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"ALL POWER"?

If that means fewer kilowatts than I get now for the same dollar, NO DEAL.

My standard of living is something I won't compromise on. Everything I value - everything that makes my life great - including medicine, cuisine, art, travel, education, and countless other things, requires huge amounts of cheap, reliable energy.

If these lame energy sources were truly worthwhile, their proponents would build a startup around it, start making a profit, attract private capital to expand, and make even larger profits. Notice that in this case, the entire stream of transactions is 100% voluntary. Everyone involved is free to pursue their own lives as best they see fit.

Instead, what they clamor for is government handouts, and laws to shackle the production of energy from sources that actually work. That's totally involuntary. If you have to force people to accept your new idea, it's no good. That's because any such forcing prevents people from acting on their own best judgement (or even having their own best judgement - a mental process detached from reality does not constitute thought), and pursuing the things they care about.
Holy schnikes. Why are we not doing it?

PS. What do places without wind or sun do? Move?
> As nutrition expert Mark Sisson has noted, "Apart from maintaining social conventions in certain situations and obtaining cheap sugar calories, there is absolutely no reason to eat grains."

What a load of crap.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-...
Three nines reliability. That is appallingly bad.
Generally humans and animals have different rights in terms of what they are allowed to decide wrt their breeding habits.

Additionally, humans FREQUENTLY choose to adopt rather than risk passing on a genetic abnormality to a biological child.

The only difference here is that we would be making the decision for the tigers since, as everyone would agree, they don't have the ability to understand the consequences and make the decision themselves.
TL;DR: "no news, really, just more of the same (strong here, weak there, blah blah."
FYI: virt sandbox created containers are automatically locked down via SELinux[1] so you get the best of both worlds. I do not believe FBSD has a similar information assurance feature akin to SELinux.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Securecontainers
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When I was my healthiest (in terms of well being) and the fittest. I was eating Paleo. No wheat at all.
> But there it stops. Once you hit a threshold of "better than pretty much everybody in the world, even those who have dedicated their life to this stuff", you don't really see this sort of elitism anymore.

That's what you want to believe. But really what sort of magical transformation do you suppose will happen once you cross that threshold? Why would a personality change?

No, what I think happens is this: A person with sufficiently high skill, better than anyone else and generally known to be, will get sufficient recognition and awe that they don't need to establish their rank in the pecking order. However, take away the recognition, and also a highly skilled person inclined to jerk-behaviour will again start kicking the lower ranks.

Some people are jerks. In some situations jerk-behaviour is more likely to surface than in others. But being extremely good at something does not necessarily improve one's personality. There's a difference between "I don't want to be a jerk" and "I don't need to be a jerk". The former is the better person.
Looking at the paper abstract online, looks like the storage they're building this theory on are: Hydrogen, "Centralized battery" (Li-ion? not sure), and Grid-Integrated-Vehicles. Can anyone comment on the feasibility of these in the real world?
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>It's better than restricting speech through law AND enforcement.

Are you sure about that? If a government passes a law restricting speech because it has to, and then enforces it to restrict speech, it isn't clear to me that's worse than a government which doesn't bother with laws in the first place. Either way, you have no freedom of speech, but at least with the former you still have some semblance of rule of law. That's more important than speech, IMO (although of course without both you're already pretty fucked).
I fear that one of the worst things religion did to people is to make them think that every hope of doing something amazing and making the world a better place is insane. People are afraid of great dreams, because they think it's religion. They think low of singularity-related stuff just because they pattern-match long life (and/or immortality) and superhuman intelligence with what religions promise and talk about. They shouldn't. Living longer, better, improving ourselves and extending our capabilities beyond what is currently possible is not faith-stuff; it is the dream of mankind at large, and we're building our technology to achieve that.
"Most people aren't carrying a desktop computer around, so it doesn't matter if it's light."

My iMac is one heavy machine. We've nicknamed behemoth for a reason. I don't have to move it that often, but those memories of when I do are strong. Especially since we don't have a car and had to walk and/or use the bus with it a few times over the last two years.
> I don't accept the premise that whatever man touches is somehow automatically tainted or corrupted.

That is not what the author is pointing to at all! Nothing even remotely close to it.

> There is no problem with man changing the course of nature.

Of course not, look at all the dogs we have. Not many have issues with it. But some of the breeds are just bred for humans to go "awww", that we do not consider how many of these breeds have high risk of disease and death.

> Why not release some white tigers and actually see how they evolve, instead of simply assuming that they won't thrive?

There are already 4000 tigers in the wild. The author is not asking for planned execution, but to put an end to the inbreeding programs disguised as "conservation efforts". Also the gene in the wild for thousands of years before humans started breeding them selectively. And that gene did not win out the evolutionary race.
One of Kurzweil's arguments in his response is "...the design of the brain (like the rest of the body) is contained in the genome. And while the translation of the genome into a brain is not straightforward, the brain cannot have more design information than the genome"

However the brain's design information is the genome, the laws of physics and a universe.

You only have to look at protein folding, and the complexity of the resulting molecule and how that interacts with the rest of the world, so see how much complexity is there outside of the genome - and it's that complex end result that you have to simulate or replicate.

He goes onto say that "..the amount of design information in the genome is about 50 million bytes, roughly half of which pertains to the brain. That’s not simple, but it is a level of complexity we can deal with and represents less complexity than many software systems in the modern world."

As above, this is greatly simplifying the end result that you're trying to replicate - the genome is just the software that's running on the OS/hardware of the universe. To replicate that virtually we'd also need a virtual universe.
"Why you should probably stop taking nutritional advice from articles on the Internet"

The article falls into bad science: http://blog.tedx.com/post/37405280671/a-letter-to-the-tedx-c...
How is it that you can't see that banning weapons will quickly escalate to other things even in the tech world? "Let's ban X because someone met a group using service Y and killed them", "Let's regulate X because Y happened, hey we did that with guns".
First of all, the site looks great.

Second of all, your home page says "Instragram" instead of "Instagram". Sorry to be _that guy_ but I figured you'd like to know.
It's not a reliability number. For comparison, right now 31% of California's energy comes from renewable sources (according to wikipedia).

What 99.9% means is that they'll keep some traditional power generation mechanisms, like gas turbines, around to fill in when the renewable supply is not sufficient. That could be because there isn't enough sun or because there is unusually high demand. The power isn't going to go out.
Why in the would we introduce an artificial species to compete with existing endangered species in a shrinking ecosystem?
LinkedIn is the new Old Myspace.
Actually this dates at least 97-98 :-)

Ah those were the days.
Sounds to me you became really good at explaining. And skill in explaining stuff is a much better predictor of not-being-a-jerk than mastery of anything in general.

It's pretty difficult to explain things well and be a jerk at the same time!

(although my pope-hat's off to those that manage to do both ;) )
Dogs are bred to live with humans. Tigers are not.
There's a lot of good in his response, but I do take issue with two of the concepts:

> How do we get on the order of 100 trillion connections
> in the brain from only tens of millions of bytes of
> design information? Obviously, the answer is through
> redundancy.

No. That's called algorithmically generated complexity. It's where the function generates data that's more complex than the function itself, because the function (DNA in this case) is fitted explicitly to match that output. This isn't a complicated idea; stop avoiding the issue. The brain is complicated.

> Combining human-level pattern recognition with the inherent
> speed and accuracy of computers will be very powerful.

No kidding. If we had 'human level pattern recognition' this whole thing would be a lot easier wouldn't it? ...but that doesn't just magically appear from no where.

The reality is that most progress follows a log normal curve (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lognormal_distribution_CDF...); it starts linear, and ends flat. Some times it starts flat, looks like its going exponential and then goes flat... but it always ends up flat.

The trick is, does the singularity happen after we hit the flat curve (which means it's going to be some nebulous time in the future that may never arrive) or does it happen while we're still on the 'exponential acceleration' curve (which means it may happen in-this-lifetime).

I don't see us on an exponential increase path for cpu power, cost reduction or algorithmic strength at the moment.

If anything I see us as passed the main hump of growth and into the 'slowdown' phase for all of these.

So, I'm dubious of this rebuttal, which is basically endorsing the stupid 'growth for ever! exponential growth! yay! growth!' idea. -_-
This article does not address the issues concerning grains, including high glycemic index, the presence of the protein gliadin and its poorly understood role in the intestinal tract, and whether a diet without grains (not the question of whole wheat flour vs. white or enriched flour) is overall better for you.

So, I am calling "fail" on your link.
If you as a parent have internet in your house, its your responsibility to control your childrens access to it, not the governments. Same goes with porn or non-porn mags and DVD's.
Out of curiosity, which of the indicators of bad science from that letter do you believe apply to this article?
Can I just say that THIS is why I love Hacker News. People are serious about sharing their ideas on a deep level.

Thanks for sharing!
What do you use for usability testing?
I've come across only a few companies that offer user testing. Which have you used to test your app prior to launch?
Mobile support is on the horizon, though Windows is coming first.
I'm fairly skeptical of a near-term singularity, but he provided no evidence that technical growth isn't exponential. Exponential doesn't mean "fast". He established that problems that were once impossible are still very difficult.

Economic growth is faster than exponential. We see increasingly rapid growth at any point in time: pre-Cambrian vs. post-Cambrian evolutionary, pre-mammalian vs. mammalian, evolutionary vs. paleolithic, pre-agrarian vs. agrarian, agrarian vs. industrial.

I don't think we're going to see a "Singularity" in 2045. We might see 10-50% annual economic growth by then. That wouldn't surprise me. At this point, we're probably making serious in-roads on a wide variety of health problems, and life expectancy at birth will probably be over 85 and may be undefined. I think it's a good bet that someone born in 2045 will see 3000, not because of a Singularity, but because such a person won't even begin to experience old age until the 22nd century.
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So your argument is that grains are good for you, because those who eat mostly whole grains are less unhealthy than those who eat mostly processed grains? Not sure that's entirely logical.
For most web text I heartily agree with your quote. But in some cases, e.g., a large family of pages which are to share nontrivial layout (perhaps one page documenting each function in a software library, with standardized formatting for the arglist, the preconditions and postconditions, one or more usage examples...) it might be appropriate to get the shared organization/layout decisions straight before trying to compose much of the text.
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Kurzweil Responds: Don't Underestimate the Singularity (2011)
And as if by magic - you can now sign up to manage your docs on writelatex.com :-)
The funniest thing is that they tend to rise, rise some more, until they reach a level that they're not really skilled enough for, and that's where their career plateaus. In case you wonder how all the incapable people end up there.
Well if you're polling the account by IMAP you might as well just...poll it by IMAP from the phone.
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This is exactly the kind of flawed behaviorist centric thinking that has held AI back for the past 50 year. Until AI researchers get over their obsession with mathematical constructs with no foundation in biology, like symbolic AI and bayesian networks, we will never have true AI. Once you realize this, you see that this “paradox” isn't really a paradox at all.

The brain is not anything like the Von Neumann architecture of a CPU. It is a massively parallel prediction machine. High level thought occurs in cerebral cortex whose base functional unit is Hierarchical Temporal Memory composed of about 100 neurons. Once we have figured out how these units are wired in the brain, “difficult” problems like pattern recognition will be trivial, and “trival” problems like playing checkers will require many hours of training and many HTM units just like in a real human brain.

For anyone interested in this, I highly recommend Jeff Hawkins' book, “On Intelligence”.
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It's not the U-233 itself that emits gamma, but the U-232 it tends to be contaminated with. This can be avoided by chemically separating protactinium during the decay chain from thorium, but the U-232 is often considered desirable as a anti-proliferation measure.

By using liquid fuel and transmuting in place, you never handle U-233, contaminated or not. After reactor startup (which requires a good neutron source), you just keep feeding more thorium to the reactor and removing fission products.
Yes, but it may not be unintentional. Hulu is controlled by the major networks, who have an interest in seeing the Internet as the new distribution medium for television fail.
All I can offer is my personal experience. Having gone wheat free about 5 months ago, my life has changed dramatically.

Energy, weight, hunger, depression, happiness, vitality, vigor, stamina and comprehension have all improved dramatically. I mean dramatically. And I've lost nearly 25lbs.

Going wheat free was quickly followed with other smaller changes (increased fitness, generally better eating, better social life, better professional life) but eliminating wheat preceded all the changes by about two months and I think it was the catalyst for many of the other positive changes.

Just my experience, as of late. But I hear it repeated over and over by others who have done the same.
Really, it never was different.

You never had the right to resell licenses ... only supports.

When you used to buy cassettes, vinyls or CD / DVD, you were buying the support, and licensing for the content (for personal usage, most of the time) at the same time.

The only difference is that the license seemed to be attached to the support (in the same way the "genuine" sticker with the serial is stuck on the Windows boxes), so it was confusing whether the content was licensed to you or to the support.

Actually, it was to you, and you had no rights to sell it. But it was tolerated. Because you had the right to sell the support. But theoretically, the license stayed yours, and the new owner had no rights to use the content of the support he bought.

Now, will probably much more difficult, technically, since you buy the license without any kind of support ... On the other side, if you are careful enough, you can keep it lifelong and if you are clever enough, you can share it with all your relatives and friends lifetime.
That sounds a lot like the current Steam experience of Steam under Windows 7. Windows already provides performance scores for your system.

The experience is roughly just Buy Game -> Download -> Play
I'm Italian. I would say it's pretty normal for an Italian family to have pasta and white bread twice a day. On top of that, classic Italian breakfast is usually sweet, with coffee/milk/cappuccino together with toasted bread and butter/jam, or a white dough pastry, or dunking cookies.

Wikipedia says that Italy is fourth in the list of countries with the highest life expectancy. People on average are reasonably fit, it's rare to come across someone that can be defined as "obese".

Of course over the last decades the number of overweight or obese people HAS increased, but what has changed has been the arrival of fast food chains, and the availability of cheap and convenient processed foods over fresh ones.

I agree this is oversimplifying. But so does this this article.

Demonising a particular food (and idolising others) it's the worst kind of information you can give people, the truth is that you can safely eat most of commercially available food with moderation and common sense.
Everything is bad for your health. You should stop eating everything.
This is not the relaxing weekend I had planned! But yes, user accounts now available, plus a short getting started guide to help new users. As ever, all feedback appreciated
Which ones have a higher revenueAmount/effortPutIn ratio?
> ~70% of the revenue from steam games goes to the developers

So, when Black Ops II made a billion dollars (http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/12/05/news-black-ops-2-grosse...), steam made ~430 million? That's huge!
It's too bad the natural environment will collapse long before then.
Cisco VoIP phone vulnerability allow eavesdropping
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Alright, it seems like we're getting to that point. Does anybody know if Fastmail.fm can be configured with ActiveSync or IMAP/IDLE? Is there a pay email provider out there that supports these, and is relatively trustworthy? My work relies on me getting email in real-time (clients send out requests for work to their entire freelance list, first come first serve).
This is insulting to AI researchers in the extreme.

They know they are not making as good progress on "true AI" as they would like. But many researchers have tried very hard in many directions.

If you are so sure true AI is fairly trivial, why not do it? Even small amounts of progress would make you very famous.
The networking is P2P (most of the time). The screen sharing is VP8 video compression. Presence is XMPP. The multiple mice, separate dock icon, and a lot of other little things are the result of a lot of hacking :)

We're going to be working on making the encoding more CPU efficient. (btw if anyone has any expertise in real-time video codecs we'd love to talk to you)
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today's hybridized wheat contains sodium azide, a known toxin. It also goes through a gamma irradiation process during manufacturing.

Fear monger much?

(Plants are full of biocides. Remember the "apples tainted with alar" scare? Sodium azide is about twice as toxic as cyanide in terms of dose, but I'm fairly certain you'll physically burst before you can ingest enough from wheat to affect you. Each airbag in your car contains enough sodium azide to kill 50 people. (50-250g of sodium azide, LD50 ~25mg/kg) Drive safely.)
No, as the vast majority of Black Ops 2 copies sold will have been the console version.
Amazon gives customers more detailed billing of their cloud services
Valve may repeat a parallel for 'Android' in 'Gaming'. Make a Linux-based OS layer, with standardized interface to TV, WIFI, gaming controllers and GPU. Produce 'Nexus' lines but also allow others to produce. Make sure you have a market called Steam Play Store but also allow others to implement their own stores.
Can anyone point me to information about this question: "What have we done to discover and understand the differences between human and animal brains, to see what accounts for the vast difference in intelligence?"

I'm sure I could find a lot by Googling, but asking this group seems to be a more efficient way to benefit from some curation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index gives better understanding
I feel like many leaders of OSS projects never had any power in life and abuse it when they finally get a little bit.

This sort of behavior is childish and I would never be a part of a project with someone like this (or hire anyone with this sort of behavior).
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Is there a production-grade implementation available yet?

Depends on your use case: There are two reasonably complete and stable Perl6 implementations - Rakudo on Parrot and Niecza on .NET/Mono.

What needs to be addressed before Perl6 can be recommended for arbitrary production use are modules and performance:

The module ecosystem[1] is somewhat ad-hoc and modules may have bit-rotten, so batteries are not included.

Rakudo is more feature-complete, but performance is less-than-awesome and Niecza might be a better choice if that's relevant and you're comfortable with the CLR. The performance issue can be somewhat mitigated by implementing critical code in C (in case of Rakudo) or C# (in case of Niecza), but that's more of a band-aid than a real solution.

You might also want to take a look at the Perl6 advent calendar[2] to gain some insights into the current state of Perl6.

[1] http://modules.perl6.org/

[2] http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/perl-6-advent-ca...