skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was just the other day that that I read in the local news about a woman that was arrested for sending breast pictures to an ex, sending death threats to his new girlfriend, and stalking him from his home to work.

Stalking seems to be some form of obsessive behavior, and I suspect that sending pictures is an early stage of such behavior. It also describe a cure for it, ie similar cures we have when obsessive behavior makes someone a criminal.
We're wired to do a whole lot of things, and hedonic reward-seeking is only one of them. That said, you'd have to do the experiment to see whether a reward can be subconsciously experienced.

I'd guess no, but that's just since a few experiments so far have shown that conscious experience seems to accompany the brain's processing of action rather than just passive perception.
Uncanny Valley is about knowing somethings is off even though it's almost impossible to see what and feeling eerie about it.

I don't see the analogy here and as a user of Google home with my entire family it's never been anything closely to what uncanny valley is about.
The engines also reflect radar quite nicely, even if the wood and fabric doesn't.
Even there, you need some concept of isolating individuals, to assign work, allocate food and housing, etc.
Usually you would want the flare to mimic the spectrum of your own engines. I don't know if by irregular they meant in spectrum or illumination level. There is not a lot of short term variation in a jet exhaust due to thermal mass and the need for thrust to keep maneuvering, but the aspect changes. So sensors are not assuming a straight tail chase.

I consider it much more likely that the Russians at some point obtained some AIM-9X seekers and tweaked their flares and/or engines to make it less effective.

The is also the concept of the 'war load' or 'war paint'. In normal operation planes will have their radar cross section increased and corner reflectors added, engine burn is tweaked, etc, anything that could be leaked or sensed remotely (when flying in international airspace, or from space, or covertly through radar backscatter). When you think things will get serious you pull out those chunks of superfluous steel, tweak the engine exhaust nozzle, load different firmware onto the missiles and the EW system. If actual combat occurs there may be different war-only RADAR wave forms.

Probably none of those are available to Syria (and the US has been building RADAR signatures of them for many months), except maybe an upgraded flare dispenser.
Because, let's be frank, Nagel's work is bad and he should feel bad. There's ongoing work in producing naturalistic explanations for both consciousness and morality, so Nagel doesn't get to use those as, "Therefore we need to throw out all our existing science for a theory of teleology that makes no actual predictions other than that Thomas Nagel's intuitions should come out one way."
Years, possibly even decades. The problem is that the clay just doesn’t really release the heat - it’s very good at retaining it.
Thanks you, EFF for giving us useful information about how the government and colluding corporations wish to track us.
It doesn't take metal to reflect. Any change in dielectric constant causes a reflection, and that's amplified for any geometries that are multiples of 1/2 wavelength.
Decentralisation isn't a binary succeed/fail, it's a direction to head towards. Increasing decentralisation incrementally is nearly always a win.

The web, git, bitcoin, email. They are all incremental improvements on more-centralised predecessors.
The other way to read the article is to blame Soviet quality control. If we assume the variation in burn is random, it may mean overall better protection of your airborne resources, but you could not assess the protection of any individual aircraft. That sounds Soviet to me.
I can see a theoretical way it could work - the air enters the wide end, compresses as the bottle narrows, heats up above ambient temperature due to the compression, dumps its excess heat to the plastic of the bottle, and then expands back to ambient pressure as it exits the nozzle thus cooling below ambient temperature - the bottle then radiates away the heat, either mostly outside through virtue of the shape of bottle, or just equally outwards and inwards which still results in some cooling effect.

I find it very hard to believe that you'd have any appreciable compression without gale force winds though. And you don't get to "accumulate" minute amounts of cooling either - the temperature of the "chilled" air coming in is the coldest it will get.
I don't see any advance in this debate since things that Dennett and Hofstadter wrote 20+ years ago (both independently and in their co-authored book "The Mind's I").

Is it really surprising that we have a first person subjective experience? We know that we are incredibly complex things, constantly integrating and acting on very complicated external stimuli. Such a system should have references to its own body and its own neural states, its train of reasoning should frequently include itself, its focus will drift forward and backwards in time... this is just how a system like this would work. If the system communicates about its state then its language should have referents to these internal states, referents like "experience", and "feels like", and "I understand". Is that surprising? Wouldn't it be surprising if it wasn't like that?

I think that Tononi's approach is a good approximation, but it can't be a full solution because the word 'consciousness' is too anthropocentric. One criticism of IIT showed that a seemingly uninteresting complex artificial system could have a very high IIT complexity quotient. The problem is that the things we use to define the term 'consciousness' are things that can be approximated to varying degrees by chimps or dolphins or generative adversarial networks or antfarms or thermometers. But behind our use of the word 'consciousness' there is still almost always a very slightly disguised dualism that uses it as a substitute for the word 'soul'.
Car culture is so big in the US that outside of the few cities with really bad traffic problems, nobody cares about sprawl.

The vast majority of everyone's experience of public transportation is shitty, slow busses and commuter trains with limited schedules and stops that you drive to. So cities that force you to use public transit sound really unappealing to people that haven't experienced something like Tokyo.

These two factors are why Americans don't have much concern about urban planning.
If call is cell to cell and no direct access or egress to landline does the 6 second still apply?

All kinds or rules here
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0198-telemarketing-sal...
It's all fun and games in honour of our benevolent ultra liberal gods but the river gets red once those debt merchants start telling farmers to buy more equipement with more debt and higher interests to make up for last year's loss they somehow couldn't forecast. Then they get the farm and the land and can get low paid worker with no benefits or robots on it.
Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB 1.1-3.1, FireWire, HDMI, MHL, analog audio, power delivery
Not worth it - until the delta cost of fuel and maintenance on a FH is less than the cost of dumping a Falcon 9 second stage into the ocean.
SAF-T: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAF-T

It's not that special, each invoice gets assigned as hash of (invoice number + total amount + date of emission + hash of previous invoice). Besides having to send that XML file to the IRS each month with all the issued invoices, the hash also gets printed on the invoice given to the client (paper or PDF), so it gets tricky to change the past without getting caught.
The competitor for Office 365 is GSuite, not Gmail. People that were previously shown ads based on email content are not going to start paying for Gmail.
ThreeFingerTapJS: JavaScript lib to open Safari like preview windows for URL's
> After being informed of IBM's hundreds of millions in yearly patent revenue, CEO Steve Jobs authorized a change in FireWire's licensing policy. Apple would now charge a fee of $1 per port. (So if a device has two ports, that's $2 per unit.)...Intel sent its CTO to talk to Jobs about the change, but the meeting went badly. Intel decided to withdraw its support for FireWire—to pull the plug on efforts to build FireWire into its chipsets—and instead throw its weight behind USB 2.0, which would have a maximum speed of 480 megabits a second (more like 280, or 30 to 40 MB/s, in practice)...A month later, Apple lowered the fee to 25 cents per (end-user) system, with that money distributed between all patent holders. But it was too late. Intel wasn't coming back to the table. This was the death blow for FireWire in most of the PC market.

For all of you who embrace the "fail fast" mindset, keep this story close as a reminder that some mistakes are irrevocable. This was one decision, reversed after 30 days.
Not just with airplanes! See the Millennium Challenge 2002 naval exercise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

TL;DR: the Red team general, with Iran-equivalent forces at disposal, employed asymmetric tactics and WW2 equipment to sink an aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five amphibious landing ships, estimated loss of 20 000 US military personell. Then they stopped the exercise because it was too embarrasing, refloated the Blue team ships and instructed the Red team to play by the instructions designed to make them lose.
I don't think there's anything he can say unless he knows a spell that will take him back in time and un-harass those women.
Maybe check the algorithmic stock market trading, looks like you have the background, just get some data and start testing different trading strategies, the upfront cost if minimal and if you find something that is working for you you can start trading with real money and then do it for friends and family, etc...
UK Parliament 'hit by cyber-attack'
Ask HN: Due to its network effect, is Facebook becoming a necessity?
You wouldn't happen to be the actor in that Burger King commercial would you?
Is there a Debian apt repo for cjdns yet? I used cjdns for a while, but it was annoying having a separate procedure for updating it when everything else on my system just required an apt-get dist-upgrade, so I stopped using it.
FCC grants OneWeb approval to launch over 700 satellites for ‘space internet’
Completion vs. Perfection (2011)
Here is an idea that I sent to the Underground in 2006 when they solicited suggestions from the public.

Add cool to the tunnels, rather than taking heat out.

Build liquid air plants above ground, 2 or 3 floors up in the air so that the heat of the pumps is released above street level and the noise can be kept away from the street. Feed the liquid air into the tube tunnels through insulated pipes which takes up far less volume than air vents. Let gravity bring the liquid air down the pipes. Release the liquid into the tunnels near platforms where the air pump effect of moving trains caused lots of air circulation. Also the car doors open on the platforms.

Since you are liquifying the air, not just the oxygen, it can be safely released anywhere in the tunnels. And if your air intakes are high up you will actually be improving the air quality in the tunnels as well, i.e. cleaner air flows in.
During the crash, if the market were functioning normally, people could have bought cheap ETH in the ETH-USD market and sold it at nearly the normal price via the ETH-USD and BTC-USD markets all without leaving GDAX. Their outage page has the grace to mention that there were slowdowns.

A few seconds is normally long enough for liquidity to transfer between markets and this time it wasn't. That's the issue
And the 11 people out of 200 million users that read the TOS are indeed not shocked.
>Physics and the other hard sciences do not seem to lend a lot of clarity as to how a self-organizing piece of the universe developed into beings that believe themselves to be conscious

Look, the theories aren't definitive yet, but we've definitely got them: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/86/2013047... https://www.umsu.de/wo/2013/600

>believe they in some sense have the power of mind-over-matter

Any reasonably embodied mind is going to rightly believe that it has a measure of control over its body.
I honestly find it hard to understand what you mean.

It's like you are discussing with someone who isn't here.
A tech worker wants to put up San Francisco's homeless population on cruise ship
William Mougayar: Unpacking Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and Token Sales
It had been a couple of years since I last submitted an app until this week. I was amazed. Within 24 hours I'd been rejected (app is UK only so they had some questions as they're testing in the US), had a few back and forth's on the resolution centre (all answered in 1 hour) and I was on the store. I think it was less than 36 hours. Crazy how much better it is. I remember being thrilled when it was 4-5 days (down from 10-14 days) a couple of years ago.
It seems to me you are implying that somebody put extended crunch time on Andy Gavin and he had to put up wit it? Please look up who is he.
If the doc was so good there wouldn't be a stackoverflow to begin with. The documentation is a better source, granted, but most of the man pages I read over the years seem to have been written by people who don't know how to communicate and explain concepts. It's like giving someone a mendeleev's table and expect them to be able to set up a chem lab and conduct experiments.
>Technically we were able to image it at a very high resolution, and if we had massive computers to solve the equations, we could explain everything going on in the brain.

That wouldn't explain the brain any more than simulating a car's engine at a molecular level explains the Carnot Cycle.
Some providers send an ANI that has nothing to do with the actual caller, and some allow it to send nothing at all. See http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/voip/voipani.txt
Were 128 days an additional target or simply a consequence of manipulation routine?
It's less centralised than using SVN on sourceforge.
Ask HN: Good,English speaking, non-US centric, current affairs/culture podcasts?
What are good podcasts that offer perspectives on the world, whether current affairs or culture, books etc. from non US perspective? A non US Weeds, say, or Conversations with Tyler. I prefer shows that deep dive into something, hopefully long probing interviews, rather than news-show style short segments.
Interesting. Sloppy is random is simple is robust.

This reminds me of a story where the USA got its hands on a new MiG and when they opened it up found that it used some kind of antiquated technology. Some time later the USA found out that this was intentional because the older tech could withstand nuclear radiation whereas the new tech would instantly fail.
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I think it's being compared to something like 12 Mbps USB 1.1: Firewire is just so much faster that it doesn't matter.

I deal with upgrading a lot of industrial electronics, and have to answer this question frequently: people are concerned about replacing Modbus RTU and similar setups with modern protocols: "But it's not real time!", "It's too high-level!" "Consumer or office network gear can't possibly work here!"

No, it can. It's freaking gigabit Ethernet. You had 9600 baud before and were happy to read out a few tags a second, now we can stream multiple sensors at a multiple kilohertz each, or transfer the entire image of your old PLC in a couple packets.

There was a brief time when Firewire was way faster than everything else, but it didn't keep iterating like USB did. Honestly, that's probably a more accurate reason why it died. Plus the decision to use separate connectors for 400 and 800: if they had done like USB and allowed Firewire mice at 50 Mbps to connect to the same port as 800 Mbps camcorders, and built Firewire 1600 and 3200, it might still be around.
The show Halt and Catch Fire dealt with this problem in the VC industry. It's been going on awhile and is certainly not limited to Caldbeck.
This article's headline is wrong and it doesn't get to the point
I'm amused by the the apparent controversy of my original post (as measured by the fairly broad swings in net upvotes/downvotes). Apparently the apparent common sense I voiced therein doesn't gel with the silent majority quite as much as I'd be comfortable with.
Chatbots could be indistinguishable from humans in just over 10 years time
Or maybe they could improve IMAP availability until it is only a few orders of magnitude worse than my local ISP (or the previous one, or all the IT departments I've dealt with this millennium...)
This is a perfect example where machine learning will overcome the issues of variability in burn times and intensity.

I think ML will have a great impact in warfare.
In addition to the many primary sources listed in the article, I'd like to add one more. That is the journal of a radio operator [1] which was published n book form [1]. The author describes wartime activities such as intercepting enemy radio traffic and spoofing operations, in which the radio operators create a lot of phony radio chatter to fool the enemy into thinking an offensive would take place at a separate location.

[1] "Listening In: Intercepting German Trench Communications in World War I", Ernest H. Hinrichs, 1996.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0942597788/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I...
Even though it never really bothered me because Apple Mail does not pull anything but the actual email message from Gmail, so I never see them, I still would like G to stop scanning anything personal. Period.
Andrew Ng to launch Deeplearning.ai
all internal tools are running on angular, google's entire organisation is literally built upon angular.
Work culture
> Apparently the iPhone is

If you are referring to the San Bernardino phone thingy, the FBI withdrew the request exactly because they did access the phone by themselves. It just cost more money.

> pgp encryption is another one

lol. Isn't there tons of reports claiming that PGP leaks too much metadata? And that the NSA is collecting those? And that there's no reasonable way to use PGP without leaking those (like hidden-sender whatever).

> > "invasions of privacy" is not a use case.
> Why not?

Because I want specifics. Just saying someone "invaded your privacy" doesn't tell me anything. Tell me a full story: entity X did Y to know Z from W. And show me how using gmail made W more unsafe on that case. And what I'm trying to tell you, is that there are two cases:

- legal government related. In which case Google can't (and won't) protect you. It's a fair claim. If you are doing something that the US government wants to know about, don't use gmail. But most things won't protect you from that anyway. Ask Dread Pirate Roberts about it. :)

- non-government related. In which case you are better protected with gmail than most things you can reasonably do. Ask Hillary Clinton. :)

> That's a completely illogical argument. "We shouldn't ensure privacy/security because other things in life fail more often" makes no sense.

Where did I say we shouldn't ensure privacy/security? What I'm refuting is your claim that "it's bullshit because it failed once". Gmail does a better job than most other things. Most things in your life fail more often than that. And most things don't evolve security/privacy wise as well as gmail does.
I believe blockchain is an idea that will contribute to a better world but this 'blockchain' phenomena is being oversold. Like the concept of Internet, Facebook, Google, Amazon came out from the age of Internet. We should stop selling blockchain like selling the concept of Internet. Instead we should focus on finding the use cases or business model on top of blockchain.
the only lesson is that ibm being a huge monopoly at the time got to make the wrong decisions for everyone else. So, the lesson is: please the big monopolies?
3 ways to boost mobile web performance: Why real-time device detection matters
Ask HN: Machine Learning, Where to Start?
Am just Starting ML. Have extensively worked on Vision Algorithms. Got few pointers (Andrew NG course, Tensor flow etc) to start. Appreciate if you can guide me the best way to start learning concepts and implement ML from Scratch.
5 Great Talks from VueConf 2017, the First Vue.js Conference
Not much to the article, so I guess the interesting part is the actual game: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/164407978/#fullscreen

> It’s a slightly unusual implementation in that the surface of the game is, in effect, spherical – i.e. the edges are effectively a feature of the projection of the surface but left joins to right, top to bottom and so on.

I believe that is a torus, and not at all an unusual implementation choice for the Game of Life.
How to acquire users: a guide to advanced growth
The Swordfish wasn't totally low-tech, they were equipped with radar which allowed them to find the Bismark at night and find their own carrier again afterwards.
Porn was the main growth driver of Internet, perhaps to speed up adoption of new technology, there should be element of porn to it?
Tactile sensor lets robots gauge objects’ hardness and manipulate small tools
So .. is Mac safe, relatively speaking?
So the rite of apology as enshrined in our society's mores is entirely irrelevant and inconsequential? (I wouldn't disagree either way, as I don't put much stock into words after events) but if you don't believe in apologies would you feel it appropriate for the alleged perpetrator just to remain silent?
yeah, that's a horrible thing. But again, not the same thing as me reading your journal. I'm just claiming that you shouldn't mix those two things.
Indeed, but it is a matter of degree - glass fibre seems to be a common material for radomes. I made a cursory search for relevant figures, but didn't come up with specific figures.
In 1985, Chris Capon wrote a program called "Sing Song Serenade" for the Commodore 64 + 1541 disk drive. It loaded a program into the disk drive that made the stepper motor vibrate to the tune of "Daisy Bell".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o
Normalizing Accept headers: Introducing vmod-accept
That would be great, wonder if there's a software that does that when playing movies on the computer...
there is no way that the NYC Subway's AC's dumping heat into the tunnels contributes in any meaningful way to the temperature inside the stations - the tunnel system is enormous relative to the trains. much more it's simply NYC summers are sweltering and the stations aren't well ventilated at all.
Correct -- it's simple and satisfying, and arguably a more interesting 3D projection
The new MiG-35
294 Installed on my iPhone. Few dozen more I've uninstalled.
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Top+Pitchers+Picks+6/24/17:+DraftKings+MLB+Lineup
For those who also didn't know about liquid air: "Liquid air is air that has been cooled to very low temperatures (cryogenic temperatures), so that it has condensed into a pale blue mobile liquid. To protect it from room temperature, it must be kept in a vacuum insulated flask." (c) Wiki

Plan sounds great and very expensive.
If they're faced with a low probability landing scenario, such as the fastest re-entry velocity to date, and they need to "test" their control algorithms, which first stage would they choose? A near end-of-life used booster or a late block booster from which they would hope to get another several good launches? - assuming all others characteristics support the current launch parameters.

They're amazingly deliberate in how they mingle bleeding edge R&D and commercial activity. Something that fascinates me. And rockets.