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I agree with your point number 2 (except I think you should say NP hard instead of NP since many NP problems have efficient algorithms), in fact I've made it before.

While it may be reeasonable to believe that technology will eventually lead to implementations of intelligence that are significantly faster than biological ones, this doesn't necessarily mean there will be a huge qualitative difference (say, to the point of humans being totally incapable of understanding an AI's actions, as some suggest) because the "intelligence problem" may be dominated by exponential growth in complexity of the search space as one attempts to consider more alternative paths.

I do think that the question of the "safety" of AI is something that needs to be seriously taken into account by anyone realistically contemplating the development of an AGI but I also tend to think that some of the concerns expressed by prominent individuals are a bit overblown and don't take into account the range of safeguards that could, should and most likely would be put in place by any group realistically capable of solving the extremely hard problem of general intelligence.
You're probably getting down-voted because you're not adding anything, though I'd argue it's really hard to add anything to the discussion.

Curators of Sweden are essentially hive-mind of the same types of people over and over except only at one point, we had a person who was liberal (not left-wing) and people shat their pants.

Another thing to add is the most vile racist Swedes I've grown to meet are usually left-wing extreme (mainstream today) "anti-racists".
You're approved as long as you agree with their narratives, until you don't and branded as an uncle Tom (though they use a different word that starts with house) and more often not also called "fascist".

A perfect example of this actually happened today as a politician from Folkpartiet (The Liberal Party) got booed as she was talking on an event about supporting refugees.
Her name is Birgitta Ohlsson and has fought a lot for LGBTs, refugees and to even open the borders.

Swedes really watered down the word racist. Sorta like how everyone in Soviet was a fascist. Kinda funny how I've grown to tolerate the Swedish Democrats in comparison.

Seeing people like Nalin Pekgul, Sakine Madon, Hanna Gadban, Sarah Mohammed and Alice Teodorescu being called racist pretty much did it for me.
That's the reason why I love his blog.
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-> One's noise is another's music. Why is it there if no one finds it helpful?

Sure, but I'm not talking about subjective opinions about content. I'm talking about the other things interfering with my ability to consume the content I'm trying to consume. And I don't think that this is a classic "no true Scottsman" in that sense. I'm not making any statement about what is or isn't true internet content (because obviously that would be silly). Perhaps my word choice of "legitimate" was unwise in that way.
That's sort of my point. There seems to be some established knowledge about how you can address "upvalues" within closures but very little shared terminology or literature about it.
> More likely though is that you gave up too soon.

I definitely gave up too soon, but it also wasn't worth me doing it in the first place.

The mild wrist/finger pain/numbness I had went away once I started typing with my forearms in line with my hands i.e., no radial flexion.
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I just got a random vin from the internet. I don't think the downloads are personalised. I'd be interested to know what you find!
I keep hearing about how miserable things are in academia and have come to perhaps a surprising conclusion: research and education need to be broken up. I know that there's arguments that the two should stay entangled, and that new research feeds quickly into education blah blah blah. But I personally think that the world is far better off with large, dedicated, quasi-commercial R&D labs and institutions like Xerox-Parc, Bell Labs, Howard Hughes Medical, Battelle, Microsoft Research etc. and that those research labs operate off of a "licensed innovation" model.

It feels like these places are struggling (I might be wrong), but I'd argue for a vast expansion of this system on par with the university system, but without either being burdened by the needs of either one. Offer competitive industry pay and work on demand for commercial and public interest.

A kind of kernel of this already exists, either big National Labs that try to spin out mature research paths into companies (giving the researches a shot at making it big as CEO or CTO of these new companies) or as dedicated commercial R&D firms that get hired to produce product ideas for commercialization. But I think it should be institutionalized in the same way universities are rather than running as independent as they do now. And then universities should get out of the research game altogether.

I don't have real concrete ideas on how this should be done, but it would provide a better career track for smart people.
The savings rate being low is insufficient to justify your claim that advertising does not create net demand. It's also possible that people choose to work more to afford more goods.

I see Americans working very hard when I feel they would get more life satisfaction out of cutting expenses, primarily the big three: transportation, housing, and food.
"Technical jobs like coding require you to demonstrate ability".

Yet they test you on an hour and a half online "coding challenge", which is completely irrelevant to day to day work. I have been looking for a senior level job recently and only one place has actually asked me questions that I consider relevant. In another I had to calculate the inersection of two rectangles for a Django job. I managed it, but it has nothing to do with my coding ability, knowledge of Pythonic / Django ways of doing things or anything that I would be doing on a day to day basis.
Ask HN: What license does Hacker News use?
What license is the text/commnets on news.ycombinator.com available in?
I was just thinking yesterday how inundated we are by ads these days. You see ads on television, the radio, the internet, billboards, public transportation, sports stadium/jerseys, magazines, guerrilla marketing, product-placements and celebrity endorsements, and not to mention PR (which is just advertising by other means). Talk about mental pollution!
Unless we start paying for online content, this is going to not only continue, but get worse.
I wonder how well this meshes with the fact that a lot of cities aren't built for walking. Walking is in general good, but is it responsible for your doctor to prescribe you an activity that is actually illegal in the area where you live, due to there being no sidewalks and walking on the street being illegal.
> You aren't listening to him.

That's right, rather than taking his words at face value, I investigated the facts that he omitted from his narrative. They tell a slightly different story.

None of that means that I don't share his opinions about the state of academic science.
I certainly didn't see all this paywalling back in the days of Slashdot. Whether that was due to paywalling not being a thing or to Cmdr Taco's good discretion, I can't say.
no. he just sleeps :)
Thanks for the writing up, really nice series so far!
I would like to know what are the competitors of Kubernetes to run docker in production and if you think Kubernetes is suitable for small / single man projects? Or what would you advice instead?

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Does anyone outside of prison really live in a place where they can not walk as much as they want in a given day?

Even in Alaska in the middle of winter... you can walk around your work or a store or something... seems like a bit much to worry about, no?
I never signed up with them, but I just got a similar piece of spam, but supposedly originating from someone I don't know, and not referring to me by my actual name.
Can you name some cities where walking is illegal? Or even areas of cities where walking is illegal?
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In the US it's the result of racial politics. Employers are asking to get sued if they use any kind of generic IQ-type testing to rank applicants, so they rely on credentials.
I think we over-imprison people, but let's not ignore there was an actual crime wave. Between, say, 1960 until the peak in 1991, violent crimes per 100k per year went from 160 to 758 for a 470% increase, remaining over 600 through 1997. And even in 1995 nobody knew that the crime wave had peaked; it would take another 8+ years (6 years of data plus reporting lag) for people to realize that.

There's no way not to have a large reaction to such a dramatic increase.

my plot from the wikipedia data available [1]:

http://imgur.com/H2ahd9y

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
So I got my start in ad based websites. If it wasn't for ads, I would have never really gotten into what we do. I'd have done something away from the internet because I never grew up with a computer and wasn't fascinated by them as a young child.

So because of that, I had always been in favor of ads. Not as in I'd plaster my site with ads, but if a site displayed ads, I would endure them because if I wanted the content that's the trade off. Otherwise I could find similar content somewhere else.

Then The Verge's article about slow browsing came about, and the retorting articles about things and I realized ads have gone way to fucking far.

17 years I have been online. 17 years I had never installed an ad blocking plugin or anything. Last month I installed uBlock Origin and turned it into blacklist mode.

I still feel sites who have ads in place that aren't intrusive and annoying deserve to be displayed, but sites like The Verge, or CNN or anything like that which blast you with 300 requests where 90% of them are ads. Or sites where ads become more important than the content; These sites get instant ad blocking enabled for them.

It's time to take a step back.
Thats great. Yeah, there is a huge difference between saying, go exercise, and giving a prescripted regimen. Hopefully they can start having funded exercise programs in the community or based on the general prescriptions the doctors are giving.
I love new information, but your narrative conflicts with the existing facts:

- He is not bitter
- He did not leave because of failure

Now it appears you aren't listening to me, because I've had to write this twice.
Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic
Publications like NYT, WSJ, the Economist, and the New Yorker have paywalls that leave ways for readers to work around them. Such stories are OK to post to Hacker News. Yes, this sucks, but the loss of many substantive articles would suck worse. In the future, when someone doesn't understand this, please politely direct them to this thread or to HN's FAQ [1], which now makes this explicit.

Complaints about paywalls are off topic, so please don't post them. The spirit of HN is to discuss specific articles and avoid generic rehashing. Arguments about The Paywall Question are all the same. For an example of what we want to avoid, see [2]. For more on our thinking, see [3].

It's ok to ask how to read an article or to help other users by sharing a workaround. But please do this without going on about paywalls. Focus on the content.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178012

3. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20paywall&sort=byDate&...
Sweden certainly is in the forefront of building a modern DDR. I guess we'll see a Swedish movie similar to that of "Das Leben der Anderen" in a decade or two.

Just this week the largest daily newspaper (Dagens Nyheter) decided to out the identity of an anonymous high-profile blogger (a 70 year old woman) who was critical of the current immigration scheme. The main reason they did it was as a form of punishment. This was made clear in their reporting.
PTEN acts in several pathways that have to do with regulation of cell growth and interacts with proteins that have a major roles in tumor suppression. This was discovered without knowing the actual structure of PTEN, so it should now be easier to develop ways to fiddle with the signaling pathway to our advantage.

Here's an overview of the signaling pathways involved:
http://cl.ly/cuRC

On another note, the interface used to represent biological information (and I'm assuming of other fields) hasn't changed since the invention of the printing press. How lame is that?
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> It's not terribly hard to make up data showing some kind of effectiveness, or just to misinterpret real data in a way that can convince others to let you keep doing it. For every marketing or advertising craftsman out there who builds something that works, gathers useful data, and interprets that data honestly, there are probably 20 people who have no clue and just keep churning out the same stuff because they don't have anything else to offer.

Let me share a personal anecdote from watching a social media marketing company at works.

These marketing people got contracts to do brand/site/service promotion on everyone's favourite social networking and image collecting sites. They wrote many posts, made interesting graphics, etc. Generally did a good, honest work at that. Then every month they had to write reports detailing the effectiveness of their efforts. The way they did it was like this:

1) gather metrics provided by social media platforms they used

2) put them in a DOC file

3) start with the conclusion that they did their job well and helped the marketed company tremendously

4) invent some plausible-sounding reasons to connect the data from 1) to conclusion in 3)

And mind you, this wasn't intentional dishonesty. They simply have no fucking clue about the meaning of the data, or what can (and can not) be reasonably inferred from it, so they don't even try. They don't even know what they don't know. But their clients don't know anything too; it's basically both sides not knowing what those colorful graphs and tables of numbers mean and bullshitting one another without even realizing it.

I guess one can't generalize from one example, but mind this: social media marketing companies are not staffed by math PhDs, they're staffed by social sciences undergrads who decided that, given current state of the job market, learning Photoshop is better than working at McDonalds. They may be good at making interesting content, but they have zero necessary knowledge for getting right conclusions from data.
I am with you, and also a backer. The original goal was exceeded by a wide margin (£12,927 pledged of £3,500 goal). 12K GBP is a non-trivial amount of money. There are no videos (if you exclude a low quality recording of a talk on the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVM8N0eH9Qk), no screencasts and the text only covers a few of the topics outlined in the campaign.
I'm from Ukraine and it's interesting to note that people from first-world countries have trouble getting into third-world countries. Because I certainly have reverse problem: getting into first-world countries, as I have to go through extensive background/finance check, prove accomodation and travel info etc. to get visa. What's even worse: I would like to visit neighboring country for just a couple of days from time to time, but I can't afford this, because visa fee is almost same as ticket price. And longer trips are limited by vacation days.

Anyway, it seems this wall is created on both sides and IMHO, this is sad. We should collaborate, not create barriers between people.
This is something thar is echoed all the time and it does not seem to be something limited or confined to academia, whoch makes it all the more unfortunate.
schoen kicked this off nicely, I'll add a couple points to amplify his.

1- Machine intelligence is a matter of engineering, not evolution. We've already solved important relevant problems, such as how to construct an arbitrarily large, near-infallible memory.

2- It's hard to see how a first-stage AI would be incapable of designing a better one. Let's pretend that the first-stage AI was equivalent to an IQ 120 person intellectually (reasoning horsepower). However, that IQ 120 intelligence would be backed up by a very fast, effectively limitless memory. It would never need to sleep, eat, or be distracted by emotion. Instead, it could monomaniacally concentrate on designing a better AI, possibly for hundreds of years. Also, in principle, it could be a team of 100 (or 1000, or...)
AIs working on the problem cooperatively.

3- The concern regarding the extermination of humanity is secondary. Are humans out to genocide ants? Not really, but we do wipe them out when they pose a problem. That might apply to an IQ 1000 AI as well.

4- Perhaps the bigger problem is the effect of knowing there is a superior intelligence on the human psyche. Plus, it's impossible for us to know the thoughts of an IQ 250+ AI. What does a dog know of human thought? What if the AI decides that the best use for all the available raw resources of the Earth is to create an IQ 10000 AI?

5- Electronic processes are already known to be faster than chemical ones. Nerve impulses travel at around 80 MPH. Electrons in wires travel at 90% the speed of light. I expect electronic AIs to generally be much faster thinkers than humans, and to have amazing reaction times.

6- "This super-AI is actually a computer." You're confusing the hardware with the software. Your brain is actually a mass of organic chemicals. So?

The idea of the singularity revolves around the unknowability of what a high-IQ AI would think and do.
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That's not factual evidence, that's a subjective narrative that he's constructed, one which the factual evidence contradicts. The one who actually isn't listening in this situation is you, because I've also had to state this twice.
You mean the 3 expenses that are entirely non-optional?
I have New Zealand and Australian passports. I've been to 115 countries.

Russia was a bit painful to get a visa due to bureaucracy. But for me so far Turkmenistan was the most difficult to get into. I still have the really hard ones to go, though.
Highways and streets without sidewalks or suitable verges.
It's amazing to think that there was once a time in US history when the government could sustain itself through the honesty and goodwill of the richest 10% of its citizens

Honesty and goodwill? I'm guessing there was rampant under reporting of income back then.
Interesting ! Not that far from the new Common Lisp based language OMN brought by Opus Modus which was released early this year http://opusmodus.com/omn.html
I don't have time to track down other articles, but if your point was that there are very valuable brands that don't advertise as much as others, you are right.

However, advertising when you are a large brand serves a different function than when you are smaller. Large brands need to protect their position in the market, smaller brands need to drive sales.

My guess about your original comment is that you were exposed to Target back to school commercials recently and so they appeared like a larger advertiser than amazon or walmart who focus less on back to school.

The reality though is that advertising comes in many shapes and sizes, and is bought in many different ways. Limiting this to direct media buying is a little deceptive as some brands engage in PR and other strategies that serve the same goal as advertising, without paying a publisher for placement.

It isn't an equal comparison to use direct ad buying as a barometer to prove that advertising just shifts demand and doesn't create it, when PR and other marketing strategies are arguably the same exact thing, just bought in a different way.
The article is written from an English perspective. It does follow very closely the usual worn out consensus of recent decades that it is mandatory to further increase the numbers of graduates, despite their growing personal indebtedness.

Apparently, according to the author, this is all justified by the fact that graduates have lower unemployment rates than non-graduates.

I think it is time to start questioning this dogma. It is the more able half of the population that is typically selected for entrance by the UK universities (and so it should be). Surely, it would be very surprising indeed, if they were not also the more employable half, regardless of whether they study or not? The content of their studies is increasingly irrelevant anyway, as is confirmed by the fact that "more than half of graduates are overqualified for their jobs". That means they are the more able people competing for the same old unqualified jobs and so, of course, they win.

In these circumstances, the "studies" of ever increasing proportion of population are nothing more than a way of transferring more of their future incomes to the bankers. It is an interesting "coincidence" that the drive for expansion of student numbers coincided with the introduction of the american model of personal loans for education and ever increasing fees.
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It's a shame he didn't have to enter the USA as a tourist too. The requirements for Russia seem pretty similar to the hoops I had to jump through when I visited a summer school in Baltimore coming from South America.

Fun fact: I was told to bring to the Embassy interview a photo of my family, because by default it's assumed that I'm planning to remain there illegally, and is my job to convince the employee of the opposite. The photo would prove that I have a reason to come back.
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>The whole discussion about it even led to some states abolishing the old system and introducing "Gesamtschulen mit gymnasialer Oberstufe", essentially, the US middle/high-school system.

What a mistake. The German system may seem less "fair" to certain people, but at least it works. In the US we've somehow come to the conclusion we can build a society that consists only of highly educated professionals and somehow the toilets will fix themselves.
Most people aren't in a situation where they can go a decade between seeing a doctor (and it's in Quebec, so the American healthcare exceptionalism doesn't apply)
My way to avoid bullshit is to only read a very highly curated twitter feed. Anybody who mentions a "big" news story gets booted. Like if it's on the front page of the New York times, you get booted. I'll find out about it just by looking at the random media device blaring mainstream bullshit from every airport and doctors office waitimg room, so quit thinking you're the new Paul Revere by retweeting. I value niche information very specific to things I am trying to accomplish.
I don't really watch TV anymore but I remember Walmart having no shortage of 'falling prices' ads.
I couldn't find any references to copyright assignment in the HN Guidelines or FAQ, so I'm assuming that users of HN retain the copyrights to their own comments, and except for cases that fall under "fair use"[1] (e.g., criticism, educational use, etc.), they can't be reproduced without the author's permission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Seems like the inevitable result of forcing scientists to be competitive in an activity which is inherently cooperative.