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Sure. I have a gut feeling that GNOME reworking was done solely to make trouble for Canonical.

The Interface Stability Promise [1] by systemd team is just a promise, nothing more. I wonder if Red Hat will keep it if it decides that it no longer serves their bottom line.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceSt...
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My little fight back are some instructions on how to provide your own internet services, including encryption.

http://freedombone.uk.to/

It's not ideal, of course, but in the short term since there seems to be no political appetite for relinquishment or meaningful reform then technical mitigation strategies - if they can be sufficiently popularised - may help to reduce the harm resulting from mass surveillance.

Ultimately the solution is both political and technical. When politicians or other public figures make claims that what's going on is "not mass surveillance" or try to imply that collecting metadata is unimportant then they should be challenged.
I mentioned the similarly of Dutch in a different reply. You'll actually also find quite a few places where Dutch is more similar to Scandinavian languages than to English as well. Norway has two official languages, for the most part my examples are from Bokmål ("book language") which basically started out as a formalisation of Danish as used in Norway. I've prepended the Norwegian:

tre -> drie -> three (ie and ee got the same pronunciation)
torden -> donder -> thunder
ting -> ding -> ding
derfor -> daarvoor -> therefore

dette -> dit -> this
det -> dat -> that

But, we also have the term "ditt og datt" -> this and that...

torsdag -> donderdag -> thursday

far, but also the informal/slang "fatter" and the old-fashioned "fader" -> vader -> father
mor, and the older/slang form "moder" (mødre, transliterated "moedre" is the plural form of
both versions) -> moeder -> mother

and a lot more similarities:

skole -> school -> school
uke in bokmål, but "veke" in Nynorsk (based on spoken Norwegian dialects) -> week -> week
weekend (though that is a modern import from English) -> weekend -> weekend
måned (maaned) -> maand -> month
fredag -> vrijdag -> friday
mandag -> maandag -> monday
ut -> uit -> out
god -> goed -> good
for -> voor -> for
du -> je -> you
min -> mij -> my (pronounced the same)
vi -> wij -> we
auto -> auto -> auto
vogn -> wagen -> wagen
bil (we got our word from the end of automobil;
English got its from old French, I assume that's where yours come from too) -> kar -> car

And the p to f (I guess also in german)
søvn / sove (but we also have "slappe av" -> relax, rest) -> slaap -> sleep
skip -> schip -> ship
that's quite normal among hundreds or thousands of cats i've been around, as I used to volunteer with rescued animals. breed didn't seem correlated.
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Personally, having worked on AI research in the late 80s and early 90s I don't observe a lot of progress in replicating general intelligence. Of course, there has been a huge amount of progress in special purpose systems leveraging the huge amount of computing power we have now - but the fundamentals of general intelligence look as puzzling now as they did 20 years ago. I don't believe that we really have the right algorithms and it's simply a matter of scaling up the underlying hardware.

I think the most likely way to achieve a "real" general intelligence will be by reverse engineering how functioning brains and minds work. At least is an area where continual, albeit rather slow, progress is being made - eventually we will know how the mind works (assuming that there isn't anything fundamentally weird going on - which seems unlikely).

Once we understand how minds actually work I suspect there should be a good chance that we can upgrade/optimize these structures - either by architectural improvements or by throwing more resources at the areas that constrain current performance in biological brains. At that point things really could get rather exciting - but I don't expect this to happen in my lifetime (I'm in my 40s).
Many people think they want fame, until they get it. I'm sure continual death threats and every gaming web site falling iver itself to decree your game one of worst ever would lead to me just shutting up shop.
Traditionally C was the target language, many Schemes compile to it with great results. Writing a Lisp on top of something else has a very long tradition and certainly is not beginning just now. :)
That thing is unbelievably more awesome than I would otherwise have assumed.

Who made this (and part 2)? How can I find out if any more parts are made?
Doesn't sound like ketamine completely. Whilst it'll zombify you pretty quickly, it won't prevent you from passing out from other drugs as you can 'k-hole' on it pretty quickly and pass out. Butorphanol is what seems more likely from a bit of internet sleuthing (but I imagine it'll have a more jazzy name in the club).
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There's a lot of laws like this that don't get enforced as much as 'law' would imply. Another example is the ban on smoking in workplaces to protect the employees; in the Netherlands, a couple of years ago, this law was implemented, meaning that smoking was effectively banned from bars and pubs as well. Outrage ensued from all sides. Two 'workarounds' were created:

* People just donate to the pub owner to pay the fines if the inspector came around
* Certain bars had no personnel, just the owner; ergo, no personnel, so no requirement to create a smoke-free environment for personnel, so, smoke away.

Others are things like speeding (everyone does it, gets a fine on rare occasions, only the extreme ones get their license impounded), downloading music/software, etc.
Can you be any less likable if you tried? It's been advertised, you just haven't seen it.

That's not entirely their fault, advertising is not free. You don't have to be all snobby about it. Sheesh.
The only symptom he mentioned before his grand mal seizure was tingling in his fingers which he ignored.
I do think that the appearance of this new media matters. If not, why using a template at all? Or even pictures? Only the words matters, thats why the presentation should not be distracting and using a random template is.
> I'm no Flappy champion, but I'm pretty certain there is very little diffuculty-ramping. It's certainly not getting exponentially more difficult.

Exactly. Unlike other infinite fliers the game doesn't get increasingly harder. The speed, pipe distances and sizes are all constant.
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That idea has been kicking in the AI community for a long time. One of the biggest projects for encoding every day knowledge in a machine readable way is Cyc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
Not particularly smart I would say. Frameworks exist partially to make the process of creating programs easier and quicker.

Very persistent I would say. I have a lot of persistence, but I don't think that I have enough.

For now, put the train set away, and learn Ruby. With enough persistence, you could end up beating some professionals.

I looked up reversing strings in Ruby and ROR, no wonder you're bored. I had to write all this to get it done in C and it was quite entertaining:

char *reverse(char *s) {
char *a=s, *b=s+strlen(s)-1, c;
while(a<b) {
c=*a;
*a=*b;
*b=c;
++a;
--b;
}
return s;
}
Rudimentary intelligence? How primate a thing to write. Cats and dogs are evolved with different priorities, as are primates, and have ingenuities that surprise one another, except when the others stop watching. I've seen cats learn how doors work by just watching, doorknobs, etc. They are clever, geometrically, but humans seem to resonate with the more vocal/verbal and generally cooperative nature of dogs, as it's a very primate characteristic.
Here is a short list where there is inequality between men and women, where the scale tips in the favor of women:

Higher Education. In Sweden, women dominate every area of higher education except engineering.

Job preferences. Women tend to outperform men in the general desirability of occupations, as measured by the Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification Scale. Unpopular jobs and thankless job (plumbers, janitors, road workers) tend to be men dominated professions. Women’s occupations are healthier, permit greater access to higher status networks, and involve working with better educated people than men’s occupations.

In both of those, we could see feminist trying to fight for equality, yet we don't.
Cool, is it the general bus system in frans including the small local buses?
I just started a creating a small app for the local bus in town built with NodeJS and AngularJS.
And the domain of things we can empirically do better in the discrete task realm keeps diminishing ie. 'design', unsolvable capchas.

If we keep throwing morsels of cognitive capability to the machine, we're left wondering why the fuck we couldn't predict and develop Flappy Birds as a killer start-up.
that's pretty awesome, thanks!
idk, I think I'd laugh all the way to the bank.
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Good, I look forward to the collapse of the EU. No more Polish or Romanians flooding our streets.

We were smart enough not to adopt the Euro, so I don't see we'd have many problems. Also, no more having Brussels (read France and Germany), dictating our policies and how we spend our money.
The team should just be hired by another company in a similar space! Their app looks nice, functions well, but... is used by no-one. It's a shame, but after the privacy issues you can easily see why.
There's a lot more than those three possibilities. I don't really believe that anything is unknowable, aside from semantic arguments about Godel's incompleteness and things like that.

What I'm saying is, that at the moment someone asks you "How long will X take to bring through the software development process", "I don't know" has to be a possible answer or your whole method is corrupt.
Look at my lists of Norwegian translations. Most either apply directly for Danish too, or with minor changes ("Bokmål", the written language used by a majority of Norwegians, was largely derived from Danish, and hasn't diverged all that much)
This is perfect now when I just started importing timetables to SQL :) Will give the book a try
Ketamine is hardly a new trend in recreational drug use and I've never heard of it being used by anyone to prevent "passing out from all the other drugs". Ketamine in high but still sub-anesthetic doses induces a semi-conscious state referred to as the "k-hole", more or less giving the appearance of being passed out. At lower doses it does strongly effect balance and coordination, so the "stumbling" bit is probably justified.

Ketamine is exceptionally safe and relatively non-addictive BTW, though in my experience not all that enjoyable. GP needs to save the horror stories and fear mongering for MDPV, NBOMEes, etc. which arose as alternatives to much safer but highly contraband substances like LSD, MDMA, etc. with difficult-to-source precursors.
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thanks! i have no background in AI but this just makes sense to me. this is why blue brain project [0] etc are exciting. so far there is less tangible output than traditional AI research, but it seems to be the only front focusing on true "intelligence".

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project

edit: i admit i didn't read the article before replying here. my thoughts were already better articulated; "They're not studying the mind and they're not trying to find out the principles of intelligence, so research may not be the right word for what drives people in the field that today is called artificial intelligence. They're doing product development."
They're still not. For instance, the latest PulseAudio release includes a patch that contained incomplete changes that broke various resamplers but was included anyway. It'll be reverted in the next major release which will include other half-baked changes. (It turns out that wasn't even the cause of the crashes I was experiencing; even before that patch it was broken in a way that meant just having the official volume control application open caused random crashes. I think anyway - unfortunately, all the variable names are misleading and the comments non-existent, so it's impossible to be sure what the code's meant to do.)
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In a sense that content creation capacity is limited. Especially quality content. Driving some creators (and consequently content) to private zones of internets make that content inaccessible which is indistinguishable from removal
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That's exactly how Orkut worked.
The thinking here is probably along the lines of having an X% chance to die every gate, eg 10%. Then the 'difficulty' or likelihood of surviving is 0.9^n with n as the score etc. It's not really accurate, but you can get where the 'multiplied exponentially' is coming from.

That said, the game is actually about luck the better you are at it - if you are skilled enough to always get through the gap if your bird starts near the gap, then the difficulty comes down to chance - how far away the gaps are vertically from each other at each step.
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Good examples, except for downloading: Dutch law recognizes intellectual property, broadcasting/selling copyrighted material is forbidden, but obtaining it is not illegal.
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Good to hear that there was a lesson learned today. Some things are best kept in your drafts folder, huh?
Greenwald's been asked, given how things seem to be, whether he would set things up outside the US. ISTR he stated that the Constitution (and First Amendment) still exist and the US is the most appropriate place for the NewCo. I think it was in an interview with Kirsty Wark for Newsnight.

EDIT: I misremembered the exact words as he actually comments on press freedom in the US. Here's the point in the interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=f1Z...
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You've probably never seriously programmed in CL. I'd say, the opposite, i.e. Clojure is in many ways backward compared to CL.
I might say though, that 30 to 40 years ago, when the field was really young, artificial intelligence wasn't about making money, and the people in the field weren't driven by developing products. It was about understanding how the mind works and trying to get computers to do things that the mind can do. The mind is very fluid and flexible, so how do you get a rigid machine to do very fluid things? That's a beautiful paradox and very exciting, philosophically.

Unfortunately all these well intentioned AI professors built nothing and the field devolved into LISP hacking. Now our choice is "accurate model" or "useful expert system". At the time it bothered me that we couldn't do both. Now I realize that it's ok for the model to be imperfect if the results are useful.

The general thread also convinces me that Skynet type AI is still far off.
What is the standard you're talking about? Common Lisp? Scheme? Clojure? Emacs Lisp?

Hy looks like it borrows heavily from Clojure, which borrows from Common Lisp in terms of names, but they are both different languages and so they differ. About the only objectionable name I found in Hy is `assoc`, which I'd expect to return the value with given key and not set it.

And CLOS is quite a good object system, actually. I somehow missed how it's implemented in Hy, but multiple dispatch would be cute in Python.
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This is another key weaknesss of the iphone.

I have it installed on my Android phone, but even if I didn't, I could download the .apk and install it (because nothing is ever gone on the internet), but you can't do that in a walled garden.
Until not that long ago we had similar 'non-enforcement in practice' for small amounts of XTC pills and under a gram of cocaine.

In general Dutch policy is/was about allowing and educating towards responsible use which means that, especially in big cities and certain big parties, there is a subculture where hard-drug use is condoned and to some degree par for the course.

Culturally minimal responsible use (a tablet once or twice a year, a line of cocaine to extend a party once) is considered as 'your choice and I'll try not to look down on you for it,' but any form of dependence is heavily frowned upon and discouraged.

In general it's part of a broader theme of giving you the freedom to make your own mistakes as long as they don't negatively impact others, which comes with a lot of implicit cultural experience in how to let people experiment and come to their own terms with these drugs without losing them to the drug.

In practice it tends to take the form of most people 'going through a phase' and growing out of it, a small amount of people becoming high-functioning long-term addicts and an even smaller percentage of in-the-gutter destroy-your-life type addicts.
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Yep. At 50k/day, it's enough to ignore most people and shut up the worst easily (I'd love to see someone sue Gawker, for example).
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I had no idea there was an EU "Human Brain Project":

https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/

That looks rather cool!
Any cat owner would know that cats are actually smart enough to train YOU rather than the other way around. So i personally feel that you might be underestimating cat intelligence. The fundamental difference i feel they have with our AI programs is their general purpose ability to learn whatever concerns them. Like cats observing human behaviour patterns and learning a ton of things from them, even how to open doors etc.
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It's a great tool if you go for a game that fits this framework - 2D, sprites, tilemaps, physics, ... e.g. a platformer.

After experimenting a little with phaser, i realized i don't need a full game framework, and now feel better served by pixi.js or ivank.js.
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We may not need to replicate the mind.

We've built planes that fly, yet don't flap like birds, and submarines that swim, yet don't have fins. I suspect whatever ultimately ends up being true general purpose useful AI may not look anything like a human brain, but achieve a similar and useful end result (much like planes and birds fly using very different mechanics, each having pros/cons and each being valuable).
Here's a decent example of the ideal approach to laying out the material: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

It could be better if I didn't have to follow links to other parts of the site in order to complete the initial tasks. Creates a lot of back-and-forth in the browser, and there will already be a great deal of that as I attempt to switch window to install, open a text editor, etc. However, the outline captures the suggestions I was trying to make above.
> My response above was to the lack of qualitative studies as to why employers might pay women less

I agree there 100%, which is what I said initially in this discussion way up in the beginning of this. the "years of feminist research" has so far only identified that there is a problem, and came up with many many theories around why. Its why I call feminist research poor at best, because we need qualitative studies to show which of the many theories are correct.

The Swedish study was basically just an other summery of census data. It gave theories why, but are still at that stage. I would also guess that promotion and recognition for women compared to men is an issue, which could be a result of "glass ceiling". It could also be because men compete with other men to achieve recognition (which is not the same as accomplish the job task).
I hadn't read that, thanks for pointing it up. Was it discussed here on HN?

Found the original link:

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/what-heck-happening-window...

I don't think Bill timed it on purpose :) and it won't change most people's perception of the latest Windows (I hate it too, and respect Bill Gates a lot).
I especially didn't mention if it is second or third form because this varies: some languages might have plural form of second ant third person to be the same word.
I agree with your point of distancing and today that is usually the case, because direct confrontation is left for friends. Phrases like "do the gentlemen want ..." or "could she help me ..." are not counter examples: basically by addressing someone indirectly like this one allows ANYONE to respond. Like husband, or one of the gentlemen to collect everyone's orders.
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Two basic elements of underwriting for personal unsecured loans are assessing the ability to pay and the willingness to pay.

If the borrower expects to have monthly expenses which are greater than their monthly income, and therefore nothing left over to make regular repayments of interest and capital as they become due, then the lender has no business making the loan in the first place.

I'm not familiar with payday lenders in the US, but responsible ones in the UK will steer customers to an installment-based product if it turns out they've needed to roll the loan over to the next month, more than a couple of times.
And, according to a quick search, torrent trackers.
I have been able to keep PulseAudio out of all my Gentoo systems so far. I seriously doubt anybody can impose systemd on me.
I don't understand - why would it be offensive to have to use the formal case with each other in a parliament? Is the idea that вы ('vih'/'vy') implies formality/lack of familiarity and the Polish wanted a more conversational tone in their governance?
I'm pretty sure there are, at least I think I see Norwegians all the time : )

When you know Norwegian or Danish you can see a lot of similarities. The explanation I got was that around year 1000 Norway/Denmark was pretty much a naval superpower.
>Ketamine is exceptionally safe and relatively non-addictive BTW

This is dangerous misinformation. I've had more than one friend almost die from compulsive ketamine use. Just because it might not be physiologically addictive like opiates, doesn't mean that you won't be wiping it from around your nose every morning while you wait for the bus at 8:30 to go to classes, losing all your friends and so much weight that your body starts shutting down completely. People end up needing their bladders removed surgically from the sheer amount of extremely alkaline solutions they are putting into their bodies. Tolerance builds very quickly and with a sharp curve, so users end up having to shovel huge quantities of this very caustic material into their faces just to feel normal.

(Thankfully the people I know managed to come back from the brink, but only by completely shutting themselves off from the world for a long time.)

The problem is, its effects are "light" enough that it is possible to use it all day every day, and still be functional enough to carry on. People who enjoy the effects and have a compulsive personality will probably end up using it constantly if the have access to it. In this respect it is similar to weed, and alcohol, although that has a physiological component too.

Plus it turns you into a drooling moron and ruins parties. We call it "twatnip."