skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The Senate has the constitutional authority to make and change its own rules. It is possible that if Senate Democrats filibuster this legislation the Republican majority might eliminate the filibuster by rule change.
Penrose himself does not seem to be entirely convinced of that:

"Is Penrose making the case for free will? “Not quite, though at this stage, it looks like it,” he said. “It does look like these choices would be random. But free will, is that random?”
Evolution happens over many generations, if people who are less fit for survival die before, or are prevented from reproducing.

You don't want to go down that road.
I think a large part of Hacker News' culture is finding facts more interesting than opinions. We call this MYOO (Make Your Own Opinion), a branch of the DIY movement.
Trends are moving away from displaying full URLs as well, and while it may look cleaner, I never asked for information to be hidden from me.
Two words: It's not.
True, "monkey" seems to have held up well since the 1800's: https://goo.gl/MEg99z
This must be an American thing. In New Zealand I still use the phone app for talking to people. I've never recieved a spam call - a few calls from companies I already donate too asking for more etc, but that's it.
How many "bad" calls do you get a month?
I refer to it occasionally as my hand terminal.

That said, it sucks as a hand terminal, because everything it does everything through vendor-locked, cloud-enabled shitty apps with almost no interoperability. If this is how future of computing is going to look, then I'm sorely disappointed.
it's interesting research, but there is no list of apps provided, only thing I could find it PDF of research is this:

100000+ SMS Messages Moziberg 2.4 1,000,000 – 5,000,000
McDo Philippines Golden Arches Dev. Corp. 1.4.27 100,000 – 500,000
Krispy Kreme Philippines Mobext 1.9 100,000 – 500,000
Pinoy Henyo Jayson Tamayo 4.0 1,000,000 – 5,000,000
Civil Service Reviewer Free Jayson Tamayo 1.1 50,000 – 100,000

so from those 5 with significant install base are minimum 3 targeted at Philippines market, the other two probably too, though they mention India

also note:
Within the 1,320,822 Android applications, our scan
yields 2 and 1 samples with functionalities of Lisnr and
Shopkick, respectively. These samples are either applications
that have been released by these companies themselves or
by other companies officially collaborating with Shopkick
or Lisnr. The user is thus aware of the deployed technology
and needs to start the audio analysis manually.

so conclusion is, from 1.3mil tested apps, around 230 have this functionality, around 5 have significant user base and all of these are in third world countries (PH/IN). also according research many devices have issues detect these higher frequencies and they didn't find it working in TV streams or European shops. also from those 230 in most of them they use technology of Shopkick and Lisnr where you need MANUALLY start audio analysis. it's interesting research, but let's keep it in perspective

TLDR: don't give microphone permission to apps which have no use of microphone
Every country has it's own citizens as a first priority. If a working-class American is harmed to make an already wealthy american wealthier and to make the 5 Indonesians/Chinese/Africans/etc. that wealthy american hires better off then our country should rise up to reject that.
I don't like any of the flavored versions... Cacao was way too sweet, Nectar tasted like drinking a bottle of Windex, and while I actually kinda liked the Coffeist version, it tasted more like chocolate than coffee to me, and my understanding is that there isn't any actual coffee in it, just artificial flavors... so I would rather have a cup of coffee with my normal Soylent in the morning.
Clif bars are candy, but this would be a much more interesting comparison with Quest Bars.
World Economic Forum Recognizes 6 African Women Entrepreneurs
It isn't. The Republicans dislike the ACA for largely different reasons to why most of the American public dislike the ACA.
This is my trick too. It works out nicely if you have a dog, then you can walk them at the same time.
>There are an order of magnitude more people employed as tool and die makers in China

Do you have a recommendation for a source for employment statistics like that for China? In English? A quick search hasn't turned up much, but there must be something out there like that.
I agree that parsing libraries are probably the strongest part of the Haskell ecosystem for applications. The only time I've chosen Haskell for a serious application was because of its parsing libraries (specifically parsec): https://blogdown.io/.
Yes. All this doom and gloom is confusing to me.

If a job is as easy to outsource as so many on here are saying, it is already being done or has been done.

It's been done in my industry. The low level grunt work and basic administration is all outsourced. Has been for decades.
Where do you live? I'm the same, 0 spam calls ever, but I live in NZ.
No, I'm not being obtuse. I understand what you're saying; I believe that I understand why you think it's reasonable; and I totally reject the claim that it is not a backdoor. I don't care how many keys there are, and I don't care what the underlying technology is. If a group of people, no matter how many (other than the sender and receiver) can choose, by a designed feature of the encryption, to decrypt the communication, that's a backdoor, by definition.

And I assert that, no matter how carefully designed, a backdoor is always a bad idea.

Having two parties that have to agree is a mitigating feature. It makes it less bad. It doesn't make it good, though.
Any decent developer can learn Fortran at my first job straight from high school at a world leading RnD Org. I was told to get the book on Fortran from the company library and learn it.

I did have a quick hours training on how to operate the PDP 11 though.
Japan and Germany are far more homogeneous societies. Not same number of conflicts or cultural pressures as USA.

France may be little more tolerant of abuse than us. I would rather have a violent confrontation than long term abuse.
I love VS Code, but is anyone else getting a lot of flickering/redraws (particularly around the cursor) on OSX since the update?
We have not invented a language that is immune to technical debt or leaky abstractions. Haskell's type system is not rich enough to let us impose all the constraints implied by the mathematics.

However it is a significant improvement on allowing one to express the constraints in the type system preventing large classes of bugs and towards providing proper abstractions.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. No one is claiming FP developers are "better" than OO developers. In fact why would anyone ever classify themselves as one or the other? Instead we should use the best tools for the job.
Method for Massive Simulation of Distributed Behavioral Models with CUDA (2009)
Except it's not because they are very small, cheap devices that everyone has, generally a couple of. I have one at home, one at work, one in my bag, and everyone I know has one I could borrow if I needed one.

Essentially all security is a trade off against convinience, this is, in my eyes, a no-brainer. It's barely any more effort and much, much more secure.
Does this mean that if you find a random person's diary, there is no ethical issue with publishing it?
Sure, but the discussion here wasn't profitability, it was authenticity. You're not going to find many authentic Japanese restaurants in America, especially outside of major cities which have enough Japanese people to support them. I have a Japanese girlfriend, and for her it's a big deal to go to an authentic Japanese restaurant; some "Japanese-themed" restaurant run by Chinese people isn't of much interest to her, she'd probably rather go for a burger than that. (Luckily, she likes burgers too, as long as they're good.)
See: https://wiki.haskell.org/MonadFix

Basically it's the primitive that allows monadic computations to be written in the same lazy cyclic style as regular values in Haskell. (e.g. `ones = 1:ones` to create an infinite lazy list of 1.)

There isn't a single answer to "why?" any more than there is for monads in general, but as an example, I've been looking into using this abstraction to model circuit graphs.
He can't make calls, because he disabled the dialer app. The functionality is still there in the phone, but he has no app that exposes it.
Android truely does provide enough "rope" to hang yourself if you start to disable apps you shouldn't.
A first-ever find in Egypt: 4,000-year-old funerary garden at tomb entrance
Catching my own spit gif:
It's useful if you want to e.g. traverse a custom tree structure with an effectful function. You can write the function that just does one level of the tree and pass it to mfix to get a version that does the whole tree recursively, composing the effects in the way that naturally makes sense for that kind of effect.
Where do you see that? It only claims it's a meal substitute, which it is. The only other recommendation I could find was this:

> As a nutritionally complete food source, Soylent should be considered a food product just like any other. You can include Soylent in your diet for as long as you’d like, in any amount that suits your needs. There is no right or wrong amount of Soylent to eat - the whole idea is to find a balance that works for you.
Learn to hunt. Its rewards go beyond better personal nutrition.
If you're impressed by these photos, then try my suggestion and get a film camera, since you already have Canon gear, get a Canon AE-1 for like $120 used on Amazon (or cheaper on ebay), it will work with all your existing lenses, and try Porta 400 film taking similar photos like these.

The reason why I say this because it seems like you've reached a local maxima for DSLRs and by trying your hand in analog you'd see what's really missing in your pics.
I've tried Soylent on and off since it was new. Overall, I'm a fan of it.

Currently I have a Coffeeist for breakfast 2-3 times a week, and Soylent 2.0 as a work-lunch 4 days a week.

This current trend is coming in as a replacement for what had become some pretty bad eating habits. Stopping at McDonald's or a coffee shop for breakfast 2-3 times a week. Fast food or restaurants with coworkers several times a week, that sort of thing. The social aspect of lunch with coworkers is great, and I try to set aside at least a day in the week to do just that. But that habit is expensive and unhealthy.

I'm a pretty good cook. I tend to eat home-cooked dinners. I'm fine with preparing a big batch of food and freezing/refrigerating it to eat for many days. But I've never found a food that works for this that's great for breakfast or taking to work as a lunch.

Soylent fulfills my exact needs in this regard - and the other meal replacement options don't fit the macro-nutrient profile I strive for. All over this thread there's references to SlimFast (too much sugar in the regular, too few calories in Advanced), Ensure (too much sugar), or protein powders/shakes. I've tried literally all of these.

Protein powders are always a go-to of mine when I'm trying to bulk up. So is plenty of meats and vegetables.

In the end, I just totally have a use for Soylent - and so long as they're the only ones providing what I want in a form I enjoy, they'll continue to have me as a customer.
I don't think it's so much the wealth of the victims as the size of the transaction (ticket price) as well as the total spend. It makes a class action lawsuit (where the lawyers will get a % of the value recovered) attractive, whereas if it was a smaller purchase, with the same number of affected customers, that might not be compelling to lawyers.
This could be fixed if Google considers this a problem.

Remember when they added Google calendar to Play to fight Samsungs BS?
OP here.

The point about a learning curve is that Haskell is different from most mainstream programming languages.

> > 2. Haskell has some very nice libraries
> So does NodeJS and (on an abstract level) Microsoft Word.
> Libraries are infrastructures and investments that (like
> time and experience) can cover up any shortcomings.

Javascript is one of the most widely used languages in the world and MS Word leverages the Microsoft ecosystem, which is another of the most widely used development environments.

It's when you use less widely used environments (and Haskell may be borderline here) that you need to start worrying about libraries being available. I would not go as far as claiming that Haskell is as good as Javascript in that respect, but it is pretty good.

> > 4. Haskell sometimes feels like C++
> That is also negative, right?

I actually like C++ a lot.

It's also one of the most successful programming languages in the history of programming languages, so it has something going for it.

> > 5. Performance is hard to figure out
> That is also negative, right?

Yes, it's a pitfall.

> > 7. Stack changed the game
> Another infrastructure investment.

Yes, tooling matters.
But we are talking about literal programming here. Not conceptual programming.

I dont think that an AI will program itself anything like we program computers.

People who "program" themselves really just provide good data. Positive reinforcement, "healthy thoughts", "gaining valuable reference experiences", things like that. When you want to learn a new language, at the simplest level, you can immerse yourself in that countries culture and you will learn automatically. You don't hop inside your brain and move the axons around. You just provide good data and let the engine do its job, and why would an AI be incapable of doing that?

They already do that. "Backprop" is that mechanism. Not yet on a really advanced level, but a machine learning algorithm already introduces its learning back into itself and incrementally improves on that.
Nanopond: A Very Tiny Artificial Life VM
What about Hollywood? And reputation via ivy league education? Also a legal landscape conducive to doing business?
I have to strongly disagree with this. Right now I simply can't work in ANY other environment: home office, company office, library, etc. Not that I have not tried.

Co-working spaces are the closest second choice, but I suspect they need to become more like subscription-based cafes before they can work for me.

I think there is research showing that there are a confluence of factors that make working out of a café so productive for many.

It seems some have not actually tried it or are simply not wired to like it. To each their own.
> I'm assuming these decisions are made because

You're assuming wrong. Feel free to join us in scientific computing and make your case. Many have, and yet we still use fortran alongside the newer stuff.

Perhaps people who disagree with you do so out of something other than ignorance. Just a thought.
Haskell has a preference for looking academic, and is one of the favorites on academic circles. But that does not mean it's not used within industry.

I'd say that people mostly do not know what is running in industry. It could be any share of anything. We get a hint looking at job offers; Haskell is small there, but not unheard of.

On the sweet spot, Haskell is great for modeling complex domains; it's great for long-lived mostly maintenance stuff, since refactoring is so easy; it tends to generate very reliable and reasonably fast (faster than Java/.Net) executables, but hinders complete correctness proofs and has some grave speed issues that can ruin your day if you hit them.

I would like to know how is it to manage a team of Haskell developers. I do expect it to be better than Java/.Net in forcing safe interfaces between developers (thus making it reasonably easy to survive a bad developer in a team), but I never saw it in practice.
This is something to happen in latin america too. Here in Colombia (where I live) exist several attemps to build a solid tech scene, but failed by burocracy and lack of competent investors.

The smart people with money that come here can hoard all the good talent easy.
No projects under the Lumi name yet, but our team contributes to many FOSS projects and also have their own interesting projects such as Purescript by Phil Freeman who recently joined the team: https://github.com/purescript/purescript
Facebook will Hire 3000 people to review content
Ask HN: Do you still use Last.fm
In the age of spotify and other streaming services are you still using last.fm?

What is your use case?
Depending on what timeframe you're talking about for that change, the costs have in fact gone up, both because low-hanging fruit has been picked and because the regulatory regime has been changing over time to required more and more work to bring a drug to market.
nit: self-driving talent doesn't currently earn anything, but rather holds some long-term strategic value

I would summarize this effect as BigCorp HR being much more disciplined/constrained on individual compensation than the M&A department. Naturally, well-positioned and clever employees will capitalize on this.
Yeah. With fruit or coffee I think it's really nice though. Coffee is strong enough to overpower the taste entirely, and with a small amount of fruit it tastes a bit like a smoothie with a digestive biscuit blended into it - or you can add a bit more fruit to get rid of that malty taste entirely.
I switched 4/5th schedule. Less money, more spare time. But you're right. Actual regular work can be exhausting (I'm project manager and, that eats energy)
Buy an Android device.
Disable all apps you don't want, keeping only the apps you do want.

I'm sure you'll find a good reason to argue why this isn't what you want/need.
U.S. House Forms “Reality Caucus” on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality
Avoid Storing Data Inside “Admin” When Using MongoDB
Microsoft/HoloToolkit: Tools to speed up Windows Holographic app development
Here's a practical application of mfix:

mfix $ \threadId -> forkIO $ do
-- computation in forked thread

forkIO creates a new thread and returns its thread id. However, in order to access the returned thread id inside the forked computation, normally one would have to store it in a variable and then read from it inside the thread.

mfix, by nature of its laziness, captures the return value of the function passed to it, and passes it to said function.
I think "Advanced Manufacturing Jobs" are going to be roboticist, machine learning and mechanical engineer related. Foxconn is moving this direction and I'm betting Apple thinks they can do it as well as them. Plus possible tax breaks based on Trump's comments.
My iPhone is my pocket computer. It's on a tablet plan (data only - up to 1GB for $20 CAD) because voice and text is something I would hardly use. TextNow worked fine for me in past for phone calls and texting non-apple devices but I've since switched to Hushed as my go-to. I've never used the built in "Phone" app.
They also just killed the Affordable Care Act, but apparently we're not allowed to discuss that here on HN.
Anybody else experiencing problems in Safari 10.1? http://imgur.com/deflq41
That's what I meant by "restrict by default". You can get Fortran-like semantics in C by marking function arguments with the restrict keyword, at the cost of some manual labor (and possibly having to explain this to scientists who consider computers a necessary evil) ;)
Aren't the top 1% chinese students/teachers aware of the problem and can do something about it ?
china is the most racist and nationalist country in the world and they are doing just fine.

Why is the US and Europe the only places that have to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of globalism?

Why do China and Japan get free passes while anything done in the west to protect citizens interests is decried as xenophobic?
Viewflow – Reusable Workflow Library for Django
It's still called a "phone", and it really sucks at being a computer (it is a good entertainment device though). Since a lot of things are still done over phone calls and every citizen in a civilized country is expected to be in possession of a phone number, I'd qualify it as core functionality.
GPL's freedom is for the user.

Freedoms to alter and redistribute... These are powerful things and very different from commercial considerations or "how much hassle it causes a developer". If you're coming at things from that point of view, GPL will rarely seem a good fit.
I would call it religious, because they (including some I know personally) attribute strong moral value to the whole thing. It is not just that they strongly prefer certain license, it is that they see close source developers as morally less worthy and inherently less "good" (whether professionally or ethically).
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I don't agree with Penrose's hypothesis, I just happen to agree that strange quantum behavior is related to the character of our consciousness. Other than that my views are completely different.

There is definitely a "binding" problem. Beyond the question of why the state of many disconnected neurons (or to go one level down, molecules) are subjectively experienced as a single consciousness, you also have the issue of why other neurons nearby are not subjectively experienced. After all, your consciousness doesn't even extend to your entire brain.
>> Don't assume things are done purely by inertia -- for big projects there are real reasons for the choices made!

> I'm not. I'm assuming these decisions are made because people in physics/ME/chemistry are not programmers and don't know about the latest and greatest our field has to offer. It's our fault for not advertising our successes to these people.

And how many FORTRAN HPC programmers do you know?
Can't you stimulate the vagus nerve with a big meal or belly breathing? All this time I thought people advising belly breathing were just a bunch of dirty hippies who were afraid of the doctor. I wonder if there's something special about HOW this stimulates the vagus nerve or if it's any stimulation at all.
My phone is an iPhone 5C and thankfully it hasn't slowed yet. I did have to remove a bunch of stuff to get the last upgrade to complete though. Once the upgrade finished, I was able to reload everything.
dang, sctb, et al: Please update the title to match that of the original article, per iaw's comment above. Thanks!