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I think the spec you're looking for is the FileSystem API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_and_Di...), not the File API.

Unfortunately, this is a non-standard API implemented only by Chrome. You have to use other APIs like IndexedDB and WebSQL (also deprecated and non-standard) to get a working solution in all browsers.

This deficiency is really holding back the web.
Repeated Exposure to Suggestion and the Creation of False Memories [pdf]
FWIW, this book gave me the idea that consciousness could be some sort of feedback loop involving the whole Universe (including you and me and everybody else) possibly via quantum entanglement. I know that's terribly hand-wavey and soupy, sorry about that, just felt I should mention it.

Related: meditation (at least some kinds) seems to operate by turning the subjective awareness back onto itself, becoming aware of becoming aware of... etc... A little like a camera hooked up to a monitor that it's pointed at, you get an infinite regression.

In the camera-monitor system there is a physical loop of information from the lens-to-screen-to-lens-to...

When you do it with you awareness, there must be something looping somewhere, regardless of the physicality or otherwise of consciousness, eh?
While this is strictly speaking true, considering todays fast bandwidth, I don't think this is that big an issue. I am using webTorrent's desktop torrent client which has a streaming mode and usually this goes like this: download a magnet, start watching (in streaming mode), download of the file is finished within 5 minutes, and I keep seeding the full file for the rest of the duration of the movie. Usually, my ratios are bigger than with a non-streaming client torrent. Kudos to feross for his great work!
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I'm always shocked at how many eateries give me expended polystyrene and plastic utensils when I'm in the US.

Aside from the ecological and economic levels, it cheapens the eating experience.
>but why don't we use immigration as a knob just like we use interest rates or any other government tool. Too few jobs? Lower the quota. Too many unfilled jobs? Raise the quota. It seems really simple to me.

That's exactly what nations do for legal immigration.

But for illegal immigration there's no knob.

(Well, no pleasant and easily controllable knob).
If the batter hadn't swung, it would have been considered a ball. When a pitcher throws four balls to a batter before they strike out (three swings or balls in the right zone they don't swing at), the batter walks. The batter probably should have realized the ball wasn't in the strike zone and shouldn't have swung.
It looks like it _did_ live on Webmaker; https://thimble.webmaker.org/ redirects to this one.

It would be nice if somebody could mention what changed on Thimble for this to come up again. (It could be that somebody who didn't know about it before just found it, which is cool too.)
Just replying to myself to say that this is all obviously a bit of a "first world" problem, and these annoyances are small problems in the grand scheme of things. I realise I appear to come across as frothing at the mouth regarding the state of these issues as they are irritating, but they aren't the biggest problems in my life, or anyone's lives for that matter, nor should they be!
They get to stay in the country, work, some welfare etc, but without having to go through the system in the same bureaucratic way.
BURP uses this for networked render farms (specifically for Blender, I believe). Not sure how active it all is though. https://burp.renderfarming.net/
When the batter swings and misses, it is a "strike" no matter how poorly thrown.
I presume he flew to DC, seeing as he lives in NYC. I wonder why he didn't use video link.
As it turns out, this problem is really my employer's problem. I suspect many other software vendors have the same problem with these festering codebases.

Hopefully my employer will being making moves to other frameworks some time soon (and first things first off C++2003)...
This post ignores the fact that it is very difficult to get any exposure even as a traditionally-published, agent-having author. Getting traction in self-publishing is doubly or triply more difficult. In technical writing, it's probably easier than in, say, fiction or literary nonfiction, but that doesn't make it easy.

If your goal is to have a physical book to represent your efforts and offer to others as a side effect, then by all means, self-publish.

If your goal is a) to have a somewhat objective perspective on whether your work is good, b) to get a large audience to pay attention to your work, c) to have any kind of career as a writer, or d) have the best possible (edited and designed) version of your work out there, self-publishing is rarely the way to go. I'm not saying it never happens - there are success stories out there, usually authors who self-publish first and are then picked up by a traditional house to go the extra distance - but it isn't the most likely outcome.
The seriously mentally ill are definitely a large proportion of homeless people. This is the National Coalition for the Homeless writing:

"According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 20 to 25% of the homeless
population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness. In comparison, only 6%
of Americans are severely mentally ill"

A HUD Report has 26% of people in shelters having a serious mental illness [2] (Search "serious mental illness").

When I researched this a few years ago I regularly saw 200,000 people as the number with serious mental illness who were homeless and about an equal amount in prison (with people regularly cycling in and out of prison because of their mental illness).

[1] http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pd...
[2] https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2010Homeles...
I agree, but I also see the situation as more nuanced than Greenwald.

Columnists and staff writers working for the same paper can have divergent opinions, and in the case of WaPost, this editorial was not written by the same group of people responsible for breaking the leaks. With some caveats, journalistic autonomy within a paper is a good thing--it helps push back against top-down bias from editors and owners (although, as others have pointed out, maybe WaPost isn't a good example). So there is a tension between Greenwald's monolithic indictment of WaPost and the ideal of journalistic integrity, where an individual journalist can freely publish an informed opinion without outside influence, including from the paper hierarchy.

But this still doesn't excuse the Washington Post. Publicly disagreeing with a colleague is categorically different from protecting a colleague's source. Usually this means protecting anonymity, but in the case of Snowden it's about protecting his safety and well-being: things indirectly threatened by calling for his prosecution if he returns to US soil. Protecting a source should be considered transitive and inherited by the parent publication, taking precedence over the above-mentioned journalistic autonomy. While maybe not an ethical universal, WaPost being one of four publications to receive the leaks, then publishing them extensively, then winning a Pulitzer for having done so does not make for an exculpatory edge case.
> where by “consciousness” I mean what most people mean in this debate: experience of any kind whatever

Really? Most people I know would throw self-awareness into the mix. When you make such a bad start, the rest of your article isn't worth reading.
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> Current thinking is that nicotine isn't "addictive" unless coadministered with monoamine oxidase inhibitors, which happen to be present in tobacco

This is a most-helpful comment. Thanks!

I commented earlier today [1], in another submission, that nicotine is rather similar to Niacin (Vitamin B3). Niacinamide has helps my girlfriend reduce her tobacco usage...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12526802

The first anti-depressants were MAOI's. Some of them caused a serious side effects (high blood pressure) when the patient consumed fine aged cheese at the same time. When the SSRI patents came into effect patients were switched to the new drugs, but not because the SSRI's worked especially well.
when you sign up you get an email saying "Welcome to Mozilla Webmaker! Thank you for joining us to discover, create and share the Web. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create."
>Cioran is certainly one. For Cioran, who died in 1995, there was something incomparably worse than death — “the catastrophe of birth

If I find anything "incomparably worse than death" is the constant whining of Cioran -- the original inventor of "first world's problems" so to speak, who had critical admiration and a cushy life on top.

I'm all for pessimism and even people contemplating the meaningless of life, nihilism, suicide, etc. But Cioran was such a bore at that...
Easily solved: When writing an abstraction, document with a date the reason for the abstraction.

Seriously, a comment that goes like this:

"2009 sept 20 : Peter Pan: this abstraction is to hid the ugliness of using SQL Server 2003 which is still in use by Slow Corp."

... now in 2016 a maintainer knows the assumptions and the reasons for the abstractions and can make a much clearer decision about how the abstraction should be treated.
yeah.. The kafka streams library does look nice, especially how they don't care how you run the thing.

It's a bit harder to dive into java though.

The thing I have a use case for stream processing is basically glorified wordcount - just over a realtime 7 day window. The data processing code is the easy part, the tooling/runtime is the hard part.
When you have to change something like that, it's time to write some tests. Regardless of if the code is in a single place or distributed.
Something can be boring and popular. In fact, I'd say that the regularity and slow pace of the game allows for a host of activities to occur around it. Chatting, eating, drinking can all be done without missing anything. And it is very suited to broadcast. In the days of radio the downtime allowed the commentator to keep everyone up to speed with everything on the field. Today, television broadcasts display all the stats and the role of color commentator fills the silence. But take all that away and the core game is very slow in comparison to other sports.
Have you looked into using IndexedDB? It's pretty widely supported [1] and far more performant than Files API last time I used it intensively (few years ago).

[1]: http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb
>If we want to better understand the various meanings of consciousness we need to analyse each one separately, rather than treating it as a single concept.

This implies the naive premise that consciousness the thing is not a suitcase itself (and thus, that an umbrella world is unsuitable to name it).

So, it basically presupposes the reductionism that it's supposed to prove.
If high quality is defined as having a private bathroom, I doubt you'll see a lot of people opting for it.
I think the idea of umbrella words is thought-terminating itself.
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Which is sort of ironic given mobile Mozilla marketshare is less than IE.
Just updated to 0.1.6. Unfortunately the new shortcut doesn't seem to be working on OS X Chrome. Version info: 53.0.2785.116 (64-bit)

Is there any debugging or diagnostic info I can provide?

In addition to Command-Shift-E, I've tried all variants of control/option/command/shift E.

The favicon change was awesome. Globally sorting by domain seems a little less necessary now.

Thanks again for the extension / update. This is great!
That's not a proof.

One could argue that consciousness is a field phenomena and that our (gross) material brain is a device that interacts with this field. Modify the device and you modify the local effect.
I got the Alice reference, but not the point of the comment.

Obviously they don't, and it's not up to the one saying the words but to the listener too.
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The biggest factor in my opinion.
Seems equivalent to the case where you have one generalized function with a bunch of obscure special cases coded into it. I feel like having 30 functions means you can easily trace which parts of the program are exercising which special cases.
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The most 'equal' societies were communist - i.e. Eastern Europe before the end, Cuba today.

When you have absolute equality it's called 'communism' - it was the most destructive and murderous idea in all of human history.

Everybody that I know that is 'poor' is 100% responsible for their level of income. 100%. I have a huge family - many extended cousins. I have relatives that are constantly working, saving - they are wealthy - some who do nothing all day - they are poor.

Fortunately, nobody in my family falls into the category of 'poor because of circumstance'. They all had roughly the same opportunity and made very different choices - every day in fact.

But the variation in wealth is huge. To try to create 'equality' in my family would simply mean those that have worked really hard all their lives would have to hand over money to those who did little.

Equality as a social objective is oppressive and unfair - the Silicon Valley could not exist in that context because those who are creating value on a global scale would be the bad guys.

Also - Japan is a rich country, but they per-capita income is a little behind most modern nations. As far as Scandinavia - they do a pretty good job - but I don't believe their GDP numbers are representative - this is because 'government spending' is part of the GDP calculation, and in those states you have massive government spending, more than 1/2 the economy. Just because the government spends a dollar on something, doesn't mean that a dollar of value is created. Basically - according to the GDP calculation - a dollar taxed from a private citizen, then 'given' to a public sector worker - is a dollar added to the GDP calculation as though it were 'wealth/value creation' and this is rubbish. Also, students in Stockholm region cannot find places to live and there is a several year waiting list for dorm rooms (!!). Same for subsidized housing which is something like 20% of the housing market. This would be unheard of in North America. Also, in North America, homes and properties are much bigger - and this again is not part of the GDP calculation and yet it is (arguably) a measure of greater wealth. So it's very relative. Though again, they do many things well in Scandinavia.

As far as African and less developed nations - there's no point in measuring 'equality'. You have a corrupt elite that consumes 100% of the natural resources money, and then a totally defunct nation otherwise. They don't need to aspire to 'equality' - they need to aspire to 'get rid of corruption' and have an 'intelligently organized' society. More equality will happen as a result of that.

The objective should not be 'equality' it should be 'fairness', and then taking care of those who really actually need help.
Lemmings is the most accurate way I can describe how people behave in large corporations. But do the younger generations even know what is a lemming and what I would mean by that?
Yup, this works -
https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTCCopy/blob/master/client/js... (not the cleanest code)

You can then use idb.filesystem.js to add api support for firefox etc. Search the file above for "is_chrome" for a few idb.filesystem.js-specific quirks.

Looking at that page, it looks like firefox will ship with support in version 50?
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>The reply is simple. We know what conscious experience is because the having is the knowing: Having conscious experience is knowing what it is.

That's sidestepping the issue. Of course we know what consciousness is in this sense.

What we don't know, and what we actually mean when we say we don't know what consciousness is, is what causes it and how it emerges.
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> My high level knowledge of how atoms move provide sufficient assurance and understanding of how a Macbook Pro experience is created.

I don't think it does per se. In a world where computers didn't exist you would probably not be able to say whether a MacBook Pro is a thing that could possibly exist or not just from fundamental knowledge of physics. If I gave you the most low-level possible description of physics, it'd probably take you some time to figure out whether it supports solid macroscopic objects. If I just give you the rules to the Game of Life cellular automaton, it's far from obvious that it supports replicators, let alone that it's Turing complete.

Most of these things are only obvious in hindsight, and the understanding is made easier by the lack of cognitive dissonance: we know we made them using certain principles, so of course it works.

> That is simply not true for qualia.

I don't know about that. My own high level knowledge of physics does provide me with sufficient assurance and understanding of how qualia happens. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I do feel like I understand it: what defines or distinguishes, say, my qualia of red, is how it primes my brain into thinking about red things, how it changes my mood, how it behaves relative to every other concept, which makes it about as complex as my entire brain would be. I also imagine that there is a continuum of "qualia" such that basically any physical system has some, but they are so trivial we don't make the connection.

Again, that could be nonsense, but it makes perfect sense to me -- about as much as a MacBook does. The hard problem that you see flat out does not exist to me, and presumably the reason is that we are satisfied by different explanations.
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No, but algebraic numbers are only a tiny portion of all irrational numbers and importantly misses key ones like e and pi, so the original point still stands.
I think something like that might be accounted for as Business Goodwill on a valuation (http://www.valuadder.com/glossary/business-goodwill.html). It would definitely be interesting to know if it is actually included in some internal or public accounting valuation and if the accountants actually adjust the values in some way as it surely has some impact.
Off topic, but since somebody will always complaint about the bad layout or the difficulty of reading of a blog post submitted to HN, I'd like to point out the excellent readability of this one.
Two factors that have aided statistical analysis of baseball and helped it secure this reputation: the long term historical data and the large number of games per season.
>The memory size argument never really made sense to me; there just aren't that many ints in the average program.

If you have a structure of just 5000 ints (which I imagine is fairly common), the difference between ILP64 and LP64 is the difference between your data fitting into the L1 cache and some of your data being pushed out into the L2 cache. In a thight loop that can be a big difference.
Thought this was going to be a Windows Live Writer competitor. Man, I miss that software.
Popularity is an odd way to rank online courses. It really only speaks to what is the most universal interest, so it's not terribly surprising that's a course such as this (as opposed to an area of speciality).
No consistency issues "as long as your server is running" is not a good plan for backups. Also "real-time" has many meanings, and the one you mean does not bring consistency guarantees. Actually, (I may be wrong on this) I don't think that any usage of "real-time" has anything to do with consistency.
I agree. There is no cure for existential depression, but the temporary changes in perception that occur during a mushroom/acid trip can be a huge boon. The sense of self is diminished as you are chemically forced to stare into the void. This death of the ego is a powerful kick in the brain and makes mortality more palatable.
Point very well taken. Updated. Thanks!
The rules for the Firebase Database allow read & write access as well as validation. It may not handle every possible case of business logic, but it's a very powerful tool.
Oh hey, I've been to that shelter. I live in (and grew up in) Utah. My Aunt is severely mentally ill and homeless and relies on the Road Home shelter, I've visited her there a few times. They are doing good work, although being homeless is still pretty shitty, obviously. The hardest part is that the state could take much better care of her if she would allow herself to be diagnosed as handicapped due to her mental illness, but she doesn't believe that she's mentally ill. And of course forcing treatment on her is unethical and probably counter-productive. I don't really know where she's at now, we only have fleeting contact with her.

EDIT: A sad/curious anecdote - at one time she was placed in an apartment. I don't know the details but it was probably using the programs outlined in the article. She lit the apartment on fire and ended up in the hospital. As I understand she believed that she owned the apartment complex and could not understand why the managers would not let her make decisions, so she lit it on fire.
Once fully autonomous vehicles that can take you from any point to any point 100% reliably technology is here (maybe in 50 years) no company would have much advantage over others and it will be a super low margin business to be in.

However, during this transition Uber and Lyft have tremendous advantage because they have the fleet of manual drivers that can both advance the technology and make meaningful profit. Lyft choosing not to invest in the technology part and be the fleet owner is a very smart move. Uber has more cash and their move make sense as well.
Yes, I know that there are many examples, including the brain, it's a very general concept. What's the connection to consciousness though?
Are these restaurants just not that good to start with? If they were good, couldn't they increase prices and then increase wages they offer to staff?

The article implies that the fast casual $10-15/person places are doing fine. My impression of PA is that the fancier $30+/pp places are also busy. It's possible there's simply less demand for the places at a price point in between (although there's not really evidence of this in the article).
[Former Parse engineer, current Firebase engineer]. Sorry to hear that. We were all upset by the shutdown announcement. I've been trying to help a few people with migrations. Hopefully github.com/firebase/parse-migration-tools can help if you'd like to migrate any of your Parse data to Firebase.
You must demand integrity from journalists; it doesn't mean you will get it, but you certainly should have expectations of decent moral fortitude, and complain loudly if that doesn't happen.

There are journalists fighting the good fight all over the world (Greenwald etc). They shouldn't be demeaned just because they have colleagues like Judith Miller.
Cioran is certainly the most boring and derivative philosopher I'm familiar with. I don't know why any of his works are remembered at all.
I loved all the versions of Lemmings!

There is a browser one here that I've played for people that want to try it out.

Edited to add the link: http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
Spacemacs is a supercharged version of emacs configuration set (~/.emacs.d), it makes Emacs look like this[1]. Spacemacs sets <SPC> as your leader key and turns configuration into "layers", each layer being a set of packages, keybindings and functions you can use.

Here is my .spacemacs file[2], I've been using it for last 45 days, before then I was pure Vim user for all my text editing and programming needs (except Java - where I still use IntelliJ)

[0] http://spacemacs.org/

[1] http://spacemacs.org/img/screenshots/ss1.png

[2] https://github.com/ceocoder/dotfiles/blob/master/spacemacs