skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The coincidence that this picture emerges at the same time as current fads in tech is too great to ignore

It's no coincidence, I see it as a kind of reframing the issue from a different perspective/approach and for that, we use whatever seems the best framework of explanation we have at hand during that time.
Gotta start somewhere, can't try to paint a picture without a frame and at least some colors.

One can easily see the evolution how the frameworks we use keep getting more complex, from drives and pulleys to computers and NNs, so there clearly is some progress in how we are trying to describe the workings of the brain/consciousness.

In the end, it's also about what's the actual goal here: Trying to understand the human brain/consciousness or trying to artificially create "consciousness" or rather something resembling it. The later doesn't necessarily require the former.
Thanks just fixed mine. Didn't realize that it was the wrong one since the topics were similar and i grabbed it off the homepage. That's one thing popehat has always suffered from, weird caching/publishing their rss feed was running a few weeks out of date for a while.
I’d love to create a startup that was a failure like Twitter’s.
Nice project!
Good timing too - I track my portfolio on google finance and they are turning that off in November.
Thanks for your note.

> other than the first sentence which feels unnecessary

That comment is there for two reasons. First, in our hyper-polarized environment its easy for someone to assume that if I support something this FCC chair says I must be a hyper-partisan "alt-rightist" (and if I oppose I must be a "libtard"). I wanted to point out that regardless of what I might think about the current FCC's attitude to regulation and regulatory capture, we shouldn't assume from a knee-jerk point of view that everything suggested is wrong.

Second, I do think that about Pai. My comment about him is relatively sympathetic; I have worse to say about other members of the administration.
Most unfortunate. I don't recall any other collaboration tool which has been so dramatically better than the alternatives for such a long time.
Kinectimals was actually well beyond the standard skeletonization system - I think they rewrote a chunk of the stack to allow for younger kids to use it and have it perform well.
We have that now, it's called the Veteran's Association (VA). It's kind of a mess.
"A powerful sensor at a ridiculously cheap cost that you could use to create amazing things, provided of course your imagination wasn't weighed down by the latest dumb tech trend"

This. And thanks to software/hardware patents, the technology will die with the product, or remain dormant until the owner will either decide to make something else with it or (not holding my breath) release it under a FOSS license.
In the meantime, like always, landfills in the 3rd world will be inundated by more hardware which could be still perfectly useable if its life didn't depend on the wishes of a single company.
That link gives some context to the tension between postmodernism and relativism. A claim that postmodernism is based on the idea that "truth is relative" is a pretty severe overreach; even the most radical of influential postmodernists are going to be epistemic relativists, not truth relativists (even Derrida was baffled by accusations that he didn't believe in objective truth.)
I'm ashamed to be a postmodernist because of these assholes.

Postmodernists supposedly say "there is no truth." But that sounds an awful lot like a truth! Anybody who thinks only Sith deal in absolutes is going to have a bad time.

Postmodernism still works once logic and critical thought are applied, but it stops being an excuse for bullshit.
> The standards for acceptable conduct in the 18th Century were quite different in this regard than they are today.

Well, they didn't have Tinder, but I'm not so sure things were as different as you may think. Here's a pretty amusing letter Franklin wrote that may provide some insight into his thinking on the topic:

Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745)
- http://www.themightypen.net/topic/16757-benjamin-franklin-ad...
vr has larger problems. mainly, the nausea thing: your character can't accelerate at all without giving you really unpleasant nausea. The strength of that nausea isn't being exaggerated. That takes out all games that you would think are good ideas for vr, like sports games, fighter jet games, .. first person shooters where your character walks around.. basically first person anything where your character isn't always moving at constant speed or teleporting is ruled out.
It's a shame.. but it's really how it is
┬─┬ノ(º_ºノ) calm down, take it easy.

they do not deal with it, they reuse passwords increasing the degree if the problem
At Solar City, sales must be down if they're closing entire offices.
The analogy is a little twisty, but yeah, seeing the files in the directory is probably like looking in through the door, and actually opening them is probably more like trespassing.
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/01/453663625/is-it-fair-to-accuse...
The stock price has dropped by $64 since the start of the week BTW. It was at $325 when I checked earlier today and came from a high of $389.
Subtitled:

Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation's oldest venture capital firm, tracing our roots back to the Carnegie Steel empire. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up.

It is extremely funny.
Scientists Use Crispr to Edit RNA in Human Cells
If Slack brings calling to shared channels, will that fit the bill?
LinkRev: this piece of technology is disrupting the Web
How's the skeletonization these days? Still using NiTE?
Doxxing? Hardly. Looking at the Twitter thread, he did far less than a lazy casual fan of a TV star would do on an average Google/Facebook search.

> Doesn't seem quite as sensational once you know the backstory.

Though your summary was sensationalised by the addition of the term doxxing (usually negative connotations there), whether you meant it to be or not. It is all about how the spin is put on it. An innocuous situation can be played up, or down, by either side.

P.S. @Spivak, it's your 1024 days anniversary on HN! :-)
Not true that crime rates are at historic lows, particularly violent crime which is over double the 1960 rate:

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/dueling-claims-on-crime-tre...

But if you are in the Chicago area, you should know that like wealth, crime is incredibly unevenly distributed. There are communities that have effectively zero risk of violent crime, and communities within 30min drive that have violent crime rates that rival the most dangerous cities in the world.
Hmm, works for me. How does it fail?
I see a lot of hate here for lawyers who pursue Class-Action suits. I think it's pretty easy to see them as syphoning money off of problems that don't personally affect them and are often minor.

They do have one very strong value though. They act as a solution to the concentrated benefit diffuse cost problem.

The large take of a class action is essentially a honey pot that draws action when most of us would just put up with the problem because it represents a personal cost too small to care about.
Stoicism. You just missed Stoic Week 2017, but you should be able to find the course materials online.
I'm not interested in HoloLens and Windows Hello does not work the same way.
Also, stopping manufacturing doesn't mean they couldn't restart manufacturing if a demand or an application showed up. The updated article also mentions that the secondary markets are flooded with Kinect v2s for half retail price ($45), which is a pretty good reason to stop manufacturing if the demand isn't there.

It also doesn't preclude Microsoft building a Kinect v3 in the future. (It doesn't even preclude Microsoft building a Kinect v3 in secret in the present.)
There are seated vr experiences too, but as a Vive owner, I don't think they're going to get cheap enough quickly enough to take off. Maybe we'll get attempt #3 taking off next decade..
I think making more issues local instead of national would help. As long as a few people sling around big piles of money, there will be incentives to lobby and buy influence.

I think messing around with campaign spending has similar issues to getting rid of lobbying. But making campaigns smaller and cheaper (by making local campaigns more important) could do the trick.
But Square's been "taking aim" at new markets for years: remember their Google Wallet competitor? Or what about Square Cash? I also remember them launching tons of new services (e.g. appointment scheduling) a few years ago, is there still momentum there?

Square's had a firm hold on hip small businesses for half a decade, I'm still not convinced they can use that as leverage to build profitable services.
For miniature wargaming (moving figurines around a table, as opposed to a board game), check out DBA: https://www.amazon.com/Laflin-Barkers-Start-Ancient-Wargamin...

The rules are pretty elegant and fun, and are quick to teach and play. A game usually runs 30 minutes to an hour. Miniature wargaming is always going to be a bigger investment in money and effort than a board game, but DBA is pretty easy to get into: you only need a couple dozen figurines for an army, and a playing surface of about two or three feet square.

The central conceit of the rules is that the important thing is modeling a unit's role on the battlefield, and the rest can be abstracted away. So for example a unit of pikemen is a unit of pikemen, whether they're a Macedonian phalanx or a Swiss landsknecht. This lets the same set of rules support battles from the bronze age to the renaissance.
I believe that was an attempt at sarcasm ;)
you would be shocked at the recent gap between 'general' liberal beliefs (legalize pot, gay marriage, increased welfare) and 'post-modern' liberal beliefs

I have, and I'm not, because this is basically a boogey-man. "Post-modern beliefs" are mostly pretty straight forward criticism that shouldn't be controversial to a thoughtful person.

Edit: To be clear, I don't mean that their validity shouldn't be controversial, but that they are a normal part of the debating that is happening all the time in Universities and isn't some sort of intellectual disease. I might not be a libertarian, but I'm not appalled that anyone could believe in libertarianism.
I’m not commenting on the posting on the website, I’m parsing the parent post’s assertion, wherein (s)he said they didn’t think using grey to minimize facts presented was a dark pattern. I question that logic. Obfuscation is a dark pattern IMO, even if gently applied (like in this case) because using any method to downplay facts is a deterrent to knowing the truth.
This website is ridiculous, featured article: "Trump Jr. says universities teach students to hate America"
There is a way for each individual to pay for their Slack account: Shared Channels! https://slackhq.com/introducing-shared-channels-where-you-ca...
I'm in a similar situation and completely agree. A large portion of the US road infrastructure was designed specifically to accommodate cars and nothing else. On my walks to work I often have to step in to the street because the sidewalk dissappears, or there are no crosswalks.
Behavior of drivers is a problem, cell phone usage especially. But I also believe we need to seriously update our urban design in this country, so that people who want to, you know, use their feet, can get around safely.
Fixing the skeletonization would be a hard lift - it is implemented in a random decision forest that's been trained with 10k+ hours of data.
This story is starting to make a lot of sense now, and the US government's conclusions appear to be rather silly, although I can see why they might have made some assumptions that they did when I put myself in their shoes, have incomplete information, and am hyper-vigilant (paranoid) of anything Russia as an adversary.

At this point, both Kaspersky and the USG have made some specific claims that should be falsifiable by the other. I assess the probability of the USG releasing anything to corroborate or debunk Kaspersky as low, and the probability of Kaspersky releasing something as moderate.

Ultimately, it's likely that nothing will change much, because it seems like everybody has already made up their mind as to whether or not Kaspersky is the boogeyman.
Potentially. But now more than ever, companies with little to no revenue growth don't know how to boost earnings aside from cutting costs.
You do realize that "relatively optimal" is an oxymoron?
It took only about 10 years after the Clean Air Act in the US before the big cities such as Cleveland and Pittsburgh had clear skies. China should be able to do it faster, since the technology already exists and cars already come with pollution controls.
Yes, I know that coincidence of two such events is highly unlikely, but to "compare" paths of gravitons and photons we need to imagine how much time divides 2 emission events. Seconds? Minutes? Hours? Perhaps it isn't very important but it's still interesting.
by same day, i mean as soon as it's at a close enough depot for me to pick up.
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The original argument has plenty of examples. Evergreen College wanted a "day of freedom" and forced a biology professor to resign.

Just yesterday, a crazy SJW math professor said that math was inherently racist and cisgendered, and bemoaned that the social sciences didn't get as much funding as math. [1]

Also, Berkeley and Stanford students complained so loudly and violently that Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter did not speak (from the article)

The search is trivial.

[1] http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/23/professor-claims-math-alge...
I can assure you that if 'postmodernist professors' were calling the shots, the world would look far different than it does. For better or for worse I can't say. But very different.
> We do things "inefficiently" for our convenience and pleasure all the time, and there is nothing wrong with that

It is when we are discussing the limits of sustainability and growth, and to deny that is the equivalent of sticking your head in the sand.

If you prefer to not think about that and on a personal level keep up the American tradition of wasting tenfold more resources than the rest of the developed world for practically zero gain in quality of life, be my guest, but stay out of conversations about what method of energy production is and isn't sustainable

> It doesn't really matter how "efficient" the conversion of solar energy to carbohydrate is, because it's free.

You are so incredibly blatantly wrong here. It might be free in the sense that nobody owns the sun. It's not free in the sense that we have a limitless supply of it.

In the latter sense, the thermodynamic sense[0], we have a limited amount of solar power to go around. Unless we ever figure out how to build Dyson spheres or something.

Last century's advances are largely built on spending fossil fuels that were basically millions of years worth of stored solar energy, we can't keep wasting more of it forever.

We're on a finite planet, with finite resources, including energy, and an increasing amount of people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_free_energy
Isn't this the same argument that was used against seat belt laws?
I work at wallmine and we've just released a simple tool for importing Google Finance portfolios:

https://wallmine.com/google-finance-portfolio-alternative

Let me know your thoughts!
Or we could set up a Xenon distillery at Jupiter, where it's more abundant :)
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Understand how the brain works means understand how we the humans see and understand the world and ourselfs within it. The brain organically and selectivelly selects what to learn and which information shou
ld be retained. Our brain receives training since birthdays. Then the family implements some of their own training then school and world. The brain never stops.

Great job Numenta !!
Is there a CEO who is able to make an announcement without claiming they revolutionized something?
they should make a kinect for pc/mac
The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
Android Studio 3.0
Actually, for the middle class (which was admittedly somewhat smaller than what we may think of as "middle class" now) domestic help was pretty normal before the 20th century. http://www.bradford-delong.com/2013/01/agatha-christie-i-nev... is somewhat telling; Agatha Kristie's Wikipedia entry says her family was "upper middle-class", but it's not that common for families like that to have live-in help nowadays. Except maybe au pair arrangements.
Trump’s massive Twitter following is a sham
> "seems to have an agenda"

Understatement of the year... the featured article is "Trump Jr. says universities teach students to hate America".
You not mentioning the issues regarding voter suppression, gerrymandering, money in politics that keeps a party which has a minority of actual votes at time in power.
Mine turns itself off and back on every 10-30 minutes of use. Very annoying, but too expensive and too little use to justify replacing out of warranty.
Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS
The one _very_ successful aspect of the Kinect was it's speech recognition capabilities. People saying: "Xbox Play Netflix" - that very much preceded the current boom in what you accurately describe as the hockey puck speakers.

Another much under-appreciated aspect of Kinect was what an absolutely phenomenal video conferencing system it was - using Skype on Xbox was on par with expensive custom systems. Great speakerphone (that audio recognition) and it would resize the focus on the fly to include all the faces in the room (panning around).
"Consistently falling for years": The current downward trend is just a blip in the general trend across all recorded data since ~1900

"Leader at reducing its output": Down is easier when you're standing on a mountian instead of at sea level.

"Per capital...": US per capita output is still higher than China's.

It really is a matter of how you look at it, and which timespans you observe.

Looking at the same data you could come to vastly different conclusions:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-bi...
Another day, another technology that gained momentum thanks to adult content abandoning that high risk/high cost demographic for less turbulent waters .

While I can strongly empathize with the stress and fear of losing one's income, especially if one has gone down a precarious career route like adult entertainment, the naïvete the authors demonstrate when talking about their own industry is disturbing. Completely explaining away all the difficulties of having a non insignificant portion of your business be driven by adult content as "discrimination" shows a shocking lack of knowledge of how hard it is to actually run a business with adult content... extraordinarily expensive lawyers, exorbitant cc fees, expensive banking if you can even get it, time consuming CYA reviews of material that almost always have to be done by an expensive human, etc. etc. Not only do these content creators get all of this for free, but they're subsidized by all of the non adult content on Patreon as well! It was only a matter of time before the gravy train ended, and not foreseeing/expecting this to happen makes me think these people should not be running their own businesses, much less businesses with such a extremely high risk profile.

All that said, seems like a business opportunity to start catering to this demographic and providing all of the above. You probably won't be able to compete with Patreon's white washed image or cache, and you'll definitely be more expensive, but your content creators will be able to count on a steady income. Or at least steady when compared to the rest of the adult industry.

Then again, if you want all of this pain but with none of the social stigma they can always get into bitcoin.
Where do you get stock data in general? I've seen many people use the data but never obtain the data.
It's fascinating that the thing you note about PbtA is its dice resolution mechanic. It wouldn't occur to me to focus on that.

The thing about it I think is so strong is its 'move' mechanic: the way it neatly and obviously separates role playing from game action, and helps players immediately feel like they're playing in the setting. It onboards newbies really well, and sets the scene without relying on the need to read a short story.

I'm not trying to say I'm-right-you're-wrong, it's just fascinating how things resonate with different players. I guess Vincent Baker's genius runs deeper than I thought!
Screenhero co-founder here. We're committed to making Slack Calls better, and have a number of upcoming improvements in the works.
A pattern within something as vast as our higher education system, and that’s it? Followed by the classic deflection of all those without a leg stand on, “find it yourself” to boot?

This site has such incredible ups, but the downs are equally staggering and disheartening.
Those are type hints, not type inference. Mypy provides some static type checking and inference, aided by those annotations, but mypy is an external tool.

I understand the comment about type inference allowing less typing.

However, I don't understand the OP's statement that type inference provides more flexibility. Any program that type checks under type inference will also type check if the inferred types are made explicit via annotations, so I'm not sure what the OP means by inference providing flexibility, unless they just mean trivial flexibility of surface syntax.

I think the OP may be conflating type inference and gradual/optional typing, but it's hard to be sure from such terse comments.
I'm more than willing to bet that this is due to the Communist Party Congress and the attendant media spotlight shining on China.

They did the same thing during the Olympics. Afterwards, though -- same old same old...
None at present. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits nuclear weapons in space, but does not restrict peaceful uses of nuclear energy. A Mars base that is developed enough not only to support permanent human habitation but to conduct nuclear rocketry R&D is so far from where we are now that I couldn't speculate about what sort of laws might then apply on Mars, though.
With one of my recent Amazon deliveries, a picture was taken of the package sitting in front of my mailbox. It was accessible through the Amazon app when I received the delivery notification. It's an apartment building, so it was nice to know where it was left since the location of packages delivered seems to vary based on which company delivers it.

My very first thought when I saw it was this was a solution to prove that a delivery took place in cases of package theft.
The term "Bernie Bro" is at least partially used to paint Bernie supporters as misogynistic "bros" as far as I can tell.
I have changed the DNS and now it is working correctly. Two days ago, a problem occurred with the modem and they changed the device. All settings were on automatic.

But I really can not understand why blog.google did not work right away, and why it was routed to a canada DNS.

I am using Google Chrome and Firefox.

Tks for take the time to help. The internet provider that I am using is called netcombo.com.br and in the past, they have blocked the use of others DNS and some services. I do not know if that is the case now.

I have asked for others using the same internet provider to test and will update when they done.

Edit. So, others using the same provider reporter that https://www.blog.google do not open there.
Do you mean the Trump voters or the academic postmodernists?
Does the appendix serve a purpose in any animal? (2001)