skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm counting down the years before internet access will be blocked based on your SSN/unique ID. It will be like driving a car. Any errant "illegal" act while surfing will be punished by the full-force of the law. Fines while surfing. And more. Just wait.
> Did you mean Dennett, instead of Chalmers?

Argh. Yes. Fixed, thanks.

Need more caffeine.

It's like talking about Ruby and saying "Python" instead.
Fusion power is a problem that needs more funding.
Are you familiar with django channels?

https://blog.heroku.com/in_deep_with_django_channels_the_fut...

They supposed to make this sort of thing easy and straightforward. I'm still learning them, but this system seems to be well designed and makes a lot of sense.

Django + Django REST Framework + React should give you pretty much everything you need to build whatever you want, including single page apps. At least as far as I understand it.
The programming game http://halite.io/

I'd recommend it - really fun.

At the moment I'm ranked #23 with a really stupid bot. I'm now doing hammock driven development on a better concept.
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I ve sold mine. Couldn't bare port dropping madness!
A custom emulator for Ultima Online. (actually a fork of runuo)
GitHub Trending Repositories weekly and monthly lists empty for 2 days
Unless I am missing something here specific to my environment or network (would love more independent confirmation beyond testing 2 separate networks) - it appears the Monthly/Weekly trending repositories have been broken or empty for at least the past 2 days [0]:

Is this an actual defect? Or just part of a normal scheduled update process that I am failing to understand? Posted the same to github as well but have not heard anything.

* https://github.com/trending?since=weekly
* https://github.com/trending?since=monthly

[0] - http://imgur.com/a/LDLdz
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Tangentially related to this point, when tools like Rails came along, it seemed that web applications would become trivialized to the point where "anyone can do it". In an environment where anyone can be a web developer, do you need a web developer? It turns out you do, fortunately.

Now, Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a threat to everyone's jobs, just about, but I can't see an AI short of AGI replacing a web developer's cognitive processes.
UK Porn websites to be banned from showing some sex acts under proposed law
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If you haven't noticed, check out my comments in the article. I provide a concerned, critical response arguing for why Signal might not be a good idea. Or in the least, Mr. Shelton should explain the possible risks and dangers.
I switched from ortho-k to soft lenses. So much more comfortable. Hard lenses were painful, and I found that after 6PM or so my vision would have noticeably deteriorate again with the hard lenses.
Oh I see what you mean now. Thanks.
That is a very good analysis/extrapolation. Two more characters to add to your way of seeing: those with chronic narcissism and poseurs. The way the world works is that the narcissist politician/'competitive game player' is that one step ahead, it takes you time to prove they have cheated. The biggest obstacle to you is believing they did cheat. Your brain is wired up to imagine such a thing as unimaginable. However these guys don't have the ability to empathise, that is something they pretend because they do not have the wiring to the frontal cortex that you have. You give them credit as equals yet a huge chunk of their brain function is missing. They game the system as they have no shame doing so.

The poseurs are those with all the gear but no idea. It takes them time to be accepted by your game playing clique, you may even put them through some hazing and initiation before they are accepted. They want to play the game but do not know the ins and outs. Therefore they become easy prey to believing what your narcissist game player tells them.

In politics the electorate is essentially entirely poseur. Most employees have no idea how to run a company even the one they work for, even if they have worked there for decades. So, why on election day does the uninformed, propagandized to masses get to have a say?

Invariably yet another narcissist gets into office, regardless of their political colours.
Sorry to hear it. I've updated my post to make some of the wording more subjective.

The halo effects are indeed quite strong in the first weeks (took my eyes about 6 weeks to fully adjust), but they have practically disappeared for me and I feel very comfortable night driving now. I appreciate that different eyes and different care can cause wildly different results and experience.
I absolutely agree, but if much of the "value" you provide is via protectionist legislation then all we are saying here is that blue collar workers should lobby for extremely high entry points and credentials for their jobs so they "have the right" to earn decent salaries.

I think that's just a terrible idea all around. You should be able to earn a great wage without suppressing the market to justify it. Or rather, people should not be rewarded for building/propagating high entry points to their careers. I get WHY it works out the way it does (bc capitalism), but it seems that in the end we all lose out.
That's because most of his post was just marketing patter copied and pasted from their FAQ page:

https://getfrenzy.co/faq
"Trains on time" was a reference to your original comment (yes, I know it's not really true)
Have some problems using a Meitracker for tracking trucks ( and temperature of the fridges), their gprs protocol is really bad.

Looking to get through it, have no choice.

On top of that, my webshop ( more languages), some websites ( clients) and other webshops ( clients) + erp integration with ErpNext or OpenErp
It's more about status than utility. As long as Go and Chess can maintain some sort of high status (as games or as historical points of interest) among the intelligent or ruling classes, they'll be remembered. Diseases seem to get status a different way. Humanity will probably remember the Plague for a long time still. Or if a biologically engineered supervirus was unleashed that killed a significant fraction of humanity over a short period of time, that too would be remembered. Quick mass death is the status currency of disease. If we ever get around to ending aging, probably one of the lowest-status problems on the to-do list, death by aging will be forgotten too.
Yes, Twitter needs to make money. But they need to do so in a way that doesn't kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Soak the rich policies tend to backfire. The rich and powerful have the most latitude for just going elsewhere. The result is almost always that other groups who have less power and money are hurt while the rich just make other choices because they aren't interested in being soaked and they aren't sheeple.
consciousness can be seen as the counterweight to emotions, so it can have survival utility
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That's an idea with zero evidence and thus indistinguishable from fantasy.
A few years ago I was flying to Russia from New Zealand, a friend of mine was flying to Ireland. Ironically we were both on the same flight from Auckland to Osaka, and then on the same flight from Osaka to Frankfurt. From Frankfurt our flights diverged.

In Osaka I was called to the checkout, where in typical Japanese efficiency they said there were some issues at Frankfurt and they had already printed my ticket for my next flight. This was a life saver.

Anyway, it turns out there was a huge snow storm and Frankfurt was having to cancel 500 flights a day. The place was like a refugee camp with thousands of people sleeping on stretchers, etc. The queue to talk to anyone or checkin lasted for hours, and people couldn't leave the airport because if your name was called for a flight you had to be there to take it. Every single flight in Europe's busiest airport were grounded except the Russians, the biggest snow storm in years was nothing and I only had to wait a couple of hours, my friend was there for a couple of days. So it really is amazing what you're used to.
I can't make the leap from evolution selecting for consciousness for some utility to dualism. Can you make that more explicit for me?

What you've stimulated for me is the question of whether brains and their processes could have the same utility without the quality of interiority? We can make obvious observations like "the pain of intense heat incentivizes the animal to stop touching fires". Was it necessary that the animal feel the pain, or could the exact same behavioral modification have been duly recorded in some neural adjustment without the interior experience?

My personal intuition is that 1. it is possible for a machine with the right interfaces running a sophisticated enough turing machine to replicate the above, and 2. such a turing machine would not have the same quality of interiority that we have. This suggests that consciousness doesn't have some inherent utility. Except! From my internal observations, consciousness seems to have the quality that it focuses inputs and computation. I filter out noise, center my reasoning/recall/attention on one or two things at a time. Perhaps this ability to filter and focus allows for more peak "thought" or "processing" given equal grey matter mass or energy input. So my thesis is that the evolutionary advantage of consciousness is that it was a software based way to extract more performance out of brains given hardware limitations.
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The tone and word choice in this post throws into stark relief the enormity of what you don't understand about left-leaning people.
Step one: Don't use macOS
NLP and the Coming Content Explosion
Some alternatives:

#1 <script>alert()</script> (no need for an empty string)

#4 '+alert()+'

#6 you can also use a protocol-relative url //google.com/jsapi?callback=alert
If you want a candidate to win, use the most effective hacking tool available: social engineering. As a bonus, it's legal!

It might sound flippant, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the masterful politicians (in the USA or abroad) wouldn't consider illegal hacking just because it's too risky. Better to use shady-yet-legal tactics to shift opinions. The whole "fake news" issue seems like it could be a very smart campaign in this regard.
Erm... no, it doesn't. Straight from the readme:

> Many popular libraries use decorators in their documentation. Create React App doesn’t support decorator syntax at the moment because:

> It is an experimental proposal and is subject to change.

> The current specification version is not officially supported by Babel.

> If the specification changes, we won’t be able to write a codemod because we don’t use them internally at Facebook.

CRA _does_ support the not-yet-final object spread syntax, which is currently Stage 3, and the class properties syntax, which is Stage 2. However, both of those are pretty straightforward syntax sugar for existing capabilities, and the React team has promised to provide codemods if they ever do happen to be changed or canceled.

That said, the perf checking does look useful. I'll add this tool to my list of React/Redux-related devtools, at https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma... .
Yes! Many people seem to miss this for whatever reason. There is no risk-free choice if you are unlucky enough to have poor eyesight.

Personal anecdote: I have a retinal scar from an eye infection that was a direct result of wearing contacts. The $2K I spent on LASIK in my early twenties was the best money I've ever spent.

I did a good amount of research and came to the conclusion that the expected value of LASIK outweighed that of contacts over a lifetime. To simplify things a bit, you are trading a one-time risk of a serious post-surgery complication for a risk of a contact-caused eye infection spread out over the remaining years of your life.
To be fair, (many of) those on the right thought Donald Trump was an idiot for saying he wouldn't accept the results, so it doesn't seem unfair for them to continue they're claiming "we won, leave it be" now. They would (likely) have asked Trump to do the same in the "we lost, leave it be" situation.
Barbara Liskov and Bertrand Meyer both have talked about separating decision making from execution. And though there work predates widespread adoption, I find this happens to work remarkably well for unit testing as well.

The thing to remember is that when Java was young, the pool of people who grasped OOAD was very small. Nearly all of us were making it up as we went along. So Design Patterns came out and everyone glommed onto that book, and then went out and wrote code so awful and convoluted that it's now a joke.

J2EE was built up in that space, on a foundation of bad assumptions and unfounded theories. I was simply amazed that the same company that brought us the Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing brought us the J2EE 1.0 spec. I was so appalled at its quality that I switched to UI development until well after the 2.0 spec was out and implemented.

It says something profound that every vendor that had any succes with those versions of the spec did it by defying the spec and supporting local dispatch. A lot of people couldn't scale their app past two machines, but load balancer eventually came around and fixed that.

Anyway, my point is you have a bunch of APIs written by newly minted experts, many of the foundational ones by people with absolutely no awareness of the physics of distributed computing, it's going to take a lot to spackle to cover those sins. Some did, others doubled down, but overall every problem was solved by another layer of indirection.

When refactoring came to the fore I hoped the industry would hastily reverse course. Spring was supposed to fix a lot of this but from my view, Spring became the thing is sought to replace. Full of cryptic levers and dials and massive indirection.

I think it was Mike Feathers who attributed this to cowardice. People afraid to make decisions put all the decisions behind a layer or two of indirection so they can "cheaply" change their minds later. But again we are back to Meyer and Liskov here.

If A then B (where A is the decision and B the action) allows you to change A without adding much if anything to B, or add to B without changing A. If this shows up in an inheritance hierarchy then you need about half as many overridden methods for the same call tree. Which means a shallower call tree, and code you can speak out loud.
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> I know it was nasty, and I'm certainly going to avoid it, but when I'm not actually in pain, I cannot summon up even a shadow of a sensation of what the pain itself was actually like.

That's physical pain, but if you try that with emotional pain I'll be you can feel it just fine and quite literally re-live it.
I don't get this. Is this different than installing a modern OS forum engine?
Wow. Browsing history available to police without a warrant. Personally, I'm not in the UK, but the fact that this is happening in a democracy means I'm suddenly really serious about figuring out how to set up a VPN hosted in a country with privacy laws I can trust. Which, I'm sure, is probably no real country, but at least enough to make it hard for Big Brother to look over my shoulder.
Seems to me that the opinion of someone running an agency that, among other things, implements Shopify integrations, would fall under the general category of customer feedback.
Also check out Mission Pinball Group[1] if you live in San Francisco

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/814768791983231/
What does this comment mean? Are you saying that the results of the election are unclear in the state?
Sad to see this mostly objective and balanced comment down voted while all the hyperbole is going to the top.
I'm not sure your argument makes sense. To say there exists conscious experience doesn't add anything ontologically to 'it's self-evident that there are thoughts'. The self-evidence of thoughts and conscious experience are the same thing.

Your statement "There are just thoughts with 'I am experiencing X' content" could be rightly used as a counterargument to "'I' exist" statement.
It could also be used against 'there exists pure consciousness without content' statement.
But to say that may be used against 'there exists experience of thoughts as opposed to just eg. electrical impulses' doesn't seem to make sense.

The latter doesn't mean that the experience and thoughts are two different things, is it what bothers you?
> That's one reason why I've started using the term "interiority" to describe the bedrock "existence of a feeling of what it is like" phenomenon. It's the smallest word I can think of that still conveys the essence of the hard part of the hard problem.

A more widely used term is "subjectivity".

> How much time did he spend trying to explain how there was anything doing the "hearing" to begin with? Nearly zero. Maddening.

This seems like a common sentiment, but I'm not sure it's justified. You're already assuming the existence of a subject just because of an observation, but that needs justification. That belief is just an inference, a chain of thoughts sourced from a thought and yielding the final thought "I experienced X". The question is really whether that chain of inference is valid or fallacious, in which case subjectivity is an illusion.

I suggest reading some scientific attempts to account for subjectivity [1]. Our approaches to consciousness amounts to marvelling at a pencil sitting in a glass of water [2] and trying to figure out how water seems able to break and reconstitute the pencil, when we should really be developing the theory of light refraction. Like biology did to vitalism, all this mysticism surrounding consciousness will soon just fade into history.

[1] http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...

[2] http://etc.usf.edu/clippix/pix/refraction-of-pencil-in-cup-o...
I'm sure it's not your intention, but I read that question as "How can we make it easier for someone to game the system on hacker news?"

Making it more transparent would probably not be a good thing.
Fortunately sea water attenuates lasers very effectively.
The global expansion of a single ant supercolony (2010)
Also look into django-channels
It is a big mistake to say that RDF/semantic web has "failed".

What has happened is that people have tried a lot of things and some have succeeded and some have failed. For instance, OWL seems to have become an inpediment to progress rather than a useful tool. On the other hand, people are starting to understand what JSON-LD is and they like it.

See https://developers.google.com/schemas/formats/json-ld

Also note that by simply specifying a namespace to put the terms in you can transform JSON into usable RDF and even put multiple documents in and see them as a comprehensive graph.
Few running example: http://mangelmaxime.github.io/Lua.vm.js-Samples/pages/www/
Hey,

Thanks, you are right!

Do you have a good suggestion on a syntax how people could use the "debugger" in a nice way? I kinda dislike first creating a component and then wrapping it completely afterwards, although that of course would work.

All the best,
Sebastian
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Perhaps the error is expecting all Latinos to act like a hive mind.
Did anyone else notice the pose of the lady in the red dress in the background. Is it meant to imply she is covering herself as she worried about his x-ray glasses? This makes no sense to be here? Very strange.
I think the author is right that top-down technical solutions to social problems don't work. Their examples are compelling, and more come to mind. As you say, though, that doesn't extend to the argument that technology and social good are unrelated. Companies reasonably can (and, one could argue, should) choose their investments and priorities based on their social effects and other distant externalities. There are also problems, like the social effects of climate change, that can be effectively addressed, at least partially, with technical solutions.

The much more interesting question for me is whether it's ethical to invest in technologies that will cause social change, even if those changes are highly likely to be negative in the short term. The default silicon valley answer to that would be yes, but a broad range of other people would say no. Both have rational arguments. If you look at the social effects of the industrial revolution (or the green revolution, or the enlightenment) there's a lot of short-term negative for a lot of people and some enduring problems for some groups of people.
No that is only the case if you don't count Michigan (which Trump is probably going to win very very slightly).

Counting Michigan, Trump has 306 electoral votes. If you take away the 29 from Florida, he has 277, which is still greater than the 270 needed.
> It seems unlikely for the result of the election to change even if one state was hacked

you just need a little "adjustments" to the elections results in several counties in a few (like about 3 this time) states. Which is easy given at how many places the voting is done using [really unsecure] electronic machines.

>Russia has shown interest in destabilizing the USA's electoral system throughout the year. The only question is just how far they are willing to go.

Seems like you think that there is really such a question :)
Well, do you think Russia values integrity of US elections more than integrity of Russia's elections? And do you have any idea about integrity of Russia's elections ? :)
I agree. If you use the mouse to point, then the camera should move in the direction the mouse moves. If you use the mouse to grab the world and move it, then the world should move in the direction the mouse moves.
What makes you say he is "ruled by emotion"? The article was nuanced, balanced, carefully reasoned and used unemotional language.

> "I think she should have won" or "the polls all said.."

Those aren't his arguments.
As far as the backend frameworks go, you have the 3 most popular, very good options:

- Ruby on Rails

- Node + Express

- Django

The major reason I have picked Django is that it is written in Python, which allows me to use an elegant and beautiful language that I can apply in any field, and utilize a huge amount of python apps, scripts, and stackoverflow examples.

Using Django has also enabled me to learn the solid foundations of web development, which I can expand upon and apply anywhere.

For example now I am experimenting with React and Express, and knowing Django helps me enormously, it makes understanding these things way easier.

I have built a bunch of projects with Django, and I am extremely happy about my choice, so I highly recommend it to anyone who is beginning to learn web development.
I share your bafflement at trying to recall pain, I can't do it to any fidelity either. But I actually think that this is not unique among sensations, and most of our memories are about as hazy as this. I can remember that I did or saw or smelled things, but I can't exactly reproduce the sensations/images. I also have to disagree with the logic of the following:

> Maybe it doesn't exist at all, and all it is is an illusion formed by my brain's negative reinforcement signal ('this is bad. Stop doing this'). That would at least explain why it doesn't show up in my memory.

It doesn't matter whether pain is an illusion, we can easily recall visual illusions.
They are real. Some of the students are international where English is not their first language. I'm happy to put you in touch with these students, or any past students if you'd like to hear more from them.