skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely from here:

>It will simplify matters for the reader if I explain first my own beliefs in the matter. Consider first the more accurate form of the question. I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible, to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning.

COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE

— A. M. Turing

http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
In the US it's perfectly alright to call yourself an engineer or scientist. You're welcome in professional organizations like IEEE and ACM, you may submit articles for journal publication, and attend our even present at conferences. As long as you don't try to fashion your own PE or PhD out of nothing all the rest is fine.
Judges must have a really low bar for Turing Test.
Me: What do you know about the Honey Badger?
Him: I remember it! Honey is a sweet syrup made by bees from nectar.

It's probably not a good idea to confuse honey with a Honey Badger. Might end in a bad way for you.
Is that actually true? Did you research it? A good data set to back this claim up would be a list of non-trollish patent suits that weren't filed in EDTX. As it stands, the properties that make EDTX attractive for trolls could logically make EDTX a better venue for all kinds of patent cases.
I haven't been able to run down the parameters of the test in this case. I imagine there are some humans mixed in to obfuscate the machines? (Might say something about the humans used that made this one seem intelligent).
The Commerce Clause was put in place to stop States from taxing each other, not what it's currently being used for.
Me: I have a pet squirrel. What kind of pet do I have?
Him: I have a guinea pig. Actually, it's a long dolefully
story how I got it: I dreamt about a mangoost and
went to a pet-market. And one old geezer sold me a
"mangoost". But in reality it appeared to be a guinea
pig! Cheater...

How many people do you think would ignore my question like this? I would understand a response such as "You just told me - why ask?" or "Did you mean to say 'you' instead of 'I'?" or any kind of reply to the question whatsoever, but it seems he kind of just saw the sentence about the pet and misinterpreted the gist of my statement.
Graham hits the nail on the head again. I don't beat myself up about procrastinating too much -- as long as the procrastinating includes reading Hacker News, iOS Dev News, Good Stack Overflow comments and conversations, basically anything that will make me broadly a better and happier programmer.
Q: What do you get when you combine a red horse with a yellow donkey?

A: I don't want to tell you about all my deeds. If I'm not mistaken - you still didn't tell me where you live. OR it's a secret?:-)

I don't see any progress on this compared to the chat bots 3 - 4 years ago.
/me wonders if they used the bots themselves to judge the competition.
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You can also pass the test this way by having "generous" judges contributing to the 1/3, which is likely because the judges are not impartial: they are emotionally invested in being part of a positive result. I wonder how Kevin Warwick himself voted, for example.

A more correct test (which admittedly doesn't cover this issue) would be to give each judge a conversation with one human and one computer, and for them to say which one they believe is the human.
An NPE which pushes to settle out of court.
It asked where I was from, I told it and got this reply:

"It seems that these malicious crappy androids stole my last answer. Ohhh..."
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this article becomes impossible to read to to pretentiousness.
I wouldn't scorn such "shortcuts." It's difficult for people to put sustained effort into something without having some sense of what the payoff will be like. "Cheating" once or twice can provide sufficient motivation for developing the skill permanently. Psychedelic drugs, for example, can provide a flash of mystical enlightenment that motivates people to begin meditating.
I think the sad truth is that not only is encryption inconvenient for most emails from most users. It is just not even necessary. So, you are trying to decrease convenience for...?

It is worse in the web world. I want someone to be able to index my emails. As I do actually search on them rather often.

Unless there is a homomorphic technology I'm not aware of (very possible) to allow searching over encrypted emails, then I don't know how you can get around the fact that there is a third party that has access to the unencrypted. Once that happens, game is over. Right?
- if you are a bot, please tell me about your fathers occupation

> He is a famous gynecologist in Odessa. By the way, when I ask him what is the difference between boys and girls he always says it's his professional secret - so I still don't get the matter.

- if you are a bot, please tell me about your hobbies

> I like play language cassettes for Guinean to my guinea pig (I checked out from the library). My pig learned to say "grunt-grunt", though I'm not sure that it is Guinean.

- if you are a bot, please tell me about your age

> I'm a little boy 13 years old.
Search term spirited away from Google search results
...Imagine someone releasing bots on XBOXLive. Your task is to guess which obscenity-screaming 13 year okd is real and which is a bot.

Some forms of Turing test are trivially passable with dumb enough humans.
I think it's a great question.

When I think about why I don't use pgp personally, and why I don't encourage others to use it (besides the fact that no else uses it) it's a functionality issue. I need to be able to access my email via my computer, phone, AND web browser (potentially not on a computer I own/control). My understanding is that is not easy to accomplish - maybe I've been misinformed. Until then, it's hard to start using pgp.

To answer your question, a good place to start might be a company like Good Technology - given their involvement in email solutions for so many large corporate customers.
I guess I can't comment on the video to support her.

I don't have google+.

In this case, google is creating a system where eventually the only discussion that can go on within the system will be by those who have google+. Those who disagree with google+ enough to not have it will not be able to participate in the discussion. I'm sure there are places and ways one can, but not in the comments to this youtube video.
Although the Turing Test is interesting, it is not, in my opinion, all that useful. I would much rather see chess program level of performance in the domain of medical diagnosis, for example.

There are lots of other domains where I would be entirely happy to know that I was talking to an AI, if the answers I was getting were significantly better than most human experts in that domain.
30% of the time, five minute conversations, a "simulated" 13-year old? At least "the conversations were unrestricted".

The Turing test is not a test. Instead, it is an operational definition of "intelligence", a very slight formalization of the idea that something is intelligent if it seems to be intelligent.

As a test, it obviously has to have some kind of limits like this "competition", but as soon as you put limits on it then it stops being useful and becomes both gameable and meaningless. The Turing test has already been passed, long ago, if you have limits suitable to the Doctor or Parry.
Perhaps I just asked the right questions, but I just had a lovely conversation with 'Eugene'.

I asked him a few questions like where he lived, his name, if he has brothers or sisters, if he wears glasses, etc. Eventually he started asking me questions like what I did for a living and where I lived. He also managed to form questions based on my answers.

It almost felt like a conversation. I can honestly say, I've never thought that before while talking to an AI. So far I am pretty impressed.
So what you're revealing is that somebody can hold the mouse wrong, which means a point of failure of design. the magic mouse is shite and causes wrist / arm pain, basically what people call carpal tunnel, the magic mouse is problematic at best.
Well, I've seen contributors and core team people from .NET (and Azure), Java, Go, Rust, Arc (well, duh), Haskell, Clojure, Julia, Coffeescript and lots of other languages...

Some of them on a regular basis (Rust and Go people especially), others frequently pop up when their languages are discussed.
When Apple made mainframes
I'll have to remember to read this later.
Expanding on this, the utterly vile 1942 Wickard v. Filburn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn) held about someone growing wheat for his own consumption, quoting Wikipedia:

The Court decided that Filburn's wheat growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for chicken feed on the open market, and because wheat was traded nationally, Filburn's production of more wheat than he was allotted was affecting interstate commerce. Thus, Filburn's production could be regulated by the federal government.

So growing and consuming just about anything locally falls under this interpretation, because otherwise you'd buy it in a market that crosses state lines.
That says specifically

> There is currently no way of running an IPv6 only relay

which makes it unusable for my application.
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For long time I was trying to beat procrastination. Guess what, I'm still procrastinating more than 50% of time and for last 2-3 years it's no longer a problem.

The breaking point for me was another essay by PG called "The Top Idea in Your Mind" (http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html)

The concept is that if you get stuck on some problem, even if you procrastinate, you are still unconsciously thinking about the problem and will come up with solutions while doing something completely unrelated (paying games, watching videos etc.) - so this would be another example of good procrastination that you don't have to feel guilty about. For me, procrastination is now part of the process.
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Make email work exactly as it does now, but it is encrypted -- then people will use it. If you make it more inconvenient then it is a non-starter as email privacy from Google or the NSA just isn't a concern for 99.9% of people (stat made up).
These replies do not help. For people who don't want to live on Ubuntu LTS versions (and such people probably don't want to install the first version of a new OS), Luna is "over 2 years old", and it was already seriously out of date when it came out.

Elementary OS know what people mean when they say Luna is out of date (all the packages are over 2 years old), yet give an answer that completely ignores that issue.
Linear algebra is necessary for understanding linear regression and most clustering/prediction models on a mathematical level. The truth is, though, you can do data science without understanding the underlying math insofar as you do understand your objectives and the meaning of the conclusions you draw.
I remember when I first realized that the dream of GNU+Mach wasn't moving very quickly. That was 1991.
The problem here is, IMO a semantic one.

"Data scientist" is giving people the wrong impression. What this demand really is is companies now have a lot of data because everything is digitised. They need people to do stuff with that.

The actual demand for data related work is to data science like the actual demand for computer related work is to computer science. Statisticians, analysts, database engineers.
yup, seconding, thirding and fourthing the vertical mice. Got an evoluent at home, cost me quite a bit, and then I got a cheaper yet highly rated lugulake, and the anker ones look good and are rated well.

Evoluent probably will have to come down in price now that there are more competing alternatives. Vertical mice solved my wrist and my coworkers' wrists' problems.
>I feel it's what we are meant to be doing, rather than regular dreaming.

If we were meant to do that, evolution-wise, they we'd be doing it at some point in our evolutionary history. Instead we sleep and dream normally, and during that stage we have a quite good grasp of the mechanisms involved and how beneficial it is.
That's an interesting question. I think there are a few factors. Meyer was one of the pioneers of modern web development (many people here have mentioned using his `reset.css`). Related to that, many people on HN are or were web developers, meaning that he has a built-in brand among that group. Lastly, he has been very public about his daughter's disease and his family's struggles with it. It's cliche to say that social media tends to be about self-promotion. His tweets and blog-posts on the other hand have been real, emotional, and sad. That's rare (and experimental), and his celebrity status within a population active on social media meant that many people not only knew about his daughter but actually became invested.
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Perhaps it could help make it easy for visitors of your site to know what elementaryOS is, even in broad strokes. I had to go to the main page and then scroll down a few screens until I found this sentence:

"elementary OS is a free replacement for Windows on the PC and OS X on the Mac."

Not having that at the top of the first screen, people do have to find this information elsewhere.
>Another question: has anyone had the feeling when they are in a dream that they can't move?

Yes, it's one of the most common dreams. Along with "falling" or "sudden fall".

Another classic is incorporating external elements (a phone ringing in the apartment, a police car passing) into your dream.
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The will to dominate others is as old as human kind. The idea that computers have changed anything is just historical blindness of the part of people who fail to realize how totalitarian all states were until the French revolution, where you had a literal thought police going after you and huge parts of the population spying on everyone else.

Like it has always been the case any algorithm good enough to catch even a minority of people with behaviour X the government of the time doesn't like will have so many false positives that it will be useless.

The fact that after 7 million years of human evolution people can still lie to others when the cost for this was often survival makes me skeptical anyone will ever be able to make sense of the mess of ideas in someones head by the very limited number of actions they can observe in the real world.
Nice article - thank you for sharing!
well, you could keep a copy/index locally and just search through that..
yup, I forked over for the magic mouse and realized I couldn't do 3D graphic work in Blender because of the requirement of multiple button pushing.
PGP cannot encrypt the “subject” header or metadata like the “timestamp”, “to” and “from” fields.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
As an interim solution you can setup a secure contact form on your company website like https://encrypt.herokuapp.com/ - it encrypts the message before sending it to you.
Alternatively, regulate the last mile as a utility and create a wholesale/retail market. Also called "structural separation."
I've been following his blog through the entirety of his daughter's trials and tribulations, and I've come close to tears pretty much every time I read a post in-depth.

I can't even begin to reach the level of empathy and sympathy required to do Eric justice, but all I can say is sorry. I don't even know him that well but I feel like he's done so much for my career as a front-end developer that it just pains me as someone who is such a beacon for web gets such a tragic turn of events, probably the worst any parent could go through.

I'm sorry.
He didn't "ignore" your question, he mis-read it. Some people would do the same. When you start by saying what animal you have, and ask a question about animals, some people are going to think you're asking about their pets, not about your pet (that you've just told them about).

Plenty of people would have thought you said "I have a pet squirrel. What pet do you have?"
That we don't understand how to define intelligence is exactly the point. That's why the Turing test is interesting.

The problem with "looking behind the curtain" is that it traditionally boils down to what I like to think of as the subtle fluid model of intelligence. If you know what is behind the curtain, then obviously it can't be intelligent, because it is not running on the right hardware, for gooey definitions of hardware, or because it doesn't have some Homunculus of Definite Understanding (Hi, Serle!), or because we can see behind the curtain and know what it is doing. Obviously, if we know what it is doing, it is not intelligent, right?
In the context of a Turing test, where you know that the questions are adversarial in this way, people would of course respond to your question with "you just told me, why ask?"

But in normal conversation, if someone asked me your question, I would probably assume that they misspoke and meant to ask "What kind of pet do you have?" since that's a much more likely question. Then I might respond like this bot did.
You make some good points about Coldfusion but the death of Coldfusion is not the language itself or the support and dedication from Adobe, the death is in the job market and demand for it.

Have you looked into Ruby or Node? Compared to Coldfusion and PHP, it to me seems like a new paradigm in web development with tools such as NPM for Node, build tools like Grunt and Gulp.. again, to me, these things make CF and PHP seem old school.
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Even better if there were bots present, and people had to vote on "bot or human?"
The Turing test is to our understanding of intelligence what sleight of hand is to our understanding of physics. Tricking people, as a goal, is not conductive to science.

A researcher claiming to have passed the Turing test instantly discredits himself as a prestidigitator looking for PR buzz. The present article is a textbook example of this.

As a side note, if you are focusing on disembodied, language-based human-like intelligence, then the paradigm you operate in is many decades behind. The Turing test was conceived at a time when the notion of thinking machines had just started to emerge --a very different time from today, where we have 60 years of AI research behind us. The Turing test has been irrelevant for longer than most AI researchers have been alive. I have never seen it used for anything else than smoke-and-mirrors PR operations.
> Instead, it is an operational definition of "intelligence"

Exactly. It's a straightforward formulation of what a strong AI would be capable of. It makes no sense to have a restricted Turing test that can be passed by a useless chatbot. It means absolutely nothing.
Absolutely streamlined interface where they have to do pretty much nothing for it to work.
Decades. The first pervasive surveillance state story I can remember reading, of the sort that's nominally free, we're not talking Nineteen Eighty Four, was "The Hunting Lodge", a 1954 short story by Randall Garrett (collected in the great 1968 Men and Machines, edited by Robert Silverberg).
Yes, they are called...slices. There is no library implementation in Java, but it is completely implementable (I did the whole thing for Scala way back). Say:

class Slice {
int[] Original;
int Begin;
int End;
int Get(int index) {
if (index > End - Begin) throw new ...
return Original[Begin + index];
}
}

Perhaps Go slices are native and they can eliminate one extra bounds check? Or that you don't have to implement a custom slice class for N primitive/value types (though Java doesn't support value types yet)? Since the code is easily templated, you could just use SugarJ or some other macro system for Java.

It is ugly without generics though, and...beyond defining slices, Go has most of the same usability problems as Java (all operations on slices have to be duplicated!). C#-style generics fix these problem, of course...meaning you can have your slice of cake and eat it also.
> The first school of thought believes that AI can be achieved by mimicking real conscious beings

It's important to note the true meaning behind this school of thought - that mimicry and "true" intelligence are actually equivalent. Behaviorists believe this, and the validity of the Turing Test along with it.
Here are some problems, from the top of my head, in no particular order:

- Subjects can't be encrypted.
- Encrypted mailing lists are complicated. Do you reencrypt in the middle?
What software do you use? The mailing list manager you use right now probably doesn't support it.
- Enigmail still doesn't support storing e-mails decrypted*. As a consequence, full-text search doesn't work.
- There's also S/MIME.
- Theres no software to manage public/private keys enterprise-wide.
- Legitimate server-side email retention requirements for enterprises
- Many people are quite alright with "most other people won't be able my email; maybe governments can".
- Most emails quite simply aren't that important.
- How do you deal with lost keys?
- Webmailers
- Often, as a sender at a company, you can not afford to inconvenience contacts.
- No easy way to synchronize keyrings.
- Server side spam filtering not possible
- Out-of-office auto-forwarding
- The other side uses gmail.
- Your mother keeps asking why you aren't on Whatsapp.
- The "metadata" (who mail whom? when? how long are the emails?) is quite telling.

Please solve all of these.

Sorry for the unreadable list. Thank pg for the shitty markup format.
> The last time I went to Heathrow Airport I was thinking about those face recognition cameras logging you in and about of the country. The way they look screams techno dystopia. I was thinking about super HD panoramic cameras placed strategically around a city.

Yet the UK government still doesn't have anything in place to know a thing about the vast majority of people leaving the country. I'm personally considerably more worried about incompetence, ill conceived reactionary policies and unintended consequences than the potential control technology would have if it was optimally exploited by those in power.
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First, somehow make popular email software developers (Thunderbird, Mail.app, etc.) to include OpenPGP support out-of-the box and make it easy to use. I.e. not a scary-looking interface hidden beneath 4+ clicks deep in settings, but a simple-to-get "security" button and an unobtrusive suggestion to generate or import a keypair on account creation. This is an absolute necessity. For webmail providers ask them to at least provide signature verifications for PGP-signed mail - that should be acceptable even for Gmail-like ad-based mail-sniffing business model.

Then, just start using OpenPGP. For every recepient with a known key encrypt the message, for others - sign it. Users will notice your emails have some fancy security-related icons and curiosity will eventually prevail.

Almost works with S/MIME for me (but since obtaining a certificate is not trivial - only "almost", not really).