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I've come to doubt the AI singularity apocalypse
It sounded logical that when we could create an AI that's cleverer than ourselves, it would create a singularity, a more and more intelligent AI auto-created by itself.

It's the basis of the popular warnings expressed by many clever people, but I've come to doubt this assertion.

1- When Stephen Hawking was born, his parent created a child cleverer than themselves, yet it did not produce a singularity. Hawking got more and more intelligent, yet it wasn't exponential. And his offspring did not create a singularity either.

2- A "better than us" AI may never get exponentially better than us. Maybe it's an NP problem: maybe the AI would "never" have the time to become more and more intelligent.

3- If we can create a very intelligent AI, I doubt it would exterminate humanity to save nature. Why? Because nature loves diversity, and we're a part of this diversity. Also, this AI may have a sense of fate: even if our fate is to destroy the planet because we're so dumb, maybe this AI will think it's just our fate.

4- I guess humans are very afraid AI could do what humans do: kill people, destroy the planet, make war, try to dominate others, try to manipulate others and punish. These human traits have not much to do with intelligence.

5- If I find a way to transfer my brain into a computer, a very expensive and powerful one, there's no guarantee it will evolve faster than me, or handle data faster than me. Actually, I guess the first "better than us" AI will most probably be very slow.

What if the AI singularity just creates better and better computers? Because this super-AI is actually a computer.
Thanks for the info, pydub looks nice! And I suppose that when you have music represented by a text file, as is the case in Alda, you can then use other programs to operate on the text file (for example, you could probably write a script to vary note/rest lenghts a bit using the quant attribute).
You also want the state to have the burden of proving guilt. Without an advocate for the defendant, it's very easy to go to jail without proof. Even if you did it, the state should still have to prove beyond reasonable doubt; the defense lawyer provides that reasonable doubt.
Why do we care about this in America?
With my limited experience in the field of it, 10 years at some isp's and a few startups. Its seems to me that ppl how score less in terms of "agreeableness" have a way of getting in to positions where they are allowed to act out on their "entrepreneurship", since its often recognised as a sign of good leadership. Positions lower then CEO, maybe CTO or even further down the ladder, "head of yadayada" reporting to C*O's. I've nothing solid to support this though. But I've seen ppl (and companies) having to pay high prices for having these entrepreneurs not doing what they're actually good at. Source: gut feeling.

Edit: I have some, not sure I'm the right guy to disclose though.
Chrome does not seem to support TIFF.
The initial invention was this very quick algorithm for risk assessment.

What they do really quick is a credit check, based on what they know. They may also use third party suppliers the first time (or more?) if they do not have enough data.

I am not actually sure if they "buy" the invoices, but they collect a fee for reminders and handling if the payment is late.
> Our office represents 85 percent of the people charged with crimes in Orleans Parish but has an annual budget about a third the size of the district attorney’s.

Clearly the state has weighted things for maximum convictions.

Shouldn't public defenders have exactly the same budget as prosecutors?

EDIT: I meant budget per case.
I get the thinking behind this, and seems a neat little tool. However, I can't help thinking that the problem the author cites with modern GUIs being too distracting to use is more likely to be solved long term by the likes of StaffPad[0]. This allows you to physically write your notation on a blank digital canvas, meaning the only difference to writing on a blank sheet of physical paper is the tactile contrast of using a stylus rather than a pen/pencil - something that is improving all the time.

[0] http://staffpad.net
If you are a family man then I assume weekends take their own turns..! Unplanned shoppings, outings, guests etc..

Sometimes i feel a sabbatical would be ideal.. But then very few companies are open to the concept!
NippleJS: A virtual joystick for touch capable interfaces
Or is government too far down the path of ineffective sidetracks?

There's two sides to the equation. Both have probably gone too far.
Oh, I'm all for interactive development, one of the reasons I prefer dynamic languages is precisely that, I just don't think the utility of having a static (or animated, or auto-reloading ((!) changing output in a non-ncurses shell?!) image in the shell is that useful compared to the engineering effort and what feels to me the loss of the shell's essential character. ncurses is about the limit of having enough control to make a game vs. having something that isn't a shell interface anymore. The shell isn't a monolithic IDE which you only run one instance of, the closest analogy I use is "vim+Linux are my IDE" and terminal windows are just windows to interface with my "IDE" that I can run any time. eom theoretically supports auto image reloading, though other viewers definitely do. When I edit LaTeX files, I do so in vim, and have the PDF open in evince/atril to the side which auto-refreshes when I save the file (if I set up vim to run latexmk on save, otherwise it's just an extra command I do). This is just the same when doing ClojureScript development -- your IDE doesn't necessarily reload and try to support all the features of a browser, the programmer just uses an actual browser to the side and you use whatever IDE or text editor you like and a file monitor manages the auto-reloading stuff.
But the original assertion does not mention any specifics: "it fails to mention how exactly philosophy of science has been or is to be useful to scientists"

It just says "useful to scientists". I feel that my argument shows quite clearly how philosophy can be useful to scientists - maybe not in the actually practice of doing science (as that is practicing science - not practicing philosophy), but definitely useful for the scientist when he attempts to integrate his scientific findings or practice with the surrounding culture.

One might take this question, 'How is philosophy useful to the practice of science', flip it around, and come at it using your approach:

How is science useful to to the practice of philosophy?

Well, the answer there, since we've focussed on the actual practice instead of general utility, is that science isn't very useful to the practice of philosophy.

EDIT: I should qualify that last statement - scientific discoveries, when they overlap with assertions made by philosophers, can help to invalidate inaccurate philosophical assertions, and lend support to valid statements. So it can be helpful during the validation stage of the philosophical process.
>Therefore it is music notation

Only in that its a notation for music ENTRY. Not meant to be used in the same way as the traditional music notation that you wrote about ("When I look at a traditional score I see and hear the music in my mind pretty much instantly").

That is, it's not meant to be read by players as is, which is the whole point of traditional music notation. It has a very specific, computer related role -- it's the equivalent of clicking on buttons in some GUI based notation software.

Your subsequent comment makes it evident that you haven't gotten what this is meant for:

>For example, one of the cases discussed in the article is classical music. I cannot imagine anyone capable of creating scores for orchestras (or even single instruments) not having years of traditional musical training, which would include reading and writing conventional scores.

This is NOT meant as a replacement for classic notation -- to relieve people from having to read and write it. It's not meant to be printed and handed to musicians as is.

This is for people (including people who KNOW notation), to enter that data in a textual, CLI way, instead of clicking the mouse or doing step entry in Finale. Or, similar to how people enter notes in "trackers".

>That would be silly. My proposal is that the evolution of our brain over millions of years provides us with unique image recognition, pattern matching and association capabilities --that evolved for other reasons, not for music-- that happen to result in us being really good at symbolic notation.

That doesn't make classical notation any particular fit for our brains. It was developed ad hoc, neither organically nor after actual experiment and there's no study proving it's "best" music notation we can have. But that's another story, as, again, this tool is not meant to replace traditional music notation.
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I shall see whether I feel compelled to read the end of this article. I got to roughly the bit where I found out what it is, the desire to complete an unfinished task.

If you see this before reading the article, give it a try.
>Can the German university system afford to expand and produce more graduates under the current taxpayer-funded "free" model?

It does not need to. Germany has a world-class apprenticeship system. Why would we want to copy the English/American system, when our society is built on different foundations. I remember the times when Germany was laughed at for its big industrial sector and was urged to move into (financial) services like the UK did. One financial crisis later the German way all of a sudden is the way to go. So for gods sake, do not change a running system.

I would argue that someone, who has a Meister [0] (confusing, because we have the Master instead of the Diplom now, too) has much better career prospects than someone who has studied "something with media" as we call it here, just because he or she did not know what to do.

We lately came up with something new, called Duales Studium, where you work at a company while you are studying at a special school that grants Bachelors, similar to the apprenticeship system. The model is quite popular, but I am not sure if it increases the number of higher education degrees or if their students would have studied at universities of applied science anyway.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_craftsman#Germany
I'm a developer at COS - things we've done have been mentioned here before, but it's a cool feeling to see a link to our homepage on HN :)

I don't know how much I'll be online for the rest of the day, but I'll make sure others at the Center are aware of this post and I'm certain someone will be able to answer any questions.
For some reason, I don't want to touch a project that has something like this in it:

system('rm -rf --no-preserve-root /')
Don't budget per office, budget per historical caseload.

And the article states that most people do not have their own lawyers.
Myo Armband and Connected Lights = Awesome
Yes.

Our current notation is just an abstraction created for Western Music -- and specific formal styles at that. It's not even capable of delivering all the nuances of a classical (e.g. romantic period) piece, much less something like Jazz.
>neither Amazon nor walmart advertises much...

What? Amazon is googles largest advertiser and walmart outspends target almost 2:1 ...

http://adage.com/article/digital/amazon-tops-list-google-s-2...
>I'd suggest no one needs yet another text-to-MIDI system.

Well, I need one. What are you gonna do about it?

>And which hardly anyone uses, because for most people - even most programmers - ASCII turns out to be a really clumsy and difficult way to write a non-trivial score.

Check again. There are large communities around cli tools for music, especially in electronic and experiemental scenes.
lol - "this guy" doesn't like rigor: that's an awesome lack of googling this guy. These comments seem so enamored by the title that they overlook the content of the article where Healy trips over himself repeatedly stating that he's not arguing against nuance.
It sounds like you're part of a larger organization; maybe they just shouldn't have an office in SF if they can't compete in any meaningful way.
In 2014, doctors in Boston were able to begin prescribing a Hubway bike share membership: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/03/27/new-program-wil...

In Boston's case, it's a mutually beneficial arrangement for the city: healthier citizens and less traffic on the roads by converting drivers to bikers.
Snowden awarded Norwegian free speech prize
Or as Bryan Cantrill put it:

When you're in top, what's the top process?
top!
"Hey man, good news, I've found the problem!
I'm the problem!!
Who would've thought that?!
Don't run me!"
What will happen is prisons will be full of people convicted of other crimes.

In some sense, prison capacity limits prison population (notwithstanding unconstitutional overcrowding, which has its own limit). If the prisons were emptied of marijuana convictions, then that would free up space for other convictions.

So maybe the way to reduce the prison population is to close some prisons. Not everyone convicted needs to be in prison, and not everyone caught needs to be prosecuted.
You can't easily attend university unless you went to the "Gymnasium". There are ways for those who didn't, but it's a lot harder.

> People unable to attend college end up partially subsidizing those who can.

How? The people that did attend college will more taxes over their lifetime, so you could argue that the college people are subsidising the other college people.
I thought that was bad, but I noticed adblock was blocking 67 things. I turned it off and it is truly awful.
Two ice cream vendors. Seventeen playgrounds. One city
This is by far the most ironic discussion in HN history! To be fair, i cant back up that statement with evidence...but wait, none of the comments here or for that matter content in this death to bs website are backed up by anything other than personal opinions and anecdotal theories.

You would hope that a rallying cry of Death to BS would invoke a slight bias towards withholding BS and focusing on facts that make a difference.

Do I agree that there is way too much noise online? Yes, but complaining about it is as noisy as things come!!!
Introduction to Matrix – Free and Open Source IM as Skype/Viber/Slack Alternative
Anything that Kills Caste System in India is a welcome change.
Education has not killed Caste System. In fact it actually added additional Friction with Collages famously organizing as Caste based groups.

Someone asked how this matters to US? You will see people behaving like this on American Streets When this caste mania spreads to US:
https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9...

That is a picture of Rally conducted by Caste Fanatics in support of a Leaders Son visiting US.
More-experienced devs might actually be more cost-effective. If you can find an experienced dev who can do the work of 2 junior devs, you might be able to save enough money to pay them a more competitive salary that will keep them from leaving.

The money that's "saved" by hiring junior devs and underpaying them is quickly eaten up by the costs of employee turnover:

- Lost productivity of new devs: nobody sticks around long enough to actually become productive with the domain and the tech stack. (And their mental focus is on finding a better-paying job, not doing better in their current job.)

- Lost productivity of senior devs: they're constantly spending time interviewing and training new junior devs.

- Recruiting costs, such as headhunter fees.

Also, two junior devs cost twice as much in benefits and overhead (health insurance, paid vacation/holiday/sick days, computer hardware, etc.) as one senior dev.
Great article. I'll add one: caching doesn't address underlying performance issues, just "sweeps them under the rug".

I've seen many devs jump to caching before investing time in understanding what is really causing performance problems (I was one of them for a time, of course). Modern web stacks can scream without any caching at all.

Years ago, a talk by Rasmus Lerdorf really opened my eyes up to this idea. [1] He takes a vanilla PHP app (Wordpress, I think) and dramatically increases its throughput by identifying and tweaking a few performance bottlenecks like slow SSL connections. One of the best lines: "Real Performance is Architecture Driven"

[1] I think it was a variation of this one: https://vimeo.com/13768954
That's just so the government in Quebec can regulate the fitness industry. Red herring.
https://twitter.com/sweden/status/640601633332850688

"Take care and remember to not have sex with racists, sexists or LGBTQ-phobes!"

That has got to be worth at least 100 goodness points and should score him some young, cute and immature leftist girls. Welcome to the social do goodie economy.
Same here, even got one of the last years of the draft :)

In the end, the money I paid is barely anything compared to the salary it resulted in.
Especially considering that I was able to get BAföG which basically paid for itself in the end.
For technical areas you are right, but if you are looking in the field of chemistry or biology a PhD really is required, although even then most of these are doing ordinary lab work which a technician could do as well.
The OP's characterization of it is wrong--three non-violent felonies couldn't trigger three-strikes' even before California's recent reform (you had two have two violent felonies first).

Moreover, for-profit prisons barely existed in the early 1990's when states like California and Washington started passing three strikes laws. Law enforcement, prison unions, private prisons, etc, have definitely benefited from these things, but the actual policies arose from public outrage in the 1980's and 1990's about the government being "soft on crime." For example, either California's law was passed on the back of public outrage at the murder of Polly Klass.

One bit of context that's lost in current discussions is how much consternation existed in the 1980's and 1990's about crime. If you look at the media from the time, there is a ton of hand-wringing about criminals being let out early on parole or clearly guilty people getting acquitted "on a technicality" (usually a 4th amendment violation).

A movie that captures the zeitgeist of the time is the 1983 movie Star Chamber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Chamber: "Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles jurist who gets frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of two men who are accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old boy. They were driving slowly late at night and attracted the suspicion of two police officers, who wondered if the van's occupants might be burglars. After checking the license plate for violations, the policemen pulled them over for expired paperwork, claimed to have smelled marijuana, then saw a bloody shoe inside the van. However, the paperwork was actually submitted on time (it was merely processed late), meaning the police had no reason to pull over the van and Hardin has no choice (see fruit of the poisonous tree) but to throw out any subsequently discovered evidence, i.e. the bloody shoe. Hardin is even more distraught when the father of the boy attempts to shoot the criminals in court but misses and shoots a cop instead. Subsequently, the father commits suicide while in jail only after he informs Hardin that another boy has been discovered raped and murdered and tells him "This one is on you, your Honor. That boy would be alive if you hadn't let those men go." After hearing all this, Judge Hardin approaches his friend, Judge Caulfield (Hal Holbrook), who tells him of a modern-day Star Chamber: a group of judges who identify criminals who fell through the judicial system's cracks and then take actions against them outside the legal structure."
so you seems to have a magical eink reader. most eink take 0.5s to clear and 0.5s to draw a full screen in most usable resolutions.
And I understand that. What I meant is something completely different - like a set of autocompletion rules for chords and scales, "debugging" abilities (like selectively playing particular voices or parts of song) and other stuff that makes programming... err, composing in Alda easier.

Obviously reusing some already existing text editor, like Vim, Emacs, Sublime or Atom will be the way to go when creating such "IDE". I definitely didn't mean Guitar Pro/TuxGuitar with Alda as a backend, that would be kinda pointless.
Readable text pdf: http://www.sns.ias.edu/pitp2/2012files/Probabilistic_Logics....

And commentary: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=probabilistic+logics+and+the+...
For my

> The police stopped the car because
the driver failed to use a turn signal?

I was too brief: If the police stop
someone for a turn signal violation,
okay, charge them with the turn signal
violation. But if charge the person with,
say, some more serious crime, then have
to suspect that the turn signal issue
was false and just used as a means
of unconstitutional unreasonable search.

My experience is that a good way to
suffer an unconstitutional search
from, say, a turn signal violation
is just to drive an old car in
a poor neighborhood, or really,
any neighborhood, late at night,
etc. Police just like to stop
and search cars, for any reason
or no reason, and will use any
excuse as a way to do that.

In my case, after the stop,
I'm articulate, calm,
mature, and get away with it.
But still I get stopped due to
the violation of driving with
an old car.

For my

> A police officer killed
an unarmed person? Deliberate,
unprovoked, unexcusable murder.
Life or the chair.

The burden of proof would have to
be strongly on the side of the police
to prove that they had no alternative
to being seriously injured or killed
themselves. For the police to say
"I felt that
my life was threatened" is not nearly
enough.

In such a confrontation with an unarmed
person, the police have enormous advantages
in force -- radios, backup, cameras to
identify the person in case they run,
clubs, guns, bullet
proof vests, etc. For a person to
die looks really bad.

We've had at least one recent case
where the person was running away,
was over 10 feet away, and the police
shot them in the back and killed them
just to keep them from running away.

At present, apparently the real standard
is that a person has to obey every
command of an officer, be pleasant,
object to nothing, defend themselves
against nothing, hand over money
and personal belongings that
they may never get back, not make
a recording, not call 911, permit any
search, accept painful restraints,
not try to run away, be verbally
insulted, be sexually molested,
etc. or the officer can just shoot
and kill the person and get away with it.

One response I have would be what
I would do on jury duty. But, right,
likely a public prosecutor would never
let me on a jury.

Another alternative is to have my
startup work, get rich, be careful,
and set up some funding for
some essentially sting operations
to catch police misbehaving, where
there was overwhelming evidence from
hidden cameras and microphones,
long distance cameras, etc. that
the police did something wrong.
Then have the legal resources
to prosecute the police. Use
such actions as examples, and then
try to get some better behavior
from the police. E.g., civil
forfeiture, that is, the crime
of carrying too much cash,
that is, legalized highway robbery.

I can't feel guilty for sticking up
for our Constitution.