skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just wanted to say that most people who study birdsong and bird calls wouldn't describe it as a "language" ...

Yes, I get that. And maybe they're looking too hard for something like human language. Maybe it's more like communication protocol. I mean, if you down-shifted Ethernet traffic and listened to it, would it sound like language?

> They're just communicating stuff like "this is my tree and I'm so manly I can sing in this tree for hours in the middle of the night".

Well, if you didn't know any human languages, and your system clock were really slow, maybe English would sound like that to you. So if I'm out dancing, I'm wasted, and I'm using earplugs, casual conversation does sound a lot like that to me ;)

> Along the same lines, I think birds are pretty close to us evolutionarily speaking. You're not the first person I've heard compare them to aliens, but their brains are actually a lot like ours.

Yes, I get that too. The basic layout is the same. But when reptiles and mammals diverged, their brains were much simpler, and arguably neither line was very intelligent. So brains and intelligence have evolved in parallel in birds and mammals. And maybe structural similarities just reflect the shared lineage.
Allegedly they have Power8 servers in their data centres:

Maire Mahoney, engineering manager at Google and now a director of the OpenPower Foundation, confirmed to The Next Platform that Google does indeed have custom Power8 machines running in its datacenters and that developers can deploy key Google applications onto these platforms if they see fit. Mahoney was not at liberty to say how many Power-based machines are running in Google’s datacenters or what particular workloads were running in production (if any).[1]

It's pretty unclear what that actually means, though.

[1] http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06/inside-future-google-...
I feel like a lot of the replies here are missing what's actually a quite subtle, thoughtful argument:

The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz made the point vividly in 1714. Perception or consciousness, he wrote, is “inexplicable on mechanical principles, i.e. by shapes and movements. If we imagine a machine whose structure makes it think, sense, and be conscious, we can conceive of it being enlarged in such a way that we can go inside it like a mill” — think of the 1966 movie “Fantastic Voyage,” or imagine the ultimate brain scanner. Leibniz continued, “Suppose we do: visiting its insides, we will never find anything but parts pushing each other — never anything that could explain a conscious state.”

...

Many make the same mistake today — the Very Large Mistake (as Winnie-the-Pooh might put it) of thinking that we know enough about the nature of physical stuff to know that conscious experience can’t be physical. We don’t. We don’t know the intrinsic nature of physical stuff..

We find this idea extremely difficult because we’re so very deeply committed to the belief that we know more about the physical than we do, and (in particular) know enough to know that consciousness can’t be physical. We don’t see that the hard problem is not what consciousness is, it’s what matter is — what the physical is.

People making computer analogies below are engaging in the exact fallacy the piece is arguing against. A turing machine is a mathematical model for symbolic manipulation, and yet it's assumed one could somehow "map" consciousness 1-to-1 onto such a machine. The fact we can't simulate a single protein fold on a supercomputer gives me real pause in believing we've begun to grasp or have the ability to digitally emulate the kind of tricks life used to bootstrap consciousness out of matter.

I know the "no real evidence" / "too warm & wet & macro" arguments against quantum consciousness, but that to me looks like by far the most fruitful path to investigate to break out of dualist/"eliminativist" dilemma we find ourselves in. Recent research on quantum biology already makes clear life makes is far more quantum than I think almost anyone would have believed possible a decade or two ago. Considering just photosynthesis, arguably no life as we know it on earth would be possible without clever non-classical hacks by nature.
Salt pork is usually used to add flavor to other dishes like beans or greens.
I think that when immigrants don't complain about poor conditions, many of them are making a reasonable cost-benefit analysis, considering the risks of retaliation, unemployment, deportation, etc. Changing the system to shift the costs and benefits would make a difference. Employers of these immigrants are also making a cost-benefit analysis. Even if only a few percent of exploited workers complained, a well-designed policy could make employing such workers untenable.
I believe that the terminal and the browser should be better integrated. We waste so much time daily context switching between the two that it's illogical not to smooth out this process. I build o-o with this in mind so that programmers everywhere can have a more seamless interaction with their computers.
There's nothing cloudy about this. I was doing the exact same thing 10 years ago with NAS setup and I'm confident there are many here who greatly predate me on this.

cmd+f backup (0 of 0).

Cloud as a buzzword is driving me nuts.
re: downvotes

i would assume most downvotes come from the context free buzzword bingo ad you just copy/pasted.

while alternative products are often great to suggest in threads, said suggestions usually at least attempt to alleviate some of the stated problems with the other product.

There's a nice list of issues in the parent post, which ones does your product solve, and how/why does it solve them?
But caffeine causes strong unpleasant withdrawal symptoms if you quit cold-turkey...
I can't really comment about your specific use case, but I would wonder why you are having to do these conversions and comparisons on the fly so much that you a full class dedicated to them and you don't have the the name normalized ahead of time. But I don't really know.

But like I've said in all my comments. There are times and places for all these maxims and rules to be broken. That's why programming is difficult, especially that is why finding the right abstraction so that it looks easy is difficult. The best programmers I know always seem to find that right balance and you look at their code and go "I could do that" when in reality you couldn't.
In what way do illegal immigrants get more welfare? I'm aware the some programs are restricted for legal immigrants (pending some waiting period or citizenship), but to my knowledge they are more restricted for those without legal status.
Evernote in the Cloud
Plus the accessibility story is a nightmare.
Why I'm writing a 16-bit Windows emulator
Could you describe the large-dose effects of each, if you have a moment?
Indeed. I was just playing with the python bindings.. I was able to build a prototype of what I am trying to do in a few minutes.

I'd prefer the kafka streams approach of deployment, but I suppose for just having it run on a single box this would work.
Fred Hiatt has run the Washington Post editorial page since 2000 and this editorial is entirely consistent with his past work. He's always pushed neoconservative positions and taken the word of sources like the House intelligence committee at face value. Amazon might well have financial interests in US intelligence, but it's very easy to imagine this same editorial being written with or without Bezos as the owner of the paper.
None of that addresses what I have said. I'm argueing about robustness in the absence of seeders.

Seeders are not abundant in all swarms. And nothing in the protocol guarantees their existence, and thus they do not contribute to intrinsic robustness.

Also, torrent clients that run in the background and consume few resources are hardly comparable to things that run in a browser tabs, user behavior will differ.
In her book "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas" [1] Natasha Dow Schüll also calls "the zone" the trance-like state of mind addicted players strive to prolong.

Like in programming, it is a state of mind driven by machine interaction.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13748038-addiction-by-de...
It's called a simulated game and it is used... sparingly at the major league level but very common in the minors either for rehab assignments or as training. There are also fancy pitching machines that can recreate different types of pitches at various speeds for hitters to work with in batting cages.

The answer is an unsatisfactory maybe. Pitchers good enough to throw game-quality pitches and do it often enough are already playing professionally for a team. And teams don't generally want any extra workload being put on their pitchers arms because (1) good pitching is rare and (2) it's expensive to develop (time to majors) and control ($$$ to retain).

Back to simulated games... Starting pitchers throw practice sessions between starts and teams might occasionally put hitters out there to take some cuts. Not sure it actually has a tangible benefit compared to just using a machine. My guess is no.

Edit:

I'll liken it a little bit to golf. Matches are a terrible way to get better at golf. You make the biggest gains through repetition work at the range. Getting your swing to be consistent, working on making good contact, etc. Good mechanics can turn you from a guy who shoots well over 100 to someone that shoots low 90's consistently.

But the range isn't a game situation. Game situation golf teaches you how to get out of jams and situations you just cannot get into on a range... but they're hopefully few and far between. So biggest gains end up coming from repetitive practice while going from good to really good (lets say shooting mid-80's) comes from good mechanics and knowing how to move around a course.
Good luck stopping a browser from implementing a "fun" javascript API just because it opens a security or usability hole in email.
Even at therapeutic doses it can be psychologically addictive.
A reasonable thing to do would to stop taking people's property until they have a system to account for its whereabouts.

I'm not saying that has any affect on reality, just that it would be a reasonable thing to do.
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I think therefore...Answer is Hazy. Ask again later.
Do they not have separate backups that can be queried?
In a large app, inlining all calls would be unreadable. Having sane, descriptive names for functions (and using functional programming, for that matter) solve the problem better than inlining.
Start a company yourself and see how you find that rule.
"October 2016". okay.
Not unless it is shown that it was spent on some other expense. Haiti was uniformly difficult for a wide range of charities.
You rapidly get addicted to fitness? Sign me up! But seriously do you have more details on this?
To further address #1, E-Verify requires a current ID - they won't even accept an expired passport, which is still accepted as proof of citizenship.

Bizarre, since as a citizen you have a right to work in the USA.

(I'm aware that one senator introduced a law that documents should have expiry dates enforced "because it's an expiry date" despite there being no particular benefit.

It brings to mind the Republican party's efforts to verify voters - so that less people can vote in some areas without overt gerrymandering.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
Who Cares About the New iPhone Camera? The Real Change Is Apple Pay
> Consciousness is a suitcase word, which makes it challenging to debate.

It is worse: it carries with it connotations of discarded science, such as levels of consciousness (aka. "animals have a lower level, Buddhist monks a higher one"), and the mind-body separation — it is fairly clear by now that whatever could be called a mind is a part of our body.

There was a time where the majority belief was that emotions and diseases came from four types of humors running through our veins. Slowly, the consensus switched away towards miasma theory and then germ theory.

Words like humor, miasma, aether, have now fallen into disuse.

We are at that awkward period before another old word bites the dust.

I find that usually, people that are puzzled by consciousness only want to understand the relativity of points of view: "why am I me and not someone else? Why don't I wake up in a different body?" To which the answer is obviously that memories are located in your brain alone.
Whoa! That's awesome. Now, if all the other webmailers would follow suit...
The problem of a suitcase word is when different people are using different definitions to talk about the same concept. It is entirely reasonable to presuppose that that is nonsense. It has nothing to do with the complexity of the thing discussed. The problem is when there are disjoint definitions.
>the big challenge is persuading a company that this is actually possible

I wanted to say this but didn't want to be presume too much, so thank you for saying it -- getting a foot in the door seems a problem. I'd like to think that I'd have strengths similar to your physicist friend, but I can't prove that right now.

I work in algebraic geometry. There is an "applied" subfield but I have very little knowledge of what it is those people do, and my experience is that mathematicians have a funny definition of application. Reading some papers tomorrow couldn't hurt, though. Of course I still want to work on interesting problems.
Weren't they asked to do so by the FBI?
If you up the minimum wage, employers will just use illegals.

Because they can, and competitive market forces will push them into it.

The only long term answer is to have responsible, secure borders and reasonable amounts of controlled immigration.

There's no need for a special minimum wage for immigrants.
But he puts it like this: "Consciousness is an illusion." I guess he's just clickbaiting us. What you're saying is that he actually means is: "Our culturally inherited notion of consciousness is incomplete and in some ways misguided." Well of course. You can say that for physics and various sciences.
Aha! Thanks for that.

I think the problem was that I had Tabist installed before, and so the suggested keybind didn't take effect when I upgraded to a new version. Not a big deal with only a few users.

I didn't know about the keyboard shortcut menu. Here's what it originally looked like: http://i.imgur.com/jmTInyL.png

Much appreciated.

EDIT: On second thought, I have Tampermonkey installed, which apparently defaults to Command-Shift-E: http://i.imgur.com/DAEvgNB.png I think that was shadowing it.

Yeah, this extension rocks! I'm going to use this forever.
This reminds me, I've been using Brackets for a while and have been mostly satisfied. Should I make a switch?
> We’re working on improving the algorithm

That sounds like you prioritized implementing streaming first over being a good citizen.

> Also: It's noteworthy that BitTorrent Inc.'s official torrent client (as well as the largest player by marketshare), uTorrent, offers sequential downloading, a

To my knowledge that is only available if the swarm condition allows and is not purely sequential. But that is second-hand knowledge, so I may be wrong. But either way, the default is rarest-first.
Using a sans-serif font for long form is not the best choice either
This article just kicks around concepts with no real insight. It's easy to demonstrate that consciousness is matter. Put a bullet through someone's brain and that person will cease to be conscious.

What is difficult to demonstrate is if that is all there is to it. For this we can turn to math. Do the intricacies of the rules of mathematics actually exist anywhere? Obviously not, unless you consider words and symbols written in books to qualify. Math exists everywhere, because you can use it to describe the physical, and it exists nowhere, because there is no literal physical representation of it anywhere.

But we can actually build physical representations of particular math equations, inputting them as programs into a computer. The representations obey the rules of mathematics, as well as the rules of the physical world, if you destroy the computer, you also destroy the operation of the program.

But yet there is more to these programs than meets the eye physically. There are hidden rules that they operate by, more than just the physical affects them. These are the rules of math. We can analyze the programs using various mathematical techniques and prove things regarding them.

It is the same way with consciousness. We only see the physical affects because that's what we're looking for. We don't see the countless hidden rules that also affect consciousness. They are so numerous and manifold that they look wholly continuous with the physical world and physical rules.

What are these rules? In a word, they are ideas. Ideas have logic to them and can be compared with other ideas. We can say that one course of action is good or bad, when compared to other courses of action. Ideas and thoughts themselves are so comparable to computer programs that it's amazing to me that we programmers scoff at the idea of thinking machines.

You analyze thoughts with other thoughts, with tools of logic. You analyze computer programs with the rules of math, many times those rules are implemented with other computer programs. The question, "what is consciousness," is purely the domain of philosophy. Biology and physics can only takes us so far in our quest to understand ourselves.

To attempt to do so would be like trying to analyze a running computer system by smashing it apart and looking at the silicon under a microscope. It fundamentally mistakes what a computer program is. And knowing that it is just electrical signals traveling across transistor gates doesn't get you very far either. Even analyzing the voltage levels across the entire running system isn't going to tell you much either.
Not at all, the goal is to negotiate specific meanings or alternatives for a conversation, so you know everyone is on the same page, as a foundation for a fruitful discussion with useful thought.
If you like the idea of working on this kind of research project, you might check out a local Baseball Hack Day (held annually at the beginning of the season in March or April).

http://www.baseballhackday.com/

I keep thinking it'd be nice to do one the weekend before the World Series as well.
Yes this is my favorite explanation: that consciousness is incredibly brief and delicate. That only one very precise organization of the brain could give rise to the epiphenomenon that is me. So precise in fact that "I" only exist for a very brief moment.

What I perceive as a continuous consciousness is really just a memory of other "I"s who were caused by this brain in the past, left a memory of introspection and then dissipated to be replaced by an new one.

This view has many advantages: it solves the problem of time you elude to, it answers the problem of other minds and the problem of my childhood self. The only problem I can not see solved is the hypothetical molecular level duplicate I mentioned above.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, because gun is, in my opinion, the closest alternative to a self-hosted firebase
I like NA Football way more than baseball. I go to dozens of baseball games a year and go to at most one NA football game every few years.

Why? Because baseball is inherently more boring. I can go, drink some beers, eat a hot dog, chat with my friends and have a good time. However I want to see all the activity in the NA football game, and I'll never do that from the 300 level of Gillette Stadium
This is also why Elasticsearch recommends using nodes with a max of 32gb RAM. [1]

[1] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...
Not always sufficient!

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/D0DG83/stop-sign-covered-in-snow-du...
Paying Canadians $120K / year instead of paying Americans $140K / year is a 'thing' - but it's not the issue we're really concerned about.

Wage depression among masses of low-skilled workers is a very serious problem.

Wage issues in the top 10% is another dynamic entirely.

H1 abuse is actually concentrated in companies like Infosys and Tata - they are Indian companies who just want to bring in cheaper people from India without any other consideration.

They hire the most H1s.
Must be very convenient for the cops seizing the cash if nobody knows how much is supposed to be there.
The FBI recommended they publish it, after the Kaczynski sent it with a note threatening to kill more people if no newspaper published.
Didn't the Micro just eliminate the link cable entirely?
Football by _far_ has the best announcers and analystss. Basketball has the second worst. MMA has Joe Rogan - nuf said.

Joking aside. Even your mediocre football analysis is stat filled and the in depth chalk talk on some shows is pretty good.

Some of the basketball play chalk talk is just hideous, contradictory, and stone age in comparison. It really needs a moneyball type thing to happen to it.
The stark blacks kind of burned my eyes, but I definitely agree it was readable.
Babelfish is a straightforward JavaScript lib for translation :D
I believe the author is arguing that, regardless of where you turn the knob (except off), you'll end up with a redistribution of wealth that helps some and hinders others. Put another way: any amount of immigration with current policies will mean more money for immigrants and employers of immigrants, and less money for native workers they are displacing/competing with.
Cry, mostly.

This type of thing is going to be terrible regardless of if it was in one place, if you can't test it.
One of the benefits of using a text-based email client, is that it forces emails to be text.
In fact, you have even more options, not just two:

1) RGB: #rrggbb (rgb hex) / rgb(r,g,b) (rgb int 0-255) / rgba(r,g,b,a) (as before, plus alpha). In addition, rgb/rgba support percentage values instead of 0-255.

2) red (color names)

3) hsl(h,s,l)

4) cmyk(c,m,y,k)

For compatibility with anything except Thunderbird (which supports all four formats IIRC), stick with #rrggbb or plaintext names. Webmailers are especially prone to filtering by regex (ugh), and stripping out everything they don't know.
What is DTA? And why is it so bad for use in some code that seems to be for testing?
More than once: even after knowing the full title from a previous read but glancing and reading it as "Hitler" anyway multiple times. I think it's a result from the uppercase first letter on each word: it's common to read Hitler with uppercase h but not Hitters with uppercase h. And as word recognition is a function of the peripheral letters of the word it gives a cognitive mishap.

Edit: This could very well be a textbook example on why not use uppercase first letters when not needed on UIs.
Clearly the Presidential title would be: First Prime
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The solution is very simple actually: place user-generated content like emails inside an iframe, after stripping out the JS. Add a CSP header disallowing external resource loads until the user confirms explicitly.

This way, content using position:absolute can't escape the iframe borders, and the mail gets to enjoy full responsiveness.
I've met swathes of extremely accomplished people who clearly give very little thought to things existential (their studies or other passions are often a distraction from such thinking).

Highly accomplished people also often engage in "just world fallacy" thinking and consider their success as rightfully deserved due to their inherent virtue. This again is used to avoid thinking about things like the randomness, injustice, and suffering involved in existence.

So I don't think inserting yourself into a bubble of overachievers is a solution by any means.
They've clearly made an effort to appeal to a young audience and that should be commended
Smile of the day.:)
Psychic Prediction who will win the election predicted Clinton fall