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Does anyone ever feel that neuroscience is getting more and more lovecraftian and challenging basic assumptions of what it means to be human? It sometimes feels like we're at a point in history where all the basic tenets of existence are being torn down by science and replaced with... nothing. Am I the only one who gets existential crisises from this kind of stuff? :p

It doesn't help, of course, that I'm currently reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Human-Race-Contriva...

The luddite in me wishes that science will never be able to fully pick apart the human psyche. Here's to having an inscrutable ghost in the machine to keep us from being mere deterministic flesh-bots...
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If it is a long list then the O of the algorithm matters a lot.

If its a short list, who cares?

If you care about it all the time then you a premature optimiser - basically a hand-grenade with the pin out.

(by you I mean 'one' here - not you AdamT)
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Very annoying they show the restriction on the last page of a fairly lengthy multi-page form.
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Sure, different people will have different strengths and weaknesses. But that's different than "hard-wired." You may have some natural talent or predisposition, or you may have some particular disability or difficulty with something. But most of those can be melded and shaped by your environment, your culture, your experiences, your hormones, practice and learning, your desires, and the like.

I've known several people who have transitioned between genders. Were they "hard-wired" the way you claim they are? One of them, who transitioned to being a man, took testosterone as part of the transition (and presumably still does). He reports that the testosterone was significant in changing some of his behaviors to being more masculine; when upset, he has a harder time crying than he did before. Now, is that what you would call "hard-wired"?

I don't pretend to know whether you are born gay, or if it's something environmental during your childhood, or whether it really is more flexible than some people like to admit. Surely there is a predisposition to be attracted to the opposite sex; but that doesn't meet the criteria I would use for "hard-wired."

"Hard-wired" says that something is absolute; immutable. It cannot be changed. There is a binary; you are either this way, or you are that way. And that's just not how people work; at least, behaviorally, for the vast majority of behaviors. Really, there are multitudes of different axes on which people's behavior differs; and while their sex might influence their behavior a bit, the results tend to be overlapping bell curves with slightly different averages, not two entirely different sets of behaviors.

The whole "women do this, men do that" or "hard wired" type of reasoning is an over-simplification, which is amplified culturally.

(sorry for the late followup, I didn't see this comment until just now)
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Depends how useful it is to you and others. Coincidentally I was just pondering doing the exact same thing today so I can tell you it would be useful for others. Mine was to be billed as a tool for web designers and social media people to give to their clients as an easy way for them to keep up with their accounts and as a selling point for the people setting it up. I don't mind if you run with that idea either as I probably won't execute very soon.

There are a bunch of companies beholden to Facebook and Twitter for similar reasons as you and the ones who are successful are able to enhance the experience in some way that the company providing the API isn't willing to get into. Zynga is good example. The problem is that if you're not big enough then they don't give a shit. If you have a sizable portion of their users and are providing something that keeps people using their platform then you're good. Check out Buffer. Buffer let's you spread out Tweets over time and I'm pretty sure it posts to Facebook too. Somehow they've managed to avoid the pitfalls. But you're saying the Twitter API won't let Tweets come from your app? That's weird because that's exactly what Buffer does and I haven't seen them have any problem. I haven't looked into it but maybe you can go about asking for an exception. You really have to make a great case though.

But to finally give a straight answer I'd say that if it's important enough to you then you should definitely deal with the uncertainty. Find a model that gives you a kind of partner status rather than a leach status in their eyes. Brizzly, Buffer, and Zynga somehow navigated the territory so I think you could too.
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I think one way to look at the issue of piracy is to think of it like smoking in that it affects the utility of society--it's a cultural issue that has to be handled by the law but more importantly the newer generations. You can't just "stop it", it has to be grandfathered out because just like smoking was (or even is), the problem is systemic.

People started weighing the utility of smoking--and most rational people came to the conclusion that collectively it probably wasn't something we should be doing so they started picking away at the issue one cig at a time through legislation, programming, education, and taxation. And there was huge opposition too, especially by the people puffing away. It's taken years, and generations, but smoking is in a definite decline--hell, teenagers in my country (Canada) have stopped smoking twofold in the past 10 years as we're down from 24% to 12%--that's a big leap, but again it's a slow process. It's gotten to the point where smoking isn't cool.

What I'm trying to get at here is that the goal shouldn't be to stop piracy right this instant, that's an impossible task because it is so ingrained into our culture (especially young people like me, and yes, "shifty eyes" I said like me) it should be to systemically weed out the issue over time--and what the OP is doing, challenging the status-quo, and offering suggestions on how to help fix the problem is a step in the right direction (there are flaws, but he noted that); one cig at a time. You might think that piracy doesn't affect the greater utility of the world like say smoking does--there aren't health risks, but there are risks of losing our liberties (look at this madness!), risks of penalty and persecution, risk of moral degredation--not to mention the risks we don't even know about. And when I think of what the internet could potentially be because of SOPA I wonder if it's worth the few songs, or movies, or whatever each of us takes from the pile. I am sure there was a time when parents sitting in a crowded restaurant with young kids all around, smoke just filled in the air, wondered if that tiny bit of enjoyment they got from that lit object was worth it at that time too. And just like those parents then, I don't want newer generations to have to deal with long term consequences of my bits of joy.

Anyways Mr. Flores thanks for posting this, I like it when people try to honestly work towards a better future. Your idea probably won't get traction, but think about it as continuing that slow and daunting process of removing one bit at a time.

-signed a dumb kid who's never smoked
Possibly, but pure software patents tend to be harder to go after than software coupled with hardware (like mobile devices).
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First of all, i'd like to commend Joey for making a constructive proposition on what he feels so strongly about.

However, I think there are some fundermental issues he may not put into consideration.

1. Sites that enable piracy are really not the cause of piracy. They just solve a problem millions of people prove they have' the need to share music. Computers/the internet just made what we have been doing much easier. You are trying to change human nature. When I met cassette tapes, music was shared. When we start moving bits from one human brain to another, music will still be shared that way.

I am launching my music startup in a few weeks and I will post about our way of working aroud this issue in a way copyright holders and creators can benefit from their works.

I personally think it is futile to stop what is inherent about music and humans. Sharing.
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True, you can find ugly parts anywhere if you look hard enough. This however does not make everything the same. There is a huge difference if you encounter ugliness in every line you write or just in obscure cases. Syntax does matter.
These are like the opposite ends of the approach continuum.

One end is a big centralized machinery designed to scale, and the appropriate logistics to ramp up availability across the country. But failures in production or transportation of goods will result in reduced availability. Also, centralized production drains the money to one place, namely the industrial area, and the local people might not have the money to continuously support buying these rags.

The other end is a distributed set of decentralized small-scale production fragments that produces local goods locally. The scheme will yield a higher local efficiency even if the total country-wide production of all units combine is more inefficient. It will recirculate local money more efficiently and boost local economy, again a local maxima, and this will allow more local people to buy the goods which was the whole point of this grassroots manufacturing. Also, production outages in one unit will not cause reduced availability since only a fraction of total production will be offline.

It gets fun to find analogies that fit this pattern. It's like Perforce vs Git, or West vs East.
If he doesn't exist, there's an awful lot of gatherings with him as a guest speaker at universities hitting on Google over the past four years from 07 to 2010, and he was (if Google can be believed) a visiting professor at Yale from 03-06 up until becoming a research professor at GMU.
You cannot pipe to dev null, since it's a device, not a process.

So, to summarize in shell-like syntax, you can redirect your output to /dev/null, as in

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but you can't sensibly use a pipe like so:

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Aye。

HTC also under MS's patent sue.

Jobs wants to wipe Android out of the world, and HTC maybe the easiest step.
but you had no problem with the time machine. only on HN.
I wonder too...

There have been other times in history that scientists had the idea that science was almost complete, that there were just a few things left to sort out and we'd understand it all (such as around 1900 with mathematics).

We may think we are very near and then discover something new and then find out a lot of new questions around the mind and consciousness. I don't think we're quite there yet.

However I'm sure "shallow AI" (and maybe "shallow mindreading") will become more and more important in the near future. Which is what IBM is focusing on.

BTW: Thanks for the pointer. That book looks very interesting.
Is there good way of knowing how you'll respond in a crisis? Is it just random, or is it tied to some characteristic which can be observed in normal life?

For instance, I am quite self-regulated and often go against the grain in regular life. I spend a lot more time thinking about the "right way" to do things than do most people, I suspect. I never accept things on blind faith, even if they are told to me by a supposed authority figure.

Does all this mean I stand a better chance of not being a sheep in a crisis?
Very annoying for those of us in Australia. I'd even pay a couple of dollars to make it work at this point, the call sounded great.
Well, now it is straight up "the grass is greener" problem.

I'd wipe away the cons list at this point, and just look at the pros, and just pick which pros make you can more envision yourself waking up to every day. Don't worry about corporate street cred -- it will stay with you through your MS/Google internships.

I still have bias towards choosing corporate as I personally wanted a nest egg so that when I did go to startups I would be financially worry free, and it worked out for me. I was able to save almost 50-60% of my salary every year (lived at my folks house).
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A credit card number already has a check digit. If you could make people memorize a few more digits than the telephone number that they'd like to call, you have your error correction.

(Of course, this is highly domain-specific and not very convenient. But it does seem possible.)
That's pretty quick. I'm willing to bet, the future of Indian lies in the online growth, the Internet and digital is the way to way.
Interesting! But would this be supercookie-proof? (site local storage, flash cookies, cache tokens, etc?)
Well then you've obviously not learned your lesson.
I understood that. It's that there are 1000 other things we need to be doing as humans. plus, I think there are more substantive and focused ways of showing somebody understands a given topic area, spent time on it, and has a meritocratic opinion worth paying attention to it. People who write letters to an editor may show they're passionate about an issue. But is also shows their time has little value, and/or they are an ignorant quack. We need to be able to make a distinction between these cases. And at the same time make it as easy and fast and cheap and painless as possible to vote.

And on November 8th, going into a voting booth, that is all that anyone can do already. Just push a button or fill in a circle which indicates "yeah, me too!". For those cases, let's speed it up and scale it up.
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My point was more about precision when making a bet, but yeah like I said I agree in sentiment. That being said, two-bit encoding is exactly what Stephen Hawking uses with his thumb, so it's not inconceivable to use it on a neural level as a last resort, however impractical. And in some cases, it is: often paralyzed individuals use their tongue to manipulate a cursor, but this can cause all sorts of problems like abnormally large tongues due to muscle growth.

And I work in a lab that does BMI work, and we couldn't do the "call mom" command in the sentiment of lars, even though we use more spatially precise recordings (multi-electrode chronically implanted arrays). So I'm with that. OTOH we can do some cool things like control a computer cursor or tv remote with motor commands like "left-up" etc. Subjects reported that after a while they would cease to "translate" thoughts from movement commands into "BMI" commands like "change channel". It stands to reason they might be able to do the phone-book thing in that case.

Of course, few people find it worthwhile to get chronically implanted electrodes placed in their motor cortex, soooo.
> Primary funding for the website will be provided by website owners and copyright holders,

So there's now a tax to run a website. And we centralize control over the whole internet via DMCA.org? We're climbing a steep hill here and we've barely started. Also, you realize that sites can be served via compromised computers... right? Who answers for those? Not a big problem, you say? Well, aside from the botnets and such already out there that you apparently don't know about. And we're creating new incentives to create such things, too....

> Each website has a DMCA score based on complaints, response times and repeat violations, and websites with "mass infringement" status may be blocked

I assume you have the Pirate Bay in mind, but pretty much any popular user-generated site drowns in complaints already. And many of them already have tools that big rightsholders can use. So do we shut down YouTube? Viacom tried to.

Finally, there's all this stuff about "blocking." You're assuming that you can make a block that works. Problem is, you can't. If there's one source in all the world, it's enough for everyone. You can't block 99% of the world, because that last 1% will share copies with the rest. There are no filters on sneakernet. You vastly underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of DVDs. The government couldn't stop the spread of thousands of classified cables with the military at their disposal. China can't stop dissidents from getting through the Great Firewall. I've watched, for basically my entire life, as people came up with the same ideas, then hit the same failures. For every wall you put up, someone will create a ladder or a tunnel. Even Sisyphus didn't have it that bad.

You can't really make piracy significantly harder, but you can make buying things easier. Look at iTunes: I doubt there's a single thing on there that can't be found somewhere online for free. Yet they're a huge success because it's fast, easy & convenient. Make it easy to buy, easy to use, fun to experience. The pirates can't copy you, and successful performers make use of that, too.

But get your fans caught in the crossfire when you're trying to make things harder to pirate and they'll abandon you for an artist who treats them well. They're not pirates: they can, will and have bought from people who treated them well. But if you screw them when going after pirates, well, there's a lot of other music out there to buy and they don't need yours. Reminding potential customers that they don't need to listen to your music is not great for conversion, incidentally. But don't take my word for it, run an A/B test and see.

That said, you're absolutely right that things need fixing. But a far more realistic approach would be to fix copyright itself. William Patry (a famous lawyer & scholar of all things copyright) has a new book with some interesting thoughts on that:

http://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_Fix_Copyright.htm...

Like he says, "the proxy battle for control of technology and markets through copyright laws must stop."
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I'm not sure who is right, but note that transhumanists have a very different view on such developments.

Also, if the "basic tenets of existence" (whatever you consider those to be) can be torn down by looking at them critically, shouldn't they be? (Perhaps.)
You remind me of those 1337 HTML "hackers" advocating to write HTML in Notepad. There are two different things knowledge and control of the code you write and efficiency of the coding itself. I've been writing HTML for 15 years and I always did it by hand. But never in Notepad — it is the most inefficient way to do it. A good editor with autocompletion, snippets, syntax highlighting will make you much more productive.
The same applies to JS vs CS: CoffeeScript does not absolve you from need to know JavaScript, it just gives a way to write it in more productive (and fun) manner.
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Does anyone know if it calls immediately or can a time be scheduled? I'm at the form where you enter the phone numbers and I don't want it to wake anyone up.

Edit: Never mind. I filled out another one to send to my dog (lol) and got the message: "Santa can't call that number right now because Dudley is probably sleeping. Please try again after 8am in their time zone." I guess I'll leave the original tab open for a few hours.
This is a real game changer for those of us outside the US. My kids are 11 and 13 now. This looks like a huge opportunity growing for them. It will no longer matter that they will be far from a world-class university.
And it's still improved upon.. metacpan.org, f.ex, is a nice improvement.
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> that system breaks the Internet.

Only for normal people. Pirates will still manage to pirate. And then they'll share copies with that mythical 99% for whom pirating is supposed to be too hard. If all else fails, there's sneakernet, after all.
Here in Sweden, that has been my experience (blurriness, dimness). Sadly, we have a cinema monopoly around here and I am guessing that they are saving money by undercranking the projector bulbs.
I would guess this is how he is diversifying
I attended a talk he gave at Duke University either in 2010 or 2009.
And reading email during meetings. And auto-prompting..
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It's yet another reason to stay away from cinemas, not the only reason. The non-3D versions that do play around here tend to play in the smaller salons, and for example in the case of Tintin, only the swedish dubbed version plays as non-3D. So to see the film with original sound I either see it in 3D or see it at home.
Anyone else find this sort of thing terrifying from a security perspective? Taking a webapp, still under development, often running under a developer's user account out of their home directory, and exposing it to the internet at large? shudder
> I just call them static duck-typing, and then go on from there.

Duck typing is dynamically typed by definition. This is structural typing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_typing) (named, sadly, OCaml allows anonymous structural types which is even neater)
After I fnish the hole think I get "Oops! Santa can only make calls with valid North American phone numbers."

Now that is incredible poor user experience !
If it was up to HN users, no website would have advertising on it.

HN users are very far removed from normal users. HN feedback is interesting, but it's not as useful as feedback from normal people.