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That complex behaviors can arise from simple processes is understood. Moreover in the species mentioned in the article, the problem spaces relevant to survival may have been relatively stable for untold amounts of time. The stable problem spaces increase the evolutionary fitness of efficient algorithms that solve that problem space with min energy expenditure. But such efficiency usually has a cost: reduced flexibility to changes in the problem space. I submit to you that behavioral flexibility in new environments may well correlate with brain size, even excluding humans from the analysis.
Yeah, you're right, we should make list of people who think their "rights" are important. Let's start with gun owners.
mmmm i disagree. rather than thinking of certain occupations getting automated, think of 'labor' as a whole getting automated. within 10 years we will have AI capable of medical diagnostics with a higher accuracy rate than any doctor, we will have robots capable of surgery with less risk than a human doctor. we will have robots to repair robots and assemble prefab homes.

i dont think we will ever have a time where _no_ humans work, but for 99% of the population, welfare will be decoupled from occupation.
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Lawyers often seek to get copies of minutes of relevant meetings, phone calls, etc., for use in litigation. A few years ago I posted some note-taking tips that your lawyer will love you for: http://www.oncontracts.com/note-taking-in-meetings-and-phone... (self-cite, obviously).
I like my analogy.

I buy the food (content) and get the branded packaging (ads)

I then serve the same food, replacing the branded packaging with my own plates.

My dinner guests will give me credit for the plates, instead of giving eyeballs to the original branded packaging.
What exactly are to "punishments" the EU is giving the UK that you are talking about?
Bring the robots, work sucks!
According to 21andMe, I am a whopping 3% neanderthal.

Don't know why I felt compelled to share this here, alas, there you go.
Before birth control, it was an accomplishment one could be proud of to have children at the right time. It required stable relationships and self-control. Your family and church would give you a lot of respect if you succeeded, and contempt if you failed. It was a test that separated the virtuous from the lazy, weak, and sinful.

When such hardships are made optional by technological or social progress, most find new challenges to conquer but many regret their loss.

Birth control is old news in the Western world. But the cycle will repeat with new technologies. Suppose you're serious about fitness, you spend hours every week spinning and cross-fitting, and your abs are rippling. And tomorrow, a pill is developed that lets everyone be perfectly fit with zero effort. What do you get for all your hours at the gym? Can you imagine being bummed that everyone else is getting for free what you worked so hard for? That might give some idea what pre-birth-control nostalgia is like.
Taking notes is also a form of Influence Capital. Having proof of what people said, when they said it, is extremely important for people like me with "100% Accountability, 0 Authority" roles. Being the only person taking notes is the ultimate CYA outside of an audio recording (not that any of this matters in the chain of command, but at least it feels good to be right at the end of the day).
Some sort of slider or something like CDN's have with scaling number of requests a day and the associated pricing would help. So like 10K a day, 100K a day, 250K etc.
I think the worst case is a little hairier than that.

Companies keep records of their applicants and interview feedback. I'm dramatically oversimplifying, but your feedback will spell out two things in isolation: your fit for the role you applied for, and your fit for the company in general. If you do badly enough not to clear that second hurdle, you're going to have a hard time getting future interviews at the company.

So I wouldn't recommend winging it in a Big 5 interview unless you're comfortable with the possibility that a bad performance might blackball you there. But hey, some folks are fine with that risk. Others are confident enough that they feel their seat-of-the-pants performance will still clear the basic hurdles. If that's you, then more power to you.
The legal side of it is very important but I don't think it's some fixed position that can't ever change. It's something to engage with and work with. If it was easy...it probably would have been done.

It's not tied to their work specifically, but it is some sort of arrangement where it is to some extent conditional upon their needs, wants and behaviour. It's a multifaceted suitability assessment, where the people we would help still maintain autonomy over what they get -- not like they are just applying to some large bureaucracy hoping to win a lottery.
Exactly. Either the EU is powerful and infringing on people's lives, but then it must be important. Or it's irrelevant and unimportant, but then it's not a threat. Yet the Brexit "sovereignty" argument is often reiterated alongside the complaint that the EU doesn't actually do anything.
After reading years and years of discussions like this, it seems like the citizen opposition and (somewhat unfair) demonisation of nuclear power is endlessly repeated as the reason we don't have nukes anymore, despite them being a great source of clean(ish) energy.

However it seems the real reason, as in all things, is economics.
They're just too damn expensive to build and run, and the expected returns on investment take an extremely long time to materialise(20+ years) Noone wants to put up the enormous capital, with the very real risk that they'll never see returns as the alternative energy markets(gas, solar, etc) are evolving and dropping in price so quickly.
I know I'd be pretty hesitant taking a half billion dollar 30 year bet against technology.
Sure absolute size doesn't matter. But what about number of neurons or neural connections? I'd be curious what the actual studies say.

The article hinted at this: "African gray parrots, which can identify shapes and even count, as well as corvids, which have an equivalent number of neurons to some primates and, it is suggested, may even be self-aware."

Comparing brain size vs intelligence across species seems weird since neuron size/density differs so much.
In my home, Comcast business uses IPv6. So far, no VPN supports this, and I haven't found proper answers on how to handle this?

I've heard I can just "disable IPv6" on my Mac, but I don't know the full implications of this. If anyone has any input I'd appreciate this, because then I would use a VPN all the time.

EDIT Sorry I meant to type VPN not VPS, stupid typo.
> nuclear power is possibly the most attacked form of energy that exists, and that includes coal and petroleum, both of which are still heavily used despite any public outcry

It's interesting that the fossil fuels do far more harm, but nuclear is what everyone fears. (In fairness, nuclear problems do far more harm locally to the plant.)
This is a great point, but I'm very pessimistic about existing infrastructure getting any attention from the administration. If we're unable to upgrade and secure our nukes (!), I don't see how this would be a priority for anyone. Until that is something goes bad...
I for one would be interested in seeing the C book even in draft. :)
How would barter system prevent the goods made by robots? As long as robot-employing countries remain, they will still produce cheaper goods. All this means is that if I need a pencil, I will go to my local "trader" to barter things I have for imported, industrially-produced pencils. even with shipping, a pencil factory overseas will still produce much cheaper pencils that artisanal pencil maker. More technologically advanced items would be even worse.

If you want people to shun goods made by robots, you should campaign for visible "MADE BY ROBOTS" markings on relevant products, educate people why this is bad, and maybe also tax such produce extra for a good measure. Of course, it may not work very well, may have an opposite effect (see "Made In Germany" story), and will definitely introduce potential for abuse and gaming of the system.
It would have been untenable, however, for a government to defy the will of the people as expressed in the referendum.
The whole networking is dependent on FFT.
Oh I see what you're saying. Then yes, your math is right, but our assumptions probably don't match. :)

1. This is our earliest launch. We're very expensive for 86mm requests per day right now. We have volume pricing planned but not rolled out. If you're interested, I'd suggest trying a low volume site to see how it feels and then get ahold of me to talk about volume pricing.

2. Our service is designed for "valuable" requests, not any ol' asset. API calls and pageviews are usually a good fit. Sustaining 1k "valuable" requests/s for a full month is pretty rare. I know you and other people on HN run that level of infrastructure, but our value prop for you won't be very high until we're more mature.
While we're at it, the trademarked name is in all caps - MATLAB
France is doing so well that during last November's cold snap they were considering cutting power to industry and rolling power outages for the population because too many of their ancient, brittle nuclear power plants were out of commission and the import capacity from neighbouring countries was at its limit.

http://www.reuters.com/article/france-power-winteroutlook-id...

(Reuters claims that there wasn't enough spare capacity in Germany; in fact the transfer capacity of ~2 GW was the limiting factor; http://www.iwr.de/news.php?id=32860)

For what it's worth, I think the temperatures improved before the more drastic measures had to be implemented. And of course people are free to argue that taking those French plants down for review was an overreaction by an overly critical nuclear regulation regime.
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Going straight from full-blown f.lux to "disabled", everything looks extremely blue and harsh to me, and still doesn't look natural, so I prefer a lighter touch of evening mode.
The huge risks (both financial type and "boom" type) with building and supporting nuclear reactors seems like pretty solid evidence that they are not "one of the best alternatives".
[citation needed] (for your claim that the prototype male "pill" is 100x as bad as the existing female pill)

The side effects of female hormonal birth control are really bad for plenty of women.
edit: i dont mean any of this to be combative or insulting, figured i would throw this in at the top in case someone doesnt make it to the end thinking i am trying to attack their ideology, just trying to get feedback on an argument i read long ago

what do you think about the argument that by removing yourself from the market of meat entirely, you do nothing to promote better lives for livestock.

By abstaining from meat, you do nothing to push the meat industry towards more sustainable and compassionate treatment of animals. You, being someone who is conscious of these abuses are in a position to push for change, but instead you remove yourself from the market entirely.

Ultimately, isnt refusing to vote with your wallet worse than voting for compassionate and sustainable production of livestock?

Wouldnt eating lab grown meat do more to end the suffering of these animals than not eating meat at all? since it would push an entire industry toward your preference of eating only that which was produced to your standards.

would the entire population of vegetarians and vegans combined buying only the most sustainable and compassionately raised meats be enough to effect the processes of major producers? Would this be a greater good than not eating meat at all? of course, this likely doesnt effect the decision on a personal level, but at scale does veganism help or hurt the progress towards more sustainably and compassionately raised livestock? (though of course if that scale were to include everyone, it would be no longer an issue i suppose)

of course this moreso assumes your overall goal is to reduce the suffering of these animals, or the suffering of all things as much as you possibly can- if your goal is to instead reduce the amount of suffering you directly cause, then this argument is meaningless.

I'm honestly asking this, as its the only argument that i have found that sounds reasonable against becoming vegan, im not really trying to start a debate, i dont really have more to say than this, but its an argument that stuck with me the first time i read it and i very rarely have a chance to have a level headed discussion about such a topic (reddit isnt really the place for level headed discussion, and i am not aware of a nutrition or dietary equivalent to hackernews)
Not a novel idea, or necessarily easy, but solve a problem for a business. A niche calculator, a pdf template, a better way to view publicly available date, a site widget, etc.

If you gain some traction, there is ad revenue to be gained. I have found even 100 to 300 page views a day is enough to start seeing a few dollars each day. B2B ads pay out more. I've seen single clicks bring in $5+. Once built, not usually much you have to do after that, and they will typically grow slowly over time. And I feel good about them, because I know businesses are getting actual value out of them.

I have not struck the right chord with affiliate revenue yet. But I know there is money to be made with the right niche. I think you need to be a little more invested in affiliate sites, and have a real interest. These sites seem to require a steady flow of new content, though you may be able to automate some of it.
Thanks, it'll be fixed soon.
How does this compare to the implementations of Scala in Jupyter notebooks?

I was assuming that it would be something more like Matlab's gui environment or maybe RStudio.

It could be helpful to add an introductory paragraph, especially since "hello world" and "2+3" follow right after the heading "Linear Algebra".
The Netherlands returned to voting with paper and pencil since a university proved that the voting machines could be hacked. It takes a day or two more to count the votes, but who cares, apart from the media? If a technology creates more problems than it solves, it should be abandoned.
> it seems the real reason, as in all things, is economics

The economics might be different if we paid for the real cost of carbon-based energy, instead of imposing that cost on the world as an externality.
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Wired doesn't force you.
I'll provide you with a VPN that supports IPv6. Email address in my profile.

EDIT: And the full implications of disabling IPv6 are approximately nothing.
There is an opposite danger, you skip too many meetings and then you get invited to one, and you go there, and you don't understand much what other people are talking about. And that is because you miss the common vocabulary, approaches, ideas which were discussed on previous meetings.
I'm able to read the wired article with javascript disabled. I'm not sure what your adblocker is doing that prevents you from reading it.
This is not the fault of the platform, but the advertiser.

When you see an ad that's too tailored most people just get scared anyway.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
> you pretty much had no option but to post to some random phpBB board or IRC channel and hope for a response. StackOverflow and GitHub didn't even exist!

Usenet baby, Usenet. Still alive today although doomed beyond any optimistic hope.
Fossil fuel emissions and other pollutants build up gradually and can be controlled. You're not going to get kicked out of your home and neighborhood forever because of a malfunction at the coal plant.

And nuclear power generation also emits a very dangerous pollutant: nuclear waste.
It's spent more of its life than not above both figures.
Clarification: even sequential blinking did not realign the lenses we tried, for some odd reason. Dailies would be really awesome to be able to wear, because I only wear contacts for water sports and when dressing up, so I end up throwing out the 30-day lenses after only a handful of uses. Thanks for pointing me towards what you use, I'll ask my guy to try them on me if he hasn't already when I go in for my annual.
That's why "pill" is inside quotes.

And in any case, basic biology and the presented numbers still stand as the reality.
When I learned that humans have genetic mutations resulting in an additional chromosome, my first reaction was to associate it with something like "X-Men" and a big time advantage, and then finding out that it's pretty much an undesirable development complication, I learned a lot about my assumptions + imagination versus finding out the real story.
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Same for me, with one additional piece: I'll almost always read the article before writing a comment.
There's no way six digit salaries are going to be sustainable in the near future. This kind of money is possible because of low interest capital going around but when the rates inevitably rise and capital dries up, it's going to be hard for companies to pay someone $350,000 USD /year doing the work someone in Vancouver, BC can do for $100,000 CAD /year.

I recall during the dot com bubble people justified a six digit figure for knowing HTML.
From the 4 downvotes ( which hurt a bit I'll admit, it's like punishment -- for what? Offering an idea? My instinctive response is 'whatever' to people who want to try to punish people for making ideas. Because this is a problem that needs ideas, punishing discussion is a ridiculous response. The comments I've gotten have not been the exemplar of constructive responses that such ideas and such a topic merit. ) -- I'm sensing there's a lot of negativity to this approach. Along the lines of "how dare you think you can help them." which is not a workable response at all.

From my point of view, I don't really see the need to get so emotional about this. Just see it from a level headed perspective and take some concrete steps. Thinking that such a sad situation can be improved is not something to get so angry about.

But to some extent I understand that...since it is an emotional issue, because it's such a painful one. I think it works to bring some calmness to the approach for excellent results.

Even if I try this and fail the people are not going to be worse off. So why has this proposal garnered your hatred? It really doesn't make you look bad that I have an idea about this and am bold enough to say it, and you don't have any ideas to speak of. So if it doesn't make you look bad, and it's not going to cause any harm, but might actually cause some good, why do you hate it? No need to be afraid of it. What this will be, if it is anything, will be like nothing that has come before.

So your reaction isn't about this idea. Your reaction to this idea is about you. While we could spend some more time discovering what about you it is, I don't want to spend that time so. You should discover what about this idea raises your ire so. That will be a really interesting discovery for you I think. That's what your reaction is about. You should work out why you feel like that.

And while you're doing that, the people who choose to want to contribute to making improvements in this problem and others can get on and do that.
The risks from fossil fuels are orders of magnitude greater.
No - but I won't be having kids, and no procreating vegetarian will have a lower footprint than me, so I think there are other ways at having the desired impact without being confined to dietary habits.
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I've been very interested in machine learning/neural nets for the past year, and have been reading papers on arxiv in detail. Having implemented some papers myself, and training the nets and watching conference talks, I feel as I am missing a chunk in my understanding.

I can understand how new advances are being made, but what I do not understand on how to discover them in the first place, and what tradeoffs are. Why is going deeper better than a shallower, more connected architecture? Why are Resnet's better than RNN/LSTM's, when they seem like the same thing? It feels to me that we are picking up mud, and throwing it against a wall to see what sticks. I have a physics background, so I'm more used to deliberate design way of thinking (we used this architecture because of X, Y, and Z).

Anyway, I was hoping to see if someone know's where I can find some mentorship where these questions are answered. Maybe someone records a professor's office hours? Is there an online meetup that discusses these issues? I have particular interest in multiple object tracking and segmentation.

I will be applying for Google Brain soon, but I just wanted to have more of a fundamental understanding first. Thank you!
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This narrative holds only so long as one completely disregards the potential extinction-level event that continues at Fukushima. The simple fact of the matter is no technology exists to adequately and safely address the worst-case failure scenarios. We would do better to pump more CO2 into the atmosphere, whilst reversing deforestation during a transition to solar than to build even one more nuclear plant.
I am not a Nuclear Engineer...but here, again it seems like the operating factor is scale. If you were building many nuclear reactors, cost per reactor would perhaps go down. Not to mention: recent advances in technology and automation might help better monitor and operate the reactors, increasing safety and decreasing cost.

All of this is just armchair reasoning though. I have not the faintest idea what the most expensive parts of building a reactor are.
I use the phrase "Moving the ball forward" and I apply it to all meetings. Even if there is an agenda, I ask this question. If this is a status meeting I often don't go. Before the meeting ends I ask: "How did we move the ball forward in this meeting?" And if the answer is we didn't, we stay seated.
I wish I lived in a country which allowed that logic at all..
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"best" is relative; what is better, that can scale up sufficiently to meet the world's energy demand?

Perhaps renewables can scale up, but last I heard that wasn't realistic on the time scale humanity needs. Does anyone have good information on that question?
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You need to look at what the definition of "sideloaded" is, as you seem to have it fundamentally confused with its exact opposite.
As with many things, it's not the solution thats complex, the problem is. A seemingly simple solution to a hard problem often just shifts the problem to a different domain for you to deal with it.

Understanding your problem and the tools as you mentioned deeply allow the great things, or just, keep fingers crossed and hope for the best.

A lot of problems can often be reduced in complexity by really understanding what you need vs. what you think you want or your user wants. The real challenge is translating what is wanted into what is needed (which is often hard to explain to clients).
>Do you want to risk that happening to your area?

Already do. 55% of my state's power comes from Nuclear.

Coal releases 100x more radiation and 68x more CO2 than nuclear for equal energy production. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/202/4372/1045

And it isn't like coal is immune from having zero-notice forced evacuation, and making land uninhabitable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...
It sounds like you don't pay market salaries and are in denial
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