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Shane Legg is known for being a co-founder of DeepMind, in a business role (as I understand). He's a complete nobody as a researcher (is he even an AI researcher? I would be surprised).

The big names of deep learning have all taken a vocal stance against the recent end-of-the-world punditry (most notably Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng). Also notable: roboticist Rodney Brooks http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/artificial-intelligence-tool-...
Why do you say that? I think it's perfect for that situation, because Ting allows you to set alerts or even hard limits for going over certain usages. (hard limit can be anything, even zero)

Ting will let you set your account so it is impossible for you to use minutes or text messages. (Or cap them at a certain number) That's perfect for data-only usage, isn't it?
There is so much of that kind of thing going on. It's even worse when public money paid for "research" that resulted in a product that is then sold back to the government and then additional contracts are issued to improve, change, customize, or alter the product. All of which is funded at wildly overpriced rates without any controls or solid guidelines.
I think SkyPicker is worth mentioning here: https://skypicker.com

If you are flexible where you want to go, when, how much you can stay, etc... then you get really good suggestions.
I learned a lot of interesting and useful things at college, and so did many of the other students. If your opinion is based on actual attendance at a college, it seems you had an unfortunate experience. If that experience was at a place focused on teaching to multiple-choice examinations, that could explain it.
I'm a University professor who does much work funded by the NSF (millions of dollars), whose university (Univ of Washington) is on that list. My tech transfer office tried hard to make me keep some of my software work closed source and succeeded for years (see http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-is-sagemathcloud-l...). In December I realized to my surprise that some of my NSF grants that funded my work had an explicit open source requirement. This was entirely because of a new requirement in a specific NSF program -- search open source at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14520/nsf14520.htm to see it. This was something that a program officer (Dan Katz) at NSF added a few years ago; I asked him about it a few weeks ago when he visited UW, and he said it was inspired by when he worked as a researcher at Caltech and he wanted to open source his work and used grant requirements to do so.

Granting agencies like NSF can have a massive impact on ensuring the work they fund with tax payer money is made available to tax payers for free. The NSF SI2 program is a rare new example of exactly this happening in practice today. I couldn't find any other similar NSF requirements for other NSF programs, but I am going to hold this up as an example whenever I have a chance to advise NSF in the future. Little by little things may change.
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This is full of interesting bits, but on the whole it's vary wrong. There was a lot of reasons why Toy Story looked fine even @480p.

Motion blur helps make lower frame rates seem more 'real' as does rock steady FPS. Monitors are also all or nothing with when it comes to frame rates. So a 59FPS video game on a 60FPS monitor is basicly jumping between 60FPS and 30FPS when it misses a frame drop below 30 and it get's even worse.

Also, movies tend to avoid things that seem odd, like wheels seeming to move backwords when low frame rates mix with fast rotating objects.
The Momondo UI is nicer, but Google Flights has the "price in the calendar" feature.
The People service can also store Addresses. Call it the Identity service. Include People, Businesses, Relationships, and Addresses.

The Billing service can then reference People or Businesses (and if Businesses, then sub-People), bill to an Address, etc.

No one's saying every object should be a service; you need to find the correct lines to divide across.

In our system (which has been service-oriented for five years), we don't do deletes. We do 'inactive' (UPDATE table SET ACTIVE=0…), but never deletes.

Especially in a case of your billing example, you never want to delete a person or address, because that's historical data you need to retain, but we just keep everything. If it goes in the database, it's because we want to keep it forever.
Sort of. 'Bad' here is of course an extremely subjective term. And it may not be the case that the machines do not understand the longer-term consequences of their actions; they could understand full well, but they could know that the preservation of humanity is not important (for whatever reason). So, we might not matter to them. We matter to us though, so that would be a problem for us as things stand now.
I noticed quite a few grammatical errors while reading this blog post. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but if the person is looking for a job writing documentation then it could be a problem.

Some examples:

>I personally don’t see money as a measure of worth, but as a freelancer and well, running my business, should not and cannot ignore it.

>Calls are 30 minute-long, informal, you’re explained how the process works and what to expect next.

>The first call was with an internal Technical Recruiter, given my interest, I had a call with one other team lead before being redirected to the Developer Publications lead.

(I have no idea what this last sentence actually means).
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Presumed credibility is the pretext for all con-artist scams.

So hypocrisy is always a story...
Holy cow - the star's circumference is about as big as Jupiter's orbit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Diameter
Having tremendous success with their first Kickstarter likely helped them get favorable terms when they raised their series A, but that applies to any company, not just Pebble.

I don't know what the terms their Angel investors got before the Kickstarter, and I'm not familiar with what is 'normal' for SV angels to get. I do know that YC startups fork over ~10% of their company for a few hundred grand in cash, but YC brings a wide network of connections and social signaling for future capital raises to the table.

Even it was just cash and no YC connections, if I were thinking about starting a young hardware startup, (if it were offered), I'd still probably trade whatever % of my early stage startup for the few hundred grand necessary to be able to hire the handful of right people and get to the point where I had a 'good enough' prototype + software to take to Kickstarter and (hopefully) get enough cash pledged to manufacture and ship a v1 product.

Of course, you could work a day job and save back that necessary cash and then fund the startup yourself and keep 100% of the company. Or be already independently wealthy. Or be a savant and do all the work yourself. Or get a traditional bank loan. Or some combination of the above.

But the SV way of trading a relatively small percentage of your company for an initial cash infusion of a few hundred thousand dollars is a valid option that many people would love to have.
In my experience if you have or are willing to invest on the side to gain the necessary abstract algebra background then MacLane's Categories for the Working Mathematician is the go to source.

It is certainly "for the Working Mathematician", so don't make bones about that, but to not include it in a reading list is criminal. If nothing else, buy it and keep rereading it from the beginning as a barometer for how much you're learning. As you penetrate it more and more you can judge that as meteoric increase in understanding.
Maybe you can elaborate why this is supposed to be "broken by design"? Django's deprecation policy is one of the best, and also older versions receive (security) updates for a long time.
If you're not content with the functionality provided by an open source software there's still much room left to take actively part in its development.
This was my first thought too. Aren't there other services / apps that do the personal concierge thing (can't think of any off the top of my head)?
Actually, it would take quite some work to port Firefox, but you could run a NaCl-compiled browser just fine.
Huh. I haven't actually read through that document in a while. I thought it just had the prohibition against scripting languages other than the iOS JavaScriptCore (i.e. WebKit Javascript). I wonder why it now states that you must use the WebKit framework as well?
Given that the study was conducted in Finland, it's unlikely that wealth is a confounding factor in sauna usage.
opinions of 187 scientists and other writers and thinkers (Dennett, Smolin, Rees, Dyson, Rushkoff, O'Reilly, Coupland, Kelly, etc etc) on thinking machines on edge.org (and many of them address the threat issue):

http://edge.org/annual-question/q2015

including mine:

http://edge.org/response-detail/26219
"""saunas are even more prevalent in Scandinavia. You should rethink your reasoning."""
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Maybe their endowments are big enough for them to not care about having to resort to patents to pay their faculty?
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Yep. This is my take as well.

Machine intelligence is only as useful to mankind at large as the individual humans who control and direct it. In the current way of things, bad actors are the ones most likely to control machine intelligences, meaning we're going to be at a growing disadvantage relative to them as time goes by.
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Decentralization to the rescue? Create a decentralized system by which such scripts can be circulated and updated without anyone owning them.

In general I live by (0) anything that can be scripted and automated should be automated and (1) humans and machines are no different and the boundary between human and machine will blur in the future, so we might as well stop differentiating the two now, assume the customer is infinitely smart, and define all policies and business models using only initial state and final state of the customer rather than the process the customer went through to reach that state.

For example, my library books can be renewed online (or else one pays a fine). This can be automated. Thus, I write a script to abstract this problem out of my life. The library need only care when the loan out and when they get back, everything else about the system including whether it's a collection of silicon components or a collection of sodium-potassium-pump components that causes the state transitions at book renewals is none of their business. If I invented something that used germanium to cause a renewal (and biologists can't figure out whether to define it as living or nonliving, intelligent or nonintelligent), the library shouldn't care.

Similarly, it's none of the airline's business whether it's sodium-potassium, silicon, or germanium that transfers entropy about tickets; the initial and final states are the same. if I can gain information about airline tickets by manually querying 1000 times from different parameters, that process should be scripted and automated.

I'm a machine just like my computer, just a much slower one.
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The red flag here is the mention of a fitness function. True AI and fitness functions have nothing in common.

What's the fitness function of yourself as an intelligence? True AI is as fractured and contradictory as a human brain, just running on a different substrate. When talking about AI, one must make sure one does not mean "an infinite loop attached to a robot." That's not AI, that's... an infinite loop attached to a robot (KILL ALL HUMANS, no generative thought, etc).

As far as "bad AI" goes, we already have horrible dumbass humans, so the only thing evil AI can do is be bad faster and in more clever ways. Yes, it's something to worry about, but I'm worried more about insane world leaders running around acting like pouty emo teenagers with simultaneous delusions of grandeur and delusions they are fulfilling desert prophecies from 4 kiloyears ago.
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Anyone know if there will be an official guide for moving between LTS releases? (1.4 > 1.8)
Mr Altman should be far more worried about the hungry and homeless residents of the bay area taking up pitchforks against their startup neighbors.

Climate change is also a huge threat that isn't just "likely".

I don't want to be dismissive, but seriously, their are some radically dangerous things facing humanity right now. This isn't one.

{Edit...my keyboard sucks.}
This seems to me a clarification of the strategy PG proposed during a talk at PyCon 2012 and an essay called "frighteningly ambitious startup ideas". It is a great way to think about and frame how to judge startup ideas.

Mainly centering around high potential technology, overlooked ideas and opportunities that these startups can take advantage of.

My question becomes, and it seems PGs, how can you do this without the value of hindsight. One one hand, you could sit and reason why startup x or your startup idea is the Microsoft in this scenario. But you can also easily delude yourself.

Pebble, IMO, is shaping up alot like early Apple did. They are entering a competitive industry with a new product, facing a goliath and have a huge emphasis on their design & focus on developer. Which makes me believe history will repeat itself. That if we have the Apple for wearables, there should be, or soon, a Microsoft for wearables.

Just a thought, would love any point for/against.

For reference:

http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI
I find it a little odd that the canonical use case for Magic in these examples seems to be ordering your favorite dish to your home. I would agree with you, the complexity/cognitive load of this is low and with e.g. Seamless you get more control over the order and timeframe for little to no extra overhead.

But I could see a huge value in having someone make these decisions for you when it's something that's far outside of your normal routine. The last time I went skiing for example, we landed in the small ski town at night and needed to get dinner, we ended up calling around to 4 different places and making a bunch of arbitrary decisions and still had no idea if the food would even be good. Someone else (or eventually software) could have done that just as effectively and it would have saved us a lot of stress, in that scenario it really would feel like magic.
Movies at 48fps look fine to me, great even. There's something to be said for the cinematographic effect low framerate+motion blur, and there's a long history of chemical and digital post-processing techniques that take advantage of motion blur.

However, what works to the favor of The Grand Budapest Hotel doesn't necessarily have a place in The Hobbit. Higher framerate is useful for enhancing the visual acuity of battle scenes and for immersion. These are not the primary goals of all movies, though.

As graphics technology improves, I think we'll start to see some games opt to render at lower framerates. Probably not games that require split-second reaction times or any first-person games where the camera moves violently (for instance, Starcraft, Counterstrike). Games aiming for a more artistic impression, such as puzzle games (Portal, The Witness), RPGs (The Elder Scrolls), adventure games (Brothers), however, might choose to initially render at an extremely high framerate, say 240fps, and then use that data to generate true motion blur at something like 30fps.

We might eventually see movies shift to such a system, where they are recorded at very high framerates and arithmetically stitched together into something more traditional. This would stand to benefit remastering efforts 50 years after the initial production when better technology becomes available. But cinema has always been slow to adopt new technology: sound, color, digital, etc.
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It kind of reminds me of predictions about traveling faster than sound igniting the atmosphere.
Marketing a developer tool is really tough (ads don't work, cold emails don't work, etc); having communities like Product Hunt and Hacker News really make it viable.
You shouldn’t trust them, but it’s hardly an extraordinary claim. We can extrapolate from King’s heroic figure, charm, and constant traveling that he would been positively drowning in opportunity, to say nothing of the temptation that comes of being away from home for extended periods.

If you care enough to explore the matter—although why you would consider it consequential I don’t know—you might start with Ralph David Abernathy, Sr., a close friend of King’s and a fellow civil rights leader, who confirms King’s alleged “weakness for women”.
A friend who works for Reddit moved here from SLC with his wife 2 months ago. Email me and I'll put you in touch.
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really misleading title. they are speaking only of currently pending legislation specifically, not patent reform in general.
@taprun - I understand your point. There are ways to offload hiring costs, and there are ways to share them. Should we pay software engineers to spend one hour on the phone for a technical interview? Should they pay us? The answer to both questions is "no." We both give an equal amount of unpaid time to the process to show our commitment to moving it forward.

Obviously marriages are reciprocal. If a company does not treat you well in the application process, that's probably a signal that it's not a good place to work. That company does not understand how to attract talent.

FutureAdvisor does not ask most software engineering candidates to complete coding challenges (when we do, it is to give someone a chance to prove their capabilities when they have fallen down elsewhere, like a makeup test). We do ask to see evidence of their work elsewhere, both on Github and in live interviews. Only performance correlates with performance. There's no way around that.

In my work as a recruiter, I spend a tremendous amount of time writing emails to candidates we really want to hire. That work, like a coding challenge, is all on spec, and it often doesn't pan out. I often feel as though I've wasted my time. It's difficult to escape the strange dynamics of the job market, where goods are not substitutable, and the buyer and the seller have many idiosyncratic properties and needs that can only be communicated through ad hoc efforts like coding challenges and emails to individuals.
This reminds me of the surreal world of the stock market, where organizations largely make their own rules and regulate and enforce them themselves.

In 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) gave birth to NASDAQ, which became publicly traded in 2000, and then a national securities exchange in 2006. NASDAQ wasn't really independent of NASD until 2000, so for a while the same people who owned the exchange also regulated it.

The NYSE is much older and became a Not-for-Profit in 1971. In 2006 it merged with ArcaEx and became a publicly owned for-profit, later merging with Euronext in 2007 and acquiring AMEX in 2008.

Here's the weird thing: exchanges are supposed to self-regulate, with the SEC basically just approving the rules they make for themselves. And the exchanges kind of 'outsource' their regulation - but not all of it - and that's not all that well defined anyway.

In 2007, NASD's and NYSE's regulatory and enforcement committees were merged into a new organization, FINRA, which basically makes the rules their members are supposed to abide by and enforces them in coordination with the SEC.

The SEC has been investigating exchanges since the "flash crash" of 2010, when it was shown how completely fragile the market had become by large players making very large trades, as well as new high-frequency automated trading.

In 2011, NYSE Euronext tried to merge with Deutsche Börse, which would have become the largest stock market in the world by far. It actually passed US antitrust investigation. But in 2012 the European Commission blocked the merger as it would have created a 93% monopoly on European derivatives trading. This doesn't have anything to do with the exchanges violating rules, but it does show how without regulation, monopolies would be a virtual certainty.

In 2012 NYSE was fined 5 million for giving data to its customers before the public. In 2014 NYSE was fined 4.5 million when it was found to have violated its own rules, or lacked rules it should have had.

Compare this to NASDAQ settling with the SEC for 10 million just for mishandling Facebook's IPO in 2013. This is apparently because the SEC stopped short of finding the NYSE's actions as felonies. And all of this is relatively new, as exchanges historically were never legally scrutinized or punished for their actions. (Their revenue is in the billions, so these fines are basically just for show)
The Chinese room argument is an interesting parable related to the difference between narrow ("cheap tricks") and general intelligence: what does it mean to be intelligent?

It argues that intelligent behavior is not the same as intelligence.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
SF's nimbys are just as aggressive in trying to block anything being built anywhere for any reason
Wait, I don't understand.

Are the non-free parts of SMC there because the university demands that they stay non-free or because you want them to? Does this particular grant involve any of the non-free code you've already written?

Also, the grant speaks about releasing software. Do they consider it a "release" if you only give web access to the frontend, but keep all of the backend private?
yeah just noticed this, maybe url was a bit different and allowed dup. can a mod delete this?
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Not to be paranoid...just from a realistic standpoint they have to be investing in narrow AI to help themselves sort through and make sense of all that data.
it's called "opportunity cost"; most ppl wouldn't mind when the opportunity is good enough. will Chad finish a coding test if Apple/Google asks? i doubt anybody would refuse knowing it might lead to a $200k+/yr job.
I'd like to agree with you on a philosophical basis, but the reality is that Apple is 2x market cap of Exxon and iPhones recently outsold all Android in the US (calendar Q4 2014).

I don't think it's useful to downplay their influence.
It depends on your court house I guess. I typically just go in the back door so I can be in the waiting room before anyone else (the jury duty line in the front is massive). It's secured, so I just wait for someone else to walk in and follow them in or ask a passerby to let me in. They never ask to see the jury duty slip at the back door, just a metal detector/security search.

Also, there's usually other stuff going on in a courthouse aside from jury duty. For example, there's family law and other offices that you could say you have an appointment there. The key is to just look respectable (clean haircut, nice clothes, nice watch) and confidently state where you're headed. Besides, it's a public building, it's not like it's some secured facility that's illegal to enter.

If you're unsure just google your local courthouse and see if there's anywhere to make appointments, or at the very least see which offices are in there. Then go to the courthouse and if they ask for a reason say you're there to visit soandso (the name/office you got on the website). The worse they can say is no.
You are maybe thinking of the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster that wiped out all the old Praxibetel communities on Betelgeuse Seven.