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> But these heralds who have volunteered their clairvoyant services to us [...] just know that [superintelligence] is going to happen soon, if not already. And they do know, with a…

> For one, so far everyone predicting doom about AI has been a layman a subject. This is a myth. It was arguably true 5-10 years ago, but concern with AI safety is not a fringe pos…

I posted an earlier version of this about 2 years ago. Since then I've added a bunch of music theory exercises and created a system for teachers to use the exercises in their class…

How long would you personally like to live if you could be healthy the entire time and not age any more or any faster than you'd like to? 50 years? 150? 1000?

Thanks! Those are all good ideas. One of them is already implemented: Keyboard shortcuts are available in the advanced options for most exercises.

Good idea! There's an advanced option that puts a "listen" button next to each interval on the sidebar in the intervals exercise, but this would be a good more general feature to i…

This is a great point, I'll work on adding more guidance to the exercises.

Thanks, that's a really good point. I agree that the patterns generated could be improved, but haven't come up with a good automated way to generate an unlimited amount of better o…

Hi, I'm the developer of SymbolHound. You're right, SymbolHound's index is a little lacking, especially for new languages. This is because it's based almost entirely on a stackover…

SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm based in Connecticut) Full-stack web developer. I'd especially like to help you build your MVP. Primary skills are Python/Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, a…

SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm based in Connecticut) Full-stack web developer. I'd especially like to help you build your MVP. Primary skills are Python/Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, a…

I frequently see users who don't realize that the email field on their profile page is not visible (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6593160 ) and that they have to put it…

> the link downloads immediately and there is no way to get the de-obfuscated link If you go to your downloads list you can right click and do "copy link address" (at least on chro…

This is a good technique, it's called the "george bailey effect" (after the main character in "It's a Wonderful Life") More info: http://morehappy.me/2013/07/06/to-boost-happiness-…

SEEKING WORK - remote Most interested in python/django work. See my CV here: http://symbolhound.com/cv.php contact: dncrane@gmail.com

> any suggestions on how to fix this? Could you have separate input boxes for each segment of the phone number? (as in #2 here: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1015 )

There are some good notes for Peter Thiel's class here: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup

Looks like it's not exactly the same, e.g. robocode had a separate scanner and turret, while fightcode has the cannon act as the scanner.

> Furthermore, rather than merely assuming I met my goals, I used analytics. Every metric shows that my design is successful. Does this mean that, for example, the green button was…