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by mappum 12y ago
You're kidding, but some day, scanning people's brain structure and comparing would probably be pretty effective.
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by mappum 12y ago
I've thought about how public chargers are something that businesses should start using. Imagine sitting down at a restaurant and getting a full charge during your meal. If wireless charging gets more standard, then there won't be
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by mappum 12y ago
Hard to do effectively until we have consumer FMRI hardware that can measure dopamine/serotonin release.
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by mappum 12y ago
Google could implement this very effectively when they have a couple self-driving cars going around each city scanning for empty parking spots. Before then, you might have to do something hacky like user-submitted data.
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by mappum 12y ago
A mobile app that scans for unsecured WiFi and automatically sends the location to the service. People who want free WiFi can search and find the closest one. It's sure to cause some legal/moral controversy, but it is pretty trivi
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by mappum 13y ago
Instead of connecting to the people within 1 mile, it should be the n closest people. This would give the same effect, but work for anyone living in any population density.
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by mappum 13y ago
The title made me think it was going to somehow be a vi-based editor (and that sounds like a good idea).
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by mappum 13y ago
I like how having a lot of random stuff ends up making some natural-looking textures: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgdwAeAAsAKgArABMA/wAASgH9AF...
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by mappum 13y ago
Sierpinksi Triangle: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgXgB8AaYA2wJdANlWUlUCXgDZAg... This was created by someone the last time this was on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983421
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by mappum 13y ago
The real reason for the bias is that everyone thought they could sneak a piece.
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by mappum 13y ago
Sha256 is not a suitable key derivation function. Attackers could then crack the keys pretty easily (now the keys are only as secure as the passphrases). Use something like pbkdf2/bcrypt/scrypt.
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by mappum 13y ago
Socrates was just pretty conservative, he was also against the idea of writing: " ...this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external wr
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by mappum 13y ago
More people are starting to handle their own crowdfunding. Lockitron got rejected by Kickstarter so they created an open-source app for it: http://selfstarter.us
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Mt. Gox in Feb. 2011(web.archive.org)
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by mappum 13y ago
Looks like one of the founders is from Munich. Maybe he is just a little trolly.
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by mappum 13y ago
The creator of this is Sos, the developer of the game "McPixel". He is well known in the Ludum Dare community.
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by mappum 13y ago
Shouldn't it be "OpenCrowdtilt"?
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by mappum 13y ago
You're right, they take a lot of shortcuts, but the point I was making is that simulating parts of organic chemistry probably isn't inherently necessary for intelligence.
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by mappum 13y ago
More specifically, I mean systems designed by biological evolution vs. systems designed by human thought.
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by mappum 13y ago
What it adds is the simple point, "be optimistic about strong AI in the near future".
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by mappum 13y ago
I believe human-level general intelligence (and beyond) is already inevitable, even if we don't make significant developments in "solving" intelligence. Projects that are already developing stuff like this (e.g. IBM Blue Brai
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by mappum 13y ago
Because he basically is mini-Paul Graham.
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by mappum 13y ago
This is pretty logical. MtGox halted BTC withdrawals because of the transaction malleability issue (which, due to MtGox's poorly made software, let people get their withdrawal payments more than once, leaving MtGox open to get its wall
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by mappum 13y ago
And there's even another one: http://www.chipolo.net/
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by mappum 13y ago
The other one that article referenced is only $28 and looks to be pretty much the same: http://www.vat19.com/dvds/the-inkless-metal-pen.cfm EDIT: And now they are all sold out. If only I had signed up for their affilia
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by mappum 13y ago
It seems a lot of people (including me) have made projects like this, but it would probably be most efficient if one project emerged as the standard (it's surprising one hasn't). https://github.com/mappum/node
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by mappum 13y ago
I don't think the attacker tried variations of your password to get into your gmail, their malware most likely got it some other way (keylogger or extracted from saved passwords in browser).
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by mappum 13y ago
You are partly correct. The IP is the node who first told Blockchain.info (assuming that's what this is using) about the transaction. The "entry point" to the network would be when the person sending first transmits it. There
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by mappum 13y ago
I would be terrified if "brainfuck" had a nonzero frequency.
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by mappum 13y ago
The author seems pretty hung up on the fact that mining consumes electricity, but let's look at the numbers. Miners consume an estimated 108,619 megawatt hours per day (according to https://blockchain.info/stats ). This

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