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> they aren't social animals

You haven't spent much time around cats (or haven't paid attention) if you think they aren't social animals.

Our various cats when I grew up would bring "friends" around - cats of both genders that they played with, and who would be allowed into our garden. Some of them were "introduced" to us - our cat would walk up to us with his friend in tow and stay until we'd pet his friend.

You'd often find them lying on our patio together during the summer. They'd also occasionally groom each other.

Our current neighbours oldest male cat sometimes "walks" the two young cats she recently got around the neighbourhood.
Yeah, we will be so much better off, when those F-ing froggies and sauerkrauts start fighting again like in the good ol' 40s. And Polish and Romanians should die instead of "flooding our streets".

Seriously, there is a lot to blame on the EU, but do not forget it brought us peace (putting Kosovo on the side) after more than two centuries of war.
I think Douglas Hofstadter has kept his idea of what AI is more constant than most folks.
What is the current situation in towns like Maastricht and Heerlen that decided to implement the residents only restriction? Was that rolled back or not?
If Q&A is QA then it should be considered development, in a specialized domain.
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That's a really valid criticism, we're just pushing some changes that we hope address those concerns (will be up in about 10 minutes).

Edit: Changes are up. It's not perfect, but hopefully it addresses some of your concerns.
"I would expect most of you to know nothing about these things."

"Do yourselves a favor and please shut the fuck up"

"Sorry kids, just because you made an account on a social network site and know how to code an app does NOT mean you understand ANYTHING about how the social network space works."

"none of you know anything about Dave Morin"

Finally somebody is pointing out the absurd generalizations and assumptions made here on Hacker News! Thank you Numair!
I don't get it, what would happen if you simply hadn't paid the $485?
Me personaly, I define AI as a system that can be fed non-biased input and learn from that input to derive conclusions that we as humans can relate too.

So feeding a system lots of cat pictures (ie biased-input) to teach it what a cat is for me is not AI. But a system which you feed in lots of random pictures and it learns by itself what a cat is, that would be AI, least for me.

What will be really interesting is a system which you can feed in all the childrens section and see what comes out at the end, would be most insightful into how we teach children and what we teach them. So a completely different area of AI use from that alone - learning how to learn better.
Be aware that Norwegians pronounce i something like a long 'ee' in English so tiem in Norwegian is pronounced very different from time in English.
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Hash tags to show support? History is fucking laughing at us today.
I'm pretty sure you could jailbreak the device and install the ipa from somewhere. And it's not a weakness of the iPhone. It a reason you personally wouldn't buy one but for the vast vase majority of people this will never ever matter.
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I thought AI was about one algorithm or something like that could do general thinking like a human. Its like you recognize images, characters, speech and then? What will you do with that?

Of course you could argue a child can detect a cat is cat only because someone taught the child so. But the point is a human baby left in the jungle right after it was born without any outside help can do a lot of intelligent things. Can a machine do the same?
I've seen a lot of people comment that he's giving up $50,000 per day. As so many people already have the app (and it's not being deleted from their devices remotely) isn't he still going to be receiving that ad revenue, it just won't be increasing anymore? A cynic might say he announced the 24 hour deletion to get as many people as he could to download it, because even after it was deleted they would be playing the game and he would be earning.
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This "How to make money" is just ridiculous link bait.
Actually, the flat volumes feature that's on by default in recent PulseAudio versions (and cannot be disabled without editing a config file as root) relies on entirely unspecified behaviour of the audio hardware, namely the timing relationship between volume changes and sample data. It has a hack that avoids deafening people unexpectedly on most hardware, but at the expense of very audible volume glitches every time it decides to fiddle with the global volume.

(Also, thanks to inconvenient analog issues like component tolerances, the most reliable way for hardware to deal with PulseAudio's flat volumes is to provide no volume controls except for a single digital one that simply undoes all of PulseAudio's weird fiddling. This volume control would provide no functionality that couldn't just be implemented in software, but PulseAudio handles devices without one really badly.)
Your point is very good! It needs to be specified how our signatures will help in the fight against mass surveillance. We signed, and now what? Spread the word. But what is next?
Shibboleth. (Hebrew, apparently).
In Ireland it's fairly common for people to use "you" as the singular and "ye" as the plural. It's less ambiguous but definitely not considered proper.
There's no way to informally address a superior without a salutation or a name.

I have always found this really annoying.

Male friends of roughly equal age tend to call each other "machang"

It's interesting how the subsequent 'you' turn 'umba'.

Dude, you didn't tell me about the class.

The 'you' there is usually turned in to umba.
Just donated but I'll also push it to the 8,000 subscribers we have.
Yep. The disadvantage of consolidation in that industry is these big providers have a conflict of interest. In an ideal world, platform providers would be broken up and prevented from selling their own content. That goes for Google too.
>>But a system which you feed in lots of random pictures and it learns by itself what a cat is, that would be AI, least for me.

A very good definition. Also adding to your point. Lets say a machine is fed with a billion pictures. Can the machine automatically categorize them by reading through them? Doesn't matter if it refers to a cat as some alphanumeric name 'ab12er' or a dog as 'p09iuy'.

But it should be able to categorize them. Then it should be able to read some encyclopedia or some source of information and study the behaviors of 'ab12er' and 'p09iuy'. Or the opposite, see 'ab12er' and 'p09iuy' and recognize them and describe them what they are.
I'm more disappointed by the apparent lack of a business model, beyond the usual Mecenate/sugar-daddy relationship with Omidyar. He's starting from scratch, in 2014, with a talented group of young guns, a huge trove of stories and a lot of publicity... he has a chance at really defining something innovative for the industry, beyond fancy graphics and hard-hitting content in the same old package. I hope they have better plans for the near future.
On that note plenty of people still use svn for the same reasons.
The article is poorly phrased no matter what the thinking behind it was. It says your chances of death increase with each gate you pass. If there's no difficulty ramping that's simply not true.

That's like saying your chances of rolling another head after rolling 1000 heads are smaller. They're not. It's still 50/50.
It's a top secret recruiting method. Only the top 1% learn to debug code or hardware on their own. Since it's a secret, it's still not a gamed in the interview process by the me-too crowd. Please downvote this story, you will make recruiting much harder.
Fun fact: The mix of Sinhalese - English is called Singlish here.
> machine translation

One look at the Play store and its machine translated descriptions shows how far we are from anything usable.
"Likely the most impactful thing you can do right now is to add the banner to your own site and ask the companies you work for to do the same."

Why do you feel this is the most impactful thing that [I] can do? Specifically, do you believe that putting a banner on webpages will prompt more phone calls to legislators, which will in turn lead to the reduction of surveillance?

The video is heavy handed (actors and names-the-common-person-would-know with sweeping music) saying that surveillance is bad, but it's never clearly articulated _why_ one should believe that data mining by the government is wrong (besides unqualified claims of it being unconstitutional and against imagined civil liberties).

I personally think that there's risk in allowing a government to harvest and store data indefinitely (primarily because an unscrupulous politique could perform a character assassination to push a narrative), but I'm not the target audience for this advertisement.
I thought it was common knowledge. I mean, if it comes up at school at age 8, it's not exactly high learning.
So you think that after you join NSA, you'd participate in such a boycott against NSA? Or will you be even more terrified about losing the job you've already gotten, and try to be on the "safe side" as much as possible to keep your job?
You mean France? ;-)

The version currently accessible only deals with the Paris subway, but in the very near future the new version will have all modes for Paris (Metro, Rer, Train, bus) and for a few other cities in France.

I don't know what you mean by "small local buses"?

What's the name/address of your app?
Done, added my drop into the bucket. Hope we all can add enough drops to make some difference.
I think it shows how far we've come. Remember altavista's machine translation from babelfish?
yes and no. As long as you are able to get a globally routeable ipv4 address for your home at a reasonable price, no. Once you start being subjected to CGN (either or your end or on the remote end) or the price pressure of IPv4 in your region then you will have a reason. Namely cost and performance.

Because of this I would suggest that if you go router shopping that you should choose a model that supports IPv6 rather than not, even if you don't necessary care which you will end up using. Get a model with a good IPv6 firewall that you can tell to block all incoming connections.

Lastly, I think it is dangerous for "casual users" to say things like "I don't care about direct addressing of devices at home". I firmly believe that universal direct addressing will result in new innovation that might change your mind. :)
This is where I find X-Men to be an awesome concept. What we are chasing in AI right now is Magneto (the might), but every time we reach there, we compare ourselves with Prof. X (the intellect).

I actually like this direction. Intellect is about predicting problems, and might is about solving them. It is better for humanity to stay on the intellectual side and let machines handle the hard work. Imagine a choice between AI propelled super efficient kill-bots vs. Skynet, if you will.
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It's actually more recent. From the mid 1300's the Norwegian and Danish monarchy merged through marriage, and Denmark became by far the dominant party in the union. (Schelswig-Holsten was also for some time part of

The union lasted until 1814, when Denmark (and by extension Norway) had supported Napoleon, and Sweden had joined the other side. Sweden got Norway as a "price". But during that period, a lot of people had started preparing for an attempt at Norwegian independence. And while we entered into a looser union with Sweden, there was a long ongoing debate about creating a new, formalised Norwegian language.

We ended up with two, but one of them - bokmål - was basically Danish + Norwegian pronunciation + various spelling reforms, as this was effectively what was spoken amongst the upper classes in the cities, and this (with further spelling reforms) is the dominant written language today (the other was based on spoken dialects, and is further from Danish but not that much) .

So we've "only" had about 200 years for the languages to diverge again.
> God but I hated pronouncing the umlauts.

How comes you hate pronouncing umlauts and don't hate these various sorts of t-th-d sound? As in think-tank-they-did?
You're describing supervised vs unsupervised learning. We have both systems, one isn't really defined more as AI than the other.
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>>I'd love to see Watson do any of these without pre programming.

I'd love to see a Human do anything without any kind of pre programming(I mean without giving it the knowledge and training it to use that knowledge).

If I take a tribal person from a amazon jungle who hasn't seen the outside world ever and disclose him the rules of playing chess, will he able to play as well as Gary Kasparov in a few minutes? Or if say I disclose the usage of a paint brush and paint, can he paint like Michelangelo or Da Vinci?

Each human is a self learning self programming machine.

Humans, including us can do so many things only because our brains are getting programmed with information every single moment and are being told how to act on that information.
I'm not going to jail due to fighting the government about disclosure of the users of my dumb smartphone game. It's fun to play the moral high ground, but let's not pretend we're the bastions of society because we encrypt user data.
In my experience the location matters. I sprained my ankle in Edinburgh once, and the hospital visit was almost enjoyable. The staff were great. Where I live in London, it's not so great. They have to deal with a lot of annoying drunks and are overworked, but also the place was just not very clean. Our local A&E is closing down too.
Large capacity media servers are something I think makes sense as a home appliance. I also think that if people end up willing to put their money where their mouths are that there will be a market for devices that provide cloud like services with the privacy of local hardware.

Re: security. Cloud services aren't doing a lot better. They are repeatedly broken into and have huge password lists stolen, many have governments have direct programs for extracting datas from them, and someone else can call up their customer support reps and practically ask for your password. Many effective security best practices amount to obscurity (change ssh port number). Large central services are very attractive and lucrative to hack.
Bro, do you even logic? These comments remind me of those fundamentalist pamphlets with Jesus riding a dinosaur.

The whole premise of network neutrality is that ISPs should be forced to provide the same capacity connection to each peer network. The government should smite them down if the favor any company over another.

That is exactly what Comcast is doing! They are staunchly providing equal treatment to everyone. Netflix is getting the same treatment as Google Play.

And then a mob of idiots marches out to say "But my Netflix is slooooow! Treat Netflix the same harder!" They will pretend to be shocked when nothing happens.

The simple fact is that quality of service costs money. If you want Netflix to be popular and fast, somebody will have to pay to light all those fiber channels and install all those core routers. Passing a law that says nobody can pay will make the Internet into a Soviet store: free nonexistent bread for everybody.
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If when you join a company, you lose your personal identity, your employer has gotten a bargain on your hourly rate. There will always be another job.
Your fiancée shouldn't have had to pay for a prescription if she's pregnant.
True, but as congresspeople are elected by the people of the US they would only be keen on hearing from them (well, that's the idea at least - in reality they don't seem to worry a lot about what a small but informed contingent cares about)
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I would say that these algorithms display intelligence to the extent of their input and output abilities.

You won't get what Hofstadter considers as "real" AI (artificial general intelligence, or AGI) without physical robots who need to display survival instinct and skills in order to keep on working.

I'm not sure I want it to happen, to be honest, but I'm sure it will.

They don't have to mimic each and every quirk of humans to do so.

For example, human language is ambiguous, slow to produce and to understand. Packet-based networking and binary protocols are far more efficient. The same goes for our cognitive biases, even though some of them may be useful to survive, counterintuitively. A fast and energy efficient algorithm that works most of the time can be better than an exact one that's more expensive. See bloom filters, for example.
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That seems fair, and actualy logical from the persective that `god` is above all and with that has his own introductionary terms of reference. That said the English language has many logical traps and pitfalls with its exceptions to rules. You can even say religion defies logic in many ways. So to have a logical reference to religion via `lord` not only makes logical sense, in a language with logical exceptions in reference to a subject with logical exceptions. Guess two negatives do make a positive. That all said "praise be" still seems odd as no reference towards what is praised is indicated.

But I do love the thy, thee,thine olde English, has period character and if you use those terms, or indeed any term that is out of fashion in todays evolving languages. Well you either seem educated or odd by others in general. Though word racisim comes in many forms.
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>They don't want to teach any "tools" b/c CS professors find teaching people how to be good developers as beneath them. They honest to god think CS is an actually hard science on par with math and physics.

Despite what you (and a lot developers that I've talked to) seem to think, CS is a hard science. However, CS and software development are not the same thing. Most CS programs are taught by professors who have research degrees in Computer Science, not by people who have ever been (or probably ever claimed to be) professional software developers, so there is a fundamental disconnect between what you seem to think you should be learning and what is actually being taught.

The professional software developer is a fairly new occupation in the grand scheme of things. The people who are most qualified to teach it are people who have actually worked as developers in the industry, but that is difficult because 1) most universities are reluctant to hire (and students can be reluctant to take classes from) adjunct/non-PhD faculty, and 2) it is hard for schools to offer enough to lure many of them away from industry anyway.
"I thought AI was about one algorithm or something like that could do general thinking like a human."

I think that was the view until the early 90s or so (although this may be popular again - AI research does seem rather cyclical) - encode a sufficiently rich database of "knowledge" fire up your "inference engine" and general intelligence results. What "knowledge" you need to bootstrap an intelligence, how to represent it and what "inference engine" to use being the source of much debate (and even more funding). This didn't really deliver an awful lot - so things like multi-agent systems and neural network became popular (or in the case of neural networks, became popular again).
You misunderstood me, cats aren't social animals as in domesticated cats and their descendents aren't likely to form a and hunt in a group. The main majority of their life is spent in solitude. Cats do need contact, but most contacts in 'wild' (i.e. without human supervision) is spent either fighting or mating, not socializing for some benefits.

Humans kinda forced the whole social aspect of their lives. I read somewhere that cat holding tail upward is a new construct of cats. It's usually used by kittens around their momma.

The behavior you describe is more unique. Here where I am two cats are no way likely to sleep near each other. Basically they might sleep at least two feet distance. Most contacts are violent.
>Refuse to work with/at NSA until their policies change

When the NSA demands your data, you're not really entering a business partnership.

>Refuse to participate in any committee/standards body, conferences, with NSA employees (or their cohort companies who have willingly forsaken the public's interests)

That said, if you're part a committee or a standards body and you have opinions, the only way that you'll get your changes in place is if you show up.
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I don't think that's the point of the argument - after all, systemd is already arbitrarily cut up into smaller processes, it's just that they're all tightly coupled and nonfunctional on their own.
Interesting, is smoking still common in bars in the Netherlands? That's one of the laws that actually is pretty widely followed in other countries. One of the more surprising was that in a period of about 3 years, Greek bars and nightclubs went from being 100% smoke-filled to being essentially smoke-free.
Great, very clear. NoScript user, so had to do some right clicking to see the 3-step section, but the rest didn't require that. Is it converting well? Got a screenshot of the old design?
If the organizers really want to make a difference, the site should replace the words "call and email" with "buy and pay".
Lawyers, I imagine.
Rudimentary intelligence, based on what my parent's written. I'm sure nearly all creatures have some rudimentary intelligence. I'm defininitely not classifying them on same level as worms or insects.
That's a valid criticism.

Specifically, we offer courses that are far shorter and more targeted than a "traditional" offering (or one that you'd find on a MOOC). Content is broken down to the concept level, and available in multiple presentations. This facilitates delivering content that is most suited to a learner's personal style, as well as spaced repetition whereby a student exposed to the same information multiple times over a period of time, in an altered format or context. As I mentioned, this is on mobile, a space that's largely ignored aside from educational games in higher learning.

I hope that is a little less buzzword-heavy, though I suspect it may still not be as BS-free as it could be. Learning what messages work best for different audiences is all part of the fun with a startup…
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Yes, I'm currently living in Chamonix and I don't how the different bus/train systems are connected if they are?
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