skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In so far as what the brain could be without the strictures of society and its learned/forced behaviours, thats an interesting question that i hope no psychologist ever really goes too deep into trying to figure out. I guess parts of it can be deconstructed, if that is your cup of tea, and as long as that works for an individual then hey, thats pretty great.

What i find missing in most conceptual frameworks is a greater response to the raw constructive capacity of the human brain. Most inquiries into mental voice states (non-consciously controlled ones) deal not directly with the capacity of the brain for such activity, and its implications for phenomenology of being, but with it as an outlier to normal human function. Granted, the reason for this being that its what pays the bills, and i assume a lot of people don't want the hassle and can't really afford to spend time trying to figure it out. Thats perfectly reasonable.

As for the great phenomenology of mind/being/brain discussion, its good fun. I'm pretty much consigned to the fact that artifacts are what we have, and what we will forever work with. In my opinion the idea that the natural state is superior in matters of mind is as much an artifact of a particular social conception as all others. Often the conscious sabotages, often the unconscious does. Believing either to be naturally superior without any form of proper data sets relating to weighted choicemaking over an extensive period of time for multiple individuals is still just a statement of faith, regardless of how you assemble it. (And good luck finding the objective criteria on which judgements as to superiority of choices are concerned.)

Basically, its a tug of war between conscious and unconscious, and i think we should be glad that it is thus and not unnecessarily elevate one over the other. But hey, thats just like, my opinion man.
I can't seem to get prompted for the new version? Is it rolling out?
It looks to me, as an amateur observer, that the automation vs. pilot-in-the-loop debate is today not yet settled. The Air France crash into the Atlantic was entirely caused by pilots who were used to automation, and made a series of wrong decisions when it cut out on them, even though it cut out according to spec (i.e. it did not fail, just handed control to humans as designed). It's arguable that had human pilots been actively flying that plane the whole time, it would not have crashed.
So, we are doing the research to make a protocol for the production of insulin. While the drug is off patent, it requires scientific research to create a protocol to correctly express, fold and purify a biologic drug like insulin. Just expressing pro-insulin from e-coli is not enough to create a usable drug.

Here is an article explaining the generic market for insulin:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1411398

And here is an explanation of the difficulties of creating insulin written by our scientific adviser:
http://blog.indysci.org/insulin-is-hard-but-not-impossible/
I'm advocating that everyone start with vanilla JS without frameworks. See how far it will take you. Once you've built a simple prototype, put it in front of users, made a few changes, and have a sense of how the product will evolve to satisfy those users, then you can choose a framework. And you can choose it with a lot more knowledge about what your needs will be than if you tried to guess ahead of time, and you won't be steered away from particular customer desires because the framework makes them difficult and other stuff easy.

Rewriting your product is not failure, particularly when done at the very early stages where it only takes a week or so anyway.

As a nice side benefit, this also avoids all the holy wars about which framework is best, since you can put off the decision until you have hard data about which is best for you.
Since the web has gone into distributed application / magazine, density has dropped.

http://imgur.com/MRnd81J

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

http://justinjackson.ca/words.html

TBC
This article is from a year before the acquisition.
Howgh, my fellow native american or indigenous friend. I too grow weary of these pale face immigrants taking our land, genociding us, and telling us we'll all be better off.
> He's not charged with balancing all possible consequences from his requests, and he's not going to do so.

But ... that seems like quite a level of incompetence for someone trusted with the position of Head of the CIA?

By which I mean, not charging him with that responsibility is a mistake (in gov structure), but him actually not doing so is his own incompetence, is it not?
Oh, I understand that, I thought it was understood it was about taking these causes abroad to lands unrelated using previous historical injustice as a cause to wreak havoc on unrelated innocents. Say after the us civil war the south went down to Mexico and set off bombs and declared war till all were dixified or dead.
> If you want the $50 million, your idea has to fit on a single page.

A whole page? What a waste of space. The cure, for most people, would fit in a fortune cookie: don't smoke & exercise more.

This makes me wonder why they aren't focusing on something that is less preventable, namely cancer.
Even the Sega Master System used that technique.
Beyond Fidelity: Even More Mutual Fund Markdowns of Tech Startups
Open Roboethics Initiative Delivers Statement to the United Nations CCW
It is just a reference to a return of the systems perimeter within the control of the enterprise. As monitoring and data collection functionality becomes more prevalent, embedded and hard to identify even on traditional platforms (e.g. Windows), I think it makes sense for enterprises to move to platforms under their control (e.g. custom Android, linux, even custom hardware etc.) Most probably that would be through a market that builds most of that for them, with sufficient guarantees/standards.
Yep: https://www.yubico.com/applications/fido/
Sure, there are undoubtedly lots of examples of businesses that opened in desolate areas and created new taxi activity where there had been none previously, I just happened to focus on Williamsburg for the post.

Another idea that I didn't get around to doing was to look at concert venues and measure taxi traffic around particular concerts to see if it would correlate to bands' overall popularity
CompuServe CB Simulator (1980)?

Minitel (1981)?

I'm on the fence if you should include the Telegraph (1844).
Yeah, but I don't get any prompt to do so, and can't even find any mention of it. Maybe they're doing one of those Google "roll this out to different users at different times" things. shrug
Google Pagespeed Test Fails Itself on Mobile
I am also in the same boat.

One thing that worked for me (unintentionally) is volunteering - I met some great people, even formed a handful of friendships.

Another interesting habit (again unintentionally) that worked for me is talking to old people. I enjoy talking to them as they have lots of stories to tell and wisdom to share. Some of the best conversations I've had are with older folks (60's and above).

It is hard though, once we are in our 30's

Are there any apps that we can use to meet people other than meetup.com and that don't rely on Facebook?
I happen to agree that it's a good thing to use ad blockers (and that malvertising is becoming a bigger and bigger problem), but it's a bit much being lectured on duty by someone who betrayed his duty, betrayed his colleagues and betrayed his nation.
Their layout of content still nixes it for me. I don't know where this idea of multiple columns of content without any horizontal sync with each other originated, but it does not work for me, not on any site. I read from left-to-right, top-to-bottom. I know other languages differ. But despite the age-old advice that people on the web do not read, they skim, this trend is too much of a disconnect for how I want to see information.
The success of fascist tendencies is definitely a code smell. In a less extreme sense, any development that embraces the use of global variables bears a risk of unpredictable and potentially catastrophic outcomes. Sadly, because it is so easy to refer to global variables, they will always have a great deal of appeal for those seeking closures.

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I'm suggesting that the use of non-lethal force tactics like Tasers, beanbag rounds, etc. displays a lack of intent to kill. People can die during pursuit or arrest without it being because police used unreasonable force; this site doesn't distinguish between reasonable and unreasonable force or between deliberate, negligent, or purely accidental death.
DuckDuckGo now displays data on LGBT rights for any country
We would have expected no large scale terrorist attacks in the US from 2001 until now? Absolutely no one expected that.

Is it a black swan event if it was attempted 8 years earlier (WTC 1993, 6 dead, 1000 injured)?
Tackle the Hard Stuff First
It's open source. Why not write some?
So rad, I've been waiting for something like this for ages!
It reminded me of the "The Wire"'s Season 5 (I think), where Marlo Stanfield's guys were communicating with each other by sending photos of street maps, which would indicate meetup locations. It now seems easy to catch, but at that time (2008) it was still kind of a new thing to send data (like photos) instead of plain texts.
Are you sure? It might be that bad, if they become motivated enough to go after you in court.
Do you look at tests of all of your projects? In my experience many packages have pretty low code-coverage in the first place.
I used a different version in college for weekend studying. Study for 2 hrs, break 10 min. Study 1.5 hrs, break 20 min. Study 45-60 min, by then it's usually lunch time or dinner.
It always surprises me that Google's world-class UX and Product teams would allow such a huge expectation vs reality misalignment.

So many Youtube videos, so many blogger posts have this issue
>Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

-Robert Kennedy, Speech at the University of Kansas at Lawrence (18 March 1968)
It seems more reminiscent of a market or a bazaar - they seem to be aiming for people who don't need to look over every stall in detail, but for the people who let their gaze wander until something catches their eye.

Which is fine, but I'm not that person, and that's not something I have a use for.
Django Girls workshop 2015 in Barcelona
Right?

And its totally possible for a supposed 'A player' to suffer a dip in productivity (due to, y'know, LIFE) and its similarly possible for a B player to upgrade to an A given enough experience.

Overall the whole A/B/C boxing just smacks of 'humans as resources'.
> Yeah ok but how many end-users are conscious enough of the situation to OPT-OUT of such an intrusive policy?

Well, I meant opt-out as in "not use". Plenty of people don't use Facebook because of the privacy implications. And as another use mentioned, this is the reason that people are so upset about Facebook's shadow profiles, because it removed your ability to opt out of their tracking.
I read this a while ago which sums up the problem: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-m...

The most important thing I noted:

>As external conditions change, it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other
Even God I thought of as a concept. As an eternal idea, which can be all and anything you want, not an actual being.

Still, there is quite the leap from one being to the other. I believe gravity is real, and its also a faith. There are different degrees of faith required for different elements.

More things point to God than to an Angel, since you could attribute existence or nature to something bigger. Where do angels actually fit there, the only thing to point to it is the bible.
Amazon: An Evil Empire Dawns on the Internet of Things
From T.O. <3
I understand that, but you yourself are making the much stronger claim that the recordings aren't illegal. You're saying they're legal but inadmissible, which makes no sense to me.
You're missing out then. Taking a 20-30min nap has been the best sustainable productivity hack + lifestyle change that I've done.
The legislation was largely to authorize practices that the surveillance community was already engaged in but which were on questionable legal ground because the existing legal framework had not been updated since 1991. They also expanded the ability of the French surveillance community to outsource some of their needs to 3rd parties; eg, require ISPs to store communications rather than the Government intercepting them and storing them.

France was absolutely not starting from scratch on Surveillance at the beginning of May. The bill dropped the need for things like "get a warrant before monitoring all traffic to/from an IP in realtime"; they had that ability long before.

Edit: I would absolutely love someone to explain why this post is being downvoted
Nigerian Professor Claims to Have Solved 156-Year-Old Maths Problem
It's important to recognize that they also wanted to attack the US for at least a decade PRIOR to 9/11. So what was preventing them from doing it then?
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/int/long.html

I am not sure how valid these translations are, but there seem to be a lot of incendiary passages in the Quran, how do we reconcile these view points with modern society.

I also understand that old testament (I am not christian) is just as bad but I was under assumption that the old testament was a carry over from Christianities Jewish roots, and the new testament supersedes it?
Thanks, but no way to stop a timer except removing the extension, by design? O-kay. That may have been the shortest-lived extension I've added and removed.
Googlers!
It's got a 2.5" and a M2 slot.
I think the "smart" layman would take it as parable. But do priests?.

If you asked Pope Francis if angels are real, what would he answer?
$50M over 5 years is a "moonshot"? Let's hope Wired is to blame for such hype; Google surely knows better. Even $50B is no moonshot. Try $500B to $5T and a commitment of many thousands of man-years. Now THAT's a moonshot. $50M is not even "A War on Heart Disease". At most it's a skirmish.

To wit, $50M/5 years is $10M per year. In Silly Valley, that buys you up to 20 staff, with no lab. So in 5 years, 20 Googlers armed only with whiteboards will succeed beyond the thousands and billions and decades of scientific research that have gone before?

Gotta love the reality distortion field that is SV.
I think there are two schools of thought:

1) Perf for a product should be marked against some shipping benchmark and intermediate regressions don't matter as long as we come below the benchmark at ship time.

2) Perf improvements should be "locked in" and not regressed, unless strenuously justified.

I think the parent is of group (2), where it doesn't necessarily matter that it's better than the benchmark of "against other compilers" but only that Go regressed from their earlier perf metrics for what they believe to be inadequate justification.

I think both groups have valid points. I think (2) is especially good at preventing "perf creep" wherein you continually justify small perf regressions for new features, explaining it away that competitors are doing the same. Eventually, you get to the point where everyone's just slow, but they have no impetus to improve because they're still better than the competition.
Three Years of Email Automation Trends
There are plenty of grey areas in the world, yes.

Supernatural claims made by religions are not among those. Those are just self-evidently false.

I'm not denying anyone anything. I'm just saying that the supernatural claims made by religions are obviously false. I don't really care if anyone's feelings are hurt by that.
Surely you mean "the next Impact Team" (those behind the Ashley-Madison breaches) because Snowden actually went through painstaking lengths to not reveal stuff that would put the public at danger like that.
Http://i.reddit.com is the same as adding ".compact" to a link.

I also don't understand the redesign. The old version is way better then the new version, but I guess it just does not look flat and material enough.
Flooding the country with Arab speaking immigrants with the goal that some will filter up to the TLA agencies to help with surveillance on their former countrymen is ludicrous. If you want the numbers of Arabic speakers increased, you teach the language or hire existing talent. In any case, machine translation is pretty good these days -- even if Google doesn't perform that well on Arabic. Encryption is a much bigger barrier than language.
It would help conventional law enforcement. Most violent criminals probably don't put enough forethought into their spontaneous attacks to properly avoid notice by the NSA. Unfortunately the NSA doesn't seem to use their resources to secure the nation, and just ignores all the large scale violent crime that goes on daily.
Not sure where it originated, but it was popularized by Pinterest many years ago. I think it works better when the content is primarily images, not so much text.
http://islamqa.info/en/5000
Note that this fits in well with recommendations of ergonomics experts to take a short break every 20 to 30 minutes to get up and move around [1].

[1] http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html
Sounds exactly like you're being an ass
Tarantool 1.6.7 released
It appears Photos was strong enough to make it its own product.
Easy to tell the right sentence because it's the only one capitalized correctly! /s
Their currency has dramatically strengthened in the past 15 years, for all intents, it's free-floating now. The old pegs are plainly visible on the trading charts:

http://i.imgur.com/MvbcZ4B.png

There are still some restrictions (e.g. the Chinese won't let it move more than +/-10% in a week) but the IMF thinks that it's close enough:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/15/imf-yuan-reforms-may-bring-ch...
almost every state falls into the classification of one-party or all-party.

Doesn't that apply to wiretap laws (e.g. phone recordings, like the Monica Lewinsky case) rather than open-air conversation? For example, I could see how a hack activating their phone microphones and listening that way would be illegal, but open-air conversation?
According to the CDC, 1 in 4 deaths in the US is from heart disease.

http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

Where are you getting your information?

According to the article it is the most common form of death in the world.

"Cardiovascular disease kills more people on Earth than anything else—over 17 million a year"
What they haven't fixed though is requiring your account to have Google+ to be able to comment or interact on YouTube. Until they fix that participating in YouTube in any other fashion other than upvoting videos and watching them is impossible for me. I do not want to create a Google+ account.
>Of course, but why is that relevant? The existence of a worse actor does not make the acts of another actor more excusable.

It matters here because my top level comment was a reply to someone emphatically stating there is no difference between the actions of the US and IS and I disagree. I believe there is a difference in the actions of US and IS, I used the law to distinguish between two acts. If someone said there was not a difference between the act of 1st degree murder and manslaughter, I would disagree and turn to the law to give examples of the differences.

>That's not what disturbs me. What disturbs me is the notion that a formal law in any way determines the acceptability of a violent act.

No doubt, to many laws of war is an oxymoron. However, the laws don't determine what the acceptable violent acts are, instead humankind determines what is not acceptable based on International consensus and through the treaty/UN we codify it into law.

One example, humans decided land mines as a weapon of war were to indiscriminate and had potential to far outlast armed conflicts and were outlawed by treaty and then codified into a UN Resolution, every year since then annual deaths of landmines has decreased from ~10k/year down to ~3.5k/year. Moreover, often times these laws of war have nothing to do with violence, but make sense such as requiring all military actors in armed conflict to be identified by uniform so as to be distinguished from civilians. Other laws such as Arms Reduction Treaty lead to Russia/US disposing of some combined 50-60k nukes.
My biggest gripe with google+ was and is that it lacks clear compartmentalization of information. There is just something about using a profile in a public way that also can potentially tie into an email, calendar, everything portal that just bugs me something fierce. Also, I know they finally revised it, but the real names policy and the wierd way they try to force you to merge youtube/gmail profiles into google+ really put me off as well. A similar gripe with logging into multiple accounts in a single browser session, I just want to be able to logoff and login as a different user, not merge 10 profiles!

That being said, I have found some communities on google+ that overwhelmed the negatives and I found myself using it anyway. There are some communities that aren't anywhere else.
Like how you can't use paper money that was printed before 2010? That makes sense.
It's pretty situation dependant. Mostly depends on the corporate structure, culture and your positions relative to each other. I've been blessed to work at small companies where most of the people I rub shoulders with aren't in the same professional 'track' as me, so there's no real reason for anyone to use a friendship to jockey for position or something.
All on internal storage? What was the max internal storage then, 512GB? Sounds like that's pretty tight, barely possible if you aren't doing anything else that takes up much space.

I wonder if it would be easier to stick the Postgres on a server, maybe AWS or local, and just do the queries from the laptop. Or maybe on a Tmux on the server, so you can let a long query run without having to keep the laptop up.
> Works in all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Edge, Opera)

For people who are concerned with backwards compatibility (which I know isn't everyone, but it is a necessity for my work), it would be super helpful to clarify this statement. Specifically, how far back in IE does it go? What about mobile Safari vs. desktop, and what about the Android browser?

Thanks, looks like a neat little utility.
Does anyone know what the old google+ looked like?
It would be neat to see a difference between this and Unity's WebGL output. I'd expect this would get better performance because it's native JavaScript.
You think middle eastern politics are the driving factors for unrest in the Philippines?

Maybe we should start with remedial geography.
I've put an issue that creator should do at least some unit testing.