skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you could simulate evolving creatures in a universe, how could you tell if they were truly sentient?

I think that AlphaGo is sentient in the domain of Go play. In other words, AG was conscious in that space of table positions and game strategies. A number of Go experts were so impressed that they said they could hardly tell which is the human and which is the computer. They gained so much respect for it that they awarded it the highest dan rating. I'd award it a Turing Test pass, at least on Go play.

To answer your question, I'd take the same approach as Turing: if it behaves like a human or better, then it is conscious in that particular domain. The difference from common machine learning applications was reinforcement learning - the fact that it was embedded in an external world, interacted with it and the opposing player and learned from experience - it behaves essentially like us, in a loop of perception-decision-action. And we are like it, if you look down the stack, we too are just a pattern of chemical reactions and electric currents that have no innate subjective feeling to them. There is no "unobtainium" or "magic fairy consciousness dust" in our brains either, and we shouldn't try to essentialize consciousness, it is not a pure essence like space and energy, it's an emergent quality.
No: instant photography is genuinely fun and interesting. It leaves a real artifact of a moment. As formats go, the square Polaroid just clicked for people.

Tempted to throw down some cliched McLuhan quotes but instead I'll just point out that Fuji Instax continues to be a big seller with teenage girls who wouldn't know a Polaroid camera if it attacked them.

I guess another answer is that we still have supermarkets and restaurants even though Soylent has been shipping for quite some time, now.
Amazon S3 went down globally on July 20, 2008: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
> It's clear that you don't understand their political positions, or exactly what they've done, you're just jumping on the partisan bandwagon.

Whatever lets you sleep at night bud. Couldn't be that I actually dislike them, oh no, it must be because I'm partisan or I don't understand them.
It would be taxed like regular income made from investments, as it turns out the SEC requires me to register these as asset backed securities (in the works), but I'm not sure my market is the typical investor who already knows those ins and outs, so better believe there will be tons of hand holding in that regard, up to offering a free e-filing service in house, just to trim that barrier to adoption as low as possible.

As for being worried about Hollywood accounting, you won't have to worry, as the company will act as the exclusive publisher and copyright holder of the works belonging to the authors that want to join. It's the only way to insure against authors offering their works on other platforms behind our backs such that investors are defrauded of their cut (aside from costly monitoring and litigation), also, I can't depend on them to get their royalties direct deposited in their accounts, and then send us that portion belonging to their investors to disseminate it, rather, we need to receive said deposits, then distribute as needed. This limits the sort of authors who would be willing to join the platform to a certain sort of upstart writer, one with a small but growing catalog, and a small but passionate reader base, right at the cusp of getting on the radar of the mainstream publishing world due to their ebook sales. At least those are my thoughts at this time. I'd love to just trust authors to do right by their investors, but I can't ask the investors to be so trusting, and one author deciding to betray the company, if I leave the power in their hands, can tank the whole thing. I'm thinking owners transfer copyright of their works thus far and sign a contract to publish exclusively with us all works in the future, and in exchange they get 95% of the asset backed securities created for their books/future ten years of work, at which point they can then offer any amount up for sale like any other anonymous seller. The firm retains the other 5% for itself for its fee, and does the same. After ten years they are free to renew, or leave the firm to publish with others, but the firm retains the copyrights it paid for until they enter the public domain. Anything an author can make outside of royalties resulting from sales of their works either transferred to us or written under contract to us is their business, and in this case royalties refers to both royalties from sales, and royalties from kindle edition normalized pages read, as we're looking to have a special relationship with Amazon moving forward based on talks with them thus far.
I am not an expert on this but I assume the total amount of carbon on the earth is essentially constant. I am guessing for the most part it exists on earth as (1) plants and other life forms (2) fossil fuels and (3) other non-living stored carbon, in things like plastics and lumber. In the air it is mainly carbon dioxide. The more we store on earth the less there will be in the air.

Maybe we need a plant and trade system rather than cap and trade. Whenever fossil fuels are sold, a corresponding amount of carbon must be stored, either through new plants of in other sequestered carbon.
Google Custom Search also seems to have gone down globally today. Likely related, although GCE is back up, CSE is still out, leaving many sites without an international search feature.
How is it that Tor node operator is not "an electronic communication service provider [or] a remote computing service provider"?
It's advice sourced from his Twitter network for a talk he was asked to give at a school club, so I fail to see where condescension or unnecessary ego plays a part other than the fact that he is literally a technology professional addressing an audience of CS students.

Moreover, the "SJW" (social justice warrior) and Black Lives Matter references are quite sparse, so you can skip the one section and single bullet point, respectively, should you find them not to your liking.
On a realistic, individual level? Probably not a lot more than talk about it and do a minute part in maintaining awareness. Don't let it get you down. Raise your kids to be aware but not deterred by it.
Then why shouldn't AT&T be investigated?
Apply HN: Gameplan – Personal Learning Assistant for School Kids
The problem we are trying to solve is providing a more personal and improved learning experience to school students. The way this would work is if a student attends a lecture in class, she finds videos/blogs/articles from around the web on the same topic once she goes back home. Based on the type of content she chooses (small video vs long , blog vs video) we show her similar things. Apart from this teachers can set weak topics for each student and they get more content of that topic. Teachers and parents can monitor what content is being looked at by the kids.

We want to build this initially as a web app and then progress to a moodle plugin.

It is primarily for the Asian market.
I hadn't heard of it, actually. However it doesn't seem to support GCP which removes it from contention for us unfortunately.
> How is an IP address even remotely considered "evidence" enough to search someone's home?

Because it localises a particular network request to a piece of hardware, e.g. a modem, located within that home. In my opinion, in the absence of evidence that someone was running a Tor exit node, or that their wireless network was unprotected, there is a high probability that the network request was originally sent by a device within that home, or by a network user known to the owner.

Regular people aren't like technical people: a lot of them have no idea that their nefarious behaviour can and will be tracked back to their home. I would guess that most warrants granted solely on an IP address actually turn up incriminating evidence.
Get enough things running on multi-cloud, and you could potentially see multi cloud rolling failures, caused by (for example) a brief failure in service A leading to a gigantic load-shift to service B...
Apply HN: Pearlo.co -- Storytelling as a Strategy for Process Improvement
No-code, Cloud-based tool allowing non-technical users to model/improve process flows via Natural Language Processing

1. The user tells the story of the current process and how it works
2. The tool creates a model based on this story
3. The model comes with (a) an assigned score to let the user know how well the current process works and (b) a set of recommendations to improve this process

explainer graphic: http://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/ebd81b77-aa9c-4cd7-952b...

It is like the difference between getting out a paper map and a ruler and a pencil to document the roads one needs to take in order to get from one place to the next VS yelling "Siri, where's a Starbucks" and spending time and creative energy on other things while the tool does the think-work.
The tool will be subscription-based with the first model offered for free. The subscription is $1600 per year and gives the user access to model improvement capabilities, best practices in the industry, white papers and other useful templates and use cases, etc. The users realize that each model is a living organism that can remain in queue and be revisited at any time (https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/GW43FI8MS#/screens/99...)

My primary competition is non-consumption. Firms (especially fast-paced tech firms) will just bootstrap a solution using MS Visio or some other simple software application with no business intelligence behind the drawings. In other cases, firms spend a lot of money on consultants or on robust software and a team to learn how to use it. They often get lost in the process of process improvement with very little impact on the bottom line.

My solution democratizes the process improvement activity. Anyone can use it and get quick ROI in the form of scoring (how is our process structure?) and a set of recommendations (how can we improve our process structure?). My solution is no-code and harnesses the power of storytelling via natural language processing.

People don't want to hunker down for a 5-12 month process improvement engagement from which they emerge with a binder of great drawings and technical documentation to accompany those drawings. They want to visually represent the way they are doing business, show it to the whole team, get consulted on out how to improve current operations, make those improvements as quickly as possible and move on to the next area of the business that needs improving. Fast. Easy. Visible Improvement.
> You're still going to jail when you buy something with a stolen credit card and have it shipped to your house

Imagine me as the friendly neighbourhood trickster living on the same floor as you.

I buy an illegal firearm with a credit card bought over a DNM using Tor and have it mailed to your house.

Enjoy your preordained jailtime.

(you are not your address, IP or postal)
Kind of funny how he talks about content in terms of calories and junk food (and he's absolutely spot on, of course), and how Medium.com is one of the leaders in website obesity, which is "fat" on the technical layer:

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

(not meant a snide remark, just thought it was an interesting coincidence in choice of metaphor)
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Those are problems that should be solved directly.
I don't think this is good copy at all... (And definitely not just due to the bad jokes.)

Yo, you signed up for Rabbut
Ashley,

Do you know who’s awesome? You are.

Do you know why? Because your blogs are about to get more action than you got
on your honeymoon. Thats right, more email collections and more personalized
updates than ever before (what did you think I meant?)

Before you pull your head out of the gutter,
answer me one thing. Why did you sign up for Rabbut?

I ask because:
1.) I want to build the best tool that you can possibly get
2.) I can’t read your mind
3.) Who doesn’t want more action? (Still talking about your blog!)

And lets be honest, no one wants to spend all night long figuring out
how to setup your emails, so take this, it’s a quick start guide:
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If that doesn’t work, hurry up and email me so I can help you
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personal life. (This time I don't mean your blog.)
It is like the difference between getting out a paper map and a ruler and a pencil to document the roads one needs to take in order to get from one place to the next VS yelling "Siri, where's a Starbucks" and spending time and creative energy on other things while the tool does the think-work.

The tool will be subscription-based with the first model offered for free. The subscription is $1600 per year and gives the user access to model improvement capabilities, best practices in the industry, white papers and other useful templates and use cases, etc. The users realize that each model is a living organism that can remain in queue and be revisited at any time (https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/GW43FI8MS#/screens/99...)
Totaly agree. I did not read Michael's earlier posts but there is definitly missing some reason in his words. Looks like he is slowly slipping into crazy land.
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Google/Alphabet X is working on auto tech. It's also pretty obvious that Apple is, too.
My understanding is that they have a lot of board members and advisers and nobody actually building (or even spending significant time designing) hardware. Their NonBuilder (management / pr / legal) : Builder (engineer / R&D) ratio is at least 2:1, maybe as high as 5:1, which seems backwards for a startup at the phase they're at. And it looks like they're doubling down on that strategy.
1) I have absolutely no idea what this is. The explainer graphic didn't help.

2) As lots of VCs, including those running YC have said, the team is much more important than the idea. Who are you and why should anyone bet on your success?
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No, you wouldn't care about "making life difficult" if you weren't selling yourself.

Everybody markets.. some are just better at it than others.

You exist to market yourself.

The moment you partake in a social group, whether it's through one more person, or through a nation, you have marketed.
I see an obvious thing here that no one has mentioned. Reddit just released their official app last week. I wonder if they worked with Apple to take down unofficial versions. NSFW is a pretty bogus reasons to pull down an app.
You're describing one form of carbon offsets. A cap & trade system is pretty much what you're suggesting, depending on the specific implementation of a cap&trade system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset#Land_use.2C_land...
I think it was sarcasm......
Preface: people have tried to extinguish my ethnic group. They've even made a good go at it in living memory.

I am uncomfortable with the notion that a person should be shunned professionally because of their views. That's one thing those people did to members of my ethnic group and those who were not in favor of genocide.
Do you want evidence of him... shivving someone?

(But then again, how is stabbing someone with a knife relevant to a talk's quality?)

(But then again, how is a talk's quality relevant to free expression of views?)

Professional conferences "censor" speakers who don't provide what their audiences want. And have codes of conduct censoring harassing speech. You too: does everyone get to deliver speeches in your home? Visit your workplace and undermine you?
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so much for the SRE they publishd last week
Or the Fbi raids the coloc, and rips out everything that looks like a computer becuase another tenant was operating a silk road clone.
No, much more insidious. Imagine that every article written about a company that isn't negative is actually a paid advertisement.

As a reader, I don't care that much if an article is paid or not. If it convinces me to buy something, it'll usually be something I can return.

As a citizen, it is terrifying that journalism and advertising may one day be indistinguishable.
I, too, would be interested in info on any cloud providers that support anycast.
I understand your cynicism, but suppose that you were seriously determined about setting up an organisation to explore and develop space. This is a very long-term endeavor. How would you go about it, and who would you hire first? Unless you have a mass of funding, if you hire scientists and engineers first, you will surely run out of money and the company will die.

You first need to create a system to feed the needs of the company for the decades it will take for it to start being profitable. And one way to do that is to spread an attractive vision of the company's plans and future. So yes, if you are very serious about exploring and developing space, finance, public relations and business development ARE the right places to start. IMHO.
Who would want to have 'fickle_timestamps' or 'fudged_routing'?

Not quite the same thing. What I have is more along the lines of work_around_BSD_make_bug, work_around_old_rhel_bug, work_around_docker_bug, and work_around_clang_bug.
there's also the new 5HT2a inhibitor, pimavanzserin...as a thought experiment, what would scans w/ this medicine AND LSD onboard show?
Great idea! Can't wait for our own mismanagement and arbitrary rules! I always wanted to play hobbyist technical infrastructure specialist.
Isn't that how ecosystem should work? Tree dies, new one grows on the spot. X amount of carbon should be locked in a Forrest ecosystem as long as it lives; trees, other vegetation and organisms. Some of it will eventually fossilize for good.
One insight that just now occurred to me is that there's some serious political posturing at work in this video.

Specifically, film in general was strongly biased to favour Caucasian skin tones. It used to be incredibly difficult to take good colour photos of black people.

It's clear that Land wanted to demonstrate that the insanely great dynamic range of Polaroid film was perfectly capable of bringing photography to the black demographic.
Well, they ripped off the song title.

"Stairway to Heaven", Neil Sedaka, 1960 [1] Reached #9 on the Billboard Top 100.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhQFST0VrI
This fact is telling of the level of ambition and innovative thinking that is considered to be acceptable in students proposing their thesis. A "safe thesis" is good for the business of education not for the advancement of human knowledge. If they want safe thesis level work how about a "by reproduction" track so we still get "cheap PhDs" and we get an actual benefit to science?
Thank you for the question. A typical user would belong to one of following groups - professional/blue-collar family men and women, housewives and househusbands, and youth in their twenties. Users belonging to such groups are most situationally motivated to talk about issues directly or indirectly affecting them.
> If your mail server is an open relay and sends a lot of spam, you might expect it to get blocked at a minimum, and possibly to see some legal problems.

But it isn't an open relay. It's just a normal mail server. It's cash with the typical trace amount of drugs on it. That's the whole point -- just because a lot of X is bad and you did X that doesn't mean that you did something bad. It's even possible, as is the case for Tor, that percent-of-thing and percent-of-people-who-do-thing have completely different numbers, because it's possible for a small number of bad actors to generate a disproportionately large amount of traffic.

> This isn't even hard to disambiguate like the others. Is the torrent being downloaded/served infringing in some manner? If it's not, you're fine, if it is, you might have a problem. BitTorrent isn't a single system, it's bunch of loose networks.

That's the point. "Is using BitTorrent" is not a useful metric for badness because the false positive rate is extremely high. If you sit on my internet connection and see me download encrypted data via BitTorrent, you don't know if it's a legal copy of Debian Testing or a pirated copy of Windows 7. Which means you should have to do more work before you can send a fracking SWAT team to my house.
If we are, then it means computer simulations aren't infused only with computing power, but also consciousness, as we are self evident proof of. It's a simulation with consciousness, a completely different thing than what we usually simulate (weather, proteins, old software on emulation)
Show HN: connect-or-cut -- Stateless LD_PRELOAD based firewall
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/lsd-makes-the-brai... - correct URL
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We might be a bug.
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It depends on the team and type of oncall rotation for the service. My team (a SWE team) has its own oncall rotation as we don't have dedicated SREs for all of our services.

Since we US based only, it means the oncall person will have pager duty while they sleep. Our pager can be a bit loud at night due to the nature of our services, so it's definitely not for everyone (luckily it's optional).
I understand what they're trying to do, but it's still kind of awkward. I tend to avoid references to intercourse in my business emails, and it seems a little bit crass to do so in blogs-as-emails-as-a-service software, as well as in-parentheses jokes (they just seem forced unless it's satire).

Having a look at their website it's a pretty small shop, so can't expect them to have a dedicated marketing team to write copy.
Heavy equipment operator and computing science student here. Let me know if you'd like to talk.
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I did not realize cap and trade systems were backed by actual carbon storage. That makes more sense then. Thanks for the link.
Assuming there is a market for the product, having a tech cofounder is needed because there will always be a competitor with a sharp tech cofounder that will out do you.
I wonder if its a fad so much as recognizing the threat from 200k+ people reserving a car before they've ever seen it with their own eyeballs. I know if I ran a car company I would be deathly afraid of becoming another nokia in an iPhone world. They are extremely far behind on these fronts.
He's the poster child for a potential class action lawsuit. He witnessed their product explode with his own eyes.

And yes I would imagine that there could have been some cost associated with cleaning up the smoke smell left in the room and possibly any burned areas.
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Do you read Swedish media? I don't say there haven't been a blind spot regarding immigration, but lately the government ministers have acknowledged the current refugee crisis is a problem.

Anyway, portraying the whole immigration issue only in terms of a rightist / leftist divide isn't very truthful. Moderaterna are not exactly a leftist party.
While not Docker Cloud specifically, when we eyeballed UCP we found it very underwhelming when pitted against Kubernetes.

To us it appeared yet another in a sea of many orchestration tools that will give you a very quick and impressive "Hello World", but then fail to adapt to real world situations.

This is what Kubernetes really has going for it, every release adds more blocks and tools that are useful and composable targeting real world use (and allow many of us crazies to deal with the oddball and quirky behavior our fleet of applications may have), not just a single path of how applications would ideally work.

This generally has been a trend with Docker's tooling outside of Docker itself unfortunately.
Similarly docker-compose is great for our development boxes, but nowhere near useful for production.
And it doesn't help Docker's enterprise offerings still steer you towards using docker-compose and the likes.