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A little bit offtopic, but I'm not having the same result as you do..

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I'm absolutely fine with it. It's Facebook, nothing of value.
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving and I am Thankful
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone that is celebrating.

I have things to be thankful for:

I have a wonderful wife that supports my quirks and late nights coding strange ideas.

I have a job that I love.

Thankful for the lively discussions here in HN.

If anyone is around Syracuse, NY (I am a bit south) my wife and I are making a full in dinner. If you want to make new friends and eat a lot of food, email is in my profile. We can also play NES classic edition.

I hope everyone can take a minute and think about what they are thankful for.
Keep in mind a VPN is a single hop proxy, and not a multi-hop one like TOR which is a lot more rigorous than a VPN.

But if you must use a VPN:

Surf under generic domains like Reddit.com which frequently cite other domains/pages and frequently quote articles from specific resources. The VPN sees nothing as a result, just an encrypted connection to Reddit. It can't see what subreddits you peruse, and it can't see what citations / quoteables you're reading.
Abuse of power happens all the time. Doesn't mean outrage over it is called for.
Okay, right. I was mislead as all commits use a different author (opensource-apple is only the committer), so the activity graph on the profile is mostly empty.
This explanation feels a little tautological to me. We knew this already because physics doesn't care what is a brain and a dog. All physics knows is that there are atoms, and whether they belong to a brain or a dog doesn't really matter. It's all the same.

And this theory fails to explain how we can feel pleasure or pain, and, it fails to predict whether an artificial neural network can feel pleasure or pain.
That's an argument for providing similar/the same APIs as Chrome et al sure, but not for deprecating the old ones.
Go speak somewhere else. Reddit source code is open. The Donald subreddit can go run their own site. There is no right to speak somewhere online.
The Next Mobile Internet Wave (Sequoia India)
I kept on getting the "Server name must be etc.". Took me a while to realise that there's a server name field at the top of the page. Maybe make it look like the other fields?
My main monitor at work is a 34" ultrawide, marginal increase in power consumption, but with Spectacles for OSX I'm able to use it as 2 monitors (I have secondary monitors but I hardly need to use them
Ok, have a more serious post: I disagree with you strongly, but lack the drive to explain in detail.
Lunacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...

Spez was in the wrong, but I don't blame him one bit. Trolling that sub with disinformation seems like fair play.
I've seen a number of services just like this that come and go because of the persistent abuse problems this kind of thing attracts. Perhaps using github for authentication will help but I'm skeptical of how far it will get you. Do you have any other novel strategies to reduce the abuse problem?
That article is more than 1 year old. And Mozilla is going beyond the Chrome APIs, they are implementing shims and additional APIs to port almost everything over.
Well, according to Facebook, Humans have about 17 sexes.
The server name field might be better suited to be a white box like the rest of the options after you click New Server. Nice idea. Might want to have some kind of vetting of accounts if it gets bigger.
> And now webasm will change it - I guess. Well, no, truth be told, I guess not !

You didn't give anything to back up your claim except for 'nope, nuh uh'. V8 did speed up the state of the art in javascript and asm.js went further than that, but both of those are tangential.

Webasm is made for statically typed programs with explicit memory allocation. Combine that with the fact that most apps are not compiled natively and those that are still don't have explicit memory allocation unless made with swift for IOS. What is the limitation other than you not understanding webasm and not wanting to believe it could be JITed efficiently.
Bernie is a social democrat.

I swear the word 'socialism' has lost all meaning through repeated misuse.
How many of those involved plea deals? If you can't afford legal representation, you won't get anything that deserves to be called that in the US. If you're then also faced with the ridiculously high sentences you can get in the US, you'll no doubt find yourself pleading guilty to a lot of things to get a deal.
Ive been enjoying windows a fair amount recently. With the Linux subsystem it has turned into a surprisingly great experience. All the familiar unix tools are here now and Windows 10 is pretty tasteful as an OS. Only request I have from Microsoft is to add a feature to disable file notification hooks from file created in the unix subsystem. Creating a lot of small files has always been slow on windows because it pounds the antivirus. I was hoping that the unix sandbox would be exempt from this however I see the Anti virus works hard even when I do IO in the unix subsystem.

Also Hyper-V being built in and free means that you can have test VMs with snapshot capabilities built right in the OS which is nice since it allows you to avoid the VMWare/Parallels tax.
Google is behind WebExtensions API (aka Chrome Extension API)
Mozilla is behind XUL/XPCOM and look were we are now ;)
At the point someone's wanting something for a month, why wouldn't they go pay $5 to DigitalOcean, vs. $10 to you?
There have been dozens of discussions on ddos and iot over the last few weeks here and its curious the technical consensus to solve a 'fragile network' problem is with politics and control and a political problem like surveillance with technology.

The first can't be solved with politics without locking down the internet and fine frained control of billions of devices connecting globally in others words an unachievable strategy. And the second cannot be solved with technology unless anyone truly believes they can fight an organization with the law, tens of thousands of programmers working on surveillance 24/7 and near endless resources on their side. This way none of the problems get solved.
Ad words aside, Google News is incredibly bad at aggregating fake news/farmed content into their real news feeds.

For a lot of the news categories Google thinks or knows I like, I get tons of headlines from questionable news sources, and the last time I looked, their preferences wouldn't let me blacklist repeat offenders from showing up in my main headlines feed.
It was probably the MS Access database from BUPERS. It gets mailed to every command (or downloaded nowadays) on a monthly basis. It has everything on everyone. SSN, names, addresses, ranks, birthdays, etc. At least 50 fields of personnel info for almost everyone in the Navy. And it's not classified, otherwise they wouldn't be able to distribute it so widely (although they could at least make it Secret since most admin have Secret clearance, but most admin also work on unclas machines, so I guess not).

Source - I was a Yeoman in the Navy and had access to this. I already didn't think much of the Navy's PII procedures, but seeing this thing for the first time blew me away. It shouldn't exist.
It will be interesting to see who may + how they will procuce new "coins". Blockchain is only better if it can deprive privat parties to deflate the value by "printing" more...

Also interesting how much anonymity users will have.
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I just clicked one of the Voat links in this thread and I had an _even worse_ mobile experience than Reddit. Hard to believe!

All I saw was a white background and one character (or two!) per line on the left. What garbage.
The problem is that prime (as it's used, anyway) doesn't carry any meaning the way ? and ! (as they are used) do in Scheme, it's just used for "I couldn't bother to think of another name". Enabling clearer names is great, but the language allowing primes in names was accomplishing the opposite of that.
I spent a semester abroad in Senegal during the financial crisis of 2008.

I wonder what the details are. The CFA is pegged to the Euro, so this could mark Senegalese monetary independence. A different sort of liberation than most in the blockchain space are going for, but a liberation nonetheless.
Accusing people of being pedophiles is not just 'talking.'

The trolls are intentionally trying to convine people that their political enemies are pedophiles to dicredit them.
In my country / province (Canada / Alberta), IT workers are considered professionals and as such we are overtime exempt while we in no way qualify as "high earners" compared to a lot of the surrounding vocations - is that the same where you are, or are we just getting a raw deal up here?
But look at all that growth in user activity! Investors love it.
Pretty much. Saying Reddit should be like HN is like saying that every car needs to be a four wheel drive monster able to handle actual offroad driving.

HN is largely a tech site geared toward mid-late twenties individuals (the start-up culture, really). Reddit is a social network geared toward late teens to mid twenties (males). Yes, there is overlap, but not to a significant degree.
These are servers, so you most likely won't get a GUI.
Hmm. The settings have changed since I tried it. Maybe they've moved it, maybe they've removed it.
Does the article say that large buildings are more expensive to heat? It seemed to me its point was that other energy uses far exceed the costs of heating.

Furthermore these scaling laws don't necessarily hold when there is a paradigm difference. E.g. you don't worry about scaling laws when comparing a building that can be lighted mostly (or entirely) from natural sources to one that can't; in fact the smaller scale is more efficient from this perspective.
>Are you using HDMI

I was using HDMI. As mentioned, I've since returned to Raspbian, where I continue to use HDMI and all works generally well. I was initially thrilled after installing FreeBSD, but for whatever reason, things changed. I remember compiling vim for a whole day before cancelling it. I could type an entire sentence or paragraph before any input would show. Bad luck perhaps. My primary use for the Pi is a surveillance camera, so I temporarily abandoned BSD for what I know works. I intend to make my next main system a BSD system. Presently I am running Debian Testing, which has been quite excellent, but as also mentioned, I am bothered by Systemd and aspire to be free of it.
What constitutes abuse? I imagine certain applications that would be fine with the server going up and down every 2 hours. That would effectively mean that they would have free service indefinitely. For example, a Tor bridge.
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I think DigitalOcean probably bills Dply for one hour minimum so if you could immediately destroy and recreate then you'd quickly add up to a lot more OpEx.
You need to study some actual neuroscience.

some things to remember:

- neurons are not linear.

- neurons are not time-invariant.

- neurons are not causal.

- neurons and actual anatomical connectivity do not map well to electronics-inspired wiring diagrams. (see: dendritic arbor)

- anatomical structure does not imply functional connectivity.

- functional connectivity does not imply anatomy!

- synaptic junctions respond more or less well to different neurotransmitters, all of which are continuously present, at different times. We don't know why.

- So far, what we have observed about anatomy and physiology of the brain does not look like a RNN.

- The relationship between the meat architecture and the phenomena it hosts may not be as 1:1 as you'd like. Opinions vary.

My favorite analogy about relating brains to consciousness is this: "if you believe that brains are like computers, (which you shouldn't, but just for the sake of argument, let's), then even if you really and truly produce a full map of the brain, what you've _got_ is the spec sheet for an x86 processor. What you _want_ is the user manual for Mac OS."
Right at home then, eh?
I have watched this talk on two occasions now. Gary Bernhardt is really a great speaker. I am curious has anyone subscribed to the screencasts at:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts

It's a bit pricey at $29 dollars a month but if all of the content is as interesting, entertaining and thought provoking as this talk I could see it being worth the price. I would be curious to hear anyone's feedback.
Is Falsely accusing people of being pedophiles for political gain an action that should be made a norm?
Is there a statement otherwise from DownThemAll? I haven't found anything, just references to that blog post.
I love the new design, but you still need to setup SSL!!!

Nobody on HN will take you seriously if you don't implement basic security on your site.

I mentioned this last time you posted the site to HN... obviously under a different account. ;-)

Edit: Looks like you're using the same account, my bad. :-P
>for the most part, respectful and polite to each other...

If someone smart want to sell bullshit here, they will do so in the most respectful and polite manner and the most dangerous part, they will do so by wrapping it up in things that are most appealing to people here.

So, say, you want people to give you their money, they will come here and say, give me your money or just talk about me, because the world down here is ending and I will take you to the stars.

People everywhere at all times, didn't think twice when someone offered them salvation....You may be smart. But 'people' everywhere, in sufficient quantities, is dumb.

This place is no different.
That's every system's Achille's Heel. It's a human fault.
There seems to be a "Rebuild" button that allows you to recreate the server from another base image.
But he didn't "buckle under" anything, he went out of his way and "buckled into" directly modifying Reddit's DB.

It wasn't something you accidentally do when the stress gets too much all the while you really know and believe how wrong it is. They have rules about this.

He obviously didn't believe that. Or that the rules don't apply to him.

> What could he have said differently to make that reason more .. reasonable?

Nothing, probably. He done fucked up, that's it. This is firing-on-the-spot material if he weren't CEO. If they have to keep him for being important as CEO in other ways maybe, at the very least they should take away all his toys and admin powers and uh oh yeah, BAN his reddit account. He can talk announcements through some communication team, but I don't think he should be really touching or modifying anything on the site any more.

Excuses and reasons are pretty irrelevant here. The last part is forgiveness, a dish best served cold :)
Java and C# both use garbage collection and typical Java and C# make heavy use of pointers, indirection and many tiny heap allocations.
It's just survival - when a species gets good enough at survival, it learns to adapt to the environment. First, it's just simple reflex, trigger and response, but with evolution, species have become more capable to adapt. We, humans, need to adapt not just to nature, but also to the human society and technology, and human consciousness is just that function. Without it we would be dead of hunger and thirst in 3 days. What is special about conscious systems is that they adapt and preserve themselves in the face of adversity.

Pleasure and pain are related to reward signalling in reinforcement learning. Humans have inborn reward signals which have been selected by evolution. Artificial agents have reward signals too, but they are designed.

So I think the path to consciousness is to create artificial agents that learn to survive and adapt. When such a complex behavioral system is designed, it naturally learns about its relation to the world. It has consciousness by extension of being capable to protect its life.
SKI price index
Car industry is very competitive, so you can assume that decrease of the expenses will result in lower price. Maybe not directly price in currency, but better car for same money. Compare any new car to cars made even 10 years ago - they are better in pretty much any metrics. Heck, I remember times when air bags were counted as luxury and I'm not even that old. Take Tesla for example, such technologies and parameters were only available in luxury sport cars (Ferrari, Porsche etc).
"Open the pod bay door HAL."
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."
The IMU saturated, yet its outputs continued to be used - i.e. a failure to handle an exception. In some sense, it was a rookie mistake. Formal systems verification has reached the point where this sort of thing should be caught, if you are prepared to take the fairly considerable effort that adopting these methods requires.
I see a lot of handwringing about this but what are people really going to do about this? Go to Voat or 4chan? Even if people claim they feel they can no longer trust reddit they aren't going to leave. If anything this just gave reddit a huge amount of free publicity.
He out trolled the trolls then fixed it and fessed up. No big deal. Pretty funny in fact.
The economics of Data Breaches (ISOC report) [pdf]
Only accepting WebExtension based add-ons while not yet fully implementing the Chrome API seems like it would lead to a large number of unsupported add-ons.
Banning them would have been better.

Silently editing their comments shows that reddit has very poor data management practices. It shouldn't be possible for the CEO to edit content like that.
Great explanation, makes perfect sense to me! My own heory is pretty much the same. Just like you can experience other internal sensations in your body when nerves send signals that are recognized by the brain, the brain can recognize it's own signals.

I highly recommend to read Godel Escher Bach(if you dont have time - just read the introduction to get the general idea). In this book author explains how the meaning arises when things(like language, or math equations, or neurons in the brain) "mirror" things in the real world, when their structure can be "mapped" onto some other structure(so called "isomorphism").

He says that brain "mirrors" the world around it as it builds a world model. But the brain itself is a part of the world, so it builds the model of itself as well. Neurons recognizing/observing/experiencing other neurons.

Just like you can see a dog you can "see" your own brain state.

I've also heard a cool quote somewhere - "Consciousness is simply just what it feels like to have a brain". You can close your eyes and feel the position of your body, you can feel your stomach being full, and you can feel your brain thinking.
Sorry, my messages may be delayed due to work and my noprocrast setting (20 minutes every 3 hours).

Have you researched what currently exists? On a cursory search nothing came up for me. Must consider legal challenges and lack of demand as possible causes.

The bad actors in the system will fight anything that would negatively impact them. Would need more aggregate support from good actors in total to make it viable.
But not on OSX! Yes, really. No, not even with 3rd party software.
You don't realize you are conflating the idea that 'people with a hammer see everything as a nail' with 'belief in a power despite evidence of existence will solve all problems?
Oh please, it's not like the Trump campaign wasn't doing the same. If anything, they did it better because they had the support of SV's rich and powerful.

>http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusi...
That was my point with comments like "imo he's gained credibility"

There are other comments celebrating what he did because it was again /r/the_donald "trolls."

Lot's of people don't care what actions you take so long as its against a group/individual that they don't like. That is short sighted thinking IMO.
Can't the same argument be used to show that consciousness is a whole bunch of things that it clearly is not. Just arguing that consciousness has certain attributes and it shares those attributes with something else, doesn't make consciousness an example of that something else.

I think there is a general trend towards thinking of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon which exists when a system is complex enough and has certain attributes, such as memory, information processing capability, etc.

But none of these definitions enlighten me as to when or why such a system might become self-aware.
Really wanted to give this a go but unfortunately when I try and create a server it doesn't do anything, just refreshes to the main dashboard. No error or any other detail is shown. But overall nice idea, would probably use it to provide demos of a script / project for a fixed 2 hour window.
Note that in their FAQ they specify that they really weren't fiddling with the playback speed: it's not constant but it has a handful of discrete jumps to different rates at each part (eg: the guitars exploding versus the lip syncing are at different rates but the rate is constant within the guitars exploding). Knowing this makes it much more impressive.

[1] http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits...
Why wouldn't Dply just become a DigitalOcean reseller and only cost $5?

I could definately see this working out as a customer aquistion channel for DO, eith Dply getting a referral fee.
On second thought, agreed. I hope that is not part of the solution.

I think that our routers may be the key, or are at least completely negligent at the moment.

A normal consumer router is essentially a black box, but it should be a watchdog. The router should alert users when suspect outbound traffic is originating from it's network.

Of course the router could be compromised, and router patch cycles are atrocious generally, but this method could notify in case of hacked IP cameras and thermostats.
This is what gets me as well. Yes it all sounds crazy and a bit of a reach, but what in the hell is a pizza related map on a handkerchief, seriously?
I think you're mixing up the two options that GPL provides. My understanding is that you can either limit your distribution of source to the same parties to which you provide binaries (by "accompanying" the binary with the source), or you can require a request, but you must accept such requests from everyone.
I'm not even sure who he's quoting as calling "dumb fucks"
The problem with this line of thinking is that any data model for anything has absolutely no intrinsic meaning. It's just an encoding.

To give the simplest example: you can model a color in many different encodings, 'red', 'hsl(0, 50%, 50%)', 'rgb(255, 0, 0)', etc.

Any "thing" can be encoded in an infinitely different number of ways. The same applies to the state of your mind. Why should one encoding give rise to consciousness?

Arguably, the manner in which water is flowing within a sewage pipe network could be interpreted to be encoding some kind of information. Would you argue that some particular arrangement of water flow within a pipe network could give rise to consciousness?

I think there's a difference between a system modelling itself and becoming conscious of itself.

Any system can model itself. We can do it easily with computers. Arguably the linux kernel has a model of itself, its hardware, its inputs, etc. That doesn't make it conscious.