skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is insulting to AI researchers in the extreme."

Well, yes and no. If you want the entire book "On Intelligence" (which I highly recommend too) is insulting to AI researchers.

The book basically explains why we're on the wrong track.

To me AI is about reasoning and creativity and none of the stuff we currently have comes anywhere close to that.
You're completely missing the point, but to answer your questions:

1. If you're self generating a cert, you know how to do it.

2. It doesn't change very often.

This discussion is about Google making a change without warning that has an immediate negative impact on pre-existing users. This discussion is not about new pop3 accounts being added to Gmail.
Yeah, but the policy wasn't to have one "national filter". It was to have the government tell ISPs "you must have a filter". How the ISPs implement it would be up to them. Which means they'd go buy the same crap that universities, libraries and corporations are currently using and implement that.

Deciding what counts as "porn" is very difficult. Deciding what is illegal child porn is, with the odd exception, pretty easy. But for legal non-child porn, well, what about a 15-year-old girl writing erotic Harry Potter shags Dracoy Malfoy fan fiction and sharing it in the fanfic community on LiveJournal or whatever. Does that count as "porn" in the same way as commercially produced videos does?

And it is trivially defeatable: one kind finds a stash of porn, puts it on USB sticks and sneakernets it to all the other teenage boys in the neighbourhood. Hell, sexting exists.
I think joining a group of people is a great way to make new friends around an interest and that's usually industry agnostic.

Usually if I hear someone surfs, I'll invite them to surf pretty quickly and then follow up later about actually doing it. I've made a few really good friends this way.

College is interesting because it's forcibly social. Everyone is happy to make new friends but in the professional world, I've found just the opposite to be true. People are pretty set with the friends they have, most people seem to want something from them, many think.

That's why I really love making friends around interests because you start as that as your base rather than the commonality of an industry.
Drivers will want them charging during peak usage hours, and the grid will want them discharging, so grid integration can only do so much, unless you expect drivers to massively subsidize the power grid by buying batteries they don't want. Hydrogen is not viable and as far as I know has never been taken seriously as a fuel storage or transport material.

Centralized battery works just fine but it's currently cost-prohibitive. I'm not sure why the paper's authors think that will change by 2030.
The technology in (real world) 2001 was incredible. But all the progress was in computers and communication, not travel.

Back in the 20th century, every looked at the incredible advances in travel technology from 1850-1950 and assumed the growth curve would just keep on going. But it didn't; it peaked out somewhere in the 1970s. Since then it's gotten cheaper, but not faster.

I think the Singularity is the exact same sort of projection. Progress in computer technology was incredibly fast from 1970 to 2000. My phone has a processor thousands of times faster than my first computer, back in 1982. And if progress continued at that rate, the Singularity probably would be inevitable. But it hasn't. My desktop computer today is not significantly more powerful than the machine I had in 2007. My laptop is much better than my laptop then, but it's only on par with my 2007 desktop. My phone is insanely better than my 2007 phone. The current trend is for computing power to get smaller and cheaper, rather than getting more computing power. That's great, but I don't see it getting us to the Singularity anytime soon.
I believe the handguns were his mother's. Making guns harder to obtain for mentally ill people will not stop them from obtaining them illegally.
> The worries of the parents.

This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries? What do you think it happens when a kid watchs porn? What negative consequences have been demonstrated to happen? And is not like porn randomly plays itself in the browser, you have to use explicit sexual words for Google to respond with links to porn sites.
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So what is the alternative? I want to be able to sync my Google calendar and contacts with my iPhone.
The images in the right pane are blurry for me -- I guess they're getting stretched out on my monitor. Could you use vector graphics instead of JPGs?
There's no need to rush out and buy the book, but if you're interested, here's a coupon code to get it for $9.99 today: "Hacker_saturday"

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It's a bit sad that instead of acknowledging that AI has nothing at all to do with intelligence, AI researchers instead decided to coin a new term ("strong AI").

So you now have two terms: "AI" and "strong AI" (AGI if you wish) that are totally unrelated.

Had people been honest "strong AI" would be "AI" and the "AI" we have now should be called "fake AI" or "pink-unicorn AI" ; )
It assumes 2030 technology that doesn't exist yet. Check back in 18 years, then we can start the many-decade project of deployment. Pencil in 2080 or so.
There are two orthogonal issues at hand here.

1) How do i build a site that serves my needs?
2) How do i learn to build a website?

Those are two very different tasks can (and often do) require different potentially conflicting approaches.

If you are familiar with the skills, technologies, and requirements of a project, one starts with a discussion about the needs of a site, and go through design exercises in order to determine what it is that needs to be implemented. That often means markups and design stuff, which will often have nothing to do with either HTML or CSS (although some people do mockup with HTML & CSS).

If you are trying to learn how to build a site, while also building a site, there is a process of exploration and learning that you must engage in before you know what is even possible to build.

This is where a modular and iterative design and build strategy has become popular. When you don't necessarily know where you're going with your end product (because you don't know what's possible), you build small chunks of functionality, experiment with whether it meets your requirements, and then incorporate that smaller experiment into the larger whole.

So, what does that actually mean in concrete terms? Building a site can be like building a house, where you draw up architectural plans (design mockups) and then start doing the engineering to calculate whether your house will stand up and meet your aesthetic needs. But building a site can (and often should) look more like building a series of small experiments, and taking a step by step approach to reaching a product that meets your original concept.

As a very practical matter, almost everyone futzes with both their HTML and their CSS at the same time.
Put another way, the value of a degree is that it forces you to expose yourself to a broad range of ideas. Self-education is a great way to learn about things that interest you, but less effective at ensuring you try things that seem boring or unpleasant at first.
"The complexity of [a bottom-up, biologically-inspired model of the brain] will take a long time to overcome. Since Allen concedes that sufficient computational power is already here, he seems to be arguing that it will take over a hundred years for us to have a detailed model of the human brain."

Given that Paul Allen donated $100 million in 2003 (and pledged an additional $300 million in 2012) to the Allen Brain Atlas[1] and Allen Institute for Brain Science[2], he probably knows more than most people about this. He certainly isn't betting against continued progress.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Brain_Atlas

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Institute_for_Brain_Scien...
> For several hundred years, inventors tried to learn to fly by creating contraptions that flapped their wings...

To quote Jeff Halwkings
"This kind of ends-justify-the-means interpretation of functionalism leads AI researchers astray. As Searle showed with the Chinese Room, behavioral equivalence is not enough. Since intelligence is an internal property of a brain, we have to look inside the brain to understand what intelligence is. In our investigations of the brain, and especially the neocortex, we will need to be careful in figuring out which details are just superfluous "frozen accidents" of our evolutionary past; undoubtedly, many Rube Goldberg–style processes are mixed in
with the important features. But as we'll soon see, there is an underlying elegance of great power, one that surpasses our best computers, waiting to be extracted
from these neural circuits.

...

For half a century we've been bringing the full force of our species' considerable cleverness to trying to program intelligence into computers. In the process we've come up with word processors, databases, video games, the Internet, mobile phones, and convincing computer-animated dinosaurs. But intelligent machines still aren't anywhere in the picture. To succeed, we will need to crib heavily from
nature's engine of intelligence, the neocortex. We have to extract intelligence from within the brain. No other road will get us there. "

As someone with a strong background in Biology who took several AI classes at an Ivy League school, I found all of my CS professors had a disdain for anything to do with biology. The influence of these esteemed professors and the institution they perpetuate is what's been holding the field back. It's time people recognize it.
I'm a homosexual, and Mr. Turing is one of my heroes. The conviction should stand, not as a shame for Mr. Turing but for those who convicted him.
Yes, that's on our TODO list. Thanks for the feedback!
Can you provide details of the guns that were used in last few mass shootings, starting with yesterday's. I heard two pistols and a semi-automatic with which he sprayed bullets. And his mother went through all the training and background checks to buy them.
Well showing porn to young children could certainly give them some unrealistic ideas about sex, because it is harder to frame stuff in context as a child than as an adult.

I've certainly visited sites where I've been exposed randomly to porn without googling for it. Especially disguised links on forums etc.
I still feed the punchcards into the mainframe with my mouth.
"However, it is long-standing government policy that pardons under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy should be reserved for cases where it can be established that the convicted person was innocent of the relevant offence, and not to undo the effects of legislation which we now recognise as wrong."

In this case, I guess pardon is not appropriate. I think the way we think of pardons at least in the US, is your first sentence, in which case Turing should definitely be pardoned.
Much as Microsoft did in the 1990s.

And AT&T in the 1960s.
I wasn't at all, but I was unclear. I was pointing out that nuclear weapons don't cause places to be uninhabitable for eternity. It is quite clearly incorrect. This is not a reason to use them however. The atomic raids ands the firebombing of Japan are most definitely up there as war crimes.
It would be excellent to have examples from last year easily linked to. I think people would love to see some sample code.
IIRC, Valve negotiates a different cut with each developer, and requires them to keep their terms secret. I would not be surprised if Activision ended with more favorable terms than your average indie studio.
It's how I understood things. However, without possibility to invite collaborators (to ScribTeX), there is not much use for me. That said, I used it, liked it a lot, started paying for it... just to discover that I cannot use it (in terms of, well, collaboration) anymore (so I quit paying, but with a bitter "you should have warned me when I wanted to pay, not only in the Sign Up form").

Anyway, I'm looking forward to see git stuff at ShareLaTeX.

Or writeLaTeX.
Now that there's 171 comments on this thread, I hope it won't bother anyone for me to ask that at a few of you help us out by Beta testing a game we're releasing.

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I was curious about the author so I looked up his profile on the University of Delaware website [1]. Despite being listed as a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, his educational background is in Sociology and Anthropology.

There are times when an appeal to authority is valid - such as an expert witness in a court of law. When it comes to scientific or engineering matters, I like to see some credentialed authority behind the research. Otherwise, I'm highly skeptical since this is the first source that I've seen to claim such a high percentage of green energy as the source for all power consumption.

[1] http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/people/profile.aspx?willett
I don't think your standard of living will change. Your household devices are getting more and more energy efficient. Did your standard of living change as your car fuel efficiency of your increased? And if it did, did you not adapt?

On your other point: If your complaining about government handouts, the oil/gas industry gets billions dollars in subsidies every year.

The three largest fossil fuel subsidies were:

Foreign tax credit ($15.3 billion)

Credit for production of non-conventional fuels ($14.1 billion)

Oil and Gas exploration and development expensing ($7.1 billion)

The three largest renewable fuel subsidies were:

Alcohol Credit for Fuel Excise Tax ($11.6 billion)*

Renewable Electricity Production Credit ($5.2 billion)

Corn-Based Ethanol ($5.0 billion)*

*Corn (ethanol) subsidies need to be replaced with something else. It will not work (not sustainable) and is a handout to the agriculture industry.

Also, the externalities of fossil fuel production is not priced in when purchasing the fuel. Health, disasters, other issues are not included.

By the way, do you not think that your standard of living will change when fossil fuels run out? Best thing is to be diversified.
According to the Cincinnati zoo example, white tigers are apparently being bred for profit, and kept in captivity. So I'm unsure how they are disadvantaged anymore so than say pure-bred dogs with physical problems that mongrels don't tend to have.
Super interested to see whether they attempt to support DirectX games or no!
From personal experience: don't do anything for the money, ever.
Actually, no. In the UK pardons are usually given when there is a presumption of innocence. In Turing's case, he was in fact guilty of a crime according to the laws at the time.
You might be entertained to know that a peer-reviewed journal went as far as to accept a generated paper for publication.

http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102
Note: The linked article was published in October 2011. It's not exactly news, but does make for stimulating reading!
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This is a great source of the data. Thanks!
I haven't graduated recently, but I moved from Texas to New York City three years ago, and I've met most of my current friends through Reddit meetups and IRC channel.

There are general weekly meetups in a bar, and other meetups catering to more specific interests - rock climbing, board games, programming, etc.

Reddit itself may get some (well deserved) flack on HN, but it's just a community made up of people, and you can't forget the inverse of Sturgeon's law.
> it's easy to think it would have been better than the lousy filters already existing.

Why on earth would you assume that? It's a government imposed solution with no competition or incentive to be user friendly. If anything every politician and bureaucrat involved in the project would rather make it more restrictive to be safe than risk their own ass.
Agree wholeheartedly with you, being forced to learn the concepts that seem mundane at the time has it's value.
No one prepared me to college and I fucked up big times my first years. Makes me want to write a post about it too.
I'm sorry to hear that you're not familiar enough with cultural theory to understand the post. Just as somebody unfamiliar with mathematics would be hard-pressed to understand (and understand the point of) the jumble of symbols, it requires some immersion in the field to extract any value from cultural theory. If you can make the time in your life, I recommend it.
I believe this issue needs to be dropped. Turing is beginning to be remembered only as a gay man wrongfully punished. His actual accomplishments are taking a back seat, what he did is becoming less important than who he did.
But it seems the opposite from the interview, no? He seems to believe that he is creating legitimate value. There is no mention of the error in the process.
Looks great! The two-cursor feature would also be extremely useful when two mice are connected to one computer. We do pair programming at work and I could see a tool that allows two people sitting at one machine to each have their own cursor totally transforming the way we work. Is this a feature you plan on developing?
Share interests is spot on. To add:

People should share their friends and acquaintances more often. Mixing disparate groups of friends and quickly introducing new acquaintances to existing friends is a surefire way to build a community in the city you live in. This may seem old fashioned, but older folks need mixers—essentially friend referrals. If you get this ball rolling, it can cascade and you'll end up meeting people you truly connect with and share interests with. The easiest way to start is simply having a party where you allow coworkers to bring their friends. I've made really good friends by finding people that enjoy backpacking as much as I do and spending a night in the woods with them (for better or worse, heh).

My wife and I are having a Christmas party tonight where 40-50 people are coming. Hopefully out of that, two or more people will become better friends. 100% of these people are friends she or I have made after college, predominately through other people willing to share. For reference, we're in our late 20s.

Simply put, it's on you to build community after college. It doesn't get forced upon you like in a university.
It was the name of an empire, but it was also the name of the ostensible ideology behind that empire as well. Did you read the whole Wikipedia article you gave a link to? What Pinboard is trying to do here actually does bear a resemblance to what turned out to be the empty rhetoric of the Japanese Empire, and so I don't think it's inappropriate for people forming a commune to call it "Communist" - despite the horrific atrocities perpetuated by real Communist states.
I think you're refering to the owner of the site, but here's for the hacker news crowd:

Submitted solutions
http://strangelyconsistent.org/p6cc2011/

Problem description
http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/the-2011-perl-6-coding-c...
It ever ceases to amaze me how stuck America is where it's constitution is concerned. It's hundreds of years old and never imagined times like now. Change it. Those that wrote it would have changed it if it didn't suit them. Do the same.
It's certainly longer and more flowery, but a lot of it upon even the shortest reflection rings hollow:

And while the translation of the genome into a brain is
not straightforward, the brain cannot have more design
information than the genome

How could a Game of Life grid possibly have more state or require more storage than the ruleset for generating it! Gasp! This is just sloppy on his part.

We do need to understand in detail how individual types
of neurons work, and then gather information about how
functional modules are connected. The functional methods
that are derived from this type of analysis can then
guide the development of intelligent systems.

I suspect this reflection would be about as useful in developing new intelligent systems as meditation on the semantics of various MIPS instructions would be for developing new processor implementations. He's looking at the wrong level.

The Google self-driving cars (which have driven over
140,000 miles through California cities and towns) learn
from their own driving experience as well as from Google
cars driven by human drivers.

A vacuous statement--to what degree does a Kalman filter "learn" from its state estimates of speed or similar? His statement may well be technically accurate, but its explanatory power is wanting.

~

All the buzzwords and nerd feelgood talking points are there, but I'm very put off by the random anecdotes and clumsy assertions.
I wish I could upvote this multiple times.
Teenage years are a period usually with low self steam, confusion and doubts. At least porn helps teens to calm their hormones in healthier way than the alternatives: striptease, hookers, "bad girls" or drugs. And with internet they can do it from the safety and privacy of their own home without the risk of doing anything stupid to watch people having sex. And of course, like you mention being gay doesn't help with all of those puberty issues.
Interesting -- do you think the idea of pumping tons of water up and down a mountain for long-term, high-capacity energy storage could help bridge that gap?
I can't access the full paper but there's something wrong here. A few concerns I have :

1) Congestion rents are not mentioned anywhere when they have as large if not a larger impact on the cost to rate payers than energy price.

2) There's no mention of a "security constrained" commitment model which is what I believe PJM uses.

3) Saying that you'll just build a distributed system and assuming a low cost ignores easement costs, acquisition costs, and legal costs in building any energy infrastructure.

I'm no high power electrical engineer but I'd be surprised to see this not including some sort of drastic misunderstanding of how these infrastructures and the markets around them function.

An idea with potential is building HVDC lines from renewables to populated areas but you'll still need natural gas kickers for when demand spikes.
I can't help but wonder if ads in emails didn't generate enough cash

Only if you use the GMail web UI or official Google clients that can show you ads. Once they get people off native clients and onto either Android or at least official clients on other platforms they can start ramping up their mobile advertising to make-up for the loss of web advertising. They've been sly about it so far but they have to pull the trigger eventually. Like you said nothing is free. They may have waited a bit too long to pull the trigger. Now a lot of Google service users are under the false impression they can get a free ride. They may have started using Google services exactly because they looked like a no-trade off free ride. Those days are coming to an end now. It's going to be a very interesting transitional period over the next 12-18 months.
You can literally call anyone else on the planet using a device the size of a pack of cigarettes, and stream in real time full motion video of a flying cat poptart thing, or watch a beautifully rendered simulation of same, while commenting on it with millions of anonymous other people on the Internet.

The Big Science stuff is cute and all, but don't for a second pretend that technology in common use isn't mindblowingly awesome.
I guess I was grouping the second coming in there too. Good point.