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There are two problems that I can see here.

First, the complexity in the physics/chemistry of our molecular machines is such that "only a matter of time" may extend longer than the time span of our species' existence.

Second, it is completely possibly that we are more than molecular machines. There may be an aspect to our functioning that is beyond the physical. That aspect of our existence may not be possible to replicate.
Um, that's kinda the point. I may not think calling someone "sexy" is sexist. I may think calling someone "Frank" is extremely offensive. It doesn't matter what I think! Concepts like "sexism" are based on social norms.
Strange, These days very little to zero development happens without IDEs. I don't really know why anybody should expect to test somebody's skills without an IDE.

That's because today a term called 'Productivity' has become massively more important than any thing else. Its something like this, Lets say there is an archer. He can shoot the red dot 9/10 of times with his bow and arrow. You take away the bow and arrow and give him stones and ask him to match the same 9/10 hits on the red dot. Guess what, he won't be able to, May be with time he can. But for the time being he can't.

What does this say? Does this mean he is a bad archer? No. Tools and their usage is part of the trade.

No skill can be tested in Isolation.
What I didn't like specifically was "screw the producers". I'm optimistic about the future of my craft, for sure, but I'm not on the happy talk information is free bandwagon, I'm just not. If I mark a tune as CC, so be it, otherwise it's All rights reserved. I don't encourage piracy, even if it's 'good for me', and that's a traditional system worth making peace with, called an honor system.
I'm not entirely sure, I don't work there and don't know all that many people that do. I think that core ads is like search, a heavily data-driven, scientific, Stanford-based culture.
"Everyone reading Hacker News knows the statistics when it comes to startup success. Why would the music industry (or any artistic endeavor) be any different in this regard?"

This is the failed model that leads to the kind of monopolies all too well known to artists like myself.. It's sure not the American model for entrepreneurship. This hits "business" business model is for the fucking birds, and this line "If all else fails, consider that maybe you don't have a product worth buying, and then improve or leave." is bullshit. Ask Mozart, Van Gogh, Stephen Foster and lots of other great artists who died penniless.

"As a musician, like it or not, you're an entrepreneur"

Sorry, I know this and I like it. And as an entrepreneur, what I hate about about the hits business model that started in music, and is making its rounds to software is that it's not a very healthy one -- it's a winner take all, zero sum game, ans it's naive to not understand that most successful business models cannot run this way. Yesterday music, today movies, tomorrow software.

TL;DR thank you so much for the lecture, hacker bro. When it comes to: "Make something people want, at a price they're willing to pay."
I wasn't suggesting they'd move. I asked if they considered moving.
Be careful, your falling into the same cognitive trap as _ists. There is no universal response to rejection or pain, but some responses are far more memorable which feeds into the idea that there exists some pattern. Consider in the US women kill more men than men kill women. Violence in the US is at the lowest levels in the history of this country. Historically, Christians have been more violent than Muslims.

Reading that, it's easy to feel cognitive dissonance as preconceived notions don't actually fit reality. But, that's the thing intuition is not setup to analyze society in much the same way that people are vary poor at balancing risk and rewards.
This is one of the few times I've disagreed with hacker news. Sorry. Not a fan. :(
It's kind of myopic, there's a hundred million + small businesses worldwide, these guys may be on top of the food chain (this week), but remember, the bigger they are, the harder they fall...
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Thanks for the link. I had similar thoughts to the original downvoted commenter. I talked to one of the various IM bots in 2006, and they've been around a lot longer than that, and I thought that apart from its constant advertising to me it was remarkably human-like especially when it sometimes used 'u' instead of 'you'. If it had more processing power and memory, a better memory, and didn't have a goal of making money through advertising, I thought back then it had a decent chance at fooling humans.

That's all the Turing Test is, it's fooling humans, and humans are incredibly easy to fool--you don't need human level intelligence to fool one. Just several months ago I only realized that a response I got on a craigslist posting was made by a bot after I replied and it replied back with an almost word-for-word copy of its original message (and urged me to fill out a form of personal info). Simple hacks like avoiding repeating the same things, remembering information shared to whom and to you from whom, and the occasional intentional grammatical error go a long way to trick the human. I think we could have had multiple Turing Test passes over the past couple years if that was actually an important goal. But I think most people in AI realize there are more interesting problems to work on than AI PR so projects like CleverBot aren't given top priority.
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>> So maybe we ought to be more careful about
>> how we use the term.
>
> Or, maybe we ought to be more careful about
> saying sexist things!

Reworded in the context of McCarthyism:

>> In this society, being labelled a "Communist"
>> is pretty close to excommunication. So maybe we
>> ought to be more careful about how we use the
>> term.
>
> Or, maybe we ought to be more careful about saying
> Communist things!
If you're going to make your webpage a photo of yourself, make sure it's a good photo. Neither the red-eye nor the dusky kitchenette with vertical blinds are really helping you out.

Those 37 signals pages that everyone raves about or really any other website that uses full-bleed photography use really good photography.

The photo doesn't have to be of you, but if it is, i'd seriously consider having a friend take a photo of you during golden hour (or at least during the day) with a sharp lens. Expect to do a bit of touching up anyway and make sure everything feels decadent.

If you've got a good photo, it's pretty hard to muck it up with type. Case in point: look at almost all album art (or fashion magazines) for proof of this.
Did the comment say the announcer was a man?
> There may be an aspect to our functioning that is beyond the physical. That aspect of our existence may not be possible to replicate.

What does "beyond the physical" even mean? I assume you mean something "supernatural," meaning something that is "true/real," yet impossible to study or even verify empirically.
A search for Toxoplasmosis on G-scholar reveals that this parasite is in fact a problem for immune compromised patients and infants. Although I do not think WebMD is a reliable source, another comment here cites them to indicate that infections are usually cleared up by our immune system. This appears to be plausible, but because the parasite enters cells, and can hide in a latent phase, your immune system may be unable to clear the infection permanently. Because the parasite can halt the cell cycle, it may be able to hide indefinitely. I would not be concerned about a latent parasite, but its re-emergence may become a problem if your immune system becomes compromised.

A correction to your statement that, according to wikipedia, the disease cannot be tested by blood sample. Wikipedia, in fact, stats that it can be tested by blood or other tissue, but only if the parasite is active (non-latent).

Regarding its effect on behavior, the parasite seems to increase dopamine levels and possibly inhibit fear response. Since the increased dopamine is caused by an enzyme made by the parasite, this probably only occurs during a full scale infection. The inhibition of fear may occur while the parasite is inactive, if the parasite is able to enter cells in your amygdala. I do not see this inhibition of fear as long-lasting, except perhaps in extreme cases.

One disclaimer, I grew up with a few cats, so I may have been, or am currently, infected. I cannot rule out that this parasite is manipulating me to write this comment. Now I'm off to find some cat pee. Can't get enough of that smell, mmmmmmmm.....

More technical wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
I just wanted to add another voice to this (and i'll up vote it dont worry!)

We decided to go with paypal payments pro for our beta because stripe wasnt supported in Canada, as soon as you guys get here we'll make the switch however! Very excited you have people working on it!
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I can't imagine why I would ever use this. Perhaps AT&T is a trusted brand for big corporations.
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After reading about Joel Spolsky "What Programmers Want" survey, I thought it'd be interesting to know how programmers feel about their current employer.

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In Canada we're using CheddarGetter and paypal to accept USD, however as an Australian (Living in Canada....) i know exactly what you mean and have been through it before.

I seriously suggest you look at Paypal, if you want to make switching easy however, abstract the implementation as much as you can. We're using CheddarGetter to do the abstraction for us, its $79 / month for CheddarGetter...but any half decent programmer who i trust with our billing doesnt cost far from that per hour anyway. Its a cheap means of getting around some smelly situations!
I love that the scientist at the heart of this story looks like a young Doc Brown
I can't help but thinking - when I was a kid, this is the kind of car I thought we would have when I was an adult. I recently watched "Revenge of the Electric Car" which heavily features Elon and Tesla. It's definitely an interesting story - and one that deserves to be told.

Electric cars obviously have many (and some major) problems. But I can't shake the feeling... I want cars like this to win. I still personally don't think I would want to spend this much on a car... but I'm really excited that we're finally getting true innovation in the auto industry.
I disagree with your conclusion that such a system is inherently not intelligent.

If you accept that humans are intelligent, and that they can judge that another human is intelligent by conversing with them across a text-only channel, then you run into a big problem by stating that a Turing-test-passing algorithm is unintelligent. To do so would expose the fact that your definition of "intelligence" secretly includes the class "...and is a human," which makes "intelligent machine" a contradiction of terms. It is essentially an example of the No True Scotsman fallacy, because you're revealing a new facet of your claim when faced with an apparent counterexample.

If you're defining "intelligence" to be a purely human trait, then come right out and say so, and everyone will agree that on your terms a machine cannot be intelligent. Of course, I would argue that such a definition isn't very useful, since it basically means that the adjectives "intelligent" and "humans" are synonyms.
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I'm not sure if the coolness factor of the gull-wing doors (as opposed to, say, sliding doors) compensates for their incompatibility with a roof rack.
I'm currently using T-Mobile with an unlocked Galaxy Nexus (GSM version). The only feature that I currently use from T-Mobile is their data connection. For voice calls I'm using Google voice and Skype:

(1) With most of my friends I just use Skype for calls, as I have it running on my phone all the time.

(2) As fallback, my Google voice number has Jingle (Google Talk) forwarding enabled and on my phone there's a client that is able to accept Jingle calls. So I'm also reachable on a traditional phone number.

Disadvantage: Unfortunately both applications considerably decrease battery life.

Advantage: Skype voice quality is much better than regular phone calls. I don't need to use one specific endpoint device (my mobile phone), but can also use my laptop to receive calls. I can travel without having to give my new phone number to all my friends.
When I answered the question, I meant it in a sense of "I don't expect to get rich if we ever IPO or get bought, and as an employee I haven't any way to prevent dilution or otherwise try to maximize the value of these options. So how about we take another look at our base, hm?"
There's also the problem that IP law is premised on what amounts to folk psychology.
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It is very rare that I hear people acknowledge that women are capable of sexist comments as well.
Using any functional, practical definition of "artificial intelligence" that I've ever heard, we have certainly made a lot of progress since the late AI winter.

It sounds like you're using the unfortunate definition that essentially defines any task as "not requiring intelligence" the instant a machine is able to perform it well. This has been done with voice recognition, facial recognition, music composition, etc., and is actually one of the main reasons we even had the AI winter.
Maybe because it has earned it?
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Beyond the physical meaning properties that are unable to be replicated by manipulating physical atoms and molecules. I wouldn't call them "supernatural" at all because (assuming they do exist) they are absolutely a natural and even necessary part of life.

I would assume they would be possible to verify in some way once we've reached the stage where hard AI is nearly achieved.
"We evaluated 148 case patients with recent T. gondii infection and 413 control patients. In multivariate analysis, an elevated risk of recent T. gondii infection was associated with the following factors: eating raw ground beef (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 6.67; 95% confidence limits [CLs], 2.09, 21.24; attributable risk [AR], 7%); eating rare lamb (aOR, 8.39; 95% CLs, 3.68, 19.16; AR, 20%); eating locally produced cured, dried, or smoked meat (aOR, 1.97; 95% CLs, 1.18, 3.28; AR, 22%); working with meat (aOR, 3.15; 95% CLs, 1.09, 9.10; AR, 5%); drinking unpasteurized goat’s milk (aOR, 5.09; 95% CLs, 1.45, 17.80; AR, 4%); and having 3 or more kittens (aOR, 27.89; 95% CLs, 5.72, 135.86; AR, 10%). Eating raw oysters, clams, or mussels (aOR, 2.22; 95% CLs, 1.07, 4.61; AR, 16%) was significant in a separate model among persons asked this question. Subgroup results are also provided for women and for pregnant women.

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If it's not supernature, than science can evaluate it and in time even understand it.

After that, it's just a question of engineering.
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I would be interested in fooling with this, but I'm an Illustrator addict! Photoshop used to be basically what hosted my scanner drivers, and now that I do most of my work direct in AI, and TWAIN seems to be a dead standard, I don't even use it for that.
> Apple, Argosy Publishing, Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, JP Morgan Chase, New Frontier Media, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises International, Rent-A-Center, Sun Microsystems (bought by Oracle while this litigation was underway), and Texas Instruments.

^^ The list of companies who settled with Eloas before the patent was ruled invalid.

A part of me wishes companies had a legal obligation to fight patent claims they believed to be invalid. Settling hurts us all.
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Pie charts for comparison?! Here, I made you some bar charts instead: http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/wpw/Country

Thanks to gavinballard for the CSV link.

If you want to see different breakdowns, just download the workbook/software and play with it yourself.
I'd be concerned it will turn into the "Link my page for a dollar" and "retweet this to your 10k spambot followers for a dollar" that detracts from the usefulness of these kind of services.

The gamification suggestions going on in your G+ discussion [1] are intriguing. I could imagine trading in a virtual currency for fixed or variable priced favors and looking to trade that back in for some help in areas where my skills are lacking.

https://plus.google.com/111020520676817671277/posts/VhBuNXfv...
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A few months ago I made http://artevolve.com pretty much to mimic github for graphics/art... but doesn't seem like designers or artsy folks were that interested in it.
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I don't know about yours, but I know they wouldn't open in my garage...
Taking the focus away from intellectual and professional capacity with something else is just that, indirectly downplaying and trivializing the person.

The interesting thing is many guys probably wouldn't say something like this about a close female they knew themselves, be it their own wives, girlfriends, sisters.

Nor would we want anyone speaking like that about our wives, girlfriends, or sisters.

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Now this is an electric car I would definitely buy! The Roadster was meh (not a fan of compact sports cars), the Model S was good, the X is excellent - can't wait to see what they have in store next (a full sized SUV, maybe?).
You imply that atoms and molecules are elementary particles, which we already know to not be the case. It's possible that quantum effects, which seem to be probabilistic (depending on your interpretation), are vital for human intelligence. However, that seems fairly unlikely. While it's still mostly speculation, most experts tend to think that classical mechanics are sufficient to explain the functions of the human brain, which would imply that an identical arrangement of atoms/molecules would also be an intelligent system, and a good computer simulation (which is currently still unfeasible) of the atoms/molecules would also be an intelligent system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
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I completely feel for you, I was in a somewhat similar situation although was working purely as a contractor for a startup. I was the sole web developer and basically took idea from conception to launch, for a rather budget rate as I was light on experience at the time, yet would still get all kinds of flack at times, basically I've come to realize that 'business' people often simply don't and won't ever have respect for what developers do. Having worked for a company also that is 'mature', 10 years old, or so, that is run by sales and business people, I can say its the same thing, there is a lack of trust and respect on their part for the engineering team, even though software is their core product and without the developers the company couldn't even exist. Really the only way to get away from this, IMO, is to work for companies that have someone with a dev background at the top, its the only way a company can ever truly "get it"
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I was thinking not useful enough to deserve the "minivan" title. Minivans, like station wagons before them, are the world's schleppers. A big, flat bottomed, flat topped box that you can yank the seats out of and fill with junk... and then bungee more junk to the top.

Its a fine first step, but the winner in this space is going to be the company that makes a simple box with batteries, motors and seatbelts that's so simple and so cheap, it will make its IC predecessors look like steam power. I'm betting Hyundai comes out of left field with something and surprises everyone.
Does google ever hire people that specialize only in design? It seems like a technical programming background is required. Does anyone know otherwise?
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Sorry but no. I have been alive long enough to know that you always assume malice. Especially with big companies.
I like Kayak, too. Hipmunk is neat, but it's almost too slick. I essentially want to know the price, departure time, and arrival time. Everything beyond that doesn't really add much. What I'd love too see is something that simply allows me to see the cheapest flight between too points without having to put in the travel dates.