skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this were true, why would Apple have been developing it in secret for so long?

1) If the point was to wait until it was perfect, why did Apple release Siri first? Siri would no doubt tie into Found, so the lack of Apple's perfect search product makes Siri imperfect by extension.

2) Google's advantage is that it has a ton of users, and it bases its algorithms on data about those users. You can't just build a perfect search engine in isolation; you have to tune it to real-world use.
Big kudos for doing this but I feel like they are ripping up a wound that was healing just fine.

I mean.

Most people already forgot this.

The people who want to make this a bigger issue than it is not going to be convinced.

I think most people didn't think they needed to explain more than they already had.
> as a 19-year-old junior at SJSU studying computer science, Leu said many non-Asians don't appreciate "the Asian culture, where there is a deep work ethic that America hasn't really bought into yet."

Checks GDP per Capita[1]. I believe she meant "some Americans don't appreciate the Asian culture, where some Asians have a deep worth ethic that some Americans haven't bought really bought into yet."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
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Tech companies, Lewis said, "do not want to employ Americans. They import labor from overseas, pushing for H-1B visas. Check the job boards. They basically say, 'H-1B Visa. Americans need not apply.'
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Can anyone point to a few examples of this? I've never seen it.
What is odd to me is that it used to work pefectly fine. Around two or three years ago, however, I believe the changed the way their login system worked and it suddenly had trouble keeping more than one account logged in. I was super happy with Gmail when I had my @gmail.com, @personaldomain1.com, etc. accounts all open at once.

My solution to that problem has been to largely ignore my other inboxes...
If not clock rate, then what measurement?

CPUs are sold by clock rate and processor type, e.g an i5 at 3Ghz. So, yes you are technically correct, but clock speed has been the practical way that consumers know to measure speed.
CPUs are getting faster. Sandy Bridge is a 15-20% IPC improvement on Nehalem for some heavily integer and memory access based workloads. On the same workloads, Haswell is another 15-20% IPC improvement on Sandy Bridge.

I work on the Dolphin Emulator (https://dolphin-emu.org/) which is a very CPU intensive program (emulates a 730MHz PowerPC core, plus a GPU, plus a DSP, all of that in realtime). We try and track CPU improvements to provide our users with proper recommandations on what hardware to go for. Here are the results of a CPU benchmark based on our software: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AunYlOAfGABxdFQ...
On the subject of city situations that a self-driving car might have trouble with, I'll relate a story I heard years ago when living in the Boston area:

An out-of-state driver pulled up to a Y intersection -- for concreteness, let's imagine this as an upside-down Y, with our driver arriving on the right leg. There was continuous traffic flowing up the left leg and out the top, oblivious to the stop sign on their side of the intersection. (On top of that, there was a police car parked on the side of the road nearby, oblivious to their obliviousness. It was clear that the social contract was that that particular stop sign was inoperative when traffic was heavy.)

So the driver turned to his passenger, a local, and asked "what do I do? how do I get in?" The answer came back: "You have to convince them you're serious."
This sounds very snide, but honestly, I don't think the people collectively calling for Github's head have given them any other choice. It's clear that people are unwilling and unable to listen to the facts of the case. They have their pre-set opinions on what happened based off of one side of the story. At this point, I'm not sure what Github should do. They have done their best to give lip service to these complains. Here is the first comment already:

"When you've dug yourself into a hole you should stop digging"

I agree. I don't think it's worthwhile for the Github PR team to continue to address and give legitimacy to those voices who are beyond reason and simply want to express anger.
And what about concepts like art, love, beauty, morality? Are these also simply "computations" of some sort?

I believe your argument holds true for all intelligence that relies on logic. However, I would put forth that the full definition of "intelligence" includes logic, and also something else, let's call it "beyond logic".

For example, see Gödel's incompleteness theorems [1].

You will find that there are statements that can be "true but unprovable". Statements that are "true but unprovable" cannot be computed. But that doesn't make them untrue.

Therefore, there are limits to artificial intelligence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
You live in cuckoo land if you think ruby/python are more widely used than Java/C#.
Continued attention in the media, I'm guessing. While this issue seems to have died down mostly (still going on Twitter a bit), it's important to patch this up properly so it doesn't affect recruiting talent.
At highway speeds of 70 miles per hour, a car covers 0.1 miles in 5.14 seconds. So, with your range of 0.1-0.2 miles, a human would have 5-10 seconds to perceive the problem and stop.

Google's LIDAR can see approximately 60 meters out. At 70mph, this gives the autonomous car under 2 seconds to perceive the problem and stop.

Most humans have a perception-reaction time of approximately 2.5-3.0 seconds on a highway, so the human range drops to 2-7 seconds. Factor in the time it takes to apply a maneuver (move foot to break pedal, apply break) and it drops even further -- I'm not certain by how much -- likely another 1-2 seconds. At your lower bound of 0.1 miles, I think the autonomous car already has the advantage.

I think it's clear that a computer would react and apply a maneuver tremendously faster than a human. I also think it's obvious that to have a clear advantage over a human on a highway, these sensors need additional range. From what I understand, Google is working on their own LIDAR sensor (an upgrade from the Velodyne they use now), so perhaps they also have this in mind.

I'd love to see more data on this stuff.
Sharepoint 2013 and SharePoint in Office 365 already work well in other browsers. I am using Office 365 in Chrome right now. About the only thing I can think of that doesn't work is to launch document synchronization with OneDrive, but that is basically a one time operation.
>But imagination is a fucking superpower.

Indeed!

Why the author decouples imagination from intelligence is odd to me, especially as he claims to be an AI researcher. Artificial Imagination and the like has been researched basically since the beginning of AI research.

That is not to say that imagination is a solved problem within AI, far from it, but it is as covered in theory (which this article is about after all) as any other AI problem.

>Rather use your imagination, the one thing that makes you a beautiful unique snowflake.

My guess is that the author thinks there is something special or non-material about being human.
Please back up your claims with a reason - all you're giving us is a different way to do things here.
This would go down so much better if the conclusions were released by the investigator, in her own words...
IBM beat that by a hair or two, 5 GHz POWER6 processors came out in in 2007. And the newer, faster POWER7 chips are clocked lower. Clock frequency != performance.
Right, but what is the benefit to Apple of reducing those costs? Maybe they save money when they are doing stock buybacks?
now on bloomberg:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-04-27/san-francisco-bike...
I'm rather disappointed in GitHub allowing one of their founders and top executives to be run out of town over a wrongful controversy contrived by a disgruntled ex-employee with a bone to pick.
Do you have a ballpark price in mind? What contact information do you have?
I don't know about "definitely." Swap death is often worse than a reboot because (a) response latency goes through the roof, effectively making the service down anyway, and (b) you probably can't log in anyway because of I/O saturation (ssh, shell etc. could well be swapped out).
Step away from the computer, white man.
And unfortunately this will change no one's opinion. GitHub got tried in the court of public opinion and was sacrificed.

Short of having audio or video or evidence those who backed GitHub feel vindicated, those who backed Julie Ann Horvath will see this as the "Mad Men" culture of Silicon Valley exercising their muscle to supress the story. The small but sane few in-between who were waiting for the full story will never get it because the other two sides are just going to throw hyperbole until the cows come home.

I wonder if we will ever be able to have a sane conversation about the "sexism in the Valley" or the fact that it concerns itself with something that is so technologically intrenched the mob mentality of the Internet will always draw centre stage.
I hope the chorus of people who took the accuser's allegations at face value will take GitHub's investigation results at face value as well... oh wait.
The genericity that is being talked about here is parametric polymorphism, not subtype polymorphism. Parametric polymorphism doesn't lead to confusing class hierarchies. Parametric polymorphism doesn't involve inheritance, so it doesn't lead to any class hierarchies.
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It won't be the last time an ex-employee paints a target on GitHub. A better and stronger response was needed here.
>Intelligence is just a skill, more precisely a meta-skill that defines your ability to get new skills. But imagination is a fucking superpower.

Isn't this the core inconsistency? Intelligence explosion advocates obviously believe that imagination is not an irreducible superpower, but part of the same meta-skill that defines your ability to get new skills.

If you assume that paradigm shifts can be farmed at the same rate of discoveries, it seems like you'd get explosive effects again. This also assumes that fields don't proliferate; i.e., that a single field couldn't produce multiple paradigm shifts that each open up a space of new low-hanging fruit.

Still, good treatment of the question. Much more convincing than a lot of the explanations for.
Fwd.us?
> If you look at the progression in computer chess programs, where they were pathetic for the longest time until things came together and the performance of them rose exponentially, matching and then eclipsing grandmasters, it's inevitable that the same pattern will play out in the artificial intelligence space.

Chess programs started beating grandmasters when they built computers big enough to recurse a few dozen levels down the dynamic programming tree. Other than a few brainy programming optimizations and some well-chosen search heuristics (like e.g. learning all of Kasparov's opening repertoire) it was all brawn as far as I know. With its countable state space and discrete, turn-based dynamics, chess actually strikes me as one of the easier AI problems you can pose.

If you want a sense of how truly far away we are from real AI go check out what they are doing in computer vision. Classification performance on tasks that a four-year-old could execute without error is in the single digits in some cases (http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2012/analysis/). It is indeed difficult to imagine a human-like AI in this domain without some sort of singularity occurring, but no one I talk to thinks that such a thing is near.
Emotion may be necessary for human-like intelligent systems, however I think you've missed his point. He's not saying that emotion will not be created or emerge in synthetic intelligent systems; rather he's saying that emotional arguments, rather than logical arguments, are rubbish.

In other words, "I don't want this to be true, because I don't like the implications, therefore I think that it is not true" is not sound. Whether or not emotion plays an important role in intelligence is irrelevant.
It would be interesting to see what results would be observed if the experiment were repeated in startup land. I.e. 6500 emails with the same specific query in relation to potential career direction or startup-related problem sent to industry peers.
Most Americans don't secure their smartphones
I had the same problem when I learned CL. On the flip-side, I really like Emacs now so I'm glad I learned it.
>Even so, we work in a world where inequality exists by default and we have to overcome that. Bullying, intimidation, and harassment, whether illegal or not, are absolutely unacceptable at GitHub and should not be tolerated anywhere. GitHub is committed to building a safe environment for female employees and all women in our community... I'm sorry to everyone we let down, including Julie. I realize this post doesn't fix or undo anything that happened. We're doing everything in our power to prevent it from happening again.

Why the apology on Github's part after it was concluded that there was no gender-based harassment towards the engineer in question? Is this apology pertaining to the other issues?
And what about this part?

"GitHub’s CEO acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivity to the impact of his spouse's presence in the workplace, and failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office. There were also issues surrounding the solicitation of GitHub employees for non-GitHub business and the inappropriate handling of employee concerns regarding those solicitations."

If that described the CEO of my company I'd want him out too. And that's GitHub's own words.
> Employees were asked about their experiences here, good and bad. Women at GitHub reported feeling supported, mentored, and protected at work, and felt they are treated equitably and are provided opportunities.

I'm glad to see the claims of sexual and gender based harassment don't seem to be true. Perhaps larger companies should make it part of their culture to have a periodic audit similar to this investigation?
Look guize, us Asian men don't count in the diversity quota. In fact it works against us. We retain all the 'privilege' narrative-based negative points in Progressive demonology as white men, plus we gain a few systematic discrimination points from University affirmative action programs, etc.
Whenever 'diversity' is mentioned, we are either invisible or to be implicitly counted among white men.
OpenCV is the OpenSSL of vision libraries.
You forgot the metastep of "designer choses to use a weird, ugly, font on their web page that reduces readability"
Well, for all the mistakes they've made, I'll give Github credit for one thing, at least: they're listening.
This doesn't contribute anything to the discussion but instead writes off anyone who might be angry about the handling of this and the public reaction as "mob."

Part of having this discussion requires not writing off the entire discussion as impossible to have because of YOUR stereotyped view of the participants.
You can do the same thing in Golang by renaming the import that clashes with your preferred variable name. Nobody does it, though, because it's not worth the trouble.
Here[1] is a PDF from less than two years ago that gets into detail, with a number of examples.

[1] https://brightfuturejobs.nationbuilder.com/assets/pages/15/N...
Does this actually require Heroku?
I was more referring to the top of the line server CPUs (i.e. the fastest possible.) In laptops and mobile, they make a balance between power draw and CPU speed. Many of the advances in the last few years have not been on raw speed, but rather on how to draw less power.

In many ways, this somewhat proves my original point: raw CPU speed is not as important in a laptop setup as portability and battery life. The products that CPUs are being used in are optimizing for battery life and heat dissipation, and using the fastest CPU available that fits within those criteria. And at the end of the day, I really don't think you'd notice the CPU speed boost without a benchmark score. Is it nice to have? Sure, why not. But I know the MacBook Pro I had in 2007 was fast enough to do whatever I wanted; anymore I only upgrade to get a better screen...
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> And unfortunately this will change no one's opinion

Way to open it up with a statement that's guaranteed to be 100% false.
A lot of the press I saw about this case focussed on allegations of sexism.

However reading the release, the gender of the injured party seems to be independent and unrelated to the injustices which relate instead to the apparently inappropriate behaviour of TPW's spouse and her unsanctioned involvement in the company.

Sexism is a highly incendiary issue in this community. How did a case which apparently was not about sexism come to be so closely related to it? Is the report from Github incorrect or was sexism used to market this to the watching population?
I wrote the comment you're replying to, so I'm probably in the best position to determine what I meant by the word "pragmatic". I didn't mean "implementing whatever feature people complained most about missing".

If there's a debate to have here, it's about what word better captures the point I was trying to make than "pragmatic". But that's an incredibly boring debate, so, I opt out.
I feel bad posting this to Hacker News because I like Digital Ocean. But I take downtime seriously. It's not my website that was shut down and I'm saying this on my own, not on behalf of the client/owner. So I can't really comment on the details.

I responded to your support ticket already, thank you.

This is just my opinion. I already posted some of these suggestions on Twitter.

- 30 mins notice before you power down a server sounds extreme. Why not a 24-hour notice? An emergency SMS, tweet or phone call would have been awesome.

- Shutting down a server is a big deal. That particular server has several background processes running all day. Maybe I'm dreaming, but if you could have just shut down http (what the complaint was about) and not the entire server, that would have been great. That way I'd still have ssh access to delete files, etc.

- I don't understand your policy of (paraphrasing) "Your account will continue to lock and re-lock as long as you have open abuse tickets." Even if the problem is resolved and the account is unlocked by support and everyone is happy, your system continues to re-lock the account until all abuse tickets are closed. The company complaining sends rapid-fire complaints (can't be that uncommon) and clicking "delete ticket" 100 times (waiting for refresh) is annoying. Seems like you could easily fix this by merging all the complaints into one ticket or with some kind of "checkbox" option.

- I don't get the impression you have someone at DigitalOcean familiar with abuse complaints. Maybe you do, I don't know. I get the impression you don't read or filter the complaints. Seems like you just press the "off switch" willy nilly.
Yeah sure that sounds great, alert the human, but guess what?

The human is asleep, reading, writing, or drunk.... as has been promised elsewhere as one of the main advantages to a self-driving car.

"This future is better than the current one b/c you don't have to pay attention"

So if you're telling me I still have to suddenly pay attention, poof! up in smoke goes the advantage of this supposedly self-driving car. I can't take a nap, b/c I might have to wake up and grab the wheel when a ladder starts flying off the back of a truck towards me.

This is not a consistent picture. It's just a bunch of fairy tales. Each day dream breaks down when it relies on a neighboring, magical scenario.
This will be interesting to follow. France is a great place, but needs to work with their rules around taxes and social obligations from employer to employee. It is too scary to be an entrepreneur in France and there is a lot of overhead. I hope they find a good model for startups since the country needs that energy and has the talent.
FP is quite popular on HN. The more time you spend on HN and perhaps similar sites), the more you think FP is popular.

Is there an actual increase in FP language adoption? Probably there is, within the population that reads HN. Within the programming world at large? I have no data, but from seeing some places that claim to measure usage, my perception is that any increase in FP in general usage is fairly small.
But if science is becoming exponentially harder and we are making linear scientific progress, then wouldn't that imply that scientific endeavors are increasing exponentially?
Designing a safer intersection with geometry (2013)
Well, in principle ABS shouldn't necessarily result in longer stopping distance: sliding friction is lower than static friction, so if you can control the braking precisely enough, not locking the wheels should result in shorter stopping distance along with not losing control. I'm not saying current systems are that good, though.
9+ years to 2 days: How we supercharged a multi-year migration process
I think this is saying that even though GitHub is not guilty in this case, sexism is a real issue in the industry.
This doesn't work, but if it did you could simplify the switch statement to:

switch v:= x.(type) {
case int32, int64, float32, float64:
if v < 0 {
return -v
}
}

Go has some neat improvements to the switch statement: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#switch
>And what about concepts like art, love, beauty, morality? Are these also simply "computations" of some sort?

Yes. I would argue that they are no more abstract than any other pattern recognition and the fact that they can be differentiated by perception makes them computable.

You fundamentally ask the "Qualia" question, which for my part at least is well understood to be an emergent property of having perception.

The Godel question is always brought up as though it is some kind of trump card - though it is not. It simply states that, we don't think that the universe can simulate itself without inconsistency. Call that a limit if you want but AI is complete well before we have a consistent universal model.

If I were you I would be more worried about the münchhausen trilemma
RSpec Testing for a Rails JSON API
A very good example of website design [0]:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/news
This kind of comment is not appreciated here.
Let's say I accept that higher, human-like, intelligence is reproducible.

It still doesn't follow that beyond that is some sort of yet in-conceived 'super intelligence'; that intelligent machines can outstrip humanity in any meaningful way and build even more intelligent machines than themselves and on and on in a virtuous cycle as the Singularity predicts.
> he's saying that emotional arguments, rather than logical arguments, are rubbish.

That's true if the system in question is entirely based on logic. That means it's probably a static (non-creative) system, as emotions often are involved in creative systems. Note that creating a logical system is itself a creative system.

Side note: part of arguments are about framing the system. Often times, disagreements arise because the parties aren't even talking about the same system. A party will often be focused on a subsystem or an entirely different system.
I could be wrong, but I believe originally the ex-employee claimed the un-equalism's were due to the fact she was female. As we know now, that's a load of bs... but the media is still running with it.
Yes, I agree that the challenge was more challenging than needed. Still now we have even better example of how wrong is to believe you solved the security problem unless there is some active attempt to disprove the claimed solution. Cloudflare were lucky to have that crowd-sourced this time. But it's still a great example of how wrong the claims "we solved the security problems" can be.