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> For how many generations have we said that Artificial General Intelligence will be "solved in our lifetime".

Ah, but it isn't the same "we".

60 years ago, I guess your basic computing researcher thought human-level AI was just around the corner. And why not? Suddenly there was this wonderful machine that could do amazing feats of reasoning and computation in an eyeblink. And computers were constantly being improved; who knew what they would be capable of in a few more years.

Nowadays, it's mainly Ray Kurzweil and a few others like him. And ... well, they're basically paid to say it. I could get a group of 1000 people together and give them a speech about how 2040 will be much like today, except for cooler phones, more expensive gas, and faster pizza delivery, and they'll all be bored and go home disappointed. Get Ray K. in front of the same group telling them the future is going to be indescribably different, and they're interested. Some people do write-ups on the speech. It gets discussed. It's something you hear about. And Ray K. is the one who gets invitations to other speaking engagements.

In short, when you hear that super-AI is on the horizon, remember that, however far-fetched that might be, this is an interesting thought. The idea that it's a long way off, is not nearly so catchy. (See also memes, etc.)
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Write as little as possible, but not less. Consider your audience and purpose: if you write too little, it can only be understood by those who already understand it.

The Gettysburg address shows that less can be more. But, too little is nothing at all: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
How did you make that really cool animation on the homepage? I have been attempting to do this myself with javascript setTimeout mixed with css3 animation but its freakin awful, because it's one just massive callback inside a callback. it must be indented like 60 times near the end of my animation.
(2) and (3) are interesting responses. But I don't think it is actually using the key insight described in this article. That key insight being that people compare it to what's come before, and that comparison becomes a blinder for it's actual advantages.

(4) will happen, but I think the scope is far too small; again it also has the blinders that does not take advantage of the key insight from the article. With 3D printers, you wouldn't buy products off of Amazon so much as buy licenses to fabrication blueprints to print out a product in your garage, similar to the way you can now buy ebooks, digital music, and digital movies from Amazon without the physical product.
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Code 42 - Minneapolis, MN

http://www.code42.com/careers/

We are looking Java developers, OSX developers, .NET developers, & network engineers.

You will be working on CrashPlan, the backup software, and SharePlan, our brand (launched today) new enterprise sync software.

I don't know about H1B as I am not familiar with our hiring policies at that level, but I think we would be open to it.
Some of the stuff the people in the article write is just plain stupid. If I could get US citizenship for my newly born daughter (born in Poland) after being in the US total just 5 years, why she couldn't get it done, is beyond me. People who have lived in EU complaining about US burocracy and pointing it as a reason for giving up on an US citizenship are beyond me too. US taxation system is a walk in a park compared with EU. All the people from the article seem to be carefully selected socialists big time who just couldn't wait to give up on the US citizenship no matter what. And for one each of them there are literally thousands foreigners who would rather live in the USA, including Germans, Canadians, etc.
Lost HN password: Cant RSVP for Startup School
I got accepted to visit startup school and got the email for rsvp, but I dont remember my password. Can someone please tell me how I can rsvp. Please dont tell me I cant go over a lost password haha. Thanks, Robert

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Fyi, this is a new hn account I made to post.
The decline and halt(?) of the gains of Moore's law, and the resulting paradigm shifts for many in the programming trade as we move into truly parallel, distributed, elastic computation at the chip level.

The rise of bioinformatics and of the computer as a progenitor of a new age of medicine.

A sea change in trading and economics as HFT wreaks havoc and competes with human trading.

Maybe these aren't as wild and crazy as you hope, but I think they are some of the most exciting and likely to happen.
Not only that, he's really helpful on the Golang Google group in answering questions to all programmers, new & old. What really hooked me onto Go was both the helpfulness of the Google group as well as the nice people on #gonuts.
That map actually made me wonder if I should start a local open source consultancy practice in East/Southeast Asia (which has been my home for a decade or so). If anyone else's in the region and potentiall keen, feel free to get in touch by email. I've run a few businesses here already.
Note to developers: not everyone has home mail delivery
Cyber Mercenary 'Icefog' Attacks South Korean and Japanese Supply Chains
Affero GPL might be ideal for you. It means that both network and local users of an app get the source code. So, maybe someone out-markets you, but the users still must get the source. But you won't necessarily get attribution if that's what you're after (CC is good for that).
Can you please link me to one of the best conversations you can think of from HN? Something that really just makes what's on the front page now feel like "another social media site with a high school mentality".

If you need a little help remembering it, the search bar below can probably help.

It would make your position a lot more credible.
Normally, I'd agree, but in the case of the iPhone, the disruption was more profound than simple off-the-shelf components.

I can go into detail, but the standard ideas for Disruption tend to be technical in nature whereas the iPhone was a profound multi-faceted assault on the world. There are so many elements of this attack, it's hard to know where to begin, but it was certainly more than just a newfound set of components (a lot of the iPhones physical technology was not new).

But, I hear and agree with your point. Guyzero makes a great post above and it's certainly worth reading :).
I'll be able to apply for Paraguayan citizenship in about a year, and I plan to renounce my US citizenship immediately afterwards.

I'm so much happier here in Paraguay (even with all the cultural differences), instead of the US. I also can't say I feel happy about how things have progressed in the US over the last few years - regarding politics and economics. I really expect that Paraguay is the country where I will build my family and my future.
Happen-stance of birth? What are the rules there about citizenship by birth? In the UK one of your parents has to be a citizen, or have been "legally settled" (allowed to stay indefinitely).
Correct url: http://notice.usa.gov/
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Plenty of tech hiring going on in stumptown these days. Just one source:

http://siliconflorist.com/jobs/
nasa.gov has never resolved.

only www.nasa.gov which redirects to notice.usa.gov
Ask HN: Has anyone hacked seduction?
So much of the literature I read about sex and becoming a confident sexual being (versus a dickless man-child) says that confidence comes from the "inside", that it is self-developed and honed by some kind of process, that in my mind seems to be comparable to virgin birthing. But in reality, they say it's all about instilling the belief in oneself at all costs, and believing that there is no reason to do otherwise.

On the other hand, my therapist tells me I'll only really become confident when I achieve my goals. She says there isn't much I can do in the way of feeling sexually confident until I get laid. All I can do is learn to feel better about who I am, eliminate the self-doubt, and that's basically it.

I'm writing this because I'm at a stalemate. Approaching women hasn't helped.Actually, my therapisttold me to stop talking to strange women in coffee shops because the constant failures are making me unhappy.

Not sure what to do here...

I've read the PUA-books, practiced, even went out alone a few times. I just can't seem to hack this whole sex thing. Women don't seem to get any spark from being around me. Is it looks? Am I boring?
Sure, and granted, the personal device I was thinking of is to arrange it thematically on how I want to present the books to guests. Not necessarily as product categories (genre). However, to say that Amazon takes this to the extreme misses the point. Amazon is optimized for conversion only because there has not been better browsing experiences. You go to Amazon when you are looking for something specific and maybe buy a book off of the recommendation. You don't go to Amazon when you are bored and looking for something new to read.

I think though, the rest of your argument is sketchy. "Amazon and most e-commerce is a bad comparison though, as browsing is generally bad for transactional businesses" That's great, except that Amazon is not optimized for browsing, it is optimized for searching, as I've mentioned in my comment.
I'm amazed at how the 11khz lenna actually looks more like dithering than anything else. It's really uncanny how it looks like a floyd-steinberg dithered lenna [1]. I suppose that's probably the intent of the dithering, so that you can turn a higher frequency (the dither) into a lower one with aliasing basically.

[1] http://www.malcolmmclean.site11.com/www/BinaryImageProcessin...
Well for large parts of Asia they are probably not hanging around on an English speaking website.
Yeah, I don't follow this either. If they are equivalent programs- they both compute the same function- then what does it matter which is which? Also how would this apply

Or obfuscation could help in producing "crippleware"—try-out versions of a program that have certain functions disabled.

Because then they wouldn't be computing the same thing, would they?
The State department website on it says that the renunciation is final unless it meets certain guidelines, which basically means that if you did it at age 18+, you're going to have to go through the immigration process just like every other non American.

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html
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Hah.. not too much, it was not as dramatic as seemed with my initial post. Mainly full of lots of stress and working fast to keep from starving... and to learn the language quickly.
"I'd love some kind of Dewey Decimal browser with a bunch of extra filters. I don't know if that's feasible."

See, that's what I mean. When you're creating a space to show off or show case books, you're not really using any structured form of organization. The experience is more a form of an art. It's more like creating an art gallery or a museum than it is replicating a category system. The category system is easy; crafting a museum experience, that's harder.
Re-defining what is a well-defined english word using hipster-startup-hack-bias is contrived and self-fulfilling. The phone caused disruption in the world, done, done, and done. Now quit trying to fit the word disrupt into every conversation. Products create a rift, or they don't. Products are worth their value, or they're not. There's no magical "disrupt" criteria to satisfy the startup hivemind rubric.
You give me two equivalent programs, A and B. I give you obfuscated versions of both, lets call them C and D. You can't tell whether I produced C from A and D from B, or C from B and D from A.
It's right there in the article, in the interview with the guy who did just that.
Forty per cent of Canadians facing financial hardship after serious health event
Apple is not the 'clear winner' in the PC market, they are a small segment of it.

Working in corporate and government environments is an Apple free zone.

Lower price competitors have repeatedly caught up and outperformed higher priced vertical companies that make the entire stack. Android is well positioned to do exactly this to Apple over the next decade. Phones and cheaper devices also seem to see this happen repeatedly. Apple's phone division should see a warning in Nokia and RIM, not a comfort.

SGI, Sun, Commodore, Atari, DEC and many others are all defunct. All full stack companies.

Apple and IBM are left. IBM mainframes are extremely difficult to remove. Apple are easier but may survive with enough iOS lock in.

But you'd be very brave to bet on it.
The U.S. hasn't defaulted on its treasury bills.

Err, what? That's like the head of a mint justifying taking a holiday because they haven't stopped printing the money used at the resort.
Ios disallows dynamic code generation at runtime - what other environments could Go target with these restrictions?
With the exception of children of foreign diplomats, if you are born in the USA, you have citizenship. Who your parents are is irrelevant.
These are really interesting and I never realized that there are so many of them. Railways use "easements" to guide trains in and out of curves, so rather than just changing from straight track to the radius of the curve, there's a section that approaches the radius. If the train is making a right angle turn, it will do somewhere around 85 degrees of that turn at the expected radius.
The issue is not the complexity of the taxation system, but the fact that only the US and Somalia tax based on citizenship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Individual_taxation_system...
No it doesn't. Visit it in an Incognito window if you don't believe me.

It's asking for your password because you apparently do have a Google account and it wants to verify your identity before it lets you access things that are tied to your account.
Yiftee Opens API To Give Developers The Option Of In-App Gifting
I thought it meant two programs which compute the same thing but possibly using different algorithms. If they are indistinguishable then you can't infer from the improved algorithm anything you can't get from the old one.
Investors know it's just posturing. It'll get fixed in the next few days and life will go on.
Sure, and I think that is just the first step. I'm with you on the "retail experience" though maybe not necessarily a recreation.

I'm thinking more along the lines of an art gallery, or a museum, or an amusement park. You have paths with one or two limited choices, and allow you to wander from exhibit to exhibit, collection to collection. You have maps or indices to take you directly to a particular area if you are busy. The point is to have an experience, the way you can wander around a mall looking at things. It is not efficient, and that's the point.

The word "browsing" comes from the way browsers behave in the wild. These are grazing animals that wander along with the herd, eating things as they come. What Scribd and Netflix does is technically not browsing.
I don't understand how that's different than what the parent was saying
Lockitron - https://lockitron.com - Mountain View, CA

Keyless entry using your smartphone. We're looking for folks who are interested in the intersection of social and hardware.

Last year we raised over $2.3 million from our own crowdfunding campaign after being rejected from Kickstarter. We subsequently open sourced our crowdfunding app as Selfstarter (http://selfstarter.us/).

We're looking for:

* Rails Backend Engineer - We like folks who play in Ruby, JS and have some basic infrastructure experience. Data analytics experience is a plus.

* Mobile Engineer - Android and/or iOS, experience with the full stack of pixel perfect UI to backend app functions. Bluetooth experience is a plus.

Past experience, projects and github profiles weigh the most in our decision of who we work with.

Feel free to reach out directly, cameron@lockitron.com.
A backend/frontend filter might be useful.
Amazingly, if a Canadian mother is transferred to an American hospital, the baby is an US citizen and the same goes if it's an American transferred to a Canadian hospital.

Interesting to learn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_U...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Mack

"I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can't account for in any other way, that's mysterious. Yet I can't know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry"
Health Care exchange website faces performance issues & downtime
NY Health exchange website gets 2 million hits in the first hr! But the total number of uninsured in NY state is estimated to be 2.2 million! Based on these numbers, I believe there was a major DOS attack on the health exchange website for NY and other states and the traffic was not just the real anticipated traffic. What do you think?
It is very ok with me, I'm flattered!
Are they really going to preferentially talk to each other in English out of a long-term abstract desire to practice their English and get a job in the US? Having gone to university on a campus with a very high proportion of Chinese students, I can tell that even when they're actually in the US, they feel free to use their native languages all the time with each other.
Yes, the article wasn't exactly clear but pretty much all of the stories (well, I only read a few) refer obliquely to one thing: you are subject to taxation by the United States even while you're a resident abroad, and paying taxes abroad.

It is as though your 'home state' continued to tax you (or make you file paperwork) long after you've moved to California. Nobody else (worldwide) does this. It doesn't make any sense.

This is a primary motivation people have for renouncing U.S. citizenship.
To handle the callback pyramid of doom, look into javascript promises.

Another option is using a timeline based tool like Sencha's Animator: http://www.sencha.com/products/animator
That's Eritrea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation
That matters, certainly, but the terms can be assimilated and then any further conversation carried out in the more convenient and fluent native language.
maybe https://github.com/caolan/async is the answer?
Experienced developers have to weigh-in 150k + great benefits for their families at established tech companies their family can brag about vs mostly unstable jobs at thousands of small companies nobody knows about. Experience may also mean they've been burned by promises at least once before. For every early employee at Facebook there are hundreds in the Valley who never saw the upside. If you are looking outside of SV a developer with a family would need a house and housing is expensive - so salary would matter a lot.

I am a tech founder too, and all of the above just reminds me this is a race. You have to be better to survive, so pick something that your company offers that is better than the rest. Culture? Team? Product? Mission? An odd perk? A brand reputation?

When all else fails, look at Wall Street. Most New York finance jobs are terrible at all non-tangible criteria anyone would have for a job, so they catch smart people with higher salaries and burn through them by the thousands.

I've found the best hires are referrals of your best people. If someone you respect is already working for you and they refer someone they respect to you that is a big sign you are doing something right.
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can you link a citation to the 'exception' you mention?
> All the people from the article seem to be carefully selected socialists big time who just couldn't wait to give up on the US citizenship no matter what

"survivor" bias? Maybe those are the only kind of people who want to give up their U.S. citizenship?
There has been a fair amount of research in the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) community that borrows from image processing techniques for the likes of audio fingerprinting, onset detection, tempo estimation, chord recognition, etc. Most of the techniques used start by transforming the audio into some time-frequency representation (like an STFT, but also short-time versions of the wavelet transform, constant-q transform, etc) as is done here.

For a specific implementation of computer-vision related techniques used for audio fingerprinting, see:

http://ecee.colorado.edu/~fmeyer/class/ecen5322/waveprint.pd...

However, a Google Scholar search should produce a lot more examples.
> For me, it is time. I switched back about a year ago, when Firefox started to not be painful any more, but still was a step back from Chrome.

What was the tipping point that prompted you to switch back to Firefox? Was Firefox able to import your Chrome history and bookmarks without losing anything?
I have tested this in the past, and a few clients on the service I launched last year (https://servercheck.in/) have also reported the same: Google Docs is unreliable at best. Besides false positives, there were at least two or three outages (sometimes for an hour or more) unreported.

Google Docs is not meant to be a status monitoring tool. Use the right tool for the job; there are plenty of free and cheap alternatives that do things much better, are more reliable, and save you setup and maintenance time.
RSC's saying that 1.1's new calling convention removed the need for dynamic code generation.
I doubt it would matter much to Microsoft if he leaves. It's not that he had a say in the day to day operations and even when it comes to long term strategy I think Steve needed him because Steve himself was not a technologist. If another CEO like Mulally takes over then he would benefit from a Bill's inputs but if they get a tech savvy CEO which I think they should then Bill would be more of a hindrance than help.

The arguments made in the article seem logical too. He's an icon and it'd be sad to see him step down but nothing that's impact the company.
Apple is sitting on 10% of all corporate cash
What may be driving some people is simply the fear of getting the paperwork wrong. The penalties listed on the forms are scary.

You can't just do it in Turbotax for 50 bucks, you need a qualified tax professional to help you. Good luck finding one familiar with the latest US regulation when you're abroad. The fees will be in the thousands, every year, for the rest of your life.

The financial toll and mental stress all adds up and I guess at some point people just give up. It's a shame that the burden of paperwork results in people giving up their citizenship.
Oh, looks fine to me. I use HTitle[1] on Gnome, but that only hides the titlebar in fullscreen...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/htitle/
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Imagine cities floating in Space!
Good article, good to see someone who appreciates how strong Apple's strategy really is, rather than just hating.

A nice comment somewhere in this thread about CEOs of corps competing to get the best app - Apple managed to turn the iPhone into arguably the premier ego-arena on the planet. A characteristic which gives iOS an allure which should not be underestimated, unless you happen to enjoy being crushed like a bug.
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> Why doesn't google treat non-logged in users the same as those w/o an account?

I wager what they actually want to do is treat those without an account the same as those who are not logged in, but realize they can't get away with that quite yet. (That is to say, I suspect that they would like to turn away all users without accounts.)
What Firefox add-ons are you using? You shouldn't need to rebuild your profile every two weeks. How much does rebuilding your profile improve performance?
Not much to look at, but you can easily play with bound instance methods like the r.Read example in the doc at the playground: http://play.golang.org/p/lnfidH3usx