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> Looks like an MIT Media Lab graduate's painfully pretentious arg/art project (i love it) :D

Then it leads here: http://isthisabook.club/

> They aren't killing people autonomously. There is a human pilot behind every death.

Oh, so we don't need these weaponized AI developements then? But I suspect that with the AI you could more easily escape responsibility by blaming the software. Who faces the consequences when an autonomous drone bombs a school? "Oops, sorry, it was a bug."

On some ads (Google?) you can click an X button to select a reason for not wanting to see that ad anymore. If I recall correctly one of the options is that you've already purchased that item. It actually worked in my case, but guess what - the advertiser now has even more info on you!

Any idea what they are patenting exactly? While the idea is interesting, the app in the video doesn't seem to use anything new UI-wise, except the category selection bar above the keyboard.

Can you explain what you mean? I type in both English and German. On latest iOS 10, regardless of which keyboard I have selected, I can start typing in either language and word prediction/autocomplete/spellcheck pretty quickly picks up which language I'm using.

Is that a spoiler for "The Three-Body Problem" in the second paragraph? Thanks, QZ!...

"I’ve started four companies in the past with a mixture of exits and bankruptcies, so I understand that this is what startups are supposed to do, [...]."

As someone completely unfamiliar with the world of startups, this sentence baffles me. If this describes your track record, how do you even get funding? Obviously I'm not an investor, but this sentence alone is a massive red flag.

Really, this web page is not even scrollable without JavaScript enabled...

Really, this page is not even scrollable without JavaScript enabled...

Don't kid yourself, you aren't visiting HN/news/tutorials/whatever because of some "urge of knowledge" or because of "absorption". People get bored all the time; everyone has this problem, some people just deal with it more effectively.

I tried using the spacial feature of Nautilus, a file manager for Linux. What's your usage of a spatial file manager? I couldn't see it being beneficial to my file browsing in any way. Just curious.

I've never used OS X, but isn't it confusing for the windows to not have titles? To find the window you need, don't you need to look at it's contents - something that sounds clunky to me? It's one of the things I hate most about the file manager in Windows 7.

It's posted on Reddit every week, especially to subs like /r/abandonedporn. It was a matter of time before it found its way to HN.

There isn't a single thing called "cancer". There are many many different types of cancer. What might work for one type might be helpless against all others.

Didn't know it's that popular, especially among "hackers". At work the Coca Cola crate gets empty faster than the Club Mate crate.

> In addition, instead of window managers get 2 or 3 smaller high resolution screens.

Disclaimer: I haven't used a 4k display.) It seems to me that unless you have a decent window manager, working on a 4k display will bring it's own set of (small) productivity hurdles. For example, Windows 7's DWM without any additional software works Well Enough on two/three smaller monitors, but how usable is it at 4k resolutions? Do you have to spend tons of time dragging windows around?

I believe that's part of what makes this website "the joke".

Who are the users who should see downvote arrows?

The other people in the tram car weren't so enthusiastic about my singing. :(

Newer products better than older products. More news at 11.

I wish people would leave page loading to the browser, instead of using half-assed JS that breaks every so often.

latest feature removed: capital letters.

Sadly this is incredibly slow on my netbook. Takes ages to return to normal mode. Back to powerline, or maybe vanilla.

You can use Powerline without a patched font. Set the separator accordingly it won't use fancy symbols.

Sounds like this group could use a private subreddit on reddit.

Vim 7.3.918 (the version I have installed here on Arch Linux) shows the absolute number of the current line, along with relative line numbers for the other rows. No need for such toggle functions.

Not sure what cursorline is, but relativenumber redraws pretty slowly when scrolling a lot (like jjjjjjjjj) in gVim on a pretty powerful Windows 7 machine. Haven't noticed anything on my linux netbook, but it runs a newer vim version.

That's exactly what a member of that group would say!

> a bike using technology found on the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope - gyroscopes

Holly cow, gyroscopes! The technology of space travel!

I can't believe I'm bringing this up, but the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "The 6th Day" really matches my views on the subject, and also matches your views.

(Obvious spoilers for the movie)

In the movie Arnold is cloned, wakes up later, and goes about to find out what's going on. At one point he finds out HE is the clone! Back to our discussion. From the point of view of the Copy, the procedure was successful - the consciousnesses was transferred to the machine and the copy continues existence. From his POV he does wake up in the computer after the procedur. For you, though, it's a copy that wakes up. Perhaps your brain is destroyed during the upload process and you stop to exist. For the copy you (that is, him) continue to exist and avoid brain death. If a scientist asks you, "Was the upload successful?", you (the original) will answer "No". The copy you will answer "Yes".