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Science has its own religious as well. There are plenty of people who will extrapolate a hypothesis way past the point of credulity. For example, claiming that the Big Bang excludes the existence of God. You can't scientifically disprove his existence. I'm not sure you can scientifically prove his existence either, but that's were faith comes in.
Here's a talk he gave on this topic, from 2013: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-...
If they prove something scientifically, then great. It's when they ignore the overwhelming body of science around certain things, such as the age of the Earth. That's just crazy.
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This is a very interesting idea, I hope more states and university try out different approaches. I got my first degree in 1978 and I did it by "working my way through school" which I think is no longer possible for most students, unfortunately. I wish there was a way of promoting that approach, I honestly think that I grew and learned in many ways through the combination of working and going to school. It is very sad that young people today cannot work and go to school and end up with a good education and a job at the end the way I did. I applaud the innovativeness of Oregon, but I do not think it is the best approach.
The changes you refer to are examples of the equivocation I was speaking of. One cannot simply point to "changes" in an organism, micro- or not, call that evolution, and then say it must be true. And just because there are similarities evident in different types of organisms, it does not necessarily follow that they are of common descent. If they were designed by the same designer, would you not expect to find some features in common? But this does not mean there is a natural mechanism to turn molecules into a genetic code that can in turn be read by a a decoding system (after all, what good is a code without the decoder?) which can then construct an organism. Even the simplest of organisms must have intricate, complex machinery inside for it to exist. I know of no method whereby this machinery can come into existence without intelligent direction. And even this simplest of organisms has no means of improving upon itself to create a "higher" organism. You say that the accumulation of minor changes (via mutations, perhaps?) is the mechanism whereby evolution works. I posit to you that such changes are examples of broken genetics whereby information is LOST, not gained, and are incapable of building a higher organism. See works such as Michael Behe's "The Edge of Evolution" for a more in-depth look at such changes.

To use your turn of phrase: Evolution is not based on evidence. It is not falsifiable. It is not a scientific theory. It is a quasi-theory-of-the-gaps based on the assumption that there is no higher intelligence that created anything, and all we see HAS to be the result of natural processes. It ignores the mountains of indirect evidence pointing to design.

My point is: we see cars, computers, planes, etc. around us all the time, but we would never dream of suggesting that they are the result of natural processes. They are the obvious result of SPECIFIED COMPLEXITY, which requires some intelligence for its existence. The more we learn about the inner workings of cells, even at the molecular level, the more obvious it is that we are dealing with a SPECIFIED COMPLEXITY.
I was messaged by a local business owner, asking if I'd be interested in putting his product in my listing photos, mentioning the business in the listing, and also in my "welcome to the apartment" notes for visitors.

Next time I was in his shop I told him I really don't rent the place out enough for it to be worthwhile, but asked him how the response from other people he messaged was. He said one woman was really angry in her message back, and a few others took him up on the offer. To be honest the ROI for him wouldn't be great, especially given many of the customers from AirBnB won't be returning.

If it is against AirBnB's terms and they take issue with it I can only imagine the irony-laden field day the media would have.
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Agreed. Once a network becomes too homogeneous, its collective problem solving abilities go way down. Effective networks can adapt to and benefit from a large number of different fluid participants. It is a cheap way to get complexity/variety from simple individual nodes, and to be more robust, safe-guarded against variance and overfit.

The author aims to converge upon a group with a good morality (even though its members may have been in the minority). But what is to say that all-good morality is good for a group's decision making as a whole? Would it be sustainable from an energy viewpoint? Or collapse and destroy everything? Won't we need a supply of villains for our moral heros [1]? That to converge on an optimal answer as a network we need wildly opposing views? That to be stable an ecosystem needs variety, decay and destruction?

More philosophically: Is a program like this moral cooperation plan based on pay-it-forward-currency even moral in itself (as it clearly discriminates)?

Attempts at a supermorality have stunned philosophers and logicians for ages. If a rich benefactor would give a 1000 people in a room a 1000$, and if you ask for more you get 1$ more, but 999 people would get 2$ deducted, people would leave that room with some having enough to buy a cup of coffee. 1 million dollars wasted by the greedy individualistic game theory that seems to be in place in animals: I want energy for me and my family first, forget the network. Contests to give a $ amount equal to the lowest unique number send in, would have perfectly rational players roll a dice with the number of contestants, all submit 1 trillion, and the one person who rolls a 1 submits a billion. Instead they receive bids as low as single cents in a manner of days.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519311... "The joker effect: Cooperation driven by destructive agents"
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Your assertion has absolutely no more bearing to this argument than saying "nuh uh" and plugging your ears. You bring nothing to this discussion, and you should be ashamed for refusing to participate in real discourse.
There are a lot of differences, http://www.paulirish.com/2013/webkit-for-developers/
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That's... kinda not a very good description of the major contemporary schools of thought on metaethics. I don't know if any respected analytic philosophers take moral relativism seriously as philosophy; you can't ground the foundational meaning of the word 'good' as 'different cultures think different things are good', since there's no base case for the recursion. Well-known mainstream positions in metaethics hold that moral language is not meant to express statements which are either true or false, i.e., it is not semantic or truth-apt; but I have no idea what it would mean for 'good' to be defined as 'different cultures think different things are good'. What's the difference between 'good' and 'fzoom', then?

This appears both well-written and standard: http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/thought_and_writing/philoso...

I'd refer you to my own writings on the subject but I don't think they've been very productive in practice of understanding, so I'll leave you with a reference to the standard literature, and remark that the correct analysis (using standard nomenclature, which is somewhat misleading) is obviously moral cognitivism::strong cognitivism::moral realism::naturalist reductionism.
It's fine for science to say, this is how we think it worked without God. But science cannot disprove God.
Nice stuff ! I am wondering how we could use it to improve some of our stuff with this ...
Hacker News is auto-curated (at least partly). I'm not sure how much faith I would put in an editor, and projects like Ubuntu and Homebrew already act like gatekeepers. It would be valuable to come up with a good way of recording the opinions of the crowd, though, and it would be more cost-effective, too.

Searching for free software on Google Code or Github isn't bad, but they only index their own projects. There might be value in having an index maintained by a neutral third party.
Needy babies are also stupid according to many notions of intelligence, ugly according to many notions of beauty, etc. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with those notions; it means they aren't designed for assessing babies.
I would love to know how this is being done, exactly.

Something like having banks of live unprovisioned machines with a managed switching infrastructure, KVM-over-IP, some sort of netboot or UEFI installer for OS installation, all managed via an API?
You should raise your rates and get off of oDesk. Though it sounds like that's what you're about to do, with TopTal. If you're a reasonably experienced Rails developer with strong English skills and you're not charging at least 100USD/hour, you're underpaid.
Not just this, but the forecasters themselves are (of course!) interested in their own accuracy & predictive power:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/accuracy/forecasts
this is confusing but amazing
So what happened? What made you quit? Also what was your business plan if you were planning on selling the groceries cheaper?
"If Armageddon comes, we're obviously going to murder you and take all your supplies."

And how will you accomplish this when we have the guns, and you don't? Who's going to bell the cat?

"Armageddon" will very likely kill me due to disruptions in pharmaceutical supply (I'm 53 with a chronic medical condition). That you assume I'm "eagerly anticipating [civilization's] downfall", and doing nothing in the meanwhile to delay or forestall it, from no more data than that I'm prepared for bad things and bad times, says rather a lot. That this dehumanizing attitude is so common with your breathen certainly makes my moral calculations for the future a lot simpler.
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Elected government officials from democratic countries and non-elected from non-democratic countries together. This is decided by politicians or bureaucrats representing government. I believe advisors from universities, think tanks and businesses are invited to speak.

Why they keep it secret, I don't know.
No, it's the IRS's budget.

The IRS cannot spend money on things it's not budgeted for. Did you know the IRS returns $7 in additional taxes for every $1 in fraud prevention funding it gets at the moment?

Literally, a 700% return on investment, yet when was the last time any budget passed by congress raised funding the IRS to hire more auditors?

EDIT: Or let's take the articles conclusion: yes, obviously the government agencies should do better. So naturally we can conclude that the Republicans championing this investigation will be pushing through legislation mandating and funding appropriate upgrades - after all it seems like the inquiry has revealed serious issues which require some dedicated staffing and finance to sort out for a very important agency of the government.

Of course obviously that actually means this will never happen.
This is extremely impressive - well done all!

There is a bare metal chess game [0] for the Pi that was presumably another teams entry for the same assignment (they are both from Imperial).

[0] https://github.com/xu-ji/assembly_chess/
Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) is good abstraction. The power for game theory comes from abstraction. If you want to understand the implications, you must understand how this abstraction works.

If you can make humans really play PD and they are rational, nothing unexpected happens. The problem with these human experiments is not that PD can't model decision making, it's in the leaking implementation where payoff does not quantify the utility for the players.
Cool... After reading that, I realised that Eigenmorality is to social networks what Pagerank is to search engines - great to see somebody already working on this!
Thanks for the write up, I enjoyed the explanation of even the little details throughout the app.
> Elected government officials from democratic countries

Such secrecy is incompatible with democracy, why refer to some of the countries participating in this as "democratic"?
The Chinese Loongson processors are MIPS64 architecture and fabricated by STmicro (French company). So one could debate how home grown they are.
> The tone was, I admit it, meant to be harsh. The reason for that is precisely because the high-income techno-libertarians feel entitled to be blithe about it.

Please don't. Being harsh is not a good way to argue against blithe nonsense. It's a way to corrode the discourse and ruin the community [1]. If you're patient and reasonable, there's at least a small chance that you'll evoke that quality in others. If you're harsh, the chance of provoking the same and worse is high.

1. That particular comment was actually relatively mild. This is a personal appeal to drop the harsh tone on HN in general.
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For me, the fun part of articles like this is convincing myself it could never work, then re-reading the article a few times and discovering that it does.

That being said, when they talk about the marriage problem I wish they wouldn't talk about it in terms of "at most 100 candidate spouses". Not even mathematicians start life saying "I will have 100 potential partners in life".

The "marriage" problem is a strategy for selecting the best item amongst k items. The strategy for finding the best item full stop hinges on how the k items are selected. Both in marriage and hiring (the two obvious places to apply this sort of thing), where the pool is drawn from has a much bigger impact than getting the best person in the pool.

Take hiring as a better example than marriage (because with jobs it often the case that there are a known, finite number of applicants). Most of them will be people who are difficult to employ, floating around in the job market. If you wanted the real 'best', you need an aggressive poaching strategy rather than a best-in-the-pool strategy.
They also write it in Ada to prevent many issues.
He is exploring how the Internet might be used to save civilization. What constitutes an "important idea" in your book?
One of the first things I did after installing, is turned off the notifications and badge icon in iOS settings.

It doesn't look like this can be changed within the app. It only provides the option of changing the content that's displayed. This was an initial turn off for me, but other than that I'm really happy with this!
Downloaded. Entered my first transaction. I like the fact that it attempts to do only one thing. Simple is good.
The different rules for commercial vehicles are because the vehicles need a lot more maintenance to be safe on the road. Delivery drivers don't get any more inspections.
It flows pretty well in Pyongyang, too.
The US dollar isn't losing it's reserve status. What would replace it?

The day the Chinese Yuan floats freely might be a small step in that direction, but then we've also got "able to exchange any world currency into it" and "China has a growth rate which is realistically maintainable".

You don't get negative interest rates because people don't want to hold US dollars.
Its all about influential people in tech, managing popular platforms deciding what technology to use for their platforms..

Eg. Basic, Javascript, Objetive-C

As i dont think people actually conciously choose to write in those languages because of its features.. thats why we have so many people grumpy about those technologies..

Languages that we choose because of better features, pretty often loose in popularity and adoption..

Sometimes those languages have some heroic comunity efforts and a vibrant community that can make it stand.. but this is pretty rare.. Python, Ruby(because of Rails)

It has almost the same mechanics of the fashion industry..
Some influential people decide what we gonna wear on the next 5 years..

We can use our "hobby language" of choice, because its our own decision.. but in the end of the day.. we have to mantain and work in code on those languages missing the "features, abstraction power and maximized interactivity" we
love so much
This is amazing!
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'Eventually consistent' is not at all a "new term".
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Overall, to characterize this as "deregulation" is completely sloppy thinking. We are never going to get a better situation when people think sloppily like this. To do so is, in practice, a moral crime. It supports maintaining the status quo through confusion.

Well put.

A problem with "deregulation" is that unless all regulations are being removed it's hard to tell what the new state of regulation will be.

There are some regulations that offer privileges, then other regulations that constrain those privileges.

Removing only the latter and calling it "deregulation" creates the impression that things will be more open or equal while doing the opposite.
There is no right or wrong, just acts with unescapable consequences and your freedom to learn something from your choices.
The Soviets have a long history of "copying" and locally fabricating clones of many western computer designs down to the chip level. See: http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_convers...
I found your post interesting, because I think there is always a way for a group to make smarter decisions than any of its individuals. Let's say a middle-ground compromise is chosen on immigration reform: Deport new illegals, offer stricter official ways to become an American. Naturalize people who have worked or studied in the US for a certain time period.

Even if the individuals all agree the collective made a bad decision, that is not to say that the group decision itself was bad: It may have very well been the perfect lesser of all evils. A system can converge to an optimal solution, while individual participants do not realize this. Likewise, a participant may spot a problem in need of a solution, where in reality there is no such problem or manageable solution.

I do agree that, next to making more optimal decisions, a committee can make poor collective decisions that any individual members would never make. If the crowd is too frantically opposed, not willing to give in, then that crowd or system itself may be broken and dysfunctional, and will always produce inferior solutions. It has a bigger problem than a single circumstance.
Well they did spend 1.8 billion on IT last year. Invariably every government agency says it needs more money when something goes wrong. I don't think its unreasonable to think that the IRS should be able to at least store email for $1.8B. The real question is what did they get for $1.8B.
If I remember correctly, he banned a professor from commenting on his blog over what seemed to be a routine academic debate.

Not really: for the record, Scott "sentenced" John Sidles repeatedly to a 3-month ban (later "commuted" to two weeks) due to his increasingly derailing and nearly trollish behavior [1], but soon he "dismissed" it for "time served" [2].

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1478#comment-84734

[2] http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2013/09/tldr.html?sh...
Public transport and trains don't do anything to help the many folks living outside cities. Singapore is very different to downtown Texarkana.

Try telling bill the farmer that his truck is gonna cost 3x more to run this year to help fund light rail in The city. Singapore and the US is an apples to pork chops comparison.
It seems like nothing like this currently exists in a centralized, non-distributed way. Why add the complexity of a p2p network into an unproven concept? Is it purely to save on the cost of indexing and serving queries?

> Scraping Google is a bad idea, which is quite funny as Google itself is the mother of all scrapers, but I digress.

It's not really "funny"/ironic/etc -- Google put capital into scraping websites to build an index, and you're free to do the same, but you shouldn't expect Google to allow you to scrape their index for free.

EDIT: just saw this:

> Right now, PLOS, eLife, PeerJ and ScienceDirect are supported, so any paper you read from these publishers, while using the extension, will get indexed and added to the network automatically.

Yeah, they're not going to like that. You might want to consult a lawyer.
Anonymous (or inner) functions aren't really valuable per se but syntactic sugar for writing the code into a static function somewhere in the same file: closures give anonymous (or inner) functions the power which is what makes them useful.
Good read, but I can't help but end in thinking that by the time all of this would have been figured out, our civilization will be long gone.
It's interesting that this statement could be true and at the same time every satellite and cable box in the US and in so many other countries routinely receives encrypted video, and a big portion of those receive HD. The SD version of the ones in the US went on line in 1996.
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Because it wouldn't be the first time I'd have been bitten by making donations to organizations that kept begging for money through the contact information provided.

I have no idea if they plan to do this, but I suspect they might (otherwise why would they require an email address?) and the onus on them to prove they don't intend to do that. Claiming you want to do something good doesn't automatically win everyone's trust.
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Your trolling is transparent and uninspired. 2/10.
Your first paragraph is hard to read but your second paragraph is impossible.
Thus forgiving acts much like error correction in a data stream - by preventing propagation of defects, it limits damage.
Wow that brings back memories of building games on a TRS-80 Model I in z80 assembly!

Good show, I've often felt low level was a dying art, perhaps I'm wrong and stuff like this will push people to learn what a register is and what "flags" are.. :-)
Your patience and civility are appreciated, but the GP was way beyond the pale. We've banned that account as a troll (at least until we get a promise that this won't happen again).
That's what I was going for so that's good to hear, thanks.
Yeah. C is a boring language that barely ever changes. But I'm not sure there isn't wisdom in being dull.
I am not sure what you mean, could you explain further?
I don't think it's axiomatic it's status can't end in, say, the medium term, or that it would be replaced per se. As a hypothetical, suppose the Federal government decided to liquidate its debts the Weimar Republic/Zimbabwe way.

You are of course correct about the current situation, including the PRC; I interpret it as the US dollar being one of the "least worst" places to put your money. I'm of course looking beyond this period ... which still doesn't necessarily equal people not wanting to hold US dollars, as we saw in the '70s when things got quite ugly.

I'm just implicitly pointing out there's a whole lot being built on the current reality of the Federal government being able to borrow essentially for free, and that I expect the latter to end, with bad consequences for the former.
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