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You're the one who put it in those terms, not me. And yes, regardless of particular phones being tied to particular protocols, I would still care that google is disabling something that I've used every day of my life for years.
Yes. The last day is when the hacks developed during the entire course of the event will be showcased in front of industry, academia, and the media, and the delegates will demonstrate the hacks they developed out of the things they learnt during the workshop
Hmm, Kurzweil joins Google -> Allen says Singularity is bunk. Looks like there has been an ongoing exchange, but funny that both items make the front page of HN on the same day...
Hi Beltiras,

Thanks for the question - we've focused initially on creating a low-barrier-to-entry front-end for LaTeX, but which still worked in the native language. Which way we go in future will depend on the feedback we get on writelatex!
> has wrong complexity

Python doesn't specify the complexity of dicts, that they're "efficient" is a CPython implementation detail other runtimes happen to copy. Even a worse-than-linear time mapping that satisfies the protocol is still a 'dict'. Surprised you don't know this given your relationship to PyPy.

As for whether I'd prefer a 100kb "not quite Python" or sending a few MB of JS (that takes 10 minutes to translate for each change) to the browser just to handle a few functions in a cross-platform manner, I'm glad to see more options when making this choice.

I'm in the midst of evaluating a solution to running simple mathematical functions on a Python backend or in-browser (for graphing). In a case like this, a handful of crappy guarantees about the lowest common denominator arithmetic is all I need in a solution. It's easy to get wrapped up in correctness, but ease and practicality trumps it almost every time.
If you had iCloud email, would you be just as upset that Apple doesn't support push notifications to Android?
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You should write first whatever suits your workflow.

I think writing HTML first is the way to go, for the benefit of progressive enhancement, accessibility, SEO:

A barebones HTML document is the lowest level which you can enhance. It is the level of Lynx browsers, screenreaders and formerly search engines. So start with a properly structured HTML document. Then enhance it with CSS and then JS.

If CSS fails to load you will still present a readable document (not littered with iFrames or abusing elements for styling (like header tags)). You will instantly spot where to place skip-links, or skip to content links. You can focus on putting the most relevant content in the first 100 or so words in the HTML document. Writing HTML and then CSS first will ensure in most cases that you won't use JavaScript for layout. You also won't hide content with "display: none", if you want collapsible content, you'll enhance it with JavaScript, and add "display:none" after the page has loaded.

Even if you use a CSS/grid framework, that shouldn't hamper writing the HTML first. You can always add the <div class="row"> later on. Or decide to write your own grid, since the website only uses 4 sizes of columns and a 100kb CSS file is a bit overkill.

In my opinion good design follows from the content. Don't try to strongarm content in a design.
Me too. But wouldn't it be nearly impossible to sell? I can imagine anyone with the slightest anti-Google sentiment howling "shakedown!" and "protection racket!"
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And yet, countries with strict gun control tend to have far less deaths caused by guns.

Nobody is saying that gun control will mean that nobody will ever get shot and killed again, but the harder you make it for people to act on their murderous feelings, the less likely they are to do so.

It is objectively more difficult and time-consuming to build a bomb than it is to point a gun and somebody and shoot them.

Lots of people have feelings of rage at some point in their lives. Most people don't act on those feelings in a destructive way.

Even though most of these school shootings in the US don't seem to be random - there usually turns out to be at least some form of pre-meditation as far as I can tell - the fact that it is so easy to act on your feelings of rage / destruction cannot do anything but lead people who have those feelings down that path.
Just a point that should be made in any discussion about the "Singularity": Kurzweil's isn't the only model/definition[1] of the Singularity, and some high-profile Singularitarians don't have a high opinion of Kurzweil[2] ("I've come to the conclusion that Kurzweil's worldview prohibits Kurzweil from arriving at any real understanding of the basic nature of the Singularity").

> I think it's much more valid to call the "singularity" the point in time [...]

Isn't this just redefining the word "singularity", and so making the discussion about something entirely different? So it might be better to qualify that with "industrial singularity" and the one under consideration here is the "technological singularity".

[1]: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools

[2]: http://www.sl4.org/archive/0206/4015.html
I agree that there is no convincing evidence the Singularity is so near, but I don't agree with his central argument concerning the necessity of software engineering breakthrough requiring accurate models of human cognition. The AI and ML learning successes we've had the last decade aren't based on developing some kind of imperative algorithm for evaluating a specific problem domain. We don't need one for cognition either; we just need a machine that can learn how to learn better. That is really all the singularity is; unbounded recursive self-improvement.
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I asked my wife what she knows about white tigers and she said, "Isn't it some sort of gene that makes them white, and aren't they kinda sick?" Better than I would have said before reading this.
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Except there are plenty of healthy wild animals and zero healthy white tigers. So, in the wild ALL white tigers are unable to survive long enough to reproduce.
But can you disable data mining? Honest question. I don't use them.
> A pistol is no more an assault weapon than a knife.

You're just arguing semantics here - if you assault somebody with a pistol, then it's an assault weapon.

Saying that there are more dangerous types of guns than a 9mm pistol is like saying that getting hit by a lorry is worse than getting hit by a car: it doesn't fucking matter, it's still going to kill you.
Writing CSS first seems very counter intuitive. I don't even know how I'd go about doing it.

The best web design pattern in my opinion is progressive enhancement. For me, this is HTML followed by CSS.
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Regarding atrocities, you clearly have no idea how deeply the wartime atrocities impacted many Asian families. Many Korean families I know refuse to buy Japanese cars or products (my mom is Japanese, so I've been told this many many times). My Korean father-in-law was an orphan because of the Japanese occupation.

In any case, the above fails the first rule of jokes... they're supposed to be funny. I thought the post was funny enough. But the reference to a co-prosperity system didn't add much (any?) humor to it. Just pointing that out to the OP...
A classical example is the laws of thermodynamics [...]

I'm not sure what is argument is here. The laws of thermodynamics are scientific laws because we can test them and repeat them in a laboratory. This is untrue of Kurzweil's LOAR as far as I understand the requirements to deem something a scientific law [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law
My point is that if a pistol is an assault weapon, then so is a knife.
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I've always been a vim guy myself. I guess it might be time to learn Emacs and give this a try.
Google hangout's built-in screen sharing actually works perfectly for me. (Ubuntu 12.10)
Perhaps a sensible middle road would be to ask customers whether they want to enable "child protection filters" when they sign up to an ISP. This way parents have the best possible chance of protecting their children without the danger of over-reaching censorship.
Exactly. One has to realize what is being argued for, not going around the globe murdering white tigers, but to stop contiguously inbreeding them to maintain the strange white fur.
Check out the book Flyboys, by James Brady. (http://www.amazon.com/Flyboys-Story-Courage-James-Bradley/dp...). It gives some interesting background on why Japan did what they did (their expansion) and it also documents the atrocities committed by both sides. It was a very eye-opening book, and when you are done reading it, you will know why war is hell.
Not trying to troll, but "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." [1]

Why/How would anyone write CSS before HTML?

1: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/charlesbab141832....
Most people are aware that animals in circuses don't live a happy life, yet they choose to go see them.
Well, yes - but you don't use a pistol to cut your steak.
Yes, but dogs are domesticated animals we enjoy keeping as pets, not untamed wild animals we're discussing releasing into natural environments.
The quotes on their website are a hoot. First, there's a modal you have to manually dismiss: "Singularity University is acquiring the Singularity Summit from Singularity Institute."

Then, such gems like "The Singularity Summit is the premier conference on the Singularity. As we get closer to the Singularity, each year's conference is better than the last."

They seem kinda obsessed with "thought leaders" and not so much "thought doers."
1) If it's got some up votes then someone has found it vaguely interesting. (Believe me or not but I haven't up voted it myself)

2) I've used my brother-in-laws name as I would prefer to keep this away from my name

3) If anyone is seriously interested I'd be happy to provide a portfolio etc

4) I've been a regular on HN for about 3 years
It's almost like someone tries to discredit him or Google for hiring Ray Kurzweil.
That's why you throw the flavour packets away and put veggies or something healthy in.
Steam as a platform has done amazing things for gaming and independent developers. ~70% of the revenue from steam games goes to the developers. This was absolutely unheard of in the past.

edit: I was totally wrong about trading used games. My bad.
Release them where? And to "thrive" like the general tiger population?

Nothing in this article posits the premises you argue against.
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I write latex in vim using latex-suite and I'm very happy with it. The vim spell checker also works well in latex files.
You should write tests first.
My hope for the new year is a HN moderator to screen out stuff like this and provide some focus to this RSS feed.
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If you go looking for overly specific definitions of words in natural language, which is effectively defined by its usage, any conclusions you draw from these 'definitions' will be flawed at best. Obtaining your fundamental definitions from selected lines in wikipedia adds bias as well as inaccuracies.

Also, even assuming your definitions were reasonable, you fail to explore the possibility that his books are poetry.
I thought the singularity just meant that technological change was so rapid that it ceased to have meaning.

I feel like we might be there today. I'm not sure what could be engineered tomorrow that would surprise me meaningfully.

If someone says that they have a working fusion reactor, I'd just be like, "Geez, finally. What the hell took so long?"
I also assume this community understands what the word "FUD" means and how it relates to this post.
The responsibility is not Facebook's

I agree that Facebook has no legal responsibility here, but the responsibilities they have willingly to take on in the past does create an level of expectations in the userbase. The userbase is completely within their rights to try and exert social pressure on facebook.

If Facebook chooses to actively prohibit adult content being shared between two adults, and monitors the content of private chat conversations, why shouldn't it remove this type of content when it comes to their attention? Is it unreasonable for users to expect them to do that?
This is discussion about intelligence. But do we have clear definition of intelligence?

Without clear definition one can say that the Singularity already happened.

Chess masters definitely are considered intelligent. So why computer programs which beat them aren't called super intelligent? Because they use brute force algorithms?
Well, no, it's Fair Use. It's a legal defense, but since a news site would be hosting their own content, and editorializing, they would be be able to claim safe harbor. So a DMCA takedown would be effectively ignores, and followed up in the courts. Regardless, it's text book fair use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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I can't say that I ever bought into the singularity by 2045. Things always take longer than expected. When I was a kid, I always thought that technology in 2001 would be incredible. As it stands now, the US doesn't even have a manned space vehicle.

Anyway, the one good thing that could come out of the Singularity discussion is maybe we can have a concerted effort to make it happen. A lot more research money into big science, for example. Hypersonic flight, maglev trains, the Texas supercollider, space exploration, medical research, clean energy, etc. Imagine if the the first flight happen 100 years before the Wright Brothers, or the telephone had been invented even 50 years earlier. We might not have a Singularity by 2045, but we can actively accelerate our quest for knowledge.
Just look for mutualy exclusive things:

Who gives you money?

A) Users
1) All users
2) Premium users
B) Company's that pay for groups of Users
C) Advertisers
D) Referral Programs

Are you subscription based or transaction based?
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A more representative graphic would be one that depicts Firefox's and Thunderbird's shrinking share of the market, along with the complete lack of general interest in their other offerings.
"Their website" and "they". Who are you referring to?

Edit: I guess Singularity Institute http://singularity.org/ since the banners and text seem to match up, maybe?

In any case, the news of the transfer of the summit is evidence against your last point. It means (I hope) that Singularity Institute is trying to free up their researchers to be able to concentrate on actual work, rather than organising a conference every year.
> Steam games are all digitally tied to your account, and can be traded / exchanged between accounts just like a physical disc.

Huh?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6748-ETS...

> Does Steam Trading mean I can sell my used games?

> No, only games that have been bought as a gift, and thus have never been played, can be traded. Once the Steam Gift is opened and added to your game library, you won’t be able to trade it again.
"Go extinct" doesn't mean "be all killed" or "be violently sterilized". It means that we should stop breeding these unnatural and disadvantaged animals. The white tigers that exist would live comfortable lives in captivity (because they can't survive in the wild) and die naturally of age. Everything about their lives is already artificial, but animals don't seem to need or enjoy sex in the general sense in a way that humans do (they have no interest when not in heat) and therefore it's not inhumane to prevent them from breeding.

For a more severe and human example, people who have a high likelihood of carrying the recessive Taysach's gene are often tested. If they both are carriers, they adopt, rather than taking a 1-in-4 chance of having a child who will die horribly. If one is a carrier and the other is not, then it's no problem. No one is being sterilized; it's positive, voluntary eugenics and it's a good thing.
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Oh, you mean the way we did so with wolves to create the thousands of dog species that exist today. By this absurd logic, all dogs should go extinct.
I'm not talking about the methodology; I'm talking about the results. The result of inbreeding is genetic insufficiency for survival - and there are a lot of human traits that have been preserved that are not fit for survival either. Yet, we don't forbid breeding for specific traits.
5. Would it be "ethycal" for a "post-singularity" civilization to contact a "pre-singularity" one?

Think a bit about this one. Let's define singularity as the ability to either a. upgrade our brains without any biological limits or b. upload our consciousness to a computer that can be upgraded without limits, as immortality and all other consequences will follow from this. Interfering with a pre-singularity race would be the equivalent of us using a newly discovered limitless brain enhancing technology to bring monkeys, dolphins and even cockroaches, as from our infinitely high level downwards a monkey would seen close in intelligence to a cockroach, to human and then limitless superhuman levels! Think about this for a moment! Would you want to waste your technology to "upgrade" inferior life (and possibly trespassing their "free will to choose their own evolutionary strategy"), when you could create new intelligence from scratch that would be designed to evolve faster and be more like you so you could feel empathy for it?

I don't think a post-singularity civilization would bother contacting a pre-singularity one. They would either analyze it stealthly without interfering ...or just use them or their homeworld for resources without caring about their fate or even their survival!

Now, assuming there really is a discernible point of "singularity" by the a. and b. mentioned above, the meeting of two post-singularity civilizations would be a whole different thing. I think we have quite a bit to "grow up" until we get invited into any "galactic club" :)
Ah, thanks. If that's where the development going, would you recommend moving existing projects there? I could do it by hand, but is there a way to use Git or some other automated process to transfer projects?
Have you seen pictures?

Here's one:

http://i.imgur.com/LEj1n.jpg

There's a lot more out there like this.
> Poll Americans (most of whom are Christian). Close to half will tell you the end of the world and thus the rapture is going to happen in their own lifetime. Christians have been believing that the rapture was around the corner for literally the last 2000 years. Arrogant if you ask me.

A bit of theological nitpicking: the notion of a pre-millenial 'Rapture' is a late development in Protestant theology that appears first in the 1600s and doesn't achieve mainstream popularity until the late 20th Century. Prior to that, Christian eschatalogical expectations were for the return of Christ to establish a just government once and for all.

Your larger point is still valid, but the application of the notion of a 'Rapture' is mostly anachronistic in any context other than the last hundred years.
That's easier to explain though - you are passing the arguments {a b} { } # and some_proc to the procedure some_proc. Because comments are just another command, the # has to be the first non-whitespace character on the line.
Applying this to humans would mean if we were currently inbreeding slaves with Down syndrome to produce children with the same condition for entertainment purposes, that we should stop doing that. I'd agree.

Edit: Shenglong, just saw your response under this post's sibling. The point is not that the author argues for the human-led removal of unnecessary traits. It's that we should not spread misinformation and continue to go out of our way to create those traits. In the specific case of the white tiger, such behavior results in really harmful genetic defects that could result in the extinction of tigers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_tiger#Genetic_defects).
Dramaturgy is pretty well explained in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" as the Pranksters' concept of everyone living in their own movie.
Are you sure the comment didn't have some curly brackets in it or something like that?
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I would suppose that by 2045 we might technologically be capable of "the singularity" but i'm not convinced we'd be socially accepting of a singularity. The old saying, the future is today its just not evenly distributed will still apply 30 years from now.

If you could quantify social progress, I would theorize that it would be a linear growth. Which means, our capability, and how it fits in our society are becoming decoupled from each other at an increasing amount every year.
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Because the chess engines aren't sufficiently general purpose.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/vb/efficient_crossdomain_optimizatio... tries to address questions like the ones you ask. (Obviously the definition proposed there of "efficient cross-domain optimisation" isn't the definition of the word "intelligence", because no such thing can exist, but it is a definition that seems to match with our intuitions well.)
Stop playing by the rules. The rules are for suckers.

How did I get into a startup with no college degree and no startup experience? Instead of sending in a resume, I redesigned their landing page and sent that to them - even though they didn't ask for it. That may sound cliche, but it's been more than 2 years since then, and nobody has applied with anything more than the typical resume. Everyone assumes they need to play by the rules.

Go build things. Build yourself a website. Build something you can showcase in lieu of a degree.
Is there any reason to think, that if there were many alien civilizations in our galaxy capable capable of radio transmission, that we would be have picked up on the signal? The last I checked (and I admit it has been a few years), the folks at SETI have basically said that even if the Milky Way galaxy was rife with technologically advanced civilizations the chance that we would have observed one is very small, given current efforts to date.

I've read a paper which pretty much lays out exactly the argument you describe, and the whole time I couldn't help but think the author was ignoring the very obvious. We can't even be sure that advanced civilizations would use radio that much, if at all, and even if they did, it's not as though we've conducted such a thorough search that we can confidently say "nope, no radios here". Not even close, in fact.
With very new Linux kernels that have almost all of the user namespace patches merged, there is very little difference. I am curious the technical and not assumed differences however. Note that I donated to the FBSD foundation not because I ever use FBSD, but because in the open source ecosystem, diversity is important. Also, I'm a huge fan of pcc and clang/llvm