skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, as far as I understand it that's also close to how Tononi's and Koch's Integrated Information Theory[1] try to explain conscious phenomena. In their parlance the computer would have a low value of phi.

I was surprised that this theory is not even mentioned in the article, even though Aaronson has quite some opinion on it.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

[2] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
Yes, technically yes. Although I'd say this is not what this experiment aims to.

In the future we may be able to colouring b/w movies and increase fps via this automatic software.
Sad? I think Snapchat manages to be successful because the messages are not meaningless just because they are later removed, but because they are as meaningful and easily relatable as normal conversations. If you aren't around to hear the latest gossip (Snapchat story), you will miss out. But it doesn't matter, because it's not about life or death. Not something even intended to be saved, catalogued, scrutinized. And for direct messages, they will go away as soon as they are read or seen. Just like in real life. They don't stick around, hovering around for retrieval months later. I think this reduces the cognitive load and makes it easier for people to share what they would be able to share in real life.
But no audio, right?

So, you'd think that alone would be a strong indicator that there was no intent (or capacity) to profit from the reconstructed version.
> The "result" of changing those diapers? Another filled diaper.

I am so looking forward to my kid being toilet trained.
Aren't most people who are motivated, tenacious and smart trying to start something on their own?
I see this sort of application having a lot of use in the kinds of derivative pop music developed by ensembles of songwriters and manufactured purely to generate radio hits. Bacon's Triptych of George Dyer is genius. The average person listening to Taylor Swift just does not care about Bacon's Triptych of George Dyer.

In a way, Magenta's job is not besting Bach. By the definition of Bach (a human being who changes the way we view and enjoy music), a non-human being cannot best Bach. Magenta's job is besting a much simpler, if equally challenging role - Max Martin, or the writers of "Let it Go".

As it turns out, this kind of music is already pretty formulaic. Much has been written on repetitive chord progressions being spammed across hundreds of famous singles. In a way, artists shouldn't fear the potential of these technologies besting them - they should thank them.

Freed now are artists from loading their albums with eye-rollingly generic lead singles that they immediately get sick of ("Stairway to Heaven", "Creep", "Smells Like Teen Spirit") because record labels know that's what will get the most radio play. You can just let the machine do those. Now, an artists' reputation is determined purely by his relative mettle against other human artists.
Reminds me of https://open365.io/
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Femtolisp: lightweight, robust, scheme-like lisp implementation
Sorry but I really don't understand what this is for. Can someone explain?
Unfortunately not too surprising, but that's still a very interesting anecdotal data point from someone in a position to see the contrast.
I think Longhorn was in large where we have now finally got with Windows 8 and onwards (not 7). An OS with core apps written in .NET, an object oriented data management system in Powershell. PS unites e.g Windows Registry and common files under the same umbrella. Windows 10 also completes the vision of a shared OS for all appliances.

Unfprtunately I think it took MS too long to get here. Other vendors got to the home appliances part before them, which is mind boggling given the traction MS had once upon a time.
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Assuming this sits in the same camp as Alteryx and the like?
Poker in VR ?
Yes, 10% of the time. The other 90% it did. So.. 90%. Not being snarky or passive aggressive, I just don't understand the issue you're having with that statistic.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui's funny act done by a girl
The slides were previously discussed on the Erlang mailinglist.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2016-June/08941...
How to Install and Use the Chrome Extension for Viralwoot
Actually I find that page relatively nice and well structured, not looking like some concated man pages from the 80s. And there are probably lots of experienced people (I know some) who had relatively little Linux contact before, who somehow ended up on it, doing web development exclusively on the app layer with occasional contact with the rest of the environment, who would be happy to have such a resource. It has an ok balance of in-depth understanding and concrete examples, which is not always true for man pages, and it is structured differently ("problem -> understanding -> solution" rather than "solutions -> understanding of the solutions -> find the correct problem").
Imagine how much it'll cost if it makes it into law.
I've been using it for a fairly specific use case: Creating web applications from business logic that has already implemented in a spreadsheet. So instead of trying to figure out what the spreadsheet is doing (they can get fairly complex and the flow of calculation can be difficult to follow) I just treat it as a black box. Input some values here and read the resultant values from somewhere else. Integration with flask/django and you have a prototype within a day.
It's the little details that are hard to explain, like the missing tongue or the brain damage.
Even if the musical output was impressive, I can't think of people developing a deep relationship with it outside of novelty.

There are plenty of times and places where people want high quality "music" but don't want to actually engage with it on any level - the music that tells you you're still connected when you're waiting for a conference call, the low volume background music in some retail environments, the music in a lift. If "pleasant musical noise" could be generated automatically and to a sufficient quality I think there'd be a pretty decent market for it.
Clearly the author has not taken account of india. India is the most corrupt country. You can not get done anything with out paying bribe in government offices.
> If you presume it's not the former, unless we have evidence thereof, we must presume it's the latter.

Your presumption seems to favour the sociological explanation. Why do you not say, "If you presume it's not the latter, unless we have evidence thereof, we must presume it's the former"?
> There's a reason that everyone using Conversations essentially has to use a server that is maintained by the developers.

That is completely untrue. First of all there are public servers that have exactly the same feature set like jabber.at second of all we are running ejabberd on conversations.im. ejabberd is open source can be run by anyone. You just have to do it. Granted the list of public servers with a full feature set is not as long as we'd like. But the best way of changing this is to run one yourself.
I am amazed this sentiment keeps popping up over and over in this thread. Asking them is exactly the kind of synchronous, flow-breaking communication that programmers should be keenly aware of. People are naturally discovering that polling is worse than event driven notifications, and it's great to watch.

There are plenty of arguments to make in favor of synchronous, face-to-face etc communication, about the loss of privacy when you broadcast everything you do, about the lack of personal engagement in this kind of communication, and so on. I can see making a judgement call whether to participate in this kind of communication, because there are plenty of drawbacks and negatives.

However, it's obvious to me why people are willingly switching some(most?) of their communication to it. Just as we learned to use asynchronous I/O in place of synchronous, we started using multicast messages and event-driven notifications instead of polling over all your friend-handles "hey what did you do today". It seems like a natural progression to me.
It did fail completely. Microsoft started from scratch, using the same codename.
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I'm in the same boat.
I was chatting to some Chinese business people yesterday. What we call social media, they call "self media". I think that is a better description of how most of us use social networks, i.e. to broadcast ourselves.
But there is still underlying value in the connectness which social networks enable. For example my local community is using Facebook to bring everyone together to oppose a gravel development next to our local school. It's a great way of keeping everyone informed, quickly, and at no cost. Some people are really creative too, such as uploading videos of the proposed site using drones to show what we would lose.
So I think to be useful, "self media" has to truly evolve into "social" media.
I remember, having just lived through the semantic 'Core-Ontology' wars in academia, explaining to a gradually more shocked Microsoft evangelist in 2003 why WinFS would never be accepted, even with Microsoft's potential leverage behind it. That said, I have no idea if semantics where even an issue in the eventual decision to retire WinFS as the future of storage.
Yes I wouldn't recommend this one. And the emacs part is useless (it's a half baked cut and paste of the tutorial)
If their view of music is a sequence of notes (in midi) then the product won't be very interesting. In a lot of modern music genre sound design is as important as composing the note sequence.
Of course what? I don't get what you're trying to imply. Are you suggesting that inventing redundant incompatible codecs for the sake of it is de rigueur for Apple? Because I can't think of another example. As far as I can tell, the opposite is overwhelmingly true.

Apple has invented a handful of codecs and container formats in its time (I can think of MOV, ProRes, Pixlet and a few ancient/esoteric Quicktime codecs) but they all served a distinct purpose not sufficiently catered for by their contemporaries.

I'm willing to believe Apple when they say there was an engineering reason why they created ALAC. Perhaps an optimised implementation (not the reference implementation) may have offered some performance/battery life advantage on certain hardware. We don't know. And it doesn't matter much.
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It's not free but works very well so I thought I should mention it: spreadsheetgear does something similar except that they have their own calculation engine, so you can run multiple instances, it does not rely on Excel or OpenOffice. You also go around the locking problem when two threads need to use the same spreadsheet (it just opens two instances of the calculation engine). But it doesn't support VBA or any non Excel function.

Now none of these solutions will be super fast, the overhead of doing the calc in Excel is pretty heavy. I have seen suggested here and suggested it myself that it would be useful to have a tool that reads a spreadsheet and converts the logic between selected input and output cells in code. Then the business could own the logic (in Excel) but it would run with zero overhead on a server.

That's not a trivial thing to do. Excel allows some pretty messy things and users aren't shy about using them. For instance the INDIRECT function allows you to arbitrary refer to any cell, which defeats a statically compiled dependency tree between cells.

[Edit] I think Aspose cells also works in a similar way and has its own calculation engine. Haven't tried it though.
I will admit to being one of the Snapchat non-getters, despite having tried to use it for over a month. (Maybe I don't have enough friends that actively use it?)

I will also admit that I was of the same opinion as GP comment. However, this analogy of yours just blew my mind -- I've never thought of it that way!
Why the universe is (probably) not a simulation
> It was claimed that Dubinina was found lying face down in a small stream that ran under the snow and that her external injuries were in line with putrefaction in a wet environment, and were unlikely to be related to her death.

The brain damage is not out of the question if they were victims to a close range weapons test.
well BI is more like a complete re-think of capitalism. The OP article says give people BI for the rest of their lives. And that's really key. So, where do you get the capital? Picture this thought experiement: a big construction lot with 100's of workers building a large building. They are hammering they are nailing, work is going along great. Then, they run out of money. Work comes to a halt. "WE'RE OUT OF MONEY EVERYONE!" "HEY YOU, PUT DOWN YOUR HAMMER!" And everyone would. Out of money is like the worst thing you could be out of. Now try replacing the word money with "inches". Hey we can't finish the building because we ran out of inches. Sounds ridiculous right? But money isn't a real resource like wood or nails. Money is like inches. It's just a unit of measurement. You can't be out of inches. And the guy swinging the hammer doesn't really have to put down his hammer because the money is gone. So BI really has to go this far. We have to transcend money to the point where people just build stuff because they like to. We talking a form of government that's not capitalism, not communism, not socialism, not any word you've ever heard of before. BI needs a new "ism" word. How about inchesism?
I believe that YC is working with an external IRB. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808958
> includes the time it takes to fork a shell and parse the command and then fork to spawn perl.

The only difference from the shell builtin time, or /usr/bin/time, should be the shell startup and exec call. Every command is fork+exec, so you can't really get away from that. If I really cared, I would try to account for that, but I don't. I thought it was pretty obvious that I wasn't being very rigorous. I just did the minimum to make the values I got not useless.

> which on my machine is reliably 0.002 real seconds, ⅔ of your times

And on mine it fluctuates between 0.002 and 0.009. You mention your times relative to my times, but that's useless. I ran mine on a 512mb VPS. The only relevant measure to determine overhead would be my method vs the shell builtin. Is that what you were actually referring to?

> You do realize that a "including stdlib and stdio" means nothing for a C program, right?

Truthfully, so I wouldn't have to remember the setup for C, I just googled "minimal C program" and removed the printf it had. I only mentioned the includes for completeness sake, and I didn't want to clutter the comment with the source.

> if you compile it statically, you might be able to shave a few more microseconds in startup time

Possibly, but that's not really what I was trying to convey. I was just pointing out that a minimal Perl program isn't slower than a minimal C program, and it's notable if you can get your startup times close to that for a system with a virtual machine.
Great example of how auctions can bring benefits to both parties (as long as you can trust the middle man)
Imagine the performance side of things though.

Being able to add to the song with commands like 'add a psytrance bass line', even within predefined parameters, to dynamically generate an entirely new bass line from other songs in the genre.

Maybe you could instantly add an improvised violin melody by telling it a style given that the chords/key from the human band are consistent.

Sentiment analysers could tweak the music based on crowd reaction towards musician defined goals and learn those pre-sets over time.

If music is a synchronisation layer between humans, maybe machine learning could help us to synchronize even more closely.
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That works a lot better! Thanks both.
> You realize that welfare/etc provides poor people with $20k, right?

No it doesn't. You haven't explained where you got your numbers but those numbers are presumably for a household rather than an individual (which would then receive more than one basic income) or some atypical edge case where a person qualifies for an uncharacteristically large collection of benefits.

A basic income is a pure redistributive program. It can't possibly cost more than a program which is more redistributive than it is because there is nowhere else for the rest of the money to go.

> And that's ignoring taxes needed to fund a functioning government - e.g. roads, law enforcement, blowing up Afghani weddings, etc.

All of that other than the military costs a comparatively small amount of money. And we could probably stand to blow up not so many weddings as we do.

> (Incidentally corporate taxes are just taxes on people, merely hidden from view.)

That doesn't mean including it wouldn't reduce the rate. US GDP is $16.7T. Total US personal income from above was $8.9T. That's quite a difference. An economy-wide flat tax would require a rate of ~14.7% for $10,000 per adult and ~29.3% for your unrealistically high $20,000.

And keep in mind that that is the marginal rate. The effective rate under a basic income is lower than that for everyone. If you make $60,000 and pay 15% but get a $10,000 basic income then your effective tax rate is negative, as it is at a 30% rate and $20,000.
It's a different company in Japan. They Yahoo you know has a minority stake in Yahoo KK that is the Yahoo people know in Japan. The cell phone provider, softbank has the majority share.
Continuous Monitoring of A/B Tests Without Pain
Do you have some studies that show this to be true or is it just your opinion?

I don't know which way it would go. Since Japan has these and Japan seems to have some of the biggest problems with isolation how do we know these services don't contribute to the isolation?

Note I'm not saying they do. I don't know but it's easy to imagine things like:

* Why make up with my significant other if I can just get some paid for companionship leading to less strong relationships

* Why even try to have a real relationship where I my SO might get angry when I can pay to have a fake one where they'll never get angry and rarely disapprove of me

* Maybe given I know these paid relationships aren't real, that the provider I'm paying really doesn't care about me but is just doing a job makes me more depressed about my life.

Again, I'm not saying any of these are true or not, only pointing out that AFAIK there's no studies that show if paid companionship is a net positive or net negative for social isolation.
Neither are that hard to explain plausibly, and the wikipedia page does so. Brain damage could come from concussive forces applied from the blasts of the (speculated) explosive ordnance tests, this would in turn explain the absence of external soft tissue trauma?
The tongue part, as is the case for a lot of missing limb story, sounds like some critter found a soft, yummy looking part of the corpse and made away with it.

The bigger mystery IMO, is the absence of reported blast marks or damage to the terrain one would expect from testing explosives.
Where exactly do you think the money for BI will come from?
Beverly Hills 90210 and ZIP+4: Handling Addresses in Data Models
TLDR: pivotal creates a daily pointless meeting to get people into the office early
Yes, it is true that it is running a LO Calc binary.

Not implying that you don't already know, but this may be of interest in terms of Calc/Excel compatibility: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Libr...

I have used the tool predominantly with xlsx format spreadsheets created in Excel.
Arrests for 'offensive' Twitter and Facebook messages up by a third
KissBTC^E – Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain
relatedly, poke around http://masterq.metasepi-design.com/ - he's doing some interesting work with microcontroller programming in ats.
Actually quite a lot of tech isn't making bank. Some do, but usually this is spread within certian niches and locations.
Activity-Oriented Teams
Oh, okay - in that case I slouch corrected.
>old as the hills

About as old as a 166-year-old artificial hillock, yes.
Ask HN: How do you generate changelogs for repositories?
How do you generate changelogs in git repos? GitHub has a really good 'releases' feature that builds on tagging, but how do you create your changelog when you may have hundreds of commits where the messages are not all that relevant?
"If you have a problem with one or two people, maybe it's them. If you have a problem with everyone, maybe it's you."
You didn't get it. I was continuing the sentence.
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You bloody pirates!

Or were those legally shared images? :)
Quite an interesting concept of friends you have there.
I hardly use email outside of work (what is it for, other than receiving newsletters I've lost interest in?), my phone is just for the internet, snail mail is literally just for spam and government communications, and texting has been replaced with Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp/Snapchat/literally anything.
Absolutely this....

What a lot of us techies fail to realise is that the world at large does not care about technical elegance and purity. They care about the end result.

Packaging and aesthetics do matter to the world at large... therefore enough features, nicely packaged and sold well.... will win.
App Creators-Future of Mobile Apps
A report by IAMAI and KPMG projected that India will reach 236 million mobile internet users by 2016, and 314 million by 2017
Indian mobile app usage outpaced global app usage in 2015.Mobile app usage in India grew 131 per cent, as per Yahoo's latest report.
Considering the increase in mobile usage across globe, apps become inevitable for businesses, educational institutions, start-ups, health practitioners ,independent professionals and even for personal use. A significant number these users find it hard to go mobile due to associated technical complexities and costs.
This is where DIY( Do -It-YourSelf) app creators come handy where you just need to select the components that you need in app , select the navigation among screens; All this without writing even a single line of code.
These platforms have existed for long in west, made entrance to India recently, with 2 major players in the domain.
1. Applop
2. Snaplion
These 2 are really awesome platforms, with a minor hiccup...even before you create your first app, you need to buy the services.
If it is disappointing, HoodooApps should bring the cheer!!
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HoodooApps is driven by simple CREATE-TEST-LAUNCH methodology, where user creates apps online(http://hoodooapps.com), test it on real device using our Hoodoo Instant App( https://goo.gl/iLQTpX) and Launch it either on our Playstore(https://goo.gl/exs9Ev) or submit request to get it published across stores.
Hoodoo introduces Apps 2.0, users access apps without installation, via Hoodoo Appaxy app. This is the USP for platform, which Google also announced recently via Instant Apps, which would not require installation and would be available later this year
I would highly recommend you all to give it a try,and create app and be the part of next generation technologists.
Disclaimer: I am a part of HoodooApps team and views could be biased.
What's wrong with this?

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Threatening a person, and marking them as the target for a mob harms someone. Harming people is violence
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Well, Having used Vivaldi Browser for a few time, I feel the UI comforts me a lot, but it still not the browser I use often because it lacks Sync function!