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The reason they don't have roadmaps to AGI is because they do not want AGI to be made before the Friendly AI problem has been solved.

When you think about the vast space of mind design space, plus all the ways we've made mistakes reasoning about even simpler & stupider optimization processes like evolution, I don't think they're being too silly.

If any of you want a quick and insightful introduction, this video is very good: https://vimeo.com/26914859
There's a lot required before they're ready in any case. (How much probably depends a fair bit on where and under what circumstances they're allowed to be on full auto-pilot.) But you're absolutely right on your basic point. And even if they're safer than humans overall, if they have a tendency (even if rarely) to get into serious accidents in which they self-evidently did something dumb (from a human's perspective), that would be a big issue.
Strange to do a whole long section on price-comparison without talking about AWS's spot instances, which are often much cheaper than the reserved instances.
I have no experience with aviation, why do they need to be rebooted at all in less time than they can fly without refueling? It would seem with such a critical system the tolerance for rebooting would be exceptionally low. The F35 is not a dogfighter; does it have any meaningful capabilities while radar-blind?
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Any clue to why it would take so long to reboot?
https://DNSFilter.com - DNS-Based content filtering and Threat protection; designed to meet the needs of managers of multiple networks.

We're focused on entities that manage 20-100+ networks representing retail, restaurants, hotels, chains, public spaces, etc.

These networks also need protection, and can benefit from centralized management that a cloud-based solution brings over on-premise boxes. Our biggest competitor is OpenDNS, but especially since being acquired by Cisco, they're focused on the enterprise, pricing these users out of the solution.

We're utilizing a small subset of cloud providers who can support our BGP anycast network (12 POPs next week!), and have built out amazing infrastructure, an easy-to-use management interface with the stats these providers need, comprehensive categorized domains and up-to-date threat sources. We're in private beta right now and negotiating partnerships in the space.
Just sharing my experience:

I wasn't in search of it, but I'm known as a creative and energetic guy that loves fun and am totally curious, etc. I am 100% the target market, except that I am 40. A younger guy involved with The Institute film gave me a key. I alone found it charming. I didn't take it seriously. For fun, I thought to invite some friends. I think 6? Every single one of them had a weird experience where people took it far, FAR too seriously. I, at one point, had to accompany a good friend and his young girlfriend, at night, in the rain, in a foreign city to them. When I was going up the stairs to the final room, some people high on fake power and taking the whole thing FAR too seriously gave us a chilling and somewhat disturbing lecture about how serious it is for people to do it on their own, etc. It was unbelievably absurd, and destroyed all the simple charm. I abandoned it after that. When delightful ideas try way too hard... it vacates the intent.
I'll just leave this here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
You probably saw this, but linking anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983539 The general point is that it's more evidence improvement can come in discontinuous leaps, it doesn't have to be some smooth (even if accelerating) incremental process. So timeline predictions should probably be wide, with closer-to-present lower bounds (especially when successful generalizable techniques become public). I don't think this initial view would have changed much this week unless Sedol just totally crushed the bot, perhaps suggesting there's still something more.

Personally I think the approach of combining deep learning with MCTS to beat Go was obvious to anyone sort of familiar with each thing, and with a good funded team could be done in a year or less, but a lot of 'experts' were ignorant of one or more of the areas. The uncertainty should have revolved around when some group would get around to writing the software and scaling up with powerful hardware. Implementation details, the theory work was already known.

My own lesson from this is that if all that is needed is tough engineering work (but not really new theory) that work could literally arrive in a week instead of the x+delay time it might take from scratch, because some group could already have been in the process for about x time that isn't public knowledge. AlphaGo kind of came out of nowhere; there were early signs with papers on using deep learning techniques, but I don't remember any public commitments to much. That just indicates companies are still quite capable of doing secret projects. If they had a secret new theory, too, it could be even more amazing. I know of one startup in particular that's been securely at the top of its niche because internally they have secret CS research unknown to academia.

The OpenAI initiative may be useful from the perspective that if they've shared what probably shouldn't be shared, at least we can suspect something is imminent and try to plan a last minute stand of getting it right first, vs someone like Google doing all the research in secret and then bam, unleashing UFAI.
Holy crap, those are some beautiful designs.
The DMCA protects service providers from copyright claims for user-generated content as long as they comply with takedown requests, etc. Scrapinghub may have a defense to copyright claims there (though I seriously doubt it due to the nature of their relationship with the customer; they're not a DMCA "safe harbor" and the data they're using isn't user-generated content), but not to CFAA claims.

It's illegal to break the CFAA whether the plaintiff specifically tells you that they think you're doing it or not. If they send a C&D, yes, you'd be wise to comply, but that's not going to absolve you from claims that you harmed their company by violating the CFAA before they sent it (which do happen and are usually claiming a pretty ridiculously silly amount of damages for something as innocent as downloading a web page from their server). You'd have to argue in court that your access was authorized and they'd have to argue that your access wasn't authorized. The judge and/or jury would then evaluate.

3Taps was actually quite similar to Scrapinghub. I don't think they have as much of a defense as you'd like. And Terms of Use are actually usually considered legally binding; to the extent that they're not, it's usually because of something minor like not putting the notice that you agree to the ToU by using the site in plain view.
xoL icon based programming language: http://nzonbi.github.io/xoL/

Programs looks cooler than text, and are easier to work with (once you learn it). Project current status is prototype under construction.

XoL is a programming language where code elements are designed icons. This makes code flow and meaning easier to read than text. I have put a lot of work to optimize the design as best as possible. The design shown in the page is an earlier version. The current design has been improved greatly. I don't want to reveal it until it is actually working. I find programs in xoL are beautiful and engaging to look at. And are easier to understand than text. The user interface is designed aiming to make writing and editing programs, easier than editing text.

The actual language has been designed specially to work well with the icon design. One key point is that xoL is statically typed. The type system aims for simplicity -it is very easy to use-. The types are represented with icons. This helps to make easier to understand the meaning of programs.

You can talk to me if interested in the project.
Managed NOC services:
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We provide live technicians to actively watch and troubleshoot problems with network devices and web services during specified times of the day, up to 24x7. (Basically to let you and your employees get some sleep knowing someone's watching things.)

We are launching in a niche that has a need for constant supervision of a large number network devices but are often too small to justify the expense of hiring internally. (WISPs, if you're familiar with that) but we believe are services can be generally useful to a broader customer base.

We are still taking on beta customers at very reduced rates. Hit me up at the link above or at the email in my profile.
Maybe appending "- Request for Public Comment" to the title would make it more descriptive.

... today the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing a draft policy to improve the way custom-developed Government code is acquired and distributed moving forward. This policy is consistent with the Federal Government’s long-standing policy of ensuring that “Federal investments in IT (information technology) are merit-based, improve the performance of our Government, and create value for the American people.”2

This policy requires that, among other things: (1) new custom code whose development is paid for by the Federal Government be made available for reuse across Federal agencies; and (2) a portion of that new custom code be released to the public as Open Source Software (OSS).

We welcome your input on this innovative draft policy ...
The reboot itself is not the N hours figure, that's the interval between reboots.
I'm building a fancy schmancy word tracker for writers. I love NaNoWriMo's tools, but they limit its use to just the month of November, which doesn't help me for the other eleven months of the year! I originally built a simple app in December when I was still trying to finish my novel after November was over, and I wound up using my app up to today. In mid February, I tossed a fancy Bootstrap theme or two on it.

It's still very much in early stages, with not a lot of features. The only action you can really take is to update your word count, which should refresh the charts and graphs and stats. I personally find it incredibly motivating, but if you're not a writer... then maybe it's not for you.

Enjoy: https://www.novelsarehard.com
In your app, the "ultrasonic" signal is still audible to me. On that youtube video, I stop hearing stuff around 17,5kHz.
> Maybe it wouldn't happen this way, but it could potentially set things back by years. Looking at the technology, pushing for early adoption might save lives. But looking at the politics, pushing too hard could cost lives, by making people unwilling to accept the technology.

It would absolutely happen this way.

Like any change, driverless cars would cause a lot of people to lose money and/or their livelihoods. So there will be a significant number of people (and businesses) who fight against the change.

Look at climate change -- the actual metrics don't even matter. There is always a way to skew the display of the numbers to make a pretty graph that will convince enough of the population that there's at LEAST some legitimate controversy over the issue; which is enough to just put the decision off until the controversy is over.
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I actually know of some companies that run part of their infrastructure on AWS and part on GCP.

There are companies that help you run "seamlessly" on any cloud provider you want so in theory you can use them to balance your services between cloud provider for cost or performance.
Given how well the other parts of the project are going, I think it was likely to be a disaster regardless. Based on various news reports I've read about its delays and cost overruns, the F-35 seems to be defined by difficult and frequently changing requirements given to sprawling teams who cannot communicate well with each other due to the massive complexity and number of people involved.
GoJS - http://gojs.net/

Interactive diagrams for the web, built with HTML Canvas (and export to SVG). Very customizable with a big foundation of node/link logic, undo/redo, data-binding, and much more.
Hmm, I tell myself the same things about my driving ("I avoid doing stupid things, so I have stacked the odds in my favor.") -- possible since the causes of most car accidents are well-known.

I guess in both cases, we believe we have improved the odds, but also in both, we don't know how much.

There is the additional problem that our efforts to improve our own safety may be less airtight than we imagine.
Last week, I was googling for an alternative to Sendgrid and found out about your service.

Besides being hosted, what advantages do your service offer over a self-hosted option like Sendy?

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TL;DR; When you can read this book [6] and do all exercises in it without any issues you can safely stop and be sure you are very well versed in vast majority of subjects that you might encounter while hacking on whatever in most technical fields.

You can be a hacker and get by with very little math, depends what you are hacking. Hacking is not a profession, it is more of an approach to things, a way of looking at the world, the joy of really figuring stuff out and maybe doing something cool, something that might have seemed impossible. This does usually involve mastery, but not necessarily of mathematics.

I think the question you should be asking, or maybe are even asking is - how much mathematics do I need to hack the hack that I want to hack? - and the first thing you need to do, if you have not already done so is try to think about what that might be. Even a vague idea will give you plenty of clues about how much of what you might need for that.

If you find it troublesome, check out what Richard Hamming has to say about it, it should help you out a lot with figuring it out [1][2].

That said, if you want to do computer science, or hack on the interesting things you do need quite a bit of mathematics. This is due to the fact that, as other posters here have pointed out, what you are really in need of, is an effective way of problem solving, and to solve a problem you need to understand it, model it, work on it in some terms. Mathematics is /the/ method of clear thinking which you should apply in order to do this. Sure, you can do certain things without mathematics, but you are not making things any easier for yourself by doing that, and more importantly you are not gaining as much insight as you would have if you used the mathematical approach.

Now, you do mention that you are not good at mathematics, do not let that discourage you, there are many people who were, or are in similar situation as you, me included, and I can assure you that with some dedication and open minded thinking, it comes easier than you might think, and all this effort almost instantly pays off. If you are familiar with one or several programming languages, check out these amazing books and use them alongside whatever mathematics course you will be taking, they will help you out immensely by helping you master both the problem solving approach and the necessary concepts in order to succeed in mathematical education [3][4][5].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30
[2] http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Language-Mathematics-Utilizing-Math-Pr...
[4] http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Scien...
[5] http://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Structured-Approach-2nd/dp/0...
[6] http://www.amazon.com/Methods-Mathematics-Calculus-Probabili...
These threads come up often in various news aggregation sites, and I feel that the comments tend to overflow with people that have no commercial flying experience stating things like, "commercial pilots don't do REAL flying like small aircraft pilots do, they just turn on the autopilot and watch."

This is only true in the sense that there is less hands-on-the-flight-controls time. Flying a large commercial aircraft is actually very difficult - so difficult, in fact, that the menial tasks like physically handling the controls can be better delegated to an autopilot most of the time. The control of the aircraft has been abstracted out into much higher-level management of systems. It's more like the manager who has one eye on where the company is headed and one eye on what tasks his employees are completing, and it is his responsibility to make sure those things match.

I try to explain this relationship to my friends by likening the autopilot to something more like cruise control in the car: when you turn on cruise control, it allows you to take your foot off the gas pedal, but by no means does it mean you aren't actively managing the safe outcome of the trip; it's just a different tool. Sure, autopilots are more complex than cruise control, but that doesn't adulterate my main point.

Don't get me wrong, it has always been a struggle to make sure that pilots of large aircraft get enough stick time and emergency training; you have to fit recurrent training into an already very busy schedule and spend lots of money on expensive simulators. That being said, the FAA (USA) regulates pretty heavily how much and exactly what types of recurrent training is necessary to maintain your position, and stall recovery is one of them.

This statement: "many pilots struggle to perform the most basic and critical maneuver, a stall recovery" seems like pure applesauce, and if they want to back that up with some better data about how that has changed over time and how it has affected airline safety over the years, I'd love to see it. We are in a relatively safe period of airline travel, and I believe we will continue to be.. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/07/travel/aviation-data/
We use Percy.io for this and can't recommend it enough. It integrates with your CI workflow, which makes a whole lot more sense to me than waiting until production. (Or to be fair, staging.)
Exactly. Thanks for sharing that one
Blasted down arrow is so close to the up-arrow I clicked down when I meant up. Someone please cancel out my mistake.
https://github.com/Markbnj/venv2docker

Work in progress but pretty complete. Packages a python virtualenv into a docker container.
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That's true, but not particularly actionable. "Avoid doing stupid things" isn't something you can just decide to do directly. It's a good goal, but you need to find more specific ways to achieve that goal.

There are long established ways to reduce the incidence of stupidity. Always using checklists, always getting a weather brief, establishing personal minimums, etc. Of course, all of this will be covered as a standard part of any flying safety course.

IMO just saying "avoid doing stupid things" is dangerous. It's too easy to take that advice and say, well, I'm obviously not stupid, so I'm safe. And then you fly into a thunderstorm or stall while turning final or forget to connect a control surface, because avoiding stupidity has little if anything to do with being smart.

You can definitely stack the odds heavily in your favor, but it takes a lot of effort.
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Right now it checks your site every 24 hours, and we try to alert on things that might actually need a person to verify (ie, not animations or videos).

We're in the process of building moderation tools so that you can refine what's important to you, and we're really excited about building training a model to be able to highlight changes that are probably broken. We're starting at square one though :)
I believe the only worth feature missing is Flight Recorder/Mission Control.

You gain debug symbols that can help you investigate JVM crashes.
Hard to say, since I don't track its usage in the wild... I only know the number of hours put into the project. But I think you're right, it would definitely be helpful to have that number on the page. I'll see if I can come up with an accurate estimate, or maybe suggest what people normally contribute after a little more time has passed.
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this doesn't surprise me one bit. I interviewed at one of the major defense contractors for a programming job last year and the technical interviewer had never heard of C#

this was for a java position
> So while passing the Turing Test may not be enough, not passing
> the Turing Test is a sign that the computer is unintelligent.

You could have an intelligence that's just not smart in the human
sense. Consider running into an alien intelligence evolved from our
equivalent of octopuses, you ask it a questions but it only
communicates via color changes on its body.

Similarly you can conceive of an AI that's smart, self-aware and
intelligent just hasn't been developed to talk to humans.

The Turing test is a fine test to figure out if your AI is
conversational with humans, but the OP I was replying to was
suggesting it as a general AI intelligence test, it's not meant for
that, and will give you both false positives & negatives.
The problem is that when you're driving your fate is much more in the hands of the drivers around you than when you're flying. A stupid driver often takes out nearby cars along with their own. It's extremely rare for a stupid pilot to take out any aircraft but his own.
- Is college overrated?

- Yes. People keep endorsing college education because it makes them seem smart.
Sequiturs: https://sequiturs.com

Sequiturs is a platform for rigorous and civil discussion. Discussion revolves around arguments, which consist of a series of premises and conclusions. This argument format requires coherence, which improves the quality of the views asserted, and makes it easier to identify where one might disagree.
I can see this working for static pages, not sure about pages that require input, user login, or display constantly changing data.
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What separates this from something state sponsored like the Illinois Report Card (illinoisreportcard.com) that would make me want to use it?

It appears a flat % score is the main draw, but without any sort of information on what that score means, or how it stacks up, it's sort of useless.
For what it's worth, Red Hat's OpenJDK release is validated with the TCK. So not all OpenJDK builds are equal... https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013
I wonder why Quizlet didn't just stick with Joyent but switch from SmartOS to the newer Linux-based infrastructure containers and/or Docker containers. Joyent put a lot of effort into reviving LX-branded zones on Illumos precisely to address the concern that this article raises with using an OS other than Linux.

Also, why dismiss DigitalOcean as a niche provider for hobbyists? The simple pricing, with lots of data transfer included, should appeal to a lot of businesses too.
There is already a popular board game named Robot Turtles.

http://www.robotturtles.com/
You know what puts the fear of unemployment into you? A sudden bout of unexpected unemployment.
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Do they initiate the reboot with CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence?
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Yes however there are laws in some states such as California that disallow the recording of conversations without consent. I like the idea though, I once thought what we might discover if we just put a mic in every coffeeshop.
Iraq was invaded 13 years ago and I'm willing to take any bet that today there are more Iraqis than ever that would be willing to assassinate a Western governments leader.

Just have a look at all the crazy extremist organisations in that region. (and what they do)

I'm not defending them but I understand why they still hate us after 13 years.

5 years is nothing in that context. When you are oppressed by a foreign power then people there will fight you indefinitely.
That's pretty neat. I have been meaning to work on my sight reading skills. I will have to give it a try with my keyboard later.