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> I don't agree that brains can learn on their own, unsupervised.

Facts don't require your agreement. They're still facts.

You're suggesting that the "2 decades of hardware tuning" is equivalent to programming, and that just isn't the case. While parents definitely provide instruction, each child's brain is fully on its own to program itself. It teaches itself how to make sense of the visual signals it's receiving from the retina... no one teaches a child up from down, how shading and colors differ, how to use both eyes in tandem to provide depth perception. It's all automatic and 'magical' in a way, because literally NOTHING you can do as a parent can speed that process up in any meaningful way. The same is true for hearing. You can't just upload your current understanding of the world... the closest you can come is by trying to help them along mechanically, by holding them up as they 'walk' their legs, for instance, but their brain is still figuring it out entirely independently. Showing the child how to move their legs is NOT the equivalent of showing them how to detect orientation using their inner ear, or teaching them how to send impulses to their muscles in the right order and at the right time, or teaching them to predict momentum so that they don't just fall on their face.

> computer learning is orders of magnitude more effective than human learning

The only reason one could even ATTEMPT to make that claim is that a computer's learning is something that can be copied digitally. A single machine can't even approach the learning abilities of the brain. Computers are so fundamentally different that it's not even a fair comparison to the computer... the brain will win every time.

> I find it very strange that people leave out the 2 decades of hardware tuning and supervised knowledge building that humans get

It's because it just isn't relevant. Take the most advanced AI available today, slap it in a robot and spend 2 decades raising it. I guarantee it won't end up anywhere close to a human in abilities or intelligence. If you can't see that, you're being intentionally obtuse.
This is sweet. Short term trading with no commission costs? Great.
Eat healthy. Seriously, the fatigue is almost-always due to crashing blood sugar. Very rarely are we working hard enough to actually be mentally exhausted (like those 4hr physics exams in school).

Eat healthy != whole grains and carbs. Eat veggies and protein. Balance your blood sugar through the day and you'll 100% better.
Given the blog post calling people who use pingdoms freeloaders for using the service they advertised as free and changing offerings like this, there are other VPS hosts that don't pull a bait and switch after encouraging dependence that are cheaper.
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+1 hire an experienced CTO/Sr. Tech Leader first and then all your problems will be solved.
happy to have a chat - mdekkers at cynaptic dot eu
LXC uses chroot + other things. chroot is essentially the foundation of any containerization tool.
Two words: Prop Cycle.
Hire a CTO to replace yourself. Be a founder.
For sure.

My interpretation is $7/mo buys you two dynos, but not more than one web type, and this seems to be consistent with what the heroku rep here in this discussion seems to be saying.
(eg. comments that Free tier actually potentially gets more compute time under this arrangement)

But it's not at all clear on further reflection (that if you do choose to do this 2-dyno 1 web, 1 worker arrangement on the hobby tier, you don't wind up paying $14/mo rather than the total of $7/mo). I think that's what it says, but I'm not at all sure.
awesome, thanks!!
I understand the thoughts about changing the current pricing. However, it would be really good if Heroku would support the community with a 24/7 dyno for open source projects. It hurts if you need to put in additional monetary effort into projects you provide for free.
Very much agree about the USA Freedom Act being an opportunity for the intelligence community to get more power. Marcy Wheeler had several examples a few days ago: https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/05/06/the-goodies-usa-f-redu...

The Surveillance State Repeal Act would be an even stronger reform than straight expiration. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/surveillance-state-...
The best mix I've ever seen in practice had a non technical CTO who hired an uber bright coder as Technical Authority. The Technical Authority had a written mandate, signed off by the CTO and CEO, that his technical suggestions were to be given the same authority as a board level member of staff.

The reason why it was successful is that the CTO is no longer a developer, but a board director, and as such should focus on enabling the business through its use of technology, and enabling the techology department by cheerleading its needs to the business - you'll need to learn enough of the other business functions so that you can do that job properly, and you'll need to be able to give business cases of why you need those extra servers etc.

In addition, the Technical Authority wasn't disrupted by board level meetings and politics, and could spend more time evaluating technologies, practices, processes, setting standards etc. and they were not really suited to dealing with the non technical stuff a CTO has to.

Another big benefit was that it enabled the Technical Authority to keep coding because they loved doing it, and they were very good at it too. The team liked this.

The team had a lot of respect for the CTO because they realised that he was pragmatic and knew when to hire to cover his weakness, and when to take a step back and accept that the Technical Authority and the team had collectively made a decision, and that they were in a better position than him to do so.

As a general rule though, if you hire someone who disrespects you then you get rid of them. There are very few domains where you'd have to put up with assholery like that because there are no alternatives. Chances are that if they've got the balls to disrespect the CTO then they're likely to be unbearable to the people below and to the side of them.
I'd try to scrounge some old computer from your CS department or buy a raspberry pi and run it on that.
Indeed, and there's where we need mosaic the most. As it stands, the collection of this type of data (Smith) is not even a search, and therefore the court does not even consider whether or not it was reasonable. It just stops there. If it were found to be a search, it might still come in, but perhaps for a different reason. There's a great cartoon, which contains this awesome flowchart: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256
Direct Match (YC W15) and Other Firms Vie to Set Up New Ways to Trade Treasuries
An expert is not someone that knows everything, but someone that knows more than you... And enough to be resourceful, if we are talking about profesional work.

I'm pretty sure than the author knows way more about web development than his customers, so he's the expert then...

There are lots of "local experts" that do an amazing work pleasing their customers without having to know absolutely everything.
Google declares that mobile search tops desktop
You can just turn the pinging off. Then they're going to go to sleep by themselves. I've got a hobby app and it goes it sleep. The dyno comes back up in seconds. It's not bad.

Google App Engine also seems like a good place for a hobby app. More constrained, but Heroku is not really that much more flexible compared to totally free-form architecting.
Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
New Registry .CLUB celebrates its first year of existence
thanks for the clarification. you should have sent it back! it's probably out of warranty now. if you can switch off the ati graphics and use the intel graphics, that's a workaround.
It looks like the true color ticket on tmux was closed out: http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tickets/140/

I was applying this patch to 1.9 on my machine and it worked well: https://gist.github.com/JohnMorales/0579990993f6dec19e83

Haven't had a chance to see if the same diff can be applied to 2.0 yet.
Do you know if Gitlab allows attachments in bugs and comments? It's one of the major deficiencies in Github.
So hobby dynos should be able to run the same type of application as a 1x dyno, just with fewer other features more or less?

I have a small scale web application (around 5K pageviews per day) that runs very well on the one free web dyno currently offered. (We do have costs for the DB and SSL). I assume in the next few months I'll have to move it to either a hobby or 1x dyno. Obviously I'd rather move it to the hobby one because I don't need an additional $220 or so cost per year. It would be great to have a few more details on the site about the specs behind the free and hobby dynos!
Because C-a already does something useful.
In your Procfile you can have any type of process you want. The "web" process type is just special because it expects you to open an listening tcp socket on the port it provides in their environmental variable to your app. Aside from that you could say have a worker process, emailer process, etc and scale them independently.
Well sorry, I did not explain myself properly: my idea was that, if every coin could be associated with a specific person, rich people's coins might devalue quicker than poor people's coins. It's a weird idea and giving it a little more thought, I don't see how could a state enforce such a system effectively, though.
Although we're not quite there yet, this is an interesting thought, and well within our technological grasp.

I think the one thing missing from moving this analysis forward is reliably tracking heart attacks.

You'd have to rely on the user to signal that they had a heart attack, so that data analysis could be done leading up to the events. This requires effort by someone that just had a heart attack (not always easy).

Then you also have to trust that your user data is accurate and that your users aren't trying to fake heart attacks by messing with their devices.

I'm still hopeful that these problems will be worked around.
What a bunch of colonialist garbage. You're probably Israeli, right?

"Rational nations"? Get real. No nations are rational. Nations are driven by political systems that are driven by the emotions of the populations of those places. Are human emotions rational? Are human emotions more rational in Israel than they are in Ghana or North Korea?
It doesn't look like he actually shared the scripts for this year's benchmarks, unless I am missing something.

That's what I'd be looking for, not so much some basics on the clusters and the workload.
Curious, if I visit the site in question using lynx/links am I still in the wrong?
Which Type of Icon Is the Fastest? FontIcons, Inline SVGs or Background SVGs?
"surprised when the answer was yes"

When I reduced my hours, I was amused to notice that everyone from the VP who approved it down to the person in HR who handled the paperwork said they wished they could do the same. I told them all that they could. Most of us in this industry can get by on less, and be happier for it. If you're willing to push for it, any even marginally sane employer will do the calculations for letting you do it vs. hiring a replacement, and make the right decision. Sometimes the paperwork gets a bit messy, but if you show a willingness to work with people on that it can get done - and every person like me who has already gone down this road probably makes it a bit easier for others. In another decade this will be practically normal, just like working from home used to be weird but is now commonplace.
> Note also that there are approximately 3.785 liters in a gallon, not 4.5461 as stated in the original article.

"gallon" is a unit of volume in several systems of measures, most notably the US Customary system and the Imperial system (these systems are often incorrectly conflated because many of the units are the same, and where the units are different many of the names are still the same.) The size of the gallon is not the same in those systems:

3.785 l/gal(US)
4.5461 l/gal(Imperial)
The good news is, they decided to keep the custom domain on the free tier. Last news we had, it was only available with the hobby.

Also, 18 hours daily sounds good compared to the initial 12 hours.

Not as disappointed as expected about these changes :)
Here's an article from almost 20 years ago, about the possibility of using roadside pollution detection to identify these bad vehicles: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9605/27/emissions/
The salt solution to the pollution problem is somewhat convenient in the end. Cars do rust to pieces far quicker in Ontario than elsewhere.
How do property line disputes get resolved in an environment like this? Imagine you and your neighbor are engaged in a petty feud over the location of a block wall. Does your property change shape with the Earth? Or do fixed objects drift into your property, and now that wall belongs to you?

EDIT: This kind of answers, but it's not entirely clear: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/When-property-lines-ru...
It's too bad. For me, the free web worker option was an avenue that made it easy to consume Heroku's paid and partner services.
> My advice to you is that you just need to follow the right people.

That advice works both ways doesn't it?
The "heartbeat sensor" was actually an item in the Rainbow Six FPS, too.
Not really- chroot provides no isolation, namespaces do.
choot is the visible portion (changes root.. ie changes /mnt/blah/bleh to /) but not "the foundation"

Things can in fact work isolated without chroot, too. Its just convenient.
Neural Network Chip Constructed with Memristors
I agree that the current Von Neumann architecture is probably not adequate. However, I think there is some active research in this area.

Here are a couple links:

From today actually. Memristors are an exciting development if they can scale production: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537211/a-better-way-to-...

A startup working on this: http://brainchipinc.com/

IBM's TrueNorth Architecture: http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml
While I agree that we are not currently ready for the arrival of superintelligence, I think it's worth emphasizing that there is time to prepare, that there is useful preparation to be done which may get things to a point where it will be safe (or at least marginally safer), and that if you are feeling worried, it may be best to channel that feeling into useful action and get involved with the research!

Good places to start are the Machine Intelligence Research Institute's Research Guide (https://intelligence.org/research-guide/), which summarizes the aspects of the problem they've worked on and think are important; and the Future of Life Institute's Research Priorities (http://futureoflife.org/static/data/documents/research_prior...), particularly Section 3.
Completely agree. I'm playing with investing ideas with under $2000. I could run through 10% of my money in 20 trades.

This has nothing to do with the validity or intelligence behind being an armchair day trader. This is entirely about my ability to participate in the market in a small way, without trade fees having a significant enough impact to wipe out short-term gains completely.
You might be right:

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/#/beitrag/video/2396252/Van-R...
That's really fascinating. I wonder how much a typical home can torque before it becomes unsafe and how would you go about fixing it? I can't imagine it's an easy repair. Can the house be lifted (as if it was going to be moved) and the foundation re-done or does it pretty much need to be demolished?
No argument needs to be made. If you want 24/7 uptime, you need to pay for it. Under the old model you were just freeloading.
Also, the adage that democracies are disinclined to [suddenly] go to war.

Which builds in a moderating effect to the calculus when at least one side has democratic government.
OP here, feel free to ask any questions you might have.
Not really — if you were paying $35/month JUST to have always-on dynos, you should be able to downgrade to the $7/month hobby tier.

If you really needed that 2nd dyno for performance reasons, then yeah, it's a price hike.
I think the more relevant question might be, how do people handle their three day weekends?

I've tried out all levels of weekly work hours. Too little work can be very difficult to deal with. After years of trying out 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 day weeks, I've settled back to five.

Remember, not all of your friends will be available to hang out on your extra day. Have you got a specific use for the time?

By all means, give it a whirl. My 2c would just be to find something to fill that extra time with.
Without support for co-processors in BigTable I would hardly call it 'standard' API. Also the implementation of buffered mutation, a key attraction in HBase 1+ for fast non-blocking writes, is different enough in bigtable that you might have to change application code to work it consistently. It's nice though that bigtable API have references to HBase bugs :)

> HBase 1.0.0 has a bug in it. It returns maxSize instead of the buffer size for
> getWriteBufferSize. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13113
Show HN: Painting to a piano piece in real time
Ask and you shall receive! I'm very much a beginner developer so any feedback would be appreciated.

https://gist.github.com/jhwhite/2df093eff1f9bab74144
That's absurd.

Most programers are male? You can actually make that assumption factually.

How do you feel about the phrase "MIDWIFE's are in demand"? Is it appropriate or do you feel that people should have to say "Midwifes, both the females that practice midwifery and the males in in this profession, are in demand"? Can we just assume that the majority of midwifes are women and the majority of programmers are men without that being offensive?
> I don't actually disagree that that if there were a big ticking dollar gauge that tallied up the cost of each trip in a car, some people might drive less.

Some cars already have those (well, not necessarily big and ticking, but, some have a fuel-cost-of-trip measure that is displayed, either on one of the information screens or when you end a trip, or both.)
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What about all the internet data they are collecting?
Previously, worker dynos never slept. On the new free dynos, you now get a free worker dyno, but the tradeoff is that the app must sleep for 6 hours/day.

Does that sleeping time include the worker dynos? If it does, when do they sleep? Workers can't "timeout" like web dynos can.
No, it doesn't but there are some cool gems that provide optionals, like https://github.com/tomstuart/monads#optional. The pattern works pretty efficient, but it often treats just symptoms and the real problems are in the design, like structural coupling or lack of domain concepts.
I do. I'll certainly reach out to them to aid in getting traction. It always helps to get the word out as much as possible, though.
From the OP:

> My wife and I have a 3-month old daughter and I want to spend more time with them

I think that pretty much sums it up.
Not to split hairs, but NASA and the military are, and throughout their history, very much intertwined.

There's a reason that the first astronauts were fighter pilots.
This actually raises a very good question - how come they don't put cetane number on diesel pumps? It would make me feel less nervous about buying diesel from sketchy off-brand fuel stations...
backyard beekeeping of course!
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Hi All. I love HN and want to share - sorry in advance for my obnoxious opinions, but just sharing my thoughts on corporate dronism & the glorification of long hours.
The field has not really been publicized that much, but it is by no means dead. Take the research done at Cornell for example, they are doing some really interesting work with Evolutionary Algorithms (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkHYE9-R0A), of which one PhD graduate (Michael Schmidt) has even started his own startup called Nutonian (http://www.nutonian.com) where they have a large list of customers (check it out).

Part time scientists is a Lunar X Prize team, the software lead of that group has used Cartesian Genetic Programming to evolve programs to filter images. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDazGrKsuM) and network protocols (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOOpiMJQ8s).

Agreed that Evolutionary Algorithms are taking a backseat at the moment, but you can argue that Neural Networks also was very dormant until some thing like Deep Neural Networks came out, which is essentially the same idea but with a new learning method (http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-deep-learning-a-r...). I believe there will be a break through at some point, just don't think it is dead yet ;)
What are littleBits?
I'm not an expert, or even a layman in audio encoding, but it seems to me that a solution could be found that couples an open source capture program with their backend. The open source (audited and only updated from the open source branch) capture program filters the audio stream down to something that only contains a gunshot signature, and nothing else. If the motivation is there a solution is certainly possible.
From the MapReduce paper: "The MapReduce master takes the location information of the input files into account and attempts to schedule a map task on a machine that contains a replica of the corresponding input data."

One of two possible designs immediately come to mind: (1) The MapReduce master interacts with Borg directly on behalf of the programmer and places a requirement on the task to run on or near any node that has a replica of the data required or (2) for each Borglet, there is an accompanying MapReduce agent running to accept RPCs from the MapReduce master.
How is this any better than the direct link to gist? Why did I have to click and load the (terribly bloated) Twitter website just to see nothing but a link to another another resource. That's like when you're looking up a word in a dictionary and once you find it, you're told to look up another word. A waste of time.
A faster directive system for Angular.js
I would expect the first AI to improve itself (or produce a new AI) in a controlled and planned manner (from the perspective of that AI, not the humans). Intelligence explosion would look like an instant revolution to humans, but from the perspective of the AI it would be a lengthy evolution process.

The second AI created by humans is unlikely to have same goals or to be predictable by the first AI (or whatever evolves from it), thus I guess it's something that the first AI would want to prevent, either by eliminating humans or by fully controlling them (for their own good).

It's extremely important that the first AI we create is well thought out as we won't have the second chance to fix things up, once it's here it will have god-like powers over us.
Is it ARM since AllWinner is involved, or is it MIPS? Campaign is very sparse on details I assume people interested in, say, kernel hacker pledge level would like to know.
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Link to NASA article: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4574
> Its the UK's equivalent of Fox news

Not really, it's more like something in between the National Enquirer and the New York Post in terms of journalistic quality. Doesn't really make sense to compare it to TV news.
Yeah, I think missing that expertise is a spectrum and not a binary is a big mistake. There are plenty of sub-par programmers who would never survive in a high-skill environment, but who consistently satisfy their clients. This is an important reality to acknowledge and understand.
I can't necessarily do that math in my head.

"I have 40 miles roundtrip of errands to run today, and 3 gallons of gas left, do I have to fill up before I leave and maybe be late to my first appointment or am I good for the day?"

Well at 20mpg the answer is really easy. 3*20-->60, I'm good.
correctly guessed, I read books that have a lot of images/illustrations!
The Five Stages of Data Modeling
Wow, Star Trek life signs sensors!