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by indrax 12y ago
There needs to be a utility that will set the keymap for you, given a photo of your keyboard.
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by indrax 12y ago
This seems like the Best. Language. Ever. Obviously not for everything, but the readability of code is off the chart, and IDE and the integration of the documentation with the IDE is really...neat. I've been looking at this for a few
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by indrax 12y ago
If there are millions of people trying to live on $1000 per month, then there is huge opportunity in pricing a package of goods that fit within that budget.
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by indrax 12y ago
The security problems with USB are things that need to be fixed. I think every other non-optical port on your computer is just as susceptible to electrical attack. The only real difference is that USB provides its own power. This is a human
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by indrax 12y ago
In my very limited sample, if you invert the image colors, you'll see the same colors in the different parts of the dress. I see it blue-black, inverted it looks like blue lace with dark fabric. If I saw this first I would think that t
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by indrax 12y ago
Here are some hard problems to crack then, in particular Value Learning: https://intelligence.org/research-guide/
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by indrax 12y ago
Suppose I write a cellular automaton in which after some complex dance all the white cells are turned dark. This could clearly be art. Suppose that I write the software to implement this CA, but not display it, just jostle the memory locati
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by indrax 12y ago
There is a lot of implicit baggage there still, for example in saying that punishments are a thing courts can do, and that they are a response to crimes. The paints 'civilized law' as authoritarian, vengance based, and using primi
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by indrax 12y ago
Coming from just the data, I'd say impossible. It would be like achieving infinite compression on any pseudorandom data. There's no practical way to search through all possible short algorithms that could generate it. With knowled
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by indrax 12y ago
>What if there is a flaw in the decision software and something goes horribly wrong ? This argument applies to people too and we have ways to deal with it other than people being owned.
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by indrax 12y ago
EFF is going to be giving out free certs starting later this year. https://letsencrypt.org/ It's not too surprising someone would lower prices now to adjust. This is becoming a freemium product.
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by indrax 12y ago
Using a web search engine is asking for rankings based on web structure, not rankings based on product quality. You might think it's bad to take advantage of that, but refraining from doing so doesn't likely yield a fair product q
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by indrax 12y ago
>Produced for CERN by IOP Publishing >©COPYRIGHT CERN 2007 for the content of CERN Courier and images and logos identifying CERN. >©COPYRIGHT IOP 2007 for the design, format and typography of the CERN Courier Web Pages, ... The aut
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by indrax 12y ago
This reminds me of a recent article about an abandoned flooded mall. Fish were added to control the mosquito population. So what happens to the mosquitoes when the fish population drops?
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by indrax 12y ago
The actual usage is more fluid than that. It wouldn't be a common term if it actually only applied for the first day of every vulnerability being known. "An attack on a software flaw that occurs before the software's develope
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by indrax 12y ago
Sometimes we have to decide for ourselves when 'sometimes' is.
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by indrax 12y ago
On coins and buttons: Perhaps the children are intuitively comparing the areas of the convex hulls, a thing humans are good at, is an interesting mathematical problem, and could be the basis of interesting alternative mathematics. You could
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by indrax 12y ago
Yes. A rough analogy: College : Proper MOOC : Closed MOOC :: Newspaper : Online Media : Paywalls
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by indrax 12y ago
I don't know why anyone has to be 'responsible' for an inhumanity to exist. One actor taking the liberties of another actor is not required. A) Our capabilities are being restricted by the circumstances we find ourselves in.
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by indrax 12y ago
The analogy was an example of something that is inhumane for analogous reasons that restricted media is inhumane. It doesn't allow for full dog-life or full intellectual-life, some critical and important experiences and behaviors are e
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by indrax 12y ago
This isn't a good enough excuse to intervene. North Korea routinely provides much better reasons to intervene.
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by indrax 12y ago
>it apparently lacks the ability to evaluate or set its own goals. The AI would have to evaluate the goal by some standard, so 'maximize paperclips' is a proxy for whatever goals get a high evaluation from the standard. Getting
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by indrax 12y ago
Commercial activity does not remove first amendment protections. (See: Newspapers)
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by indrax 12y ago
>What is so wrong with giving the unemployed a JOB rather than just money? Who decides what jobs are available? Who decide who gets which jobs? By giving a job instead of money, you are using up a significant chunk of the labor pool. You
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by indrax 12y ago
At one level, yes. At a lower level, this is strengthening a proprietary platform, and might lower adoption of FOSS platforms. At a higher level, co-opting an open source technology to deliver closed source software may indicate a strategic
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by indrax 12y ago
If I were the company writing this, I'd include a remote uninstall command that left as few traces as possible, and encourage its use. It lowers the probability of discovery. Since law enforcement typically wants convictions, it could
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by indrax 12y ago
The fact that they said this, without pointing out that it was unknowable, makes me wonder if they know of another request that they can't talk about.
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by indrax 12y ago
Then they are sending signals to my computer system (phone) in order to gain access to information without authorization. Do you think you are free to do that?
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by indrax 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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