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Gerald Weinberg

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg#The_secrets_of_...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/no-matter-what-they...
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It's funny how he predicted all these stock objections to his claims of fraud in the video, and yet they all appear here in the HN thread. Let's all watch the video again shall we?
> most of the best hospitals in the world are American

Are they really? Citation?
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Someone pull this guy to Singapore. If he was afraid of success he never would had tried to promote the product.
s/retarding/retargeting/? Or something else? I haven't been able to come up with an interpretation where "retarding" makes sense in that sentence, but of course I'm not a native speaker.

I guess targeting assembly is way harder, you must deal with register allocation and other scary-sounding topics.
For some applications I would be more than willing to accept 20% overhead in exchange for perfect security. Still better than setting up dummy virtual boxes.
The pairing on Gandi's offer has more to do with which database programmers of a given language are usually more familiar with. Hopefully you can use pgSQL in all three cases :-)
(My comment here is about the international version of the site - the USA one is much clearer in its purpose.)

One crucial piece of information I haven't been able to find is what happens to the names and email addresses people enter. How does filling in those boxes amount to taking action?

I am strongly opposed to mass surveillance, but thedaywefightback.org doesn't seem to be communicating successfully how exactly it is going to help. If it is doing something that will truly help (which seems likely, but I can't really tell), that needs to be clear in its message, and it isn't.
I do not really understand what you're saying.

1) This is actually modular. I mean... those things are even called "modules".

2) Even if it wasn't modular, how would it matter? You're comparing to the Linux kernel. If that one isn't modular then according to you, systemd also isn't modular. Allright, so be it, did you have any problems with missing modularity in the Linux kernel lately?
haha, I love this guy..

Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.
It is plausible that picking the first row can be optimal to understand an unclear category's "style." Since not all categories are obviously understood (double entendres, etc.) I could see an optimal strategy being to go first row followed by fourth row in categories that are non-obvious.
> If you get sick and can't work, is the health care system supposed to pay your mortgage too?

Where I'm from, if you get sick and can't work, we won't let people waste away on the streets, yes.
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What you suggest is actually the default behavior of most major carriers. Its codified here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp38

That said, source address spoofing is needed for some one-way satellite internet providers.

There are also some really cool advanced load balancing tricks you can do with it. It even comes in handy (ironically) when doing DDoS mitigation.
Elliptic meeting UK Tax authority. Comments welcome.
>Lately there's a new thing, it's actually for horses needing surgery and keeps them on their feet. Kids use it to prefent passing out from all the other drugs. Funny thing is: They look like walking zombies stumbling about.

Ketamine. [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
In the blog post, I explain why I think they still got hacked.
Maybe it was not @1775sec, but starting to get spam just after their downtime, is suspicious.

In any case, it's a suspicion, hard to confirm indeed.
Isn't the brain itself a good mix of general-purpose and special-purpose intelligence?
Quote. I also think there's more than what he said behind what happened. For sure.
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Not sure it is perfect security. There are race conditions with ptrace sandboxes. Have not read the paper yet to see if they mitigate somehow with seccomp.
Except in my heart where it still flaps. And my phone where it's still installed. And as a weird internet ("mobile" = internet) historical relic, akin to crazy frog.
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This is the only comment in any of the NSA articles that actually justifies the existence and mission of the NSA. You should delete it.
You can save money on a Facebook ad by linking to a Facebook page, well on a per click basis but I'm not sure if it's a good strategy overall.
Very nice exposition (for a mathematician :) Given the quality of this initial post, I actually find it kind of unfortunate that the focus of the series seems to be on the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor, since that is (and should be) such a rare use of elliptic curves.
Why Singapore?
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimyst...

BTW, I wonder how much AI is based on "facts". I someone tells me, he slept bad last night, then there are so many assumptions I make subconscious. I assume he lives in a House/Apartment, he slept in a bed, he slept on the bed, on a mattress, the mattress is on the bed and not the bed on the mattress, he sleeps on it based on gravity etc. etc. etc. To make meaning out of sentences you have to know a lot. Your first years in live may be nothing but acquiring this knowledge.
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If I had to point to one thing it would be "the day".

* It's clearly going to take more than a day to achieve a positive outcome in a system that was established over many decades

* What happens when "the day" ends?

* Since the action is framed as "the day", this is how the media will report on it - including
outcomes of the day. These outcomes, whatever they are, will be packaged with the day and thus more easily dismissed than, say, "the movement" (which continues to grow) or "the tide" (that is turning) or "the big cleanup" (which must be repeated regularly)
Cats cannot play the simplest of games; does that mean that they do not have general purpose intelligence?

And I do think this research is going to take us there; what is winning a game more than translating your enemy actions into yours? Like translating a face gesture on a poker game (or translating a word) into a action such as doubling inside the game (or a http response).
Because it's nearby and capitalist. He will have access to far better resources and no state issues.
> the best doctors in the world head there because they can make the most money.

To "make the most money" is not necessarily a motivation for "the best doctors in the world".

It doesn't even necessarily get you "the best doctors money can buy".
I think this a modern misconception of the word ni. Prior to the "du-reform" it was used when talking to subordinates. The polite formal way was to use titles and last names.
The new use of ni as a polite pronoun is probably inspired by the rest of europe, as we're trying to be fashionably international.
I'm not so sure about the explanation. I have also gotten a lot of these useless "like thousand of random pages" likes but the difference is that I'm pretty sure they are real people.

Could it be that their computer is hacked? That they are part of a like farm without knowing it? A lot of the profiles I've been analyzing seem to be really computer illiterate so it wouldn't surprise me if they are more prone to install viruses and less likely to understand that something is wrong when their feed is filled with updates from random pages.
CloudFlare has 24 datacenters worldwide. That works out to 16 Gbps per DC if evenly distributed, or roughly 2 10 GigE circuits.
As dsl pointed out, this filtering is already enforced, but it presents caveats and limitations: http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc3013#section-4.3
I read Agans's Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems back when I was in high school and still pretty new to programming. I learned a lot from it, and still recommend it.

When I was in college the administrators were redesigning the CS curriculum (and are probably still fiddling with it). One of the newer classes they had come up with was a mandatory lab course on debugging.

Sure enough, they had everyone read Agans and emphasized thinking of debugging as an application of the Scientific Method. There were also constructed debugging exercises to solve too, but given how hard it is to deliberately craft good bugs that are nevertheless still predictably solvable by beginners within the time frame of a lab session, I think most of the value that people got out of the course was from reading the book.
Cats have limited intelligence but general purpose intelligence. Compare a kitten to a computer with computing power but without intelligence. Now kitten to cat maturity gives the animal a wisdom and intelligence. That maturity is in nowhere similar to Watson as a pure hardware (kitten) to Watson with software of AI (cat).
Actually cats can play catch. So even by that definition they have some rudimentary intelligence.

Cats aren't as intelligent as dogs, and they aren't social animals but they have some intelligence. They can learn on their own to navigate surroundings, move, catch prey and mate.

I'd love to see Watson do any of these without pre programming.
From my viewpoint, I went to college in order to prepare me for my future. If my future likely includes the use of a proprietary product, then I think it is in the best interest of both the students and the school to teach that proprietary product.

I wouldn't go to a design school that didn't teach photoshop. These days I don't think many programmers will leave college and not use git or github at least once in their career, so I don't see a school using it as such a travesty.
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> Money motivates most people. The best doctors will go where they can get the most money.

Except that most doctors already make plenty and that most doctors are in fact also strongly motivated by the desire to help and treat people. That's why they became doctors, and the latter desire helps them achieve becoming better doctors much more than a desire for money.

I'm not saying they're not motivated by money. Just that "the best doctors" are probably driven by a couple of other motivations too.
The "problem" in America used to be that not everyone paid into the insurance programs. "Obamacare" aims to fix that problem but Congress is full of assholes who tend to use the Constitution as a political weapon to fight the so-called "tax" for universal healthcare. Tough a myopic lense, e
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Your chance of death multiplied exponentially with each gate you passed.

Because math doesn't matter, but words are cool when you're a writer. Aaargh.

I'm no Flappy champion, but I'm pretty certain there is very little diffuculty-ramping. It's certainly not getting exponentially more difficult.
Trust the British to settle on the formal version.
> one-of-a-kind bespoke app Morin had built for his assistant and him to communicate

My sides are now in orbit, this guy needs a serious reality check.
Surely this site has been set up by the NSA to harvest the details of everyone who opposes them...?
That looks useful, thanks.
Well, our cats can play fetch - does that count?

On the subject of the "game" of fetch - it turns out that dogs can actually show some fairly sophisticated behavior when playing fetch:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetch_%28game%29

[NB They are Burmese - quite dog like cats and still behaving like overgrown kittens even though they are 8 years old.]
NTP reflection attack technical explanation:
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> Yes, because it is general purpose intelligence.

Right, but playing jeopardy is far more general than instructing a computer to sort an array, so why do you think that we are on the wrong path?
I remember learning that in high school, and things made so much more sense; it explains why usted takes third-person verbs and possessive pronouns.

Wasn't vosotros used as a formal tu at one time, especially with regard to royalty? I seem to recall reading that, but I can't say it with any degree of confidence.
If that switch happens and systemd is forced on us I'll be dumping Gentoo after 12 years.

systemd gives me nothing that openrc doesn't already provide and it messes with a lot of things that I do care about (eg. logging, cron).

If RedHat is so intent on forcing their junk through everyone's throat it's time to move back to an OS where technical insight reigns instead of corporate money and marketingspeak.
is there any more viable hypothesis?

the brain is just a configuration of matter. seems like recreating this configuration is inevitable? and isn't it a safe assumption that if it's configured the same way it will behave the same way?

once we can understand the system we can synthesize it in software. AI in the mean time, seems like a guessing game.
Any Danish speakers here? It should be even closer to English as that's where the Angles and Saxons are from.
Um, what you're doing might be super-duper valuable, but "bite-sized personalized social innovative learning", frankly, sounds more like a game of buzzword bingo than like a product description.
The debugger should be a concept to be taught, just like the compiler, linker, interpreter, assembler and so on. There should be at least a few lab hours where students are given existing programs and need to go for a bug hunt. This should include strace and valgrind, two essential tools that will probably not be outdated for quite a while.

Now, where I disagree is the IDE part. I have nothing against IDEs per se and I think everyone should be able to choose the tools he can work with best once (s)he starts a professional career. (hence why I like the concept behind cmake btw.). But I think it's a bad idea to start off with this as a student. An IDE comes along as an non separatable entity and it's hard to distinguish between the essential components behind it if that's the only thing you practice developing with. Students should learn what those components do from scratch and that's easier when you can see them as Lego bricks in front of you. IMO it's also a more satisfying learning experience than having MS, the Eclipse Foundation or anyone else holding the hand for you when you do your baby steps.
You could run all of these programs on one computer. Comparing a person to a piece of software is apples to oranges. Build a computer big enough to run all of the software in the world (and all of the data, too) and compare those capabilities to a human.
Was the original post on HN?
Doesn't the KJV avoid the formal-plural convention entirely? Most of my reading has been in newer versions, but I seem to recall that it used thou for singular and ye for plural very consistently; I sometimes wish for that distinction in modern Bible translations.
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That's quite a clever solution - except that upon reading what Lennart says in the comments, systemd-shutdown is apparently closely coupled with systemd and receives enough state from it that it cannot be used with any other init system. So I'm not sure it's safe to rely on that for any major upgrade. (Not entirely sure why it needs all that state either.)
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In my hometown it's quite common to hear "'ow's tha bin?" ("How've you been?") and "sithee later" ("see you later").
That sounds like Minsky's "Society of Mind":

http://web.media.mit.edu/~push/ExaminingSOM.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
It reminds of the tension for professional athletes between playing simply to win and playing to put on a good show for the audience.

Of course, athletes have a more direct commercial relationship with their fans, so have a greater degree of responsibility to entertain them.

For a jeopardy contestant who plays once, it seems reasonable that they play in whatever fashion they determine gives them they best chance of winning.

But for a jeopardy contestant who wins consistently and plays a large number of shows, do they accrue any responsibility to be the equivalent of "a good sport" and put on a show for the fans -- who are, indirectly, paying for their continued winnings?

I appreciate Arthur Chu's strategy and applaud him for his rational approach to the game. But, as a regular watcher, I definitely enjoy the game less when he's playing, because I find it harder to follow along with the questions. I don't necessarily think this is a Bad Thing, but I think it's worth exploring.
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Most Japanese pronouns are also associated with gender (as in, the gender of the person using the word, not who it's referring to). Anata is mildly feminine, omae is rather masculine. But like Sinhalese, polite Japanese goes to great lengths to avoid using the "you" pronoun, people are usually referred to by last name, title, job description etc instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pronouns
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are you saying that there are more user of `hard` drug than user of weed in dutch ? this seems really weird.
"The best health care system in the world" is a pretty common refrain among American right wingers. Many of them truly think that we are #1 in this area and that the great tragedy of socialization will be destroying that.
Or perhaps the NSA was set up by the campaign organisers so they would have something to run an anti-campaign against.
Let me be original: This looks great. I will definitely take a closer look later. </sarcasm>
Its double the pay. Just be honest with your current employer and be sure to gratuitously thank them for giving you a shot and wish them well in the future. Do not burn that bridge :)

Good luck.
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After swiss voting for restricting Eu members the European union panicking there countries to fallow swissland we may see end Europe in 2 years.. All countries returning their currency and controlling their borders..
I believe in what he said, like this guy did: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/02/11/the-bird-l...

And as a Vietnamese, I can tell you that those fking mass media in VN is totally ruining his life. I admire him so much for his zen-like life style.
It's worth pointing out Google just bought the startup with the guys who wrote the "Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning" paper which is supposedly just an algorithm working on the raw pixels and then beating all other programs and half of the human experts.[1]

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5602v1.pdf
That's overly generous. Gates didn't just have an evil image for a while, he was evil for a while. It happens to the best of us.
AI is repeatedly redefined to exclude things that we can do, that were previously considered AI. Examples include image and character recognition, speech recognition, machine translation.

Each time we say 'oh well that's not actually the machine thinking it's just doing a search of a database / applying statistics / guessing' so it's not AI. Except we don't really know what it would mean for a machine to think, or understand text.
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I've seen some people talking about how they taught their robot to play ping ping, it's pretty amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3bADiB7uQ

Edit: The speaker was Jan Peters at ECML/PKDD13
To be honest, if Gentoo moves to systemd it'll probably be the final straw that pushes me to switch back to Windows after a decade or so of Linux use. Things have just being getting more and more buggy and unreliable; I'm already on the verge of switching just so I don't have to deal with the state of audio on Linux these days. Every PulseAudio version introduces new and fun breakages and they don't do stable releases anymore, so at best it'll get fixed in the next release which will have a bunch more poorly-tested code that breaks something else.
Come on.. You aren't a douchebag for jumping to another job with double the salary. :) No one would think twice about that.
This. And also, is it truly a general purpose intelligence, or a special-purpose one which evolved into general by just extending the domain of application?
I'd say that most of what is considered intelligence comes from pattern matching plus inference; and there is a number of 'illusions' and cognitive biases that trick the mind because one of these processes fails. This may for example by finding patterns where there is none, which is quite normal.
I think I understand the idea behind the video, but to me it looks like an experiment made by a very inexperienced advertiser. This guy could be a god walking between mere mortals on AdWords, but he surely lacks experience with Facebook advertising. Let me summarize why:

- wrongly setted advertising: Google AdWords and Facebook Ads work in a completely different way. If you try to do advertising with Facebook the same way you do with AdWords... you are going to fail for sure. I work in a start-up that does Facebook Advertisng (AdEspresso [1] ) and I struggle to make customers understand the equation new instrument=new things to learn. The problem with fake clicks exists and has a lot of reasons, but is marginal and partially avoidable. It worsen if you do everything to avoid really interested people (fake page, wrong targets), I don't find it strange that you only get fake clicks (and really expensive ones!).

- how to evaluate the effectiveness of an advertising campaign: the classic and easiest way to measure ROI is the LCA (Last Click Attribution) and is when you click on the ad → do the conversion, some browsing or less than 30 days in the middle are usually not a problem to keep the connection between those two actions. The classic example is AdWords when you are looking for a new razor. But what happens if I see a cool advertisement on Facebook about a cruise but it's not time yet for my holidays? I may like the page, visit it, and keep in mind that there is this really cool agency that sells fantastic cruises. It will come a time when I can ask for holidays at work, I'll remember the agency name and I'll google it looking for their website, also I may click on one of their ads because is between the top results. Next I buy the cruise: who gets the goal an who is the real dealer? That's why you look for Multi Touch Attribution models (MTA). Brand building and brand awareness are serious stuff.

[1] http://adespresso.com
That is like trying to create a bird instead of understanding the principle of flight. By understanding the principle of intelligence we can do better than our current level intelligence. One contender for understanding this principle is AIXI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V6u....
Funny, I always thought it the other way around. I struggle whenever I try to teach myself any formal/theoretical stuff because without the aid of a teacher checking my work I'm never sure if I really understand or not.

I never had a problem learning programming languages on my own by following examples though.
define "pre programming"? is a cat not pre-programmed to prey, mate, etc?

also, by some of these definitions, sounds like my roomba approaches natural intelligence.
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Well, you could implement proper distinction. let and setv both compile to setattr() in the current scope right now.
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