skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> extremely confused and can't separate philosophy/mysticism from empiricism/science.

That's rather bold generalization form a single term.) Nevertheless I would argue that I could easily hold a discussion on various branches of Eastern philosophy and modern sciences.

My friend, awareness does not act, it exist. Other parts of the brain are responsible for actions. That is the point. Awareness is a process (processing of a sensory input, if you wish), one of many, not the whole.

Awareness cannot be objective (or subjective) - this notion is inapplicable. Are camera and microphone in your phone objective?

Observer is a metaphor used to give an oversimplified but familiar example.

In philosophy of the mind an observer emerges as an abstract entity when awareness augmented with a language is directed toward itself in the process of verbalized introspection. A human language is a prerequisite for having such a notion. That is why modern science has no evidence that animals posses self-awareness.

That "mind" or "I" or "myself" with which the verbalized introspection has been labeled what it think it sees is mere a linguistic construct. A label. A name for a reflection in the water of consciousness.

The notion of Brahman is applicable to the nature of the universe and has nothing to do with awareness. The different notion - Atman - is used to convey fundamental idea, that what the nature of a Man is no different from the nature of the Universe - Man is mere a "product" of the Universe. This is the meaning of famous upanishadic "Atman is Brahman" and "I am that".

There, perhaps, no subject other than what we call the philosophy of mind, on which the best minds of the humanity has been working since the beginning of time, and the ideas and notions they have developed, principles they have formulated still stands, even if they were realized as mere insights and intuitions.

As for feedback loops and emergent properties - these are everywhere in biology. No one argues against systems biology or development. A brain has been emerged dues to accumulation of feedback and selection on "useful" patterns
(I am oversimplifying for the sake of the argument). There is nothing to talk about.

Actually, what is really ridiculous is trying to put in a few sentences the findings of evolutionary psychology, the notions of social and cultural conditioning, that a language is conditioned by a sensory experience (and hence by physical shared environment - this is how we got these apriori notions of time and space, described by Kant).

What we call the mind is mere conditioning and memories of experiences, encoded using the very same conditioned linguistic forms and emotions (should I explain in what sense emotions are conditioned by the shared environment?).

I think you should take the Robert Wright's course and read a book or two on the subject before trying to piss on a wrong tree.
As a friend put it more eloquently, Fuck 2016.
Well us who like the scientific approach would have incrementally added layers to the security onion, but in the real world, that kind of trial and error costs human lives.

Makes testing expensive
I think you may be making a distinction where none exists. Can you give me an example of what "other stuff" you're referring to? (Disclosure: I worked at Amazon on a related product.)
Thanks franciscop and thank you for your advice! It's definitely an interesting topic as it touches upon a few ethics.

I'm considered #1 but the thing is it might take time. The person stated that the PR will be reviewed in the New Year, so by the time I involve lawyers the matter might have already been resolved.

So, at the moment I've taken the matter to social media to bring up the matter of ethics in this case.

Thanks again!
> A conservative's list would be very different: opened up vast new areas to oil drilling! Outlawed abortion in more countries! Rolled back environmental regulations that protect penguins over jobs! Reduced crime with stiffer prison sentences!

and that's why liberals lose elections - one of these years we'll skip the caricatures
I am not knocking you, AP or Reddit here, but I think your examples should also include Reddit, the private corporation. AP are still the majority stockholder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications#Former_an...
Thanks a lot :D
schneier is discounting the possibility that terrorists hate standing on lines.
Done. No problems!
I tried Darktable but the lack of basic undo functionality kept me on Lightroom. Looks like this release has basic undo functionality. I'll give this one another try.
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When people say "directly causes obesity", they don't mean it's a magic spell that reverses thermodynamics. Something that stops a large amount of calories from being burned and turns them into fat reserves deserves the title of "directly causes obesity".
> My interpretation is that the "their" qualifier disallows people from using the API to access other people's data without proper authorization.

That interpretation wouldn't make sense with many well-established uses of Github's APIs today. For example, consider a CI service that tests incoming pull requests, and shows the details of each pull request, including the user who submitted it.

Showing appropriate user information in context (associated with their Github contributions), however, seems quite different from mass-scraping user information to create fake "claim me" accounts. Github may or may not want to allow that (and they can always change or clarify their position).
It's what I know best haha.

It works well with a legacy/enterprise stack that I work with. I can't really get the benefits of Angular 2 ( Typescript, Server Side Rendering, better? component system) with the stack that I use, but I will be looking into React for some potential Ruby/Rails apps.
I was thinking the younger characters are probably harder to do because they can't hide the flaws anywhere. Leia was very creepy in Rogue One, but it didn't even occur to me that Peter Cushing had died 20 years ago until after I finished watching the movie. His recreation was very good.
Yes, absolutely. I don't think the blogging format is really want I want to use, but I will be doing all of it in writing so that I can get advice, tweak, improve etc.

I'm thinking about starting with a limited format, say no more than 300 words for explanations and a few images. I want to focus on teaching the absolute barebones basics of a concept so that someone could then go to wiki or other sources with a basic understanding. IDK. Something like that.
Just want to add that the data structure behind all of Clojure's default data types are finger trees.
Damn, you're right. It appears to be zip-code based. I still stand by my opinion of county-based representations.

>When we looked at how many active Facebook users in a given ZIP code “liked” certain TV shows..
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In some places, the wait staff will grab you on your way out and notify you that you didn't tip enough (say 20% instead of 30%).
...sounds about right.
Have you seen the size of the average American? Throw on a staypuff marshmallow parka and you'd look like 40% of travelers this past week
A lot of the fear that comes from tech unemployment is based on predictions of the future, which are notoriously horrible.

You give the example of trucking jobs which will be 90% wiped out. This hews to the conventional wisdom you find on HN, but you'd be hard pressed to put out real evidence that this will be the case on any identifiable near-term timeline. I'm fairly sure there are exactly zero US states where bot trucking is presently common. Going from "this technology is getting good" to "soon it will own 90% of the market" is a pretty huge leap and bold prediction. Tech readiness is only one small factor in whether or not this even could happen.

Bold predictions are, with hindsight, usually wrong.

A lot of these fearful arguments boil down to a simple syllogism; "if present trends continue, then (bad outcome here)". The trouble with that is that trends in general don't continue. Look back on the future predictions of 50 years ago, from any moment in time you choose as your reference point, and you'll see uniformly that the future predictors expected certain trends to continue which didn't, and missed the existence of other big trends that ended up as primary drivers.

People just don't know what's going to happen in the future. I suppose guessing is better than doing nothing, but we shouldn't think that the future guessing we do is actually good or accurate, past experience teaches it's actually really far off.
Thank you! I saw this http://www.learning-hindi.com/.

Going to try to learn from my mom as well; I used to know how to speak it when I was really young, but forgot over the years.
The terrible thing is that there already is an API here that everyone else on UNIX is using successfully - spawn a process with an argv of null-terminated strings and they turn up in the argv of the spawned process.

Microsoft have just chosen not to make it work like that because that would involve admitting they were wrong.
The busboy was the one who made sure the meal was delivered as soon as possible with the proper stuff. The waiter had no part in the food or drink delivery.

Even if "it's a lot harder than it seems" (which really, what?) it's not 90% more work the busboy was doing... remember the busboy also buses the tables. Answering a few questions about the menu is not significantly more difficult than clearing tables.

(Then there's the places where the kitchen staff brings out the food...or they have "runners" who are responsible for bringing out the food.... really, I hate to generalize but as a group servers have a seriously inflated sense of importance, restaurant service is a team effort)
Starting from scratch is one way to achieve this. But I suggest that you look into the GNU Hurd if starting from scratch seems daunting. Its potential is underused by the likes of Arch Hurd and Debian Hurd. One of the things that it can do is substitute user-supplied intermediaries, for just about anything, for selected processes.
Hey, try vinyl claw caps first. Google:
cat vinyl nail caps

Animals are complex machines, just as people are. They are mirroring a lot of our traits, as anger or ignorance.

As a final resort, give the cat up by letting someone adopt it. That actually works! Good luck!
I suspect that we'll see regulations that blunt the impact of this. E.g. long haul trucks will be automated, but will require an alert driver behind the wheel.
> I think the point is that the urban vs rural divide has not been the dominant conflict in America up until now

Given the Connecticut Compromise at the start of the union, urban vs rural have been a part of the USA since the beginning.
Not everyone has the same usage case. For general user applications, yeah, performance isn't that big of a deal. That's not the entirety of computing though.

Some people do things where performance is crucial. This is probably why Intel is moving into the FPGA space and Google is making their own accelerators for machine learning.
Fisher has always seemed to have a mature, nuanced take on what the role of Leia meant in her life. Both a love that she got her life transformed, coupled with the bemused resentment of people's expectations and the reality of being an aging actress. Hard to imagine she was terribly bitter about Rogue One.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-carrie-...

When some moviegoers complained on social media about how much older she looked in “The Force Awakens” than when she had last played the character more than three decades earlier, she retorted on Twitter with her typical sharp wit, “Please stop debating about whether or not I aged well. Unfortunately it hurts all 3 of my feelings.”...

...“It's not always fun, but it’s certainly life-changing,” she told The Times last year. “I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It’s been a part of my life for 40 years…. I’m like the diplomat to a country that I haven’t been to yet. I am that country.”
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I greatly would have preferred to see Western Europe instead of the countries in your second paragraph, because while tastes and convenience differ, income is comparable in European capitals especially, and people can eat at McDonald's if they want, with the same impact on their budget. Whereas some of your other countries differ substantially in all metrics from N. America (specifically the U.S. In particular the U.S. has per capital income that is a multiple of each of those countries [1] - in terms of purchasing power, Thailand, South Africa, Malawi, Cameroon, Botswana, Brazil are at $16,130 - $13,209 - $1,126 - $3,148 - $16,415 - $15,646 respectively (the hyphens are just my separators) to the U.S. at $56,084. The food choices and culture would also very radically differ. While Western Europe and North America have differing food cultures, habits, and especially convenience and availability, at least the purchasing power is comparable, the worst offenders (e.g. cola with sugar, cheap fast food) are equally available and many cultural aspects (general industrialization and urbanization, amount people work physically) are at least roughly similar. The countries you listed are just very different across all of these points, as far as I know. Even an American who goes to Thailand isn't going to eat the same as in America - whereas while going travelling in Europe, they well might eat very comparably.

So while you support the argument I was making, I actually would prefer to see data about incidence in Western Europe - not the countires you listed.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... - (I'm using the first column, International Monetary Fund (2015))
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This is an excellent point. It makes one wonder why academic journal publishers even need to exist anymore. The peer reviewers (who don't get paid anyway) could just as easily do the same job and issue a "stamp of approval".
Feel free to find out who CiPHPerCoder is before you throw insults ;-)
From the article:

> When we looked at how many active Facebook users in a given ZIP code “liked” certain TV shows, we found that the 50 most-liked shows clustered into three groups
They already can, with a warrant. The lock need not be picked, they'll just bust down the door.
There was a great interview with Carrie on Fresh Air last month as she promoted her memoir. She had a difficult relationship with the press over the decades, but in this interview she came across as a funny, caring, and interesting person. Take some time to listen to it: http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2016/11/28/503602884/f...
I cannot speak for all restaurants and all counties, but as noted in my comment, I'm currently abroad in Russia (St. Petersburg), and while it's true that the servers generally don't check in for anything else other than the bill once the food is served, it's also true that they'll be there pretty much immediately if you ask for them or signal them. A simple gesture and they'll be there pretty much as they are able to be.

To me this seems the right balance of service and respect of privacy.

As an aside, my experience is that most restaurants also don't really do refills so much as "another drink purchase", so it kind of makes sense in my mind that they're not keeping an eye on how much liquid you have left - if you want to spend money on another drink, you'll let them know.

I think this is just a cultural difference as well as a different way of business. To me having a server constantly checking in on how much is left in my glass or interrupting to pour a drink is more disruptive than a quick gesture to catch the server's attention and signal them over.
Really getting sick of this meme. There hasn't been anything particularly special about this year. Say nothing about years being arbitrary means by which to group deaths of people.
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The point is that many benefits ascribed to C to justify use of C arent unique to C and therefore dont immediately justify it. Then I corroborate that with several examples including Ada. You got that much right.

The nobody does part seems off given amount of customers companies like AdaCore have and how much is recurring business. Safety-critical industries like tools that help software work correctly from the start. A significant chunk, esp in aerospace, use Ada.
Idk if I share your enthusiasm, but rust is pretty cool. Certainly has its uses though for bare metal I'd still say go with C (and ASM) if using atmel's AVR chips. At least until rust gets a working compiler to AVR. Seems it is getting ever closer https://github.com/avr-rust/rust
That's huge!! Good job.
It is unlikely your contact details are copyrightable in the first place, in the US anyway.

It is unlikely you have the legal ability to prohibit someone from publishing your contact details... _under copyright_. There may be other laws related to privacy that are relevant.

If the publisher in question is referring to "public domain", they probably have no idea what they're doing legally, "public domain" is unlikely to be relevant.

Practically, I would complain to Github itself, who is likely to frown at them doing that, and cut off their API access or what have you.
She may have experienced a lot of brain damage, so even a functioning heart wouldn't keep her alive.
"Bloodbath" seems a bit hyperbolic...
They're excellent general purpose structures for data sharing of immutable data (e.g., a slightly-changed copy shares much of the same data as the original). Clojure uses them extensively, since immutable data has the nice property of being thread-safe by default.
The celebrity deaths have been rough, but I think the political success of racism, hate and fear has been at least equally depressing this year. It's been a bad year.
I suspect some people have different levels of sensitivity here.

I certainly didn't notice it was CG while I was watching the film. Nor did my wife, who was watching it with me.
HRH Prince William ‏@DukeCambridgeUK Condolences from the House of Windsor to the House Organa. RIP HRH Princess Leia.

https://goo.gl/8TqY8Y
I'm curious about where the threshold lies between "ELK Stack is good enough" and "We need Parquet".
Congratulations to the researcher. Seems Indian name
I think the short answer is sadly no. Heart attacks are one of the more common causes of death. Resuscitation isn't always possible.
As a counterpoint, when my wife and I saw Rogue One we were both impressed that they managed to find somebody that looks just like Tarkin from the original film. I had no idea he was CG until reading about it after the fact.
I thought it looked like a PS4 cutscene tbh. I think if you play video games then you're primed to notice the facial animation techniques.
I don't make a living via photography, but I do receive income from taking pictures of escorts, and pets. (Strange how you find your niche!)

I've been using RawTherapee, on Linux, for the past few years. For my needs of marking images, doing post-processing, and mass-operations, it works perfectly.

I'm always reluctant to allow a tool to manage the layout/tagging of my images. So for that I have a strictly sorted hierarchy:

~/Images/
~/Images/2016
~/Images/2016/12/04-Hannah
~/Images/2016/12/12-Tiffany

Inside each "event"-folder I store:

RAW/
JPG/
JPG/thumbs/
Teasers/
Teasers/thumbs/

Then I write out a meta-data file, ".meta", with detail such as:

Location=Studio|MyPlace|Their Hotel|Whatever
Contact-Details=+44...
Tags=lingerie,nude,shillouette,monochrome
..

It works well, and allows me to find files years later via a simple `grep`.
Thank you so much for that plug! The author of the article, alexvermeer, is also a longtime Beeminder fan! See https://alexvermeer.com/beeminder/
Side note -- uShip is an excellent service. I needed to get a trailer from Southern California to the bay area, and uShip was half the price of the manufacturer's shipping.
I think you're just misreading what I wrote. "People think it's a choice because they think it's immoral" is clearly an absurd parsing.
Reminds me of the Tiger preventing rock from an old Simpsons episode - if you don't see any tigers, it must be working :)

Surely if terrorists had wanted to undertake an airline attack and were put off by the TSA presence, they would simply have hit an easier target? There are plenty of public spaces with a lot of people around, malls etc, or even inside the airport itself?

The fact that we don't see attacks is surely more likely to mean that there just aren't many such people on US soil with the means and motive?
Sure, you won't look larger than the average American, but they grew that size over months or years and move naturally with the extra weight.

Strap on 20 - 40 lbs of extra weight and you won't move naturally anymore, at least without lots of training.
>Lemmings originated on the Amiga, iirc

I think you might be right. I was confused because it was made by DMA Design, who would later rise to prominance on the PC (I know what you're thinking: what could possibly be more prominant than Lemmings? To which I answer that DMA Design is still around: However, they are now known as Rockstar. Yes, that one).

>Anyways, to elaborate a bit on what you stated. It was common back then that games came with driver libraries rather than having them installed on the OS.

True, although my point was merely that there were many excellent DOS games that haevn't been ported to other systems.
Ok. Repeat after me, "I will not use Digital Ocean for production. They are not a real hosting company."

The why is left as an exercise for the reader.
If I have a conversation about coffee without once saying the word Alexa, will that conversation be stored by Amazon
I would think it would be possible and even beneficial to dedupe the data (15m homes x NFL broadcast, for example). Link a list of each echo's text conversion given similar data but perhaps different background noise. Or maybe getting data from multiple echos in different homes at the same time allows for "noise" filtering (people asking different things while the same background noise is present).
I think some HN commenters are having issue with how the map legend is labeled. The key labels darker colors as 'more fans' when they mean 'larger fraction of fans'.

I think NYT chose the right methodology, they just got lazy with the labeling.
It's an article about writing C code for microcontrollers in the now-hip maker world, not a history lesson. Beyond the reference you quote, nothing from the Bell Labs era is treated at all.
Went through the paper. It's appealing!! Kudos to the young man
Global economy & services may be fully automated pretty soon but local economies? No chance, we are still going to have humans doing local trades and services to other humans for the foreseeable future, just go back to your roots as a member of a family, village, community.
Odd that they chose African-American as a singled out demographic in addition to the urban/rural split. They could have selected Hispanic. It's a larger demographic.
It wasn't really good enough in Rogue One, but of course will be getting better.

Personally, I hope that never really becomes popular. Culture is already far too backwards looking and nostalgia filled for my taste. I'd hate for us to get stuck using dead actors providing something mimicking a performance.

Far more interesting will be the possibility of wholly CGI actors with artificial vocaloid voices. That'll be a ways off since a voice actor would be cheaper.