skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said before, he's on the hook for having said that.

I think that was a very foolish statement to make, now the clock is ticking.

But I'll be very happy when on August 24th 2019 mr. Markham will reveal the artificial brain. For now all he's got is a great way to get a lot of funding. More power to him.
You would be right if it were an asthma or restless leg treatment. This is a cancer treatment. The worst case scenario is a slightly earlier death.
No.

EDIT: Yes.

Sorry, I inverted the logical value of the headline in my head. Also, I've used credit cards to start a company and my advice to you is: don't do it.
I refer you to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804681
New digg like for insurance, financial and business news
Very valid points. I'm not saying this kind of work shouldn't be pursued, I just wanted to point out that it is premature to think of this device as a "breakthrough". As I said before, I hope it works, and new approaches are in general a good thing. I just think the way they are reported is more for entertainment purposes then spreading true knowledge.

Technically, the idea of killing a tumor w/ a localized toxin is in fact already widely used, not mechanically with tubes but with things like focused X-rays or molecular targeting (drugs that preferentially bind to cancer cells). While this helps, it rarely cures cancer because 1) by the time it is applied cancer cells have circulated throughout the body and seeded new tumors and 2) it's very difficult to kill 100% of cancer cells, and what winds up happening is you kill 99% of them that are most susceptible to being killed by chemo giving the 1% that is most resistant more room to grow. Hence the recurrence is much more difficult to treat.
If you're interested in helping out FreeBSD, I'd look at the "ideas" list (http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/) since that page is specifically intended for new contributors.
> Maybe it's just me, but would anyone here pay $3.99 per month for this?

Probably not, but I think the other 90% of the world might. My cell phone bill is high because I pay $15 extra for tethering. My little sister's cell phone bill is high because she buys ringtones. As much as I think that's a waste, way more people buy the latter than the former.
Wow, would have never expected someone to cite Blackmoon on HN .. respect!
Yes, and that's a good page. Now tell me how to navigate to it on the OS X site, and note how much security marketing fluff you'll see before you ever find it.

I don't even think Apple is a bad example of the form. I think it's entirely reasonable for them to market security on their main pages, and leave the researchers to find their support page on Google. There are tens of researchers, and millions of customers.

Apple has a lot of really smart people working in security research and software security. Some of them are friends of ours. And some of those people are frustrated with Apple for any number of reasons. But none of them --- in fact, nobody I know that works in software security --- is particularly upset about http://www.apple.com/macosx/security. It is what it is.
That particular problem would be easy to get a bank to help out with.

At that point, he's basically become a reseller though. A better way would be not to post as many "fake" ads.
Since when does AT&T have to be the arbiter of fairness?

They are a company that wants to make money; evidently they've decided that this will help them do so.

If anything, other developers should be excited about the fact that there may be some other options for monetization than direct app store sales.
Two things:

1. It's about freaking time. But...

2. It's never too late to do the right thing. Kudos to Amazon.
Hmm, not necessarily. Something like .us was made popular by delicious, but there's still outside.in and other well named sites that use the postfix "in" as a verb.. something like justin.tv not being spam from Tuvalu :)
And it has taken the FDA seven years and two months to approve the product for sale.

Even if (or especially if) the device does NOT work, the iterative cycle for any med. tech is far too long.
First, might I suggest you read a comment before replying to it. I never said women didn't care about attractiveness in fact I said just the opposite.

Second, most couples in my experience aren't of equal levels of attractiveness (and I'd like to see the research you quote because I don't know how levels of attractiveness could be gauged effectively enough to conduct such research). In fact, I'd say just the opposite in that there is legitimate research that says women are prone to date/marry men older than they are which would mean other traits rank higher than attractiveness (which of course fades as we age).

Beyond that, looking at the extreme, have you ever looked at the husbands of SuperModels?

Like Paulina Porizkova: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9066/paulinaqv6.jpg

Or Heidi Klum: http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/heidisealbaby.jpg (I love ya Seal but that stuff on your face is weird)
If you just used pictures of 1s and 10s then it should work reasonably. Of course, the bot would then be right 50% of the time, so you'd need to include, say, ten pictures to rate to get the false positive rate down to one in 1024.

This is, of course, starting to look like more trouble for the user than it's worth.
I do low-level things mostly, so I start with: "The computer can only do extremely basic things that are pretty much limited to math operations, moving small amounts of data within itself and sending simple signals to devices, all really fast. It took a nation of smart people working hard for many decades to take those simple actions and build up what it is today."

I can then jump in to talking about either vulnerability discovery, or reverse engineering, or operating systems, or even web programming.
Yes. DNSSEC is a debacle.
Programming is pretty interesting, but I think it's somewhat delusional to think "normal" people care. ;)
This is a good site to promote financial products
In this interview he is suggesting that people stop a self-fufilling prophecy before it is to late. I think his fear is that if people believe superior ai is inevitable that researchers will work off of those assumptions as if they were given facts - eventually creating systems which might pose threats or general harms to humanity. Other than that, only time will tell who is more correct.
fuck this noise, take this pseudo-science off of hacker news please.
I prefer to make analogies that don't use computers at all.

The basic one I like to use when describing programming in general is that programs are kind of like player pianos.

Someone comes to the programmer and says "Hey, I want a piano that plays a song that sounds like this" and the programmer goes and gets the paper that the player pianos use and he starts punching holes in it.

When he wants to hear how it sounds, he has to play it through his piano a few times. If he's done it a bunch, he probably can get a lot of it done without listening to it once.

Then when he's done programming the song and it sounds exactly like what the user described, he takes it back to the user and the user says he actually wanted a hamburger, not a player piano song.
I like the part about "a nation of smart people .. for decades." It has a very "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" feel to it, and also touches on the fact that we ourselves generally deal with a small subset of All That Is Programming on a daily basis.
True. My impression was that the machines were not well defined though. That is, hypercomputation is mostly defined as things not computable by a Turing machine. In addition, I guess I was saying more that we don't know what category our mind would fall into if it is indeed hypercomputable, not that we don't have mathematical categories for noncomputable (not general recursive) problems. I edited the parent post for clarity, as well.
WineFinder - an iPhone visual search application that we just launched into beta
They already do: https://familymap.wireless.att.com/finder-att-family/welcome...

$9.99/month for two family members. $14.99/month for up to five.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely check out FTF. It sounds like something that would work for me.

I am still doing a kind of GTD-lite, and I still keep my lists up to date and my inbox reasonably empty. I didn't completely throw away the whole system, but I did need to do a restart and scale it back.

GTD has the concept of weekly review, where you go through all your projects and lists and make sure that everything is where it belongs. I think I got to a point where I wasn't just forgetting to do the reviews, I just flat out refused to do them. It was a conscious rebellion against the idea that we need to be as productive as possible all the time.

Sometimes things are going to be messy or broken or imperfect and I needed to find a way to be ok with that - it was more an issue with me than with the GTD methodology. We broke up, but we're still friends. It's not you, it's me - that sort of thing. I still recommend GTD to people. It's a good first step for getting things under control, but not necessarily for achieving balance.
I don't give a damn about food GM. It's not about feeding the hungry or helping the planet. That's the marketing speak. The reality is that it's hacking roundup resistant genes into crops so that you can (or have to) buy and spray MORE roundup. That's very good for Monsanto and DuPont's bottom line.

GM work in industry, think bio manufacturing of industrial compounds, and obviously human health is absolutely worth pursuing.
It's interesting that the executive recruiters seemingly were concerned with the success of the winning candidate. I've had countless IT recruiters take more interest in the sale-ability of a person vs. the result of the placement. I guess the high-end recruiters make their money through reputation (in the eyes of both execs and corporate boards).
Loopt is not running in the background, AT&T is just updating Loopt from their own data.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/04/loopt-location
"Well I sit in front of a computer all day, getting mad at random text on a screen. Sometimes I add my own text that will madden a different guy in a few months/years."

People seem to like that description.
Apps have been running in the background since Backgrounder was published on Cydia. And it doesn't cost anything to do so. Backgrounder lets me set up my TomTom, Flow Chat (IRC), and AMBER Alert to background themselves automatically... and my 3G[s] still runs plenty fast.
I really liked watching how happy everyone was when they were using the demo. They were all so immediately impressed and inspired.

I think you nailed it. How rare is it that software actually makes people happy?

This app is great.
Just as an aside, Noel Sharkey taught a neural networks course I took but everything I learnt about them came from implementing a back-prop net in Occam for another class!
He should still be allowed to cancel his account.
"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" Steve Jobs to John Sculley

History suggests that he should have stuck to selling sugared water.
Geopolitical hedging.
Engineers always have the option to settle for a boatload of money.
But the FBI may genuinely be wary of biohackers

Obviously, the government has never seen any invention it's not scared of. This goes all the way back to the steam engine.

Before anyone here dredges out the old tired super virus or gray goo.

There's no such thing as gray goo and never will be because you'd have to violate the fundamental laws of thermodynamics to get it.

There are plenty of super viruses and bacteria in nature. Neither HIV nor MRSA came from biohacking. As I have said before, anything we create would be like just one more bullet in a machine gun shootout. Sure it could be the one that gets you, but then again, there's an infinity of stuff out there that can also get you.
Writing an essay on non-familiar subject in non-native language.

1. Plan. 2. Learn subject (find an expert). 3. write a draft (documentation). 4 evolve (goto 2). 5 Update draft. 6. Make it fatless. 7. Rewrite in foreign language (code). 8. Check spelling (test). 9. Rewrite some parts from scratch. 10. go to 4.
Make the comment box bigger. It might inspire people to leave longer comments.
I feel your pain. I'm French (my wife is German) and I have been living in Silicon Valley for 10 years now. I am aware of language barriers.
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How do you explain how programming works to complete non-techies?

I don't. I gave up trying years ago.

I prefer to let "complete non-techies" continue to think it's magic.
The pre-moderated title was "Smule is killing it."

Seriously though, their apps are always well thought out, tons of fun, and very unique. Their track record is impressive.
what the f*ck?
In reference to pricing, I think you guys are forgetting the study which found that the majority of iphone users make over $80,000 in salary. There is quite a lot of disposable income in that population. Therefore it only makes sense that they would attempt to milk every dime. Especially when competitors are sure to emerge in the next 2-3 years.
That is one freaky picture. http://media.economist.com/images/20090905/D3609TQ7.jpg
copy/paste? How does that study account for that? Messages could be very long but copied very quickly.

Frankly, this is pretty close to link bait in my book (hot topic, no substance)
Back in 2001 I created an executable this way which runs on both linux and dos:

http://320x200.org/attic/files/doslinux.asm
> Most of the great anchievements of mankind 'wouldn't work anyway' in the minds of the specialists of the age. And they were wrong.

Really? Care to provide any examples?
I see this the other way.

There's no way in hell I'd want my kids "friends" (who knows who they friend on loopt) seeing where my kid is at.

All that being said, I wonder if Loopt could offer a "for parents" app that just allows parents to see where their kids are (w/o all the other app functionality). I'd bet a ton of parents would pay for that.
I think the bigger question with dating sites is the chicken/egg question, as mentioned in the yc ideas post. How are you going to get people to that site in the first place.

I have a lot of ideas for innovative takes on dating sites, but I can't think of a good way to get people there besides making it a Facebook app.
I don't know. People are generally interested to find out how others' professions and hobbies work. I don't know much about fishing, but if a friend was into it I'd be willing to hear how it was done. The same if the friend was a heart surgeon.

Programming is a fairly difficult and abstract subject, but no much so that a layperson couldn't find it interesting.
From the article, it sounds like he already had this prior to working on the invention.
Ask HN: What tool do you use to send newsletters?
Hi,

I'm currently using Feedburner to send announcements from my site do a ~25k users list.

Since they're only users and not costumers, I can't afford to pay a 3rd part to send the emails for me.

Why I don't keep feedburner?
I'd like to have more control regarding the sending schedule and a few more things.

So, which software do you guys use? If it's open source, great. But I don't mind paying reasonable license for the matter.

Thanks!
I like that. I usually have the person pretend he/she is giving instructions to a very obedient but not very bright person who can/will follow any one of 30 or 40 basic commands. The question then becomes how do you string the commands together to do something useful.
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Matching:hypothesis.htm

EDIT: Looking at the spouses of supermodels or the super rich is probably unhelpful in gauging the behavior of most of the population.
This is very apropos today's xkcd. http://xkcd.com/632/
Interesting. So it shouldn't affect battery life.
My roommate did this and got a large line of one year 0% interest credit, which he immediately maxed out on 4.5% one year CDs. Free money.
Most consumers purchase wine depending on the attractiveness of the bottle's label. We hope to change this by using our biologically inspired computer vision system to recognise labels and match them to entries in a database, returning quickly to the user with pertinent information about the wine they are about to buy or are currently enjoying.
http://ai/ is my favourite
It is reasonably difficult. The problem with analogies is that all analogies are false, and they are really a diversion to the core of the discussion. This is the good approach to saying what you need to say just to get out of the room.

One tutorial example is referring to water flow in pipes to explain how electricity works. The student thinks they have got the concept, but then will totally fall off the rails when you get to magnetism, induction. And the resistance model is wrong and so on.

For example with the Excel example is that this description makes it sound way too easy. Then they ask why does each feature take so long to implement. Why don't you use excel instead?

The "nation of smart people" approach is a good start, with adding in how programs are built out of successively more complex components.
And while they'll probably get a lot of customers to sign on to this service, these people won't be happy when they see Google Latitude running for free on their friend's Android phone.

You can run Latitude on the iPhone but the whole no-background-apps thing renders it nearly useless.
Very clever piece of cross-promotion here. I'm a big fan of the "Autotune the News" series on Youtube, and their latest video featured T-Pain and his iPhone app. At the time, I had no clue such an app existed and assumed it was just a gag. Now that it exists, I gotta have it. That's about the best I've been advertised to this year.
I've heard similar things said about (non-developers) from Microsoft. A dev job at MSFT is probably as challenging as any equivalent dev role anywhere, but project, program, and product management at Microsoft is heavyweight and idiosyncratic.
Currently I save more money by overpaying my mortgage than I would get in any type of savings product available to me.
Programming is essentially writing down instructions for a person who is extremely literal but very consciences. In the website's case the database is like a file room and the web page is like a piece of paper. You're telling the computer to get stuff out of the file room (database), giving it instructions on what you'd like done with that information (add these numbers, etc...) and then telling them to write it's results on the paper (website)
I think it was stephen hawking who said that the only way for humans to ensure their salvation from man-made super viruses in the next 100 years would be to colonize space. Outrageous? Sure, but so is cancer, atomic energy and quatum entanglement.
Four Billion Little Brothers?  Privacy, and ubiquitous data collection
Sadly, I stopped reading when they got to recommending eval as a method for running js received over xhr.
At the upper levels of recruiting, the amount of effort that probably goes in to pushing a single candidate might make a recruiter think twice about pushing someone who'd be negged as a culture mismatch. Executive recruiting isn't like normal recruiting.
If you really want to get a nice effect with autotune, you must sing off pitch, and even better if you don't hold the pitch once you get there. Your wavering note paired with the unnaturally fast pitch correction is what makes it sound robot-y.
If you know what your earning power is and know that you could comfortably pay of the debt in 6 months I don't see the problem.

A good hackers 6 month savings applied to him living a scrappy bootstrapped lifestyle could give a year of living on CC debt.
Agreed. That definitely takes a lot of balls, considering how typically averse to hip-hop this community is.
We are entering the age of statistics. Don't miss out.
> A chess computer that outsmarts me most definitely fits that definition of intelligence.

No, it may merely indicate that you are a lousy chess player. What you believe to be intelligent and what is intelligent are two different things.

An intelligent computer would not be programmed with anything specifically related to chess, it would simply learn the game like any human learns board games.

> He claims that there are no signs that computer processing speed will eventually overtake that of the human brain. I say that computer processing speed is undeniably improving rapidly, and that the number of tasks that computers can do is rapidly increasing. Unless there is a hard limit somewhere the assumption should be that we will be eventually overtaken.

That depends on the kind of tasks. Bookkeeping, data storage and retrieval, encoding, decoding, these are all things that a computer is exceptionally good at. But they are all at heart still simply ways to manipulate numbers, basic arithmetic if you want.

Composing a piece of music by computer takes a programmer. No computer ever woke up one fine Sunday morning and wrote a symphony because of the way it felt about the light.

They do not create art, they do not create music, they are excellent tools in the hands of artists and composers.
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The term you are looking for is "systemic".

I think targeted delivery of chemo might be more effective in the non-terminally ill, and very likely would reduce side effects. Chemo is effectively poison, just somewhat more toxic to cancer cells than the rest of the body. (Often because it targets cells that are actively dividing - like in a tumor, or your hair follicles or you gut...)

In terminally ill cases, where cancer has metastasized to multiple locations in the body you might well still need systemic chemo, because you don't know where all the metastatic sites are.
On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing
I never said negative thinking is overwhelming. I think it's exactly the opposite. Once you can come to terms with your worst-case scenario (ie. quitting and getting a job again when it fails), it frees a lot of burden and helps you work harder.
If we take the assumption that the mind is a physical system, then it would still only be a matter of time before we found the reason for the difference in computational ability

I don't see how the latter follows from the former. The physicality of the mind says nothing of its computability. You're assuming the computationalist axiom that reality is completely computable, which is quite an assumption.

The brain is still a combination of proteins, amino acids, and a few other chemicals. We would just have to move to using chemical computers (which are already being researched)

We already produce hundreds of thousands of them every day. The process is rather fun. As some point the definition of success has been stretched so far as to be meaningless.
Usually you just create a warranty liability reserve account for that. It should not affect your revenue recognition.
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Whatever hobbies make you happy are fine, but changing tires isn't exactly a hobby. It's like washing dishes or changing diapers or any arbitrary "female" chore.
We don't know the conversion rates of each site, so the traffic metrics are useless. One could convert at 15% and the other only at 2% and be comparable in terms of revenue.

Metrics are good, but they can be blinding.
Right. Divergence of B is still zero.
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There is no issue here, merely semantic confusion: we're using the phrase "negative thinking" to mean different things.
From home schooling to 'unschooling'