skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> accept consciousness as dogma

I find statements such as this baffling. To me, consciousness is the one thing strictly self-evident, with everything else having a second-hand status. There really is a hard stop here.

> meditation [...] Its structure is just too cult-like

That is a real problem, but not an unavoidable one. Many people practice meditation without joining any cult. It's something you do, like going to the gym. Heck, even the gym requires membership, whereas meditation can be practiced entirely on your own.
Have you spent much time with it? Like all things, you need to learn before you understand, and then it becomes clear.
Even more troubling if you think that, since "he didn't perform the work", then he could only have gotten to the server by nefarious means. Hence, hacking charges...
They should be paying him, frankly. Twitter has been circling the drain and their best hope for a revival is that Trump has found Twitter to be a good way to bypass the media filter and speak directly to his supporters.
Nuclear is clean. Cleaner than solar, at least.
That's true, but on the other hand their assertion is also true - terrorists (both political and paramilitary) do attempt to exploit the infrastructure of an open society, and government (qua public agency) does have a legitimate interest in frustrating some kinds of criminal traffic.

You try running a government and explaining to people that the price of liberty is putting up with a certain level of terrorism and child porn every year. You won't stay in power long if you do. (Mind, I'm not endorsing this new law, which I think is awful. I'm just taking issue with your objection to the political reasoning, and saying that it's self-defeating.)
Fusion would be a perfect candidate. We pretty much know that it will work, we know it would yield big benefits, we just need a lot of money to work out all problems.
This guide lost me (a noob) at "Create a threat model".

I don't even know what questions to ask. Much less choose the appropriate options.

And I'd have very different answers for my work and home gear.
FYI you can fill out a 2-3 page worksheet to file a breach of contract lawsuit in LA county.

It's not limited by small claims caps and is an inexpensive first step compared to hiring an attorney to send a scare letter.

Didn't end up needing to file the one I wrote up last year but it was liberating to know that there was a half-step measure.

Before doing it I called 12 attorneys in Los Angeles and everyone respectfully told me a $20k unpaid bill is not worth their time, but the last one told me about filing on my own.
Speaking of Elm I liked this video from Erlang Factory about using Phoenix and Elm together. They both have a functional flavors so I think it might appeal to same people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9ckqCMiKk

The first half is about Phoenix, the second about Elm. I don't know much about front-end stuff but I did like the Elm bit as an intro, especially the debugging and nice error messages part.
> First, no, you are not that old, because there's no point in the history of our republic where that's been the case.

Please don't gaslight. The Democrats were saying it literally weeks ago, when Trump was being vague about accepting the results.

> Injecting volatile political arguments into unrelated threads is a form of trolling

We are discussing a claim that the election was rigged, but we're not allowed to argue about claims that the election was rigged?
I'm quite sure it's exactly for that reason, not having to choose between

- Flow vs Typescript

- ES5 vs Babel

- React vs Angular vs Vue vs jQuery

- Webpack vs Rollup

- Redux vs Flux vs Mobx vs React states

etc...

Plus, probably lots of dev prefer Elm's syntax and design.
I rarely if ever have seen outright lies and propaganda on Buzzfeed, and I do see those things from Breitbart regularly. And now they also provide serious, top-notch coverage of a lot of serious news. There is no comparison between them and Breitbart.
> it's a lot easier to find a Java developer than it is someone who knows Groovy, Rust, Scala, etc.

By mentioning Apache Groovy in the same breath as Cobol, Java, Rust, and Scala, you're comparing apples and oranges. Groovy is to the JVM what bash is to Linux. Groovy is a dynamically-typed language, best used for writing scripts used for glue code, testing, build control, and what not, whereas those others are statically compiled, used for creating actual systems. Although static compilation was added later, virtually no-one uses it.
All the telemetry, tracking and ad frameworks - you know, all the good stuff that people so eagerly swallowed with the W10 pill.
Crowdfunded a yearly budget of $100,000+ for Open Source
I think you're looking for capabilitiy-based security. It can be done at OS and language levels to allow enforcing POLA pretty easily. Here's a page with intro's plus deployment in web browser and GUI prototypes:

http://www.combex.com/tech/index.html

Most prominent language is E:

http://erights.org/index.html
Until those lawsuits go through, anyway...
Media organizations are corporations, and their primary interest is making money, which means getting viewership for their advertisers. Sure they have some political motivations as it relates to their business, as any business does, but this idea that media organizations are liberal political actors needs some justification.
Turning brightness ridiculously low helps (me).
You really need to watch this (very famous) talk by Mike Monteiro, called "Fuck You, Pay Me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

Especially the section where his attorney starts talking (at about 7:20).
After reading this I deleted my lastpass account and came across this message upon trying to log in.

http://imgur.com/a/SFpWw

One of the first things I learned about security was not to tell the user which credential was incorrect.

Disclaimer: I'm not a security expert.
It's a Q&A which is different from a forum, i will quote Adam Lear [1] from this answer [2] on Stackoverfolw to point out the differences(Stackoverflow being a Q&A)

[quote]

Stack Overflow is not a forum. Forums are largely discussion-based and tend to follow less strict rules about what posts can be like.

On Stack Overflow (and Stack Exchange in general), we require every new thread to be started with a question and every response to that question to be an attempt at answering it.

For example, on a forum you might ask how to run a game in windowed mode. You will get several responses, some of which will be nothing but "oh, I love that game!" or "I haven't played that in a while, wow." You'll be lucky if you get a relevant response. By contrast, on Stack Exchange you'd get practical responses that are 100% relevant to your question.

[end quote]

This model (meaning the Q&A) has been proven to be extremely efficient in managing community driven support. DigitalOcean community https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions is one successful example.

Alongside with the Q&A, DigitalOcean introduced Tutorials crowdsourcing which also proved to be a smart and cost efficient vector of educating customers and sharing knowledge.

What Haash does is letting you create a similar support infrastructure at very low price and in just 3 minutes.

[1] http://meta.stackexchange.com/users/155160/adam-lear
[2] http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92107/is-stack-overf...
In case anyone's curious, this is what happened to Pinball: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...

Suffice to say, if they couldn't figure out how to make it work in 64-bit, they're not going to be putting any effort into making it work in UWP and on ARM!
> What is self-evident is that there are thoughts, and some of these thoughts are "I am experiencing X".

Therein the problem lies. Equating consciousness with thoughts. It's vastly different. It can exist independently of "thoughts". It can exist independently of an "I". This can be verified as an experience.

At most it could be a very, very special kind of "thought", radically different from the rest.
It's not the prime that's illegal, it's the prime + the connection to its ability to circumvent specific encryption.

The number itself without that connection is not illegal.

I.e. 123 is not illegal by itself. "123 is the encryption key to XYZ's DRM" is illegal.
We posted same solution about the same time! Haha. Yeah, this stuff is pretty easy in capabilities. They can be extended further with a high-level, systems language. I'd like to see something like SPARK or IDRIS with capability-security built-in along lines of E language. Just something that isn't built on Java.
> Remove it from core language then. Having the prime character in my code, doesn't confuse anyone but me.

Until you take your personal style to Github, or coworkers...

Evan is doing a pretty good job at managing Elm – in fact I don't know any other language except maybe Swift where the rollout is planned to such a depth.
I'm actually a Leaf shopper so I have looked into it. From what I understand the degradation comes from the older design being aircooled. In southern climes this won't work for long. The Leafs from 2015 are using a liquid-cooled pack. Older models are getting them replaced under warranty.
Akamai on the Record KrebsOnSecurity Attack
Yes, and having worked with Fortran code for years, we used the routines to calculate... and Python to analyze the data. A colleague even scrapped old Fortran routines in favor of Python + Numpy, as he could be more productive without a noticeable slowdown in his work, as the data analysis part was the bottleneck. So I reiterate my point: I like the project, I like the idea, but we need more information regarding the performance of the routines. Otherwise, using e.g. Python full-stack could be much less of a hassle.
There's also ARPANET, which is extremely ironic that the author of this piece overlooked it.
I bet some people will think this is good news. Of course it is good news for digital payments providers. For all the other 99,99999999% of the population, including the users of digital payments, it is horrible news.
Good point, and I'm not being sarcastic: we shouldn't have mail-in voting either, for exactly those same reasons.
> prime time

Apparently, prime time came and went :)

> If it is not ready for prime time, maybe we should stop promoting it?

It's about as ready as the impression it makes: yes, you can use it for project. But you may need half an hour every few months to update.
In tech, I think it will be a lot sooner than in few decades. I think things will change at such a rapid pace that we can't even accurately predict what will be the new normal in a few decades, particularly in tech. Also, we must also consider the possibility, and implications, of strong AI in a few decades.
The syntax is very simple. I wrote a hybrid lua/lisp language with it https://github.com/meric/l2l, where Lua expressions can be quoted and quasi-quoted seamlessly. Excuse me for the plug. :)
The creater of FORTRAN John Backus became a big promoter of functional programming in his later years
This is why people should read Thomas Hobbes. His critique of "state of nature" thought experiments -- in which bright-eyed optimists somehow managed to convince themselves that people are naturally respectful of others and would only need to form extremely limited libertarian-style governments, and then only to deal with the tiny fraction of a fraction of people who wouldn't respect "natural" rights to life, property, etc. -- is devastatingly on point, showing exactly what such a "state of nature", if it ever existed, would look like and why a powerful centralized government would arise as the answer.
Does Subgraph isolate USB and network? The isolated serviceVMs for USB and network are in my opinion a very strong value proposition of Qubes.

Furthermore, is Subgraph supposed to be an OS for everyday use, like Qubes, or just for anonymous usage like Tails or Whonix? If its the former I don't understand why all traffic should be routed via Tor by default - it wouldn't make sense to route non-anonymous traffic (banking, personal mail, etc.) via Tor. It wouldn't be anonymous anyway and also because of the unnecessary risk of exposure to malicious exit nodes. In this sense I believe the Qubes approach with its optional WhonixVM is superior.

If Subgraph is supposed to be for anonymous usage I'd like to read more about what kind of threat model it is trying to address. I don't think there are any amnesic features like in Tails nor strong isolation between gateway and workstation to prevent IP leaks like in Whonix.
"Hemp Ban the Best Thing to Happen to American Paper Industry"
My favourite is "The Linux Programming Interface".
It's a fantastic book... very thick too.
I was thinking they'd have to prove that, and it makes it look that more likely that I actually did work for them (because I had access).
1Password doesn't seem to support Linux, so that's a big dealbreaker...
A little unorthodox, and not exactly a bible, but I enjoyed Feynman's Lectures on Computation. His CS chops include administering the computation group (of human computers!) during the Manhattan Project and a little work on the Connection Machine (including, apparently, a new method for computing logarithms).
It's common for papers to refuse work if it doesn't meet specifications for having enough facts to back up statements, having clear political biases, etc.
Lilypond is a language used to render sheet music?
Keepass is good, try to use that.
This model blows my mind - I just cannot quite work it out. Have the companies involved - O'Reilly and Humble Bundle Inc - just decided that they're OK with potentially making nothing at all from this, so long as lots of money goes to charity? I mean, it's wonderfully altruistic, and I suppose it could be a lot more complicated than I'm giving credit for (does the goodwill gained by them outweigh the financial hit?) but it's certainly fascinating. How do people decide how they allocate the money? Is it wrong if I feel bad if I don't give all the money to charity?
My last hurdle to switch to Mac is finally gone.

EDIT: I guess this is for iOS, so the joke is ruined.
"Client not paid?

Add opacity to the body tag and increase it every day until their site completely fades away"

https://github.com/andreapaiola/F-D-
Property is artificial. In "nature", one must constantly be prepared to defend one's territory, with no recourse to assistance from others.

In a governed society, one generally does not face constant attacks against one's territory, and when those attacks do happen (much less often), one has recourse to automatic assistance in defending it, with the threat represented by that automatic assistance acting as an effective deterrent to attacks.
You can do a desktop on a microkernel that runs Linux in user-mode or with hypervisor support. Critical stuff stays outside directly on microkernel. It's what every vendor of separation kernels does. Two examples from commercial and FOSS that's similarly alpha:

Sirrix TrustedDesktop on Turaya:

https://www.sirrix.com/content/pages/trusteddesktop_en.htm

Turaya's architecture:

http://www.perseus-os.org/content/pages/Overview.htm

FOSS alternative that they already use to develop itself:

https://genode.org/
The nerd-look is hot these days. Drives the other sex crazy.
Technology Hype Cycle 2016
Coincidentally they also like to discharge in seconds!
SkiFree please.
There was a great introduction to this story on yesterday's The World [1]. Sounds like a pretty massive disaster all around.

[1] http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-11-23/indias-crisis-over-ban...
Inexperienced people bad at predicting future - film at 11
Why is it horrible news?

The whole thing seems like a clear win to me.
BTW it is not actually free. It will cost $1.99/month for the ad-free version but it is ad-free until the end of the year.
I tried those too, but found them to be very uncomfortable to wear, and the effect didn't last long enough. My eyesight was noticeably worse in the evening, and taking the contacts with you and keeping them clean was a challenge. You have be very very careful when cleaning and handling them, otherwise the eyes will get infected.
I found this guy creating a todo app using all popular js frameworks

https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/master/examples

including vue.js riot.js react, meteor, angular 1,2 dojo, duel, ember, jquery ....

it's a great way to compare frameworks
Mobile Holoportation
One of my favorites: English labor law, prior to the 20th century, was still rooted in master/serf traditions. If an employer violated the terms of an employment contract, it was a civil matter and the employee had to fund the resulting lawsuit out of his own pocket (i.e., employee could not ever successfully fight a violation by the employer). But if the employee violated the contract, it was a criminal matter prosecuted free of charge by the state.
Emotionally gratifying, but poison pills or deleting a site/repo is just a fast way to a lawsuit or a complaint with the local district attorney if they're feeling vindictive. It wouldn't take much to argue that such actions fall under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or various state equivalents, for instance.

You're always better off having your attorney send a letter threatening legal action for nonpayment and breach of contract rather than trying to force them through those sorts of methods. The client might be willing to screw over a solo freelancer because there's limited risk to them; worst case, they pay up after all and you go away. But if their other suppliers hear about such actions, there's always the possibility that those suppliers might change their payment terms in response to the perceived risk of bad behavior on the part of the client. Those changes could cause a lot of problems with cashflow operations, and most companies will go out of their way to avoid that sort of reputation loss.
Hahaha, awesome.
This app might be a work of genius.
you mean most of them who are required to be provided bank accounts under various govt scheme prior to demonetization. or perhaps you mean all 1 Billion mobile subscribers who dont have access to an electronic payment platform, Right? /s

Is it good for them tomorrow, likely not but what about six months from now? you get side benefit of being able to track transactions and tax avoidance.
I could rant on the topic for days. Do you have questions? (If you're really curious, see my profile to get my personal email address)
This is certainly a promising sign. A few years back I consulted for a company trying to make a push into the Indian market and the payments piece pretty much killed us. Dealing with HDFC became a daily nightmare and the amount of bureaucracy and red tape involved was soul-destroying. Based on my (very) limited knowledge of Indian payments, my guess is HDFC probably still sits behind these new solutions but if they can somehow streamline the process and shield customers from most of the BS I really hope they flourish.
Yikes, you should branch out more.
" Qubes is not going to build this, yet I am running a prototype of it on my SGOS dev laptop."

You can do that in Qubes or the architecturally-superior GenodeOS. Genode is FOSS so nothing stops you. Any programs computing with secrets can run in an isolated partition to prevent leaks. Similar with protecting integrity of backups like in some partitioned filesystems. And you get the benefits of subgraph on the inside.
Misogyny is not some kind of flag that gets thrown once a certain level of horrible is passed, it describes a stance towards women, and those articles do take it.

Also, you're strawmanning yourself am entire farm there, even if you didn't intend to.
Scaming bilions in stock market with a registrar and average english skills
Please could you share the name of the London clinic?
Typescript has types, but it's the same terrible language underneath.
Parent is absolutely correct.

I can either work on Elm and deal with breaking changes like variable declarations (as noted above), or work on my React/Redux app, where I'm halfway refactoring from ReactRouter v3 -> v4 and Redux Form v4 -> v6, both of which are painful upgrades. Which would you rather deal with?
Basically, Microsoft shares Windows 10 telemetry data to other companies, despite assurances that this never will happen.
The Story of Google Maps and Google Wave [pdf]
Much better is "Hi, I'm the founder of Acme. Can I buy you lunch and talk about your thoughts on our product?"
Yeah it's similar in that sense, but checked exceptions force you to acknowledge every type of exception that can be thrown, or one generic one. If you can't handle it then they force you to list every type of exception that can be thrown all they way up the chain.
All I have is the industry numbers. On average they all claim 1000 cycles at 80% DoD. They'll certainly get longer usage given a lower DoD, but if they design a bare bones system it could have enough to last 1,3,5, or 10 days
Dennett's approach is absurd. Consciousness is the only thing in the Universe that is self-evident in the strict sense.

I don't think science should be based to accepting things that are "self-evident", especially things that subjectively self-evident.

The advances of Galileo et al were based on challenging beliefs about the world which seemed self-evident at the time.

The idea that science should begin investigating mental processes based on accepting what is subjectively self-evident seems especially flawed given difficulty that any system has in observing itself.
Apparently they are on par with energy density and power density. They are way ahead on cycle stability (30k charges). So that pretty much leaves two things:

1. Charge stability. Does it leak like a sieve even without a load after being charged?

2. Manufacturability. I expect this is the big problem. It's a chemical engineering problem to scale up a "nano" process. The article says it's not ready, but doesn't say what the biggest challenge is going forward.

Anyone know this particular supercapacity tech? Or supercaps in general?
The first one is Firefox only, the second one is everything-except-Safari.
Get the port of Simon Tatham's puzzle collection to iOS and your minesweeper needs will be sorted.
Is that true? All supercaps? This tech in particular?
Anecdotal experience, but all my relatives and many of my friends are happy with this ban as it is a step against corruption. My parents got income tax notice after this ban which shows they are even monitoring bank accounts now, and this is when my parents didn't have a single penny in black money. A lot of people are willing to stand in queues. Modi promised to take steps against black money/corruption and he did take a step against it, so alot of people are happy with him. Modi being a polarising figure will always have people discrediting each and every single move taken by him.
http://www.try2hack.nl
tbh I'm reading the opening anecdote about soda hawkers and roadside egg vendors accepting PayTm and thinking last time I was in India and R500 and R1000 notes were legal tender, I wouldn't have expected those guys to have accepted the large denomination notes (no change), never mind digital payments...
You could do that.

Or if you do work as a freelance contractor, you can pay a business lawyer 4 to 6 hours of their time to draft up a services agreement that you will use as a template for every client going forward.

Client doesn't pay me (after some nudges that they should)? Well according to the services agreement there was no IP transfer, because I wasn't paid. They continue to use the IP? Well the contract they signed says I can sue the hell out of them (and win) as recourse. Client wants something changed after delivery and payment? I'm not obligated to do squat, as the service agreement says that since they signed off on the delivery receipt, they supposedly were fine with it. The services agreement makes sure I get paid, the client doesn't try to put me over a barrel, and makes sure I'm making good by my client. That's what you have them.

Seriously. Always have a contract.