skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to Ohio State, and the above poster is presenting a point of view that only someone who has never lived there and probably never visited can hold. Nowadays you can walk from the OSU campus in Old North Columbus all the way down Short North into downtown Columbus on any night of the week and see nothing but restaurants, bars, clubs & so on.
> This is proof that consciousness is less than the sum of its part, it is using a final filtered hyper relevant representation of your inner and environmental reality.

I don't really see how this experiment "proves" that consciousness is not an "indivisible phenomenon", just that it relies on lower-level functions to exist. Some preprocessing clearly goes on in the brain before making it to "consciousness" level, but I don't think that the existence of non-conscious processes really show consciousness is divisible - any more than the processing of information in the eye does.
RE Java/JVM just try Clojure for a bit... it's really rather good.

Otherwise, do Go. Really useful for high performance. Channels are easy as pie for concurrency. Web services, command line tools, etc; lovely. Downside is that it's verbose and if you hate loops then there's no salvation for you.
I'm not OP but speaking solely for myself, Minecraft has really turned me back on to all the logic design stuff. For example, see my single-push-button castle gate control, http://imgur.com/a/tBzJh. Of course, Minecraft physics aren't the same as real physics, but I think this is a great way to introduce anyone to circuits. It's certainly a lot more fun than the various exercises I had to do in my college EE classes.
Enter it in the search bar instead? Not trying to be snarky - but that's why Firefox offers both, so you can be explicit about your intent.
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Can I modify an existing instance (and reboot to pick up the new cpus), or do I have to build a new instance to get these?
Do you remember when chrome dropped? Gosh it was so blazing fast in comparison to everything else. I think that initial period is why so many regular people use chrome. It hasn't gotten to the point to look anywhere else yet, at least in my opinion. I think the other thing that pushed it this far is just the fact that it's new.
It sounds old fashioned, but I have to agree. I look at my parents -- my mom worked 16 hour shifts in a hospital with no natural light for almost 40 years. She was doing work that touched people in life or death situations; a far cry from many of the apps we're building.

She never complained. Yet we find problems sitting for 8 hours in an Aeron chair drinking micro-brew coffee with the freedom to check out Facebook or Amazon whenever we want.

Was my mom unhappy? Nope, she loved her job. Was she tired and burned-out at times? Absolutely. I think a lot of this has to do with perspective.
Nice topic
> Meanwhile they are falling far behind in a variety of features that are useful to a much bigger % of the web

Do tell...
No, the numbers were much smaller:

http://afspacemuseum.org/ccafs/fatalities/
Given that much of this content has already been published I'm not sure this is the reason. Also the complete draft in this book is different from the one published in the Silmarillion so not sure that it would reset the copyright then?
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Deliberately? Probably not. But all of consumer culture, 5 minute news cycle, pop culture, and economic pressure makes it very hard for people get politically involved.

Most people have to struggle just to survive. The middle class worries about living in the right neighborhood with the right schools, so their children can have a good life. Nobody can afford to get involved in their community, or with local politics.

Noam Chomsky has written a number of interesting articles about apathy and alienation. I highly recommend The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber. Not directly about apathy in society, but related.
Fundamentally, landing speeds are lower than takeoff speeds. To travel at the same (low) speed and rate of descent with more weight means getting more lift at the same speed. That is done by increasing angle of attack or adding flaps. There is a limit to both.
... unless N is small.
Why should Firefox work like Chrome? They're two separate products, and Firefox offers an explicit search bar for disambiguating searches from addresses. Especially important since 'List' could indeed be a TLD in the near future.
> Who has 65k cash to toss around like that? :)

Most people who are paying that much for pills are retired middle class people trying to stay healthy into old age. Or alive for a few more years. But people should be able to pay for typical levels of healthcare. The fact that this isn't true is a question of economics and employment opportunities, not entirely problem with the "healthcare system" itself.

> There or some easy decisions to make in medical care (set the broken bone, stop the bleeding), but less so when it comes to areas driving price increases.

> Single payer and no-payer are attractive solutions due to ideological simplicity.

I agree with this first sentence more than the second. These decisions are never all that simple. And they are made even more complicated or perverse when you ignore that the best alternative for a bureaucrat (private or public) approving treatments is saying "no" and going home for a Scotch. The best alternative for the patient is saying "yes" and spending $300k and live another year in diapers.

If people were spending their own money, they would also think about:

- grandkids that want to go to college

- underfunded soup kitchens in their neighborhoods

- not reverse mortgaging the family home they wanted to pass down to their loved ones

- going on a "farewell" cruise

And that's just one category of health care decisions. There are more mundane ones like "Should I try the generic treatment for a week to see if it helps? Or should I put $3k into the boutique one and save the hassle?" I wouldn't know how a (even highly qualified, well meaning) bureaucrat in Atlanta would make a better decision than the person getting treated.
I'm not a fan of Amazon, but for books it is unmatched. I've been in local bookstores and checked reviews on amazon before buying in the store. I have found a local store where its nice to ask for advice, but for computer books especially that isn't any help.

Has anyone found good online alternatives to Amazon for books? Best I've found is jet.com which resells B&N at a lower price subsidized by Walmart - nice, but selection isn't huge. Abebooks is good but is owned by Amazon.
And they made a pretty solid browser. Tight integration with Windows didn't cause a similar spike for IE 11.
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Yeah but frequent flying businessmen are also the kind of people who will do research and pick better options quickly if they are available, it's not plausible for Uber to have a permanent monopoly.

One of Uber's massive problems is lack of predictability. When going to/from the airport I can't fuck around with surge pricing, I need to be able to have a travel budget that doesn't change sharply for situations out of my control. I don't want to miss planes. A service like Blacklane (which by the way is now in the US and is growing very quickly yet seems to rarely make the articles that talk about Uber's competition) neatly solves that problem for you, and generally has better service and more professional drivers.

I am a frequent flier and your idea that there's zero-incentive to have a backup or alternate option to Uber ready to go doesn't resonate with me. Uber isn't reliable enough to forget about other options, and as long as those exist and are viable Uber's supposed "monopoly" strategy will likely be regarded in retrospect as expensive and stupid waste of capital.
There isnt some forcelinline attribute in gcc?
I mined 100BTC on my CPU in like the summer of 2010 solo mining. I attempted to do GPU mining but the tooling was very specific at the time and I wasn't really that interested. I didn't even fully understand BTC at the time past "Digital Currency", "Proof of work", "Run minner = get BTC". I want to say the block size was 50 at the time so mining 2 block all on mine own on a CPU was pretty impressive IMHO.
Yeah, we're the developers and maintainers of a popular Open Source database GUI:

http://sqlitebrowser.org

We're creating a "cloud" (will be at https://dbhub.io) for people to share/store/collaborate/publish/etc data in SQLite format. Kind of niche, but it should be really helpful for places needing to version+collaborate on (non huge) reference data sets.

There's a live dev server here if that's of interest:

https://dev1.dbhub.io/justinclift/Belfast%20Bikes%20Docking%...

Note - that page shows the expected look and feel. We have no real front page at the moment - it's just a list of public databases that have been uploaded for now - but that'll change as some other bits are completed. :)
Wouldn't it just! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government

(I considered linking to its Amazon listing, but that seemed like it would've been a little too on the nose.)
> Barnes and Noble got driven out of business

The one down the road still seems to be open and not having a liquidation sale. Maybe you're thinking of B. Dalton Bookseller or Waldenbooks?
you don't need to be terminally ill to report on people that are terminally ill

That's because reporters don't generally despise the terminally ill.

But if you want to honestly report about politics, then you can't think of people as deplorables. You can't automatically ascribe all sorts of negatives to 46% of the country because they didn't vote for "your" candidate.

If you despise what you're reporting on you will never, can never, report honestly. Your biases will overwhelm your coverage. You will not be able to understand what you're writing about.

And in the case of the Times, they don't even make an attempt at impartiality. They don't need to. Their target audience exists in the same bubble.
It doesn't has text reflow after zooming, which Opera has. For all the other features I don't see anything horrible. It used to be slow at drawing pages but it's not anymore. I've been using it since Opera changed hands and it's nice to have uBlock on the phone too.
It's about good writing and judging your audience.

You can safely bet anyone here will know what CPU stands for. But this title is just badly written and lazy. I actually managed to figure it out after a couple of seconds of staring but the point is - I shouldn't have to.
> There is a hidden point being made which you would probably agree with.

I do, that's the second part of my comment :)

That said, I actually read the other headline, but just forgot. So much for my memory...
It's a not unreasonable point of view. But it's worth noting that if this were the case we'd be deprived of almost all of Kafka's work, including The Trial. He requested these works be destroyed, unpublished after his death.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
Castaneda being a fraud and a liar who's teachings damaged at least some people and caused at least some problems puts him in company with any number of highly respected religious figures and prophets.

Which, if you say anything about those it's in bad taste at minimum or possibly even a capital crime.
Yeah I actually forgot that >.<
Pretty boring if it's just FFT based. I'd love to see music visualizations make use of more sophisticated musical feature detection, like polyphonic note recognition or tempo/rhythm analysis.
And yet I can still only use Google Meet in Chrome. And many "standards" are only partially implemented in other browsers, or require browser-specific prefixes.

I'd also go so far as to say that Google's AMP project, as implemented, displays a distinct step away from an open web.
goes equally well for Rails and CodeClimate
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Give Roverandom a try, I thought it turned out pretty good.
Yeah, although my volume is down low and I opened the page in another tab while I was reading. By the time the sound permeated my consciousness, I thought that I had a hard drive going bad in my NAS next to my laptop.
I would beg you to try to understand that the whole 'Conservative/Democrat' divide as far as I can see from some distance is utterly ridiculous in the eyes of a good chunk of the world.

If gays/guns/racism and abortion were not hot political buttons in the United States the Republicans would likely never win an election.

Libertarians have to all practical intents and purposes no representation in congress that is able to move the needle so can be safely ignored. It's just the rich making themselves richer, one group going about that slightly more nuanced than the other.

And if the libertarians would be represented in congress in numbers that could move the needle the rich would be making themselves richer even quicker.
As a very simple example see if you can spot the loop in the optimised version of a sum to n function[0] (hint: you can't). I don't know to what extent this scales up to more complex programs, but it is at least possible in principle.

[0]: https://godbolt.org/g/dRUYA3
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Try NetHack. infinite hours of replayability (the whole game is algorithmically generated and every time you die, every item/tool/weapon/map has a different name and effect) and it's FOSS ;-)

Also it's a pretty hard game on its own. If you're a fan of challenge i'd suggest you try it.
Quoting Dan Dennett:

"Yes, eyes are for seeing, but these and all the other purposes in the natural world can be generated by processes that are themselves without purposes and without intelligence. This is hard to understand, but so is the idea that colored objects in the world are composed of atoms that are not themselves colored, and that heat is not made of tiny hot things."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/show-me-the-scienc...
You're not limited to just browsers, and a perfect use-case for dnssec would be in combination with sshfp records for ssh, incidentally something GitHub heavily relies on, and where support is much better.

Adoption is slow, nobody argues there, but when you've set it up and have routines for rolling keys it's more or less self-maintained.

Google public DNS will return servfail if validation fails, which is a step in the right direction.

There are plenty of tools to validate dnssec, even with TLS [0]. But I'm not sure why you would need a webpage to do it. You can easily grab the root keys and validate the whole chain using dig on your own computer.

[0] https://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/
> Am I the only one that feels this way?

Nope. I really want to like Firefox but its performance is just so much worse across the board than Chrome.

Another example is video playback: Firefox, when viewing video, heats up my laptop to the point where the fans kick in at full blast. Chrome stays nice and cool on the same material. The difference in battery life is noticeable too.

Sorry Firefox, you need to do better.
I'll try Firefox after they complete the switch to Project Quantum. It will be a very serious competitor, especially on mobile phones, where using multiple processors and GPU rendering matters even more. But I'll switch because it will be safer and faster, not because of ideological reasons.
> government efforts to redistribute wealth mostly destroy it

> I fully support progressive taxation, free education, public transit, affordable health care

Choose one.

(Hint: all taxation is redistributive)
Which monopolistic city laws were hurting your personally before Uber came to the rescue?
No reason to force X to work like Y.

The point of these commands (invented by Opera by the way) is to give you choice what search engine to use while not sacrificing your performance. Google's approach is different: remove choices that might confuse or distract you. Choose what you like.
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I live in a European city/country with a lot of muslims and they are nothing but a problem - generally speaking (this one cool muslim guy you know is not a rebuttal), they refuse to assimilate, are an enormous burden on the welfare state and are overrepresented in crime. Demanding similar anecdotes from the OP however is an appeal to authority.

You only have to take off your rose tinted blinders and look at the state of affairs in muslim majority countries to see what happens when they are significant in numbers. Even in a "moderate" muslim country like Indonesia gays get arrested. Do you think these societies are a result of their geographic location or the culture/religion? What do you think happens if you only change the location of the people and they keep their culture/religion?

It's far from a "tiny minority" that holds extremist views - there are plenty of polls (check out those from Pew Research Center) that attest to that. You are gravely mistaken if you believe all religions are the same and equally compatible with western ideals.
A funny joke, like, do they make EUlaugh?
PowerPC and SPARC are still around and well, no? (haven't checked in a while, and I remembed something about PowerPC being able to switch endianess)
That makes no sense at all. Only if you presume you are always going to start with some horrible piece of code that only uses the worst possible algorithms you may get that kind of speedup. And after you got your 100x to 1000x speedup, or if you start with a piece of code that already is quite efficient, it could still be 2x too slow to meet some hard realtime performance constraint. Or it could be fast enough, but you could potentially save 2x computing power that can be used for other tasks, just by letting the compiler optimize your code.

If I tell my employer I'm not interested in getting a 2x speedup by flipping a compiler switch, but prefer to spend an uncertain time looking for or inventing this hypothetical algorithm that will give me 100x to 1000x speedup, I don't think they'll be very happy about that. For most of the code we deliver to our customers, a factor 'so marginal as 2x' could literally save them millions of dollars over the lifetime of the software. Two times faster saves a lot of computing time if you have jobs that run for 72+ hours. If only things were as easy as you pretend they are (we already have the 'marginal' 2x from the compiler optimizations, and we already have efficient algorithms)...
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I spent way too much time in higher education and I found that even in my late 20s I was already not a fit for the university campus--kept butting heads with petty tyrants, things like that. Colleges are designed for young adults.

Also, there are no "fun, part-time gigs" that you need a degree for. There is only work.
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Actually http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.prefetch-next says

> Link prefetching is when a webpage hints to the browser that certain pages are likely to be visited, so the browser downloads them immediately so they can be displayed immediately when the user requests it. This preference controls whether link prefetching is enabled.

> Possible values and their effects

> true

> Enable link prefetching. (Default)

You can check the value in your Firefox with about:config and searching for network.prefetch-next

My one is "false" and it's shown in bold face, meaning that I changed it to that value. Privacy concerns and also legal concerns: what if a site links another site that the legislation of your country (or the country you're travelling to) doesn't allow you to access? At least I get some hints of where I'm heading to if I'm loading pages myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
To be fair, they have like 4,000 employees. I don't understand how they need that many employees for a product that hasn't changed much since IPO
Indeed. And in this veiled threat contained a promise that as long as the fee [10%] was paid, the Clerk would continue to work without problem or hassle.

In making so, the cost/risk of the Clerk was minimised compared, in modern language, to changing vendor. There were no more hidden costs.

No idea why you were downvoted.
There's https://thriftbooks.com
this Udacity MOOC may give you an idea/outline of things to look out for.

"Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree"

https://www.udacity.com/course/self-driving-car-engineer-nan...
Why should I not deserve to be in the top 20%? I worked hard, studied diligently, and obtained rare and pragmatic skills so that I may live my life to a greater degree of contentedness than 80% of people.

Why should I not I want my kids to grow up with the privileges of the top 20%? I worked the hours of 3 standard people over my lifetime to accumulate the wealth I want to pass onto my offspring to secure my genetic legacy. Aren't I just fulfilling what biology deems as life's most imperative mission?

Why should I feel hated for cashing in the chips on a successful venture that would have failed 9 out of 10 other times? Starting a business already has negative expected value, so why is it on the 1 out of 10 times that I succeed, 40% of what I win gets taken away?

Why should I want to live my life to the same degree of effort and reward as every else?
What is the point of living life in such a manner, as governed by some impenetrable limiter of success and reward, it would be like being stuck for the rest of your life on tutorial island in Runescape, where you can't burn your shrimp on the campfire and you can't die to monsters, as that is where 100% of accounts begin their lives and where 80% of accounts never log back in.
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That would be SPECTREcular!
IE ran on... CP/M? What CP/M are you talking about?
I don't follow the Times that closely any more, but from what I can see David Brooks is their analog to what Alan Colmes was to Fox. Somewhat like a court jester.

But even Brooks knew enough to publicly declare that he wouldn't vote for Trump, even though Trump's political views probably aligned more closely to Brooks than Hillary's views did.
What is Servo bringing to the table that will, in your opinion, make Firefox the browser of choice again?

I'm asking genuinely here. Is Servo expected to be have a much better performance?
Yes, if you choose that path, you need to reduce your distractions--similar to how you would sell everything and become a Buddhist monk or something. The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. You need that level of dedication, which, sadly, 99.8% of adults lack.
I agree, I've read The Silmarillion multiple times.

The Bible reference makes sense but I've always thought of it as similar to reading a history book. That's essentially what it is, a history of the beginning and the first 2 ages. Whereas The Hobbit & the trilogy are narrative accounts of a very small portion of the third age.
Exact code splitting is really awesome
I feel like if it were all on one page, I would at least skim through the examples, but I don't want to click through to each one.
The part where taxi drivers could have a living wage
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If you worked extensively in Java, you will find Golang really easier to pickup.
The Encryption Paradox: Leave a spare key under doormat, or risk losing the key?
I think that on worldlines where it's even marginally probable that a significant fraction of the population has read either of these books, political cultures such as our own are vastly unlikely to exist in the first place. But no doubt they have their own problems, too.
Whilst Microsoft eventually started advertising Explorer as a response, Chrome was the first browser I'd ever seen advertised on billboard posters (liberally plastered all over London at least) and in non-technical magazines and newspapers.
As I said in my comment - I have. I just said it would be awesome if there was some automatic conversion option.
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