skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me, Simply Wall St and a $30,000 experiment (2015)
Note that one time codes do not protect against phishing the same way U2F does (U2F is always bound to secure origin).
Good point, this was the first of the two libraries mentioned, the other has just been open sourced; it's called deptrack https://github.com/lucasdicioccio/deptrack
>Relativistic effects weren't known to be reality at the time this theory was proposed.

Umnn, Michelson–Morley and Maxwell equations were enough experimental evidence before Einstein. Einstein work was reconciling Mechanics to confirm with electromagnetism, and not the other way round.

EDIT: Not to say there isn't some physics theory developed independent of experiments. But relativity is not a good candidate.
It worked, though I had a few other items. Those products don't contain many fats nor carbs so I also had green juices, Garlic Hummus & Mary's Gone Crackers & eggs in the morning as well. What was nice about this combination was the ease of digestion.

I was working from home & had an ashtanga yoga routine. Personally, I think it's better to have a diet of home-prepared food consisting of whole foods grown in good soil, but in the interest of time & (lack of) motivation to prepare meals, it worked for me.
> Why not simple, convenient, repetitive meals instead?

Name one that a) provides a proper amount of needed nutrients and b) is as simple and convenient as Soylent (or equivalents).
I don't think I've seen an .mkv in literally years. I didn't think video recorders recorded in that format either. .mp4 and .mpeg are still the video containers that I see 99% of the time (note: I don't use a WebM-capable browser, so I don't see WebM videos).
Your body will trick your mind to love your children. It happens often after the fact - I know it did. Humanity wouldn't survive if not. And I now find hard not to go ransacking the house with them ;)
Basically, "solving" consciousness means being able to answer this question: (it is stated in simple terms, but interesting to grapple with nonetheless)

Say a loved one died. Let assume technology has progressed to the point that before he died, his brain and body was recorded in exact detail and replicated.

Would you accept an simulation or instantiation of this brain/body as a "resurrection" of your loved one?

If not, then consciousness is not simply a matter computation
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>However, if we apply even the barest of epistemological tools to the issue, we rapidly recognize that even if Penrose is correct, the chance of his position being accurate is so remote and so unverifiable so as to be useless.

You are saying that if he is right then it's probably not accurate?

>But the existence of a counter-argument against the deterministic mind itself, absent of its validity, is itself useful. It allows us to collectively hem and haw before changing our views and institutions to fit our understanding of how people work. Which means Penrose's argument is not going away anytime soon.

if the mind is deterministic how can we change our views - how can the position be useful? Things are, and you will, or will not.
Oh right I forgot CDT. The key to Eclipse's success.
It's a very neat example, and I like it very much as an illustration of mfix, but wouldn't one just use Control.Concurrent.myThreadId for that? Seems a little overkill.
Chalmers, Nagel & McGinn arguments are that there is a fundamental explanatory gap between objective processes and subjective experience. It's not because humans are special. Many other animals might be conscious. In Chalmers case, any informationally rich stream of data could be conscious, or possibly any physical system, if one wants to go all the way with panpsychism. The issue is the hard problem, not the uniqueness or humanity.
People are not coming from around the world for middle class jobs like auto-manufacturer or steel worker. Jobs like these used to be the heart of the middle class, and they certainly weren't under sweatshop conditions (unions made sure of that).
been a nodejs dev for years but I've recently found react, typescript, elixir and rust more to my liking with python for ML stuff.

Good Type safety seems to be an acquired taste.
Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]
Did Jetty start as an Eclipse project or was it swallowed recently ? I thought it was apache incubated.
You think so in the first 5 minutes of thinking about it, then you try it, and then you realize why lots of smart people have struggled with improving this in the last decades.

Compute vision is full of problems that turn out to be a lot harder than they look. Part of the reason is that our intuition about this is skewed by having access to a very good vision processing unit that we can't reproduce :)
You don't have the right to determine whether someone else's source code is old enough that it's "ok" to steal. Not the legal right, and not the moral right either.
Health insurance cost is not what caused the heroin flood in American streets, though the health care industry certainly played their part.

People were seeing doctors who were over-prescribing opiates, making them cheap and readily available. The DEA (federal Drug Enforcement Administration) cracked down and suddenly these highly addictive prescription opiates were severely constrained, which increased demand for cheap heroin.

Now heroin has replaced prescriptions as the cheap and readily available opiate.
Is the Force genetic?
There is also the other form of AI, which is Augmented Intelligence, which focuses on augmenting human intelligence, not reproducing or replacing it.

But weak AI might be included in that.
>Beyond the magic of map/flatmap/etc, the things that allow you to achieve terseness

I think if you assume 'terseness' is the goal of constructs such as map/flatMap you're missing the forest for the trees. Yes terseness can be a good thing, it sacrifices familiarity for the ability to understand more going on in a quicker amount of time. This can definitely reduce cognitive overheard for someone familiar with the constructs being used.

This however, is a secondary (but pleasant) side effect of the main goal which is (non leaky) abstraction. By using familiar abstractions it allows readers to reason about code in a powerful way, allowing for more reuse and composition.
If you're interested in loading the DICOM files into a real viewer, you can try http://www.pacsbin.com, a project I've been working on to keep a personal store of medical images and easily share them on the web. Everything you upload is be auto-anonymized, and you can view the images the same way a radiologist or other physician might.
> The cool thing about OCaml is that you can actually reason about performance, as long as you ignore memory issues (memory usage, garbage collector runs, etc.).

If you ignore mem issues you can also reason about the performance of Haskell :)

If we want to reason about perf, I think Rust is currently leading in terms of a modern language that allows perf reasoning.
Because there is plenty of pleasurable and healthful things in life to do, and different people prioritize them differently.
Those romanticized factory jobs were by and large protected by unions and offered better pay and pensions than any other blue collar occupation.
Nope. I made no such assumption. I'm saying whether an AI is conscious or not is relevant, because ethics, not that it's inevitable.
The State of Biometric Identity in 2017
It is really interesting. I do get the feeling that the researchers really wanted Haskell to win, though. It would be nice if researchers with other favorite languages also arrived at the same conclusion.
Standalone Express API Binaries with Pkg
> So the splitting of the hairs you're attempting is to point out that IP typically expires at some point, and therefore we should all consider anything "old" as effectively having expired IP, regardless of whether that's true or not.

It's very simple. I'm saying we should look at the upsides and downsides of each type of IP. This (20+ year old source code) is a type of IP that has no upside. Therefore while it's against the law, there's no purpose in it being against the law, and it's not immoral. Easy peasy.

> What matters is that Blizzard paid for the creation of the code, and they're afforded protections under the law.

You don't think it's possible for the IP rights given by law to have a mismatch with the IP rights that are most moral? Because this conversation thread was about what is good or bad, aka what the law should be, not what the law currently is. Of course it's against the law as it is right now. That's not the only thing to discuss.
Free will is an entirely different issue. Consciousness is about subjective experience, and why any physical system would have it. Determinism is completely irrelevant.
It would be interesting to see the full source code for the various entries - am I missing a place to acquire them?
I should have said "there is a government mandated method, but that's not the only way" It's more of a starting point than anything else. Also if you get HIPAA audited you either have to follow the government way (easiest for broke startups) or go the expert way but that is a bit more costly to prove out.
Did not know them, will look into it, thanks. No, doesn't have to be a drink.

EDIT: They're protein bars, not meal bars, am I missing something?

20g protein, 6g fat, 4g carb

That's too much protein. AFAIK even a strength training diet is only 30-35% protein or so.
> and where trivial problems are the subject of ongoing academic research

Like what?
Touring a Deserted, Dystopian Mall in Pennsylvania
Normal Nigerians React to First VR Experience – Vox Pop
What? I can't think of a single person who uses this and I have lived here ten years. I once got one for a corporate account and it was atrocious with required plug-ins for ie
Before laptops became physically possible due to LCDs there were portable computers [1] (yes, I played with one my high school lab had).

I suspect in the future we'll have curious historians trying to figure out how the phrase "personal computer" ended up being shortened to "phone".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_computer
I have been looking for signals of the 'great graphics unbundling' associated with the expiration of the boatloads of patents that were issued in the late 90's with regard to graphics processing units.

There have been little things, like the ST Micro "ChromART" DMA unit that implements what used to be a patented BitBlt operation[1], but wholesale implementation of some of the things 3Dfx and nVidia were doing in the 90's has yet to come to market. (those patents started expiring in 2015 and will dump a huge amount of IP on the market by 2020.)

I'm hoping Apple is successful and that eventually all GPUs are open and easily programmable without proprietary bits.

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US4845656
Still FUD. When someone distributes something under BSD and spends non-negligible resources promoting that software, they lose the ability to sue people for using it, because the language of the license says "you may use this". The risk is 0 and I would be surprised if this has even been argued in court because it's so trivially clear.
I want my doctor to be well satiated.
C'mon. Funny joke, but not fair when taken serious. Or what "trivial problems are the subject of ongoing academic research" in Haskell?
>people seem worried about the number of factory workers in a way in which they do not worry about number of architects.

That's because millions of people were factory workers living a cozy life back until a few decades ago and now they (and their kids and communities) are struggling to make ends meet.

Millions of people weren't architects.

Not much "glamorizing of factory jobs" is needed to explain their complains. Plain desperation will do.
I'm sorry Penrose is a bit out there in this topic at least, he's been influenced way too much by the likes of Deepak Chopra and goes on endlessly about consciousness made up of micro-tubules and other such pseudoscientific nonsense. He's been proven wrong but he likes the mystical aspects of it. I think it's safe to disregard his opinions on this topic.
But Cook is wrong in saying "the jobs aren't coming back".

The situation has been rapidly changing because of automation.

Imagine if a clothing company could have new product responding to trends available in a week. Nintendo is currently having difficulty keeping up with the demand for Nintendo Switches, imagine if they could rapidly produce more near their intended markets. Automated small batch production could even make things like ordering the exact same shirt you bought 10 years ago affordable.

Doesn't mean the economics work all the way through. But my point is things change and the advantages of manufacturing overseas in the past are not the same as the advantages today. And that will keep changing.

The future is hard to predict. Anyone that says something will never change is wrong because on a long enough timespan literally everything changes.
>So now your computer needs to figure out if it should boot the bootloader either from firmware OR from disk.

That's not what I wrote, pls read again.
you mean "spit out your data, graph it, and see if it looks like what you expect and if it matches the real world experiments"

Hint supersonic 1:1 wind tunnel time is very expensive so do you want to spent millions to which is why NASA uses CFD rewriting every thing in C++ would require a lot of back testing
Easy for you to say. You sound like you have no idea what life is like for the people affected by this. This is their economy too. If you write them off as collateral damage and provide no alternative, don't be surprised when people like Trump get voted in.
A complementary thing I like about Aaronson's response is that he does the same for his side of the argument: He acknowledges that there are difficult and unsolved issues for the strong AI viewpoint. When a proponent of either side minimizes, or tries to avoid, the gaps and difficulties with his point of view, he creates a straw man for the other side to attack, and a battle between straw men will not lead to meaningful progress.
The plural is "circenses".

It's never going to be easier than it is today to buy a non-"smart" TV. It is going to get harder. In a decade, they'll probably be as niche and expensive, new-old-stock or refurb, as CRTs are relative to LCD panels now.
I'm super excited for this conference tbh!
Here's a good podcast on how terrible it was:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/episo...

Even with the tariff incentives, the demand within the country wasn't enough to cover the economies of scale to keep manufacturing costs effective.
I wish Apple distinguished between "upgradeable for a fee" and other "in-app purchases" instead of just lumping them together.

Especially for games; as soon as I see that I just assume it is another gem scam pay-to-win game. I would buy a lot more if it was easy to tell that something is a demo with a purchase specifically to buy (as opposed to gems).
2U to acquire South Africa's GetSmarter for $103mln in cash
We've been using VSCode for some Go programming lately and I have to say I'm super impressed. Way faster than GogLand and I love that it is Open Source. Seriously great.
The money is flowing to where labor is cheap, but that is causing middle classes to rise in those places. And that means in the medium term, labor is going to stop being so cheap there. Eventually things will look a lot more even across markets that are connected. I propose taxing companies that are moving to use global labor, based on the difference between "local" and "overseas" wages. The money would go to financially buffer displaced local workers until things become more equal.
Will it?
I've visited colorado and saw bars and alcohol doing well.
Im not convinced the demographics are the same.
Yeah, right. All the serious problems of the world have been solved and only this [ridiculous] one was left...

Sometimes it baffles me how ignorant people can be of the more important issues of their society. Drunk Monkeys? Are you kidding me?
> his brain and body was recorded in exact detail and replicated.

I'm not a physicist but as far as I remember it's not a matter of a advanced technology but rather a quantum limitation or the world (you cannot copy an object with all derails).

> Would you accept an simulation or instantiation of this brain/body as a "resurrection" of your loved one?

Of course not, it's just a simulation although a very convincing one :)
I'm surprised they didn't also recommend a strong 'buy' on Pizza stocks like Yum! brands (owner of Pizza Hut) :-)
Soylent is a simple, convenient, repetitive meal.
I am such a huge cynic of this.
This involves stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system, which is the antagonist, so to speak, of the sympathetic nervous system.

A few years ago a company called Ardian had a minimally-invasive system called renal redervation for destroying the sympathetic nerves to the kidneys, in the hope that it would cure high blood pressure. Initial unblinded single armed trials were favourable, and so Ardian made $1,000,000,000 selling to Medtronic.

Lo and behold, in the double-blinded randomised trial, renal denervation did absolutely nothing.

Renal denervation was fuelled by optimism and bluff about the role for these nervous systems in disease. Shock horror, however, when manually altering them with a blunt tool such as ablation (in the case of renal denervation) or stimulation (the example here), doesn't actually help.

The whole saga of renal denervation was one of the greatest examples of bad science and optimism getting ahead of us. This is a nice editorial: http://jamesphoward.com/papers/RDE.pdf
> "Peasants" are not land-owning farmers. Peasants are menial labor on farms.

Even in feudal economies, peasants had individual or collective property interests in land (serfs and slaves might not, but those are different than peasants, and serfdom had been abolished in Russia generations before the Revolution.) Russian peasants at the time of the Revolution generally were individual landholders because of the recent breakup of collective ownership (other places similar reforms were implemented eventually led to most former peasants ending up as wage laborers as large capital interests bought up agrarian land, but that hadn't had time to happen yet in Russia, and the de-collectivization was still popular among peasants, which is probably a big factor in why peasants in Russia were seen as class enemies of the proletariat by the Bolsheviks; they were, if only tenuously and transitionally, essentially situated like members of the petit bourgeoisie.)
Wages rarely go down, they just replace you. I'm mixed about wages going down. It generally points to cost of computing and developing going down, so it may discourage holding traditional jobs down and encourage people to do more creative things because computing is cheaper.
They don't do that consciously (with an agenda). Infants are just being infants. If an AI just needs to keep doing AI things to "reprogram" itself, then theres no barrier for it to do that.
The shape of the F117 is a result of the limitations of computer technology at the time

http://luckyrobot.com/limitations-shaped-stealth-fighter/
Wow, the NIH paper now has me asking if this might also be a public health problem.
P.S. If you really are overly paranoid about the government, you should've assumed the NSA actually have all those private keys, but they reserve it for the most critical cases and only select few know it. You would also assume the russians / china have access to that because you're overly paranoid and everything can be breached, and they don't care about these companies being american.
Announcing Stegano 0.7 – A Python steganography module with support of unicode
Building a tech stack that can scale from day 1
> Methinks you're a Blizzard fanboy.

I like their games. I like Valve and Bethesda games too.

> I haven't seen exact figures, but you are severly underestimating how much cheddar people drop on stuff like Team Fortress 2 items.

I don't have exact figures either, but whatever people spend on hats cannot possibly approach what people have spent on WoW subscriptions...

According to Wikipedia, Valve's total equity is $2.5 billion while Activision Blizzard's is $8.068 billion. Obviously, one produces many more games, but I still have a hard time picturing something like TF2 coming close to the amount of revenue that WoW or Hearthstone generates.

> WoW had the same feel as W3, just with a different camera position and WASD movement.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that WoW and WC3 are similar games. One is an RTS and the other is an MMORPG. When I called Valve/Bethesda games are similar, I was talking about how Valve games all feel like thin skins over the Source of Gamebryo engines. It feels like you could walk out of the facility in Portal into City 17.

> Look at a game like CounterStrike. I remember getting into that game 18 years ago!!! and it's still one of the most popular esports, twitch channels, is even on cable TV, and still makes boatloads of money.

Counter Strike is a great game. I've been playing it all my life, since 1.6. But you know how much money I've spent on Counter Strike over the years? Probably much less than I've spent on Overwatch loot boxes plus the game, and that game only came out last year.

> HotS (yawn, bad design philosophy to leveling up as a team

As someone who is a 1x MOBA player, I like HOTS. I find the way that experience is combined makes games a little bit more competitive but also less toxic (No all chat helps too :)).

> I really don't care much for PvP FPS experiences, which is why Overwatch, while a fantastic game that actually gets me to play PvP, is unsatisfying. I much prefer co-op games and I really liked the horde mode, but they make it seasonal...so I haven't touched it in months.

They have a story-mode coop now, Overwatch Origins. I'm not interested in it, so I haven't played, but it sounds like it might be up your alley.

> Did they resent the creation of DotA, say to themselves never again, and decide to completely abstain in creating modder tools?

Yes, I do think they regretted not capturing the value created by Dota.

I don't think Blizzard games are perfect, I just think their strategy is obvious. Blizzard is going to approach modding with the same care and caution that Nintendo approaches mobile games.
There are at least two things correlated with brains that we have no algorithm for:

1. Consciousness (subjective experience, qualia)

2. Intentionality (the aboutness of mental content)

What would a conscious algorithm even look like?
Ask HN: Is Google worth leaving a good position for?
I have recently been offered an interview onsite at Google for an engineering position. If I was offered this position, I would have to relocate my family to another city where we have no other family and only a few friends. (Neither I nor the position are in the US)

I currently have a great job at a small but highly technical consulting firm with an experienced team, above average pay, training and conference budget, flexible hours and the ability to work from home one day a week. I have been here seven years but have not real desire to leave as I am still constantly learning.

I personally don't know anyone who has worked at Google, therefor I am asking, are the opportunities and experience provided by Google worth leaving an already good position for?

I realise this is a very subjective question and it would be a lot easier to answer if I was to get an offer, but any insights would be helpful.
Probably an interval?

More or less a cluster?

When randomly chosen, a sample?

A bucket?