jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> For some reason the Turing test is not adequate

Let's say I build a chatbot with a predetermined database of perfect responses to every possible string of words. This is quite clearly possible in theory, given a database with infinite room. This chatbot would pass the touring test, even though all it's doing is retrieving prewritten sentences. Is it conscious?

Ergo, it's quite clearly possible to build an automaton which acts like a human, but actually has no clue what it's saying. Which means the touring test isn't adequate.

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Here's another take:

You have no proof that anyone in the universe is conscious other than yourself. However, given that you were born in the same way as everyone else, and you're conscious, everyone else probably is too. Why would you be so special?

Well, a computer program was not born in the same way that you were, so that assumption goes out the window.
Oh, that's right! I forgot about that. I think some friends did once and it wasn't as easy to receive as something like FM, but on the roof of a tall building I think it worked okay. Thanks for reminding me to try that!
Especially considering gas prices vary by $2 a gallon sometimes within a mile where I live. Not to mention everything else that's absolutely different uber driver to uber driver.
Burn him
All kinds of empty in there :)
//Op'd!
> Nobody should be self-hosting unless they know exactly what they're committing to.

it is just a FUD. Self-hosting can be done in a range of options - starting with your personal webserver on your own home or collocated computer (geek) to the pages personalized with your domain name on some common hosted and managed _open_ platform like wordpress, etc... (regular, non-geek person)

The issue isn't about technicalities of hosting or data portability. It is about content ownership. What FB does is "all you base are belong to us".

My related post on similar issue about giving away reviews to sites likes Yelp
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898945

Edit : this post is actually a reply to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1943861
I propose that you don't get 'winning' platforms, just 'losing' ones. (Windows aside, that is - I think that's an anomaly that hasn't been and won't be repeated.)

Arguing for any particular platform 'to lose', if it's not clearly already lost, is just baiting. Arguing for a platform 'to win', when it's already shown that it's not lost, is about the same.

Advising avoiding a platform that's lost is a different matter - I wouldn't recommend the Palm Pre, the Sega Dreamcast, or the Atari ST.
Great idea, well done - this could be the start of something pretty interesting
I know it's childish, but the ambiguity in the phrase "while I still had some sexual attraction to women" amuses me.
Thank you for that - I have updated the post to more clearly identify the subset of apps I was talking about.
I was mostly talking about dating girls. It may seem obvious in hindsight, but at the time, I just took it as word. But it's also applicable to other aspects of my life.

Whenever I've taken initiative and grabbed the situation by the horns to change, it's been for the better.
@mlrtime: That's not nervousness, that is your body preparing to do something difficult, i.e. physiological arousal. Of course it has a cognitive component.

let your thoughts do whatever they want. You are not your thoughts. Recognize that this is how you prepare to do the squat. Then do it.

You of course know that heavy lifting builds strong bones. Ever realize that building bone strength increases mental strength? Bones are an important part of the endocrine system, they produce lots of interesting chemicals.
The one in Ettstr is closed to public though (unless you're victim or witness in a crime and get to enter the building this way, or if you're related to a cop).
I started tracking my daily routine (the ones that can be quantified) and built a project around that. It's now available to everyone. The code will be open sourced in a couple of months.

https://numbers.today
Has anyone else experienced this feeling when pursuing entrepreneurship?

"None of your friends are doing anything remotely like what you are doing," he said. "You lose all common ground."

I know I feel like that sometimes...

or like Hugh MacLeod Said (http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003642.html)

"Once you become an entrepreneur, you find the company of non-entrepreneurs a lot harder to be around. You’ve seen things they haven’t; the wavelengths alter, it’s that simple."
I'd have thought it would be even more sobering to think about what would be arriving 20 to 30 minutes after the missiles blasted off.

NB The novel "Arc Light" includes one thread where the crew from a a Minuteman control center surviving an attack and spending weeks underground then having to make an escape through the devastated landscape:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light_%28novel%29
This affects Objective-C too as we discovered when a test "randomly" started failing today. Luckily I procrastinated some on HN and found this post.

https://gist.github.com/k0nserv/f53084ebb6a753c4905f
You know this all seems so obvious it doesn't need mentioning, but I am still amazed that in this day and age people still don't get it.

My local YWCA just redid their website, and there's all the names of the board of directors and their history and this that and the other. What there isn't is (a) any e-mail address at all and (b) any schedule for their sporting facilities (whose schedule changes on a monthly basis).

Did anyone not sit and think "Hmmm I wonder whether the average visitor on our website wants to know (a) that we were founded in 1919, or (b) what time the lap swim is at the pool"?
I got a 503, anyone else does?
This has been tried in the past the result was an is mostly pyramid schemes. See: multilevel marketing for a more common equivalent..
I think the turn would be considerably slower due to the extra friction in the somersault. When swimming straight, there is a "narrow frontal profile" and little form drag but that isn't true when spinning in the water.

I wouldn't have guessed the results of this experiment so my slower turn theory is probably wrong as well...
This has been tried in the past the result was an is mostly pyramid schemes and other forms of investment fraud.

See: multilevel marketing for a more common equivelent.
> "The idea that this was a work of a lone engineer doesn't add up. This is complex code and it must have been given a budget and been overseen. <snip>" said Mr Davies.

Careful. If the code you write is complex, make sure it is also written by more than just a lone you, that is has a budget and is overseen by someone.
I don't think any radical idea was ever good.

What? Something that seems radical today is the norm of tomorrow.

Columbus looking for new trade routes was radical, but good. Ending world hunger is a pretty radical idea, but it will be good. Being an entrepreneur is radical.
I wonder why there are no valid patterns for 87 stars?
Some great results, both mathematically and visually. Learnt a bunch. Thanks for putting it up online!
Given water vapor was observed, can those signatures be examined for organic compounds?
FUCK. This was my only good solution for making all the printers in my office work together. I'm glad I'm leaving next week.
Alabama is the size of England. Using individual US states as points of reference for entire European countries is one form of the incomensorability. Columbus, Ohio is as far from San Diego, California as Barcelona is from Moscow. Except there's pretty much nothing but empty plain, mountains, and desert in between. Ohio has 10,000 km^2 of fresh water...about a quarter of Switizerland.

Recognizing the difference of scale is not a claim to exceptionalism. The US's scale makes it more like Russia than any western European country.
There's also that Chinese baby a few years back who had a severe form of "transverse facial cleft" deformity...
> Yes, yes, WMDs in Iraq.

The USG has lied like a rug about the causus belli and operations of most of its major military adventures since WWII.

If they had convincing evidence of NK involvement, they would find a way to share it without further compromising the collection method. Since the Snowden leaks, every non Anglo Saxon government in the world has had to assume the NSA has its hand up the ass of its IT infrastructure.
I think the phrase comes in handy when the way to improve something is not so linear. For example selecction of team members on a startup.

Your startup is doing well but one guy aint pulling his weight. Do you sack him?
There is actually studies that one bad guy on a team makes the overall team good.

Also, there was some stuff on here about basketball players who don't seem contribute anything but the team winning rate decreases when they aren't there. So, sometimes the maxim is good when you can't pinpoint where your victory is coming from.
"Smart people actually say things that are very simple and easy to understand. And the smarter they are, the more clear what they say is. It’s stupid people who say things that are hard to understand."

This is just one of those ideas that is good in theory, but simply isn't in line with reality. A smart person can make things as simple as possible, but they're not magic. You can't take a complex idea and magically make it simple.
You don't need to move to Silicon Valley to create a startup. You can bootstrap one right now!

You're in an ideal situation where your only obligation is to do a couple hours of school work (and still get top grades). If you do as PG suggests, and eat ramen instead of steak (or even move back in with your parents), you can forego work and focus on bootstrapping your startup.

With an incredibly low burn-rate, you'll have a very long run-way... all while getting your degree.

Should you get a degree? Absolutely... unfortunately that piece of paper can open doors for you in ways you can't foresee right now.
I hear it's solved all their scaling problems at one fell swoop ;)
So instead of saying "Social Recommendations Coming in Future!" you would just not implement that feature in the first place early on

Would you recommend, instead, to tweet or blog about upcoming features to keep user excitement up?
Exactly what I thought. This is what real engineering looks like.
I recently bought a 2011 MBP 13" and did this. SSD with Win7 in the cd bay, 7200rpm drive with OSX in main bay.

Boy is the 'no boot from USB' thing on the new Macbooks a giant pain in the ass! Installing it is one thing, but last night for some reason Windows wouldn't boot so I needed to to startup repair, had to unscrew the whole thing and put the superdrive back in to do it. Should have been a 5 min operation, wasted a days work (superdrive was at home).

I wonder if I can make a 5gb partition on my main drive to be a windows install disk in case it happens again?
"How could companies react if they bought something that become open source, can they sue me for that?"

This one's killer, but we can't answer it at all, because it would significantly depend on the terms of your contracts and how they might be interpreted in real courts, in the relevant jurisdictions.

I think your other questions are unimportant next to that one.
I got the same email on my various google app domains. I can't say I blame them and IMO 10 users is still extremely generous for a completely free service of such high quality.
There's another reason: support.

There are a lot of people who believe they're entitled to support for any code you release. Even if explicitly noted in a 72 point font that it's totally unsupported.
Interesting read, though as always, a little extreme. Eating lunch with co-workers 2-3 times a week is sufficient - sometimes you have a life outside of work too!

Also, I can vouch for the fact that cafeterias at Microsoft are NOT cheap - quite the opposite actually. You can get a better deal almost anywhere outside campus.

LOL @ "Excuse me, I’d love to introduce myself to you, but it’s very important that I update my cabbage."
Heresy comes from the Greek word for "choose" and it always means to pick-and-choose what to believe, against reason.

There are two faults of faith: doubt, or rejecting belief when there's a good reason for it; and superstition, or having faith when there's no good reason for it. (Similarly, the two faults of hope are despair and presumption.)

Heresy means picking one of those sides of faith. Superstitions are heresies because there are no good reasons to believe in things like anti-vax, horoscopes, tarot cards, knocking on wood, and anti-aging-cream.

Doubts are heresies because there are good and established reasons to believe in things like the moon landing, the Big Bang theory, and evolution.
Other than benchmarks, do you actually feel this? Dev environments have gone to great lengths to reduce the total amount of compilation required and for nearly every other application, a GPU does most of the work. And if you've got a lot of ML to do, you probably would save more time with a TPU.

I don't really see what the point of faster desktop CPUs are without being accompanied by substantial power use reduction. I'm a software engineer and other than when I'm lazy about my Haskell build process and dont offload it to a farm, it doesnt really seem to matter at all. It doesnt come into play with my CAD work, and it doesn't make my Java GC cycles faster.
From the EEOC:

> It is unlawful to harass a person because of his or her age.

> Harassment can include, for example, offensive or derogatory remarks about a person's age. Although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that aren't very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).

Seems to depend on how severe the behavior is.
What was the culprit? IME noisy switchers are easy to find, Improper signal termination impedance hard to find.
It's a beast, but ... that's not a very impressive measure. Bellard strikes again -

From [0], in 2004: TCCBOOT is a boot loader able to compile and boot a Linux kernel directly from its source code. It is only 138 KB big (uncompressed code) and it can compile and run a typical Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.

[0] https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html [2004]
I married my #2 world match on okc. We were together for 10 years. Separated amicably and are still great friends.

I've now been with someone I met my second day on pof after being stalked on okc by an ex I met irl. I preceded to message with over 100 individuals on pof and met more than a dozen of them in person. Better than 80% of them had lied in their profiles in some way or another.

I focused on the most honest and compatible one. I fall more in love every day of the 2 years we've been together.

Online dating works. It's hard. But it works.
Japanese economy is about 3.5 times bigger than that of Australia. I'm not sure what your point is.

Economical measures are hard to interpret, but they can give an indication: Japan GDP/capita is standing at 48,920 USD, and Australia at 56,919 USD. Germany is at 47,502 USD, France at 43,664 and UK at 42,986 USD. Japan is there, slightly ahead of Europe. Australia is somewhat ahead, but benefits from way more natural resources (minerals and oil). You can only grow fast so far: once your entire country is middle-class growth will be slower.

By comparison, Korea is at 26,762 USD, and China at 7,755 USD. These two countries have way more potential for growth, but also because they are way less developed for large groups of people. I forgot the exact salary difference for the same job between a chaebol and a small company in Korea, but I think we are talking 4x or 5x more at the chaebol.
You'll need to incorporate AI somehow to boost media interest, investment and moxie.
B.s., how does protonmail/vpn let me create accounts without a prior email? They do sms verification or arbitrary donation for antifraud. Yes, like an expiring paste, i don't care if an image i shared expires after a while. This site and many others accept btc payment. It is also a growing trend to allow guest checkouts without registration. A business needs to keep records but that is a backend problem,you can record individual transactions with unique IDs and be done with it. Unless you're in finance you don't need to track users (money laundering)
>but probably a huge crowd?

The crowd was INSANE. It was effectively crotch to butt for a block or more in some spots with no movement at times and the collective body heat actually making it difficult to breathe on the street that had the barricades, then you'd duck down a street going the opposite direction and it was much more sane. I landed I guess as the parade was starting, by the time I actually got to my room the last few floats were passing by outside it.

Just apically bad timing/bad planning on the assistant that booked my room and flight (to be fare when she asked how my trip was when she saw me before one of my meetings she admitted she hadn't even thought about the parade and apologized for not looking at the parade route and wher the hotel was.

If my plane had landed an hour later I imagine things would have been quite different as far as getting directions on how to get around the barricades (under the street as it happened to be).

>Also not sure if people running around Naked is normal, but maybe doing it just because of pride?

So my boss back here in Indy actually recognized the guy (on description alone, before showing the photo) from when they lived there for a few years before transferring back to our office. I guess it's just his thing and based on research when I returned apparently San Francisco allows public nudity via permit for events.

Not gonna lie, the naked guy made the whole trip. I followed him for several minutes just watching people's reactions and that woman in the photo, catching her looking down at his crotch and that expression was completely an accident, I wasn't even paying attention to the crowd.
I don't disagree, but I think what he is trying to convey is that there are a lot of place where ACID is needed but isn't being put into place. He's not arguing against non-ACID, he's saying people are using non-ACID systems where they shouldn't. It's a small but important distinction.
Before or after conception? We took one before and just called it a "honeymoon."
Unfortunately, the periods when you need extra power because your 'kick ass application' has had some excellent publicity will enviably occur in the middle of the night, or when something else is on your plate forcing you to divert technical resources when you can spare them the least.

Infrastructure issues kick you when you are down.

'The cloud' is still in its infancy, but the goal is to let you sleep soundly at night. Its getting there, but has some distance still to go.
I'm curious, though, why it's never reported when Googlers go to FaceBook and then back to Google.
Slap a banner on the user page and make the user pay to have it removed

Add new features/style options and make the users upgrade to premium accounts to be able to use them
You have to the THE relevant authority on that keyword. FYI, you can check your sites on Google Webmasters tool.
I work with a bunch of them. A UX designer's basic job is to figure out how a product should work: who is the user, what do they want, how should they interact with the product, and how should the product's UI be laid out to accomplish that? They use a bunch of tools, from Macromedia Fireworks and Photoshop on the static side down to JavaScript and Python/PHP on the dynamic side. At Google at least, it's very common for UX designers to be able to code in rapid prototyping languages, though they usually know nothing about large-scale software engineering (beyond what engineers tell them).

A UX researcher's basic job is to figure out how users behave and what they want. This is basically applied social science. They work directly with users - sometimes through usability studies and one-way glass, sometimes through focus groups, sometimes through going out into the community and talking with people who use the product, and sometimes through logs analysis and quantitative data. This is not usually a technical position, but it requires someone with familiarity with the scientific method, a curiosity about people, and often good statistical/quantitative skills.

Since he's a UX lead, however, my guess is his day job came down to two things: hiring new UX people, and prioritizing requests for the skills of his reportees.
Ugh. They're not talking about Flat Files. They're talking about HTML. Saying so in the headline would have saved a lot of confusion.

A flat file is essentially a .csv holding data, and can be a fast way to bulk load denormalized data. As such, it actually does have a use in the context of scaling, so it's natural to expect that they were using the term correctly.

A static file, or more simple, a HTML file is what they're actually talking about. As they've noticed, it's what web servers are best at serving, and it scales obnoxiously well.

Now that we're all talking about the same thing, I can say that I've been serving all my product blogs as .html for years, and have never had any of them fall down under load.

It's really easy to get something in place to generate static files from a blog or CMS. I do it with:

- a 404 handler that maps missed requests for .html to their equivalent generator.

- a regular old blog engine that takes an extra parameter "writeThisToHTMLOnceYouveRenderedIt"

Future visitors skip the redirecting and generating and are simply served the static file. Next time you edit the content, you can simply blow away the whatever-blog-entry.html and index.html and know that they'll show up again next time anybody asks for one of them.
Bubble or not - seems a little self interested to release this blog post the day YC's latest batch is judged and valued (Demo Day). The last part "The loser donates $100,000 to a charity of the winner’s choice" is pretty badass though!
I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour. The cognitive dissonance between saving for retirement, expecting a stable government, and this are huge.

I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
Great, now maybe they can fix the size of adding bookmarks window.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219972

My favorite bug, 18 years old, closed without replacement.
Why? Implementation-wise, it's far better to have a pure plpgsql function than a Python UDF if you have a choice between the two. A Python UDF would be useful if you need to do more Python stuff in the db in general.