and it's very unclear of the damage caused by the destruction of the knowledge required to build autonomous drones outweighs the benefits humanity would derive from other applications of the same knowledge), so our only option as purported "good guys" is to arm ourselves. Once armed, we can attempt to construct incentive compatible mechanisms to make the use of drones of extreme negative utility, but we must be armed in case some actors have unexpected/unconventional/un-deter-able utility functions (terrorists). To propose that no smart people apply their knowledge to a particular end is idealistic and may leave us dangerously exposed.
One of my favorite quotes of all time! "The dream is not what you see in sleep, it's something that does not let you sleep" ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9955435.
Right, just stay away from industries developing or standing to gain from AI. That leaves .... umm....
I believe the OP is referring to the 'paperclip maximizer' argument. More info at http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html & http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer.

In short, the argument isn't that the AI will become more AntiHuman as it evolves. Rather, the AI's existing utility functions might not be aligned with human utility functions from the outset, which could have negative consequences. It's hard to make an AI do what we actually want it to.
For anyone interested: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/16/drone-firi...
Every time I read about autonomous weapons, I think of the "Menschenjäger" of a Cordwainer Smith ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith ) story written in the 50's.

"Man hunter" machines which are still hunting the few remaining humans, except those that they think are Germans, thousands of years after the war which they were created for is over ...
Honestly, I think the sticking point on most of it was the Real Name policy. Had they stopped the delusion from the outset that they could be a Facebook competitor and simply made Google+ a correlating landing page for your online persona, rather than your real identity, I think it would have worked. I wouldn't necessarily mind everyone knowing that AdmiralAsshat likes Black Sabbath music videos on Youtube, hangs out on C programming boards on G+, and comments on various political stories on Slate--I sometimes share my handles on various online media circles anyway. Having them all tied to a single login would not necessarily be a bad thing. It's not until they demand that they must know my real name to do so (combined with the fact that, being an Android user, Google knows my phone number and personal billing address) that the idea of Google+ suddenly looks toxic.

This is a good step, although the well has already been poisoned.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215
Their hearts are in the right place, but the problem with campaigns like this is -- even if you trust, say, the United States government to hold to the spirit of any such agreement, which I'm sure many here already wouldn't -- there is no reason to imagine that nations like Russia or China would. It's become well established that there is no penalty for violating international agreements as long as one is brazen enough about it.
I don't quite see the logic here. What does the medial professional gain from letting you die to try save someone else?

Prestige and money. When a millionaire is dying of heart failure, do you think s/he goes to whichever doctor has an opening on the schedule or do you think that s/he will seek out the doctor who has the best record for saving people in his/her position?

There is the grey area where, for example, you have a 20% chance of survival but with the transplant someone else has a 60% chance

There's nothing grey about it. Unless the donor explicitly authorized the removal of the organs before the onset of clinical death it's unethical.

I don't care if it's 1% versus 99.99%, my organs are mine.
Technically you can get it down to 85ms without going beyond any known physics, you just need to figure out a way to transmit information through the Earth rather than around it.

So the next big breakthrough in data transmission will be neutrino rays....
Except the article is not "don't crash the plane", it's more like "here's a few things to keep in mind while you're flying".

And sure, to an experienced pilot "keep an eye on your instruments" is obvious and not very useful. To a rookie however, it's perfectly valid advice.
> It's annoying that the media continues to incorrectly spin Android's security updates problem as somehow caused by its open ecosystem

That isn't "spin". Android's ecosystem is (largely) controlled by the phone carriers in this context. Their "open" system is a fractured jumble of closed systems with indifferent maintainers.

If Google took it up, Apple's method here would be a solution. Were Google to force carriers into supporting security updates on Google's terms, we wouldn't see this kind of issue.

Nobody making the Android/iPhone comparison in this context cares about "openness". That's largely a foregone conclusion on both devices. They care about the effective and timely distribution of security updates.

> GNU/Linux distros are free open source software, and don't suffer from these sorts of update problems.

Why on earth would NPR compare Linux distributions (which the general public has basically never heard of) to smartphones? It might be "more accurate", but it's not an accessible comparison.
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Founder here. Thanks for posting.

Karmalytics was my first SaaS project and I learned a lot along the way, from both a technical and marketing point of view.

I think freemium was the wrong route to go here from the start. I ended up giving away 95% of the value and trying to monetize the other 5%. Maybe you can get away with that if you have a VC behind you, but its really hard for a solo founder to pull off.

To my current users, I apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for trying us out and providing invaluable feedback as we grew.

Cheers,
Aakil
That's funny, because I've been thinking, "They already know so much already anyway."

Probably how they were hoping/expecting people would act.
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don't forget nations where governments or organizations oppress individuals into performing work [1][2][3]

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/radio-silence

[2] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-korea/2015-05-...

[3] http://blogs.wsj.com/middleeast/2014/10/23/u-a-e-migrant-dom...
While this is a pretty cool hack, if you are really serious about hacking USB devices there are lots of USB sniffers that are cheap and will be able to capture the entire DFU transaction and doesn't require guessing at emulating host functions.

I personally like this one, but it's a little more expensive at ~$700 and only does up to USB2: http://www.internationaltestinstruments.com/products/97-1480...

I haven't looked into open-source solutions myself, but http://openvizsla.org/ looks like a potential candidate too.
There are some embedded chips that use VLIW. RISC chips need to do instruction scheduling to really get their performance up, but for a lot of embedded task those extra transistors are a waste compared to a VLIW chip where the software can actually do the scheduling well (unlike what happened to the Itanium).
Interesting and fun? Not for me; all three are decades old and very well-known (the answer to the first jumped out the moment I read $1.10, possibly earlier; for the third, I scanned ahead to the 48). I would think any 10 year old with a knack for puzzles would know of these. If not, kids surely have changed over time. Maybe those PCs and iPads provide superior distractions?
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Abdul-Kalam-widely-loved-and-res...

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-lesser-known-things-about...
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Project M: http://projectmgame.com/en/ and
VSXu : http://www.vsxu.com/ are two very popular music visualizers on linux.

VSXu is more than just a visualizer though. It is a very powerful Visual Programming Language, which is mostly used to create music visuals. You can feed it audio using pulseaudio, so it can work with any audio source in most modern linux distros.

You can even compile VLC with support for VSXu.
I wrote a basic VSXu plugin for both Amarok and Tomahawk media players but had to put them on a pause because of the bad state of Phonon Backends back then. Feel free to resurrect them :)

Someone integrated VSXu into XBMC too.. https://github.com/mifi/xbmc-vsxu
Einstein and many nuclear scientists and engineers that participated in the project felt betrayed by the U.S. dropping the bomb in Japan, they worked on the making of the bomb, expecting that it would serve as a deterrent, not as a weapon. Because of this, some fled to the USSR and China. But even if the scientist/engineers wanted to stop the use of the bomb after working on it, they couldn't have, because it's a political decision. That's why this has to be stopped even before the weapons race starts, IMO.
Fair enough, though it's trivially gamed. Don't be an organ donor. Get sick and become an organ donor. Receive transplant. Go back on your organ donor status. The rules to more properly regulate this would be a total disaster and would ultimately end up screwing some people unjustly and giving others organs unjustly too.

More what I was trying to talk about was the idea that organ donors and non-donors might receive different standards of care "because organ donors are better people" in a future where almost everyone is an organ donor and societal expectations have shifted significantly.
Does this mean Google News is going to stop doing it?

It's much easier for me to have multiple tabs open in a browser than having a separate app for every site I look at
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> Instead most users are reliant on the device manufacturing seeing the financial incentive to provide updates.

Most users are reliant on this regardless. Few people possess the technical ability, much less time, to perform these tasks. Making the platform "open" and pointing to that as a solution would also be a way of weaseling out of that responsibility to users.
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>What? How is it inflationary to let "the wealthy" keep their money

Because they spend it.

>We're the ones driving up housing prices on a macro scale across the country, not the few people that have hundreds of millions to spend.

Both are. The few people with hundreds of millions of dollars will buy large properties in central locations in multiple cities, shrinking the available housing stock for the rest of us.