skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My consciousness, however, is "really there".

You didn't answer the question. You can be sure your consciousness exists, and you grant existence to other conscious people no doubt, but you seem certain that AI consciousness is not in a game of AI NPCs that are just as intelligent as humans, yet provide no justification for that.

> Or are you saying that the book is somehow conscious of understanding Chinese simply because there's space in it where the man takes notes?

I'm saying that your attempt to define a "locus" where consciousness resides is futile. A CPU is not a person, even though a person can act like a CPU.

You're effectively asking which line in a sorting algorithm actually does the sorting. All of it does the sorting, and all of the program+scratch memory that produces intelligent behaviour, would produce consciousness as well. The CPU is completely incidental. If you compile your program for a completely different architecture, or take a snapshot and restore it on another computer, the consciousness moves with the program, it does not stay with the CPU on which it was originally running.
That is only matters if your keys had badly distributed hashes in the first place.
> This ads in the OS is a bullshit I keep hearing.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-disable-windows-10-start...

> The telemetry enabled them to have faster feedback

I know the commercial pitch.

telemetry is a polite name for spywares. The fact one of the goal is the OS improvement doesn't change that. If I kick you in the face to scratch my hand, I still kick you in the face.

> App store is bad

I never said app store were bad. I just said MS was pushing 10 so they can get the app store in so they can improve their sales. Not because they wanted to help anybody. I like stores. Altough comparing app stores to package repo is like comparing a group of libraries and book clubs to the only book shops available in the city.
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People do upgrade when they know from experience that their system won't regress. It's not necessarily a Windows LTS ala RHEL what's needed, but something inbetween Windows XP is unsupported and Windows 10 breaks your usage must be possible if MS doesn't want to lose more desktop users. And let's not forget that the heavy desktop users (prosumers, etc.) are those who most of the time are consulted by family and friends for advice regarding computers. So, if you alienate them, there's a high chance they will recommend a Linux desktop for most common computer usage.
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Not my style.
Well of course LFT was the one who discovered the reason! His work is impressive. Example: http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/craft/index.php
> Curious, who is "compiling KeePassX for Linux themselves" when it's in the Ubuntu and Debian repos?

It's in the OP:

"I highly recommend using KeepassX as a password manager, secured using a key file and not a password. Also, you should download the source code, compile it (using a Linux machine) and always look over the source code for rogue functions, you CANNOT afford a vulnerability inside the password manager."
There isn't much technical in the article, but it does remind me a bit of the adapteva epiphany.
I can guess a few reasons.

1. 90% of a startup is just hard work, it isn't something that makes for good television. Imagine, a person creating and adding content to their financial statement. Not exactly good television.

2. IMO it trivializes the true nature of what YC team & the startups/entrepreneurs do, which I don't think any of the Y Combinator team wants to do.

3. Hard work almost always trumps an idea. You can have a so-so idea succeed amazingly well while an idea you felt was just out of this world great fails. This usually happens because the entrepreneur doesn't work hard enough or fails to see the opportunities. And all this takes a lot of time to work out, so it isn't sexy television.

However, I could see a behind the scenes documentary following one class from YC from acceptance to 1 year post YC. Document what the process is like, how hard it is, let the entrepreneurs have a video confessional, etc. Almost like a pure documentary but with a little Big Brother (the TV Show) tossed in there as you could put video camera's up to catch times you don't have a crew chasing people. I do think that could be really interesting, and having the YC team and the class all giving feedback and details. This show though would cater to a small audience by TV/Movie standards though, likely those who wanted to apply to YC and a specific bread of entrepreneur. But I do think it would be interesting.

There is a movie called startup.com from 2001 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/) that did a similar documentary type show, and we all watched it around that time. Definitely interesting, but as you can imagine probably cost more to produce, edit and distribute then anyone made.
Scott Adams has since endorsed Hillary, see: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for...
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I am fully with you. I have no interest for business on the administrative side, never had. But affording a book keeper AND paying taxes would be not possible right now.

So i mostly avoid to pay taxes, my next step is to setup a offshore company to legally avoid them. I see why that is bad, but i am lazy and hell no will i create myself additional work when it is avoidable.
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Business users are not all enterprise users.
I agree Agile is the way to address many of these issues. I think Agile is a way of working that doesn't try to estimate everything up front. Rather one or 2 short iterations at a time. If you're trying to estimate your whole backlog up front when you do Agile, you're back to waterfall realy.
Disks are still present. They are way cheaper, so especially under big data, they are still irreplaceable.
>WinX, from my experience, seems like a well-made system;

I've had the opposite experience. The OS that's supposed to have all the drivers didn't have all the drivers and I know a ton of people who were stuck without wifi (and a few who could not even connect through ethernet), had graphics problems which basically made their OS unusable, had all sorts of performance issues (especially on small netbooks that auto upgraded), the list could just go on.

You shouldn't have to disable spyware when installing an OS. You shouldn't have to install powershell to remove candy crush (which is what you had to do when Win10 first came out). You shouldn't have to uninstall adware on a new OS. You shouldn't need an SSD and other newer/high-end hardware to run an OS, especially when other operating systems run flawlessly on low-end hardware.

Nah, Windows is a trash OS and it seems like the only people who use it are people who are forced to because of program compatibility.
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Because it's also very much loved, or at least detested less than SysV-init and the other stuff it replaces, by a lot of people.

There are things I don't like about it, but overall it makes my experience administering servers far more pleasurable.
Found it: http://bofh.bjash.com/Bastard1998-1.html

> SNMP management is a damn fine tool for a machine, especially when it lets you reboot the thing remotely. I patch a game of Network DOOM with sprites of the NC users' faces and get the kills piped to the SNMP reboot command. Kill a user, their Network Computer goes down.

> Of course, it's not very sporting, so I ring the users and tell them, to give them a fighting chance. Well, as much of a chance as you can get using the apps-server-based copy of the game which only lets you pick up a handgun. Still, it's amazing how good a beancounter can get at pistol shooting when two hours of spreadsheet work are at stake and you have to win a game to use the Save option.
Bias for newness is a bad thing.
all of this comment and not a single one seems constructive...

Nest the company problem as consumers (myself being one) seems to be Software...

I use the nest software and simply put it's not up to scratch

The Hardware is beautiful if only the software was...

For example the nest protect has temperature sensors yet the Nest thermostat can not use these...

Nor can the software operate without access to the "cloud" even in a reduced ability.

Google OnHub suffers from the same Software problems, Great hardware and nice low level drivers however it cant even use IPv6 which for a router is pretty basic

my advice for the incoming CEO, interoperability
Simple

make use of thread & brillo (software) to unify things...
(produce an alarm but have the option of ADT as the responder)

Unify the products so they can work within a LAN and expand outside of the USA.

I hope that helps

John
It would be interesting to see if there is anything similar for text mining.
They wouldn't have to do this if they would just make the next version of windows better than the previous versions.

Indeed. I made a similar argument when Adobe went subscription-only with Creative Cloud. That move seems like a clear signal to customers that Adobe thinks locking those customers in is more valuable than whatever new features or performance improvements or bug fixes Adobe is going to offer, since if the latter were more valuable then presumably customers would have been willing to pay for a new version and choose to install it anyway.
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I don't do drugs but I wouldn't take a programming job where I had to do drug tests
Another data point: Windows Media Center is either not available in the to-be-upgraded-to-licensed version of Windows and you have to buy it now, or it's not available anymore, don't remember. But people's HTPC's were updated and there was no Media Center anymore. What did users do? They installed a non-Windows media center solution, completely replacing Windows. This cannot be in Microsoft's interest, unless they want to rid themselves of those users.
Hetzner (Germany) has quite cheap storage.
https://www.hetzner.de/de/hosting/storagebox/bx30

Based on the protocols they offer it is easy to mount encrypted. LUKS is available for Android (rooted)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nemesis2.l...
Actually, I don't have the keys to CloudFlare's infrastructure. I don't have access to our production systems at all.
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1. People don't store such large amounts of data in a conventional database (especially relational DB). Depending on the exact requirements, the popular choices are HBase, Cassadra or even flat files in HDFS.

2. To analyze the data, Hadoop and Spark are great. Spark is especially a great fit for iterative algorithms, and it also has a great python interface.
Yep, your local dentist won't have a WSUS, but maybe one or two Windows computers.
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I printed a copy of the key, sealed it (and other stuff I wanted backed up) and give it to person that I trust to keep.
Note that this is from September, and here we are with Trump as the nominee. If nothing else, Adams's analysis is interesting, funny, and (intentionally) provoking. It's still a bit myopic (and don't wade into the comments), but refreshing compared to most political news.
You can manage updates on Pro with WSUS too.
keep your bitcoin safe, kids :)
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NoScript is harmful and promotes Malware
As an IT person with only a degree in CS and historically little interest except for IT and maybe some engineering topics the best time I invested in decades was to start - completely by accident - on the medical track.

Hundreds of lecture hours and a plethora of courses in chemistry, org. chemistry, drug development (chemistry), statistics (with focus on medical topics), anatomy, physiology, (some) bio-chemistry, and neuroscience later I have learned sooooo much.

All simplistic/optimistic (or in the case of antibiotics pessimistic) mass-media headlines are almost complete bullshit. In that field you MUST look at the details. Which of course require some knowledge to understand - but actually not all that much, just some basics. I've also met quite a few doctors by now, some of them in research, and see a common path from youthful optimism to disillusionment. Not as in "giving up", just getting rid of baseless optimism about what is achievable and with what effort, and resetting goals (to much lower levels).

For an easy example, how many IT people think the brain works like a computer? That it's "binary based"?

For illustration, here are two serious (but fun) papers written by a biologist and by a neuroscientist, respectively:

"Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis" - http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(02)00133...

"Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?" - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/26/055624

I think engineers benefit greatly from studying some (freshman university level) biology, bio-chemistry, physiology. In engineering everything is so much simpler, so one tends to try and use ones experience in ones own field when looking at those fields. In reality it's a great mess. If you had to debug source code written by evolution over more than a billion years you'd have no chance - no chance at all - with any of the methods you used. Even the most disgusting project messed up over decades by rotating hoards of unqualified programmers who in addition all couldn't care less and managers who magnified the mess could not remotely create a software project as messed up.

Imagine Microsoft Office Suite source code run through several obfuscation tools. On top of that, the test suites only test an incredibly tiny amount of potential inputs (the amount of "inputs" where a biological system fails exceeds the ones when it works by several orders of magnitude) - and they go "green" as long as the software starts and runs at all for some very small amount of time, even if it runs badly. An it's still easier to debug than even a tiny biological system.
What makes Vermont so great that it has Sanders and FTTH?
For now. Making unqualified statements about the future is where the problem lies. In the long run, silicon will win over spinning rust and 'the long run' seems to be a lot shorter than we previously thought.
In a way you guys do. AFAIK the only reason U.S. people have no fully private banking accounts more in Switzerland is because the country also provides us with Secret Intelligence information about who knows what.

AFAIK no other country got that deal so far, for anyone else in the world Switzerland still provides private banking accounts.
You file the claim form and submit it before May of last year... But you also had to have paid for LinkedIn premium for to be eligible.

Source: www.linkedinclassactionsettlement.com
In the most back-handed way possible. Basically: "Because Hillary supporters are most likely to do me harm otherwise."
I completely agree re: password managers. Lots of options and competition but nobody has yet really, really nailed it.

I eventually got many not-so-technical family members and friends to adopt Dashlane - which is easy to use and provides great support.

> 2. I do that. In addition I use this: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

That's a good idea - you can also configure a local bind/dnsmasq/unbound server to block based on these lists with ACL's (sure if you google each you'll find tutorials, like this one: https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts)

Some of the better home router distros will also do this at the local network level
If it's ok to compare him with Hitler, then why not with Jesus and the Founding Fathers from the other side?

Comparing him with Albert Einstein would be more of a stretch, perhaps.
This was funny until I got to the part about disable malware detection. Then it becomes dangerous. Is this idiocy or malice?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5314959
I use systemd on all the servers I manage, out of choice. I refuse to set up non-systemd server-setups any more - it is just so vastly more pleasant to work with than the alternatives.

But it's not "taking over" anything at all. People choose to use these components.

And yes, it was and is broken. With respect to specifically DNS, have you tested the various documented options for resolv.conf, for example, and confirmed what your resolver actually does?

I have, and on several different systems with different distros, what I found was that none of them behaved as documented. DNS resolution on most Linux distros is badly deficient, which is one of the reasons so many applications pull in their own resolver libraries, and one of the reasons so some distributions end up e.g. running local Dnsmasq instances to farm out the actual resolution to something that's easier to get to behave in sane ways.
That is true, but not because he agrees with her politically, or because he dislikes Trump.

I very much encourage you to read the link.
I had no idea he was into avant-garde art!

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada)
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest password was 'dadada'
What are some good resources for getting up to speed with systemd quickly for a web dev who didn't do extensive Linux administration besides setting up hosting on EC2 instances with nginx and REST API controlled by supervisor (software)?
Have you deployed Office 2016? As far as I can tell, each install must have a MSFT login associated with it and you get ~20 installs per MSFT ID.
Seen that site being spammed all over Reddit. At best, grey, at worst, scummy.

Edit: LeakedSource has been wrong in the past and will be wrong again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11805691

They're leeches of the worst kind.
I spent a chunk of yesterday talking my girlfriend's dad through downgrading back to Windows 7 since his laptop had (helpfully) upgraded on him which killed his ability to use QuickBooks to manage his business. Fun fun.

At this exact moment, I'm trying to troubleshoot the dreaded "Remote procedure call failed" error on my barely used Windows 10 laptop which breaks all the fake apps (aka Windows store apps) that come bundled with the OS. If you want reliable apps on Windows 10, use real Windows apps not Windows store apps.
https://github.com/silveira/ulam

Here is a reusable implentation in Javascript using Html5 canvas. You can just download the source, edit and run in your browser. Or see live examples here: http://silveiraneto.net/2013/05/14/twin-primes-visualized-ov...
Glad i never used it, it always appeared fishy to me.

And not only because of the fact that 90% of its users had barely a idea what the extension was supposed to do other than magically deciding what bad and what good JS is.
Your callous attitude basically screws over computer illiterate users, I.e most home Windiws users.
Which is probably why you can get $50 phones on AliExpress, and maybe the only way to have an up to date Android phone without shelling out 300 or 600 dollars.
Don't think he is endorsing Hillary in that article. Its a sattire.
Without GC WebAssembly will still hold a shit load of languages away.
This is not your usual endorsement to say the least:

"I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels).

So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president."

I came here to say that he must have changed his tune because Trump's luck seems to have turned for the worse based on the latest poll numbers; but he still predicts Trump will win, so I guess maybe it's not that or at least he's changing his tune gradually, hedging his bets.

(For the record, I generally think that Scott Adams is a troll and everything he writes is clickbait, he himself said his traffic increased 5-fold since he started writing about Trump. As to his correct prediction of Trump's rise, I think that's the prediction one would have made based on polls alone (certainly Nate Silver admitted that his abject failure in this instance was due to ignoring polls.) Since Adams apparently doesn't care about the outcome as much as Nate Silver and other professional journalists, he didn't have a bias to cloud his judgement, or rather his ability to parrot polls which is where the actual data comes from. His drivel about his mastery of persuasion skills as the basis of his political analysis seems to me not that convincing, since the supposedly stellar examples of persuasion that he shows outside of the election business look pretty bad to me.)
"Its important that you dont host any domains on the VPS you run the VPN on."

Why is that is I may ask? I have the impression that the great firewall blacks a lot of domains by default and they are allowed/blocked after a review after somebody tries to access them the first time. I may be paranoid but often I try to open an obscure site. It is blocked. I have to use a VPN. A few days later the site can be accessed. Why not use a VPN sever with a nice website that makes it look harmless?
I'm all for diversity but specifically targeting people who are smaller on average for employment in a physical labor job seems just plain dumb.

Construction labor isn't "lift a ~50lb 3U chassis by yourself from time to time" Several times per day you'll lift objects that are 50lb or heavier, unwieldy and might have to be in an odd/precarious position to do, plywood, packs of shingles, bags of concrete, bathroom fixtures, etc come to mind. Some days you won't do anything too strenuous, other days you'll spend 4hr unloading packs of laminate flooring. Not that individual women can't do that stuff but at a statistical level they're working harder to do so and it manifests itself as increased wear on equipment (workers). Sure you can carry a cord of wood in a Tacoma and it gets the job done but if you have a fleet of Tacomas and F150s carrying cords of wood day in and day out you'll eventually crunch the numbers and go with all F150s because for a given amount of work the bigger truck holds up better, people are no different except that it doesn't cost more up front to get the bigger truck when they self select for the job.
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