skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd wager against that incremental model.

I'd say that strong artificial intelligence is far more likely to happen via bottom-up modeling of the existing human brain as a starting point. The computational capacity for reductionist simulations that will exist probably 20 years from now, and as computational capacity increases those simulations start to become emulations. I don't expect to see massive gains over that time in the other way of doing it.

Once you have crude human brain models, a lot of very unethical things will start to happen in the course of further development. (e.g. countless deaths of intelligent beings if you're in the continuity identity boat, and probably a lot of unavoidable pain and suffering regardless of your take on identity). That seems hard to prevent given the enormous advantages that will accrue as a result; there is a strong incentive for people to adopt the pattern identity point of view so as to justify what they are going to do with mind copies in the course of development.

The important point is that once you have human brain models, from there the path to many different forms of strong artificial intelligence is just a matter of iterating those models. This seems far more likely to produce results than constructing new forms of intelligence progressively and de novo.
IRC over HTTP would be a better analogy?
This one is even better: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22like+say...
While there are certainly some gay men who want literally nothing but sex, many want some kind of connection, at least to verify that the other person is minimally sane and practices good hygiene.

It's really not so different. The "wooing" process for casual sex generally involves little more than giving signals that you're a normal person, and not a weirdo, creep, or bore.
I've had very similar feelings using enlive in Clojure land. I doubt I'll be switching back to a more traditional templating engine any time soon.
No, that s probably because

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You're being overly tight with your definition. We still don't completely know how the brain works, and while we have a top-down discipline and a bottom-up discipline, we still haven't figured out how they meet in the middle - and the fundamental point he's making is that there's nothing to say that we will get those algorithms. Until we get to that stage, regardless of whether it's theoretically feasible if you had a magic emulation tool, it's not feasible because we don't have the algorithms to emulate. And if we get to that stage, 'we made a brain emulator!' is one of the smaller stories, since things like 'we have answered the questions of whether free will and the soul exist' will be far more profound.
Yeah, you're saying it as a fact so I assume the scenario has played out before and has been documented.
Also, I can't scroll the page on my android phone.

Anyone care to copy/paste the text?
In this case the Pirate Bay logo only increases number of foreign reports/articles, like the one linked. It would definitely not make any difference unless the story gets really _a lot_ of attention in western media and sort of forces officials to show the world that they're really anti-piracy; which they're not.

That's how it is pretty much in whole Balkans with maybe slight differences in Croatia.

For example: I owned a small PC repair shop in Bosnia(until ~2 years ago) and I sold copyrighted software openly even to police officers, government workers etc. in fact I even installed illegal copy of Win XP on ~15 PCs in local police station for around ~$40/PC. I never had any issues. As far as I know this would be impossible in US.

I think that shows how little governments in these regions care about piracy, a logo of PB is well... just that, an image that under normal circumstances doesn't mean anything for officials. In fact I wonder how many even know what it's about.

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Note that my experience with piracy in that region isn't really current, but it is my understanding that little changed, or at least I haven't heard anything about it.

It's also worth mentioning that the country has bigger issues than fighting piracy, and the amount of government workers/police officers/prosecutors who are educated about those issues is very low.

>Also, I can imagine how the state could make the case that the students were actually stealing. I.e. advertisers pay for time on the billboard, and if you take their ads down for any length of time, you've stolen the time they paid for.

While you are technically correct I _can't_ imagine state pressing those charges. They usually go for open and shut cases. If they want to charge them they will charge them for something vague-sounding like "illegal access to billboard/PC". Also the billboard was down for 22 minutes, that might be worth enough money in center of NY to press charges but in Belgrade I don't see it expensive enough to prosecute them for that damage.
I have to admit that Scrapy is very fast, powerful and easy to use and scale. However, probably it's easier to start with BS, as Scrapy requires you to learn "Scrapy way of doing stuff". Furthermore, I find documentation to be a bit unpolished sometimes.

Still, Scrapy it's amazing and we use it a lot.
Finland's Newest Hit Maker: Supercell
How to know if an Open Source project is mature enough to use in a product?
Facebook Is Trying to Squeeze Anne Rice For More Cash
"But what would a good measure be?"

I think it's important to realize in answering that question a few things.

a) The answer to the question isn't digital (black and white) it's analog. It's a matter of degree and relative to the thing being considered. Curing cancer - say, up near 100. Cat photo app, say, down near 0. And everything in between. (Numbers arbitrary to make a point.)

b) Most people could probably have an easier time (like identifying porn) with what isn't innovation than defining what is innovation.

c) Daniel Markham's points regarding sometimes meaningless things lead to important things.

Lastly, none of this matters. If you are in high school it's a sure bet you will attract women and attention (at that age) as the high school quarterback even if you have average looks. People arguing that the system should change and the guy with glasses who will be a much better catch down the road won't get anyone anywhere. Things are the way they are for a reason.

I suspect that YC invests in the best situations they can find given a pool of applicants applying your patterns etc and knowledge of the past. Questions posed by this article (and some of the comments here) assume that markets operate together in collusion for the common good. They don't. If they did it would be relatively easy to get food companies to stop pushing valueless tasty food on the public as well.
No, Lift does NOT do this. The site appears to be running on WordPress (guessing based on the 'wp-content' in the paths for assets).

I confess to having a bit of a crush on Lift so I was happy to see something about it on the front page, but this article is a little vague, so most people will probably remember the intrusive click tracking over anything else.
The thing I like about the flatness is it's even more clear that Bootstrap is a framework for you to build your own sites faster, and it's up to you to really customize it for your brand.
Thanks. I didn't invent the telnet REPL trick, but I've forgotten where I found it so I can't give credit where it's due, sorry.
How so?

Is pacemaker/corosync not more of a replacement for things like keepalived/heartbeatd (often used in conjunction with stonith, drbd), and as a way to run clusters of services?

You still need to launch and run the services themselves with something. (sysV init scripts, etc)

Even a cursory review of the docs seems to imply the same.

http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1-crmsh/html/Pa...

http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1-crmsh/html/Pa...

http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.1-crmsh/html/Pa...

I do see a reference to:

> Version 1 of Heartbeat came with its own style of resource
> agents and it is highly likely that many people have
> written their own agents based on its conventions.
> Although deprecated with the release of Heartbeat v2,
> they were supported by Pacemaker up until the release
> of 1.1.8 to enable administrators to continue to use
> these agents.

...so maybe that is what you were talking about.
Personally, I almost never sign up for any site anymore unless it features social login. Giving away my email address, entering a password twice and waiting for a confirmation mail is way to much work. I can guarantee you that you will get a much higher conversion ratio if you let people sign up with their facebook, twitter or google+ accounts. As an additional bonus you get more credible reviews because people can see that there is a real person behind it.
Google Map showing rich vs poor areas in the Bay area
We're just waiting for a really smart simulation programmer with access to a super-powerful computer to create a simulation of a small, earth-like world so we can watch as accelerated evolution creates some human-like (or not) being with a similar brain. I think we can write an algorithm for an AI that can pass the Turing test, but I think serious AI that will precipitate the singularity will come as a result of evolutionary algorithms and very powerful computers.
Mechanize is far and away the best and easiest way to scrape with Ruby until anything is rendered in javascript, which is explicitly not supported.

I tend to use Mechanized until I can't, then switch to Watir. Over time, I've found myself just strait up picking up Watir as it runs your browser directly and supports javascript rendering as a result.
"To a first approximation the method of science is
'find an explanation and test it thoroughly', while
modern core mathematics is 'find an explanation
without rule violations'."

This kind of rings a bell for me here concerning Formal Verification methods (i.e. proofs), possibly more popular with functional programming techniques.
This Seller brought a house with his Fiverr money
Mathematics education is a bit odd now for sure. I think if there was an effort to teach kids the logical and even creative side of math early on, they'd have an easier time building intuition for certain computational aspects later on. As it stands, most people are unaware that math is no longer predicated in reality, which seems nonsensical. You generally teach grammar before (or along with) composition.
The Video CDN Business Is Flawed, YouTube Subsidizes Video Bandwidth On The Net
The point I'm making is that extraction is obviously not much of the cost when there are so many opportunities for artists to connect directly with fans in this digital/internet age.

The so called gatekeepers seem to be providing some other value proposition since they don't appear to have much of a monopoly any significant portion of the system.
Nope. This is a wordpress blog.
It's in the docs. http://nodejs.org/api/repl.html#repl_repl_start_options
Interesting. I've never felt particularly strongly one way or another about the Finder and I didn't feel the changes as strongly as you and others seemed to.

My personal GUI progression was Mac OS 7.5, RiscOS 3, Windows 9x, Mac OS 8 & 9, BeOS, KDE, Mac OS 10.3, onwards. I didn't see a significant break, but maybe it's because of the detour. It just didn't occur to me that it was anything other than a smooth transition. By the looks of things, a good number of people seem to have noticed the change, and many don't like it. I'm not sure the 'classic' way of doing things was entirely compatible with a command line interface (I get that that's what Lisa and Mac was trying to supersede). But I don't think many doubt the utility of CLIs for 'serious' modern use. Do they?

One thing I do remember is that we've always had symlinks (aliases). I don't remember if they were in System 6 but they were certainly there in System 7.
>Yes, you can. It will be impossibly huge and slow, but you can.

A major problem is many of the brain's processes use "chaotic models". These are what we associate with the "butterfly effect" where extremely tiny deviations from the true value make the model diverge from actual behavior. Most models tend to have some tiny deviation from the true value but it usually doesn't matter. In this case it does, and it may be an insurmountable problem.

The brain might be computable but that doesn't mean a classic turing machine would work. Maybe one day we can build a biological protein-based computer that shares the "irreducible properties" of brains, but then all we've really built is a brain.
They would love to, but they know that wouldn't work. Those companies (and many others in many different countries) control some of the possible mediums on top of which the Internet can sit. The Internet is a concept, not a bunch of cables and hardware, and that's what makes it so resilient. People would find a way.
Vague and unenlightening. I kept skimming through looking for the part where where it explains what this "revolution" is supposed to be but it never actually does. Edit: objection withdrawn.
I've never seen a worse layout for mobile viewing. Viewing on my iPhone reduces the content div to a mini scrolling box that immediately had me close the page.
"I went my whole life only eating ice cream once a week. Then I got my first paycheck and I ate ice cream three times a day, every day! I had so much ice cream I even had to pay somebody else to eat it with me! Then I met a foreign beauty and I followed her to her country where ice cream didn't exist and realized that all that ice cream I was gorging on didn't make me happy. We broke up but I still don't eat ice cream. Except 10 scoops of identical ice cream once a month."

Something I always wonder about people who are ultra-minimalist… do they not have art, photographs, mementos, heirlooms? Do they not engage in hobbies like music, photography, painting, writing, journaling?

I also wonder where he got his 10 identical shirts.
You're implying that it could possibly be inaccurate, so I assume the opposite scenario has played out before and has been documented. Can you provide a link or source?
Endless props, thanks, and respect to the Bootstrap team. They do an amazing job, sometimes with less-than-amazing levels of gratitude in return.
You could crawl a lot of different sites one page at a time. When I wrote a large distributed download system, I would use pycurl's bandwidth throttle and also store a 5 minute average of bandwidth per domain that would prevent other downloaders from saturating a domain.
There's even lxml.cssselect if you prefer css selectors over Xpaht.
Yeah, thought of Enlive when I read this. I wish this style of templating could get imported into Rails.
I redesigned it for you. Hope you don't mind.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12998184/scrit.jpg
I agree. View first rocks!
1) More than 60% of residents in the northeast, California and Alaska have passports. Northeast and California because of higher incomes and higher education levels, Alaska because it's isolated from the lower 48.

2) In the southern states, many people don't have passports (except for FL). There's a lot of poverty, few college graduates, and they don't have much in the way of LBGT rights in the workplace. Nothing new there.

3) People living in the Indian reservations [1] are amongst the poorest, but they do tend to have passports.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bia-map-indian-reservation...
Yeah, it's basically the reverse of http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/US_states... but they didn't mention that correlation for some reason.
Wow, that was fast. I love that you're literally rolling out new features while I refresh this thread. Kudos!
I suspect that most folk, such as myself, have blissfully skated past such issues in ignorance because using Node.js to field SSL traffic isn't the standard setup. Instead you run an http.Server - with or without Socket.IO latched to it - behind a websocket-capable, ssl-terminating proxy like HAProxy.

http://www.exratione.com/2012/12/websockets-over-ssl-haproxy...

Because you're going to need all the proxy features like failover, clustering, etc, etc, anyway, so why put Node.js right up front?

(Nginx recently added support for websockets, so that's now a viable alternative to HAProxy in this role, but it was aggravating for a while that it wasn't).
Now you're just being condescending. If you don't think the conversation is productive, you can say that. Assigning me a research project and pretending to graciously let me walk away is a cop-out.

I'm only interested in the meanings of words to the extent they illuminate real objects and concepts, and inform real actions. I'm not interested in cultural baggage except as a stumbling block to understanding to be removed. I understand, to some extent, that people have complicated motives from a wide range of sources, mostly irrational, which makes them hard to get a logical handle on. I don't believe morality is that complicated. I can't shake the feeling that "WET" is morally stupider, but I don't have a good reason, and I try to ignore feelings like that. If that makes me "narrow and closed minded" in your mind, I can handle that. In that case, it is indeed unlikely that our conversation will be productive.

If I'm closed-minded, do you see how your comments look to me, pushing against my idea of literal equality for some abstract form of "corrected" equality? Then turning to diversionary tactics when you can't answer my argument (and a peripheral one at that)?

I guess the point was, girl-only gatherings seem more like a part of the end-game of equalization, except to the extent pretending the game is over makes it get over faster. Point mostly taken about "creating environments...".
Text here http://pastebin.com/vjyHG1aH

I don't really like to take traffic away from a site but that is horribly designed. I could only scroll with PGUP/DN due to the stupid control bar to the right.
When a dumb AI comes up with the correct answer using a smart AI is not going to give you a better answer the old one is still correct. However, it could give you a wrong answer for whatever reason. As to diminishing returns, there is a window between a self driving car that's better than people and a 'perfect' self driving car but clearly that's a diminishing return situation, because it was giving you the perfect answer 99.99% of the time there is not a lot of room for improvement.

PS: S curves often look like exponential curves but the real world has real limits so you can't have unlimited exponential progression of any type period end of story. And it looks like we are on the down slope when it comes to transistors. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123529-nvidia-deeply-un... "Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 20nm essentially worthless" And that's for video cards which are embarrassingly parallel.
I disagree. As a web designer/developer your job is to make sure your site looks proper. If someone chooses to disable javascript, they know that they are missing out. It's their personal choice to embrace an inferior web experience, and I don't think it's fair to have to compensate for them as well.
BeautifulSoup uses regular expressions! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

Like many here point out, lxml is a fast and versatile library that could be used for this alone without BS. lxml.html can parse HTML and lxml also has support for using HTML5 parser from html5lib that deals with broken HTML in the standardized way.
http://img.nux.ro/3rF-refilling_bowls_of_water.png !
> Chaotic activity

Well yes, the brain is demonstrably chaotic.

Why does this matter? If you run a simulation of the brain, you'll soon get different output than the original would output, but does that mean the simulation isn't working?

It'll still be intelligent behaviour, even if it isn't the exact same behaviour. It'll still be the same person; if such behavioural differences mattered, then turning up the temperature slightly would make you a different person. Thermal noise bubbles up to the macroscopic level all the time.
Situation puzzles are a nice way to spend time near that camp fire
Good questions!

For this particular project I needed access to more than just the page itself - I needed to interact with scripts and have access to the page resources on a level which matched that of a browser. What you're seeing is only the tip of a much larger iceberg, for which efficiency wasn't the main objective.

You're correct that you can write more efficient spiders if you don't want to do anything fancy (indeed, I've written simple scrapers and spiders in various languages), but this project leant itself better to a full browser environment.
I believe the argument is consciousness is not a causal product of relations represented in the brains structures but a property of the substrate.

Consider that a brain model on a turing machine is equivalent to a sticks and stones model running the same program. Do you believe some person moving a bunch of sticks and stones around can produce conscious experience?
Yes, the brain is made up of atoms, but our modern physics does not, at least not with the degree of certainty you're waving about, tell us that it is therefore, necessarily, simulatable.

I believe this to be the case, and there is some evidence that this is the case, but it is not anywhere near as certain as you're claiming.

As for your word choice re: impractical, the word shouldn't be used in place of 'impossible', which is the correct word you're looking for.
Looks like there's some bugs here. Just claimed 'esi' was available on Twitter and GitHub, but it's not.
Not to mention the toll on the children of the poor who do not get enough good nutrition, education, or a sense of safety and permanence to grow up to be respectable, law-abiding citizens.

That's what I don't get about allegedly intellectual, allegedly fiscally conservative people who are anti-welfare. They think that it's about not "giving a free ride" to people who "don't deserve" it. They are neither intellectual nor fiscally savvy enough to understand that there is always a cost, and to help and house people with welfare -- even people who will never "contribute" -- will cost far less in the long run than the ripple effect from feeling righteous.
Ask HN: Which domain registrars have superb security and service?
Hearing about the recent BitInstant attack[0] has made me wonder about my own choice of DNS host. I've been happy with them for years, but I wonder who people recommend.

I have a dozen or so domains. I'm looking for a host with excellent security and great customer service. I also need:

* Basic value-added web services (specifically, redirecting all HTTP requests from one domain to another)

* User-friendly domain configuration (I'm not a network admin)

* SMTP hosting with a small buffer (50MB is enough; I move my email into local storage frequently)

* Basic value-added email services (automatic forwarding, out-of-office responses)

* Reasonable pricing

Any recommendations?

[0] http://blog.bitinstant.com/blog/2013/3/4/events-of-friday-bitinstant-back-online.html
florida probably has high passport rate due to accessibility of nearby countries, and huge immigrant population.
Perhaps you shouldn't have skimmed. You will find what you need on the left column of page 32 (page 2 of the PDF).