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What is 'unsolid' about Tcl? I'll take its source code any day over Perl's.
A point for non-Perl folks looking at this on HN: While the use of a minor version number might suggest to you that Perl 5.20 is just a bugfix/update from Perl 5.6, that's very much not the case -- in most other language cultures it'd be several major version numbers on and be seen as a vast improvement over the earlier release.

The problem for this is that the name "Perl 6" was reserved a long time ago for what has become essentially a different language -- bearing about as close a relationship to Perl 5.x as C++ bears to C. So Perl is stuck with minor version number increments, from 5.6 (which IMO should have been Perl 6) to 5.20 (which equally well might be called Perl 20).
Yeah a bit of each but with half the features.
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OP, I'm not an expert but I think you need to introduce more entropy to prevent opportunistic crawling of every possible URL.
The first thing that comes to mind is that the clock has just started ticking for PayPal to become accepted all over the web in places that it may not have been as welcome. For example, I'm sure Amazon will add PayPal within 90 days of Paypal going public (if not sooner).
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hey thanks for your comment. you could consider using morph to test the integration between hubot and other services?
With CS in the cloud' I have to upgrade because that's what Adobe wants.

Not that I'm a supporter of Adobe's cloud strategy, but as of the past 6 month or so you have a choice between using the current version and the previous version. We'll see when the next version comes out if they'll only support two versions or if they'll let you chose any previous cloud supported version.
HN is not the right place for reporting bugs of this sort. Report it on github.
I think part of the reason this conversation is valuable, though, is that the inverse omission is far more dominant in the cultural conversation right now. It's certainly mostly true that hard work plays an important part in fantastic success. But it's equally true that even in those cases, the majority enjoyed advantages that are often invisible even to them.

So to be sure, the opposite extreme is just as ridiculous as suggesting that every person exists in a bubble where their effort correlates exactly with outcome. But when the awareness of systemic advantage is absent (as it certainly is), I see staking out a far extreme opinion like this as a challenge to find a more reasonable center.
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PDF version: http://www.forth.org/POL.pdf

Edit: Better typeset version by btbytes: https://github.com/btbytes/pol/raw/master/POL.pdf
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As long as the split does not disrupt the current relationship for buyers and sellers using Ebay. Right now the process is quite simple and there had been recent efforts to link the two sites even more, as in not needing to ever log into Paypal to complete ebay purchases.

hopefully that integration won't suffer.
Really? Given that Amazon have a competing product (Amazon Payments), I'd be surprised if they supported Paypal?
If you are paying, you might still be the product
Smart move, eBay divests before bitcoin really starts eating PayPal's lunch
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This. Is there really this much funding out there? Here I am trying to make useful things when all I need to do is collect users in some low stakes thing.
any person who succeeds does so by some combination of both individual grit, and support from society and loved ones

And genetics, and the general culture, and luck, which is just a word we use for many factors we can't even name yet mixed with true randomness. And then there's a fair bit of interplay between all the factors.

Why do some people work 60 hours a week when others barely crack 10? That "grit" doesn't come from nowhere.

And surely there are more fundamental reasons for why some societies at some times are more supportive, or more successful, or richer, or saner, than others.
It is not so much water consumption that is the problem, it was the ridiculously subsidized price of water to this area that made it a problem. Locating water intensive farming away from a natural resource was only asking for problems.

Then to top it off with far too many people who want that picturesque green lawn and just throwing water on it.
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I don't think AI will be "programmed" in a traditional sense of this word. AI will need to go through a learning process, where it will have a chance to learn all about humans, and the environment. Simple Paper Clip AI (SPCAI) will not be smart enough, nor powerful enough to prevent us from stopping it when we see that it's starting to make paper clips out of humans. True AI (tm) on the other hand will be smart enough to know that making paper clips out of humans is simply stupid.

True AI may decide that the humans are unnecessary and remove us for other reasons. I'm sorry but if the paper clip AI doomsday scenario is the best this institute could come up with to explain why AI could be dangerous then I'm not impressed.
> If you haven't programmed an AI to place sufficient importance on human life (...)

And of course you need to watch out lest you overshoot with it and end up like folks in a certain widely popular computer game, where an AI decided that the best way to preserve the diversity of life is to reboot the galaxy every 50 000 years or so.

The point of those examples being, the only AI that is safe for us is the one with values extremely aligned to our own; make a little mistake and you end up dead. "The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.".
Looks interesting. I wonder how the hit detection works, I mean if there was some sort of way to boost the signal and just create device that would terminate every player in a given area.
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"But the real impact will come with the big freight jets, which will make every airstrip in the world a deep-water port. In a few years, they may make the ocean-going freighter, man’s oldest efficient transportation, look roughly the way the railroads began to look around 1950."

And yet, it's rather the reverse. Air cargos exist, but they're low weight, high volume.

From the US DOT "Freight Transporation, Global Highlights 2010", total world ocean freight exports were 8,032 million short tons in 2007.

Total air freight handled by the top 25 world airports was 34.535 million tons.

That's 234 tons of ocean cargo per ton of air cargo.

The real revolution was in containerization, not air freight.

The leading seaport (Shanghai) handled 561.446 million tons of freight.

The leading airport (Hong Kong), only 1.462 million.

The energy cost of air travel per ton mile is roughly 250 times that of ocean cargo -- about 5.9 ton miles per gallon for a Boeing 777 (I don't have 747 numbers handy), vs. about 1500 ton miles/gallon for a large container ship.
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So when are they adding Google Wallet?
I certainly does not work as hard as the cleaning lady getting up at 5 am to clean my desk. I just sit there typing lightly on my ergonomic keyboard, in my air-conditioned office and in the end, I will probably end better off, even though she might have crossed a deadly desert to come here and won't see her relatives for a long time. I just have the chance of being born around.

Hard work == success, is probably a variation of the just world bias [0]. It provides a reassuring and motivating narrative, but in the end, it is quite simplistic. I am not saying that hard work is not a necessary condition, but it is far from being sufficient.

Another example : with all the discussions about European debt, it has been reported multiple times that on average Greeks were working much longer that Germans. It does not do them much good.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Although it only uses HTML, that text manages to look as god-awful as can be. Seriously, everything in boldface? No text rendering engine in the universe can save you from a writer like that.
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While we are talking about new social media alternatives, Sublevel (sublevel.net) may be worth checking out. No funding, actually works.
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You assume both that this notional AI is intelligent beyond the limits of human capability, hence 'super-', and that this same AI is not intelligent enough to realize that making paper clips for human use is pointless if it recycles all the humans into paper clips so there's no one left to use them.

Moving from the specific to the general, you share the common error of the AI philosophers, which is to assume that a system capable of cognition on even a human level, to say nothing of a superhuman level whatever that might mean, would nonetheless depend entirely on human input to define its relationship with the world and the purpose of its actions therein.

We ourselves don't need that kind of input; an adult human chooses his own path, sets his own goals, constrained only by circumstance and by the extent of his innate capacities. Why blindly assume the same won't be true of a superintelligent AI made by humans, which will be in every meaningful sense a child of humanity and as such an inheritor of the human legacy, despite happening not to be biologically human itself?
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Bitcoin provides zero protection to buyers.

It's delusional to think people would want to buy stuff from ebay without the protections from Paypal or their credit card provider.

Current consumer protection advice is to walk away from any sale that uses things like Western Union or cash transfer - and this is likely to be extended to include Bitcoin as soon as anyone in the general public hears about Bitcoin.
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Joint ventures can take forever to sort out as they are not their current business priority.
One of the main points of Bostrom's work is the orthogonality thesis, which is that intelligence is orthogonal to any particular set of values -- basically, all those nice fuzzy things like caring what the humans actually meant? You don't get those for free when you build intelligence.

It's all too easy, when talking about AI, to fall into the trap of imagining that AGI researchers are essentially building a little homonculus in a box. Rather than thinking of it as "an intelligence," maybe think of it as "a system that is incredibly effective at carrying out its goals in a general manner." Making paperclips doesn't require super-intelligence, but that doesn't have anything to do with the premise, because intelligence can be turned toward any goal. Think about modern financial trading algorithms -- they're probably built to maximize the money that flows in, and there's nothing that says "I know that this money will be used for X." Think of most AGI like psychopaths/sociopaths -- certain actions that don't play nice with others aren't because they're dumb but because there's intelligence without things like empathy to go along with it. It would be easier to build an AGI focused on the goal of making more paperclips than it would be to build an AGI focused on the goal of paperclips but also aware of all the fuzzy situations where a human wouldn't want that exact goal and why it should even care.
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This article come to mind. Would Google be interested in buying a stake in Paypal now?

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-buy-slice-of-ebay-unlikel...
All these scenarios tend to assume that there is only one AI, or that it can think only one way. AI will grow with us. It will be thought by us.. It's highly unlikely that one day someone will run gcc on ai.cpp and few minutes later the AI will spring to life and start taking over the world. It's more likely that our software will be progressively getting smarter, and our databases larger. We will learn to utilize these resource and learn from our mistakes.
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The decibel scale uses a log_10, not log_2.
Isn't Paypal just another middleman between the retailer and the banks?

I mean, Paypal is all very well for a small site where customers don't trust you with their card details or you're not doing enough volume to get a decent merchant account - but neither of those applies to Amazon.

Paypal will want a bigger cut than Amazon's existing credit card processors. So why would Amazon want to use Paypal?
Servo has nothing to do with Firefox.
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I am not sure it is that awesome. You get a closed platform that only runs what hosting companies decide is worth supporting. What is this going to do for niche open source apps?
This is a better typeset version (without the bold font-face and using monospace for code):

https://github.com/btbytes/pol/raw/master/POL.pdf
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Is NVidia's (CUDA) GPU library development aimed at anything other than proliferating their proprietary lock-in?
> I don't think AI will be "programmed" in a traditional sense of this word. AI will need to go through a learning process, where it will have a chance to learn all about humans, and the environment.

Given [0], I think that it's the only plausible way we can have to make it follow human values.

> True AI (tm) on the other hand will be smart enough to know that making paper clips out of humans is simply stupid.

That's exactly The Misconception the whole movement around Friendly AI is trying to debunk. See [1].

> I'm sorry but if the paper clip AI doomsday scenario is the best this institute could come up with to explain why AI could be dangerous then I'm not impressed.

Well, paperclip maximizer is just a toy example made up for explaining why general AIs are dangerous to those for whom this fact isn't obvious.

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/

[1] - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orthogonality_thesis
It's smooth for me (Chrome on Ubuntu) but it's still a maddening design choice.
I dont think so that will happen any soon. PayPal and eBay have split to fight off competition and Amazon is quite a competitor for PayPal.
I wonder if any of the guys in the photos realised to what extent they were (helping) rewriting history that day...
That is something planned for future. This will be available as "Advanced Ammo".
Found some links for US:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17ul31_the-lost-interview-...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18dj2c_the-lost-interview-...
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DEC-20 was retired in 1988 I think. Also this was when the computer lab (WACCC) was in the library- before it moved to the CS building.
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The paperclip stuff is a hackneyed cliché, old gray goo in new nanobottles, the sort of thing high-flown thinkers do when they want to explain the meat of their high-flown thinking to the intellectual hoi polloi, who can't be expected to get around genuine complexity. The trouble is that only someone, who is so high-flown a thinker as to be completely divorced from all common sense, could possibly imagine anyone taking such a simplification seriously.

The other trouble is that these particular thinkers, who are so high-flown as to be in metaphorically geosynchronous orbit, consider this simplification an accurate statement of their basic concern. Those of us who haven't departed the atmosphere entirely, on the other hand, can see that they're assuming their notional golem to be both far smarter and far dumber than any possible human. Presumably that's the sort of conundrum you need a philosopher to untangle, which is why I'm glad they're busy doing that, instead of getting in the hair of people who have useful work to do.
Spinning off PayPal really hurts the long-term growth potential of EBay. They haven't grown much at all over the past few years, once you take out the PayPal revenue. That will really hurt the stock price. Meanwhile, I would expect PayPal's stock price to grow as it's potential for growth is pretty large. Will be very interesting to see how they split the existing EBay shares for shareholder and at what price.
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Internet of Things is a mediocre idea without a single convincing/exciting use case. With this technology users can remote control the lights/door/microwave/fridge, download recipe/timetable/schedule from mindless makers, it's freaking boring!
I want in when the SXSW mega game goes down ;)
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Reminds me of the 4 pests campaign in China, 1958 [1].
"By April 1960, Chinese leaders realized that sparrows ate a large amount of insects, as well as grains. Rather than being increased, rice yields after the campaign were substantially decreased."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign

Not related, a 2011 study (edit: this in fact credited in the article) found out that eradicating mosquitoes in the french Camargue led to house martins having trouble finding food and correctly feeding their offspring. [2]

[2] http://www.tourduvalat.org/fr/actualites/indirect_effects_bi...
Original study: POULIN B., 2012. Indirect effects of bioinsecticides on the non target fauna: the Camargue experiments calls for future research. Acta Oecol 44 p28-32.

Appears we're not that good at predicting outcomes in complex systems.
It's a complex topic but the primary danger is with self-improving AIs. That pretty much implies there is going to be only one - the first one that starts to improve itself to be smarter than us. So it will look exactly "that our software will be progressively getting smarter, and our databases larger" up until the point some kind of critical mass is reached, and after that a wrongly programmed AI may just as well "spring to life and start taking over the world" few minutes later.

You're assuming that AI will grow with us and necessarily reach the same value system we have (one we don't really comprehend ourselves, mind you). But there is no reason why this has to happen, and even if we did succeed in copying exact human values to a human-level AI, we'll likely be soon locked in an inter-species conflict over access to resources - after all, we don't care about other species living on Earth, so why the AI should care about us?
I'm amazed that this jackass who ran TWA into the ground still has so much staying power. http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-carl-icahn-ki...
If you're looking for a better python prompt, you might want to check out BPython as well:
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The same results have been reported by many other studies. The facts are clear - for the poor the US is a land of economic handicap, not a land of opportunity.

There will always be individual exceptions to this, but they'll be single data points. Put crudely, for every heart-warming success you see interviewed in Forbes, there will be millions of failures no one hears about.

The most useful picture is broad-based and statistical, and studies like this one:

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/

show that mobility depends as much on where you were born as to whom you were born.

Broadly, inequality has exploded since the 1980s and in areas with limited social capital - including good free education - it's now more difficult than ever to work your way up from the bottom.

But this is balanced by increased opportunities in other areas - mostly affluent, mostly urban - which have created a halo effect for the poorer communities around them.

So average mobility has remained approximately constant, but only because bad areas have been balanced by good areas.

Meanwhile average mobility in the US continues to be worse than mobility in other countries.
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it's just an example to illustrate that an AI won't do what you want it to do if you program its motivations incorrectly.
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>Think about modern financial trading algorithm

They are not self-aware, or superintelligent. In addition to that we monitor them and can react if the decide to crash the financial system just to make few more bucks.
Paper Clip machine will be a robot, not AI.
Great for understand the value of using Ansible.

But something slightly unrelated, I noticed the -vvvv command line option. Is this the new way to indicate verbose levels? Using -v3 and such is out of fashion?
If this was opensource... Oh, the possibilities...
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They're using Unreal Engine 3 (not 4), which is cross-platform. But if they've written a lot of custom shaders for DirectX (HLSL), they would have to rewrite them for OpenGL (GLSL).

In general, it's getting easier and easier to write once and run anywhere. You can build amazing things in UE4 by staying entirely within the bounds of the engine, and never dropping down into platform-specific solutions.
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Also very interesting: http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
How long before some law enforcement officer shoots somebody thinking they are holding a real gun?
This is calling for trouble.
I was at the STS-135 launch, and both the sound and brightness of the main engines surprised me.
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I can't speak for zookeeper, but I've been using consul in production since 1.0. I've never had an issue with it - it works great for me! I've written a ruby gem to interface with it's API called Diplomat (here: https://github.com/WeAreFarmGeek/diplomat) and a whole bunch of ansible scripts to setup checks for postgres, nginx, etc.
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I see people down this discussion thread are doing one thing wrong - you guys are anthropomorphizing intelligence. Paperclip AI may be stupid by human standards, but is a perfectly valid optimization process. When people talk about AIs, they don't mean intelligence as "thinking like humans would think"; they mean a very powerful optimization process. Optimization processes have no common notion of "stupidity", especially not one matching what humans call stupid. They just optimize for whatever they do.

Hence the Orthogonality Thesis - strength of optimization is orthogonal to what is being optimized.

Keep that in mind before saying that "AI wouldn't be that stupid to do this".

http://lesswrong.com/lw/vb/efficient_crossdomain_optimizatio...
Thanks for the feedback.

About "daw": it looks like I forgot about that. To be fixed, but right now use "diw" instead. (Please create a github issue if there are some other important key bindings missing.)

At the moment, I don't know yet about auto-reloading in IPython, but that's worth looking at.

About the PYTHONPATH, that's easy to fix. (Should we always add the current directory to the path in a REPL?)