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by spacehacker 10y ago
How does iOS compare to Android these days regarding everyday concerns like sluggishness, app switching, text editing?
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by spacehacker 10y ago
FYI, the title has been changed from this being the first publication by Apple on arXiv to the title of the paper. It seems the technique presented in the paper was simultaneously discovered by Sixt et al: https://arxiv.org/
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by spacehacker 10y ago
In that sense the hostility of cosmic space is a feature rather than a bug. If resources were plentiful and space travel was easy, we would constantly find ourselves in intergalactic wars and life would have been wiped out over and over aga
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Related: The Size and Shape of “Idea Space” (2011) [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072265
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First Draft of the IEEE AI Ethics Paper: “Ethically Aligned Design” [pdf](standards.ieee.org)
32 points by spacehacker 10y ago|10 comments
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by spacehacker 10y ago
> Should upload the simulation to GitHub. Sounds interesting. I'd fork it!
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Is the Hough transform basically a maximum likelihood estimate?
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by spacehacker 10y ago
The idea that self-representations give rise to consciousness exists in neurophilosopy and it is closely related to the representational theory of consciousness and the higher-order monitoring theory: https://plato.stanford.edu&#
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by spacehacker 10y ago
This is also why I'm agnostic. Thousands of people of equal brilliance have come up with vastly different explanations for what appears to be the same thing. As a conclusion they must all be vastly overconfident.
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I personally use tabs like a desktop with all kinds of papers, documents and books flying around. Sort of like this: https://s15.postimg.org/dpq7mpmaz/messydesk.jpg
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by spacehacker 10y ago
How does this compare to Firefox?
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by spacehacker 10y ago
There certainly is regression at all corners: 1. Try finding a close-up of the keyboard of the function key model on the MacBook Pro website. It seems it is just not there or I'm failing to find it. Previously Apple used to have a desi
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I enjoy my stress with sauna, massages and whine.
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Don’t Be Fooled: The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams(howtogeek.com)
19 points by spacehacker 10y ago|0 comments
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I use the function keys a lot for changing volume, screen/keyboard brightness, pausing/playing music. I also launch Terminal and Firefox to F3 and F4, I heavily make use of ESC for all kinds of things (VIM, closing UI dialogs) and
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by spacehacker 10y ago
http://reddit.com/r/programming http://reddit.com/r/[your_favorite_programming_language] http://reddit.com/r/futurology http://reddit.com/r/math http:&
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by spacehacker 10y ago
The new 13" MacBook Pro is actually 12% thinner than the MacBook Air, but it does not have these beveled edges.
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Just to add some anecdata: I tested the keyboard for 10 minutes with TypeRacer in an Apple Store and I found it to be OK. The clicking certainly does provide enough feedback and since I am used to mechanical keyboards it also does not bothe
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I am disappointed by the Touch Bar. It is such a small and dim screen and a lot of attention is required for interacting with it. There is no tactile feedback, so touch typing is impossible. QuickType and Emojis are useless for me. It might
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Indeed, the most powerful agents do not have any correction signals to fear from above. They can rather impose rules on the system themselves. One can only avoid such dynamics by empathy (which is a very weak guarantee) or by making the gov
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Ask HN: What are your experiences with the Touch Bar so far?
10 points by spacehacker 10y ago|5 comments
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by spacehacker 10y ago
It is the same with questions like what counts as intelligence, what counts as alive? The boundaries shy away. In fact it is probably impossible to find simple definitions for these terms, i.e. definitions that get by without special rules
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Apple has removed Dash from the App Store due to a thousand fraudulent reviews(imore.com)
1 points by spacehacker 10y ago|0 comments
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I had the problem despite of arm rests. Keeping the hands in a lifted position was the problem, moreover even a slightly bad pose caused my hands to bend downwards to reach the keys, which is also suboptimal. Armrests themselves are not opt
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by spacehacker 10y ago
My experience is that vertical keyboards only alleviate some problems and even cause new ones. They do relieve pressure from the ulna and radius being in a twisted position and they obviously relieve pressure from the side of the hands. On
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Here is a disturbing summary of potential effects of sea level rise (but be warned that this subreddit tends to be a bit alarmist): https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/5abz8e/why_rising...
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Fortunately, sea ice does not contribute much to the sea level because it displaces about the same volume it will add when melted.
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Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News(scribblrs.com)
626 points by spacehacker 10y ago|326 comments
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I'm wondering what necessitates the second fan. The 2016 function keys MBP only has one fan.
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I am not sure this tells us that the singularity is very far away. It just tells us that this particular system is still not universal. I mean, perhaps there are really only a couple of components missing to make it a general AI system (e

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