Hacker News: mariusz79

New comment by mariusz79 in "How to Live Without Google"

mariusz79 — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:56:03 +0000

We really need some open source OS for smartphones, or rather some smartphones that support anything you throw at them.

New comment by mariusz79 in "Women entrepreneurs talk about sexism"

mariusz79 — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:06:50 +0000

Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos didn't seem to have any problem with getting funding..

New comment by mariusz79 in "Uber cloaked its spying and all it got from Apple was a slap on the wrist"

mariusz79 — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:05:31 +0000

It seems that this is current modus operandi in the business world.

New comment by mariusz79 in "At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be a Job Killer"

mariusz79 — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:52:51 +0000

it will be tried, but it's really impossible to implement. first reason - you can't force all countries to do the same. second - how do you define automation? will i need to pay taxes on scripts I use to automate some of my jobs? Will I need to pay automation tax on my roomba? or dishwasher? If the robot does not replace any worker, but makes job or current workers easier and faster will it be taxed?

New comment by mariusz79 in "At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be a Job Killer"

mariusz79 — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:34:08 +0000

People tend to forget about one thing - in previous industrial revolutions jobs changed, but people were added and removed from the pool slowly and predictably. This time automatons not only take jobs from people, they are also in a sense added to the economy as additional workers.

Think about it this way - previously if someone came up with a more efficient way to do a given job, out of 10 people 9 lost employment, but you still needed that one person to do the job. With automation you get rid of 10 people, and add one additional "worker" to the pool of workers. So now 10 people have to compete not only with themselves but also with one robot that can do job of 10 people.

New comment by mariusz79 in "Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo"

mariusz79 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 17:19:18 +0000

What's better to end up in the final end state later, or lose customers because your software is crashing and is harder to maintain because you're introducing totally new way to do stuff?

New comment by mariusz79 in "Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo"

mariusz79 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:17:36 +0000

Wouldn't it be easier to build a new plane around the new engine, do some flight tests and after it's ready transfer all passengers?

New comment by mariusz79 in "OpenAI Universe"

mariusz79 — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:53:02 +0000

I might be wrong but I think this was created mainly to monitor progress in AI research. If someone uses OpenAI Universe and can get better results than virtually everyone else, they will be able to get to them first.

New comment by mariusz79 in "New Shepard In-Flight Escape Test [video]"

mariusz79 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:58:48 +0000

But not on a rocket that flew five times.

New comment by mariusz79 in "Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system"

mariusz79 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:04:07 +0000

The list of features is missing one important item - Using these we will be better able to monitor your indoor whereabouts.

New comment by mariusz79 in "Pre-auth Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Metasploit"

mariusz79 — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:07:53 +0000

nah, it's just a selfsploit.

New comment by mariusz79 in "GCHQ planning UK-wide DNS ‘firewall’"

mariusz79 — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:36:51 +0000

Hitler was born 04/20. I believe 88 refers to H being 8th letter of the alphabet. (HH = 88)

New comment by mariusz79 in "GCHQ planning UK-wide DNS ‘firewall’"

mariusz79 — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:29:19 +0000

I don't think I'm exaggerating. When you read this article, and read what corporations are doing, and politicians are advocating, it's easy to see where this is going. In addition to that you have ICANN stewardship transfer, which might make it easier for other countries to influence how the Internet works. We also have growing number of hacks/leaks that will be used to push the "need for firewalls" and "warnings" from experts that "someone" if probing our defences. It all does not make me hopeful that we can keep the internet free.

New comment by mariusz79 in "GCHQ planning UK-wide DNS ‘firewall’"

mariusz79 — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:10:22 +0000

I think it is safe to say that by 2020 the Internet as we know it today will not exists. All we will have is a bunch of walled gardens, under full surveillance from both the government and corporations. And most people will not even notice or care.

New comment by mariusz79 in "GitLab Master Plan"

mariusz79 — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:08:08 +0000

Is that Master Plan stuff a new fad?

Soon at a Hacker News near you:

Master Plan considered harmful.

New comment by mariusz79 in "Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker"

mariusz79 — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:29:52 +0000

Yeah. Like I'm a second-hand vegan. I eat animals that eat plants :)

New comment by mariusz79 in "Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker"

mariusz79 — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:03:49 +0000

RTFA

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral

mariusz79 — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 13:21:14 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-just-exploded-at-cape-canaveral/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12405006

Points: 986

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New comment by mariusz79 in "Microsoft is giving away 100's of ebook for free download"

mariusz79 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:56:41 +0000

download MSFTFREEEbooks.txt and run wget -i MSFTFreeEbooks.txt --content-disposition --trust-server-names

New comment by mariusz79 in "Let’s make peer review scientific"

mariusz79 — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:24:49 +0000

it will, if you require that the data is shared and can be analyzed by another group. In some cases it will slow down the progress initially, but I think in the long term we would be getting much better results.