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You're correct about start ups having serious problems that need solving and a good match in a candidate having the skills to do it.

The rest is far from it. The value of those skills to the start up is not a secret. Posting a range in a job listing doesn't convey to a potential candidate what his skills are valued at.

How much you deserve is determined by the biggest offer you can get. Compensation packages for early stage start ups aren't "cheap" as many on this thread tend to call. If all you care about is the salary, then early stage start ups are simply not for you. This is what I was attempting to convey in my original reply. This isn't a negative thing. If you think equity is worthless (which is how these packages are supplemented for the salary), then instead of getting offended that a start up is trying to rip you off, enjoy working at a bigger company that has the deep pockets for the salary you believe you deserve.

An early stage start up has a very limited amount of funds and time to develop their idea into its next stage. For each idea, there is a very unique combination of time, money, and resources. Paying the salaries benchmarked by companies that have billions at their disposal, will make a start up burn through their small amount of money, without ever having enough resources, in much less time than needed.

Reading about companies like Uber, Dropbox, Pinterest, and other big names get fortune-level valuations leads to misconceptions that these companies are still start ups and other start ups have the same capital.

Early stage start ups are companies you most likely haven't heard of yet. If you listen to a podcast course from Stanford by Sam Altman, you'll learn that it takes many years to build up a start up.

All this leads me back to my original statement: if you're looking for top-level salaries, don't care about equity, and think that believing in the product/vision is a joke, you shouldn't be looking at job postings on Hacker News.
I think in the short term, human-AI corporate hybrids are especially dangerous because they're ruthless optimization engines with great power, no legal boundaries, and a few simple goals. Unlike true individual intelligences, they're absolutely free of more complex considerations, including ethics.

And yes, while I'm not actually getting out my tinfoil hat just yet, I do find it interesting that the public charge against AGI is apparently being led by some captains of industry right now. Maybe they feel threatened. Maybe they have seen one AI dog & pony show pitch too many. Maybe they know something we don't. Maybe what they're most afraid of is some new phenomenon coming in and leveling the playing field. Maybe AGI will replace the word "terrorism" as an excuse to get anything you want. Maybe these AI polemics are a prelude to a war on general computing. One can only speculate.

The only thing clear right now is that public discourse is steered in a direction that portrays an utter lack of understanding of the subject matter, and at least to me it seems that no workable solution is actually being proposed aside from hinting at draconian and short-sighted measures to prevent the rise of non-humans, which by all indications is not a real thing yet.

Whenever the public message can be distilled into "you should be afraid, very very afraid", it's time to at least consider ulterior motives - though I have to admit this thought does not come naturally to me when looking at people like Elon Musk.
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zo1's anecdote shows that at least some kids get lifelong anxiety issues from watching horror/slasher movies at an early age.

Your anecdote shows that at least some kids do _not_ get those lifelong anxiety issues from the same.

How does yours "counter" zo1's in the slightest? That would be like the tobacco industry saying "but look at all the smokers who never got cancer!".

I'm (honestly, as a human being to another) glad you don't seem to have been affected (overly) by your caretakers abusing you, but you can't seriously be advocating this kind of behavior, enough to argue for it?
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It seems like more and more we are learning just how smart we were in the deep past
> Casting does not work as expected when optimization is turned on.

> This is often caused by a violation of aliasing rules, which are part of the ISO C standard. These rules say that a program is invalid if you try to access a variable through a pointer of an incompatible type.

Regarding this, is this what reinterpret_cast was at least partially designed for?
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It's perfectly valid for the function getColor() to return different value for each invocation, e.g., think std::rand().

However, the function as you wrote, when used in the expression (getColor() == getColor()), results in undefined behavior. This is because equality operator (==) is not a sequence point in C++, and thus by calling getColor() twice, you are modifying variables a & b more than once between a pair of sequence points (see "Undefined behavior" section here: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order).

In general, you cannot be sure of the order of evaluation for a statement of form say, f() == g(). The relative order in which f & g are called is unspecified. Also, the behavior can easily become undefined if you violate certain conditions in f & g (as in the case above).
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> I have been "writing apps" in HTML, Javascript and PHP ever since I can remember.
> They are just as responsive and useful as any app I have ever used on my Android.

I've yet to see any mobile web app that's as responsive and useful as a native one.
They're slow, can't make use of platform features (e.g intents on android, native google login flow) and they always look out of place.
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Interesting fact: the third largest non-government-owned employer in the world is a security company called G4S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
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So far every bit of intelligence we have made is all about brute force, none of it is elegant. It works great - definitely. And I grant that given enough speed, and search depth such a machine may come up with ideas.

And maybe that's what human level AI will end up being: Just search every possibility till you find the one that works. For everything, including speaking with a person.

But it just doesn't have that spark of true intelligence.

So I'll qualify my earlier statement, brute force AI might happen. But AI based on elegant intelligence will not.

Is there a difference? I think so. For some things it won't matter, but for others it will. Somehow human level intelligence manages to cut through immense search spaces and find the answer (like the game Go) - how does it do that? No one knows. But there is clearly something different about it compared to brute force intelligence.
> They were paying devs in 3rd world countries $2000 to push out junk apps

Do you have a link for that? I can't seem to find any reference to it.
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The way I see it REMOTE often stands with "compatible timezone remote".

I wish there was something like "INTERNATIONAL REMOTE" which would allow us people in totally different timezones understand if the company is globally distributed/remote or not, because you might have issues if their working style is not compatible.
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Before thinking this is a free trade, consider that it costs money to short a stock. In order to short the stock, you need to first borrow it from someone so that you could sell it to someone else. When borrowing a stock, you have to pay an interest rate for the shares which were loaned to you.

Some stocks are cheap to short while others could have high double digit interest rates. The rate depends on the willingness of people to lend and volatility.
If you took a current generation battery, and paired it with current generation processors, but dialed the performance to early 2000s---we might get there already?

(People did good work with that level of performance. And even with much less.)
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> I doubt you'll be able to make similar offer to the machine.

well, money is required for humans to survive, something which machines need to survive can be brokered as well f.e. power ?
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>> rather violently impose Sharia

As opposed to "rather violently impose capitalism" using killing machines in the sky?

I think both 'sides' are as equally guilty of hatred as each other. I don't see the US Military-Industrial complex going out of its way to create peace, either - and no "but they are doing the bad thing" is not an appropriate justification.

It takes as much effort to make peace as it does to make war. The difference is: the decision to do so.
Interesting. Hiring remote from PH?
I found the reference. I assume you're referring to the primary end-point of their initial study which was "effect on self-reported CFS symptoms three months after intervention"? As has been widely discussed, the effects showed up 6-10+ months after initial intervention (which was a very intriguing finding), and were often not sustained. They've since modified their protocol to include maintenance doses, so the results of their phase three trial will be very interesting, when it's finally complete.
No.

If they're smarter than us, we don't have to control them, but then also we probably won't be able to either.
Peace and tranquility have always been a part of life too, but we don't work nearly as hard to acknowledge that fact as we should.
No, lines following a line ending in a colon must be indented.

But the OP's point is that you can't know how many lines make up the indented block, since there is no explicit block-end-marker left if the indent is gone.
I honestly don't get the problem. Someone explain to me please why can't we pull the plug on a misbehaving device? It is not about us being smarter than computers or vice versa. It is about who is more capable. Are we more capable to shut down a bad device or is it able to harm us? Maybe, let's not build terminators or robocops and we will be OK.
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If the computer is internet connected, it could exploit bugs to spread itself. Or come up with an ultimatum to ensure it doesn't have it's plug pulled for fear of wwIII, who knows. The thing is that it's smarter than us, it could come up with a lot of ways to trick us.
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tldr; NXP Semiconductors is buying Freescale Semiconductor.
Why don't you think an "AI based on elegant intelligence" (according to your own definition) will happen? Do you suppose it's merely a problem of engineering and complexity, i.e. the human race is likely to become extinct before we will figure out how the human brain works? Or do you suppose there is some more fundamental reason why only humans (and perhaps other intelligent organic beings) can exhibit this type of intelligence?
See also old law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_arrest_in_the_Unite...
Fair enough, of course. I guess I am just assuming the link between the two. But it's a little hard not to see a link as the things I imagine/see are based on the things I saw in those movies.
Not a chance. It's an evolution sure (and one I'm happy to be using), but visual design is fashion and will keep on shifting with each iteration being able to draw on its N-1 predecessors.
Based on the title I thought it was going to be about kids freaking out and that one should pay attention to "kid's friendliness" of movies. But no. I also wouldn't be very amused if someone showed it to my kid without asking me first.
Indeed:

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/two-enemies-people-...

but, close enough:

"...in questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution..."
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>...and even for felonies the arresting person must reasonably believe that the arrested party committed the felony, but the felony must also have actually occurred, otherwise the arresting person is liable for false arrest even with reasonable belief that the arrested party had committed a felony.

I don't believe this is true, though I suspect we're getting off into the details that vary from state to state. Certainly you're asking for trouble making a citizen's arrest unless you're pretty damn sure you know exactly what's going on.
I have small hack for cleaning/sorting cloths in closet:

1) Put everything on the ground (pile #0).

2) Start sorting pile #0 by 2-3 piles at once. Like pants pile #1, shirts pile #2.

3) Then repeat step 2 as long as it makes sense for each pile.

It is fast and not boring to do.
Domains are almost never truly infinite. You tend to be bound by at least the space of memory even in the brute-force case, and the meaningful domain for any meaningful function (especially one small enough to be optimized intensively) is much less.
Decimal numbers are supported by many languages (python has the Decimal library for instance).

The problem is that decimal isn't supported by modern hardware so it's not supported natively by C which adds very little to hardware representations.
I'm a bit confused by your line of argument.

> He's intuitive and exploratory to a degree that I--and many others--are just not.

> King [teaches] you how to write like them, and writers need to learn to write like themselves, which can only be discovered, not taught.

If King encourages you to follow your instincts, isn't this a direct advise to learn to write like yourself?

Isn't the "analytical" way the exact oppisite, learning to write in a predefined style?
Ah, yes, then it becomes a question of real tradeoffs, I guess. There are a lot of domains in which I will happily trade a reasonable amount of performance for nice language feature, though.
I got that memo the first time I saw the pyramids. The engineers were technologically inferior, but new their craft and were smart.
Are you familiar with the IEEE 754-2008 specification of decimal floating point format?

From Wikipedia's entry on decimal64[1]: "It is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such as financial and tax computations."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_format
Great apes in the wild are generally having a hard time getting along, with humans crowding them out of a lot of their historical territory. I would hope our species doesn't end up like that. Likewise, great apes in zoos definitely have all their important decisions made for them by humans. I don't think I want this, either.

The straightforward answer to the FAI question for me has always been thus: we need to enhance our own intelligence to be always equal to or greater than the AIs we create.
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Astute observation. Read down to his trips to Guatamala to hang out with John McAfee and see if you can read between the lines as to what he invested in that didn't work out:

http://www.businessinsider.com/jody-sherman-ecomom-2013-4?op...
"I think in the short term, human-AI corporate hybrids are especially dangerous because they're ruthless optimization engines with great power, no legal boundaries, and a few simple goals. Unlike true individual intelligences, they're absolutely free of more complex considerations, including ethics."

That's a real near-term worry. It's quite possible that, in the near term, programs will be better at making capital allocation decisions than humans. They are already better in some areas of finance.

It's not that we need to fear killer robots. We need to fear a computer-run Goldman Sachs.
"Smaller player"

I'm not sure who're your calling a smaller player, if NXP or Freescale, but it only shows your lack of knowledge about both
"using ctrl+x as a prefix for file handling shortcuts in emacs, or just holding ctrl or meta is modal editing"

Jef Raskin coined the term "quasimode" to distinguish between vi-style modal interface and the emacs interface of holding ctrl or meta keys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_%28computer_interface%29#Q... .

The original text is visible at https://books.google.com/books?id=D39vjmLfO3kC&pg=PA55&lpg=P... . It mentions another's phrase to distinguish the "spring loaded" temporary modal of ctrl+x prefix in emacs vs. the "spring locked" modal of vi.
> "Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly insisted that they will not act alone to end the program without Congress"

The guy really is quite interesting, no? Rails against congress, complains they don't do anything, but could stop the NSA completely, without even an EO. The NSA's parent org is the DoD. The DoD falls completely under the control of the administration.
Great project! I always wanted to write something like this for ASCII art (handwritten, not autogenerated). But I always ended up using a plain text editor for this (http://asciimation.de/).
So you're telling me we should use base 3.
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I'd encourage you to try writing some Haskell. It's a good example of type inference that works.
I don't really get the problem. Humans will do one of the two things they've always done with something they didn't understand and couldn't control.
Destroy it or worship it.
I agree. I'm using Feedly too and I find it way better than GReader.
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It might be a nice gesture to send him a sympathy card.
> Historically, slavery never worked out for anyone, at least not in the long term.

This is a rather contentious point I think. "We" wouldn't be the "developed" part of the world had we not enslaved the rest of it.

> And the idea that we can even in principle enslave potentially god-like intelligences seems ultimately futile

You're assuming AIs will have a will of their own to begin with, which might not be necessarily true. You can't enslave something that has no preference towards whichever course reality takes.

Or to put it another way, since you're talking about god-likeness, what difference does it make to you wether you're figuring out the optimal way to route traffic through town or correcting the trajectories of missiles en-route to kill millions? It's not like you'd have anything "better" to do, given that you're all knowing, and it's not like either of those alternatives will have a significant impact on the universe in the long run anyways.
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We're about to develop a Big Data product. We're very comfortable on Ruby and Java. However, there is an uprising popularity on Scala w.r.t Big Data (i.e. Apache Spark, PredictionIO etc). Since there will be many sub-systems like UX, Business Logic etc. down to the Big Data part, we're considering Ruby will be OK for those parts where we can switch to Java for Big Data crunching.

However, I'd like to verify this choice w.r.t Scala-only stack (using Spray, Akka etc. for other subsystems than Big Data part).
The GetType() is const function for simple return type:

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I've drank the systemd kool-aid. I'd consider Guix, but I want systemd (if only just for nspawn).
Yes of course. I can control a calculator or a desktop computer. Both of those are orders of magnitude smarter than me at doing calculations.

To understand why this is a silly question you need to unpack what is meant by "smarter" and to think about the very complex human/machine culture which we already exist within.
When was the last time there was a battle with thousands of causalities anywhere on earth?

A few weeks ago, inflicted by Boko Haram, according to Amnesty International:

http://watch.ooduapathfinder.com/watch/?p=10555

Not to mention the thousands of children raped, tortured, sold as sex slaves, crucified, and buried alive in the past few weeks by Islamic State:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/04/isis-crucified-chil...

Someone didn't get the memo about the scheduled peaceful period.
NXP has more employees, higher revenue and net income.
this seems like a straight merger.
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