skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe yes, maybe no, I have no clue.

The question isn't whether we can make an artificial bird now, but whether such a thing is possible in principle. I think logicallee's point is that any answer other than a clear "yes" would require the assumption that there is something fundamentally "unknowable" about the problem, and generally such objections are considered unscientific. Unscientific doesn't mean wrong, of course, but it does weaken the case.

So let's go back a step: can we theoretically replace a single bone in a single bird with without affecting its flight performance? I think the answer has to be yes. If so, is there a point at which we can no longer replace successive bones? While it might be a technical challenge, it's difficult to see how there could be a clear line between "flies" and "doesn't fly".

Can we replace an individual neuron in a human brain with an electronic equivalent without affecting the perception of pain? The argument is that if one can, what's to prevent replacing all the other neurons in succession? Are certain neurons special and unreplaceable? Again, it's difficult to see that there could be any clear line between "pain" and "no pain".

I think the strength and weakness of logicallee's argument is the assumption that it's possible to replace a single neuron with an electronic equivalent without causing any other changes to the system. If one can, it would seem straightforward to argue that machines can feel pain. I think the alternative would require assuming the existence of some "life force" for which we currently have no scientific basis.

But if we are to reach that point, we need to build sound formal models to get there.

To actually build such a system, probably, but are formal models necessary to reason about the consequences? Maybe, but thought experiments might help us build those models. With that in mind, do you think it's possible to functionally emulate any single neuron in silicon? If not, what's the missing entity?

I don't think claiming vehemently that these things are 100% known is intellectually honest.

Be gentle with accusations of intellectual honesty. Honesty does not require absolute correctness, only belief. I see no reason to believe that logicallee is overstating his confidence in his logic, which at its base is Occam's Razor. This may be a case where it is better to be "clear and wrong" than "fuzzy and arguably correct".

(the article on swifts is great, thanks!)
I still use Win7, and usually deactivate analytics. I heard Win10 store fails big time - have you heard the story of the new "Call of Duty" game cannot be played in multiplayer together with non-Win10Store users - mind you the majority uses Steam. It's a sad trend. In general analytics are useful, but the should be opt-in. And usually a crash reporting would be enough, right? But they are all abusing it by sending too much private data, that's not okay, at all.
Does Retrofit have an almost same counterpart in Swift?
The last city of the Soviets
I doubt you can do any significant damage by doing this experiment once, the amount of pressure needed is quite small (depends on your level of myopia) and probably less than rubbing your eyes.
Diagram of its internals: https://alchemi.st/files/2012/10/Great-Seal-schematic.jpeg

It seems basically a tuned circuit connected to an aerial where the frequency of the tuned circuit varied as the diaphragm moved. I guess in the same way that if you shout at a tuning fork it will vibrate at its usual frequency, the circuit would oscillate at a frequency corresponding to the diaphragm position. I wonder if this could be used for an IoT device.
Coverity was rather impressive. It did merely wrap a subset of FindBugs errors, but that was mainly to show that they were adding to what FindBugs could do. The points of the code that they spotted were always much more clearly explained for why they were problems.
Trust open technologies you understand, not politicians.

How many people really understand these technologies? For anyone who lacks either the time or the know-how to audit the source code: what do you suggest? If it's not "find the time and educate yourself" then does your statement not revert to:

"Trust these technology experts instead of these politicians."?

To which I'd respond: Why? Why is a technology expert more trustworthy than a politician?
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Thanks for the feedback - so another vote for "don't open source" then ;)

I heard of restaurantengine a while back but just had another look at Brian Cassel's blog and realised he makes some interesting points - like not spending too much on the UI too soon. Having said that, I suspect I've made the opposite mistake by not having spent anything on getting a decent logo....

Anyway, thanks for your tips and encouragement. If you want me to keep you updated by email, drop me a line so I have your contact: africajam at hotmail....
That's quite a funny project. I setup this thing and just draw a code viz for https://github.com/Unitech/PM2, that looks pretty cool: http://i.imgur.com/gvm0fxs.png
Couldn't the concern be easily resolved by somebody explaining how voter registration works? I.e. How the government confirms your citizenship? And verifies your ID at the polling place? Then the discussion could shift to how thorough that process is.
> "In fact, anger and sadness are an important part of life, and new research shows that experiencing and accepting such emotions are vital to our mental health."

Translation: "New Research": Having watched Inside Out.
...I'm still in highschool, and I'm on ft/sec^2.
Biggest scam? That sounds like heaven to me. I, however, would willingly live in the middle of Tokyo. (Perhaps we can alleviate the problem by having a better rapid transit system?)
I gave a talk on Theremin and his many inventions a couple of years ago! http://idlewords.com/talks/our_comrade_the_electron.htm

I highly recommend the documentary called "Theremin: An Electronic Oddyssey" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108323/

And "Ether, Music & Espionage" is an engaging biography: https://www.amazon.com/Theremin-ETHER-MUSIC-ESPIONAGE-Americ...

My favorite factoid about him is that late in life, Theremin became convinced that the secret to immortality lay in "young blood". Certain billionaires seem to be testing his theory today.
is there speculation that Japan might be, in the future few years, a promising place to establish startups and source promising talent? intuitively, i feel like there should be an amount of young engineers/designers/marketers and other professionals disinterested in typical salaryman positions at large corporations
Using a bike for political reasons is a new one! Surely some of the more common reasons are valid - health, time saving, environmental concern?
Did you read the full article? This is explicitly mentioned:

"Anyhow, this is an opportunity for startups here: since college-educated women are tremendously underused by the formal labor market, startups can attract them preferentially."
He didn't ask about that. He asked about a federated/distributed protocol that actually worked. Tox is one.
I wonder if these trains have air conditioning. Berlin might not need it, but if you had a subway train without air conditioning in NYC for example, the passengers would boil. So that might explain it.
Not sure why you posted a link to a blank wiki page. This seems like a better starting point: https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/JSCity/wiki/JSCity:-Code-City-...
Very hard! Most modern hardware will already struggle to keep up to speed, and not dropping frames is super important for VR. But if you lower detail settings appropriately, it is definitely "doable" - additionally you will have to work around any screenspace effects like SSAO.
Evidence-based methods for inter-group civility
Why should special needs children be forced to sacrifice their growth? What would feel if your kid was special needs?
you're welcome >:)
Punk Rock Languages (C)
Wow, after reading the docs and several examples of intercoolerjs, if you ask me to describe it with one word, it'll be "simple", two words, "no over-abstraction", three words, "easy to pickup".

I develop desktop software for Windows, but I'm also interested in the web development techs - although haven't done any real-life web apps, I have read a lot of docs about most of popular frameworks you can list here. The first framework that got me think "cool, it's natural and simple" is Angularjs 1, maybe because it's so similar to the good old Delphi's GUI framework called VCL (Visual Component Library - yes! Component!), but you all know the story - it's "killed" by angular 2 and the version 2 feels so complex and so over-engineering to me :P

Now intercooler.js gives me a feeling similar to the one when I first landed the angular 1 homepage - it's not the same of course, but I think both of them made me think "natural" and "simple".

Maybe you think, well, you are not a web dev, but trust me, I've writing software for a living for over a decades, I know the pain of a framework when being over-abstraction, over-engineering, or being bloated. KISS, is a rule that fits in all fields, I guess.
Arguably two major rewrites: one early in the life of the Mozilla project, when the FOSS community deemed the original Netscape code dump to be nearly unmaintainable, and the second during the creation of Firefox itself (although that was mostly a re-do of the browser chrome, while the core was left untouched).
See also Theremin playing a Theremin. Seems he was quite musical as well as a techie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qf9O6c20o
A ballot paper that doesn't clearly indicate preference order or identifies the voter is counted as "informal" and removed from the pool [0].

I don't believe it is an offence to vote informally but even if it was the anonyminity of the ballot woult make it impossible to enforce.

In the last Federal Election the overall informal vote share was about 5.92%. In some electorates it was above 10% [1].

The AEC doesn't distinguish between votes that were intentionally invalid and votes that were unintentionally invalid. I used to work as an electoral officer and in my experience the latter usually far outweighed the former. I saw very few if any ballots that were totally blank, about 10-15 where the person tried to make a statement of some sort and the rest were people who did not understand the instructions and number every box.

As far as I can tell, elections in Australia are seen as something you don't really ignore despite your individual disdain for politics.

[0] http://www.aec.gov.au/voting/informal_voting/

[1] http://www.aec.gov.au/voting/informal_voting/division.htm
And another vote for not open sourcing ;)

Will be interested in hearing more about your experience so I'll drop you a line.

I started off with the Spanish market just because its where I live but it may not be the best for this product. I think what you are saying about being the official wysiwyg of some backend might be more applicable in the US. I know very little about the US market - I'm very open to collaborating on the tech side with someone who has the business knowledge.
P. sure we don't want to cast ballots in pencil.
That's what I was trying to say also. :)
'Tis the season (to use your computer as an alternative space heater)
I'm taking a year out to stay at home with my new kid. I'm terrified -- my wife did most of the heavy lifting during the day while I worked last time 'round. She didn't have too many complimentary things to say about the experience.
3D bin packing problem in R
It is a good set of observations.

A little steeped in stereotypes and I would be surprised if the numbers are right in regards to breaking the economy into rough 3rds - SMEs make up a large part of the economy - and when I say SMEs - I mean pretty small companies.

I enjoyed the way he translated Japanese - it is very stiff and just about British - which goes well with Japanese formal polite language (丁寧語) which is a fair part of the business persona - depending on who you are talking to.

Marries reasonably well with some of my observations and complaints I hear from mates who are Japanese salarymen.
I recently used intercooler to implement a small feature in a django app. It was an absolute pleasure to use.
You can find some discussion on rendering techniques here [1] and here [2]

[1] http://www.voxelquest.com/news/how-does-it-work

[2] http://www.voxelquest.com/news/how-does-voxel-quest-work-now...
Ether.Сamp Launches 2016 Hackathon in Totally Different Dimension
You can put up ToS all you want. I'm not agreeing to your terms by visiting your website (I'm not even visiting the site, my scraper is. Can a scraper sign a contract? I doubt it). Maybe law is f'd up like that in the US. Is it? Fine, I'll buy servers in Russia. Or some banana republic. Come sue me in the wonderful state of Nevis and see how that goes.

You can do a lot to prevent it. The best way to prevent it is to not have valuable data. The more valuable your data, the more effort we will spend on cracking your countermeasures and we will always win because this is our core business - to you its just a cost center.

Linkedin is one of the most notorious sites for trying to prevent scraping and they certainly have the funds. Yet they can't do shit about it and you'd think that they have it easy because they hide everything behind a paywall. Yet they can't prevent it from happening. Not even close. If they can't do it, you probably can't either.

And that's the really boring part. Do you know how many blank APIs there are in the web? People do their node.js and their frontend SPA bs and then they just dangle an API that is open for the world to scan. I could make a business out of scanning for exposed user data and feed them into a lawyer doing class-action lawsuits all day. Would be easy. Like really easy. So-called "engineers" need to learn how cryptography works. Or just reject unauthorized requests. Its really not that difficult.

To call out one prominent example: The Tinder API has been exposed ca. 2012 and ever since then, they didn't give enough of a shit to secure it. You can still build a tinder 3rd party app using their api.
We got so much advice on how we should handle the sleep of our baby daughter and we didn't follow any. The first weeks, she was sleeping close to 20 hours a day, which gradually became less. But she showed no real day-night pattern. Also when she was a few months old, we didn't put her to sleep at a fixed time, as it was advised, as we still had a socially active life and just took her everywhere we went. When she got about 9 months old, she suddenly began to want to sleep at 8:30pm and woke up at 7. We didn't pressure her, she just showed us that this is how she likes it and she still wants to sleep now that she is 13months old. So our opinion is: you can try many things, maybe you change something. But in the end, the kid regulates itself if you let it.
Reminder: Trump has not explicitly supported Net Neutrality
That's so German. Maintenance is taken seriously.

The Berlin Wall had cut several railroad lines. When the wall came down, the tracks were quickly reconnected. Both sides had been maintaining them right up to the wall for three decades.

East and West Germany both had area codes, but although they had different country codes, there was no duplication of area codes, allowing an easy conversion to country code 49 after reunification.
Windows phone, powered by a laptop-class Intel processor?
We are not, in fact, in a democracy at all. But that's for another debate, right now I'm using the current convention to express an idea.
Sure. But adding ballistic re-entry to your manufacturing process seems a little scary.
How do you know people aren't double voting in areas that don't check IDs? Seems like an easy untraceable/unprovable way to commit voting fraud.
MD's "audit" by Clear Ballot will be neither.

Reading between the lines...

This will be an audit of their internal bookkeeping. Ballots received equals ballots accounted for, number of signatures verified, that sort of thing. It's worth doing. When I served as a poll inspector, we'd proof each other's work, which is normal.

In my jurisdiction, final result is called the ballot summary report, which is approved by our canvassing board, which ultimately certifies the election.

An audit of the actual votes cast is not practical, certainly not in just two days.

This has been studied. The papers presented at the Election Verification Network conference(s) demonstrate that an audit, which is much like a recount, is expensive and does little to increase the certainty of the results. And when electronic (digital) casting and counting is involved, it's impossible.

https://electionverification.org

The best strategy remains the Australian Ballot (private voting, public counting), paper ballots, precinct-based counting of the votes when the polls close.
Registered and waiting to meet the team and other participants in the launch party on the 15th.
The Beauty of Bounded Gaps (2013)
Neither orphaned, nor dead-end, just declining in popularity, but not a concern when you still work with jQuery.

The reason I picked Angular 1.5 as the suggestion is that you can still learn it the old-fashioned way:

- Load it from a CDN and start coding, no NPM or Bower required at all
- No build process or transpilers (ex. Typescript / Babel / JSX)
- No decisions for dependencies (ex. Gulp vs Webpack / Flux vs Redux / Enzyme vs Mocha / etc.)

Rather than overwhelming a developer with the current state of affairs, it should be better if he can begin focusing in the DOM-less paradigm and basic concepts like Data Binding.

You may not get to know the new hotness like ES6 and Live Reload when you begin learning Angular, but it's pretty unlikely that a jQuery developer will miss them anyway, whatever, it's pretty likely that they will learn about them when they begin researching about tools like Babel and Webpack.

OTOH, Angular 1.5 backported components from Angular 2, so the transition from Angular to React will feel more familiar, and you can get away without learning Angular-specific concepts like custom directives, the mundane details are abstracted away with components.

Finally, the requirement is to learn the basics, not the entire framework, I also agree that investing time in Angular 1.5 is not worth it, but it is worth getting a high level understanding of it, since tools like Vue assume some familiarity with that high level understanding.

It's not the same learning Vue when you're an Angular developer, than learning Vue with a blank canvas. At the end of the day Vue is the Angular's Zepto.js
I liked the article and the overall concept. The main issue in my opinion is that the sort of people who would be attracted to such a place would also have had already a great many opportunities to connect with others throughout their life and they likely failed in all of those attempts to form positive, valuable relationships. So the likelihood that they will succeed in this venue is very small. In other words, the reason they are there is that they could not do what this place is asking them to do in any other setting that normal people find plenty of social opportunity to successfully make friends and build a support network. Such spaces would likely be undermined in the United States by the fact that it would end up being a magnet for homeless mentally ill people. If you live in Chicago, as I do, and you want to talk to such people then you can just go to the library downtown, which has ended up being basically a day program for the marginalized, who sit there all day using the free computers and taking bird baths in the bathroom sinks. They don't talk to each other a whole heck of a lot though.

But yeah the modern world is super alienating for most people. The loneliness problem is, in my opinion, sort of like the 21st century version of slums. In the past the existence of slums was a sign that economic progress was not working to include everyone. In our times the isolation and loneliness of vast swaths of our population signals that the system is not creating the opportunity to form effective personal relationships. I doubt there is much we can do about that. Nobody is a stakeholder in the success of the lonely other than the lonely person themselves, and they wouldn't be lonely if the knew how to build relationships. So it's a catch 22 that only gets worse over time.
1200 after three game. I tend to mistype sometimes and it hitches onto some word I am not noticing and looses me precious few seconds :(
I created an account named something like fuckyou just for making me sign up. Now they email me addressing me as "fuck you. Have you seen.." :/
I'm not exactly sure how I would determine if some other market is a better or worse opportunity than real estate.

The few customers I have had are happy but I would need 50x adoption to make it worthwhile.
Not the first attempt, see this one august 15: https://mobile.twitter.com/HaydenPJones/status/7652868811814...
Well, a technology expert is - in aggregate - more trustworthy than a politician because their incentives align with yours.

This isn't to say that every technology expert can be trusted. The hope is that many eyes looking at the problem helps move the needle.

Politics might as well be the science of deception. My pithy opinion is that nearly everyone is more trustworthy than a politician.
Functional programming and unit testing for data munging with R
I have no business model :) Its all just for fun at this point. I made the mistake already of trying to turn my hobby into a business.
Ubuntu Phone
Evan has posted one more tweet showing it's other uses like hooking it to monitor, car etc

https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/794683674952343552/photo/...

article:
http://www.winbeta.org/news/was-microsoft-planning-an-intel-...
Greece has been doing this for a long time now. There are "special" coffee shops that are geared towards older people (mainly men) and which are exclusively for the purpose of socializing with other patrons, usually in a small village or neighborhood.

There are many social differences to regular coffee shops, but people who go there watch sports, play cards and argue with each other over politics, usually. We call these places "καφενεία" (kafenea). The expectation there is that most people know most other people, everyone knows the owner and the setting is usually not lavishly furnished (just a few tables and cheap chairs).
Humans make art like this, would you say those people are working against "human goals"?
Not only that, paper ballot voting scales well, creates jobs for people, and leads to increased trust in the system, since people are directly involved. Who does electronic voting benefit?
I'm playing a game, I alt-tab out, game crashes, and literally anything can end up in the framebuffer related to a crash.
There's surprisingly a pretty good conversation surrounding it on there as well.
They stopped talking about them but they are there.