skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I'll have to look into both! Huawei feels like an "Oh, right, of course" answer but Polycom doesn't ring any bells.

Interesting observation on the soft phones trend, though. In my work environment our Cisco phones might as well be softphones since everything's rigged through Jabber. Give us a webcam instead of the desk phone and I don't see any loss of functionality.
Thank you. Interesting question... The site itself runs http, so I wouldn't think that to be the issue. I've got 1 Adsense ad, which loads okay. There are also calls out to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for their "like" widgets, those all use https. I don't see any error messages that indicate a bad SSL cert in the Javascript console, although I'm not actually sure if that would show up.
Just keep in mind the costs of home ownership. Roofs and HVAC systems and plumbing don't stop deteriorating because the owner has retired... Aside from "normal" maintenance of course.

I dropped $400 on a new lawnmower this spring, $7K on a new roof a couple years ago, $800 on a new kitchen stove last year. Two years ago it was a washer and dryer for $1500 or so. It adds up.

My mom is retired and on SS and her rental is cheaper than her income and is the same every month. I worry about my retired MiL living in her house, she's one furnace replacement away from a panic sale or having to take out an heloc.
I learned to code without any sort of syntax highlighting or autocomplete features. Whenever I need to use an editor that has Features like syntax highlighting and autocompletion, my workflow actually slows down pretty substantially. The negatives just don't beat the positives for me.

Why the negative comments with some folk even calling this guy wrong on an opinion piece? Sheesh, people..
Yeah. Was following on from this, https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/72474588679483392....
Misspelling a keyword is a low-cost issue. The compiler will point it out to you immediately, and compilers are very fast these days. Nothing happening here is very catastrophic.
Glad to hear more is coming. It didn't seem to be the case when I first found it. I think I've only watched either three or four episodes so far.
this is why VL was developed, an object oriented visual programming language that has much more ways of expression. especially the idea of data types, loops, branching and iterator patterns. it can already be tested as an integrated language in vvvv (like C# already is) if you download the alpha builds: https://vvvv.org/vl
We spent a lot of time making accidental clicks unlikely (and making sure that scrolling on the ad scrolls the page)

One other benefit is that because the ad is on a parallax pane, it can resize itself without disrupting the page flow (which AMP does not allow).
>After having read a little Wittgenstein and the late Umberto Eco's works on semiotics

Do you have any suggestions on good starting points? I found Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to be a rough introduction to Wittgenstein. I'm also curious what Eco you'd recommend; I've only read his novels and essays.
What people usually get wrong about text and typography is that there is not just one type of text, and therefore not just one type of typography. Dictionaries have different typography from recipe books, which are different from math books, which are different from newspapers and so on. So saying that source code should not have its own kind of typography because it wouldn't work for some other textform is like saying that encylopedias should be like novels because it would be silly if there were arrows in front of words in novels that appear somewhere else in the book.
I you are using an "Angry Fruit Salad" color scheme, like the example in the article, it's yer own damn fault for not investing 10 minutes to find something more sublime.
> The old way of doing CSS was crazy and unmanageable.

That's a bit of a stretch though, we've had good success with using normal CSS files, included in each component with webpack CSS-loader[1]. CSS is displayed in head as needed, but without an all-JS approach like this

[1] https://github.com/webpack/css-loader
> But that doesn't explain the mechanism for conciousness to occur, it just explains why it might exist.

It does explain the mechanism actually. The mind builds representations for predictive purposes, it builds a representation of attention because that increases predictive power in achieving goals, a representation of attention is consciousness.

Certainly it's not sufficiently detailed such that you can build one, but that's not really needed to make it conceivable.
Holy crap - what a misleading link title! Not only is the headline on HN right now not in the article, the very end of the article states there are many reasons to buy a home, but investing isn't a good one.
I would say Sphinx has the exact problem grandparent describes. I've spent a lot of time and frustration trying to figure out what syntax it wants to link to another doc, for example.
>why should I assume that the reason I have subjective experience is different than all other observables?

We're not talking about the reason, we're talking about the experience itself. Maybe that experience occurs as the result of physical processes, but it's still a separate thing.

Arguing that qualia don't exist because you can't observe them externally is like a blind person arguing that I can't possibly see a broken pencil because they can feel the pencil is solid.
So, I'm supposed to go to a completely different domain than the one the update notes were posted at?

Obviously I could have searched for it, but part of the reason for my comment was that the update was posted to, and this submissions was linked to, is blog.torproject.org and there is startlingly little information about what Tails actually is on that site. Is it too much to ask that when I click the "about" link above the blog entry with the Tails changelog that they actually mention Tails at some point?
Typical being AESNI accelerated?
It is partially true, in that both Russian and Czech come from Old Church Slavonic, where it does come from the verb for "work". All three of the languages use the same root.

I was mistaken in thinking that Russian was the origin of the word - I am not familiar with all the languages that descend from OCS.

You are correct that it comes not via Russian but via Czech:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=robot
TL;DR
"According to this model, we should expect Sanders to win California by a significant margin, roughly 150 delegates. Sanders should also win North Dakota and Montana, although the number of counted Twitter users is small enough that an upset wouldn’t be surprising. Clinton has a slight lead in New Jersey, while Sanders has a slight lead in New Mexico. Currently Sanders is behind by about 290 delegates, and could catch up by as much as 230 delegates during the June 7 primaries. While this is not enough to overtake Clinton in pledged delegates, it does approach the uncertainty estimates. An upset would be unlikely, but not completely out-of-the-question."
Also, it can conveniently turn your run-of-the-mill XSS bug into remote code execution! Welcome to 2016, everybody.
Manjaro Linux 16.06 Daniella Released
Some human languages actually work this way though. Nouns are always capitalized in German (not just proper nouns as in English). This is sort of a "syntax highlighting" in a way. Actually tying it to programming languages, the reason why some older languages made keywords mandatory upper case was to make them easy to spot in a listing before editor syntax highlighting was a thing.
Most of the time when you "read" code you explicitly want to parse form and skim over thousands of lines to get a gist of where to drill down. All the anti arguments on this article almost show a complete inverted understanding of common requirements.
If anything mathematics quantified humans rather than the other way around. That being kinda the spirit of the game.

Humans have been figuring out logically necessary consequences ever since they deserved the name human -- and thus doing maths. In this tradition, people like the Babylonians got useful, nontrivial, interesting mathematical results.

But I think "real maths" means proving things up to a dogmatically persnickety, seemingly insane, standard of rationality. And that seems to have begun with the Pythagoreans in Greece, about 2600 years ago.
LISA Pathfinder exceeds expectations
The title was incorrect before (suggested UDP was used; it's not). dang just reverted to the article's actual title.
> For you to calculate externalities, you'd need to be able to assign costs. What's the cost of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? You can't calculate something like that.

You are wrong.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/pricing-carbon
> But if the human hasn't actually flown in months or years the'll likely be kind of rusty.

Cruising at altitude is not that hard. I'd be far more concerned if they were interfering with the various Instrument Landing Systems during inclement weather.

> Every, say hour you do it manually buys you a few hours of autopilot.

Most pilots already hand-fly in clear weather during landing and takeoff by default; somewhat for the reasons you suggest, but it's also the safer as it actively maintains pilot situational awareness.

You're generally only going to use the A/P during cruise, departure and approach or during instrument flight conditions.
You can pry syntax highlighting away from my cold dead body.

The author obviously hasn't spent much time coding.
If it works it is clearly just luck there there is a cheaper and cleaner energy source available. At some time there will be a threat that will always be cheaper and then we are out of luck.
Did anyone previously own the URL and do anything shady with it?
I like that the design is open-source but it is just putting seeds in the ground and watering them. That is not a complex task. I believe this http://openag.media.mit.edu/ is a better system for food growth.
Probably nowhere near the momentum from the cost of renewables generation falling so quickly. Cash is king.
I can't help but imagine the brain doing dependency injection to swap in mock walking implementation. :D
I completely believe the author's test results.

However...

> One class of network packets is broadcast packet [...] a major difference from regular unicast packets [...] the access point is no longer able to choose a speed according to the channel quality between the access point and the single recipient

What's that last part? Why not?

WiFi standards mandate the access point to transmit the broadcast packet at the lowest speed

Oh, I see. Wait, no I don't. The author implies that 802.11 is IP aware. Dubious to me, but ok, I'll google that... Aaaand, sorry, none of the titles of the top hits convinced me.

I think that 802.11 is analogous to ethernet. That is, it's link-level and TCP just happens to work over it. I don't think the AP changes transmit speed to all connected clients just because somebody sends UDP packets to 255.255.255.255... Especially since not every client has to have an IP address to be connected to the wifi!

If the author had some C code which contained 'FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF', I would have accepted the whole thing without a second thought. :)

> Since each channel refers to a single wireless frequency, this would affect all WiFi networks on the same channel, even if the stations are connected to other access points.

Probably the author meant "have some performance impact" instead of "affect" there. Affect makes it sound like the same broadcast-related phenomenon (still dubious to me) is occurring between other APs.

In short, I believe that the author has caused the little device to slow down "the wifi", but I'm gonna have to see some packet dumps to believe the explanation of 'why'.

(Probably that tight loop generates X packets per second, enough to saturate the channel, and the slowdown is just due to an ordinary flood.)
Depends on what you mean by "matter exists". The way I look at it, only consciousness exists, physical world is just a mental model consistent with what we perceive (see, hear) through consciousness / mind / subjective experience.
Ever use vi/emacs/nano/etc? Pretty sure not everybody who doesn't like syntax highlighting only uses notepad ;).
Interesting. I wonder how this starts competition between Facebook and Twitch. Twitch is a form of community and social network, so is Facebook trying to compete for this attention? My guess is yes.
Agree it's a puff piece, but the full quote you took that from is "General Motors announced that battery costs for its 2016 Chevrolet Bolt had fallen to USD 145/kWh by October 2015, and that it hopes to reduce costs below the USD 100/kWh mark by 2022 (GM, 2015, EV Obsession, 2015). The electric car manufacturer Tesla aims to break the USD 100/kWh mark by 2020 (HybridCARS, 2015)."

Also, in reading some of the background on the numbers, journalists seem to be failing (surprise!) to distinguish between $/kWh per battery cell vs battery pack.
You can absolutely calculate that. There is an entire sub-field of economics devoted to doing just that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics

And it is pretty obviously the right way to think about the problem, if you spend two seconds considering it:

The environment is a public good. Which means that it is owned by all of us. Which means that when it is harmed, we have all lost something of value. Therefore, the people doing the harm owe us money in the same way that Subway owes you money if they accidentally put arsenic in their meatballs. Why do places like Subway so rarely have arsenic in their meatballs? Because it imposes an enormous cost on them, so they optimize their business to avoid that cost. If environmental pollution entailed similar costs, businesses would optimize those costs away (to the extent possible).

This is ultimately a far more effective solution than any regulation ever could be. It's just a matter of choosing the right price. Because then what you have is the ability for private individuals to make a living for themselves rooting out cheaters and suing them in court. The system becomes self-policing because everyone's monetary incentives are aligned with the environment, and it is all mediated by one very simple, elegant idea: property rights.

The environment is our collective property and right now private individuals and entities are destroying it for free. That is simple theft, and fixing the enforcement of those rights is the solution.
They could charge for support, custom designs, consulting etc or sell fully built systems or kits. There are still plenty of options.
Three steps to predictable software delivery – Part 2 – Empowering the people
I disagree with the article for two reasons:

1. Many computer-illiterate users always click to switch from one input to another, so clicking on a select does not make them much slower

2. Many users are not aware that the text part of a radio button is actually clickable and will loose time precisely aiming at the round circle to select it. And they are unfortunately often right to aim at the circle because of the many loosely design pages which do not make the text part of a radio button clickable.
I wonder what this will do to ground-based GPS users. Aviation doesn't really need GPS; aircraft have multiple other systems. But phones, cell towers, and other devices have no other position input. Car navigation systems may become lost. We now get to see which GPS units have enough smarts to detect inconsistent data.
Even my family lived in India for many decades. The most common refrain culturally is "Don't get involved. It will end up becoming a police case!"

The police are under pressure to resolve the case and the first person to be taken into custody is the good samaritan.

This is the issue with reports like this - they pick one or two such statistically rare case

No! This is not a rare thing. This is common knowledge. I think the real issue is people trying to put it under the rug because they don't want their country to lose "honor" on a globally popular news site.
And don't forget the costs of all the overseas entanglements associated with securing fossil fuel supplies.
It will break if there is no revision, or a non-absolute commit ID (such as a branch or tag). An absolute commit ID link will continue to work.
Would you mind filing an issue with an example article: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/new

This is definitely not a known issue.

Edit: We can repro and filed https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/3481
It might be a bug in Google News (Because Google Search is fine), but we'll track it in AMP.
That goes some way to explaining the mechanics, but there's still a vital last step needed to take it from a simulation process to an actual experience of that simulation.

You seem to be describing that step as "representation of attention", but I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.
Yes, and that's your opinion. Not mine. Not his.

It's an opinion piece, but you and just about everyone in this thread is writing as if their opinion is a fact that trumps his opinion. Stop that :(.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Are different opinions really that bad?
As someone mentioned you are not a marketplace for independent customers. Beware the customer satisfaction is not the only metric that you should be looking at. Especially in South Korea. Do not contribute to the Choson hell please.
Bitrot Detector's second beta version was released
> Investigating copyright infringement

> Adam McGaughey, the webmaster of a fan site for the television show Stargate SG-1, was charged with copyright infringement and computer fraud. During the investigation, the FBI invoked a provision of the Act to obtain financial records from the site's Internet Service Provider.

I never heard this one before. Using terrorism laws to investigate copyright infringment on a scifi TV show fan site.

A running theme in these cases:

> Millions of phone records were harvested, fed into a database and were searched for patterns of calling to and from numbers of known terrorists. To date, there have been no announced arrests from this program. [..] Furthermore, this information is databased and maintained indefinitely by the FBI.
Also a lot of the time you are ignoring things like int or float because it isn't helpful unless the algorithm specifically needs it. So you read the declarations and just ignore everything after that as the color gives you a clue not to read 'for' for the billionth time.
Eventually we're going to go through some version of the "Great Filter" like wet tofu through a shredder, but this gives me hope that it won't be in our lifetimes.
Hi, I wrote the integrated terminal. The advice mentioned will open 32-bit version of Powershell, for 64-bit you need to use a different path:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"

C:\WINDOWS\sysnative should be a symlink to C:\Windows\SysWOW64, see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7095#issue-157913... for more info
In the HAM bands FCC still has some provisions for intent. I.E. if you don't follow a local coordinating band plan the FCC can fine you. Even though they don't have an explicit law for band plans.

I wonder if there's a similar law for the unlicensed bands.
>I'm confused as to how Facebook even comes into this discussion.

Facebook often comes up because they curate, suppress, or block some users' comments/photos. Their discretion is framed as a "free speech" issue. Facebook is big so they've become a sort of common "placeholder" for a non-government private entity that limits users' expression. Also, Facebook was mentioned several times in the article that this thread is about.

>As your thoughts on the right of free expression; depending on your feelings about the United Nations, they disagree with you:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : Article 19 : Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;

The UDHR Article 19 is also about preventing government oppression in similar spirit to the USA First Amendment about "freedom of speech". (See my other comment about UDHR's origins and intended audience.)

People are quoting it out of context and applying it as if it was some universal "free speech without any consequences from non-government actors" proclamation.
Basically review system is very effective one to maintain high quality.
Not only review system, we are adopting insurance plan for our customers and cleaners. That is also attractive point for high experienced freelancer cleaners.
We believe there are plenty of ways to keep our customers happy.
Tesla consumes a small fraction of global lithium-ion battery production. When the overall market is much larger than the marginal consumption, the assumption that offering more money increases local supply holds perfectly well. Even if you assume that Tesla is demanding 5% of the battery market which would be an outside estimate that's still well within the region where paying more will get you more.
Thus solving the problem forever.

Interestingly, I read it in a Theodore Roosevelt biography, but dug the numbers back up on the internet. In Boston circa 1870, the density of horses was around 700 per square mile.
These languages stopped being simpler when type inference became mainstream in statically typed languages about ten years ago.
How do you do this? I didn't know there was a way to temporarily disable the GC for specific blocks.
Thanks for commenting this! Yes, we just got a huge surge of traffic and our site crashed. Haha it should be up now. I'll be monitoring it. - Rory (founder at farmbot.io)

(And yes, that is our entry on Hackaday!)
From life sentence to White House guest: One ex-con's startup story
Coal is killing a million people a year right now. Is it really "soon enough"?

You can't precisely calculate the costs of the externalities, but you can estimate it decently. A tax based on a decent estimate would be far better than just saying "zero cost, everybody gets to pollute for free" and then trying to patch it up with regulations as we do now.
I might have strange requirements for a server, but I need rdma, verbs, libfabric... Is there any way to use them in an idiomatic way in go?
Does adblock catch these? Shouldn't it?
Cloudflare: Supporting the transition to IPv6-only networking services for iOS
Well epistemology is hard, which is why I said "believe".

However, the evidence for materialism is that many different consciousnesses exist, and seemingly come into being and cease during the temporal process of the physical world. That would seem to suggest that the consciousnesses are functions of the physical world, rather than vice versa. (Unless you're a solipsist?)
Not this again.

"A case against traffic lights having colors. You should just pay more attention to what each dot means"
The idea is that syntax highlighting frees up the brain from doing tedious things like analyzing syntax, to use them on a higher level.

Less strain on the brain, so to speak.
I really want a content-addressed storage system with differential compression to solve this problem.

I was browsing through dat for awhile, but haven't caught up with it lately:

https://github.com/maxogden/dat

Basically disk is so cheap that you should just keep 2 or 3 copies of your data around. And then you can sync them really quickly and do the processing on any one of N machines.