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Combined response.

Re: hiring programmers, I think we attempt to mostly hire for imminent capability, but we aren't always very good at it in some industries. When referring to someone that knows one computer language learning another one, I don't even really consider that potential capability in the same respect to what we've been discussing. That's so far past the major effects of privilege, as we've been discussing them, that I think it's nearly inconsequential. Programming is a very high level skill in our current society, I view privilege having the most influence here in affecting whether the person learns the discipline at all, not whether they can abstract from one category to another within it.

With respect to our earlier discussion, I would view it more as choosing to hire someone that knows how to program, or someone that seems bright but does not know how to program and hoping they will develop some aptitude for it at a later date based on their general intelligence. I think there are a lot of assumptions and waiting pitfalls in that.

Can you say what systemic biases you think have been driven out so far by doing this? I'm curious what you're thinking about.
I'd certainly say that there have been some improvements. But 'quite well' seems overly optimistic to me.

I think education, health and income are the big winners there, and I also think those are the biggest differentiators that privilege provided prior to that. Sure, income may not initially seem like a big win, but compared to pre-minimum wage and labor law America, I think the change is massive. Not having to go to work at 10 because your family needs the money to not starve is quite a contrast to the current situation. Not having to devote your life to god in a convent or monastery to get a good education without spending money. Civil rights. Suffrage.

That's not to say these are solved problems, and the privilege afforded in some of these cases doesn't still provide a very large benefit, but there have been major improvements, and I attribute the climate that allowed them to the rapidly improving economic situation of the average person, and I attribute that to the massive speed of innovation, which I think was allowed by attempting to maximize the effectiveness of the resources we have available at the specific time.
I find it interesting that the author does not point out that the data in the first part of the article directly contradicts the data at the end. Specifically the first study suggests men shower more often than women whereas the later study says the oposite.
Closed as not a real question
The "pretty people" thing may have started with Facebook. When Facebook was in downtown Palo Alto, I'd see their employees come out at lunchtime. The men were hunks and the women were hot. I suspected they were hiring based on Facebook pictures.
Memory of the exact context escapes me, but somewhere a few months ago here on HN, a user shared an idea of how Google+ could have leveraged their massive Google Reader user base to create a publisher's dream social network.

The argument was super compelling and I remember thinking it would have made complete sense, but instead ended up with the nightmare that became Google+, and a ton of pissed off former-users of Reader.

*EDIT: Found it: http://www.scottporad.com/2014/04/24/a-totally-simply-way-go...

"Google could have avoided angry Reader users and given Google+ a massive boost by simply integrating Reader into Google+.

Yes, just that simple…make it so that you could follow an RSS feed as though it were another user in G+. Make it so that you could put RSS feeds into circles, and share them, just like you do with other G+ users.

If Google would have done that G+ would have taken off like wildfire and nobody would have ever looked back. I have no idea why they didn’t, but for some reason the lost potential has irritated me for a year. And, here we are now, with the whole effort going down the tubes.

What a waste."

Makes sense to me...
Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline
Another completely pointless and potentially damaging patent - Performance tests in a continuous deployment pipeline
Retarding the progress of AI research obviously isn't the solution, precisely for the reasons you outlined.

Getting there first, and safely, seems to me the most prudent option. The creation of a Manhattan Project-style program to accelerate progress within a restricted, safety-minded environment may be the best way to proceed.

The nature of AGI seems such that the first to attain it may very well determine the future. I just hope that when governments come to this realization, they collaborate or otherwise proceed in secret. Nick Bostrom examined race dynamics between competing projects at length in his book, and it is quite ugly. Safety is the first casualty in most scenarios.

That aside, I sincerely hope that the first entity which succeeds in attaining AGI utilizes it for the greater benefit of humanity. Anything else would be petty.
As a google employee, I wouldn't use Reader now even if it magically came back. Fool me once, etc., etc. In fact, I wouldn't use any third-party service. I have the skills, and readers are easy to build; there's just no reason to outsource this particular product.

(Here's what I've been using for the past year: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN. Sources: https://github.com/akkartik/spew)
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I'm still hoping for a significant slow down. It's not a selling point anymore, this generation have been through many 'promises' of interface design ~innovation and I bet they're not responsive (sic) to it anymore.
I hope Freescale's openness with their datasheets and sample policy survive the merger. It seems NXP is the one consuming Freescale, however.
Kind of, casts in C++ were designed to be on your face, to call out that you are doing something unsafe.

reinterpret_cast is meant to be really unsafe, to meant that in this type of casts the compiler will blindly do it, whereas the other *_cast there is still some type validation involved.
Apologies for the delayed response. Unfortunately (?), I do not have a blog about CHA. I've never considered there being that much to write about (as much as I sometimes would love to regularly write about something). I appreciate the compliment and interest, though. Perhaps I'll contemplate the idea in the future.
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Ya'll complain about how hard it is to hire and at the same time brag about how it's about the experience, baby, forget the salary!

You're basically self-selecting for financially stable people with no dependents which... yeah, that's what the startup world looks like, with its attendant diversity baggage.
I think it's quite safe to assume that the first AGIs will require the biggest supercomputers in the world to run. Since these have severly restricted network access it would be very hard for the AGI to escape. If we're afraid of AGIs the system would likely be airgapped on the first runs. And an escaped AGI running in the cloud or on a botnet would be slowed down by a few orders of magnitude due to network latency, making it less ominous. Bottom line, I don't see the hobbyist/grad student as a problem until we've had AGIs for a long time.
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I completely agree with the sentiment, those are all valid concerns. But in the context of New York City I strongly believe the dangers to pedestrians are paramount.

> inappropriately low speed limits

It's hard to imagine speed limits too low for a pedestrian intensive area like lower Manhattan. According to this fact sheet [1], "In the City of London, the rate of crash-related deaths and serious injuries within 20-mph residential zones dropped by 42 percent." ... probably worth it in an area where pedestrians greatly outnumber drivers.

> inordinate amount of police work on traffic violations instead of things that are more dangerous

I'm not sure there's anything in the city right now more dangerous to the average citizen than unsafe driving, given that there are on average 4,250 permanently-debilitating injuries from traffic injuries due to traffic injuries each year in the city. [1]

[1] http://www.transalt.org/about/facts
As I said, I felt kind of weird offering such seemingly over-the-top praise. I have a number of issues with CHA in general, and even with EPB in particular. But none of the latter issues have ever had anything to do with doubting that anyone actually cared a whole hell of a lot about their jobs. It always had more to do with philosophical differences in implementation details. Well, that and I'm just no good at playing politics. I like to see needs and solve them, not debate them or structure solving them in such a way that my horses win the internal and/or community accolades.
Bingo, you passed the first test. This job entails a lot of figuring out what and how to find the things you need to solve a problem. The lack of a public key in the job posting is intentional.
The JSON appears to be highly structured, so why isn't it stored in a structured way?

I mean invoices I'd assume by their definition made up of structured data:

The buyer (and associated data), the items ordered (and associated data) total volume and price.

As all the relationships are fairly simple and rigid, surely you'd want them in SQL?
268 in 2014!

http://project.wnyc.org/traffic-deaths/
I guess it takes a while for people to realize any corporation is in the game for money.
As I previously posted here on sometimes ago, please check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6570785 to see there are libtask, lthread and others as well. FYI.
I don't think this will be as successful as you might hope. Consider how many possible sets of rules there are. Call that n. The instruction sequence will need to encode log2 n bits of data, but you have no ability to tune the representation to say which inputs are likely.

Instructions aren't free, they still need to be loaded from RAM like data.
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BCD is orthogonal to this.
> You can't enslave something that has no preference towards whichever course reality takes.

I'm adamant that this is not true. For example, you can drug a person with something that makes them not care about the course of reality, and which makes them compliant with pretty much anything. Doing that is still abuse, it's not suddenly OK because the drugs caused the person not to care. I would even argue it's an especially egregious form of abuse.

> 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

You could apply the same argument to humans, and indeed in many situations we do consider these two to be equivalent - for example while doing service in the military.

> It's not like you'd have anything "better" to do, given that you're all knowing

There's a difference between an intelligent individual and a mindless calculator, and that difference is the ability to reflect on your own existence and the existence of others. Humans are a good example, because while we're capable of mindless indifference, we also have the capability to reflect and be ethical. It's culture that makes the difference here. I'm advocating we'll bring AGI up in a culture conducive to ethics.
Judging from a quick investigation, Thickly Settled LP is of Brad Horowitz band.

http://phoenixhairpins.blogspot.ru/2014/01/spahn-ranch-thick... (Brad Horowitz mentioned in the post)
Commonality across many devices is useful to me, so I ended up running tt-rss. Just don't read the forums.
You can teach a computer to play games, but better that it teach itself
Both (separately though, the two answers are not related even though I put them in one post - I'm allowed to have more than one thought about something).

We just don't understand intelligence (not the brain, intelligence) well enough to duplicate it, never mind improve it.

And I don't think we ever will because to understand something complex you have to be more complex than that thing, but by definition we can not be more complex than ourself - so understanding our own intelligence will always be beyond us.

That's the objective part.

The subjective part is that I personally believe that intelligence is not physical. The brain mediates it, but the source is elsewhere.

The soul maybe, or that we are really game characters in an MMOG.
What did they show starting around T+00:09:17? Blue, stargate-like view...
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No a calculator not smarter than you. It is merely faster.

Smarter is a qualitative difference, not a quantitative. Among other things it is the ability to think of new ideas that no one has ever thought of before.
> brute force, none of it is elegant

Where does the human brain fall on that spectrum? It might take us a few more decades to figure out the details of how it works, but I doubt we'll find elegance so much as a ton of hyperparallel brute force plus a few dirty tricks that evolution kludged together to prevent the whole thing from falling apart (most of the time, anyway).

> But there is clearly something different about [elegant intelligence] compared to brute force intelligence.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by this distinction and how the human brain does not constitute "brute force"?
>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.

Your calculator and desktop computer, including the applications they run, may be considered forms of weak AI at best. This is because strong AI doesn't yet exist. As such, you can't really extrapolate.

>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.

Ray Kurzweil's opinion is along these lines. I absolutely agree, except that the merging of human and machine intelligence (as is already happening) almost certainly will not preclude the possibility of unsafe AGI being brought into existence.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a598...
Thanks for the clarification. So this doesn't signal to the compiler that it shouldn't optimize the aliased variables?

Reason I ask and not test is that it seems that VC++ does not take advantage of this undefined behavior and the sample code always works 'as expected'.
From coaching and positive psychology, it wouldn't surprise me if there are ten more apps just like this one ... Or it's a new market opening up!

Either case, you seem to have an opportunity here.
You should start with a business plan! Do not worry about the bugs right now.

An idea for business plan is that you can let people get a kickback for each purchase they referrer. You can start with the ones giving you feedback.

After some sense of market and estimated budget you should hire a freelancer. Not trying to offend you here, but you have been working on this for six month, a freelancer would probable be able to fix the bugs in six hours for $15 an hour or less.

If I was in the phone app business I would probably rip off your idea and have an app out by tomorrow :P
I'm reading Sputnik Sweetheart too and it is brilliant.

If you want more gripping stuff, there is always "Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche". It's a collection of interviews from different people affected by it and how their tales sync with each other. Very, very good!
No we can call it smart when it can think of new ideas.

Just being faster does not make you smarter.
Yeah, OT but just want to point out that the top streamers are earning millions just by playing video games.
Some of those developing AI technologies will undoubtedly want to supplement their own capabilities. Given that, there will arguably never be computers that are "smarter" than at least some humans. So this seems rather like a non-question, except to the extent that such enhanced humans would themselves pose a risk to humanity at large.

Also, if and when strong AI develops, only such enhanced humans will remain players. Unenhanced humans will at best be pets. This is O. B. Hardison's thesis in Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century <http://www.amazon.com/Disappearing-Through-Skylight-Technolo....
One thing to note is that hardware and OSs exist to run apps. Some of these apps are built-in like Phone or Mail.

However, most are not, and may never exist outside that OS - games are a good example. When will Skype and Webex (two very important work uses of my phone) come to FFOS?

These problems go away if you are not courting heavy app users, but I would not call this an "App Silo" - these are investments people have made in time, knowledge and perhaps money, and even if they exist on another OS (see reviews for various Android apps that migrated from iOS like Audible) may not ever have the same feature set or usability.
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Humans can control "smart" computers.
This experience was 8 years ago; autovacuum is nice.

Having been bitten two or three times by a fast query suddenly getting very slow because a heuristic in the query planner flipped over (including once in the last couple of years), I'd simply like to fix a performant enough query plan and not worry about it.

Just to make my opinion clear, pg along with linux and vim are the best pieces of software I use.
>They are not the same

I didn't say that they were. I said that they were equally expressive, because the claim was that C++ is more powerful than C.

>VLA in C are on the stack vectors are allocated from dynamic memory (heap)

That is not necessarily true. It's an implementation detail, and as far as it's relevant, so is the fact that everyone supports VLAs in C++.

>Right but that is why in practice C++ it is not a strict superset of C

Nobody said that C++ was a strict superset of C. The claim was that C++ is more powerful than C, and the fact that you have to specifically request ABI compatibility is not evidence to the contrary. Rather, the fact that you can do this at all (and that you can't use C++ linkage in C) is evidence in support of it.
It's highly "subjective"
I wish Horowitz the best... but it looks like Google is starting to break up G+ into separate photos/streams (newsfeeds)/Hangouts sections, and I really hope they avoid that.

I'm downvoted every time I say so, but combining photos with social MAKES SENSE. There are exactly three things anyone wants to do with photos -- we want to hoard them, we want to organize/enhance them, and we want to share them. G+ addresses the photo question better than anyone else on the market. There are improvements to be made -- starting with deduplication and better integration with GDrive so I don't pay twice for the same storage -- but G+ is a fundamentally excellent idea.

Combining that photo/social experience with the newsfeed aspects of Facebook ALSO makes sense. In the absence of popular adoption, G+ is still a pretty excellent newsfeed if you follow publications with a G+ presence. It's also a fantastic place to tap into the personal musings of Silicon Valley's best and brightest, though tech is admittedly one of the only niches with a presence on G+. Tied in with the fantastic implementation of Circles, it's pretty easy to switch between newsfeeds and share posts with only those I want to see my thoughts.

- - - - -

That said, G+ HAS failed so far despite technical excellence and fantastic user experience. The operative idea here is "so far"... there's no reason why G+ can't be the network of choice of the next generation, and given the ecosystem benefits, it's hard to imagine digital natives NOT choosing Google products to organize and share their lives.

Horowitz, if you read this, target young women. Give them a place to organize/enhance/share their photos in a safe, private environment. Instagram did this (at least to the extent of enhancing/sharing their photos), and as always, the men followed. Just make it dead simple to dump a disorganized mess of redundant photos into GDrive that will then be automatically sorted, tagged, and enhanced. Suggest Circles based on their frequent contacts in Gmail. Give Hangouts better, more intuitive sticker options and play up the videochat features (which very few people seem to know about). Run ads where young people publish an invitation on G+, split the dinner tab via GWallet, pick up German guys via GTranslate, share their photos in a group post on G+, and track their progress the night before on GMaps.

All the pieces are already in place, they just need one last shove to make life easy for the average user. Nobody wants to deduplicate and sort their photos by date or location. Nobody wants to juggle photos between hard drives or try to figure out how many photos their limited cloud storage can still handle. Just let users dump their photos on an unlimited, subsidized GDrive subscription with full confidence that they'll be sorted, organized, enhanced, and ready to share without any further work on their part.
You could represent your numbers as fractions of integers and do all operations on them as fractions of integers:
https://gmplib.org/manual/Rational-Number-Functions.html#Rat...

And only converting them to floating point for display purposes: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#index-mpfr_005fse...
Yeah, and fuck food safety regulations, because I'm just some schmuck who wants to operate a restaurant but can't be bothered to learn about how to do it properly so everybody who doesn't want to be poisoned shouldn't be such a bitch who'd prefer a steak without a side of e coli, right? And let's abolish drivers licenses too while we're at at, because anyone who wants to have a bare minimum of driving skill from other road users should just go live in Somalia, right?

Well actually, if you think it's OK to expose your user's data because you don't know what you're doing but think you deserve a piece of the startup gold rush pie anyway, it's you who should go live in Somalia and see what becomes of a 'society' of people who just do something with no oversight, skill of knowledge. If the choice is between 'doing it poorly' and 'nothing at all', then you should do 'nothing at all' because your actions affect other people. Basically you say 'screw my users, I can't be bothered to learn things properly but I want money anyway!'. Well, fuck you, you are the cause of all these problems, and you deserve everything that comes to you.
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Maybe if these news outlets didn't make their reading experience, especially on mobile, a JavaScript advertising cacophony of cluttered hell, then I might consider clicking some ads to support the publication. Since every pixel has been whored out in the service of very low quality advertising, I don't much care anymore. Imagine if publications went to simply one discrete ad per page. They could charge a much higher CPM and piss readers off less. Drudge did it that way for years and his site makes millions.

I hate all of that Taboola link bait 'recommended for you' crap. Does that really make money for the website? I can't imagine it would, at least not much.
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