skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Searle's mostly correct and Kurzweil's completely wrong on this. It took me a long time to understand Searle's argument, because Searle conflates consciousness and intelligence and this confuses matters. Understanding Chinese is a difficult problem requiring intelligence, but I don't think it requires consciousness.

It is important to distinguish between "understanding Chinese" and "knowing what it's like to understand Chinese". We immediately have a problem: knowing what it's like to understand Chinese involves various qualia, none of which is unique to Chinese speakers.

So I'll simplify the argument. Instead of having a room with a book containing rules about Chinese, and a person inside who doesn't Chinese, we have a room, with some coloured filters, and a person who can't see any colours at all (i.e. who has achromatopsia). Such people (e.g. http://www.achromatopsia.info/knut-nordby-achromatopsia-p/) will confirm they have no idea what it's like to see colours. If you shove a sheet of coloured paper under the door, the person in the room will place the different filters on top of the sheet in turn, and by seeing how dark the paper then looks, be able to determine its colour, which he'll write on the paper, and pass it back to the person outside.
The person outside thinks the person inside can distinguish colours, but the person inside will confirm that not only can he not, but he doesn't even know what it's like. Nothing else in the room is obviously conscious.

A propos of the dog, this is the other minds problem. It's entirely possible that I'm the only conscious being in the universe and everyone else (and their pets) are zombies. But we think that people, dogs, etc. are conscious because they are similar to us in important ways. Kurzweil presumably considers computers to be conscious too. Computers can be intelligent, and maybe in a few years or decades will be able to pass themselves off over the Internet as Chinese speakers, but there's no reason to believe computers have qualia (i.e. know what anything is like), and given the above argument, every reason to believe that they don't.
You have my apologies.
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ChiChi app wants you to cup a smartphone between your breasts, but is it real?
Which collaboration features?

(Seriously: We use desktop versions of Office apps based on Office 365 but I have not discovered any collaboration features so far. Where are they hidden? Are they compliant with European data privacy and labor law?)
> The last part I interpret as something like: “the mainstream idea of shared production”, in other words, communism.

This is something I love about Finnish as well. I don't know enough Finnish to say if it's a general pattern, but I've noticed that a comet is a "tail-star", a toad is a "crust-frog", the world is the "land-air" and there's a couple of other examples I've collected over the years. I'd love to learn that language.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/308/308-h/308-h.htm

I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever—read the symptoms—discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it—wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus’s Dance—found, as I expected, that I had that too,—began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically—read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright’s disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
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Just telling people to "think like a statistician" is enough to make them consider base rate information, so I wouldn't say that the article is useless, even if the content is a little lacking in the specifics.
Assuming AMD runs out of money tomorrow, we'd still have an installed base of 50 or 60 million XBox Ones, PlayStation 4s and Wii Us that make use of AMD GPUs, together with a 25% market share on computers.

> why not just lock yourself in to GameWorks?

Because only Nvidia users benefit of it, which manages barely 55% of the PC market share – everything else is dominated by AMD or Intel (or, in the case of handhelds, various other companies).
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I think you're missing cromwellian's point: you could have made the same thing while upholding open values.

For example if it was a rich client based on IRC, I could join in on a chat without being a slack customer. I could also be a customer of a competitor that would offer something similar, but more tailored to my usage. Now that would move the chat ecosystem further.

But that is not happening, because Slack's business model is hegemonic: they want everyone to use Slack to maximize profits.
OOXML is a broken standard.
It is bigger than the PDF spec, which already is ridicoulus.
Also some crazy bugs inside older versions aren't always reflected inside the spec. I've seen documents render differntly between Office 2007, 2010, 2013. Mostly between 2010 and 2013 since 2013 is way more correct than the previous versions, still Microsoft use a compability layer to still have a "correct" view.

However that is really really aweful.
That's creepy
Basically my thoughts. Some random 21 year old boy exploits a flash login page with a SQL injection straight from the 90's and it does not shock anyone that he was even able to do it.
AMD's finances have been miserable for ten years, and they always managed to find new investors.
IMO, a paper ballet with electronic verification in the booth solves these problems. Just make the in booth scanner reject happy. It can also display multiple languages for instructions.
http://lostinjit.blogspot.com/2015/11/python-c-api-pypy-and-...

tl;dr, Yes there are plans. But funding is needed.
My son was homeschooled for two years and we did probably four grade levels in math with Kahn Academy and when he got back to school he got 98% in math for the first quarter, which was much better than his other subjects.

My son would have gotten nowhere with Kahn Academy on his own, he needed quite a bit of tutoring to get up to speed, but it was something I could do, and the curriculum, problem sets, and mechanisms for tracking progress are invaluable.
Whether you have bounty-style permission to test someone's site or not, a red line you never cross: post-exploit privilege exploitation and pivoting.

If you find a SQLI vulnerability, you assume you own not just the site but the whole deployment environment. You won. Don't go trying to prove you won. Very few companies, even the ones that post bug bounties, will put up with random people on the Internet owning up their backend servers.

Even on professional pentests, you ask permission to pivot. If it wasn't in the rules of engagement when the test began, chances are the answer is "no". (That's no surprise: there isn't much to be learned by the target from it. A gameover is a gameover.)
Yes I could FF through ads. The point (for me) is that I can leave my phone in my pocket and use two hands to do something, or keep them in my pockets when trudging home through snow. Which adds to the aggravation of ads - put stuff down, fish phone out of pocket, turn on phone, FF, stash phone. Or listen to the ad.

Thanks, but no sale.
> to pass a callback to onClick

Putting behaviour in HTML is a bad idea. Leave it in JS, and have one place to go when the behaviour changes.
If you call in to your fidelity account, they ask you to type in your username and password with the keypad to authenticate yourself. I haven't given it much thought, so perhaps I'm wrong, but this struck me as probably based on some dicey insecure backend implementation.
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A boss fight that lasts for weeks sounds intriguing, depending on how the gameplay was handled. Obviously you wouldn't be sitting at your console for the entire time, so the "fight" must be broken up into large sections, each requiring hours to complete. In this case, where it's supposed to be a battle against a sniper hidden in a jungle... I can see how it would take weeks to find and end the bastard (no pun intended).
That may be a selective interpretation.

How many talented people have been fired or never hired, but you never hear about them because they don't make a spectacular come-back?

If hiring is as random as it seems to be, there's going to be a massive pool of wasted talent.
Well it is already done in JSweet: checkout these APIs http://www.jsweet.org/candies-snapshots/
It is all compiled and deployed as Maven artifacts on our repo. And we even give access to all the JavaDocs if you follow the links to the end... checkout this Angular JavaDoc for instance: https://jsweet.org/apidocs/snapshots/org/jsweet/candies/angu...

Let us know if you are interested in collaborating on this (never hurts asking).
Any torrents we can use? I'd rather not get it through a huge HTTP download.
I agree, but you can't blame them for trying to stretch their monopoly imo
Well, really, it should just work or OSX should prevent this from happening in the first place.

Emoji are common among non-technical users---exactly the market that Apple supposedly caters to---and why would anyone expect a non-technical user to know that using emoji in a password would be considered "crazy", without knowing the extensive legacy of pre-Unicode systems, the location of many emoji outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, their relatively recent inclusion in Unicode 8.0, etc etc.?

It is a mistake to blame the user for something like this.
You can use Emoji characters in Wifi network names. My network name is [POOP]. See what kind of fun you can have at the airport by making an ad-hoc network called [AIRPLANE][BOMB].
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The CaaS (Confession as a Service) space is certainly heating up.

And no wonder. The Catholic Church has been giving absolution away for centuries, but what if you're not Catholic? Or what if you want a luxury/premium reconciliation experience, rather than the standard shuffle into a cramped, dark confessional booth on a Saturday afternoon?

The time is definitely ripe for disruption. Can't wait for the mobile app.
This quote made me feel really old:

> Podcasting has been around for about a decade — the term is a reference to the iPod, which older readers will remember as an iPhone that only played music.

Now I'm in the category of "older readers." Lovely.
Well, if you really want to learn how to think probabilistically in everyday life, I'd recommend Douglas Hubbard's "How to Measure Anything" which contains detailed advice for how to calibrate your estimates (so you don't continually over- or underestimate the probability of various events) and how base risk management and strategic decision making on this knowledge. Probably useful for the startup folk here.

http://smile.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Bus...
Don't know why this is being downvoted, it certainly resonates with my experience. I write C by day, but I found that making a webapp that compared offers w/ cost of living and tax treatment to be an eye opener. I learned a great deal about how the internet works from just that weekend project, and I would heartily recommend making a webapp. Like it or not, HTML/CSS/JS is about as cross platform as C (don't do anything fancy and you will be fine).
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And in the long run if Nvidia dominates the market even Nvidia users won't benefit (or won't benefit as much as they could have).
I won't be so quick to "roll-back" my decision to boycott their products.
> It sounds to me that you need to take an investment case to your boss.

Welcome to academia...
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I don't know enough about the admin side, but perhaps it's something that needs to be enabled separately. From a user perspective it 'just works' in our office:

If several people open a document shared on OneDrive, that document is opened in a collaboration mode where you can see others working on it, similar to Google Drive.

A menu appears at the bottom of the screen[1] showing who's editing that file. If you have Lync/Skype for Business, clicking on those names opens an IM to that person.

Re privacy, a quick search shows their cloud services are compliant with ISO 27018 as of February this year[2]

(and no, I don't work for Microsoft!)

[1] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2013/04/who-is-e...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adopts-international-...
It's kinda weird, actually. I mean, AMD often has really interesting ideas that may be easy to sell, but execution is always bad and the brand is damaged.
No reason to be ashamed, I have seen many companies that only use platform SDKs (e.g. aC++ on HP-UX) and IT has the last word over what tools are allowed on dev machines.

However the situation is no different in other languages.

I am aware of some companies still using Java 5 on production, just to cite one example.
It's in Intel's best interest that they can find investors; whether they have influenced this is an open question.
The funny part is that they claim to have broken their customers' previously working functionality in good faith.

Who writes these things, and why do their supervisors allow them to keep working there?!?
Can you speak more to what about his code base makes you say this? I very rarely hear people speak positively about former stewards of a codebase, so this sounds like a great learning opportunity for the rest of us.
> You can't use tones to communicate things like irony, anger or doubt. You have to play on volume. You're losing a lot of expressiveness and subtlety in the process.

That's not unusual even in languages without tones. For instance, in Irish, you can't use vocal stress to emphasise particular words like you can in English. Instead, you use a combination of changes in word order and emphatic affixes to convey the same meaning. No expressiveness is lost, it's just that Irish uses as different mechanism to convey the same meaning.

My understanding of Mandarin and the other Sinitic languages is similar: they might not use the same mechanisms to convey such information as in English, but they certainly can convey them.

> Moreover, combining one character before (or after) another can change the meaning entirely. Adding a third one can again change things.

vent
con-vent
con-vent-tion

Mandarin is no different than any other language in this regard. It's just that it's writing system masks what we'd consider words in languages with alphabet-like scripts. Also keep in mind that the Chinese characters make use of punning, so sometimes those weird character combinations are simply very, very old visual or phonological puns.

[There's a little bit of cheating in there, because the 'vent' in 'convent' is more like 'ven-t', but the principle still applies, and with some though I could find better examples. However, as mentioned, Chinese characters do rely on punning like this in places, it's not a huge flaw in the example.]

> You can't apply a Porter stemming algorithm for example; there's no concept of stem or etymology (no apparently logical one at least).

There are a few reasons for that, but the main one is that Mandarin is a largely isolating language. However, to apply some equivalent of Porter stemming, you need to rely on there being a concept similar to a word in the language and its writing system, whereas Chinese characters are more akin to morphemes, so the concept of 'stemming' makes no sense. Pinyin is another matter though.

> there's no concept of [...] etymology (no apparently logical one at least).

There is, it's just obscured by how divorced the written language is from the spoken language, which isn't the case for languages with alphabets, syllabaries, &c.
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And it's going to be extremely fun to watch when Slack gets acquired by one of the real big guys and the product itself gets grandfathered (or "absorbed" into something else).

Don't say "it'll never happen"...
Wow. Most companies are deaf to user outrage. The original decision wasn't fantastic, but I understand the whole "Friends of..." certification route.

At least in the future they'll be able to stick to "if it's not certified by us..." for customer support, which was likely the original impetus (along with a desire to cut off cheap alternatives to their devices).

I'm not mad at this at all.
So I looked up SDDM, because I'd never heard of it, and when I found it what it was (and saw its bug list) I laughed and laughed.

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Nothing changes.
Your first link contains a link back to this article, so it seems there is at least some value to how it says "be careful".
Does PyPy work with Python 3?

Python 3 has been out for 7 years and I refuse to use anything that doesn't work in Python 3, it's just ridiculous to keep building stuff for Python 2, it's hindering the language and keeping it back in the past.
>If you have a long commute, car/bike/train/etc. they're basically perfect audio companions.

On bikes, at least where I live, using headphones is illegal. I'd love to listen to music or podcasts on my bike but I just can't do it with only one ear covered. It's probably not advisable anyways.

Interestingly, it is legal to ride a bike or even drive a car while deaf. It would be illegal for a deaf person to cover both ears while driving or biking if I'm reading the statutes correctly.
Hey, give them some credit. They listened to their customers and responded very quickly.
Thank you.
Sorry, I don't have similar stories (although my grandmother saw two women being shot by the local Belgian police at the end of the war because the two were somehow walking around when the village was supposed to be in lock-down).
Except guns. Guns would be included. Because everyone follows American culture.
Depends what you mean by wealth, but for the majority of middle-class people the way to wealth is highly leveraged property speculation: borrow deposit from parents, take out mortgage, wait 25 years during which time the property has gone up hugely in value.

.. which requires a steady enough job to make 25 years of uninterrupted mortgage payments.
Well their supervisors probably help write these things...
It's the C++ of the web.
AMD's execution being bad has been provably Intel's fault at times; Intel has been proven to use anti-competetive contracts in the past with their customers (HP, Dell, etc), i.e. limit good CPU prices/discounts unless customers limit their use of AMD.
It's not good to confuse your mother (mā) with your horse (mǎ).
Podcasts also cover music of course, and I'd recommend Beats in Space and particularly the Music for Programming podcasts.
Podcasting was hard at the time of the iPod ? Seriously ? Isnt't that the other way around, it was hard until iTune made it easy to suscribe to thousands of podcast from a single, unified interface ?

Vox has short memory.
>People do not learn by reading

If that is true your comment is utterly useless to anyone reading it.
I'm not mad at this at all.

I am. Because it is a way to extort money out of other ZigBee participants.
"We underestimated the impact this would have upon the small number of our customers"

Do they really believe it is a small number of customers that use non-Philips light bulbs? I mean, good for them in reversing the decision, but the damage is already done (check out Amazon reviews for one) and it should have been easily foreseen.
You sound naive but hopefully well intentioned.

You need an edge, I do not think your skills in making a modern website are enough of an edge (when eBay and Amazon already make purchasing very easy) when it comes to selling products.

If you do not have an edge you need to find a rising tide (from rising tide lifts all boats). At this stage Justin Bieber or phone cases are not a rising tide.

Let me give you an example of an edge:

In 2000 before the first internet bubble popped my Japanese-American friend made $3k net monthly selling hentai DVD boxes on Yahoo Japan.

How did he do it? I hooked him up with a distributor in Florida who was dumping a large quantity of $49.95 retail price 3DVD hentai boxes for $7-8ea if taken in quantity 100+.

My friend sold them for $90 each on Yahoo Japan and he sold about one a day.

So why did this arbitrage work so well?

Because of 2-punch, my access to the liquidator and my friend's access to Yahoo Japan and realization that $90 for average hentai series without pixelation would be a good deal in Japan (surely breaking a few decency laws in Japan).

It was the realization that the Japanese release of the DVD was censored and the American was not was what gave the extra pricing power.

By comparison my US based anime store sold only a few copies at $20-30 in US because it was a very average series.

So theoretically my Japanese friend could have made money even buying at American retail and selling in Japan albeit the risks would have been greater.

I think Yahoo Japan cracked down on this and also the low price DVDs also dissappeared.

Another story: There was a kid from Australia here on HN a few years ago who made very good money in mid 2005-6 selling imitation iPods (buying wholesale in China) on eBay. He was not misrepresenting them as iPods but people though they were. Eventually Apple enforcement got stronger + Chinese sellers started selling them themselves and the business dried up.

His edge was the rising boat of people still clamoring for iPods pre smart phones + average buyers confusion that iPod was not a generic term.

This is Economics 101 whenever there is a huge value capture, there will be new entrants in the market.

The darker side is tha often the value capture comes from breaking a law somewhere. You need to ask yourself whether you can live with this.
On a commute if I am not on the wheel (and usually I am not), I always prefer reading a book to listening to a podcast. Most podcast are full of time-fillers, which makes them very annoying.
I don't think it actually brings up any relevant issues. For instance, you mention a p-zombie, but that's another one with glaringly obvious problems that are immediately evident. Does bacteria have consciousness? Or did consciousness arise later, with the first conscious creature surrounded by a community of p-zombies, including their parents, siblings, partners, etc. Both possibilities seem pretty detached from reality.

Pre-computation is another one that seems to obfuscate the actual issue. No, I don't think anyone would think a computer simply reciting a pre-computed conversation had conscious thought going into it; but that same is true for a human being reciting a a conversation they memorized (which wouldn't be that different from reading the conversation in a book). But that's a bit of a strawman, because no one is arguing that lookup table-type programs are conscious (you don't see anyone arguing that Siri is conscious). And the lookup table/precomputations for even a simple conversation would impossibly large (run some numbers, it's most likely larger than the number of atoms in the universe for even tiny conversations).

So I don't see these arguments as bringing up anything useful. They seem more like colorful attempts to purposefully confuse the issue.
Is that time flow using JavaScript? Pretty nifty.