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An Interview on AI Risk with Jaan Tallinn
Esoteric.codes
The Ghost of Cognition Past, or Thinking Like an Algorithm
We have free software. We need free databases
We Built a Fake Web Toaster to Tempt the Mirai Botnet. It Was Hacked in an Hour
Orwell never dreamed of advertising as invasive as Yahoo’s proposal
Shoshana Zuboff: Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Re:Are closed social networks inevitable? (2010)
on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:51AM (#12650860)
This, or it's a comment by Nick Land
Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
on Saturday September 24, 2016 @02:56AM (#12569773)
Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
Do we really want to fuse our brains together?
Have We Uploaded Enough Data to Create Digital Copies of Ourselves?
When One App Rules Them All (Revisited)
An algorithm generating millions of random ideas to fight patent trolls
Go Corporate or Go Home
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
Inbox is the Trojan Horse for your personal AI
Re:New social network, where you don’t need followers to start use
on Friday January 22, 2016 @08:08AM (#10952451)
"We would like to inform you that, since you're from France, you can start sharing news, images, videos and things you loved with people in France area from this moment"
How did you manage to guess i'm from France? Even though i'm technically french, i am in Holland, my OS is in english and my IP german. Pretty complicated bareer of entry!
Side Effects May Include Anything
Re:René Girard has died
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @02:55AM (#10512170)
I'm going to over-simplify, but according to Girard, the greatest social attempt to avoid scapegoating and civilize human nature has been christianity. The figure of the Christ, and his sacrifice, was a smart operation to replace real scapegoats by a symbolic one, allowing the community to unite against an innocent without having to kill anyone. This has been successful for centuries, but it's interesting to note that in his latest books, Girard sounds pretty disillusioned about this. "Achever Clausewitz" (strangely translated in english by "Battling to the end") is quite a frightening apocalyptic book that I would recommend to anyone interested in Girard's work.
Re:Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
on Monday September 28, 2015 @07:50AM (#10289924)
Ah, I wish i could edit the link, and point to the google cache instead, but seems that it's too late.. Feeling sorry now, must feel like a DDoS attack for the person who wrote this, and I believe it won't stop until the article goes away from the frontpage :/
Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
What is going on with SoundCloud?
Re:Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf]
on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @03:07PM (#6685111)
In the section about 'alt' tags, "If a user is viewing your site on a browser that doesn't support images" sounds like something coming from a very old text. I wonder if that's still relevant for anyone.
The second part of the sentence (screenreaders) taught me something, though!
Balaji Srinivasan on Silicon Valley’s ultimate exit
Re:Show HN: Sketchology
on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @10:37AM (#6598976)
yay! In the meantime there's always the possibility to export to web, save the tiles one by one on your HD and reassemble them in Photoshop like a puzzle. Quite a fun operation
Re:Show HN: Sketchology
on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @10:27AM (#6598913)
First, congrats on the app and the selling method. Free trial and extras for sale are definitively a honest way to go on the app store!
I understand it's hard to export a svg, but how about exporting a hi-res picture? When choosing 'save image', the super resolution option disappears, and zooming before saving exports only a partial tile. It would be great to be able to save a huge picture, for pro printing, for instance
Re:Ask HN: Name an established product that is begging to be disrupted
on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @05:45AM (#5938388)
Gmail :)
Re:DuckDuckGo privacy: A search engine that doesn’t track its users
on Sunday June 23, 2013 @03:15AM (#5926524)
Is it really deleted? Or are you simply opting out of having it displayed in your account's page? According to the FAQ, "If you remove items, they will be removed from the service and will not be used to improve your Google experience". Words are important. Your history is removed from the service, not the servers. It won't be used to improve your experience, but nothing says it won't be used for something else