skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dreaming is really an interesting case. I'm not sure if I'd agree that it's a weak form of consciousness. It's maybe just some sort of play that the simulator does when it's not used for the outside world. It wildly tries out new things. If you consider that it has a whole physical and cultural universe at it's disposal, it's not really a surprise that this playing creates very bizarre stories sometimes.

By doing so we may check for complex cross connections and gain new insights. Actually I vividly remember waking up from dreams and suddenly realizing that I have a crush on a girl. I didn't really the day before (or was not aware of it) but during dreaming my brain seemed to say "I've checked all information that we have about this specimen and my simulations so far look promising!"

I sometimes also dream of deceased persons. The brain maybe again and again tries to make sense of this deeply unsettling experience and to somehow integrate that unexplainable into the simulation.

(BTW sorry for misspelling consciousness all the time in my post above - it was a little too late here)
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Good one. Thank you.
And blogs.
@Brave has no future in a sense of gathering people just because they hate ads, ads market is very noisy world. This market will find answers to any questions no matter someone's software is blocking ads or not. Because majority of Internet's users aren't much hate those clunky "click-on-me" links at all. Ignorance is a blessing.
So, you're saying, that when one installs Windows (not just 10, or 8, even 7) on their system, they give up full control of their system to Microsoft? To do as Microsoft pleases?

In effect, you're agreeing with RMS. (I'm thankful I don't use Windows, precisely for this reason that Microsoft may do whatever they want with my hardware and my data, and without even playing fair to get my consent.)
He also has his involvement in Square, Inc.
I think we're both aware, the lawful part wasn't up for debate, we're more discussing whether its moral/ethical than anything else.

I think it is a necessary evil for the most part but I still hold the opinion it isn't something you get a choice in.
http://archive.is/uWx6c

http://archive.is/Wyucp

http://archive.is/sSZxU
It's not an "owncloud protocol"... It's called WebDAV and it's a web standard[0], like HTTP.

[0]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918

There are literally 100s and 100s of these tools... Nothing is special about OwnCloud, or Sandstorm, in this case, to support interoperability.

It's pretty obvious, IMO, that it supports WebDAV since "dav" is right there in the name.
That's introspection. It's distinct from the hard problem of consciousness.

Consider that it's not difficult to make computer programs that introspect. A quine is a trivial example. But since people argue over whether computer programs can be conscious, and it's dead obvious that some computer programs introspect (i.e. operate on their own source code or perform diagnostics on their own state), I think it's clear that people have more than just introspection in mind when they say "consciousness".
Would it be possible to make it look better or even the same by increasing digits per frame (eg 1000 instead of 200)?
Was at a bank. Got $75k per year plus a $10k bonus at the end of the year after 2 years of experience.

Moved to a company in the US. Now making $170k USD in total compensation. Exactly 2x previous salary discounting exchange rate.

Incredibly sad how low the tech wages are in Canada.
I highly doubt that the planned features are related. Seems just to be a try to make the press release look less worse...

Disclaimer: I quit ownCloud to work now at Nextcloud.
You are right to be confused. "Social sharing" came out of Snapchat marketing department when it became obvious you couldn't build a long-term business on a product that was synonymous with sexting.

Snapchat's core is still revolving around soft erotic eye candy that's developed into a cottage industry at this point http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-arsenictv-snapchat-in... Now that they've got your attention there, they are bringing in media partners like BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly and celebrities http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-snapchat-built-a-... to fill up your feed with a stream of bite-size updates.

Peer-to-peer ephemeral messaging is no longer emphasized in the app, they are building a media destination to divert eyeballs away from TV, YouTube, Vine, Facebook or Twitter, in that rough order. Referring to ephemeral social messaging at this point as akin to bringing up Yahoo! as a directory of web links.
Accidently SEPA direct debits cashed twice at Deutsche Bank
I was trying to do ballpark-comparisons. CC-rates are generally thought of as high-but-not-prohibitive. So being in the range of een CC-rate on first guess would land you in high-but-not-prohibitive-land. Totally right that the duration of an average debt is massively different, although I expect there to be many people that constantly roll-forward their CC-debt.
Great post.

> There is nothing to "get" other than to understand that as you become older the thing that's changing is you

For proof of this, look no further than when Facebook introduced the timeline, making it easier to view old wall posts.

People went crazy, claiming their private messages had been made public [0]. In truth, they just couldn't remember how unconcerned with privacy they used to be.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19699205
I remember this old article from 2004:

Allchin: Don't call it 'Shorthorn'

Despite the removal of WinFS, Longhorn will not be short on features, Windows chief Jim Allchin tells CNET News.com.

http://www.cnet.com/news/allchin-dont-call-it-shorthorn/
IIRC, Neptune was basically XP's Longhorn.
It was designed to be the new consumer version of windows, a successor to Windows 98.
Built on Windows 2000, it had quite a few new features that were new to consumers. However, the relevant work was eventually merged with the new business version of Windows to form what would become Windows XP.

There's plenty of screenshots you can already find online, you can even find ISO's for build 5111 and run it in a VM yourself.
Facebook's business model I suspect is relying more and more on things like user location. As I recal, there was some blowback from messenger requesting location services in iOS while not using the app. This almost seems like strong-arming users into using messenger perhaps because they are able to extract more user info and metadata due to the additional priveleges. I've never installed messenger, so I may be off the mark...
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Hehe, what are curiously peeved sounding post. I was seeking to keep it short but as I've been unclear let's drill into some stuff.

> Not really; it will clash

Nope, named-readtables fixed the clashing reader-macro issue a good while back.

> You mean ... programming the programming language?

Yes, I do. I said it the way I did out of choice, as the 'programmable programming language' phrase has been bandied around so often that, for some, it has lost impact. Maybe that phrase doesn't inspire the same ahah moment in some as it does for other. Saying the same thing in a different way can be enough for someone to pick up something new. (It feels weird writing this down as it's kind of self evident)

> Do you plan to type "lambda" with args enough times to eventually that hour of your life back

I that hour was spent learning about reader macros, learning something new is of value to me, so there is no 'lost hour' to reclaim. Don't you just code for fun some days, without worrying if it is somehow ultimately useful?

> Note how if we take λ(* _ _) and then just move the parenthesis over the Greek symbol, we get (λ * _ _). This saves almost the same amount of typing

Ah ok, maybe this is where we parted mental ways. I'm not interesting in saving typing, that wasn't the goal. The point was to remove a little visual obstruction from what I was doing. For example (and yes it is a trivial example) (lambda (x) (* x x)) is 20 characters long, of which 8 are of interest (* x x) I liked that the shorthand reduced a little visual noise.

Yes there are many ways to skin this particular cat, but I liked the shorthand. I also like not having the lambda in the first position as it maintained a property of lisp code I generally enjoy, that I can run my eyes over the lefthand side of the forms and quickly get a rough feel of what is going on. Again, this is just a personal feeling, but some days I write code just for me, for fun, so why not make things pleasant for myself.

It's rather odd to get into a discussion about this, when the whole point is that we don't have to pick one golden way and enshrine it in the language. It's just a library, use it or don't, it doesn't matter.

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Is it? I think it just means you need evidence of biological differences (or lack thereof) from things other than disparities in outcome - from outside the circle.

If I say "Women aren't as fast at sprinting as men, and it's biological, as evidenced by the fact women aren't as fast as sprinting as men" I agree that's a circular argument.

But if I say "Women aren't as fast at sprinting as men, and it's biological, as evidenced by these studies of testosterone levels and their effects" that's a non-circular argument.
I'd like to see more companies bootstrapping with help from their communities they build that see real value in their products. Building a transparent and open product with community feedback around things that work is the core of what we're trying to facilitate with Baqqer (https://baqqer.com/). I believe this builds strong, robust products that aren't built in a silo and launched without an audience.
I recently gave up Lisp for Clojure instead because of the dearth of "batteries," so this book is very important and timely.
I'm still trying to decide if you're holding the racism of lower expectation beliefs. Privileged and oppressed are just code words with no clear meaning. I don't know you, so I don't know why you would use profanity to describe Justice Thomas. He has solid principles based on his life's experiences and has had to endure a lot to serve so it makes no sense to me that anyone would describe him that way.

You're probably right about the labels but certainly wrong about the accuracy (thanks for the tip).

I'm not sure why some races perform better at some tasks, on average. I think that Blacks are faster sprinters than Asians, on average. I think that Asians have a higher preference for education than Blacks, on average. I think that the physical characteristics that we describe as races are shaped by evolutionary pressures. Darker skin is likely an adaptation for living closer to the equator. Blacks can probably withstand more direct sun exposure than Whites before developing skin cancer. None of this makes one race superior to another outside the narrow scope of the adaptive characteristic, and even then you only see the differences on average.

I suspect that the lower turnout of women in tech has more to do with preferences around work/life balance and family. But I wouldn't rule out other possible explanations. I've witnessed a few emotional breakdowns at work, but never from men. Which is fortunate because it seems that when men snap they go postal, on average.

> I disagree with a SCOTUS Justice who happens to be black

I like how you phrased that. Much more civil. Do you like George Carlin :D? -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRoOOm0-3_8
Lisp is a better language than Clojure. People only use Clojure out of force.
There is only one thing "wrong" with C++ and that is undefined behavior. An accident of history, but one that will make you cry at times. For the rest the tooling around it is quite depressing as well. But none of this prevents you from getting great work done, they are annoyances.
i.e. you can have a solid career with C++ so the languages to learn are suggestions for horizon expansion not career advice.

Now it looks like you want to stay close to the hardware so there are a few options that can be interesting to look at.
Game programming is not nearly as much fun as game playing so be careful what you want.

Rust: the new kid on the block, learning this will help you look different at C/C++ and even if you don't continue using it professionally you will pick up nice things.

A scripting language with a REPL. Lua, JS, a lisp, python, perl, ruby, it doesn't matter. Just have a look at one and see what tools to make tools you can build with them.

The following I would suggest having a look at but not more than 1 weekend each ;) They are very far from windows apps and game stuff.

Ada/spark: the old kid on the block, a could have been interesting. Again not something that is widely used so learn for curiosity not for career.

JavaCard: the slow kid on the block. Not talking about plain java here, but specifically the JavaCard environment which is a whole different playing field. You will pick up standard Java as well, by doing this. Massive different perspective, but no games ;(

Outside of languages I would spent time picking up Vulkan the new graphics API and OpenCL or Cuda. These will help with getting into the game market but also help you look at visualization and data presentation. Valuable skills no matter where you go afterwards.

Remember in the end people don't pay for code. They pay for solutions to their problems. If you can solve problems you will always have a job.
Plus potential PR value for Google if something meaningful comes out, the press loves AI stories like this. It feels like the effort invested in AlphaGo was at least partially because of marketing, establishing Google as a leader in AI.

This will also help attract young researchers to Tensorflow, so a low cost win for them.
> You can post pretty shamelessly the little things you're up to all day to your story, knowing it will be gone in 24 hours, keeping your feed really clean.

This is sad. The whole thought; the whole idea that I can't read things back; to post apparently meaningless "stories" into the void.

We have/had blogs for this, with the exceptions that those are not ephemeral. To read back you own stories, your own mistakes are invaluable lessons and not having the option to do this, because you depend on a service provider, where you have no control saddens me deeply.

Get a WordPress and make posts disappear automatically after X hours - this is ~5 mins to set up and this way you can both keep and retrieve your stories from the public.

Once this is done post to Snapchat from that blog; via webhooks, bots, whatever. Yes, right now, this is tedious and requires technical knowledge, but the goal is to own your data. But do not store the only copy your original content somewhere where you have no control at all.
(See http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE for the whole idea)
Already existing parking (especially curbside parking) should be priced to reach approximately 85% occupancy. Less, and you are leaving too many spaces empty, higher and people have to cruise for a while before they find a spot.

That pricing will not discourage too many people directly---because you price it exactly at a point where not too many people are discouraged. (That point might have to be adjusted over time.)

Like a congestion charge, you shift from people bidding with their willingness to sit in traffic and endure queues, to people bidding with their chequebook. (Interestingly, your mix of parkers would shift towards more people who value their time more than their money. Affluent customers are good customers!)

Congestion charges worked out well for Singapore and London.

Politically, it's a good idea to hand out the fees from parking at the same level as the people who can decide about it. So if local opposition could derail the scheme, you have to hand out the proceeds very locally. Otherwise you get the political dynamics you describe.

Charging for parking is relatively easy and does not require high-tech. For example Singapore uses a scheme (amongst others) where you buy a bunch of perforated cards. When you want to park, you take a card and push out the appropriate chads to indicate the date and time of day and display the card in your car's window. Each card is valid for an half-hour slot. You can punch out multiple cards with consecutive slots. Each card can only be used once (obviously).

(If you want a crud variable pricing, you can require people to display multiple simultaneous cards for peak hours.)

I have also seen a system where you send a premium SMS with your licence plate number to pay.
Thanks for the info on the steel. Wasn't sure about it but durability is a big red line for me. I just have the original "white" pebble, which is pocketmoney price and arguably one of the nicer ones. I backed it on KS cause it was a new class of device. Same reason I'm backing the core. Disclaimer: I do get exercise but having a fitness tracker isn't a big deal for me and I'm quite happy to bring my phone most places - but am still on the smaller form factor devices.
Allow me to refresh your memory then. How does the following sound to you?

"We also support Full Profile and 64-bit natively, in hardware. After years of evangelising the benefits of such an approach it is nice to see other players in the industry join down this avenue."
https://community.arm.com/groups/arm-mali-graphics/blog/2013...

"Mali-T622 was specifically tailored for this job. Mali-T622 also supports OpenCL Full Profile and includes double-precision FP64 and full IEEE-754-2008 floating-point support which are essential features in order to enhance the user experience"
https://community.arm.com/groups/arm-mali-graphics/blog/2013...

I could go on with the examples but I think there's no need to spam the thread with tens of blog articles that say FP64 and "native 64-bit" (whatever that means) are essential to the mobile experience.
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You should also read James Mickens' USENIX articles if you haven't: http://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

The humour and tone is similar to the "Programming Sucks" article. I recommend starting with "The Night Watch".
'Consciousness-causes-collapse' is also known as the 'Von Neumann-Wigner interpretation' [1]. Yes, THAT Von Neumann.

It's got no explanatory power over other interpretations, obviously. But actual physicists demonstrably used squishy terms like "conscious" when talking about their hard science. Embarrassing, but true.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...
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This is simply an insane case of workplace sexism. Most ambitious people will steer clear of careers that have such blatant gender discrimination. Ontario is really shooting itself in the foot here, by providing a strong disincentive for male teachers to join the profession.
We've banned this account for trolling.

If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe you won't do anything like this again.
Pregnant women are much more likely to take parental leave than men because they have to.
Just so ye know - PR, managing expectations and policing discussions boards aren't a good way to promote a high end devices company. Developing high end devices is, and useful services to go with them is "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - a quote I'm sure Jobs was familiar with.
Well, in Norway Vipps (https://www.vipps.no/) is rapidly replacing cash for second-hand purchases, which were a stronghold of cash.
Olm eggs finally hatch in rare 'dragon' birth
Are you sure about the quality?

I watched Twitter after EgyptAir flight 804 was lost. And I was amazed by the amount of shit I got to see.
Everybody was placing assumptions, unknown 'facts', stupidity and so on.

Sometimes I saw a relevant post but then it got reposted a trillion.

Maybe some streams are of good quality. But my breaking news experience was not of high quality I must say.
hard != unfulfilling.

I agree. I was going for boring ≈ unfulfilling.

I don't think anyone was talking about whether raising a child is fulfilling or not, rather it was that the process often involves unfulfilling manual labor.

Two very different things and you're conflating discussion of latter with the former.
Just guessing but the downvotes may be due to the 'sig' you've included coming across as spammy. You might notice that no one else here is doing that, and it likely isn't a good way to encourage interest in your product. How about submitting a post where you discuss some of the problems you've solved?
Because misery loves company, I'll share with you my worst hobby: sleep loss over Charley Project (http://www.charleyproject.org/) cases. This should get you started:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jost_marie.html

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/degree_asha.html

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mcguinn_melissa.html
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Like which one? Pretty much every single one I know, you pass a buffer and a pointer to a buffer size; the first time you call with buffer NULL and the required buffer size is put in the buffer size; then you allocate the buffer and call again with the proper buffer allocated.
> Neither does Windows 10

It did. There have been documented cases, and I have discussed this in the past.

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> but the fact that this comment actually "offends" you

It does. In another comment, you call people refusing to be force updated from a perfectly working (and security-supported) OS (in the name of "security") "luddites". In this comment, you generalize and compare us with a movement that can only be characterized as "willfuly ignorant", to say the least. That is offensive.

I do get the parallels you were trying to point to: people running insecure OSes are detrimental to the rest of the internet community at large. But you get carried away and set up a far too extreme comparison. The people/kids that need vaccines are those that don't have security against pathogens (you wouldn't give someone a second dose/shot of a vaccine, when they've already been vaccinated and it's not even close to time for a booster dose, would you?), but Windows 7 is a perfectly secure OS (at least against non-Microsoft-affiliated agents).

One has to be careful when setting up analogies, for while one may see only the similarities, others will see the differences also.

> tells me we're not playing on a level field

So what? Are you claiming I unleveled the field? The field was already unleveled, especially when you begin with a view that all those who disagree with you are "luddites" "as wrong as the antivaxxers".

You made some claims from a certain level, and I made counter-arguments from a certain level. If the field needed to be level in order to "play", I wouldn't even have presented any counter-arguments from the very beginning.
While I enjoy a good mystery as much as the next guy (Though preferably ones which does not involve several people losing their lives!), it would seem rather plausible that these students were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The military tested some weapon in a remote area, unaware or indifferent to the fact that people were around; the students are awoken in their tent in the middle of the night by loud explosions and shockwaves; heck, I'd get up and run like hell, too.

Then hypothermia and/or a fall into a ravine did them in.

When the armed forces realize that a whole group of students died as a result of weapons testing, they were probably more than happy to leave it as a mystery, rather than stepping forward and claiming responsibility.

There. No yeti required.
> within excel

Perhaps you knew, but nevertheless, I have to point out: this works with LibreOffice Calc and not MS Excel