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I don't think anyone's seriously put forward the idea that consciousness and quantum mechanics are related because they're both mysterious, so that is a straw man. In any case, we do understand gravity and quantum mechanics pretty well, at least compared to consciousness.

The reason some people think QM and consciousness are related is that some interpretations of quantum mechanics requires a conscious observer to collapse the wave function and make the final measurement (e.g. by taking a reading from a measuring apparatus, or listening to someone else (who they can't be sure is conscious) telling you the measurement over lunch. I'm not familiar with Penrose's argument re gravity, but so far general relativity has resisted attempts to quantize it, so maybe he's saying that GR and QM must be incorporated into a more general theory yet to be worked out, like electricity and magnetism are incorporated into Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.
Most Steam Machines sold are running windows / dual boot.
Elon Musk Has Two More Secret Master Plans
I was responding to the comment that security updates to libraries make it harder to update static binaries. Docker has revived the problem, and there isn't a way of nicely updating images without rebuilding them (which in turn means you have to do a rollout of the new images). While it's not a big deal, it causes some issues that could be avoided.
This is really fascinating, though I have no idea why. That said, I'd love to read a series of articles about the development of Longhorn and why it failed rather than a tech dive into the components developed. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Yes, absolutely. But that's the trick, we don't know :)
That and LINE
Or if you're not taking a moonshot you will hear the derisive term "lifestyle business" from people who turn up their nose at things like "profitability" and "life/work balance" and other things that don't make VC's 3 to 5 to 10x returns because that's all that matters in life, right?
It's really bad. For me it's well over 60%. I've started "sharing" those bots with @instagram with sarcastic comments.
Yahoo is still dominant in Taiwan and has always been strong in Japan as well.
I failed to exercise free will in this case.

Free will is in play as and to the extent that my future is determined by my decisions, rather than by other factors beyond my control. For example, if I'm walking down the street, I have free will in the matter of whether I go North or South, but not in the matter of whether I go up or down.

I tried typing some letters because I was curious to see what the output would be. But for some reason, the page didn't work on my browser; no output was produced. Thus, my attempt to exercise free will was foiled.
It's not surprising tbh.
Steam Machines are the worse gaming consumer item that have been created in a long time.

The are worse than consoles as they are still as complicated than a PC gaming setup or even more so if you choose to use the SteamOS option which is also why most people opted in for the Windows Steam Machine or a dual boot one.

And unlike most gaming PC's the hardware for many of them is just pitiful at a huge markup and considering you lose the highly optimized low level access that consoles provide most of them cannot play modern games at 1080p@60 at settings that are acceptable to PC gamers.

There isn't a single Steam Machine being promoted now which is even considered an entry level gaming setup, and paying 1000$+ for a microATX box with a GTX960 in it is not something that the crowed that knows what Steam is and hence knows something about computer hardware will do.
And the few that can be configured with high end or even mid range graphics card cost more than your average branded gaming PC still.

Valve really should've done something every simple and that's to have 3 bands of Steam Machines at 500, 800 and 1200$ with more or less the same hardware and each band should've been clearly marketed home-media / 720p light gaming for the 500$ one, 1080 gaming for the 800$ one and 1080@60 gaming for the 1200$ one.
They still would not be a wise consumer decision but at least they won't be a 600$ with an Intel IGP in them marketed for gaming for people that do not know better, that's just a scam.
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Essay from 2006: 2016: A Peek at Our Internet Future
"Did he really say this?" That is my interpretation of what he'd said - there's no obvious evolutionary/natural selection ... impetus to it. Doesn't that make it necessarily emergent?

Eyes on the front are common to nearly all predators. I think the contrast between octopus eyes and human eyes is used frequently to deduce that eyes are indeed emergent.

But we have nothing on the raptors.
What kind of talent earned this guy this job. Seems like cronyism from what I can tell from Wikipedia.
Is HN counted?
The moment Snapchat clicked for me was when I was using the current events features and it was stitching together different short video clips from the campaign trail. These were raw, candid, and extremely fresh videos showing the candidates with their guard down. I felt like I was spying. It clicked again for me last week when a friend was casually flipping through her contacts "stories". The little glimpses of peoples lives was so intimate and meaningless at the same time. They're really onto something here.
I would like to know about what happened with the Windows Future Storage (WinFS)
>When he created Spokeo with three college buddies from Stanford University in 2006, he tried to get equity financing, but was turned down by more than six angel and venture capital investors.

Maybe my perception is warped but is this even _possible_ today, or during the peak a year or two ago?
Back when HN was still running with millions of files in one directory on UFS, maybe there was something to talk about (not much more than sysctl tweaks). Oh, and UFS snapshots (for tarsnap to reference) sometimes panic'd the box.

When I left we'd added nginx in a jail and switched to ZFS, which solved most of the problems we had been having. There were a few ZFS deadlocks, but I never got to the bottom of it and FreeBSD 10 seemed to fix them. I'd imagine things are even less notable now.
Wow, I agree I'm impressed with this offering by the author. I'm gonna add it to my list for sure!

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The bug isn't that you get emailed about things only after you've left, that's the feature.

The bug would be to get emailed about things that happened while you were using the site and were notified in real time about already.
Where do I sign up to learn how to do that?
for me living ~30 hours flight from my nearest family, getting short snapchats of whatever things they're up-to, however trivial, makes them seem so much closer. And given that they're less likely to be 'staged' instagram/fb photos, it seems more real to me.
I've gotten emails from them about a degraded instance and having until date X to spin up a new server.

... only I had already spun up a new server. Because the existing instance wasn't working. Getting their system to terminate the old instance required several attempts and force termination before it succeeded.

Considering their scale, I would expect better handling of the edge cases.
I can relate brother. Arkady Babchenko wrote about his experiences in Chechnya, he said we all come back philosophers whether we like it or not. I know I did.
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Why would you think about whether it was relevant in 5 years? I've literally never cared or thought about that when sending those kinds of messages. It's just a basic picture, not sexting or something else potentially sensitive.

I don't understand why I should force everyone I know to install yet another random social media app when a regular message works just fine.
I think the metaphor I would point to here is "whirlpools in a river." Movements of movements of movements ... ad infinitum.

Another interesting way of articulating this might be: "The universe splits itself into two parts - an observer and an observed."
I'm surprised that Scheme is not mentioned. If you consider it to be just a dialect of Lisp then Lisp+Scheme is probably as popular as some of the languages listed as succeeding for popularity. By my count, the combined Lisp+Scheme language has a 1.42% rating on TIOBE, which makes it more popular than Ada, ActionScript, C*, Lua, R, and others. Also, most of the favorable statements about embedding Lua or Tcl apply to Scheme, which continues to get embedded in plenty of important things.

I guess I just don't get the methodology behind the popularity list.

Also, my bet is that Lisp/Scheme would have been even more popular if there had just been one implementation as opposed to a confusing constellation of standards and different implementations. The language is easy to implement so the implementor:user ratio is too damn high.
Casual studies of that scale are not common. You'd literally have to document a person's entire life.
> I don't agree. I think the gender disparity in nursing is just as much a problem.

What makes you say that? An argument could be made that women, in general, are more nurturing and that role fits them better than men. I know in that environment I'd prefer a woman taking care of me over a man.
Design thinking for startups: 5 myths about UX busted
From what I heard, LVM snapshots have significant overhead unless you delete them. Btrfs snapshots don't have such a limitation.
It doesn't surprise me that more people prefer personal conversations than the news. What surprises me is that Snapchat was able to figure this out in their own wacky way.

Kudos to them, but this certainly doesn't diminish the importance of Twitter. People that complain about Twitter so far haven't created a better solution.
Napoleon himself stated that you had to trick the common man into going to war. Hitler said similar as well. War is glorified so people continue to be soldiers and kings get their muscle, but it's just not true that the majority of people who have ever lived think that war is noble - particularly those who have seen war.

History also doesn't talk about most of the endless numbers of doomed last stands, only the occasional one gets special mention.

> we've again returned to a condition where glorifying war is a sure moneyspinner

Not so in continental Europe. The US has barely had it's homelands touched in half a dozen generations - the US people are very removed from the reality of war, so revelling in the glory has little tangible cost these days. One example is that the entire decade-plus of US involvement in Iraq has seen fewer US deaths than the bloodiest single day in WWI saw (counting all sides), yet American talking heads keep on crapping on about the 'high' level of US casualties in Iraq.

> the Charge of the Light Brigade

Depends on your nationality. For Australians, our 'Charge of the Light Brigade' was a great success. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_%281917%29...
It would just be replaced with a new shiny organization having a new name, more freedom to do more harm (given its lack of baggage) and probably end up employing the same people.

Sadly being on the brink of destruction is likely going to be the only motivator for real change.
Or just use a filesystem where snapshots are atomic by nature. :P
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It's been a while since I looked at the spec, but I think the dot as used in cons cells is part of the left-parenthesis reader macro.
>Women being kinder is a sex trope not a neurological reality.

But what did I freaking say? -.- I did specifically say it was a stereotype, to counter your point that differences between sex necessarily imply an idea of inferiority of women, and here you go lecturing me on how what I said is a false stereotype D:, well no shit. It's an absurd notion. Negative stereotypes go both ways. But that's not the point.

The point is that you clearly have preconceived notions about how the world should be. And damn the facts. I find that an intellectually dishonest way of looking at things. The point is, for instance: in all likelihood there is no difference of, say, intelligence between the male and female population, but you _cannot_ discard that possibility a priori. You can't just say that, because men being inferior to women in that regard, or the reverse, would be undesirable, that you can close your eyes and go la-la-la. You can't. There are physiological differences, hormonal differences, would it be such a stretch that there would be neurological differences too? Or that the hormones would generate different patterns of behaviour in males and females?

I mean, just look at your last sentence. You don't actually care to know if men are naturally more predisposed to aggression, or if boys are more hyperactive and thus have more difficulty at school (if that were the case maybe methods of teaching could be more tailored to that reality, but that is beside the point). You just say that "Boys being hyperactive" would mean we have low standards for their behavior, and as that is a conclusion you do not desire, you reject the premise, without caring to know if it is true or not!
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When I was talking about part and whole, I was more thinking about a person really can become concious alone, or if being concious is also partially at least influenced by being part of a culture and group communication and so on. This also goes into if or how language is connected to thinking. Can we have language without having someone to communicate with (ever)? Can we become concious without communication and language? (I'm not saying we cannot, but that these are interesting questions to ask).

Also related to part and whole, and emergent systems, I was thinking about things like ant colonies - and how they might (or might not) relate to big organism that happens to be made out of cells with the same DNA, like us.
My point is that your single anecdote (or "data point" or whatever you want to call it) isn't indicative of the statu quo. Does it mean there are places where men are discriminated against? Yes. Does it mean the statu quo is discrimination against men? No.
What trans men see that women don't
This is a bit fuzzy, indeed. You mention "revenue", yet you are subtracting a $95mm in expenses. Did you mean profit? If so, how can the $95mm costs possibly stay fixed? Your $25mm is going towards sales and marketing expenses. It's not staying in the bank, so that should be accounted for somewhere.
They are different kinds of confusing. Twitter is fundamentally confusing (for all the reasons mentioned - @'s, reply, RT, etc..)

Snapshot's confusing part is only in the strange UI decisions of the app itself. Those I feel they could easily remedy.
TeamViewer hacked, users getting accounts drained via the service
I'm at 54%, does that mean I can get a job at google as a PRNG?
>but obviously they're wildly popular for some reason

I am not actually sure that is actually true. My wife and I run a moderately successful travel blog and know quite a number of other travel bloggers, some of whom do it for a living.

They are all technically on Twitter for example however the overwhelming majority have hooked up a service that automatically logs in as them then publishes tweets on their behalf freeing them up to never ever actually log in themselves.

If you look at active user numbers, tweets published etc it presumably all looks great but how many real actual humans are there? I suspect the answer is not nearly as many humans as Twitter would like to publicly admin as so many have been replaced by bots.

It feels like they could radically improve the experience by locking out the bots but doing that would make it obvious how few actual humans are present.
I think you raise a good point, which I interpret as something like a statement that moral philosophy is complex and situated in a broad social and historical context, and having been a participant in combat is irrelevant as a qualification for doing it well.

I tend to agree.

However in the absence of a well informed and reasoned moral argument, I still think that first hand experience lends credibility to a commenter over one who has consumed only media reports.
Many things are ephemeral, so what?

Motorola was the most popular phone, then Nokia, Blackberry, iPhone and now Android.

In the social media game, it is important for businesses to understand the movements of popularity.
I think that's not terribly fair. I agree with you in part that it's got it's problems, as I had hours worth of data lost due to its stupid way of saving a single file completely only after a reload, and it's auto-backup barfed in some strange and unexplained way, but it's reasonably snappy at aggregating and allowing for drill downs.

I personally dislike the fact it relies on natural joins so you are forced to use defined columns with the same names and use Qlik syntax to disable table linking, but others love that feature.

As an ETL tool actually it's pretty good. But if they had decided to go with straight SQL and extended it to external sources then it wouldn't have stupid syntactical EXISTS and NOT EXISTS clauses, but that's all I can really fault it on.

It's a good tool for what it does, and it turns out that what it can do is a lot! The biggest issue I found was that whilst I picked up the syntax basics in a day and it's more intricate features in a week or two, most of the Qlik developers in Australia are morons who charge a lot and deliver very little. I was very lucky to have an amazing colleague who does know his stuff, but the consultants who we were eventually forced to get in were awful. Then again, the CEO of that company was just walked out the door for gross incompetence so it was probably a combo of stupid management and a limited talent pool for Qlik devs.
I'm not that comfortable with the hand wavy physicalist view that consciousness arises from the physical processes of the brain.

If that were the case, why can't I simply design an artificial brain, a cyber brain, and upload myself in 1000 bodies?

What really spoke to me in Aaronson's entire lecture is the whole quantum no-cloning restriction. Bell State can't help you either, because you can't violate causality.

Suppose for a second that you could violate the laws of physics in U', a universe where anything goes. You can even have free energy too, i.e. no increasing entropy. I would still argue that creating uncountably infinite copies of yourself will still yield only the original conscious, while the rest are merely simulations.

FWIW, I don't think "microtubules" is sufficient either, because that's equally hand-wavy and a restatement of ghost in the machine. At least that's how I parse it.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11818494
I'm still lost. Maybe I just have radically different friends than everyone else here, but if I really have some pressing need to know what they're doing on a given day, I just ask them. Nobody cares about the day-to-day minutia, and if it was interesting, stuff like FB or regular messages work just fine.

Like most social media apps, this just feels like a solution in search of a problem (except for sexting).
At least you're not treated as a criminal or pervert.
Whatever you get, make sure you get paid a fair salary. Equity is cool, but you should pretend it's worth nothing at this stage (it likely never will be worth anything).
> iPhone and now Android

Huh?
Vista was not a very well-received release, but I remember using 64-bit Vista way back when. Maybe my memory is failing me a little, but I don't really recall Vista being that bad or unstable. UAC, of course, was a little annoying then, but 7 felt a little more unstable and crash-prone than Vista.

My dad still uses a Vista desktop regularly (a 2007 install) and as far as I can tell it still works perfectly fine for him. I suppose he's probably leaving far too much to chance, but still.
By 'wacky way', I assume you mean disappearing convo's centered around photos.

If so, I find it absolutely fascinating that Evan Spiegel was able to think of photos as a conversational medium in this manner, and more than just sexting.
The problem here is that you are trying to do block on a file system. This is a bigger problem than you can imagine and while you may think lbas are not involved, there actually are. You are naively taking on a well known area in storage
We know that there are sex specific physical characteristics that differ between men and women. Nobody is arguing that's not true. Extending these to mental differences however is a stretch and not easily observed.

The people with the pet hypothesis here are those who assume without causal evidence that there is a difference in cognition between men and women. Neuroscience is converging on the fact that sex specific differences in the brain are minimal. [0] Differences in the brain have been observed between taxi drivers and the general population. We clearly wouldn't assume that they were born to be taxi drivers, we would place the causation on neuroplasticity. Even then, neuroscience is a very immature field. Neurobollocks is an entertaining read.

[0] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/is-the-brai...
FTFY: It would just be replaced with a new shiny organization having no name

..the kicker being that the organization probably already exists
When I was at the Media Lab <mumble> years ago, his group was perceived internally as one of the top groups, and everyone I knew who worked in his group had great things to say about him.
Colorado.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11825084
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

http://superuser.com/questions/11346/what-happened-to-winfs

Apparently it was canceled and part of it was added to Microsoft SQL-Server 2008, and Windows 7 and other software.

I think WinFS sort of was replaced with Cloud Storage and all of the Websites that allow you to store files in the Cloud. It is why Microsoft bought out Skydrive renamed as Onedrive.
$350000 for a business plan? Isn't that a bit too expensive for a business plan?
No desktop/web app either?
Agreed, and I think only someone who has not used much Haskell and has only really used the IO monad would say that monads are used mostly for embedding imperative programs. It also depends how you define an imperative program, but most monads are entirely pure and don't deal with sequencing or anything.
Raymond Chen writes a great blog called the OldNewThing that has some good stories. I think asking why it failed is rather hard to explain and I suspect different people who were on the project would have different explanations.

I worked on XP and a little bit of Longhorn. In my opinion one of the reasons was that much of the product direction and leadership shifted. The MSN app team merged with the shell team after XP shipped and JoeB, who was running the shell/UX team moved to a new team.

I wouldn't categorize Longhorn as a failure, but a step in a larger pattern of large release: 95, XP, Win7 and then, typically shorter releases in between that are managed differently: 98, ME, Vista.
My comment was about the French rejecting Netflix, but okay.
If my memory serves me correctly, a lot of the public outrage at the time was about poor drivers for some time after release?
He'd trade it all away for just a little more.