skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. We still have no evidence that consciousness exists off of Earth. The scariest solution to the Fermi paradox is that we are in fact alone, or at least first.

One can even stop just short of solipism and consider the possibility that humans are the only consciousness in the universe.

Granted, this is just a possibility, perhaps a very small one. But we know so little about such things.

My point is that you may have far more of an effect on Consciousness than you think.
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Fixed, appreciate letting us know.
Serious question: Is Swift actually getting any traction?

I saw the flurry of excitement when it was announced, but it seems the interest around this language has fallen off a cliff. Am I supposed to be excited about its intrinsic features or am I only supposed to be excited if I'm firmly locked inside Apple's garden? Should I learn this instead of Rust/Ocaml/Elixir to further my skills independently of any Apple-oriented motivations?
Zoning laws.
> private individual insurance policies are about the same price

Not for `zrail: pre-ACA, insurers charged high-risk buyers like him/her much higher-than-average premiums based on their medical history. Now that's not allowed.
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Not the OP of the article. Just wanted to get perspective from Haskell devs on the points raised in the article.
Likewise, San Jose downtown has height limitations due to the proximity of SJC.
I personally eat only meat from which I know where it comes from. Which means I do not eat a lot of meat or eggs or milk, but when I (we) do, it will be from animals who had a good life. Like my chickens and my neighbors goats and sheep. Even if that is not feasible for you, most of us on HN do not need to eat animals who were packed in tight trucks, fed crap and otherwise tortured until they die in massive amounts. If you pay more and pay attention you will not only have better quality (I can taste the difference anyway), but also you can look your pets in the eye instead of being a hypocrit. I really do not miss meat and will eat it if I incidentally find it and I have chickens for eggs myself. They have names and they will live to be very old in my garden. I never try to convert anyway: I believe that most people have this when they watch a video of a meat factory but just turn their heads. Sad but I am sure I cannot change it besides give nice alternatives. Which are there for a bit more money and some care.
Here is a chrome extension - Honey - that deals with coupons.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/honey/bmnlcjabgnpn...
> It needs to know when the repo is updated (e.g. GitHub’s webhooks)

post-receive hooks work well for this. I use them to push changes from my laptop up to my server and GitHub (which I use as a free mirror). My server uses a post-receive hook to regenerate a HTML view of the repo.

> has to publish its results somewhere (e.g. GitHub’s commit statuses)

Git has really good email integration.
This one may be undecidable and thus approving, per Hitchen's logic :/
> for the first time in my life, everything in my head finally shut the fuck up

Sounds remarkably similar to what happens as a result of various techniques of meditation - but, of course, I've no way to tell whether it's actually the same thing.
There are things you are not allowed to do even on your own property for very good reasons, e.g. storing radioactive waste.

Limits on building height can make sense in some places, even if not in this particular case.
So there are two issues that are touched on here, which are not really expanded enough.

1) farmers everywhere are allowed to use last line/new antibiotics routinely in food production. This is utterly fucking stupid. Whats more brain dead is that its not just china its US and canada. (possibly the EU.) It could be stopped by the FDA withdrawing the license. but no. Too much money.

2) over subscription in private health.

I once listened to a co-worker phone up the Doctor and ask to have "the same antibiotics I had last time for that cold" and get it[1]. She had the fucking snuffles. No consultation, not even bothering to figure out if its even got a hint of bacterial infection.

A placebo would have been more effective. It wouldn't have given her the shits either. Paracetamol is what was needed, as its the only thing that would have made her feel better.

Seriously. yes I know that the customer is always right, but don't fucking dish out drugs like sweets. My old age, and my children's health are dependent on those drugs.

[1] yes this was in the USA, santa monica to be precise. Yes I'm british. However the prevalence of prescription medication abuse and deaths is a massive fucking warning. Something is horridly wrong with the US's health care system.

What surprises me is with the levels of litigation against doctors, this hasn't seemed to trigger any change in behaviour.

Disclosure: I live with a doctor.
I could see the whole operation moving over near LinkedIn's new digs near Maude...Microsoft's "campus" off of Shoreline is definitely "meh". Microsoft seems to be investing elsewhere for new digs anyway; they have a new building on the Sunnyvale side of Moffett.
Being a semi-Google company, maybe the server code is written in Python, that's why the servers are always overloaded 8-)
It's never funny.

I did see someone accidently use it while editing a wiki page once.

Would have been funny, except it made the page pretty much impossible to read properly and I needed to read it.
It would be perfect if it would support MathJax markdown syntax
Cities know tech companies have more leverage than them. Moving headquarters is hard, but expanding to a second new headquarters is doable.
> The next steps will actually be France will give up its seat and the EU will take it up.

[citation needed]
Click bait
And 111 Eighth Avenue, Google’s NYC headquarters, is 2.9 MM square feet (I think Google only occupies about a third of the building so far).
Everything in orbit is hurtling towards Earth, just "horizontally" fast enough at the same time to keep missing it. :)
Go checkbook
Another document from this bubbly time is this NYT article from July 1958, on a demo of Rosenblatt's perceptron ("NEW NAVY DEVICE LEARNS BY DOING") -- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01E4D8173DE...

"Perceptrons might be fired to the planets as mechanical space explorers."
Ask HN: Favorite Networking Links? Help a TA
Hello HN! I will be TAing a course on Networking next semester, and my goal is to be able to complement each topic with some cool demonstration, application or article. Here is the course schedule: http://www-inst.cs.berkeley.edu/~cs168/fa15/
I've been mainly browsing HN for links, and here are some interesting ones I came across:

Passive TCP/IP Geo-Location - http://geoloc.foremski.pl/

DNS Enumeration - https://github.com/darkoperator/dnsrecon

"Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195

The History of the URL: Domain, Protocol, and Port - https://eager.io/blog/the-history-of-the-url-domain-and-protocol/

Levels of Abstraction: Net, Web, Graph - https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Abstractions.html

I'd love to see what cool things you all have found. Anything interactive is a big plus! (Also, there was this one site that talked about designing very efficient netcode for syncing two computers in this 3D visualizer with flying red cubes. I have unfortunately been unable to find it.)
Perhaps link directly to the (2011) video rather than this contentless blog post with an embed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
C. Alexander in _Notes on the Synthesis of Form_, rather explicitly puts forth the essential architectural problem in a semiformal form - a constraint satisfaction problem.

The closest application of CSP-like problems in places close to statistics-land is in neural networks, where Rumelhart published in multiple places that the objective of neural networks, including the backprop net that he reinvented, was soft CSP. So actually, there is probably a path towards formal equivalence.

Of course, there's a disgustingly large amount of work done on the analogies between CSP and Ising model at criticality, because you only need to look at the damned things (compare to Hopfield model). The other path is to look at R. Sole's work on munging for power law-ish things in software. So physical methods for software are actually quite old hat (from the 90's). It's just that it's all really fucking hard condensed matter stuff.

This is quite close to Huberman's work at PARC about networks and stuff, which led to the different Adamic and Huberman munging for power laws in networks and Internet things.
Following Minimum Wage Increases, Unemployment Spikes Among Black Male Teens
Or is it just easier to identify the most important thinkers retrospectively, than in the moment?

For example let's ask the HN masses: who do people think is the smartest person alive today? What work have they done / are they doing?
After reading about the history of the deal, my gut is Linkedin comes out way ahead. They dumped the distraction of a complex real-estate deal and dumped a real-estate strategy that was probably hatched around the time of its IPO. A lot has changed since then.
> As an Irishman, I've always thought even of the nationalists up north as a different breed; their mentality is defined by what they're in opposition to. Toxic politics; everything is looking inward rather than forward.

This is very true. It might not be true everywhere but many of us find the Northern Irish to be a different breed. I can see the NI identity potentially resolving itself into a separate country proper.

To be honest this may go back much further than any English/Irish conflict. I remember reading in a historical fiction derived from the Annals of the Four Masters about Brian Boru becoming the High King and the clear differences observed between Southerners and Ulster, and that's over a thousand years ago.

To non-Irish-folk: Yes, just like the North in Game of Thrones. The English, Scots and Irish alone have enough intrigue and violence to sate even George R.R. Martin!

Here's a tale from my clan that sounded quite GOT-like. Irish people are known for using colourful metaphors and this time it caught up with one of them.

Once upon a time a man was raiding cattle. Cows were money in those days and 'accidentally' collecting them from the valley of your neighbours was more or less irresistible for many a ruffian.

The cattle raider passed into the Forest with cow in tow to escape from any pursuers. It is ancient forest with great big tree trunks and everything to be seen is an ocean of green, maybe something like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aapamire/4371421987/in/photost...

Newly confident in his new possession the thief comes to a glen, it is a long, deep, narrow valley. As soon as the cow makes an appearance the raider is surprised. He flees but is pinioned to the floor. Unbeknown to him, my relatives had been waiting for him at the other side of it.

"No!" he cries, "Sure it is only a head of cattle I were borrowing and don't I have wife and child to feed or they shall go hungry this night. God forgive me! My wife will be so angry if I don't have my hand on the door by midnight. I swore an oath I'd be back this evening! Please show a man mercy!"

My relative replied: "By God this is serious! Sure you can not be breaking oaths!"

So they took him back to his cottage and nailed his hand to its door.
Well, the 2K HR employees wont be sitting around in offices doing nothing, that's for sure.

But still, the ratio is counter intuitive to me as the usual recommendations look vastly different.

I'm curious to learn why Linkedins business model requires this amount of HR employees.

If somebody knows, please let me know!
what does democracy in Russia or Putin have to do with this? you think a western or whatever state would never pass such a law?
Lua can't be multithreaded in any real sense (by "real", I mean "OS threads"). If Squirrel can that's a big advantage.
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I built a nice blue shelter to ride this one out.
Cool thanks! As always, so much work to do...
Whether or not something is "clever" as opposed to annoying or obtuse depends heavily on context. In the context of a production programming environment, it's all about cost/benefit. Does it reduce the team's cognitive load? At what cost?
I don't know enougth about it. I have stumbled on it before, but I need to get into it.
I'm heading to the garden with a spade now!
the thing is...as long as its a frame inside the app i have zero way of knowing whether im actually looking at googles login page, or if niantic is reading the traffic/javascript. At least when I get bounced out to safari I only have to trust apple, which I already implicitly do.
In my experience it's either one of the following:
a) spend (at least) 15-20 years at X company and hope to ride some waves, get lucky, to rise to the top/executive level but most likely get stuck in middle management with crappy comp
b) switch every 2/3 years, probably not rise as high, but keep up with market wages and have a more diverse experience
> What restricts someone from constructing a tall building?

Building codes.

> ...I can do whatever I what with it right? Who can stop me [...] The United States is a free country right?

You are dangerously close to setting the bozo bit (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SetTheBozoBit).
To my mind that's a shitty title, and a lightweight article.

The Washington Post pieces, linked to from the OP, is better :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06...

Here is the paper that both sources reference :
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01281190
This is a fairly well known thing in all programming communities that matter, but it was good to see it pointed out once again.

However, I would argue that the classic guarded function using modulo would actually be clearer. It takes a moment to follow the logic of cycling up an infinite list, and modulo statments are far clearer and easier to understand to most people, I would say. In addition, it's easier to change than either of the above, and equally declarative: modulo is a declarative operation as is a guard: when x % 3 is zero, it IS fizz.
If you're changing the syntax, why not take the time to fix having to use `local` everywhere instead of making things local by default?
Yeah, I know, but I guess I don't share his view on that.
The amount of BS that Castro spouts during this interview is laughable. His ideology and theories have ruined a nation and imprisoned the minds of millions of it's citizens. The funniest part of all is that almost 60 years later Cuba is in shambles and the government still speaks in this way.
> It would be much nicer if religious people would only use religion to measure those who are part of it, not those who are outside.

In my experience, they do focus most of that measurement internally. Christians attend Sunday morning sermons, weekly Bible studies, confess their sins to one another, read the Bible, read books on Christian living, etc. all in an attempt to measure themselves against the tenets of their faith. The Christian faith even talks about the ways in which Christians should be more strict on fellow members of the Church than on outsiders.

But if you genuinely think you've found salvation and meaning, isn't it kind of selfish to keep that to yourself?
A while ago I read a proposal by airbus for an electric airliner. They speculated that batteries could be recharged on the way back down from altitude. If you want to recover energy, you;ll need those empty batteries.
I thought it could, but I think I might have been wrong... Nope, just coroutines. Sorry for being wrong. However, as it is small and embeddable, it's trivial to spin up multiple instances of the interpreter. But Lua and TCL are just as good at that.
I agree that Peanuts isn't funny, but it's darker than it looks. If happiness is a warm puppy in the Peanuts-verse, it's because people are often cruel and hateful, and life is full of endless disappointment. Just like Garfield, really, in that it's supposedly light fare that's deeply melancholic under the surface.
So how does addiction work?
> We still have no evidence that consciousness exists off of Earth.

We still have no objective definition of consciousness that would let us determine what it is that would be evidence that consciousness exists, on or off of Earth.
Are we talking about happiness or pleasure? A days-long orgasm might be an incredible physical experience, but I doubt the feeling would be the same as seeing my daughter walk for the first time, or achieving a long-sought personal goal.
Same goes the other way round. There were some LinkedIn buildings in SV, but the connection to the MV headquarters wasn't really there.
Thanks for that feedback Cypres. We're still working on a few known issues that have come to light today. iOS in particular has been a bear.
I had no idea people actually tried stuff like this.
It was some JavaScript injected into the WebView that automatically clicked confirm and sent a message to reposition the WebView offscreen as soon as that happens.
I have dealt with my fair share of strange and demanding clients as a consultant. I still have 2 on-going saga's I am dealing with after a year of my last company being sold.

Copyright can be more tricky then you think. IANAL of course, but unless stated otherwise my understanding is you as the creator own the copyright to the works, until you transfer it in written form to the client. This is unless you have a contract that states different. Also, this get's interesting because it can also change potentially how the IRS sees the work product and who should pay taxes on your fees etc. Work for hire vs Employee issues etc.

For the future, never leave something unstated, always clearly state it in plain english and in writing. Leave no chance of gray area or undefined ownership or payment terms. Ambiguity leads to nothing but trouble.

For the current situation, it is possible that they have a case against you for tortuous interference (or something else) if by taking down the site you affected client's which pay for the service or have a service level expectation to the company. Essentially, that is saying if you interfered with the relationship of their clients whom have a service agreement with them then you could possibly be held liable for damages and/or real losses.

Again, IANAL and you should get one to help answer some questions cause I think you are on shaky ground here. In the end, never ever shut down or remove software unless you have spoken with an attorney first, as you can be seen as damaging a business. It may sound shitty, but your real course of action would have been to sue them for a lack of payment and maybe seek an injunction against their using any software which they haven't paid for, but by removing things, you may have made yourself liable for damages and given them a case against you. Get an attorney to talk to you, won't cost much to get some feedback. Likely if they haven't sued yet, they feel they are on shaky ground for some reason, so you can still probably sort this out and protect yourself.
Method Observed in Transfusing the Bloud Out of One Animal into Another (1666)
Before that it was more-or-less swamps and wetlands. Not beaches or real shorelines.
Clickbait trash
Agreed. Ingress had gameplay that was not only niche, but it was abstract and difficult to explain -- and THEN explain why it was fun. Pokemon is, not only a completely different game with different rules and objectives, but the gameplay is super accessible. I enjoyed Ingress, but I completely disagree that it's a "tragedy" that it (or other, often similarly convoluted games) didn't take off with a broader community like Pokemon has.

While I appreciate that the article exists, and think that its message (the apparent necessity of corporate branding to drive VR) is a good one to consider, their logic may have some holes. Pokemon is not just re-skinned Ingress.
Also, its grand-uncle (not great-uncle). You don't have a great-mother do you? Its a grandmother. Thus granduncle.
Time to start building my bunker I 'spose.
Thank you. Things like this are what make HN awesome :)
yeah, working democracies, except if something is national safety issue, then anything goes
True but there are now more renters than owners in the city so things will change.
You would use this in the same arena you'd use Lua, not where you'd use C. That is, you want something more flexible than compiled C for your particular application.

Why you'd use it over Lua, I haven't figured out yet, but I don't use either so I have no basis for comparison.
Some of your neighbours' rights may include not having a 100 floor tower go up next to them blocking all their sun, as an example.
Hi, as one of the devs who commented on your issue (and the one who closed it as "not our problem"), I empathize with your position and agree that it can be frustrating to deal with large complex projects with a lot of dependencies. If any of our comments contributed to your feeling less welcome or less empowered to use or help improve Octave, then I sincerely apologize.

I have personally been affected by more than a couple of ghostscript bugs that have drastically impacted my use of Octave over the years, either crashing, busy waiting, or memory grabbing. My first response has always been to start digging into ghostscript to find out why it's screwing me over and try to fix it myself or come up with a workaround.

Not making an excuse, just offering that for myself one of the immeasurable advantages of working with completely free software is that I feel empowered to at least try to identify and fix problems when they happen.
What's the equivalent of this[0] in Rust?

[0] https://golang.org/ref/spec
C++ Openings
It's probably much easier to involve Google when you are a Google spinoff company.
Disclaimer: I work for Checkbook.io

The problem we are trying to solve is paper Checks are still being to pay individuals/businesses. ACH doesn't work for paying out because the recipient needs to verify account (a painful process if micro-deposits are being used ) and there is a delay of 3 business days. Credit Cards charge 2.9%+ which doesn't scale for larger transactions.

Having a simple solution that can disburse funds overnight to the recipient with having to send out paper, sign up for some service or pay 2.9% is what we are building

Different than the traditional echecks since it allows instant verification and works with bank accounts that may not be ACH enabled e.g. Money Market Accounts, Small Banks/Credit Unions that may not be ACH enabled
Pleasant and interesting. Has anyone tried similar stuff with D?
The year is 2016. Glad to see somebody is disrupting checks!
I work there. They've expanded a lot. If my reckoning is right Google occupies 8/15 floors completely, and occupy fractions of a couple more floors.
I remember hearing about this case towards the end of Mad Men: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/04/16/don_draper_to...
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supporting Rails 5 and more. Go get it while it's still hot! https://rubygems.org/gems/exception_notification/versions/4.2.0