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Another article basically saying something along the lines of "there is no current technology that comes close to producing AGI, therefore let's dismiss all these technologies". Of course we don't know what we don't know, until we do, and then it's not as mysterious.

It's not hard to see that the reason NN are becoming the prime candidate for AGI, is because of their inspired architecture based on biological neurons. We are the only known AGI, therefore something similar to the brain will be producing an AGI. NN at least mimic the massively parallel property of biological neurons. And if we're optimistic, the fact that NN is mimicking how vision works in our brain, might mean that we are at some point in the continuum of the evolution of brains, and it's a matter of time until we discover the other ways brains evolved intelligence.

What keeps me optimistic is evolution. At some point brains were stupid, and then they definitely evolved AGI. The question is how did this happen and whether or not there is a shortcut, like inventing the wheel for transportation instead of arms and legs.
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This is an algorithm unrelated to neural networks, which incidentally reinforces the author's point.
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The block size issue is missing the point. The use case that matters for Bitcoin right now is converting yuan to Bitcoins, then Bitcoins to dollars. That's one way people in China get around China's exchange controls. (Note that mining in China also is used to move yuan to dollars.) Those are big transactions. They'll get through regardless of the block size.

Bitcoin as a retail currency doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Robocoin, the Bitcoin ATM company, just went bust. Lots of companies nominally accept Bitcoin, but that's just a shopping cart program talking to Coinbase or Bitpay for immediate conversion. The retail transaction volume is small. Given the volatility problem, the conversion costs, the risk of loss, and the general headaches, Bitcoin is a lose vs. paying 1% - 3% for credit card processing.
>There were no digital watches. And wind-up watches were cheap.

LED digital watches arrived at my school in 1974/75. LCD watches arrived about a year later.

>Headphones were giant things you used in the basement to listen to Pink Floyd.

I had a pair of 424s in 1975. They sounded pretty good.

http://www.tonepublications.com/old-school/sennheiser-hd-414...

>There was no portable way to listen to music except transistor radios.

Like a lot of people, I had a battery/mains cassette player/recorder. It wasn't an iPod, but it would have done the job. It's more accurate to say there was no tradition of personal music players. In-car players were very common.

>Cashiers punched in all the prices by hand, but it was only a little bit slower.

It was horrendously slow. And every single individual item had to have its own price sticker - which often fell off, holding everyone up.

It's interesting how many of these simply haven't been checked or researched, just patched together to create an "It was better in the old days' narrative.

I don't remember it being better. I remember it being very different. Many things now - smoking bans, health awareness, the public Internet - are huge improvements.
I end up with two conflicting feelings to a story like this.

"Engineers". Hah. Title inflation at its finest.

No CS degree? So what? How much day-to-da programming in the world requires an actual science degree?
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This article points to http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-rev..., but also includes an original interview, so we haven't changed the URL. We have taken the title of the other article, though, because it's more informative.
> Trusting someone to encrypt your data for you when you give them your data is essentially the same thing as giving them access to the unencrypted data.

Absolutely agreed, which is precisely why it's so important to be end-to-end, which implies client-side encryption. Unfortunately, this is a totally different environment than we're used to; it doesn't break the internet, but it definitely breaks the web. Part of the challenge of the work I've been doing on this problem has been to envision exactly how this new thing would work. It's really cool stuff, but it's a dramatic departure from what we're accustomed to.

> It doesn't sound like he's advocating that everyone run their own server. He said that if you require your data be available all the time, then you should run your own server

The problem is, total availability is exactly what we've come to expect from the vast majority of internet use. This is particularly true of the most popular websites. Facebook, google, etc wouldn't work with totally intermittent data availability, but for a growing number of people, they are the internet.
I think this could work, outdoors but also when travelling with a small group avoiding huge roaming charges. Battery life should be ok, I don't think it's designed for chatting away just basic communication.
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I think the problem is not so much abuse as it is the vagueness of it. If someone says they're in a lot of pain, how much pain is that?

Your perception is at least partly emotional.
I'm pretty sure, as a millennial, I'm supposed to agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. But this "individuals should be able to do whatever they want" mentality is harmful to society as a whole. Society is made up of individuals. The actions of individuals do in fact affect the rest of society, even when it's not immediately apparent how they do. We don't live in a vacuum.
To paraphrase a comment from another thread:

Artificial neural networks have basically nothing to do with actual biological neurons. First, neuroscientists do not have even a decent understanding of biological neurons: you cannot say that neural networks mimic neurons when we don't understand biological neurons. Of the bajillion things we do know neurons do, neural networks do on the order of 1% of those things. On the flip side, neural networks do a ton of things that biological neurons do not (like backpropagation(!)* ).

* In fairness, Hinton hypothesizes the brain has a way of doing backprop, but what he talks about only barely resembles actual backprop.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10920390
I think readers of this post will enjoy "What is Machine Intelligence vs. Deep Learning vs. Artificial Intelligence" by Numenta's Jeff Hawkins: http://numenta.com/blog/machine-intelligence-machine-learnin...
A couple of parser techniques has crossed my radar lately. PEG (packrat), early, and now glr.

Anyone know of a brief comparison of different approaches?
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> Its not as if somebodies coins will suddenly become worthless.

I think this is in fact the nightmare scenario that some folks are worried about.

I agree with you it's unlikely to happen, because it's in very few people's interests, but I think that the degree of danger is exactly what's causing people to try so vigorously to find ways to co-operate on this matter.

And it's true that browsers also have incentive toward compatibility. But the fact is, despite this incentive, browsers remain in many ways incompatible. And for the most part, nobody notices, because minor incompatibilities in browsers do not "fork" the web the same way an incompatibility in bitcoin protocol forks the blockchain.
>Since governments settle economic claims against each other all the time //

I don't recall this sort of thing except in fines by the EU on member states - can you give examples to demonstrate to us all how commonplace it is?

Of course the claims will be by corporations - like the issues states have had with the tobacco corps suing when attempts to improve the health of the populous have cut in to profits.

Example(s): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat... Philip Morris taking legal action against Uruguay and Australia for damaging their profits by enacting laws to reduce smoking.
>The current situation reminds me a lot of the time when Firefox replaced Internet Explorer as the most popular browser. And of the time when Chrome replaced Firefox as the most popular browser.

Firefox never replaced IE as the most popular browser and to this day has never been the most popular web browser.

And regardless of whether Bitcoin will break up for whatever reason, it is not analogous to the Internet or the Web; you don't do yourself any favours making such comparisons.
And 100% of the "software engineers" with a CS degree are not actually engineers.
I would argue the brain solves every problem by first representing sensory data, and then learns temporal patterns of the encoded information.
> That means that Bitcoin Classic is very likely to break Core's monopoly on the protocol soon.

As far as I'm concerned, neither side 'has a monopoly' on the protocol because they haven't documented the protocol with a proper specification.

Forking Bitcoin today to 'solve' contingent future problems seems like the height of folly.
Do you need a science degree to scaffold a bunch of Rails routes and copy and paste from SO? How many of us are actually pushing the state of the art vs being technicians with the tools we're given?

How many of you are optimizing data structure algorithms, implementing new crypto, optimizing networking stacks, or conceiving and proving new distributed consensus logic? And even if you are, how much of it will end up in production for your company rather than stay as a fun weekend toy project?

I'd venture to say that's it's something that far less than 1% of the developer population has to bother with.
The way XT seems to have failed yet Classic seems to be suceeding seems odd to me.

Is all it took really just to have a developer fly out to China and talk to a hanful of people? Seems like there's a lot more politics going on behind the scenes.

In any case, fixing the blocksize limit will be good, but I think the real value in Classic is breaking the perceived monopoly Core has and moving to a healthier political setup. Many people were absolutely unwilling to even talk about XT (or as you mention, allow others to talk about XT) because "OMG it's not Core!". That argument will be a lot less viable if everyone's moved to Classic.
It doesn't matter what the TPP actually says, or how that relates to the status quo. All that matters is that you are outraged about it, and you're angry and you're not going to take it for one more second. Whatever it is.
Well, this is assuming the story given by Cryptsy is accurate; without a proper third-party investigation we should consider it likely that the coins have been stolen by the operators as an exit scam.

A sentence from the middle:

They didn't care about exploits as long as they exited before the coin was worthless. This is a very common trope of the altcoin world.

When given a choice between painstakingly building a secure system, or throwing something together to make a quick buck from other gullible greedy people, it seems that everyone has chosen the latter.
Gotoky also works with on normal walkie talkie on 460MHz frequency.
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> They'll get through regardless of the block size.

They'll get through until China bans it.

China has a classic trilemma : let the currency depreciate, give up on monetary stimulus, or institute capital controls.

Pick any 2 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity

To date, they've shown pretty good success in controlling the Internet and Bitcoin is no different.

I don't think Bitcoin advocates have necessarily thought through the implications if countries were no longer able to control capital movements, hence pursue independent monetary and currency policies. As the euro experience has shown (also the history of the gold standard), it's not necessarily an improvement in monetary arrangements.
Bitcoin's appeal as an alternative value store only grows the longer the network continues to keep chugging along, and as the price grows less volatile (year to year). It is still very unique as an asset in terms of the properties it offers.
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Personally the best use case for docker I have at the moment is for the testing of chef cookbooks with the Chef Test Kitchen Docker driver - https://github.com/portertech/kitchen-docker

I can write my cookbooks and almost instantly test them inside a container. You can even test on multiple platforms at the same time (Debian,Rhel etc) in parallel. You can perform integration testing using serverspec once the container has converged to the required state - http://serverspec.org/
Debian needs serious help to get the multiple monitors configured and working at full resolution. OpenSuse had that problem plus terribly ugly fonts. It took a lot of reading up online and trying things before I figured out how to fix that. Ubuntu actually had a broken apt-get for me on some recent installs, it turned out to be an issue with using the us subdomain repos, switching to de made apt-get painfully slow, but solved the problem. Luckily I haven't had this issue on my new VM install, so I'm hoping it was resolved. All of them had issues booting (black screen) with the default open-source display driver and required the proprietary drivers to be installed (this is not an issue in a VM.) Just to get Spotify to run on OpenSuse was a herculean effort that I eventually gave up on, but not before buggering up the system.
Yes, but this one seems more limited vs. the Gotenna -

- Gotoky: only 0.5 W of power vs. the Gotenna's 2 W

- uses FRS channels UHF vs. Gotenna's use of the MURS VHF bands, which have better propagation

I'd think even though they claim 5 mi line of sight, they would struggle to get 1/4 to 1/2 miles of range in normal city/event operation. They do even claim as much (<0.2 miles in Concerts and Events.)

I think the Gotoky is really just an FRS radio for your phone, while the Gotenna has quite a bit more capabilities.
Goto method/variable definition would be really nice! I would definitely use it if you made that.

Github's keyboard shortcuts are nice, but there is lots of room for improvement in how you navigate code.
I wasn't indicting DeLong as a critic. Like I said, I probably agree with most of what he's written about TPP. I just don't think he's making the specific claim you say he is.
From what I understand, state and federal support budgets have also been cut significantly, making tuition income more important. Also, the "sticker price" has grown much more than the actual price, since more people get scholarships[1]; this is in part a psychological game - a $150k degree seems more valuable than a $30k degree, even if the students actually end up paying the same after scholarships and discounts.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/education/despite-rising-s...
Posted 45 minutes ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10920673
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Despite its problems, it is an approximation to a packaging standard which provides enough isolation to manage dependencies successfully.

Does anyone not remember what it was like to fight shared library versioning conflicts? Do you want to be handling the GitHub issues attached to people screwing up that kind of thing in 2017 because their distribution or OS X package manager randomly changed?
I always hated when the apple cobbler or other sugary dessert bled over from its section of the tray into the main course of salisbury steak and mashed potatoes or whatever. Of course, thinking back now -- the mashed potatoes always tasted awful like cardboard, so perhaps I shouldn't have cared that the stuff was getting all mixed :-)
People or Property? IVF and Surrogacy Have Opened a Pandora’s Box of Law
Actually, the proper definition (for the sake of understanding) is to treat this phenomenon as psychological therapy sessions. Based on my reading at the source, this group and the people involved, are engaged in a group therapy sessions. Now, one can bring association to religion, fairy tales, science, etc, but the essence stays the same. It is all about human beings trying to find meaning in their lives.
I blocked it in /etc/hosts and also deleted my account permanently. After doing this my sense of life's possibilities became enhanced... The world stopped feeling overdetermined, even predetermined, by what was on facebook.

Facebook's seemingly innocuous site has turned out to be an incredibly intricate mmorpg where your character is some uncannily "realistic" version of "you," and whose map slowly begins to dominate your territory. It is an extremely addicting game for some of us.
This an interesting story of data and infographics. I would be curious to see an updated version that includes other large employers of engineers like Amazon or Oracle.
Nice article - it's good to be realistic about what we can do with current tools.

I feel like the gist of what current neural nets can do is "pattern recognition". If that's fair, I also suspect that most people underestimate how many problems can be solved by them (e.g. planning and experiment design can be posed as pattern recognition - the difficulty is obtaining enough training data).

It's true that we're most likely a very long way away from general AI - but I'm willing to bet most of us will still be surprised within the next 2 years by just how well some deep-learning based solutions work.
[Edit] I'm an idiot, disregard.
Although it's faster to fix a XSS than to build this very system from scratch again. It's better to contribute rather than complain. We all should be thankful because it is open source. Don't you agree?
Best reasons I can think of is projection and pride. If I couldn't do this job without a PhD and 10 years of experience then of course NO ONE else could possibly do it without those credentials.

Then there's the, if I HAD to have all these credentials to get a decent paying job, then everyone else should have to jump through those same hoops to or it won't be fair to me.
This is maybe a discussion we should be having elsewhere, but for lack of a dedicated thread somewhere, and because I think it's interesting, I suppose we might as well keep going on the tangent. Moving forward though, is there anywhere dedicated to talking about this kind of stuff, or should we set somewhere up?

> consensus algos for removal of data is an impossibility

There may be a bit of a semantic barrier here. What I mean by consensus removal is "can we, as a society, decide that it's okay to delete this piece of data?" That can be done as a zero-knowledge algorithm. The approach I've taken with it is, loosely speaking,

1. Author Alice publishes (encrypted) data, tells server "don't delete this"

2. Alice shares with Bob; Bob also tells server "don't delete this"

3. Alice tells server "now it's okay to delete"

4. Alice can see that Bob is preventing deletion

5. Alice provides social/legal/political pressure to Bob to remove his hold

6. Object gets deleted

Technically it's implemented in a way very reminiscent to name binding and garbage collection in memory-managed languages. It's worth noting that no, this isn't something that's solvable strictly with in-protocol actions. The external pressure step is necessary to prevent deletion. But that's exactly my goal; we're never going to be able to solve profoundly complex social problems with algorithms.
Accurate heading info requires good gyros and is moderately expensive.

It's a lot cheaper than it used to be. When we did our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle ten years ago, we had about 3 degrees of heading noise, which kept the system which integrated LIDAR data into a terrain map from reliably mapping. The system had a MEMS gyro with too high a drift rate, and a magnetometer compass for long-term correction. But there were enough magnetic fields from the onboard equipment to mess up the magnetic compass. The software could detect trouble, and would stop, tilt the laser head to scan the terrain ahead and get a clean image, then advance. So the vehicle kept stopping to rescan.

We looked into better heading gyros, but they cost about $20K at the time.
Just think about the momentum open source would have if each time somebody spent time submitting a comment to complain, they instead did a PR and fixed the issue.

#PRsBeforeComplaints, or something like that
Because users of HN found it interesting and decided to upvote it.

It certainly fits in with the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In which case a better title would be "Shared Intentionality is What Makes Us Human", as plenty of species cooperate, whether deliberately or otherwise. It's an interest idea, nonetheless, if true.

One thing which distinguishes us from other animals, and is shared by all human cultures, is our ability to control and use fire.
First off can we stop calling programmers "engineers" they are not, they are much closer to being "artisans".

Secondly in my long experience it's not the "engineering managers" that have a degree fixation but the "Human Resources" dept, that usually insist on being in charge of recruitment policy, even though an even smaller percentage of them have a job relevant degree or diploma.

Further if you want decent programmers try looking at people with other types of degree in engineering and science. The thing is CS projects are usually "not real" where as those doing engineering and science degree projects have to design and build real tools in software to do their projects. The difference between CS theoretical and other degree practical programming really stands out. Which was one of the points this article could have gone into more thoroughly.
I bet at least a few are Charted/Professional Engineers and remember that not all countries really consider Engineers as proper professionals like Doctors or Lawyers.

I actually stated down the track to charted status but in the end gave up as it has no value to me.
> FIR is not greedy performance-wise. It will run smoothly on a Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine with 1 core, a 40 GB disk and 1 GB RAM.

It's a simple CRUD App, why does it need a whole gig of RAM‽

Also, Is there a demo site, or more screenshots than in the README?
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I've been looking for this, too. We have reddit.com/r/healthtech which I moderate but it's not that active right now. Trying to make it more active. :)

Also reddit.com/r/medicine but that is kind of more clinicians and less health tech. There's also reddit.com/r/telemedicine.

Personally I wish there was a way to sort HN via topic, so you could get all the medical news easily separated.

(am a telemedicine nurse at a health tech startup)

There's also RockHealth which you can follow on facebook but they kind of feel scammy imo and generally seem to only promote their own companies. Also you can sort by healthtech on techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/tag/healthtech/
Analytics shouldn't break applications. If anything npm should provide a way to opt into analytics and provide them to all publishers.
Why investing-in-airlines belongs in the "Too hard" pile.
> All laws and treaties are forms of persuasion.

No, they're forms of enforcement; no persuasion necessary.

> They exist only to regulate people's behaviour.

Yes, through mandates.

> They are prescriptive, not descriptive.

Yes.

> That qualifies them as rhetoric.

No, it doesn't. Rhetoric is used to pass laws; once passed, they are implemented via technical non-rhetorical language, laws are not rhetoric.
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