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I'm kind of amazed how few dead there are.

If this happened in the USA, every single protester (and innocent bystander) would be in jail or dead by now.

I heard they forced the retirement of head of the army who was refusing shooting on their own people and put the head of the navy in charge? Doesn't sound like it is going to end well.
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I also believe that a significant portion of the deal value is "So Google doesn't get this and buy inroads into 'our turf'".

There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it supports the idea that not only do you let the market pick the winner, but that once the market HAS picked a winner, sometimes you have to buy that winner partly as a defensive strategy; it's not enough to find a cheaper way to "play offense".
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Is that any different from cherry-picking it from a branch?
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There isn't a lot of scientific evidence for anything related to conciseness.

Science is based on observation, while we experience consciousness. And as the Buddhists, say you can't observe an experience.
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That's a good question. I will invoke my "lack of foresight" card though, and say that there might be other future benefits that come out of this service
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I'm all for the best and brightest becoming citizens, but we should offer visas for the most in-demand, high salary professions first. We can tell from salaries that the shortage of CEOs, lawyers and hedge fund managers is much more acute than the shortage of programmers and engineers.
"The zombie hunch is the idea that there could be a being that behaved exactly the way you or I behave, in every regard--it could cry at sad movies, be thrilled by joyous sunsets, enjoy ice cream and the whole thing, and yet not be conscious at all. It would just be a zombie."
"Almost five years ago we started WhatsApp with a simple mission: building a cool product used globally by everybody. Nothing else mattered to us.

Today we are announcing a partnership with Facebook that will allow us to continue on that simple mission."

Should be followed with this then:

"This is why we are not going to keep any money to ourselves and invest in our infrastructure and employees."

Hate CEO bullshit, just be frank.
Yes. One example use case for stash is saving some debugging change that makes sense being applied in many branches. But yes, most articles like this seem to be written by people who are yet to fully appreciate that branches are cheap/free.
Also, a Ukrainian alpine skier and her coach quit the games in protest over the treatment of the protesters back in Kiev. An impressive sacrifice, when you think of the fact that all her life she's been training for this moment.
...and therefore would have even more of an incentive to hire local.
And you can't even turn off Group notifications...
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I find that scenario makes me use stash much more - I usually have several branches on the go, so I can sometimes make changes while on the wrong one, at which point I'll stash and switch to the correct branch.
I think the real issue is that when Facebook didn't hire him, he went on to found a competing company which Facebook felt compelled to pay 16 billion for. That's a big cost.
If we're to adopt that theory, we need a basically physical or metaphysical theory of what consciousness actually is rather than a theory which explains consciousness as a process atop biology.
Why is max speed (and min temp) an indication that (our) "universe [is] being optimized for good computation"?
Fuck the trade deal with EU. We are protesting against beating protestors, killing them, burning their cars, beating journalists, lying about not using weapons by police. Modern Ukraine never saw anything like this before.
Hmm, Philippines Smart?! That's seems odd?
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this hypothesis is around since at least the 70s (Vernon Mountcastle' paper on cortical similarities), recently (2004) hawkins also published a book in which he promoted the same idea, on which he is currently working with his AGI company numenta.

to be honest, it sounds really great and it could even be the case that there is a very general underlying principle to cortical information processing and pattern recognition. But one should be careful not to mix solid scientific hypotheses with mainstream media hysteria and people who try to grab attention with their simplifications, claiming today that entropy maximization is the underlying principle and changing to sparse coding tomorrow. We are not that far and what we need is solid research instead of over-the-head assumptions and claims "to have solved the riddle" (in that respect, it might not be that far off alchemy :P)
Huh, I hadn't made the connection to mycorrhizae. I just read microryza as straightforward micro-ryza, "small root", with a meaning of building up science from small contributions. A pun on myco (fungus) vs. micro (small) totally went over my head, if that was the intent...
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Bob Ippolito answers: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-February/0...
1) Individual brains don't evolve, evolution happens to the gene blueprint by which embryos make brains, and it is fixed before the new brain has had a single thought;

2) Your brain definitely doesn't understand how every other organ works in explicit detail; controlling organs only requires being part of a good enough feedback loop to have the organ mostly function; your brain understands your heart "at the molecular level" about as much fruitflies do.
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One of the most interestingly general things about Deep Learning is that unsupervised learning approaches can be used at the bottom of the "stack" to learn more useful high-level features from the input data. This ends up making your higher-level learners more helpful for "Real Stuff".
I think the attraction of the US market is that is big AND homogeneous: the EU in its entirety for example has more people and comparable wealth, but it's made up of dozens of countries, each with its own language and regulatory laws, which complicate the development of any app/service.
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I see that in academia occasionally. People will semi-publicly mention that they didn't get the job at MIT, which is a kind of roundabout way of advertising that MIT was considering them for a job.
> Would something like golang even need lock-counting like BEAM ?

BEAM locks are within the VM's implementation[0]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/tools/lcnt_chapter.html. BEAM lock counting is about introspecting runtime state and capabilities.

I doubt Go's runtime is lockfree. The answer would thus be "yes, most likely".

> I think the idiomatic way to work with golang is goroutines rather than mutex

1. depends: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10728863/how-to-lock-sync... https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/MutexOrChannel

2. I doubt channels implementation is lock-free, though I could well be wrong

[0] and maybe in NIF[1] as well

[1] http://www.erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html
I do and I also use it as my phone.
Yes it's big. But (a) there are more than ten times that outside the USA and (b) less competition.
Huh. It's worth noting that you don't have to have a clean branch before you switch to another. You'll automatically shunt the changes to the new branch when you switch.

I've often had the workflow of "make a bunch of changes on master; git checkout -b new_feature_branch; git commit -am 'save it off'; git checkout master".

I haven't looked into the plumbing that goes into that, but I suspect it's actually stashing and popping for you.
This. India is a billion people and maybe 10-20% have internet access. Of those 10-20%, the vast majority do NOT have $20k to spend ($20k is the average consumption level of the poorest Americans). China and the Philippines are certainly richer, but not drastically so.

Rough numbers: USA is a $16T economy, most of which is on the internet. China is an $8T economy, most of which is not. India is $1.8T.

There is certainly opportunity here, particularly in the long term (probably why Facebook bought them), which is why I'm in India introducing people to BayesianWitch. But be realistic about the market.
That's a very short-sighted comment, almost sad.

What is happening actually in Ukraine is what you get when 2 super-powers choose a foreign country as a battlefield. The stakes are high, because who ever controls Ukraine has the biggest say in the Euro-Asia region over the other (Germany vs Russia). Ukraine could play a key-role in a new form of union that Russia wants to create with it's neighbors. If Ukraine joins then, they have the numbers to face on military, political and financial level both the USA and the EU. If not, it's just Russia basically, the others don't add much to the sum.

Ukraine's elites are split, but of course they are not the ones bleeding on the street. They have average Joe's for that. This country became independent in 1991 but never achieve real independence (much as my beloved Greece) from foreign interests and now they are slaughtering everything and everyone.

The liberal west is using Nazi groups (far-right wing skinheads) to physically attack the current establishment. So it's for democratic governments to use Nazis when they see fit. The government responds in a very Russian way and you get chaos.

Mind you, that Yanukovych was at least elected and the people do not trust the opposition's leader either (and how could they?).

None of this is for the good of Ukranian people, this is just foreign super-powers tearing a country apart, for their own sake. Everything else is for mass consumption.

Both sides are equally corrupted. I feel sorry for the Ukrainian population because they are caught up on a spiral from which I don't know how they could get off, without getting hurt.

ps. As for the 19BN deal, what are you proposing exactly? If you have 19 BN for every Ukranian (45M people) out there, I'm sure they will be eager to hear from you.
We can. It involves particle accelerators and is mindbogglingly expensive.
The uproar in Spain about WhatsApp switching to $1 per year was huge, noisy and... emphemeral. Line got a lot of new signups for a few weeks, but the only person I know that still considers using Line today didn't even have WhatsApp back then (but, like everyone else, does have it now).
There are a bajillion possible future worlds that a particular mind might choose to make, and only a extremely tiny faction of these worlds include hapiness of mankind as a priority above everything else. And being not first priority, in essence, means being a worthless disturbance in the way of the first priority, and thus extinction.
Which should be a strong hint that accomplishing the exact same thing through another route is just as wrong.
likely a reason WhatsApp is popular in Europe (or at least Switzerland) is that one is likely to have friends in other countries, and international SMS are a rip-off. At least that's why I use LINE/gtalk/fb messenges a lot these days, as they don't care about where people live/are.
There are also plenty of companies targeting the US market. The rest of the world? Not so much.

To give you an example: there is no reddit equivalent in French. The closest things we have are a few French-speaking subreddits that have very few subscribers since reddit scares people who don't speak English before they can reach the French-speaking subreddits. We also have a few very poor quality reddit rip-offs with no users.

Granted, the French-speaking world is not as big as the US market. But 100 million people is already a decent target, don't you think?
I'm amazed to see comment like this.

Do you really say that in USA president could beat-out peaceful protest (yes, they started completely peaceful, I was there), and later say "it was done in order to install new-year tree"?
We are a Ruby on Rails shop, so extensive experience developing in or hosting Rails applications is required.

Really? They wouldn't be interested in e.g. a talented django expert? Seems a rather closed-minded approach to recruiting.
What a bullshit. (Ukrainian here)
Avoid the cubicle by making everything open plan?

I was under the impression that cubicles were bad as they don't cut off distractions enough.
Reminds me of 'the Planiverse' by AK Dewdney.
Use SMS.
You must have flown crappy simulators. All flight sims I have flown incorporate this in the aerodynamics model. (I also fly gliders).

The biggest differnces I figure between real life and the simulator are the acceleraion, the sense of moving very fast and the fear of dying.
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My first thought was that the question cannot be answered without knowing what we must fail at inevitably for life to be futile. I looked up futile to be sure:

"incapable of producing any useful result; pointless."

As I feared, it begs the question: what is considered useful?

If it is leaving the world a better (healthier, more peaceful, more ccmfrtable) place than when you found it, no, life is not futile.

If the goal is personal happiness or at least contentment, no, life is not futile, though it certainly feels that way during clinical depression. (Long, dark winters can do that -- look up S.A.D.)
So why again isn't this personal information transferred over HTTPS? Secure connections should be enabled by default for every webservice or API, ever. For starters.
You forgot to take into account the word "typically".
Man, what a bullshit. Just as in Russian news. Do they still say people are paid to be in Maidan by USA?
The Bible says the earth is flat and can't move; and that pi is 3. It's also full of figurative language, similes, parables and allegories. There's often two different accounts of the same event, such as creation and the flood. So I don't understand why people try to interpret it literally.

Even so, Ken Ham's "young earth creationism" isn't the only "literal interpretation" of the age of the universe based on the Bible. There's also old earth creationism, gap creationism, progressive creationism, etc. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Earth_creationists

Yet these attempts to make the Bible compatible with physics fall short of the thirteenth century kabbalist Yitzhak ben Shmuel d'min Akko's fascinating Biblical deduction that the earth is 15 billion years old:

1. Sefer HaTemunah says it is the 6th 7,000-year sabbatical cycle. Since the sabbatical cycles existed before Adam, they must be measured in Divine years, not earth years. So, the universe is 6 x 7,000 = 42,000 Divine years old.

2. According to Psalm 90:4, a Divine day is 1,000 earth years long. So, a Divine year is 365,250 earth years.

3. Therefore, the universe is 42,000 Divine years x 365,250 earth years / Divine years = 15.3 billion earth years old.

And that's a lot closer to what the Big Bang Theory says than Ken Ham's 6,000 years.
Say hello in an introductions thread, and/or post decent comments. The karma barrier to entry is pretty low (something like 5 to vote on most things and 20 to vote on everything), you'll get there in no time.
One of the ones that got away?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch'ing-yang_event
But your universe simulation is so in tune to the parent universe they're already doing the same thing. What you interprets as free will is the averaged responses of all parent universes.

Not averaged.

For example, the chain of universes may follow an alternating sequence: Mary in universe N kills Hitler in universe N-1 (one layer down). Suppose that this murder has the unfortunate side effect of preventing the birth of the Mary in that universe. The Hitler in universe N-2 therefore survives until 1945, allowing the Mary in that universe to kill Hitler in universe N-3. Ad infinitum.

What we're dealing with here is stability. The average Hitler is half-dead and the average Mary half-born. The stable Hitler is dead half the time (in all odd universes); the stable Mary alive half the time (in all even universes).

In fact, even stability is probably not the correct term. Let's broaden our scope. The Hitler example is just one cycle, of length 2. But there may be many cycles, of arbitrary length, from 2 to 3 or 10 or a million universes long. These cycles that interact will almost certainly do so chaotically. The odds that stability will occur is remote.
Feel free to elaborate.
Cars on demand don't prevent the manufacturer from having local warehouses to where they deliver ~300 cars every couple of months, so the energy expended doesn't really change, only who does the last-mile driving (new owner versus some employee). If anything, a warehouse will waste much less than a dealership holding the same number of cars.

As for it being a better use of people's time, if people are choosing the buy from the websites vis-a-vis going to dealerships, I'd say they have shown otherwise.
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Which is the "most serious"/payable business, allowing users to login with FB?
I can only think of Skype and Groupon. Would you mind helping me with a few more examples?<p>Muchas gracias.
Come on, it is not that hard. Actually did some cool stuff very easily. I mean, it is no xcode easy, but it is eclipse easy.
>But we don't have a single example of an application that can handle a task that it hasn't been specifically trained and tested for.

"Playing Atari Through Deep Reinforcement Learning" was published just this last year.

>The idea of artificial consciousness currently requires a leap of faith.

Detach the notion of AGI from "artificial consciousness" or "artificial people". Contrary to the normal Humans Are Special shtick we all recite, intelligence is only one design feature of us homo sapiens sapiens out of very many.

"Intelligence" in software terms is just machine learning in active decision environments. Or in other words, Machine Learning + Decision Theory = Artificial Intelligence.

This is not to say we should be cheerleading for the fabled "Strong AI" within the near term. Quite the opposite: I'm trying to express just how far the distance is between software that can learn and perform some general task without being specifically purpose-built, and a conscious, sapient Asimovian robot deserving of personhood rights, and of course Skynet.

For an even further elaboration of just how far off we are from the latter two forms of "AI": we currently have literally no way of specifying tasks or goals to general AI agents other than reinforcement learning. We are stuck training our software like we train our dogs: give it a cookie when it does the right thing, bring out the rolled-up newspaper when it goes wrong.

So yeah. AI is almost definitely possible, and a formal field of research regarding it does exist, but we are indeed decades away from anything really and truly useful for large-scale applications such as killing all humans.
Japan's feudal-era caste system was part Confucianism and part Shintoism. Buddhism had nothing to do with it.

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For example, to test partial commits:

git add -p
git stash
test
commit
git stash pop
Pretty sure facebook could give a darn about the app, they are buying access to the customers, to either get their data or show them ads. The app itself will probably be bloated or ruined within a couple years.
Um, it seems like every employee will get at least $10m to $100m. Does adding a few million on top of that really change anything? Either way they don't ever have to work again.
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except they hand out driver's licenses like candy, but pilot's licenses take quite a bit of training. also, the vehicle inspections are much more stringent.
The reason for serving the admin under a non standard URL is rather to get rid of requests issued by robots who are not clever enough to realize it's open source. It's similar to not having your SSH server listening on port 22, which is a pretty common thing to do. Shouldn't be relied on for security, but it declutters log files.
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AT&T Labs wasn't too bad at capitalizing on their inventions, though they didn't do equally well on all of them. For a pretty long time the lab was definitely in the black, though. Their most profitable invention, which came about halfway through the Labs' existence, was probably the transistor, which made AT&T a ton of money. I don't remember where I read it, but some old Bell Labs people calculated that it made AT&T so much money that that single invention paid for something like 40 years of the Labs' operating costs.
>What is happening actually in Ukraine is what you get when 2 super-powers choose a foreign country as a battlefield.

this fight has been going for several hundred years, since before times when one out of these 2 super-powers came to existence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD6UkzJs9h0&feature=player_de...

>None of this is for the good of Ukranian people, this is just foreign super-powers tearing a country apart, for their own sake.

learn the history and real situation in Ukraine today.

(A Russian here. Personally don't like "zapadencev", yet respect for brave fighting for their vision of their country even in the face of sharp shooters who were pretty active today shooting protesters down on Maidan like practice targets. As Litovians/Latvians/Estonians were saying 25+ years ago fighting similar fight - "For our and yours freedom")
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> Turning onto the runway, the big white numbers rolling under you, pushing the throttle forward and letting the engine roar to life is quite thrilling.

I still get a little bit of that - as a passenger in a commercial airliner. And I fly weekly.

However, my father in law, who's a retired captain and flight safety specialist has made no ambiguity as to his opinion of anyone related to him getting into a plane piloted by anyone not a career pilot (and it's not that he doesn't like or trust me - it's entirely based on his opinion of GA safety). Given his gravity on the subject, I'm inclined to do what he says, but it seems I should get myself a lesson or two to try it out.