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There such thing as intrinsic value. A value separate from some idiot willing to throw down a billion dollars for a bag of peanuts.
> find it difficult to cope with the routine heartbreak of dating

If there was one thing that my conservative culture had taught me better, It would be this. Even knowing this doesn't make the process any easier although there is some comfort in knowing that many others face this situation as well.
One more trick for you: use messenger.com if you need contact with people at work but don't want notifications or the news feed to distract you.
Some argue the moral position of "lower animals do it; why not me?" is shaky. We're supposed to have empathy and be responsible stewards and so on. We've already got rules against eating our own babies for instance. So raising a race of mammals just to eat them seems cynical and cruel to some.

We never need to stop. But we probably should.
Something else that may have not been considered is that the whole voting system was rigged. Much in a "marblecake the game" scenario. What should be done in a situation where the vote has been rigged by nefarious/trolling actors?
Thought the whole self driving car thing was a bid to scalp the transportation business. Some of the largest companies around are half logistics, say Amazon & Walmart.
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Racism requires oppression, as it's a systematic way of oppression based on race.

Are Inuits (or gp's comment) coming from a place of power where they can oppress white people? No?

Then that comment wasn't racist, fuckwad.
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This whole thread reeks of death acceptance culture. HN readers show off how cool they are for accepting death instead of discussing how we as a tech community could help cure these diseases or at least give more people an option of being cryopreserved.

The really unpleasant truth is that if we as a society began doing serious focused R&D on these life-threatening diseases earlier, the OP and many others wouldn't have to die.

But we didn't. Enjoy marketing your mobile apps until cancer suddenly makes you rot away.
I have my clothes all over the place. On the floor, on the wardrobe, on the banister, on my bed. Even washed clothes just ends up in piles on floor, because I am too lazy to put it into closet. (Why to put it there when I will just take it out tomorrow? Better keep it here.) Every morning I just look around until I see something that I like to wear today. I guess I follow the Random Access Memory organization..
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I'm aware that the US doesn't always make the best geopolitical decisions, but alienating every single European ally you have in order to eliminate one high profile, non-dangerous violator of official secrets acts seems like a fairly unlikely course of action for them to take...
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Linus Torvalds has not been the git maintainer for years.
IMO extremely wrong comments are the ones accepting the death and even celebrating how "strong" a person dying against his will is.
Replica of 5,000-year-old 'Iceman' made on 3D printer
Anecdotal evidence, but I found my MASc [1] to be a very hard sell for most employers. That is even if it was very applied, the goal at the end of my project was pretty much to have a good enough prototype to get funding for a startup [2]. One company thought it was interesting and made an offer, but I ended up accepting a second offer from another company, a position which had already been offered to me after undergrad.

All in all, I don't regret, it was 2 years spent with a lot of autonomy on an interesting R&D project, which is mostly unheard of in industry, especially for junior roles. But I can't say it was really a plus for my career, 2 years of experience would have allowed me to get P.Eng. and that plus experience is much more valuable in the eyes of employers.

[1] In Canada, MEng is generally 45 credits of coursework and 15 credits of research+thesis, while MASc is the opposite (major research component).

[2] We were eventually denied government funding, which made private capital also pull out. The reason was apparently the shakiness of the business case, which I unfortunately was not much involved in.
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This. Since I've started using messenger.com, I check facebook.com about once a week. Was really easy to switch and saved a lot of mental energy and attention that would have went for random facebook posts, etc.
Could do you release it ?
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Exactly. It's the same bloody-mindedness that got 'Killing in the Name' - essentially the phrase "---k you I won't do what you tell me" shouted repeatedly - to No 1 at Christmas as a reaction against the X Factor manufactured idol hype. (And almost got 'Ding dong, the witch is dead' to No 1 after Thatcher's death...)
tl;dr:
Astronaut battles AI with hidden agenda, defeats AI, gets abducted by aliens.

"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended..."

Not every story should be structured as a scientific document.
>To be fair, the title doesn't say it will tell you why the suicide rate in Greenland is so high...

It is highly suggestive that it will though.

> Fact is, it isn't completely clear why the rate is so high.

Then why bother writing an article about it at all ?

> And yes, sometimes you need to know just the bare facts.

No, I always want just the bare facts. Anything else simply isn't relevant. You may call it "well researched human interest" I call it filler material. It feels like a high-school kid trying to make the minimum word count for an essay.
These words hit close to home. My dad just passed away from cancer/diabetes in Florida and had to endure the "barbaric torture of decay and failure". Basically 4 months suffering in bed until he eventually denied eating anything and his liver failed. I asked the nurses repeatedly if there was anything to help him go or pass and there was nothing. Something's got to change in the US, we treat animals better than humans at the end of life

Thank you for your words
HN Algolia is neat for this kind of workflow https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page... just check it once a day, pick up what to read for the rest of the day.
I don't think ocean travel is safe for him at this point. Many things can happen on a small boat in the Atlantic at night.
Psychologists often assume that there is a special cognitive ability—a psychological secret sauce—that makes humans different from other animals. The list of candidates is long: tool use, cultural transmission, the ability to imagine the future or to understand other minds, and so on. But every one of these abilities shows up in at least some other species in at least some form.

I'll have to read the book to see if De Waal addresses this issue differently - but there is one glaring omission here that seems to destroy the entire argument. Human language and internal thought (the infinite use of finite means) appears to be entirely unprecedented in nature. This ability appears to gives rise to our heightened creativity and ability to model and understand the world. It is usually the first thing mentioned when psychologists talk about a "special cognitive ability" or "secret sauce", so you would have to address it if you want to make a reasonable point here.

...a better way to think about other creatures would be to ask ourselves how different species have developed different kinds of minds to solve different adaptive problems. Surely the important question is not whether an octopus or a crow can do the same things a human can, but how those animals solve the cognitive problems they face

Humans can solve problems beyond those faced in their immediate environment for survival purposes - that is the key mystery that causes us to compare other animals to ourselves. Sure, we should strive to understand the ways in which an octopus solves the problems it faces, but there is nothing wrong with asking how close it is to our own abilities in this regard.
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Well I'm sure you'll be down-voted but in case you come back to check the replies I'll just say I'm sorry that you can't accept the world at the moment.

Unless the singularity happens really soon and someone bootstraps a benign godlike AI to take us under it's wing I think we're stuck with a very high (five 9s ?) probability of dying.

It's fine to rail against it but sometimes you have to accept that you were born in the dark ages and life is short.
Progress doesn't occur by itself. If we won't develop the necessary technology (or help, or incentivize development) it won't magically show up by the time it is needed for you or for me. For OP and many others it didn't.
You betray your preferences with the second paragraph.

I haven't really followed him in the last 25 years but I have to assume, just on things I've read from people who are more musically accomplished than I am, that his best stuff might be more recent than that.

Also I've seen videos in the last day that are also highly convincing to me that he has done some good stuff more recently.

Finally I did not focus exclusively on his music in my comment as I think there is probably a lot of worth about Prince - as a businessman and as an innovator (production techniques etc.) - that might be good to have the hacker news community analyze.
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Redefining words like Racism is a common tactic of social activists to create an in-group and "all the other idiots". I reject that artificial redefinition.

We all understand racism. Its when somebody puts somebody else down based solely on their race. That's it. The other stuff has other names, like "institutional racism" for instance.
Sorry, I meant "no one who replied to you knows what you're talking about". Still, that list don't tell much about potential breakages. Are you actually complaining about bash having too many features or are there actual breakages? Please illustrate with examples, not links to tedious changelogs and ad-hominems.
I understand where you’re coming from, but the same argument was, and is, made when defending the usage of the word “Gay” as a general disparaging adjective. In a way, the people making that argument, and you when making yours, are right in that many or perhaps most people don’t mean anything sexual in using the phrase¹. But this does not mean that it should therefore be OK to call something “Gay” or labeling a person a “Wanker”. Using those words in a disparaging fashion does lead to a normalization and tacit approval of homophobic and sex-shaming attitudes, respectively.

① I once saw someone trying to establish the term and spelling “Ghey” as a non-sexually associated disparaging word.
The inaccuracy is that in reality, the box of Legos is huge and nowhere near running out of bricks. If suddenly all humans on Earth stopped dying, the carbon cycle wouldn't even notice it for centuries or more (the things we'd be doing to control overpopulation are another topic though).
Eh, I did not enjoy RSS Boaty McBoatface. However, like 15th entry really caught my attention in that voting poll - RSS Boat. Now that's something simple yet elegant.
Or just start from scratch with http://netboot.xyz.
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I don't know if your parent comment is correct, but their argument is really easy to follow. I'll put what I think their argument is in different words.

"this contest is like making Google make Alphago have to also include a robot and image recognition and making the robot have to place the stones." obviously that has "nothing to do with" the game and is "how Alphago gets the information."

But Go (and tetris etc) are games of perfect information where perception of the game state is not a challenge. If you have access to the internal data structure representing the Go or tetris board that's the same as having to scrape it off of a screen and recognize it or do real world image recognition.

If your parent comment is wrong it's because that's not the kind of game Doom is.

So what you consider "intertwined" really isn't, unless Google has not even built a go engine, since a human was doing the perception.

(again, I am just saying your parent's argument is easy to follow, not that they're correct in this case.)
It's not either/or. We could accept that and fight it, so that our children, or our children's children won't have to die anymore.
Well, I'll also say that I really fly in Common Lisp, and I think that language has a nice balance: the compilers do check types and nullability, to some extent at least... and the interactivity, "touching the objects"-ness, and general pleasure of coding weighs up for the lack of a really rigorous Haskell-like type system.

And I'm not really a strong advocate of any particular language. I'm still holding out for a really excellent environment with some kind of best of all worlds approach. Maybe in 30 years...
I can highly recommend "Culture & Empire - Digital Revolution", a very interesting read.

I think this is a great request: "Find a moment in your own jurisdiction, if it bans euthanasia, to lobby for the right to die in dignity."
> If you don't care for the lives affected by the phenomenon, then why would you be caring for the reason?

I'm interested in the mechanism, not some anecdotes about one or two specific people. I like complicated systems and how they work, this interest me because it could give me additional insight in how the human machine works.

I don't need to be interested traveling to be interested in how a plane stays in the air or how the engine of a car works.
At the same time, language changes all the time. It didn't mean the same thing when my kids called something "radical" as in my day. Modern culture has a way of burning up useful words, when they become PC unacceptable. Remember when "idiot", "moron" and "retarded" were technical terms with no emotional baggage? No? You were born too late for that.

Its probably different when words that used to be disparaging become less so (wanker, gay). Because there remain a generation that are still offended by them, we should probably lighten up on them especially in mixed company.
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"If you're fine with budget basics, hit all the hotels along El Camino "

Unfortunately the budget basics are not so budget during Google IO. Prepare to spend big bucks if you want to stay close to Mountain View: I booked Best Western Inn in Mountain View (El Camino) for 300$ (!) per night (taxes included). Not to say that all hotels suggested by the Google IO page were quickly full booked.

For the week-end I'm moving to SF where there was much better hotels deals.
Wouldn't that be lovely?

I wish that the immediate reaction by most people to such a thing wasn't something preposterous like "death is natural." Yeah? So? We are not beaten in the heads with rubber mallets every day at noon. If aliens showed up and proposed that we adopt the rubber-mallet system for no benefit, we'd call them crazy.[1] Yet death, which is completely real, is treated as something not even worth attempting to cure (although we sure love trying to prevent it when it's basically too late!)

[1] I'm paraphrasing Eliezer Yudkowsky here; he has cool writings on this subject if you're interested, which can be found in "Rationality from AI to Zombies," a large, cleaned-up collection of his years of blog posts at Less Wrong.
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I did a PhD because I really loved my subject (mathematics). I never envisaged it being a path to riches and it didn't bother me unduly that my friends who went into jobs on graduation were earning much more than me. It really didn't occur to me to do anything other than do a PhD - I certainly wasn't doing it to postpone making a decision. I actually felt relatively wealthy because my grant I got as a postgrad was far more than the money I had as an undergraduate.

The issue in my case is that I discovered that I didn't actually enjoy doing research for a number of reasons and having a PhD in a non-vocational subject generally makes you less employable rather than more - or at least changes the opportunities on offer. It is also difficult to extract yourself gracefully from a PhD program before the end - I ploughed on to submit my thesis and get my doctorate even though I'd realise a long time before that I didn't intend to pursue a research career. I was also quite naive about the realities of pursing an academic career (despite having a parent who is an academic), but given that research wasn't really for me, that probably wasn't too important in the grand scheme of things.
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Who decides paying $1M to get access to a government owned device is appropriate use of public money though?

Why didn't they go through proper channels? Why did they reset the iCloud passwords? What steps have they taken to prevent this from happening in the future?

The FBI is doing a lot of hand waving and there is no accountability. Where are all those fiscal conservatives when we need them?
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It's funny you should mention genetically engineering rice to prevent vitamin A deficiencies. That was actually done by university researchers using an EU-funded grant, the terms of which required them to patent it and give exclusive patent rights to a private-sector company. Said company (one of the big agrobusinesses) decided it wasn't commercially viable and shelved it - but they didn't want anyone else making money from it either, so now it's basically useless until the patent expires. They granted a license for "humanitarian use" but it's so narrow as to be almost worthless except as a PR tool to accuse anti-GM activists of wanting third world malnutrition. (Very few of the countries allowed to grow it can actually grow rice, and it forbids import or export.)

To be honest the whole thing was ill-conceived on every level anyway, but corporations and patent law alone were enough to doom it.
Just to add another opinion:

(1) I didn't notice anything particularly horrible about the Web site. If I manage to find stuff I need and don't have to wade through too much garbage, and no attempt is made to trick or trap or scam me, I feel I'm getting what I paid for and am happy enough.

(2) I pulled a Linux off the site, installed it in VirtualBox, and it ran, smoothly, with no problem. Other offerings from other sites may have more/better features, but sometimes "good enough" is good enough.

(3) The one thing I missed, here and elsewhere, is a Linux with built-in VM Extensions (spiffy display drivers, better mouse / cut&paste / file transfer support).
No, fiction shouldn't, because the whole point of fiction is to entertain.

The point of news it not to entertain but to inform.
I actually like reading "new" better.
"Throughout history" is such a funny phase. Imagine if Christians are around in another 2000 years and look back and say, "Well in the early years, for a few thousand years, Christians thought this but gradually it changed to this". Their opinion of X might be a bit difficult.

Actually I suspect that there were a few changes in the the first first centuries AD that make the 'averaging' of history quite an interesting topic.
I think your last point is important. I don't think shell script writers should be concerned about Solaris/BSD if they are confident that they will use their scripts only in environments where bash is available.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence
Well, It's not like we are gonna wear an EEG 24/7 just to unlock our smartphone or pass security at work...

I think that we can build a device that can capture a brainwave et replay it.
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Wow 10+ years. Here the University receives a sum of money when you get your PhD, that motivates them quite a lot to get you to finish. Most people finish within 4-5 years in my experience. Getting a PhD is like a job here, I didn't know it actually cost money in the US, in that case I can certainly understand people doubting the added value. What I got out was about the value of taking control, my prof gave me quite some freedom. But here also sometimes PhD students are used a measurement slaves by some micro-managing UD (assistant Professor). And also here sometimes people quit but it is more because they are lost without progress after 2 years or so.

In the US: Market forces seem to diminish the value of a PhD. In the Netherlands: Market is ignored by subsidies from the government. No idea what is better, let it die or keep the PhD system alive artificially. I don't know, the whole system feels a bit archaic to me. I always tell people that IQ and level of education are hardly related. I think it is difficult to fail a PhD here at least it doesn't happen often, especially when you have a professor that says exactly what you should do, and then you do it. I never met a dumb PhD student though.
Interesting article and poses the question and what I would theorize is the correct way for A.I. to learn how to be more human or machine learn is in a virtual environment. i.e. create a 3D based game to teach it how to interact in the physical world in order for robotic A.I. advancement and human interaction. Similar to Google Drive then test on the road in real-life.

To the point on visual processing a stealth A.I. (not for long) working in this space is Magic Pony Technology (http://www.magicpony.technology/) operating from London and guys I spotted at London A.I. who have previously hosted Prediction IO and Swiftkey at their last events.

Another caveat for this test is sound, human players will have audio but the A.I. will be purely visual so a slight disadvantage.

We are working on speech-to-text and text-to-speech technology for our A.I. voice enabled finance assistant which is in beta at WealRo (http://www.wealro.com) with a view to enabling a visual face recognition at some point in order for the A.I. to gather information from facial expressions. Always happy to get any thoughts on the potential usefulness of such an integration?
Interesting article and poses the question and what I would theorize is the correct way for A.I. to learn how to be more human or machine learn is in a virtual environment. i.e. create a 3D based game to teach it how to interact in the physical world in order for robotic A.I. advancement and human interaction. Similar to Google Drive then test on the road in real-life.

To the point on visual processing a stealth A.I. (not for long) working in this space is Magic Pony Technology (www.magicpony.technology/) operating from London and guys I spotted at London A.I. who have previously hosted Prediction IO and Swiftkey at their last events.

Another caveat for this test is sound, human players will have audio but the A.I. will be purely visual so a slight disadvantage.

We are working on speech-to-text and text-to-speech technology for our A.I. voice enabled finance assistant which is in beta at WealRo (www.wealro.com) with a view to enabling a visual face recognition at some point to add gestures in order for the A.I. to gather information from facial expressions. Always happy to get any thoughts on the potential usefulness of such an integration?
But people flying drones over airports has happened: https://youtu.be/QGMDQ-vaV9Y
Yes of course they should do that. And rename it the Attenborough when he (sadly) passes away.
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