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> you saying there's no potential at which a drug should be illegal?

You can also buy a knife and stab yourself. You can choose to do harm to yourself in numerous different ways. Some of those ways include manipulating your own mind.

You can also engage in other self-destructive behaviors that won't directly kill you, but will likely ruin your life to some degree. For instance, spending sixteen hours a day on Internet forums to the exclusion of all else. Or eating 6000 calories a day. Or never exercising. Or spending money you don't have on things you don't need. Choosing to exercise willpower in several of those situations involves combating intentional psychological manipulation to convince you otherwise.

Your life could probably be better organized, more productive, longer, and possibly even more fun for you if someone else made your decisions for you. Want to let them? Do you think everyone should be forced to?

> , there's a point where socially we can absolutely say, "No, that thing is too dangerous to let you have without precautions."

"And if you don't agree with that, then we'll throw you in jail". Doesn't sound as good when you complete the thought, does it?

If you harm others, or even risk harm to others, then absolutely. For instance, other people didn't agree to sharing a road with someone with impaired senses and reaction times.

If you want to go teach a course on how to develop and exercise willpower, and how it's one of the single biggest controllable factors that helps determine your success in life, by all means do so. I'm not being sarcastic; that would genuinely be wildly useful and a major improvement to society.

> if addictive drugs were legal and fully unregulated, who do you think the majority of the profits would go to?

Anyone capable of growing or synthesizing them. They're generics by definition. (Not that businesses wouldn't come up with "designer" versions, too.)

Do you see major drug companies flocking to states that have legalized pot?
Regarding "think of the children", there's a reason casinos have minimum age requirements. Gambling is an addiction and many of these games exploit the same principle that makes us addicted. At an early age it can mess you up for good.
I'm on the other side of the divide: entities partnering with CSIRO (now part of Data61) to collaboratively bring research to market. On the technical front, they are great, if a little condescending at times.

It's on the "business" side where they are difficult to work with, potentially to the point of killing the venture. For a government organisation, who you might think would be on "your" side, they are as hostile as any competitor. You typically end up bound by a one sided contract, as CSIRO have enough lawyers to out lawyer any small company. You have to be careful sharing information with them, as they tend to patent their research before revealing it to their partners, and after the fact you find out that the stuff you were collaboratively discussing and contributing to is now "theirs" to be licensed back to you. There is also potential for them to do a "spin out", in competition with your existing collaboration, and then it is a bun fight to get the organisation to see the potential for conflict.

I think it can be traced back to the government's push for CSIRO to pay its own way, and past successes. Since the WiFi patent bonanza, CSIRO/Data61 has "gold fever" and every industry interaction is locked down tight, to ensure that CSIRO gets a pound of flesh. Frankly, I don't think the WiFi bonanza would have happened with today's environment, as the lawyers would have smothered the life out of the project with up-front demands. As it was, the commercialisation was done largely independently of CSIRO, by partners whose names are not on the patent, and CSIRO got their cut after the event.

I'd guess, data61 is a good source of support if you're inside the organisation and spinning out. For those external to the organisation, my guess is that the costs outweigh the benefits, so better to go it alone. I'd love to hear of other people's experiences here.

Incidentally, the word I'm getting is that most of the "new" money is old money relabeled, but that's just the way Australian politics works.
One difference I see is that H-D subculture is not ephemeral. If H-D decided to wrap up their business and disappear tomorrow, the bikes will still be there. The clothes will still be there. The brand, the culture created around it over the years, will still exist. Contrast with the "value" whales purchase for their games that could cease to exist the moment the game company decides to shut down their servers.
Hey Australia, why not consider moving to NZ?

1. You can already move / live / work here without any immigration hassle.

2. We have an actual UFB fibre to the home network rolling out now that actually works.

3. Local and central government is pretty keen to support the technology scene - from government grants (refer Callaghan Innovation) to local tech hubs. AND help to connect in SF (http://kiwilandingpad.com/)

4. Activity from successful early founders/employees from Xero and others.

5. We build for a global audience -- NZ is just too small to be your only market.

6. Simpler tax system.

7. Better coffee.
"Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb."

A bomb is dumb, its explosion just raw chemistry. I would argue we're like small children playing with a sleeping parent: when it finally wakes up, it's going to have its own agenda for us.
I run a STEM Lab for 3-5 year olds. I have hunted and looked for good apps for education and it is a desert! We use a program for literacy and it is "Computer Adaptive" to the children AKA if you know your letters they move you up.

PROBLEMS:

1) Glorified Work Sheets. Just give them printed sheets of your stupid boring activities. To improve them give the kids crayons and scissors and have them draw on the blank side of that sheet of paper!

2) Computer Adaptive to learn letters SHOULD be learn the letters in your name NEVER START WITH A otherwise. A is a vowel and it extreemly different rules in terms of name and sound.

3) The FONTS are STUPID for a. Instead of the easy to write circle and line a it is the type writer a.

My dream is to get educational apps and programs created that are actually Developmentally Appropriate and actually better because they are on the computer not just digital analogies of real world things AKA don't show a maraca and have the kids shake the tablet just give the kids the real thing.

My firends who could invest believe the market is saturated with ABC Mouse and company. There must be a way.

My favorite app for kids: Alien Assignment from the Fred Rogers Foundation https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-assignment/id531359578... it appears to be abandoned wear and shows its age but the principle of the app is great. The children follow directions to and take pictures to the directions of something round or blue or that holds water and then give the tablet to an adult to check your work.
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> If any user is spending more than $40 USD/week on a game or more than 20 hours/week playing a game, it's a problem.

A small handful of surprisingly successful people spend a significant amount on games, record themselves playing them for 40+ hours a week, and make money getting others to watch. Problem?
As an Australia->America expat, you have to compare to what we have now.

At the moment the highest grade connection attainable for most residents of Australia is ADSL2+, with a max speed of 24Mbps (realistically you're lucky to see 10). This usually comes with a bandwidth cap that varies based on the price you pay (e.g. [0]) as well as a contract. For a moderately high usage household (streaming video, YouTube, downloading video games), you'll usually have to pay ~$90 for one of the better performing providers (such as Telstra) or ~$80 for one of the lesser providers without a cap (e.g. TPG and the like which often offer unlimited but have plenty of congestion issues). Further, if you're not in a metropolitan area, usually you pay an extra $20-$30 monthly premium.

Compare that to the US, where most (or many) [1] households have access to 50-100Mbps cable for a reasonable (I pay ~$75/month for 150Mbps in a Comcast monopoly area) price.

America isn't great compared to what could be but it's a whole lot better than Australia.

[0]: https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/home-broadband

[1]: http://www.broadbandmap.gov/speed
SF (at least the neighborhood I live in) has a lot of trees that produce fruit I don't recognize. Yes, it makes a terrible mess, but it's pretty neat to see. My home country had limited fruit with only 3 months of summer!

I think the trees are these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo
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https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc...

Watson is a marketing term.

IBM provides a variety of machine learning services and calls them all Watson.
That's your own fault. The difference I see is that H-D stuff's value isn't entirely dependent on the company itself; they don't control it past the point of sale. They can't change their mind and unmake your bike, or your biker jacket, or your local H-D club.
The article and the title specifically mentions Google.
This would be a lot more helpful if they showed specific apps and what makes them bad, as examples.

If anyone is interested in a good language learning system, I've been using Duolingo on the web to learn French and it's been far more interesting than learning it in school in Canada. It's free with no ads so I recommend others try it.

Furthermore I downloaded Duolingo's app the other day and they apparently have classroom integration! I am not an educator but if an educator could try or evaluate it, I would be interested in how it is, as I'm thinking of recommending it to my old high school teacher.

Disclosure: I am not affiliated with Duolingo in anyway.
They have it doing medical analysis (I'm hesitant to say "diagnosis" but I think it's being used to find symptom patterns doctors might otherwise miss).

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/health/

Watson for Oncology analyzes a patient’s medical
information against a vast array of data, including
ongoing expert training from MSK physicians, cancer
case histories, and more, to provide evidence-based
treatment options.
When you buy a ticket to a movie, a concert, or a theme park, after you're done, you have "nothing" by the argument you're making. Want to ban movies, concerts, and theme parks?

People get value from things that aren't tangible. Many of the most valuable things aren't tangible.
In what universe? Star Wars or Star Trek? Also, who would be piloting each ship? Solo and Kirk? :)
With AI you can optimize or change the underlying algorithms, or allocate more computing resources as necessary. You can't do that with humans—at least not in any literal sense, nor in any way that is remotely as efficient or effective.

The very nature of human intelligence is such that its architecture, scale and speed of computation are all bound within a relatively narrow range.
Google participated with ReCeption / Inception v3 model, see the results: http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2015/results

In classification task, MSRA and ReCeption show very similar performance: 0.03567 vs 0.03581 top(5) error. The gap is much more drastic on the localization task: 0.090178 vs 0.195792

The residual learning presented by Microsoft Research seems to be a breakthrough, based on the early evidence. But yes, ImageNet needs to be updated to stay relevant.
It is not that we need to replace all the humans, but that the owners of capital and land will be able to replace all the humans.

The best way to think about production is that everything produced is a combination of four things: labor, capital (past production), energy, and matter (land and raw materials). If you have labor that can be used to build itself (AI) then you can expand labour and capital to a very large number. You can also build new sources of energy very cheaply so the only limiting resource is matter. If you have the energy, capital and labor you can recycle most raw materials very cheaply. This leaves land as the only factor in production that does not scale.

What would all this mean in practice. Physical objects and services would become very cheap to make (effectively free) and all wealth would be tied to the ownership of land. Given the state owns most land, it should be very cheap for the state to provide all the material objects and services that any citizen needs. Unless the state actively wants to stave to death its citizens then there is not need for anyone to go hungry - if the state does want to stave to death people it does not need AI.
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As an American, I apologize for the poor reading skills of this comment's author.

If you actually read the original source, there was a grand total of one couple that was quoted as saying anything like what the Independent's headline attributed to the town as a whole.

Read further, and you will find that the question before the meeting was not about the merits of solar power but that the company wanted additional parcels of land rezoned, parcels that were not intended for industrial use in the first place. They have been able to put solar farms anywhere else they wanted that was zoned appropriately.

The area already has a substantial installed base of solar. Quoting the article: "Three other solar farms had previously been accepted by the town council, with one of the (sic) now putting solar panels up."
Ads are inefficient, but are still useful as a information distribution method across inefficient markets. The perfect ad will lead to a mutually-beneficial transaction between a buyer and a seller.

There is also a cognitive bias with ads, where people on attribute negative ad experiences to advertising, never the good ones (except in super bowls or other outliers).
I am not sure if research is getting more expensive.

The biggest problem with particle colliders is not the experiments themselves but paying researchers money to slough through the data.
One of my best managers always said "the only thing you can judge are results". Everything else is talk.
Literally a drag...
For NN, we have a clear target: for example, beat HMM on speech recognition. To achieve that, you write a tool on some standard test data sets. You don't need to interact with many parties. NN is only technically hard. For GA4GH, things are quite different. Technically, it is hard, but it is much simpler than NN in my view. What is hard is 1) we lack a target and 2) the communications between developers and users. People don't know what we need, don't know what is the right approach and don't know how to evaluate the success. They have changed course back and forth, and still have clashes between programmers and those with more biological background.
> we have a whole industry which explicit purpose is figuring out the best way to abuse bugs in human psychology to part them with their money, I think some reaction is warranted.

The video game industry did not invent slimy salesmen. Learning to say "no" to salesmen has been a basic life skill for all of human history. Millions of people manage to do it every day. It's one of the things that parents drill into their kids heads as they grow up.

We're talking about video games, frivolous entertainment. If you spend all of next month's rent on in-app purchases, you've thoroughly earned the consequences of your actions. And those consequences will serve as a potent lesson.

And the law has already gotten involved with recent developments in the game industry. The FTC and EU have already forced Apple and Google to ensure that children cannot make purchases without parental permission. With that in place, it's now up to the parents to say "no" to their children. Another basic life skill, with consequences for those who ignore it.
I've heard the "change the law argument" a lot but there is a problem. The politicians are bought and paid for, people like the Koch brothers write the laws. Or their lobbyists do. So the laws are rigged in favor of corporations. Didn't use to be like this but it is now, it's crazy how skewed things are for big money.

"Change the law" assumes that the politicians are working for all of us. They aren't.

The tech companies benefit hugely from being based here. If you don't believe that then please recreate Silicon Valley in another country and show me how well that works (spoiler, been tried, didn't work). So long as they benefit from being based here they should pay their taxes.

Source: CEO of a Silicon Valley company that is 18 years old and has paid every penny of tax owed without whining and without trying to off shore it or hide it in any way.
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Having experienced working at a company where appearence of effort was rewarded over effort and results: It was terrible. I suggest dumping celebrations and simply reward results first, effort second, and be skeptical of all appearances.
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>I've worked for small tech companies in Australia my entire (not so long) career, and access to high internet speeds has never ever really been a problem. When you're a programmer, what is the difference to your work between 10 and 100mbps, really?

>Yes, regional areas should be upgraded from dialup/slow sattelite to at least 10mbps. What kind of impact will that have wrt the OP?

If you could also include my place, 5km away from Brisbane's CBD, to be upgraded past 5Mbit that'd be pretty sweet too. And to achieve that I have to deal with slightly unreliable internet - rock solid is probably closer to 4-4.5Mbit.

(You greatly overestimate the ubiquity of high-speed internet even in capital cities. It's not just the outback that has terrible internet.)
Aren't you at IBM? I thought they stopped doing interesting things in the 80s
If your fibre is dropping out... Something is really wrong.
Well, that's just confusing.
That gets the 'intelligence', but misses the 'amoral'. Parents tend to have their children's best interests in mind.

If we're playing this game, then humanity is more like a small child trying to wake up Cthulhu in hopes that he'll play nice.
The Jean Claude Van Dam movie Blood Sport has some shots taken in the walled city.
I believe he also said 'coal is good for humanity'[1]

The mininig industry has very deep pockets and huge influence on policy, so in turn other industries miss out.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-13/coal-is-good-for-human...
I think they mostly see the ads (read: products) as things that will influence their life positively. While this is true in the short term, brief entertainment in compensation for their money, it makes the life less significant in the long term, because their time was wasted not improving themselves. You are not the car you drive, you are not the contents of you wallet... Most people are short sighted.

(I'm not pretending that this fully answers the question.)
This seems like a gross mis-understanding of your product. Content sites are still almost entirely regular web pages, not any of the fancy new "single page app" stuff.
> take down the entirety of marketing and advertising as an industry

What would be wrong with that?

Anyways, I agree that there is no use asking the State to stop the marketters. It is not efficient. The State can only constrain people using laws, which are not suitable for limiting these kinds of evil behaviors.

So we need to call for morality. We need to make it so that anyone who has managed to sell something useless to someone weak should feel ashame to the level of seriously pondering suicide.

That's the only way it can work: I won't do this evil, not because it is forbidden, but because I am worth something, I have self-esteem. Evil here ranges from peeing in the neighbour's roses to participating in genocides, and this obviously includes stealing money from the weaks with unfair weapons of persuasions.
AFAIK shadowsocks is just a SOCKS proxy server with some features, correct? You then need to tell each application to actually use the server; some applications may not have such a configuration option.

sshuttle on the other hand changes your routing so that all TCP requests go through a SSH tunnel. No further configuration is needed on the application side. It does fall short of a full-blown VPN though in that it doesn't do UDP.
The gambling industry has had a term for this sort of exploitation via microtransaction for a long time: "cherry dribbling".

First came across it in this New York Times article from 2004:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/magazine/chrome-shiny-ligh...

[The Price Is Right video slot machine] is what slot pros call "a cherry dribbler," a machine that dispenses lots of small payouts while it nibbles at your stash rather than biting off large chunks of it.
I'd say it's a difference of degree, not of kind. Generally, fraud is a deliberate deception to secure an unfair gain. Advertising is this too, but usually it's harmless enough that we don't mind. Sometimes though it crosses the line.

As the quote goes, "Any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227941)
On the other hand, nuclear research could solve our energy needs for the foreseeable future. And AI could protect humanity against almost every possible existential risk.

Let's hope that the increased notice taken of AI, and fear thereof, doesn't suddenly shut down a major source of hope for the future.
If anything, it would be the opposite, I would think. Client-side frameworked pages generally don't answer Google inquiries very well.
What's ironic about his username? His name's Walter Bright.
Grand total: two such people.
This is great hahaha, I thought I was the only one feeling that way, such a relief. I'm doing the same thing as You.
"you are supposed to leave on your last day of work"

Holy crap. Thanks for the info.
Also Karel Čapek wrote R.U.R in 1920; (well its about assembled artificial biological beings, so you can say that it is not about AI).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

And there is the Golem, which is even earlier.

Also i find it funny how much attention this theoretical problem receives, when we don't have a good explanations on what intelligence is and how it works.
I'm always wary of people who beg for more government control .
Looks like the book should have been called 'Playing with Coq' instead.
Can you explain the problem with having parcels rezoned for solar generation in a town under 800 people? The location was picked precisely because of the nearby transmission substation.
Ask HN: How do you actually make something?
After being two-thirds through my Computer Engineering degree, I've yet to figure out how to make anything. Aside from school assignments I wouldn't know where to begin on a project I've set for myself.

So I ask you, how do you actually take an idea from your head and bring it to fruition?
Wow, that is really great! I was stunned by the numbers. 40,000 people in 200 m x 100 m?
I also think they are falling behind. Drupal 8 is a solid mobile first move but it's a few years behind. I'm not sure Drupal will be keeping up with the web changes as they evolve in the future and (after reading your post) maybe it's because they don't know what they want to be.

I like Drupal but as time goes on, it seems that most of the contributors are focused on their businesses and no longer Drupal itself. Acquia and others, maybe it's private interests that are fogging the judgements of people.
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