skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Behavior? Yes. Consciousness? Maybe not. As far as I know, no-one has ever come up with an explanation of how matter can give rise to consciousness. Obviously consciousness is affected by changes in matter — if I take certain drugs, I feel different, etc. — but there is no explanation at all for what mechanisms may give rise to consciousness in the first place, and the very idea of the material giving rise to consciousness might actually not make sense.
There's certainly a tension between quickly prototyping something in R/Python w/ limited data vs. making a ML system that scales once proven useful.

I believe the majority of data science jobs today are involved on doing only the first (to gather pontual insights) and dropping the ball on the second since it involves a lot more software engineering, and those jobs are currently being fulfilled by those without this skill.

I foresee this being a source of frustration in the next years for companies that fell for the data science hype, once they figure out it takes significant investment and commitment to build intelligence into their systems, or even curate high-quality data to do it right in the first place.
I hope there is a tool like Cargo (https://crates.io) in C
This is a stupid reply that has nothing to do with the topic: I had the NMS myself, and I'm assuming some college was going to give you an extra kicker since it's portable. Do you mind sharing which colleges? I'm weirdly curious because while I didn't go to an known elite school, I turned down a full ride to an out-of-state state school (for NMS winners) to go to a private school. So like, kind of the opposite of you. But I also probably didn't fully understand the options.
Hey, I do marketing at GitLab, and this is definitely not something that should be happening. If you want to email me at mitchell [at] gitlab [.] com with the email that you signed up to our service with I'd love to look into why you were sent so many emails.
I don't think there's a problem reconciling the brain with the mind, if by 'mind' one means problem-solving ability. The problem is in reconciling the brain with consciousness. There is, as far as I know, no theory that explains how consciousness can arise from matter.
Technical details are here [1], though if entering a name and e-mail in a form is off-putting to you, I'm not sure anything could convince you to take the step of switching enterprise storage vendors.

Aside, I can't express how validating it is how much you (and others, given the downvotes) disbelieve me. It makes me quite proud to have helped develop a service considered so impossible that it is written off as black magic. It does make it hard to market the damn thing though ;)

[1] http://www.clearskydata.com/clearsky-global-storage-network-...
I agree it's annoying. But at least if you use the new "Quick game" pairing system there is no option to choose a color.
I find both arguments equally plausible. I think there's plenty more plausible addendums too e.g. the idea that the baby human would mature incredibly fast. I'm not sure to what extent we're all throwing speculative darts here.
Anyone have a rational to use Sublime 3 over Sublime 2?
Libertarian doesn't equal open borders, as that's a broad political spectrum.

Hell, even some anarcho-capitalists (like the late Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe) are against open borders.
This is all covered in the FAQ. Problem: no vetting process on similar sites. Solution: have someone read the ideas. It's free, not meant to make money. I just posted it on HN. I don't see similar sites with a vetting process out there.
The Dark Side of Polyfilling CSS
Next stop: Purescript :-)
Danger Close: Fancy Bear Tracking of Ukrainian Field Artillery Units
On windows It's WPR and WPA. In sure Linux/Mac has similar system wide profilers. WPA will give you detailed wait analysis.
Bookmarking this comment and yours further down thread. Very insightful. Regret I only have one upvote.

Disclaimer: DevOps going through the same process (everyone wanting to move to Kubernetes/k8 because its the new hotness/"orchestrated containers").
s/theoretically/practically/, and I doubt it changes the conclusion that much (in practice).
Maybe they should display win rates for black and white separately. Or display the midpoint between the two (i.e. counting each color as 50% even if the number of games is different).
Calfornia is mismanged to hell. The bay area has some of the worst roads in the nation with very mild weather and a wealthy tax base. It cost $8billion to make 1 or 2 miles of central subway and only €11 billion to make the worlds longest tunnel under the alps. I have the same income tax rate as I did in canada yet there isnt universal healthcare and far more economic inequality. It goes on and on. If you trippled the money base I dont know how much better it would get.
I tend to use a single compilation unit, and use plain C. For a 50k line project I have build times of 1-1.2sec. On top of that I'm also linking to opengl, windows.h and a couple of headers in the standard lib.
> Because the laws are unjust. There is clearly an immigration problem in the United States and I personally don't believe tracking and deporting he people already here will ever contribute to a successful solution.

Then change the laws, but in order to do that you need to get your own people elected.

It's funny how ultimately the camps that allegedly is for a strong federal government would be better off with a weak "confederate style" federation. If the federal government wouldn't be in charge of immigration policies then whatever state you live in could set whatever immigration laws you want.

It's also curious how only in US immigration laws are seen as as immoral. Try to move to Canada and see how hard it is to survive there illegally. Yet Canada is somehow seen as the heaven of progressiveness somehow ...

Here is the thing, the more illegal immigrants you accept and defend, the harder it is for the people who actually want to respect US laws and go through the official process. That's the only thing that is immoral here. But you don't care about these people.
“I was on virgin/delta flight 5301- what happened”
Close enough for me. That vaguely rings a bell. I'll have to reread those, and pay better attention.
You are missing: in order to gain access to these institutions, many people apparently have to forgoe those extracurriculars and focus only on their studies.
As far as I know, my scholarship was not portable. It was specifically for one university and when I failed to attend, no, I did not get to keep my scholarship.

No one gave me an extra kicker. I turned my scholarship down for personal reasons, not because I was bought out by some competing school.
These things get easier when you don't read your emails every day.

You just check your email and then you discover the stupid offer is already gone. You can skip straight to the "acceptance" phase and the "god. they are really dumb".
I'm not saying it's a meaningless comparison; I'm saying it's a comparison between meaningless numbers.
The thing about the rich is they can hire people to make loopholes out what you just described and the financal incentive to do so.
Beware the Grids of March.
> A superintelligent being isn't going to be able to build a superliminal reactionless drive if the laws of the universe say it isn't possible.

It isn't, but if it wants one then it will likely go and discover the actual physical constraints.

> More relevant, a superintelligent being isn't going to be able to enslave us all with robots if the laws of chemistry don't permit a quantum leap in battery chemistry.

That's what differentiates even a somewhat intelligent AI from technologies we have today. Enslaving us with battery-powered robots is but one way to reach the goal. There are many others. If we stick to robots, you have gasoline-powered robots (gasoline is a liquid battery that's still 30x as dense as our solid batteries). Then you have nuclear batteries, which we know are feasible, but don't exist because of political reasons. And then again, robots are but one way to reach a goal...
Joking? You can't be jailed for naming your phone or wifi Galaxy Note 7.
Safari is widely used and the unavailability of service workers to help adapt to not having a network connection sounded like a deal breaker. However, using portable browser storage APIs and JavaScript should be enough to write progressive apps that would also work on Safari, right?
Brits figured this shit out a long time ago: you talk about the weather.
Not at all. At that time in my life, I would have been attracted to that kind of gig, and having been a customer working with those kinds of firms, I wouldn't have liked it.

Fundamentally, the best thing hat I learned about in college was myself. Surrounding myself with type-As on some track would have stifled that. Honestly, I'm really happy with how life has turned out this far!
Try small bars.
New version of Flask is out (0.12)
Kokonaut Weather Sensors – Makers Edition
What? Sorry to rain on your common-sense parade, but the article says: "twitter is a useful measuring stick here, as it is a company of intense worth that is hard to value."

I don't know what that means. But after exploring Mattermark's website I'm not clear what they offer their users for $500 a month. Anyone use Mattermark and can offer insight?

They seem to scrape publicly available data about companies, organize it and offer an API?

They also have some sort of "Mattermark Score" for companies they track. If they don't know the difference between a currency and company, I'd be curious to know what this score involves too.
Or even forgetting biology for a second:

- gasoline is a liquid battery with much greater energy density than our solid ones

- nuclear batteries are a thing, too
https://twitter.com/sowbug/status/414098711505952768

Less concise: don't bother. If you believe the price will rise, buy bitcoin rather than mining equipment and electricity.
Please fill me in too, possibly filling an issue on the regex repo if there's anything I can do to help. (This is the first I'm hearing of the problem.)
I think the point is like Musk, these people hardly refuse government subsidizes. You might argue they provide a service, they are not getting a handout, but it's still paid by the same taxes they want to get rid off at first place.
Indeed, this seems like pointing to the speed of light as a limit in a discussion about building faster cars.
Wait, wouldn't the AMT apply to his desired all-ISO scenario anyway? This is an actual problem; people can't afford to buy their ISOs either because of the AMT. What's the actual damage here done by NSOs?
But in the future, the present will be the past.
We are still chasing down the final unknown session ID bugs actually, although many have been fixed. The other big issue is to warn when unverified devices are added to a room. We are working on them all currently.
No, most of the gold in the world is not traded; but I don't remember ever hearing people talk about the "market capitalization of gold".

Most stocks have a rational basis for their price beyond mere scarcity: They pay dividends, or are expected to pay dividends eventually. Newly IPOed startups are something of an exception to this rule (lots of people chasing a small number of "hot" shares) and it's not surprising that they often have mythical market capitalizations.
The "Rust team" isn't picking winners, but they do happen to be contributing to and creating the leading solutions. There is a lot of energy around futures and tokio, very early on in the story of Rust. Sure, Rust has already been around for a while, but 1.0 was only last year.

If you like Rust, and you want to use it for network and server related tasks, get involved. Write the redis, memcache, HTTP clients of your dreams. Rally the people who've solved those problems in Rust (and elsewhere) in the past.

Please try to state your concerns (or better yet, ask questions) in a more thoughtful manner.
CERN Scientist Sentenced to 5 Years in Terrorism Case (2012)
Tell them that they can send the contract. It's not binding either way.

If you already have the contract. Tell them back that you need a few days to check your notice period and paperwork. It's just not possible to move that fast. (How the hell did they even made up a contract and a background check before they get the information?)

The more you go up the chain. The more exclusive (i.e. no other people in the entire city for this position) and the longer the negotiation might be (you're hell not leaving your place at the snap of a finger from a 20 year old HR person who's bullshitting you).

P.S. EVERY ONE gets more than one day to decide. Don't expect people to be available on phone or email whenever you want.
I've been under the impression for years that the King's Gambit, despite it being the best variation/opening of all (IMO), was obsolete at the highest levels. A chess master/instructor once assured me of this, despite it being his favorite too. He referred to it as "romantic" and said it was almost never played at GM level.
I don't know what page of the report Snowden is referring to, but he says the report itself "admits I purged and abandoned hard drives rather than risk bringing them through Russia. Glad it's settled."

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/811983058790445057
I think it might be great to encourage the rich to spend as much as possible. Don't the expensive cars, private jets, and first class transportation support whole networks of businesses, and provide employment?
There's really just one question - either it works in a way we can figure out, or it doesn't. The former is "materialism", the other (for now) is "supernatural", with the possible caveat that we may one day prove that some laws governing the universe are fundamentally not comprehensible for human minds, and all other minds humans could ever create (in a Gödel's incompleteness theorem style).
Why is Japanese IT industry so lame
It's one thing to worry about AI's taking over the world someday. It's quite another matter entirely to think about current military automation of WMD deployment.

Everyone's probably seen Dr. Strangelove at some point in time. If you haven't, stop reading immediately and go watch it. You will not regret this. Those who have watched it are familiar with a contrived, hilarious, but mostly plausible, scheme by which human beings could be fooled into launching an unauthorized nuclear first strike. This is with technology from half a century ago. As you watch this movie, you will be exposed to a system with checks and safeties that can be bypassed by a determined (and insane) individual. Many humans at every step of the process could have stopped the deployment, but choose to blindly follow orders, well, like machines.

What people should be worried about today is how many humans stand between a decision made by a nuclear power's leader and launch. Humans doubt. Humans blink. Humans flinch. When all the data says nuclear missiles are inbound and it's time to retaliate, humans can still say "No.", and have[1]. If you automate humans out of the system, you wind up reducing the running length of a Dr. Strangelove remake. I suspect it would be down to under five minutes today.

Thanks to popular media, we have this strange idea that taking humans out of the equation in automated weapon systems reduces the possibility for error. Individual humans can, and do, make mistakes. This is true. However, humans fix each others' mistakes in any collaborative process. Machines, on the other hand, only amplify the mistakes of the original user. If a bad leader makes a bad decision with a highly automated nuclear arsenal at his or her disposal, how many other humans will have the chance to scrutinize that decision before machines enact it?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
It's not about borders or immigration -- that is just this specific case. Palantir helps big government in a variety of ways which are incompatible with a libertarian worldview.
Learning how to learn: The most important developer skill
Ransomware isn't the bitcoin killer app. The bitcoin killer app is assassination markets. ;-)
Neat idea! I think you should allow comments.
No, to gain access to these institutions you are basically required to have half a dozen extracurriculars on your resume. They receive applications from so many white straight-A/4.0 students that extracurriculars are the only differentiating factor. Few high schools (in California, at least) would even let you graduate without 50-100 hours of community service.

Whether these extracurriculars would expose you to different ethnicities and world views is dependant on demographics.
Browser extensions that can translate the selected text into English are nice https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-transl... as you can attempt to read a foreign language website and only get translations for words you don't know.
Brits also are much more okay with embracing the idea that there are separate classes. Americans like to think we are better than that and (like to imagine that we) treat all people in some idealized egalitarian fashion. In practice, it is a lot, lot harder to treat everyone equally well and try to ignore class divides than to have protocols in place for bridging the gap between people explicitly of different classes.
Totally. I'm writing an app myself using UWP, albeit in C#. I was addressing the wanting it to be a webapp part, not the UWP or written in javascript parts, which is a totally different issue.
The speed up is easy to explain. Instead of launching gcc 50 times, it's now once for all.
Scala gives me that warm fuzzy feeling a lot. ObjFunctional feels so natural to me
Seconding the point. If you want to accept "ad hominem" or stereotypes as a useful heuristic, you'll quickly hit things that will get you labeled as ${thing}ist. This is an utterly hypocritical part of our culture.
Aren't you the same poster who wrote "The real question is how hard is this permit to obtain? I'm also guessing the permit limits Uber from doing what they want completely."?
This is a ridiculous comment. Have you ever tried running a company? I'm certain the founders of these companies put their blood sweat and tears into their work, but unfortunately things didn't go as planned. They are probably deeply saddened and crushed about having to fire employees and made very hard decisions. Life doesn't revolve around you and your technology inconveniences.
On the other hand, you didn't offer any rebuttal to the arguments I offered, either. You just found fault with a single line and decided to go with it.

A tone argument is a logical fallacy, and I made a substantive post. Do you care to offer anything else in response?
Snowen maintains and he brought nothing to Russia. He gave all the data for journalists in Hong Kong. He encrypted the documents in such a way that even he no longer has access to them, and that he did this before he became stranded in Russia.
As someone who comes from a family that has a few successful traditional businesses, luck and who you know plays a big part of your success.

It's hard for people who haven't been in business to understand. They have been told that a great product at a fair price with fantastic customer service is what it takes. While that plays a role it is does not even amount to 50% of the formula.
Perhaps random isn't the right word, but it's completely out of your control, will, or knowledge. Just like your eye color.

>It is not some majestic yet universal coincidence that people have more in common with those who happen to share the same genes, and less so the more divergence exists.

It is the definition of a coincidence. The confounding variables being the shared area, culture, and socioeconomic tier in which you're born.
Posiba shuts down office in Vietnam without paying their staff
Company hasn't paid the staff since Jun 2016. Now CEO decides to close office in VN without clear path to pay us. PosibaVn is the core engineering team and it's not their failure.

Is there anyone can help us?
Posiba in a nutshell	http://posibablog.cf/nutshell/

CEO message: http://posibablog.cf/closing_down/
Goodbye Democracy
Icaros Desktop 2.2 X-Mas Special with Final Writer
I think that been undergoing a number of changes - including (but not limited to) the increase in urbanization (moving away from close small communities), increase in movement (relatives spread across the country/globe), increase in secularism (decrease in religious communities), and more access to personal entertainment (see the end of the Chautauqua movement), that have definitely caused us to be more isolated and have less of a sense of community. We are still trying to adapt to - or even be aware of - the changes we have been undergoing and the implications of it.

It seems like a sense of community is extremely important for a society, particularly with the connection there seems to be between community and happiness (my understanding is that much of the happiness that religious people get is from the community, for example). Still, I haven't seen a great idea as to how one can be fostered (though there are some decent ideas about what you as an individual can do to get a better sense).
I talked about GitLab and how they can compete against GitHub in this past comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155293

and at the present moment, they are still pretty far from being able to convince notable projects to leave github.com for gitlab.com The biggest issue right now, is there is a measurable difference between gitlab.com and github.com, which is, it's much slower.

GitLab is working on this and I have no doubt this will become a non-issue in the future, but they still have to deal with the fact that you can't compete with being "as good as". Even if gitlab.com becomes as good as github.com, they will still have a difficult time, to convince others to leave github.com for gitlab.com

I guess my point is, since github.com is the incumbent, the only way that gitlab.com can become the next place to collaborate, is they have to make it clear, that they are better than github.com They can't strive for equality, since you can't compete with "as good as".
Exactly :) I come from a .net background, where compile times are kinda bad compared to what I get in C. I had also heard of big C++ projects that could take more than 30 mins to build. So I was always scared to move to native code. Until I learned the single compilation unit trick! And if compile times were to get slow again, there are many more ways to bring it down even further,
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The solution is near. The "elite" will be a lot less smug when their jobs also get replaced by technology. No need for melodramatic navel-gazing.

Anyone notice that some the most "elite" schools are total no-shows in AI research?
FOIA? All the accident reports for autonomous vehicles are publicly accessible via the web. Not only that, but the companies are required to document each time the driver takes over. Again, all accessible via the web. The reporting requirements would have doomed Uber.
Flash replaced <blink>.
Existence in a bubble is almost always a disadvantage.
Unfortunate that nobody checked/saved the MAC of that hotspot. I believe it doesn't change when you switch between the AP / client mode, so you could identify the person later on.

Then again, it would be interesting to know if you can actually get charged for having a specific SSID and whether anyone can prove it's been done on purpose, not accidentally.