skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's as if a Breitbart reporter claimd an Al Gore staffer who had died "admitted" liberals all knew global warming was a hoax and pushed it just to increase taxes and punish Republican leaning businesses with harsh regulations.

It's not nearly the same thing. We know that there are plenty of self-serving scientists that would absolutely love the notoriety of debunking global warming if it was actually false. To believe that scientists made it all up is utterly insane if you actually have worked with real scientists. The number of physicists I've worked with that daydreamed out loud at lunch about having a law or parameter named after them is astounding. If they wanted money they could easily go into a quant job and make double or triple what they've been making and no longer have to drive their shitty 20 year old cars.

The issue you're proposing as a liberal conspiracy is purely an issue of he said, she said nonsense. We have the input and the output. Republicans yet again made life worse for the lower classes. Big surprise. Why doesn't matter and it's naive as an adult to even care about intent.
You don't have to look at each address, you can just trace which addresses have been used through the block chain.
I used to think AGI was a long-way off myself. Until I saw this video: https://youtu.be/Aj-zNjff7wY?t=1621 He's not just simulating a neural network, which is useless if you want to create an actual mind. He's involving the body. He's actually got the recipe for the approach to AGI that has, in my opinion, by far the best chance of succeeding.

I have only an amateur-interest level knowledge of neuroscience research, but even I know that the body isn't just contained in your skull. Its neurons spread throughout your body. And dualism is flatly wrong. There is no body/mind separation. They are the same thing. Changes to the body are reflected by changes in the mind. People who experience total facial paralysis, for one random example, lose the ability to express emotion. And then lose the ability to feel it. And then lose the ability to even remember the subjective sensation of feeling it. It changes their person on the most fundamental level. How are you going to get that from a neural net with zero inputs based upon the biofeedback mechanisms of our meat-based body? You won't. If you get anything conscious at all, it would end up being profoundly different from a human mind. Give it a body, however, and enable the biofeedback even virtually... then you're talking.
Manson peaked in the 1990s (I imagine "The Beautiful People" is his best known song). I think he was never more than a fringe artist. Taylor Swift has definitely been more influential than he was.

But there are lots of musicians that were well known for using and abusing drugs. It was practically a badge of honor for people coming out of the Disney meat grinder to make some ridiculous spectacle. Which I think is part of the explanation. Commercial music production got really really polished and artists got less important.
This "data" is not very meaningful.

It says much more about Triplebyte than about developers, technologies or interviews.
Conversely, I was able to pass (with As) some physics exams without really understanding. That became painfully obvious in my solid-state physics lab class.
They've been making a serious attempt for the last decade or so, Toyota has been doing especially well. The UI is one thing, and it may be a bit gaudy, but the systems have been getting much better.
I'm completely lost. What does it mean to be conscious of something, but unaware of it? I thought those were synonyms.

The article asks this question:

> Consider your breathing right now: the sensation of air flowing through your nostrils, the movements of your diaphragm, etcetera. Were you not experiencing these sensations a moment ago, before I directed your attention to them? Or were you just unaware that you were experiencing them all along? By directing your attention to these sensations, did I make them conscious or did I simply cause you to experience the extra quality of knowing that the sensations were conscious?

Implicitly saying that "experience" and "consciousness" should be defined such that I experienced and was conscious of those sensations even though I was not aware of them. Thus, using the terminology of the article, I am currently conscious of a ton of things all at once:

The feeling of my feet on the floor, my butt in the seat, my tongue in my mouth, the sound of my typing, and of the rattling behind me, and of the rumbling of the train, the vibrations of the train, the propioceptive feeling of the positions of my limbs, the slight but distinctive smell of mass transit.

Is this right? Is "consciousness" in the sense of the article just a synonym for "anything the brain processes"?
Way too much chrome, little signaling as to "is this interesting?", or "is this bullsh1t?"

Not enough content for search to be useful. The other day I was thinking "Text overlaid on a video uses glow, shadow, and similar effects to overcome a variable and imperfectly controlled background. How do I do that in photoshop?"

It turns out to be easy to do (just a setting on the text layer), and I just want to do it and get back to work. I don't want to see seven different ways to do it. I don't want to see somebody demonstrate the wrong way to do and ask for help fixing it (eg. Stackoverflow)
WTF Is an Initial Coin Offering(ICO)?
SE is usually the vocational route. CS is what you'll want if you ever plan on transferring to an undergraduate program.

Go with CS if you're unsure, you'll end up doing most of your practical learning on the job anyway. School is for the foundational knowledge.
They were only around a year or two

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2017/03/30/breaking-suniva-lays-...
Twitter really ought to do something about Sybil attacks. In fact, they could probably fix their monetization strategy at the same time; start charging users some small fee in exchange for having their identity verified. Non verified accounts can't be retweeted or they have some caps on the number of public views they can get, or interactions they can have with accounts that don't follow them, etc. Now that I think about it, this could solve their spam and harassment problems too.
> It's possible that the easy availability of porn has a lot more to do with this than just fear of pregnancy

I'd guess it's a combination of this and the overweight/obesity rate climbing, the venn diagrams between "people who want to sleep with you" and "people you want to sleep with" are probably diverging for many.
Linux-driven Sitara “SiP” shrinks to 21 x 21mm
I thought the article was great and am surprised by the comments here.

This theory is obviously true and quite fascinating:
According to an evolutionary psychology theory that a person's "life strategy" slows down or speeds up depending on his or her surroundings, exposure to a "harsh and unpredictable" environment leads to faster development, while a more resource-rich and secure environment has the opposite effect, the study said.

For those who say this is no different than other generations you are wrong because of one variable: Work. Many middle class kids use to have to work and now they don't. This is HUGE and effects EVERYTHING.
Flying recently from Phoenix to San Jose I was amazed by the size of the solar arrays I saw in the desert. I wasn't sure that that was what they were; but I found some of them on Google maps satellite after and confirmed it (cool time we live it). Good news is that there's so much more room to build more!!!

Edit here if anyone's curious: https://goo.gl/maps/SjzWw9b2dSH2

Edit 2 - as an aside, when I first saw, I couldn't tell if it was solar or ag (e.g. here's what ag looks like - https://goo.gl/maps/AGvAxJ61BwB2 if you zoom out they look very similar!)
This kind of marketing approach lowers the world's collective intelligence.

Keccak is a good enough construction that it doesn't need to be promoted with low quality FUD.
How do I get in touch with a "Stock broker with FX"? That's not a term I'm familiar with unfortunately, and searching that string turns up either FX brokers, or FX trading platforms.

I've spoken with my US equities/funds brokerage firm, and they have an FX desk, but they're still more expensive than the dedicated FX broker I found and currently work with. Before that, I was regularly raked by my US bank for 4-6% off the mid-market. I haven't seen mid-market spread + 0.01% anywhere, and only seen + 0.1% thrown around for 6-figure and up USD transaction sizes, wire transfer (ACH or SWIFT), at least several of those per month volume. TransferWise works at mid-market + 1%; but they don't work with paper checks. What you're getting is even better than cryptocurrency exchange-facilitated conversions, so I'm very interested in finding out more if you can post a pointer in the right direction. Thanks.
> * enforcing SSH key authentication

That cannot be enforced by the server because the key decryption occurs client-side. An alternative is to use Two Factor Authentication.
> There are more than one party involved here.

There is only one party involved in possession and use, by definition of those terms.

> you think I should be able to purchase any drug, re-engineer it myself and consume it? I'm not selling it...

Purchase - depends on the drug. Prohibiting trafficking in some items is outside of the scope of my comment, and I can see some cases where it might be warranted.

But if you somehow obtained some drug, and decided to tweak it and consume it? Sure, you should be able to. Most certainly, if you do it and survive, we shouldn't lock you up because you might have hurt yourself - that's evidently pointless.
Eh, that’s monopolistic
Sounds like we need to boost demand then!
This kind of ass fuckery is why normal people hate us.
Show HN: BundlePhobia – The cost of adding new npm packages
There is documentation of secretaries not only learning how to use Multics Emacs in the 1970s -- a much more primitive version than what prevails today -- but also how to extend and customize it using Lisp. (Multics Emacs was the first Lisp-extensible Emacs.)

It's not torturous to learn Emacs. But Emacs doesn't work like a standard Windows/Mac app, and today we have fewer professional developers willing to make it past the initial rejection phase of "wellp, this is weird".

And yes, today people use Sublime Text, something like Atom, IntelliJ, or -- for hipster cred -- vim. Emacs is apparently retro enough to be a total gonk for new users but advanced enough to not be redeemable for whuffie in hipster circles. Vim closes that gap.
This looks pretty bad, but I would like to see how it changes after subtracting Satoshi coins, exchanges, etc. I'm sure it still wouldn't be that great.
> This phenomenon depends on the fact, surprising but true, that particles with identical properties which are created simultaneously are entangled in a way that means one cannot have its properties altered without also altering the other, no matter how far apart they are.

This implies FTL communication, which is impossible. I thought entanglement was more like if you cut a coin in half along the edge and then observed that your half was heads, then you knew the other half was tails no matter how far away. I don't see how this helps detect eavesdropping.
I work for Pivotal and we donate engineering for a product (CredHub) which is comparable to Vault, though with a slightly different set of motivating problems.

We, like HashiCorp, cooperate with Google on a lot of things.

They don't pick winners. What works best for Google is to get your workload into GCP. It matters little whether the bits you run are Pivotal bits, HashiCorp bits, Docker bits, Red Hat bits, IBM bits, Microsoft bits or your own bits.

What matters is that they're being processed on GCP atoms.

The analogy I have used before is that Shell, BP and ExxonMobil don't care whether you burn their fuel in a Ford or a Toyota. They mostly care that you burn their fuel.

I don't mean to paint a cynical picture here. As a partner Google is excellent, responsive and respectful, our engineering cultures have good compatibility and there are deep common interests. But Google's goal is to make GCP the most attractive place to run your workload. That means that they are going to be ecumenical. They want to help us to win, but they want to help everyone to win, because that helps them to win.
A list of things that I think give a loud voice in government besides voting.

- Donating to a candidate

- Volunteering to help a candidate's campaign

- Running for office

- Working for a government agency

- Writing about politics in blog, news publication, or scholarly journal.

- Writing and circulating petitions

- Protesting

- Flyering for a cause

- Creating tech that supports a political cause

- Calling and emailing candidates and politicians about an issue
Not at all. Which is the hate?

Either Bill Maher (a liberal hero) is a racist islamaphobe, or, the_donald users who share the same views as him... aren't islamaphobes.

Because unless we're not talking about Islamaphobia, what else did you actually see that could be considered "hateful"? Because on that same sub you'll find people of all colors, and most religions discussing things. You'll find legal immigrants. You'll find ex-Muslims and atheists. You'll find gays. You'll find women. You'll find Brits. You'll find lifelong Democrats and Libertarians. You'll find ex-"Bernie Bros" who were furious at the DNC's betrayal of Bernie Sanders. You'll find people who grew up under Communist rule. I know, because I've seen every single one of those on that sub and almost every one of those demographics has posted a picture of themselves with a MAGA hat at one point or another.

If you want an actual white supremacist sub, you're thinking of /r/uncensorednews which actually lists Jews with (((triple parenthesis))). That's a pretty sharp contrast to the_donald. But it wouldn't be, if the_donald was as hateful as been claimed.
I happened to do something like this in my CPU design class too. In my case I knew that writing a simulator of our design in C would be trivial compared to actually making the CPU itself + it could be used to test code much more easily (we had to write a GCD routine to "prove" it works).

You're right that it helps a LOT when it comes to implementing the actual hardware.

(I also put it through Vivado HLS, but I wasn't able to sneak that past the professor, rats! :)

I wish I had known about verilator back then, I could have compiled the verilog into c++ and ran my simulator test suite against it!
This is dumb, the point of the stock market is the return the stocks give you in dividends etc. Here, he treats those returns as not being a factor, and as stocks having no intrinsic value.

If they have no intrinsic value of course passive management makes sense!
It's a simple economic calculation.

Let's say I have $130k+ in college loans. Would voting for a particular person (or a set of people over the rest of my life) give me $130k+ in direct benefits? Probably not.

The more poignant conclusion here is that our votes are actually worth very little.

Another conclusion is that "values" are more important than money, and we vote to establish values, not to make money.
Recmend is coming soon
Videos from Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2017
> ... from a handful of greek letters that usually already have agreed upon meaning or connotation within her subspecialty

I think you mean sub-sub-sub-subspecialty. I don't often read mathematics papers but when I do, it's infuriating how people think that [squiggle] has a universally understood meaning when in actual fact there are only a handful of people in the world (most of whom probably work in the same building as the author) who use [squiggle] to mean that.
Production, Site Reliability, Machine Learning and AI, Security, Network, as some other examples of software developers.
What happened to the gangsters of Al Capone's day, when prohibition took away their competitive edge? Did they sell "insurance"? You seem quite passive aggressive, without offering any thoughts yourself.

My guess is, most will be unemployed. They aren't criminal geniuses. They've found a cheap way to make money and get high at the same time, most of them.
Which is exactly why Lynch was a brilliant choice to direct the first film adaptation: owing to his own artistic idiosyncrasies, he was able to convey how deeply strange such an inbred interstellar gentry might be, millennia into the future.
Is Clickbait Dead or Stronger Than Ever?
Even if it could exist in this timeframe, how much would it cost?

The issue I have with their viewpoint is that there doesn't seem to be any baseline for "good enough" that is short of absolute perfection forever (assuming adversaries that will attack with perpetually increasing sophistication.)
And if you have subscription fees that are reasonable.
Is there a good breakdown of where those dollars go?
Japanese VC Firm Global Brain to Start Investing in ICOs
You imply equivalence between beliefs and science. No more needs to be said here.
Err ... not according to Econ 101. A rational producer in a perfectly competitive market supplies just enough to clear the market. When people distort markets with subsidies, etc. the amount produced is more. This can also be in industries with barriers to entry as a large producer might supply more on purpose to drive existing competitors out of business.
Good luck and stay safe!
Philosophy can teach children what Google can’t
That's a major assumption.
Another major assumption overlooked is that those capable of admission don't want to attend these schools.

Low hanging fruit would be diehard applicants to MIT, Caltech, or the Service Academies
That doesn't seem to be the case per NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...
All of those things cost money.
DOS against a range provided by an ISP assuming you could spoof the source over and over, you could have valid ranges auto-blocked for valid services where you DOS a range of IPs from any given ISP
I think it's because they do a lot of optimizations at link time compared to other ISAs and they may not yet have ported them to LLD.
No new words are needed. What you need is that people stop conjuring new words to explain the same things over and over again, using and re-using words under different meanings without ever bothering to either listen or read their predecessors properly, which only leads to feelings of ineffectualness and a strange sensation of déjà vu.

When authors in the philosophy of mind stops rehashing ideas that could and most likely have occurred to 17th century philosophers for the sake of attaching their names to a publication, then it will see some progress.
While not quite planning, announcements do occur. Found a large number of accounts connected to the attackers from:

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

when it was ongoing.

Minutes before the attack:

> #texasattack: "May Allah accept us as mujahideen."

Minutes after:

> Allahu Akbar!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire.

Also saw Salafists retweet an old cartoon by Charlie Hebdo of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi hours before the Charlie Hebdo shooting occurred.

I'm divided about this issue. One the one hand, I've seen accounts that glorify the Paris attacks and link to bomb making materials, on the other hand, I've seen lots of video's from Syria and Palestine which does indeed radicalize youth, but is also not directly terrorist propaganda (a lot of this is newsworthy, but does not end up in the news, so it is valuable to share on social media). Should linking to an Anwar al-Awlaki video be grounds for a ban? Remember, these videos are on Youtube.

I like to think back 10-15 years when people had to self-host their websites. Stuff that, back then, would surely get you a knock on the door, slips through daily on social networks. I say: If you can't host it yourself, you can't rely on a third party to host it for you and protect your anonymity.

So yes, chase them underground, and apply more serious tracking to those that are acting more seriously (someone on Telegram writing about terrorism is way more serious than someone on Twitter writing about terrorism). Try to keep social media free of war propaganda. And be careful to not overdo it. America is a country where writing a Facebook post about Apple interspersed with quotes from Fight Club can get you SWATted [1].

[1] http://nyconvergence.com/2011/06/ny-man-uses-fight-club-quot...
The non-decline in the associated costs for individual installs has to be thought about. If this is a true reflection of unavoidable costs, home installs are unlikely to break a cost barrier, and won't make substantive differences in centralized generation. If on the other hand they are mutable costs, and can be brought down, then microgrids and local power has more chance of becoming something of substance.

The bigger "win" in this is the transmission loss. Consumption close to generation has lower transmission loss so it's innately higher efficiency in that one regard.

PHES and Battery technology probably matter more now than PV as a the cost problem in generation: we need time shifting for solar power to replace other forms of generation, to get to serving demand outside of the sun.
Suniva was in the news this week, and not necessarily in a good way: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/little-kn...
That sounds like a hellacious place to attend school.

That's like judging an engineer based on a blended average of their output, for 3 months, compared to Nikola Tesla.

If you can't compete with him, sorry, it's gonna have to be a B-.
I don't think employers should even offer health insurance.

Leave it to the consumer to buy just like all other insurance. In fact the increase in wages could be used to fund a basic preventative care plan (read not full on single payer) for all Americans.
I use a $478 Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 12.5 running Ubuntu. It's essentially a MacBook Air clone for half the price.
Well this is interesting. I purchased a 2018 Toyota Camry in August (first ever car purchase), and I absolutely love everything about it except the Toyota Entune 3.0 system. Lack of apps, useless Scout GPS navigation gimmick, and it doesn't even show album cover art while you're driving.

When I was comparing cars, the lack of CarPlay was the only (massive) downside with the Camry, but the other features of the car were so good that I went with it in spite of it.

I wonder what AGL means for the driver. I would love to tweak the OS myself, but I doubt Toyota would let a customer flash their own version of the code (at least not without violating the warranty). I suppose it could mean more frequent updates with better features. Curious to see how this plays out.
More generally, every computer eventually has to interact with the outside world, which is global and mutable. Human mind have a much easier time dealing with things which are as immutable as possible. For instance, a physical law like the Newton's law of gravity is immutable. The variables within it are mutable, but there's only a few of them -- they would be local in a function that computed the force of gravity. Without such laws, it would be very difficult to reason about physics.
You mean once it goes from the employer to the insurer?

Here's an article on Blue Cross that covers profits, claims, etc: http://www.wral.com/blue-cross-profits-soar-as-losses-on-aca...
I think the problem is that most people don't get offered the same in cheaper areas, that money gets absorbed by the company. Even if you argue that the actual take-home is cheaper, people aren't as good at evaluating those things, and SF etc sound like more fun. I say this as a dev in SF. I frequently skim different locations in the US and abroad and SF usually is highest paying.
What value do the insurance companies add for each dollar spent on healthcare?