skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually pretty awesome. Good work Facebook.
Oh, that reminds me: You can use XPath in Chrome with $x(). To get all of the links on the current page, open up the console and type:

$x('//a')
Free market includes the freedom to conspire for lowering wages down like includes the freedom from workers to decide where they work or even compete with those companies.

Having said that, we don't live in a free market, the economy is ruled by central banks who do central planning, thanks to free money for them, taken from the rest of us.

In the technology sector, we live in a world with business and software patents, and with lawsuits costing millions, which makes competing against the big guys harder and harder for little guys.
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No, it's a lot better to assume that he's wrong and keep working extremely hard and investing in science and engineering. We went to the moon in 1969 and had commercial supersonic flight in the 1970's. I imagine that in the 1970's we were pretty optimistic too. High-speed maglev trains were in the foreseeable future. Instead, today we protest because slow busses with wifi carry Google employees to Silicon Valley every morning.

In short, the future we dreamed about 40 years ago hasn't arrived, so I wouldn't bet on the one you think is 30 years away.
We've got quite a few years to go... but I firmly believe that we will actually beat his prediction. Artificial intelligence surpassing that of humans is an inevitability. If we accept that the 'mind' is the sum of the parts of the 'brain,' then we can safely say that simulation of a brain should produce a mind. Besides this line of attack, we could independently create a strong AI based on other methods. Just think of the myriad AI we have experienced in the past few years that people 20 or 30 years ago would've laughed at as ridiculous--Watson, Google car, and Deep Blue.
Great work Facebook, you've remained relevant and certainly made the world more connected. Looking forward to seeing what you do over the next 10 years. True poster-child for startups and what they can accomplish.
Oh yes. See also The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, who replaced each part of himself as he chopped them off.

There's an early AI researcher who brought up the neuron-by-neuron replacement too, but I can't remember who off-hand (might have been Moravec)
I think it's quite likely to happen. Once we're able to simulate the brain on a computer, it's just a matter of time until we understand how the brain works.

I really wonder what would happen. The super-human AI would be able to replace basically all of the jobs. What will people do?
The Singularity ... whatever, doesn't make positive claims about reality as it exists today or as it existed in the past.

Religions do.

Talking a lot about a possible future isn't the same as religious belief.
American libertarianism predates libertarian socialism or anarchist libertarianism. Its rooted in the thinking of Thomas Paine, etc. In any case, its what the word means in American speech. Just like "biscuit" is a fluffy soft baked good and not a cookie.
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Its worth pointing out that this is a commentary on Kurzweil's particular view of technological singularity and how it might happen. Picking holes in his proposed theory of mind for AIs, or his relating biological evolution with technological "progress", doesn't necessarily invalidate the general idea of exponentially accelerating technology.

Kurzweil is just one advocate. In fact, the idea [1] originated with Von Neumann in the 50s and was popularised by Vernor Vinge in the 90s, and its worth reading Vinge's paper "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era" [2]. Bruce Sterling gave a interesting (and sceptical) talk [3] on the subject a while back.

For what its worth, I'm personally not convinced that we'll ever see a technological singularity because I don't think our culture generates technology that has the required attributes. Siri or Google Now don't need to be self-aware in order to do what they do, and there is no apparent commercial pressure to make them so. And since people build technology for human purposes, the presence of people who sleep, get bored, etc. will act as a drag on any tendency for runaway acceleration.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Histo...

[2] http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.htm...

[3] http://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jun/11/the-singularity-you...
1) write it down and review after a day or two.

2) Do home work, search for the best current way to solve the problem.

3) scale matters, a jet engine was a big improvement over a propeller engine. Focus on big ideas

Reference - this is how someone who has PhD is taught to evaluate an idea.
http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html

4) Einstein was well known for saying that he had so few good ideas, he did not need to write them down. He had learned how to measure the value of an idea.

As a side note, I also feel very good ideas, ideas that offer at least 100% ROI are so rare that you will know when you have one. 100% ROI is a tough call, but I would only spend time on ideas that offer 100+% ROI.
Sure, although I'm not sure the hypocrisy line is terribly effective here. A bunch of people who think regulations are necessary to stop corporations exploiting their workers turn out to run corporations that exploit workers? Well, yeah, isn't that exactly what you'd expect?
This is the reason why I feed DDG all my data, even if I'm going to use their !g function to do a Google search anyway.

A monopoly on search is a monopoly on the truth.
"But there is no lawsuit or anything which requires strong evidence."

Strong evidence and as much money as the other party, which in this case would be able to lawyer up pretty heavily.
Free up time to go to gym and burn the calories we got from junk foods that we eat to compensate and cope with our terrible modern life problems?
Cool but lots of similar stuff around

https://www.google.com/search?q=bicycle+washing+machine&sour...
The real question is why you think the universe, or the planet at least, isn't essentially a Turing machine.
I've always thought of mind uploading as a comforting lie. Like what you tell a small child about what happened to the old dog. "He's in a better place now".

The idea of the singularity implies that the complexity of technology moves above anything humanity can understand. It is unclear whether there still be any use for our kind of individual conscious mind. At what scale will cognition happen? Will the world itself turn into a kind of brain?

But I'm with you in hoping that the Minds will be like the culture's and keep us around as pets in a sort of enlightened hedonism :-)
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Keep up the good work. You'll be more independent when you stop depending on food stamps, but you're on your way. Also, I recommend ordinary reusable cups instead of plastic disposables.
I was thinking about this the other day coincidentally. The only big tech company I would want to work for is Apple, and I'd gladly take a few tens of thousands less than my already far larger than my living expenses wage to have the opportunity to. I wonder what that says about me?
I find so much of the arguments the article lists as 'far-fetched' are actually not far from where we are today.

If you really think about it how far are we from there being ' no distinction... between human and machine or between physical and virtual'.

I specifically think of the 'physical and virtual' stuff. I'm currently having a virtual 'conversation' regarding this topic. None of you who may respond are with me, we're doing this all virtually, and I doubt the time is far off where somebody can have a machine respond coherently with their general thoughts on a subject.

When the author talks about Kurzweil not differentiating between biological evolution and mechanical evolution, I think that our biological evolution has in many ways been a result of our technological evolution, would one exist without the other? Isn't out technological evolution in the areas of food production resulting in our genetic evolution as larger (both taller and fatter) people?

I know I'm picking some pretty minor things here and that means the singularity is still a long way off, but compare the last 40 years to the next 40 years.

Not everything Kurzweil describes to be part of the Singularity has to happen exactly as he describes it. It's a theory, and (from getting only about 1/3 through the book) an interesting one.

I guess haters gonna hate.
Charles Stross dubbed it The Rapture of the Nerds many years ago.
> if I "upload" my "consciousness" -- how is it, well, me?

If you were going to be sedated in a blue-painted room, and then an exact copy of you would be made in a red-painted room, what color of wall would you expect to see when you woke up?
As far as I know no computer Go program has ever won against human Go professionals on the even game of 19x19 Go. Do you know otherwise?

My information is from http://computer-go.info/h-c/
> Sorry, this page isn't available

Do you need to be logged in?
I assume this is a common problem to be solved. Are there any best practices, or libraries, or techniques that I could look at to help.

At the moment I parse and update the parser every time a new error appears. Most of the time it seems to be excel presenting things to the user that appear correct when they are not.

I have even been tempted to write my own "data import grid". It would look like excel, have very little of the functionality, but could allow a developer to set rules on what can / can't be entered in each column.
Because gloves are too expensive?

Never mind that though. Pedalling is a lot easier than washing clothes by hand. It's better for your back too.
I find it very interesting how many people claim to have intimate knowledge...now...of the most secret agency in the world where none existed before.
If your consciousness got uploaded how would it know that its not you?
That is the philosophical can of worms. We can discuss it to death without ever reaching a conclusion.

Personally, I define my consciousness barrier at the level of Turing machine running any program that evolves. I also believe consciousness is not binary, it is a continuum. Is a dog a consciousness? Of course. Is a plant a form of consciousness? Yes, at a lower level. A bacteria or a virus? Yes. Sediment rocks? No.

My hypothesis isn't testable. It is also probably wrong. I know that. I am, however, accompanied by any other hypothesis out there :)
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or perhaps: classical liberal
Why is the article dated February 10th 2014 ? Did this come from the future?
I am working on Reesd (https://reesd.com). This is a redundant file store, similar to S3. Right now only the SCP protocol is implemented and I hope to offer soon an HTTP API.

Normally Reesd first purpose will be to host Docker repositories/images but I needed a nice way to backup PostgreSQL WAL-segments and use the store for log-shipping. That's what scp is used for.

This is cool because my target audience has already scp on their computer so using Reesd is just a matter of providing a SSH public key. And using scp is quite natural in many situations: distributing files to a cluster of machines, WAL-shipping as said above, Vim can open files through scp, ...
Does a cell in your body lack an independent existence? You can culture them by themselves, they evolved by themselves. Algae actually does exist as both single cells and collective colonies of the same organism.

There's nothing inherently contradictory of a higher intelligence being composed of many active smaller conscious experiences - arguably this is what the internet already is, just a very slow version of it. We need a better interconnect (and some more durable subprocessors).
Wouldn't you need to find a TV that doesn't run on electricity first?
That's an outrageous slur on biscuits!
If you want to be part of this I just setup the reddit, registered the domain and setup a twitter. http://www.reddit.com/r/hoinz/ I think a fair pre-mine combined with a proof-of-stake is the way to go. People are familiar enough with cryptos now to know what they want and how much their participation helps, and what they should expect to receive in return.

These gratuitous microtips are getting out of hand.
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Three cheers for a decade of surveillance!
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If you don't have a copy of it in your own possession (an external service doesn't count), it isn't your data.

Unfortunately for them, they've just learned that multiple backups are to a single backup as a backup is to none.
Simply no.
Ray Kurzweil is the wrong person to publicly personify transhumanism (I'm not opportunistically jumping on the bandwagon, I've been saying this for a long time now). I realized this when I read about his idea to resurrect his dead father by feeding some left-over data into an AI tasked with imitating his father. While I do think it's unethical to slave a sentient AI algorithm to this charade to begin with, the larger problem is that he apparently believes this will bring a dead person back to life. That's a very shallow idea for crossing over to a new substrate, clearly a lot more is required to port over a person.

While it's good to have a quasi-official spokesperson who can convey some of the concepts to a broader audience, things also got simplified in a way that seriously distorts them. It's not about arbitrary singular points during our development, it's about the breathtaking directions these developments are destined to go in. That's a much harder concept to sell than, say, a magical tipping point where history ends, but I'd say it's well worthwhile.

The standard singularity talk doesn't reflect what's really happening to us - nevertheless, it's important to open people up to the prospect of continued technological development. It sounds so simple, but this is really not an obvious path to people who believe the future will mainly contain ever-lighter iPads and will otherwise be the same: there will be a couple of points in history where technology reaches the potential to fundamentally change who we are, what it means to be alive, and what our goals are as a civilization.

Technology will make it possible to alter some very fundamental realities humans had to live with for a long time. The impact of this is enormous beyond words. We get to change things in a very big way, including some options that would be hugely unpopular even for the tech-savvy people on HN - like getting rid of material scarcity, for example, or choosing radical life extension.

It's clear that this will be upsetting to a lot of people, and suddenly we need a marketing person like Kurzweil. Personally, I'd prefer Eliezer Yudkowsky would take that role, but that's probably not a good choice for "lay people".
Unfortunately (at least for me) it seems like it doesn't work via LAN, but somehow uses Internet connection to stream to somewhere and then back, kinda sucks and slow
-Ofast is just an option, that works with icc, gcc and clang 3.3. Maybe for gcc 4.8 it includes only "-O3 -ffast-math", but it can be changed in any moment.
Sometimes called the Moravec Procedure: http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/moravec.html
Sometimes people decide to file frivolous lawsuits that are illegal in many jurisdictions. To find a shady lawyer for such a suit many of these criminals use a search engine such as Google. Unfortunately, the Bar Association is recalcitrant - they claim they are powerless to stop these lawyers before the suit is filed and the damage is done.

Consequently, I propose instead that Google is empowered to decide which law companies can be found on the internet based on how many complaints we send them.

I can't see a single problem with that.
In my opinion, after being participant in 6 startups in my career I see the lack of good computers as a bad sign of the company. Right now, I'm doing a good product with a 2009 Mac. I can code, I can design, but the timings go up as well the frustration when the machine runs slow in some processes or it hangout itself. To resume: it sucks balls.

I don't think companies need all employees under 6-core Mac Pros with 4K monitors, but having good computers also makes the job easier and pleasant.

The day I start my own company I will impose this rule for development/design team:

1. Fatest Macbook Pro Retina: mobility and power.
2. 16Gb mem or higher: so mem is the least of the problems.
3. Double monitor: work better from start, no need to watch 1 screen.
4. Mechanical keyboard: confort, speed and healty.
5. All machines under LAN, WiFi is slow imho.
> I personally came to the conclusion that a deterministic machine cannot be consciouss.

Is the difference between being conscious or not defined by reading from /dev/random? Most theories of consciousness that point to quantum theory read like that. Unless you assume quantum randomness is god's invisible hand, and then religion infiltrates the argument. (not that God isn't in /dev/random anyhow)
Don't you mean:

var A = function(){
this.called = -1;
}
A.prototype.valueOf = function(){
this.called += 1;
Return this.called;
}
var a = new A()
Legacy software (and hardware) - some stuff for embedded development that used to run in DOS, and was OK with 98SE, but wouldn't work in anything NT-based. But mostly I'm a "don't fix it if it ain't broke" type of person, so if it weren't for the fact that a lot of other software I had to use wouldn't run in 98SE, I probably would still be using it.

The file manager in Win98 is also surprisingly responsive when compared to XP, Vista, and 7, even on older hardware that's many times slower in benchmarks. Things seem to happen instantaneously, whereas in XP, Vista, and 7 there is a slight but noticeable delay every time e.g. you open a folder or scroll around. I think it's a little amusing that, even though it can only use 1 core, on my i7 system Win98 feels so much faster and less "intrusive" in many ways.
Should gov.uk run a bug bounty?
So, stating a fact is trolling nowadays? Good to know.
Yes, it's a personalized video for your profile.
Who cares what it was invented for: we can use it for this. If we only ever used tools as intended the world wouldn't have progressed very far.
The biggest advantage from other commenters seems to be that put.io has a fairly large user base and if another user has already downloaded a torrent you want, it's available instantly in your put.io account.
It's only relevant when making policy decisions about that particular rule. Regulations aren't commodities, and the fact that eliminating a certain regulation would destabilize the system is no evidence that removing any other regulation would do the same.

But in any case, if you think what would happen by abolishing all regulation is irrelevant to the real world, then you should be replying to RivieraKid, who was the one drawing such irrelevant (and, in my opinion, unsupported) conclusions.
If you have important, meaningful things to say, a Facebook status update is probably the wrong platform. :)
Bitcoin can be used anonymously (Tor, encryption, mixers).

> It not CamelCased either

Thanks.
I stated it in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7176384
Wow. I found this rather poignant. I've been on Facebook for 6 years, and it struck me that most of the events it picked out were closer to the start of those 6 years than the present.
>Do you use any kind of smartphone?

Sure. I have daily Titanium Backup runs going offsite. Not even google/CM can touch those.
Exactly. When SOPA came looming around, I realized my digital buying habits had in effect been indirectly funding lobby activities to make the internet and my life worse. That's when I decided to stop giving them money.
I don't know if I'd agree that Wikipedia has a highly polished look, but my point was more that you can have multiple polished looks, and it's actually easier to have a polished Linux for mobile phones and a seperate polished Linux for server usage (and so on), than to try to be all things to everyone. Wikipedia for example has multiple skins, multiple clients (including totally offline ones, similar to one of OSMs key differentiators).

And this article is the equivalent of say, Canonical taking Debian and saying they're going to make an easy to use desktop linux from it. It will almost certainly be more "polished" and end-user focused than openstreetmap.org, because they serve two different types of users.

Interestingly Wikipedia are actually a user facing front-end for OpenStreetmap data, in fact they have at least 4 projects using slightly different tech to put different front-ends on OSM as appropriate for their usage, e.g. the official Android app uses MapQuest OSM tiles to show articles that relate to your physical surroundings:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&...

and the german wikipedia has a couple of gadgets in the top right hand corner to show the geographical context of the articles:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_%28Fluss%29

They also extract a lot of vector data from OSM to hand built appropriate maps and diagrams for articles:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aruba_travel_map.png

Again, not always what I'd call polished, but they're making creative use of map data, rather than putting some pins on Google Maps (or on an OSM based clone) and that's a good thing.
> We can discuss it to death without ever reaching a conclusion.

I can confirm, experienced this couple of times :)

The way I define consciousness is very simple, it's my current feelings, thoughts and perceptions. It's also the only "thing" that I can be 100% sure about.
I would like this story, but it comes across as typically RMS preachy - people should have inherent moral rights to what they own, but people also have a moral right to sell their work instead of giving it away if they want. That is a different issue to DRM.
A point that was made in the article
I thought about the same question before and the solution could be that uploading would work as quantum entanglement, a shared consciousness between your brain and the machine hardware. Once you are half inside, you can command to shut your organic body down.
> ... nothing special about the tube being made of copper. Any conducting substance will do.

Any non-magnetic conducting substance that is. Otherwise the magnet will just stick to the tube wall.
Are you searching in Dutch or English? In Dutch the top 4 results are all pretty good.

What exactly do you want to find out about it?
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This is essentially the founding idea of the Pirate Parties.
I stand corrected, no official even game wins against professionals. Maybe I remember seeing unofficial games on KGS. The progress is impressive anyway, just a while ago the best computer programs were around 8-10 kyu level.
And it's just not, technically, particularly compelling either.

Also, not sure Java was any more or less evil when it was Sun. In either case the question is just one about which demographics the multi-million dollar marketing campaigns behind one technology or another have targeted. Had they decided Linux hackers were going to be their customers then I'm sure that demographic would be drinking the kool aid and wearing the t-shirts instead.
Why fixed bid does not work in software development?