skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly a dumb question, but how are they grabbing Bluetooth MAC addresses? My understanding was that you only broadcasted you MAC address in discoverable mode, and that after pairing, MAC addresses are entirely forgone in favor of master-slave addressing and frequency hopping synchronization.
> Simply the act of postulating, of conceiving, of that kind of zombie universe is enough to strongly suggest that consciousness is something outside of the physical.

I don't think it is. You can conceive of a Penrose stair, but you can only believe it is physically possible if you don't understand it. We already know we don't really understand consciousness, yet, so I don't think you can draw conclusions from the possibility of imagining it to be one way or the other.
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I would imagine the same type of people that are maintaining Popcorn Time and the type of people cracking/seeding games currently.

The backend would be bittorrent, so it wouldn't require bandwidth. If all of the contributors would be sufficiently anonymous, lawyers and governments wouldn't matter either.

So it would just be an interface connected to a repository of curated torrents. Not trivial but not nearly as hard as you're making it out to be. I think the only reason it doesn't exist is that videogame pirates are largely content with their current system. That or no one capable of implementing it has had this idea.
I wouldn't say that unikernels were entirely undebuggable. I spent a few hours hacking and came up with a proof of concept dom0 profiler, and learned some debugging benefits: one symbol table for the entire binary, one place to turn on frame pointers for everything, etc.

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-01-27/unikernel-profil...
Of a sort. Other agencies can get that data from IRS, but they need to initiate the process, and they need a court order for that. So if they have a reasonable suspicion that someone is committing the crime, they can check that person's tax records; but they can't just trawl the tax return database and see who reported illegal activity.
I Was Able to Buy an AR-15 in Five Minutes
What's the difference between the first two?
I would use thunderbolt as it has DMA, create a CRC/F(x) cpu (external unit connected thru thunderbolt) that converts/encrypt code/data to a expected format by modified code generated by a compiler.
making act the intel cpu as surrogate to it, delegating control to the CRC/F(x) cpu.

Extra points, make all the cpus work, and create extra tasks to run at the non used cpus to obscure the actual process running (yeah I know it's not energy efficient but someones has to give Intel inspiration to improve).
Yep, I did. It still doesn't really change my view, especially on the front of operatability/debuggability. If you have ever operated really large services, you know how big of a problem the lack of that is.
Fentanyl is scheduled, so that's really not true.
We've gone full circle. Originally there was shared hosting whiched hosted your app in ring 3 with other users on the same physical machine running which ran in ring 0. Then we got fancy virtualization hardware where the hypervisor ran in ring -1, your VM ran in ring 0 and your apps ran in ring 3. But that's a lot of indirection so micro kernels move your app into ring 0. So now we're basically back at shared hosting where your app runs one level higher than the host OS. Except now your app also bundles a partial OS and has weak debugging tools. It does have better isolation though then shared hosting so that's a plus.

But containers are basically the same thing but with better debug support and a more familiar OS environment. Problem is containers need to be deployed on metal to be effective, not VMs. Unfortunately not many providers do this yet.

So yeah it is all kinda crazy.
"Starfighter is a new, weird kind of recruiting company. We detect and market underpriced programming talent. We do that by creating opportunities for programmers to casually and effectively demonstrate aptitude."

Having a hard time parsing this. Do you find underpriced talent and help them get paid more?
Some useful TAP resources here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-tap
Many database servers are not serving databases solely to themselves and have that port open as part of the normal course of operation.
Those people may not need a commercial driver's license any longer, making it a lower skilled job.
Why Microsoft, with $100B, Wants a Loan for LinkedIn
> They do not have to do exactly what real people do in a given situation.

But, by definition, they do have to do exactly what real people do. If they did not then there is no argument, everyone agrees this kind of zombie is very possible. The disagreement comes when Chalmers says they could exist and be indistinguishable (including asking about their inner experiences) from normal people.

> I can postulate a universe in which my molecules and everyone else's have been precisely duplicated from this universe in physical terms. I can postulate that in that universe there is no such thing as conscious experience; no qualia or whatnot.

This is actually quite a concise definition of the dualist position, the material argument is basically that being identical physically is to have identical qualia.
I'm somehow reminded of the Monty Python line about building castles in a swamp:

> When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, son, the strongest castle in all of England.

SpaceX may be doing things in a slightly different order, but maybe eventually all of their castles, er, rockets are going to stay up on the landing pad. :-)
How so? They aren't reusing the rockets...we don't even know if they are in a reusable state.
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But we're not talking about infrared cameras or wall-penetrating radar or even directional antennas... just cameras that have the same limitations as a human standing on the street corner.

That, in itself, does not constitute stalking or invasion of privacy.

If we pass laws saying "No cameras in public," or "No stationary cameras in public," or "No cameras capable of storing more than X megabytes of image data per day in public," or "No public cameras equipped with OCR capability," then we will handicap ourselves far more than we will the police. (Who will, in any event, simply ignore any laws they find inconvenient.)
It depends on your definition of "drug dealer". Companies that operate in the open under state laws that legalized weed normally do report their income and pay federal taxes on it, despite the activity being illegal on federal level.
"100% Organic, Certified Medellín Cartel"
Wait, what? A perl app distributed through NPM? What's next, a node app on CPAN?

Color me perplexed.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3545
> Simply the act of postulating, of conceiving, of that kind of zombie universe is enough to strongly suggest that consciousness is something outside of the physical.

By the act of postulating that kind of universe, you have defined consciousness to be something outside the physical.
The canon of the new testament was effectively decided for the western church (at least) at the regional councils of Rome, Hippo, and Carthage in the late fourth century. I don't know anything about this particular text, but the canon had been established for centuries by this point.

(Yes, I know it wasn't officially decided in an ecumenical council until Trent in 1545, but those three councils effectively settled the question, given the importance of the regions involved.)
Not at all. There is quite a lot of EU funding in Switzerland going on as they are very closely associated. It's been reduced bit in recent yours though because of the political developments in Switzerland.

Anyway, there is also a lot of EU funding in countries much farther removed, see e.g. Horizon 2020 which is the most important EU science fund http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding...
Susie works making crud apps for a boring insurance company. She is a brilliant programmer but due to where she lives, personal situations, she hasn't faced a challenge that lets her know the extent of her abilities, etc, she is working below her potential.

Susie creates a novel solution to one of Stockfighter's games. Stockfighter uses that solution as evidence to present her to companpanies as a great engineer. She gets job offers for more money, challenge, and satisfaction than she currently has.
"Orlando gunman used Sig Sauer MCX, not AR-15"

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_30016806/orlando-...

Just for the record.
Can't argue that it's fraudulent, but if those addresses truly are "dark" and it's not possible to contact the owners, maybe it's not so bad that they're doing this?
At least it's a policy that ensures only very well-performing vehicles are reused.
The name is "automatic programming", or at least it was by the times the books available at the library in my undergrad were written (what was much earlier than my undergrad).

Genetic programming in special is very interesting, and worth reading about.
As the presenters repeatedly said throughout the livestream, even when the landing fails it is a great source of data to integrate into future landing attempts.

So far it doesn't appear that the landings have failed for the same reason twice. Not learning from past mistakes is really the only failure.
That's hilarious, and a great comparison too. They'll get there! Fortunately they've figured out how to get paid even if they fail, so they can take their time getting it to work.
A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm – 30 Years Later*
Getting Concord on the DC/OS Universe
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A very useful link for more on this subject is at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[1], which is a fantastic resource for overviews of philosophical subjects.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
> It's uncomfortable for some people to realize a purely material world can give rise to objective experience, but there is a lot of evidence that suggests this is true.

You're committing the same mistake putzdown is, but in the opposite direction. There's only evidence if you assume that this is a purely material world.

Or are you counting philosophical argument as "evidence"?
Not only that, they've got a pretty interesting attitude to user information in general.

http://imgur.com/a/TVVXq

Here's a ticket conversation between the CEO of ramnode and a customer where the CEO Nick essentially attempts to extort the customer for information on one of his friends (me)
> "I thought the various Churches had consolidated around the canonical bible centuries before then?"

The Bible canon was at least semi-established in around the 2nd century, and by the end of the 4th century the canon was very stable. There were still ongoing disagreements between branches of the church, but never over whether a "new" writing should be included, always over writings from the first or possibly early second centuries, or older Jewish writings. An 8th century writing would not have warranted much attention.

IMO the non-canonical "gospels" from after ~150 AD are uninteresting. The interesting stuff, outside of the canon, are the really old writings ( http://earlychristianwritings.com/ ) and the commentary/teachings of early church leaders (http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html ).
Interesting trick.
Joyent's tech is very good, don't me wrong, but I think this is a bit harsh.

- lx-branded zones and window's new layer are both doing system call translation---you're post doesn't contradict this but doesn't make it clear either.

- At some point lx-branded zones where equally untested.

- "Desktop class" is misleading because NT was designed for servers. Now yes Windows as a whole is hamstrung by a business model putting desktops and backwards-comparability first, but by definition the Linux layer can ignore a lot of Win32 precedent.

- Yes Illumos is Unix and NT isn't, but the difficulty in translating linux systems calls lies not with the ones backing posix-interfaces, but the Linux-specific ones. (Joyent devs can give you some great horror stories here.) It may be a bit harder with NT but it was hard already.
No. Aspartame and Sodium Benzoate have been scientifically tested to be generally safe, but they must be listed on the label. No two genetic modifications are the same, and aren't all just inherently safe. They are safe because each one has been tested. You are making a logical error when you compare genetic modifications to DNA. DNA is just four amino acids, and the arrangement doesn't change the nutritional content. What if you made a GMO apple with no sugar that contained aspartame. Should that not be labeled? Different genetic modifications can produce different results, from increasing vitamins to creating toxins. It's NOT the same.
I'd long wondered what would happen if you superimposed two lasers, say, offset so that they would cancel each other out over their whole trajectory. It seemed like a violation of conservation of energy, but if "paired photons" like this are considered to still exist despite being "cancelled out" it makes more sense.

Which raises an interesting question- are paired photons a candidate for dark matter? The paper might discuss this, but from an I'm-at-work-and-also-a-layman glance I can't make much of the sections on the vacuum and inertia.
[SpaceX's Musk: We'll reuse today's Falcon 9 rocket within 2 months • The Register](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/09/falcon_9_rocket_reus...)
These are huge! Why not use little ones?
I have no idea why it's here except for an interesting topic with research involved.

As to it being irritating to believers, I don't understand why. Jesus was a rabbi. In this story he married a believer. Rabbis traditionally married devout women. But what do I know? I'm just a believer that is also a de-aproned freemasons currently researching the rosicrucians.
It's pretty pedantic, and this is not true in all dialects and forms of English[0] - as evidenced by the fact that you have at least three other comments replying with different, conflicting answers to this question!

In any case, the comma basically indicates that the two words serve the 'same function', and that either one could be removed (along with the comma) while leaving the parsed structure of the sentence intact. That doesn't exactly mean that the meaning would be intact (you're removing a word, after all), but the way that you'd parse the rest of the sentence must remain identical.

At a practical level, this means that 'noncanonical Gnostic texts' translates to 'Gnostic texts which are also noncanonical'. 'noncanonical, Gnostic texts' means more or less the same thing, but also implies that there is a connection between the fact that they are noncanonical and the fact that they are Gnostic. This may be because the two are outright synonyms, or simply because they are often connected.

For example:

> heavy, red rocks

> heavy red rocks

It'd be weird to say 'heavy, red rocks', unless in context you had some reason to connect those two (such as those being identical sets, if all red rocks are heavy)[1]. Instead, you'd say that the red rocks are heavy - in other words, "the (heavy (red rocks))".

Also, note what I did with the opening paragraph of this response. 'different, conflicting answers' (because the answers are different, and they are conflicting, and the way I am using the word 'different' is connected to the fact that they are (partly) 'conflicting')[2].

[0] ie, this is strictly limited to the stylistic rules of journals of record, such as the New York Times, and not necessarily applicable to the way those same writers/editors would write an email. Curiously, I believe this is true both in American English and in formal British English.

[1] 'The machine picks up all the heavy, red rocks and leaves behind the light, blue rocks' vs. 'The machine picks up all the heavy red rocks and leaves behind all the light red rocks and the blue rocks (whether they are heavy or light)'.

[2] Though the response which directly contradicted mine has since been deleted, but, uh, ignore that fact.
They say that even the "max damage" stage could fly again:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/734274360588926976
It'd be interesting to start buying these un-un-cripple-able CPUs for use domestically, for increased security and maximum irony.
So Haskell got you all of the following:

* GHC’s support for safe concurrent programming is world-class

* Sound type safety led to refactoring being a breeze

* Fun, stretches the mind (for some people)

* Perfectly reliable unit tests.

* Concurrent batched IO.

* Abstractions for things like timeouts and running tasks on other threads while correctly bubbling failures.

* Fantastic support for safely encoding and decoding JSON.

* One of the best benchmarking tools I’ve ever used.

And the complaints amounted to:

* Devs have to think more about which String representation to use

* Devs have to think more about syntactical differences from the more familiar C-derived languages

* The team has to support more backend platforms, duplicate infrastructure

* Not a mainstream language (harder to learn, hire for, bus factor)

* “at this stage in my career I don’t want another programming language”

75% were for and 25% were against. Frankly the only complaints worthy of serious response were infrastructure duplication and hiring/skill development/bus factor. The rest are people just being close-minded and lazy.
In my hastly typing i forgot to add 'in' to valid.

Could you elaborate on the oracle approach? Because I interpreted it as being the external observer in this case. From computational complexity I know that an oracle solves NP problems in polytime by a nondetermnistic turing machine, but I am not sure how this oracle stuff loops back to the philosphical argument.

The proof provided by Aaronson is really opague as to what and how it proves that the argument is invalid.
Any kind of modularity will result in people treating modules as black boxes, even when they are not. If you use a monokernel/hybrid that is OSS, then there might be plenty of code and you might treat it as a black box, but it is not a black box. If you use a microkernel, then the amount of code is likely even less. Microkernels exist that are formally verified and while unikernels cannot be formally verified without formally verifying the application that is a part of them. Formally verifying an application would be awesome, but few would ever do that.
Additionally, Stockfighter will get a placement fee for Susie from her new employer. This will allow Stockfighter to continue operations independently, and will let them help more Susies find better employment opportunities in the future.
The article calls them criminals, but they seem to be providing a valuable service...
I've been a Linode customer since January 2009 (so over 7 years now) and would recommend them to anyone. I have been concerned about some of the security issues, but at the same time impressed with other work from the team (the KVM switchover, large scale server upgrades, support experience has always been great for me).
Apache Tika is a text extraction toolkit. They store a wide selection of file types for their parser tests:
https://github.com/apache/tika/tree/master/tika-parsers/src/...

For large sets of some common media types take a look at the govdocs1 corpus:
http://digitalcorpora.org/corp/files/govdocs1/by_type/

For an odd example, sometimes a google search will turn something up.:
https://www.google.com/?q=filetype:xlsx
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It's going to become a social problem when people start knocking/shooting them down, covering them, or spraying the lenses.
Disappointing. I don't use Chrome, so for me it's difficult to even believe such thing is possible
I know, they are "extras". $144 p/a for 12 GB of disk space. $240 p/a for 360 "MB" of RAM...
> something of no importance

With a single swipe of your hand and no reasoning behind it, you ignore the fact that a large portion of society considers it to be important.
Why not sue the phone company? Electric utility? The store where they bought food? The gas station where they filled up? etc etc etc

This is nonsense of the highest order.
The forgot password link doesn't work for me in Chrome either, but I found this URL and it seems to work: https://www.stockfighter.io/ui/forgot_password
Rationally I feel like we have to accept a Daniel Dennett view: with what we know about the brain, all human behaviour is consistent with the laws of physics, and changing the brain very much changes "what it's like" to be - it doesn't take very many experiences with drugs, even alcohol, to realize this. Consciousness, then, has no explanatory power whatsoever. A lot of people argue at this point, but they have nothing substantial to stand on. Maybe they just want to believe that Free Will is something special.

However, I think the Hard Problem is a knot that can never go away. I notice physicists are willing to explain much of the properties of the universe (like time having a direction) just by saying there was a very specific initial condition, a very low entropy state that (by definition) is extraordinarily unlikely. So what about saying there's another constraint on conditions of the universe, where we have physical laws that create consciousness. Is this just an anthropic principle of some sort?

I was listening to Sean Carroll's "The Big Picture" audiobook. He argues that I can't really be sure I'm not a p-zombie. But I think I can: I'm with Descartes on this one - it's the one thing I actually _can_ be sure of. I'm sure I have an inner experience (that explains nothing scientifically to anyone else) but I can easily imagine not having it, with no change to the laws of physics.

Does anyone know of a good read that isn't full of jargon that fleshes out these ideas some more?
So "crims" (if they're criminals why isn't it a simple case of prosecuting them and confiscating their ill-gotten gains?) are making otherwise unusable IPv4s usable? That seems to be the bottom line to this story.
They kill more people simply because they're more popular. I don't think they're more dangerous per dose.
There is a satellite photo from 40min after the landing [1] and it looks like its still standing... So it might just have crushed the engines.

[1] https://twitter.com/deimosimaging/status/743153542362439680
The KCBD ones are fairly small.

And the Covert-Systems.com one is clever, but would take dangerous work to install properly. But then, it could maybe communicate via power grid.