skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things that think they're special and important outperform things that don't. The side effect of that is that they justify their specialness with things that are hard to understand, an appeal to complexity. In this case, the complexity is invented. There is no hard problem of consciousness. What we do isn't so magical, or special, from what animals, or machines, or other actors with agencies do.

Consciousness is rare and beautiful, however, not magic.
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If Levie or Altman end up reading this thread, I have some constructive criticism: I really think the first 30 minutes of Levie's talk were too much of a pitch for Box. I don't need to be sold on the company or technology when I'm learning. Simply stating what it is and how successful it has been grabs my attention and validates it's worth listening to. I found myself skipping forward over and over to get to the meat.

I enjoyed the latter half more. I think cutting the pitch down to 5 minutes and diving deeper into the lessons learned along the way could bring that talk up a level.
I haven't written a single non-toy Haskell line, but I really believe it's somehow made me a better programmer overall. Few languages can do that.
"I know that I am drinking a __someone__ balanced meal"

Freudian?
Why? The author didn't crap nor fawn all over the language. He highlighted what he thought were important quirks of the Haskell ecosystem/community/whatever, in a measured manner, while noting that if you invest time and effort you can indeed produce relevant output.

Should one dive in given those quirks? The decision is up to the reader.

Curious, what did you expect/wish for?

EDITED for better phrasing.
Do you have a webpage? I just helped my wife (physician) with stats for a research presentation she made that sought to track infection spreading in hospitals (via room number, location specific) via movement of equipment and staff which was tagged. They then PCRd the strains to make sure it was the same one.

The experimental design was good, the stats person they had to help them decipher the results was.... Left much to be desired.

Can you please be so kind to email me jpolak{at} email service of a company where a guy named Kalashnikov worked.
And Elm is implemented in Haskell ;]

I've been meaning to try Elm since I've been playing around with Haskell more and more. Purescript is relatively similar but allows you to build more than frontends. It seems Elm has grown quite a lot in popularity though.
My company is actually very interested in using Optimizely server-side, but unfortunately there is no Go SDK. Would love to see that happen.
I've always found it weird how everyone I know seems much more cautious about phone usage than me: for example, I've never understood why people don't answer numbers they don't recognize.

I'm slowly realizing that this is because apparently people are inundated with spam calls? I think I may have received one solitary spam call in my entire life. I can't really account for the discrepancy
> Surely the number of users using the software is the best metric?

no.

> Or the number of lines of code under the license?

no.

> Or the number of committers collectively working on projects under that license? Or the number of published articles advocating for it?

sorry, no and no.

If I sold cars, and you asked me how popular my car is, the only metric would be, how many did I sell (not how big is it, or how many people it took to build, or how many articles were published about it). This is not a hard question. You can count projects on github and elsewhere and what licenses they are using and that's your answer.

the GPL is declining for reasons the author points out, that GPL doesn't work for libraries and frameworks: "For developers mixing ingredients from multiple origins – frameworks, components, libraries – reciprocal license requirements increase the uncertainty rather than decrease it."

What he fails to quote a statistic for (and I'd be curious to see) would be what percentage of open source projects are fully realized applications (like LibreOffice) vs. libraries/ frameworks (like the enormous number of libraries for Python, Javascript, Ruby, Go), and how has that number been changing over the years.

Years ago I was planning to release SQLAlchemy on the LGPL and I was quickly talked out of it, reminded that the langauge of the LGPL is archaically focused on C-centric concepts like linkers and that it scares the crap out of legal departments. I haven't looked since but it seems like Gnu hasn't improved upon that situation. The author refers to open source as " the “safe space” in which developers with an interest in a piece of software, for whatever reason, are able to collaborate over its evolution without the motivations of others impacting their own usage." - for me and probably most other people, that's a BSD-like license, so that all your collaborators who are after all using your software to produce something in-house at their place of employment, can freely use and contribute to your software without them being hindered by their company legal departments.
Well, the more people learn it the more this answer is less true. So there's also that.

I would have loved to used Clojure throughout the last 5-6 yrs but never found a company using it in Toronto. I'm sure everyone used the same rationale. The popularity of a language really does have a self-reinforcing aspect to it.

Although there's no guarantee it will always be that way if people really do find the development experience to be superior. Smart devs can learn new languages pretty quickly. I wish Haskell was easier to start using like Go was.
Out of curiosity, what method/resource did you use to try to learn it?
Or, to put this into perspective, that 1/250th of their cash on hand. http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/02/investing/apple-cash-quarter...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... . This is the "Google Dialer".

This is one example; there are dozens more.
I just saw a haskell meetup where they're using haskell for devops. Basically static typing the underlying machine configurations. As usual, being an Haskell code, the abstraction is generalized and you can apply the logic on other domains.
GPDR is actually GDPR in case you are trying to read up on what that means and don't know already.
Wont this create a "you have something to hide" effect?
> The deal went south

It wasn't that the deal went south, it was that the company was unable to produce & deliver the product that they said they could, at the price they agreed to. GT bet the company on being able to fulfill their contract with Apple, and failed.
House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
I haven't had a license since 2006 when I binned my Sky box. I don't watch any live telly and when the new rules about needing a license for BBC iPlayer came into force I just stopped using it (I only ever watched top gear and a bit of Masterchef, so no great loss).

So anyway, I kept getting letters from TV licensing. I called them up and told them to remove me from their database which they did. One year later the letters were back (except addressed to "The Occupier"). I get a letter every month with varying degrees of threatening outcomes if I don't contact TVL again. It pisses me off that a private company (it's managed by Capita) is allowed to send harassing letters like this despite being told not to.

I did once get a TVL "enforcement officer" come knock on my door. After he identified himself I politely told him that I didn't need to let him in (they have no powers) and that I wouldn't be confirming or denying if I have any TV equipment (you don't need to). At that point he just walked away. That was about three years ago so I'm no doubt due for another visit.
This ignores just how skewed towards the rich stock ownership is. The liquidation of stocks owned by the middle class will not move the needles much. And the very rich don't need to liquidate their stocks to maintain their lifestyle.
My comment is about being a solo dev. You can check all the other blocks, but if you aren't actually working, you're not going anywhere.
> They're very useful, but try to avoid code that requires your coworkers to know abstract algebra and category theory in order to contribute to a project.

Have you ever learned a 'design pattern' in Java, Python, C++, etc? What's the difference between learning this and learning about monoids (for example). Monoids are super easy and actually compose, unlike the majority of design patterns. In my experience, learning OO design patterns was substantially more difficult than learning algebra, but I think this is mainly due to how CS education is carried out in many universities. I feel if people start with mainly FP, then OOP is what seems odd and necessitating learning odd, abstract concepts, except there's the added bonus that all the abstractions are leaky.

Ultimately though, you don't even need to learn any algebra or category theory. It was multiple years after I had already learned and started using Haskell that I even began to become interested in these topics. My interest was mainly piqued by a desire to not duplicate code -- it certainly isn't required to learn algebra to understand Haskell, in the same way it's not required to understand machine assembly to program in C++, or GPU transistor layout to understand OpenGL.

> a general sense often require more cryptic constructs as scaffolding.

My professional experience is mainly as a Haskell dev. What is 'scaffolding'. I don't think I've ever used such a thing.
Just print the TOTP QR code and store it in a safe place. Then you can set up an authenticator on the new phone with the same key as the old one.
> Manufacturers are under no obligation to provide you with a device to your particular specification

I don't think wishing that a niche was filled constitutes assuming that manufacturers have any obligation.
This isn't just out of Apple's good heart:

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/04/theres-nothing-apples-ce...
Because that isn't the problem. It is not a correct or good statement of a problem.

Let me put it this way, suppose there was a mechanism, call it X, that explains to your satisfaction how many different neurons can "integrate the signals from many regions".

Does that explain to you why physical neurons create a subjective experience? Would you now consider the "problem of consciousness" to be solved?

Leaving "consciousness" aside, there is no issue at all of course. We have a straightforward computational theory of how different neurons can integrate their output and produce a computation.

The problem is that this idea of "integrating" signals is not clearly laid out. If it is not the computational problem, then what sort of problem is it?

Koch and Crick have also proposed "a mechanism" for something like the co-ordination of various neurons to explain visual awareness. A frequency at which all the neurons "cohere." (Koch is also a real genius, by the way. https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/SCBCFD.pdf
)

Again, the problem with their proposal is that it is not really a "mechanism." Suppose all the neurons that recognize a face happen to be vibrating at 40 hz, Does that "explain" "consiousness?"

I lean towards the philosophers. Read one good critique by Fodor, and you realize that the questions are poorly formed.
Ok, so the Facebook example definitely falls under a contemporary heavy production usage system. Thanks.
So at Java 8 they added the ability for interfaces to have default implementations - this was so that the collections API (among others) could be expanded with lots of support for the new lambda features without breaking compatibility.

Allowing private methods means default implementations can be easily refactored to move common code to private methods without those internal methods themselves becoming part of the interface. Yes Java does have abstract types, but multiple inheritance is allowed from interfaces (which aren't structural) but not abstract types so interfaces are very widely implemented across the standard and other libraries.
I think you answered the wrong "why".
Estimates like 2400kcal might work if you have a physically demanding job 40 hours a week. Running 30 miles a week and spending 2+ hours a week rock climbing will lift cause you to expend only maybe 500kcal a day extra on average, but if you spend the rest of that time being sedentary, you're still unlikely to end up at any more than 2000-2200kcal.

Overall I think the typical old advice of 2500kcal for men and 2000 for women are dangerously out of tune with modern lifestyles.

As your own results demonstrated, that's often way too high. Measure, weigh, adjust - ultimately the only thing that will tell you what the right amount of calories is for you is to actually adjust your intake and check what happens.
It's in a mature state, already at version 8. Given that it's a minimalist framework this isn't as much of an issue as it would be for Bootstrap or something similar.

This question would have to be answered by https://twitter.com/jxnblk though

Edit: I asked him on Twitter

> I'd consider it feature-complete, but not unmaintained. Most of the open issues are minor and just need to be triaged https://twitter.com/jxnblk/status/860208848359088129
You can easily have dehydrated meals for under 50cents that don't have the nutritional criticisms of soylent.

It does require you to go to the supermarket, quickly buy some ingredients, and mix them together.

Here is an example: You can just buy oats, skim milk powder, peanuts (a bit better if you buy them crushed, or crush them), raisens, and dehydrated fruit & berries. I also add almonds, walnuts, chocolate, coconut. It works out to b/w 25-50cents a meal if you buy at Costco, and is very healthy. You can add sugar if you want (I add a little, and a very small amount of salt).

You can also customize to your heart's desire. Replace milk powder with whey powder. Peanuts with almonds, flax for omega 3s, etc.

There you have it - The wisdom to outcompete soylent on price, nutrition, and taste, and all by a lot.
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> ... why not just use a h1?

Because the HTML tags you choose affect document structure and SEO. CSS classes don't; they only affect aesthetics.
> The liquid smelled unpleasant after a while and eventually I started to smell like it when I sweat

When is someone going to disrupt the smell-o-vision for the internet market?
Why the OpenBSD project is still begging for hardware in 2017 is a mystery to me.

With all the IP they're sitting on, the OpenBSD Foundation should find a way to monetize at least one. OpenSSH alone is worth tons of money.
Tank you so much!
The Internet of messy things
Ubiquitous single-letter symbols mapping to who-knows-what possible things, pnflly abvted fncn nms, and unclear motivations for code are what I've bounced off of with Haskell every time I've tried to dig in. The community seems to have adopted all the worst parts of mathematics culture, along with whichever good parts they've brought in.
>I have shared this quote with every middle/lower-middle class person I know who voted for Trump and their responses have all been the same, horror.

Maybe I'm missing some context here. Why would their reaction be horror? That quote sounds like something that Trump would have quoted in a commercial or on a debate stage.

That is exactly why middle class people voted for him.
Samsung May Replace Intel as World's Largest Chipmaker
I skimmed the paper you linked to and if I understood it correctly D2 has lower bioavailability than D3.

Is that the primary difference?
Sure, if you're looking for a 'pile of JS' at the end of it.
I work remotely from Orange County for a big company that 'doesn't do remote'. I contributed to open source projects that were already in use by the company, and I had to start out on a '3 month contract' (working remote) before they were ok with hiring remote.
I have high hopes for the W3C WebAuthn spec [1], it combines the security of FIDO U2F keys with the ease and ubiquity of devices with fingerprint scanners. Would be cool if Apple will support it too.

1: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/
You're not only using Android, but you're using an Android phone from a smaller company.

While this is bad, it's not really unexpected.
Why for serious CFD / HPC Fortran is still the daddy
Definitely true. In the US, because fax and phone were carved out in HIPAA as not being ePHI, they have this special protected status that makes it totally cool for providers to fax records around, but sending emails something that risks jail time :/

I wouldn't underestimate the technological barriers to making interoperable health record systems actually useful. There are a lot of different kinds of medical information (SNOMED CT, the best ontology for healthcare, has >1M concepts!), and the best way to structure that information is an unsolved problem. There are lots of different ways out in the wild (complicated by there being lots of half-assed EHRs that were just made to grab incentive money), and the standards that are out there don't really help things (they are so broad that basically every EHR implements their own "flavor" of the standard).
It's not really the same. Schwab robo uses "Fundamental" funds which add value tilt which I like. Also, robo adds tax loss harvesting (for taxable accounts).
Pollution related annual deaths in China have gotten bad enough the government does not have much of a choice.

Much like how London dealt with 'Killer Fogs' hundreds of years ago when not enough wind was clearing the air; China can't completely ignore the environment because the costs are simply getting to high. However, it's going to be a long time before they embrace western style pollution controls, because there is a big gap between killing people today and killing them in 40 years.
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Top 35 bad programming habits
That's being rather obtuse. I can easily parse that the contents are encrypted to X keys. I'm thinking of something obvious like GPG here.

I would accept the idea of a backdoor IFF the program encrypting hid the fact that it also encrypted to an escrow unawares to you, along with keeping that a secret.
https://propellor.branchable.com/ I would guess.
Cruise (now part of GM) also relies heavily on maps, based on a talk I saw their lead CV guy make. It does make a good deal of sense - maps (at least street-maps) are mostly static and they make the problem way easier, so why not use them. In fact, most people these days are implicitly using maps - how often do people drive to new places without GPS navigation? Of course, vision and likely ML are still a necessary part of the equation.
Haskell primary concern is correctness - there is an autistic-level obsession with it. If your algorithm is right the Haskell implementation is probably right.

This is why it is not very practical for me, most of the time my problem is getting to the right formula in a timely fashion - implementation is the easy part.

Like the OP I use Python when I'm concerned about pragmatism.
Thinking about the way we learn, I'd say it is a LOT like programming ourselves. Study and Practice both have aspects of learning to do steps in a mechanism to achieve an outcome, and each of us has to build that mechanism from scratch. The difference is that not all of us need to be self aware for the process to continue working. However, the best of us seem to have very detailed systems worked out for "programming ourselves".
+1 for libraries. Support your local library!

More importantly, if you can relegate the hustle and noise from a cafe into white noise, you'll be doing yourself a favour if you end up working in a crowded office. A loud office is the worst kind of problem, because it's rarely a dealbreaker- meaning you have to endure it.
I'm reserving judgement until I know exactly how Soylent affects our microbiome. This study seems to just have gotten started: https://mycrobes.berkeley.edu/the-study/
'Sextortion' case fuels legal debate over phone passwords
Worked in Argentina...for a few years

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516895101/when-argentina-elect...

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/episo...
The Case for “Bad” Design
>But again, just because it technically exists somewhere doesn't mean a user of the derived work will know how to find it

This sounds pretty ridiculous to me. Can you cite an example of abandonware that completely disappeared from the public internet but continued to be used by some user-facing product? It seems to me that if development stagnates on a project entirely, its almost a certainty that the project is unused, or has been forked (and potentially new changes have been placed under another license).

>nor what parts that work are actually covered by your code prior to finding it

So, the open source license should really only be relevant to highly technical users (that is, my parents will never care about the license software is under). I'd hope those users are capable of discerning what the OSS licensed software does.
I've been playing with it for about 5 years, started the local Haskell meetup, etc. I used it on a side project that reached beta in 2015, and on a startup at the beginning of 2016. Starting at the end of 2016 I started using it on a big contract. I had to convince the client it was a good idea, but they've been convinced by my team's productivity. All of the above were back end web services. The current project is a bunch of systems to underwrite and issue loans and involves an ML calculation (hosted on data robot).

I love it for general back end web development. I can actually solve problems so they stay solved.
There's a reason the F-117 is the only airframe that looks like that. It had the aerodynamic efficiency of a brick. The fact is, current airliners have reached a balance of a number of factors resulting in them all looking the same.

Ever wonder why the old DC10 style tri-jets went out of favor? Too hard to maintain the tail engine.

Concorde? Burned too much fuel, excessively high landing speed/distance (11,800 ft 0_o) because of it's short wings needed for supersonic flight.

Why are there no flying wing B-2 style airliners like Popular Science prophetizes about every few years? Nowhere to put windows. Also, tubes lend themselves better to the pressurization cycles that airliners experience.

The fact is, it turns out given current market constraints the optimal design is two engines, tube fuselage, narrow swept wings. Style has absolutely no influence over the economics of airline operation.
I agree Soylent used irresponsible marketing.

But many of those other products can be used as sole source of nutrition.

EG fortisip: http://www.nutricia.ie/products/view/fortisip

> Fortisip is a Food for Special Medical Purposes for use under medical supervision. Fortisip is a nutritionally complete, 1.5kcal/ml, ready to drink, milk shake style nutritional supplement, for the management of disease related malnutrition. Fortisip can be used to supplement the diet of patients unable to meet their nutritional requirements from other foods, or used as a sole source of nutrition. Fortisip is available in 200ml bottles, with a flexible straw attached, in 8 flavours: Neutral, Vanilla, Chocolate, Toffee, Banana, Orange, Strawberry and Tropical Fruits.

Ensure original: https://abbottnutrition.com/ensure-original

> For interim sole-source nutrition.
Was there a link to the actual MRI file and not just the JPEG slices of the damaged bone?
To be fair, while they are "richer than god" most of their money is either in some non-us bank to avoid taxes or invested...