skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> and you'll find a whole lot of things that most people wouldn't call "conscious"

> I disagree. I cannot think of anything with a nervous system engaging in the particular neurochemical reaction I'm talking about not being conscious. No example comes to mind?

Is a jellyfish conscious? Does it have the particular neurochemical reaction you are talking about?

> A machine which imitates some highly abstract equational description of thought is as close to thinking as a bird is to an aeroplane. The bird's heart will burn as much jet fuel as your machine will think.

This is actually a good analogy for our disagreement. Your definition of "thought" seems to inherently depend on the implementing substrate; and if it doesn't burn jet fuel, a bird doesn't really "fly".

But for me the substrate is irrelevant; I don't care whether a machine "really thinks", so long as it can solve any problem which I might have to "think" about otherwise.
Sheesh, is nothing sacred? Thanks for confirming my hunch.
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A very important question: what is the supply model of Ripple's XRP?

If the fund is denominated in XRP, you're essentially betting on the relative prices of all other cryptos expressed in XRP.
Warning: Certain tech jobs and other fields, can enable options to take a couple of years and work in some pretty cool places.

If you have any such romantic thoughts entering your head after reading those numbers, please just throw them out the window if you tend toward jobs with crunch modes, big ambitious goals, etc, especially ones without a lot of personal interaction (like coding in a cube for 12hrs/day). These factors can drastically reduce your efficiency in learning the language.

I did an expat tour for a few years and it was a great experience, but at the time didn’t have the foresight to think through this part and it was quite frustrating.
I looked at Pebble and I was surprised to see they were out of business.
Notable because it uses musl and does some hardening, such as building everything as PIE.

Musl is a promising glibc replacement.
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You have to write proper configs for php-fpm, configure apache if you use that etc. All of this takes time, its very easy to deploy php app, but configuring server to sandbox it properly takes time and should be accounted for.
Until the code base becomes so intractable, such a dinosaur of brittle features and run-on code that nothing significant can be done without exhaustive debugging. Then no group is large enough to make good progress.

Loose wads of code with random dependencies make the effort grow geometrically. No growth in team membership can keep up with that for long. The only solution is to tightly control dependencies, write good abstractions and keep to them religiously, etc.

So many, many projects head off this particular cliff. They pretend to have life for a while, reducing the feature set in each drop to smaller and smaller items. Relabelling a bug fix a feature, and features overrun the sprint/release and get relabeled 'bugs' so you can keep developing through the test and release phases.

So many of us recognize the syndrome. But so little gets done about it, especially in large companies.
Hopefully lab grown meat will become viable soon, because then we can have the best of both worlds.
The guy who wrote the article programs in Haskell, he might assume the audience is in on the joke
That's great. Filesystem access and open format.
Far more similar, really.
Ask HN: Thought experiment: coding a VanillaJS front end
Hey, I know there are a lot of long-time frontend devs on this forum. As for me, I've worked with Dojo, JQuery, Backbone, React, and most recently, Angular.

A random thought struck me this morning: what would we do on a large project in 2017, if there were no frontend frameworks?

For some reason I can't let this go. So I thought it would be fun to post the concept here and see if anyone wants to join in.

Questions:

* Would you transpile from another language, and if so, what?

* How would you structure your code?

* What capabilities / browsers would you support?

* Would you request JSON or HTML from the server, or both?

* Would you test your code and with what?

* What build tools would you use?

* How would you import and use external libraries and utilities?

* How would you avoid namespace collisions?

* Would you make your app an SPA?

* What are the main challenges / problems you would face?
Neither I nor my fiance drive, so Uber and Lyft are vital parts of our lives now. Even as a physically healthy person, it makes the life I want to live possible.
Maybe internally, China and Russia have worse freedom of speech.

But what does THAT have to do with using data vaccuumed up from overseas?

Microsoft Windows takes all your passwords and the CIA or FBI can legally give them a warrant to get the data. The NSA also probably has a nice backdoor.

Why would another country be OK with this? Especially for sensitive info.

Same for other operating systems.

Are you saying that since the US has better freedom of speech for its own citizens, therefore trusting it not to do anything harmful to people in another country makes way more sense?
If you are hardware inclined and can use something else for GPS, some of the inexpensive fitness bands from Asia contain Nordic nRF51 / nRF52 microcontrollers and are completely reprogrammable. Roger Clark's site has some good info including http://www.rogerclark.net/arduino-on-the-id100hr-fitness-tra... (I believe the watch pictured is actually an ID107HR, not an ID100HR) The ID107HR is nice because it opens with a few screws rather than cracking glue apart and it also exposes the programming pads. You can write Arduino code and interface with the heart rate sensor, accelerometer, OLED screen, etc.
Can we use this knowledge to do something about the children and especially the daughters of the refugees coming out of Syria now?
Source? Are you referring to Rebble.io?
The Chronos looks like a sci-fi watch. I like it, but it lacks what I want for fitness.
> No one would have a sausage burger and suggest they're equivalent

> I'd disagree on every point. Sausage burgers are very, very good, and a superior product to a regular one in every way.

Alright, but that's my point. You enjoy a sausage burger, that's fine, my point wasn't that they're worse. It actually sounds quite tasty. But just not equivalent. Sausage tastes entirely different from ground beef. And the same goes for plant-based-pork-flavored-foods.

If they're going to be a substitute, they have to be a substitute, in the sense that they can be used in the same way, with a goal of limiting the difference you notice between them.
> I want a system where the folder is the application and deleting the folder is the way you remove applications.

Why though? There is no difference in complexity between `package-manager uninstall package-name` and `rm -rf /apps/package-name`. If you implement the latter, it will probably be aliased to the former.

The biggest problem in any case is not the application's assets (which all package managers manage competently), but its state and configuration files. It took Windows about a decade of carrot and stick to get (most) applications to put their files in a few defined locations instead of all over the place.
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Thanks, this explains it.
Do you think there are numbers somewhere about how much carbon is saved globally due to this?
Them selling the energy may drive down the prices, increasing demand. So it could be that more energy is consumed at the same carbon level, rather then less carbon emitted. Perhaps they are paying for someone's bitcoin mining.
Never having heard off 'Chaos Engineering', this seems like a bad case of 'Cargo Cult Engineering'.

That starts with the term 'chaos', which has a well-defined meaning in Chaos Theory, where it is quite obviously borrowed from: small changes in input lead to large changes in output. Neither distributed systems in general, and especially not the sort of system this engineering strives to build, fit that definition. In fact, they are the exact opposite: every part of a typical web stack is already build to mitigate changing demands such as traffic peaks or attacks.

The mumbo jumbo around "defining a steady state" and "disproving the null hypothesis" seems like a veneer of sciency on a rather well-known concept: testing.

A supreme court justice once said: "Good writing is a $10 thought in a 5 cent sentence". This is the opposite.
Ted Nelson at VCF East 2016
I reckon men with mental issues tend to end up in jail in many cases.
Too much work is what kills people
My bricks were in a circular denim sheet, that pulled closed into a bag by tightening a string that was threaded through eyelets along the perimeter. I believe it was even Lego branded.
From a fitness & android perspective - android wear has very few devices with many of the useful sensors in one watch.

I have recently ordered a TIQwatch from the most recent kickstarter and hope between it, TaskerWear, etc, that it might be the first androidwear device that values both sensors and optimizing battery life. I know I should be able to get at the data in it how I want. Companies like Samsung have left AndroidWear.

The watch is reasonably priced compared to alternatives, and I hope may be the first smartwatch I end up keeping.
It's been that way since forever, regardless capitalism or not.
This is like arguing with a someone carrying a bucket of water uphill. "Flowing downhill is the literal purpose of its existence!"
Seems not very welcomed, anyway, if anyone come to Wuhan, China, welcome to contact me(my email above), I may be able to show you around here.
Totally in agreement.

We need a word other than 'substitute' that means 'can be used in cooking like'. Vs 'tastes exactly like'. That would help the dialog tremendously.
This is interesting. I'm native Russian speaker and outside of catching a few similar words here and there I think Polish sounds absolutely foreign to me. I think just about the only language that I can understand with some effort is Ukrainian.
Which, from your point of view, isn't a bad thing. It's no longer dependant on external servers, yet still enjoys a lot of support, is easy to code for, plus it's superb as smart watches go. Charging 3 times a month rather than every night means you can track your sleep with it effectively as well.
I've tried to learn vim multiple times (mainly so i could have a cheap vm + mosh to use when i'm around). But I've yet to get used to vim coming from a sublime/vscode/intellij background. (I can use vim to do the mundane stuff, but developing stuff solely on vim appears slightly more difficult)
All true physicists are theorists, the others are engineers. ;oP
Programmers can't into graphic design - https://youtu.be/NM1UeFFCofY
+1 for option to try it out without email sign-up. I hate it to sign-up everywhere (for trial access as well) with my emails. I went directly with this option.

I haven't heard about the pomodoro concept, but it sounds interesting and I definitely want to try it out. Your app looks like a nice way to start.

I feel there's still some work on the design part to be done as currently it looks very "plain".

What are the options - novice, intermediate, advanced in the settings? Also, how much does your service cost?

If you want feedback from more people, you can try our give & get feedback platform, https://usability.testing.exchange.

Good luck!
Culture has little to no effect. Most of those wars were fueled by economic greed.
IIRC, they were bought by Fitbit, who discontinued the Pebble line.
That's true, I hacked the rear view camera of my car to draw guide lines connected to the wheel position using a pi[1], but it took me tons of effort to reverse engineer the wiring system and CANBUS of my car, I learned a lot (CANBUS is a lot of fun:P), but I don't want that level of involvement here.

But I'd like something easier to work with, the "data accessible on the filesystem" of the Garmin seems to be the perfect balance between effort and "hackability".

[1]: https://github.com/kuon/backup-camera
What's your strategy? I'm learning as well and I found that learning the alphabet lays a great foundation.
I've never been to Ireland, but when in Scotland I had no trouble in Edinburgh, but the Glaswegians were much more difficult to understand.
Ah yes, certainly worked with Serbs and Bosnians.

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
No, nothing other than my personal experience (and of my partner) while eating a vegetarian and later exclusively vegan diet for almost 2 years. We ate a lot of fake foods, highly processed "health foods", most of them soy based and looking back at that time I can't say that we felt very good and healthy.

I believe we, as humans, do best with foods, which ingredients we can pronounce and source ourselves and put together without a lab and complicated checmical processes.

If you are ok with consuming foods of questionable "nature" because nobody could yet prove to you that they can be bad for human health, go for it. But I am going with my guts here, because that works for me.
Why can’t San Francisco’s tech culture solve the city’s social problems?
Even if I'm more inclined towards an easier solution like the Garmin for fitness tracking, this looks interesting for pure tinkering.
Good point: unless it’s completely random it’s never entirely avoidable — there’s an element of skill. And I still think that Dominion can be very fun with beginners (that’s my experience at least).

That said, there are games that level the playing field without yielding entirely to chance; such as Dixit, where advantages are rather gained from knowing the other players.
https://blog.getpebble.com/2016/12/07/fitbit/
After reading the YouNow whitepaper, I am unsure how to argue that they are not doing exactly that
Drugs too, homeless as well.
I know bitbar, but with all the plugins installed, it's pretty bloated. I wanted a tool that unites all exchanges and wallets in a lightweight interface.
At the heart of it though there is a good point, the culture of a workplace can determine how developers operate. That's it but the full picture is: The culture of a workplace determines how everyone operates.

Managers do not 'set' the culture and drive workers with amateur psychology, although they might like to think they do. Whenever I see the attempts to control how I operate in the workplace, I play along and go back to work... worked out so far.

In saying that I have worked in places with culture that I liked and places with a culture I disliked, my work has always been the same, but my attitude differs.
- No

- If es6 is available, in modules that I'd import.

- No explicit support of IE and Safari. If it works, it's nice, else, I don't care.

- If it's a strictly-kept webapp, either GraphQL or JSON

- For API: Postman, else I don't know.

- GNU Make

- Either npm or in-html links

- Make namespaces following the folder architecture

- As little as possible

- Lightness, availability and, more importantly, security.
>, and most dynamic GCd languages

In Common Lisp there are tricks to avoid doing dynamical allocations within your critical (read "requires high performance") code, so the GC doesn't bother you. Couple this with type declarations, "inline" declarations (which tell the Lisp compiler to inline certain functions) and, if you know what you're doing, the Lisp code will compile to pretty good (read: fast, optimized) machine language that will run seriously fast (at the same speed or close to the same speed than C or Fortran.)

So you can choose to avoid needing the GC on your high performance code, and enjoy the comfort of garbage-collected dynamic memory management on the code that is not so performance-critical.
You mean, where someone can easily get to them to install a sniffer/ copy all content?
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I was very disappointed to find out that GraphQL wasn’t a generalized query language and much more discreet manually defined API, more of a rest api pretending to be a query language.

That is to say I can only filter in ways the API developer thought of, specifically blessed.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s amazingly useful. A process that took us 40 seconds of back and forth with GitHub now takes less than one second.
My main takeaway is that there seems to be little incentive to invest in new companies, just invest FB, Google, Lyft, Spotify, etc.

That can't be good long term for the tech sector.
Lovecraft and Poe combined by an AI agent to create a new story
Not sure why they are pushing the 50mm lens.. The 47mm lens is the closest match to typical human field of view and therefore a better choice.
Because they all agree the problem existed before SV became tech capital, so why is it their problem to solve?
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I’ve been bit by setting a secure iTunes backup password, and then forgetting it, and having to go through an iCloud backup followed by device wipe and restore just to get the old forgotten iTunes Backup Password off of the device. It was painful.

But in the end I was able to remove the password and keep the keychain data all in place and instill a new iTunes Backup Password which I knew.

So what’s actually changed other than not having to go through the whole iCloud Backup/Wipe/Restore in order to reset the iTunes Backup Password?

Maybe I am misremembering and it didn’t actually restore my keychain back onto the same device when I did the restore?
This is a great practice and I encourage all devs to try it. I just learned of the jrnl tool but I use a very similar command line / text / file approach. I have a few shell scripts for starting a new entry which I keep in a new file within the directory. I also commit it all to a git repo.
>A Manga Guide

No thanks.
Is that what this guy is doing, though? Are hardline carnivores actually being duped into buying products containing ingredients they actively avoid, by burying it in packaging smallprint?

He seems pretty clear about the whole vegetarian thing tbh.

Full disclosure: I like meat.
They started out as fundamental ideas, not little ideas.
Zones increase attack surface compared to a hypervisor because you have a shared kernel, and every syscall is a potential attack surface. Compare that to a hypervisor, which a much simpler API exposed with far less functionality. Hypervisor vulnerabilities are far less common than kernel vulnerabilities for that reason. This is fairly well known in the security space.

In fact, if you look into Joyent, you'll see they don't use regular zones for multi-tenancy, but rather a KVM-inspired hypervisor implementation of zones.
I propose that if you have tables and want graphs, you will have to consider the tradeoff in compute resources required to generate meaningful aggregate results (count all customers, etc). So the answer is usually keep your tables and use graphs when appropriate.
This can also be looked at as the original source of patch based denoising, etc. In the end it's about capturing the scaling properties and self similarity of natural images. This is also, for example, why wavelets were so effective as a basis.

David Mumford particularly did some great work on this sort of thing a couple of decades ago, along with many others. I hope when people are rushing around trying to apply convolutional nets to everything they aren't losing these insights.
The snowden leaks, 4 years ago, offer proof that this happened, and you still deny it?

Officials of the BND admitted it in a parliamentary hearing, too.
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If the job has a large coding component, the candidate must code at some point in the hiring process. Take-home problems work out worse than interviews, primarily because coding isn't a solitary practice.

Discussing a problem, getting a shared understanding and outline of the solution, and then seeing how the candidate turns that solution into code - that's the kernel of a coding-heavy job, and it needs to be observed during the interview process to make even an approximate evaluation of their ability.

Other forms of observation can substitute: strong personal recommendations from previous co-workers, or famous accomplishments visible from afar, where there's no doubt as to who exactly accomplished them. But observation must be made.
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If you really want to learn a language, you can. However, throw your assumptions about learning a language in X months or Y years. It's really up to your actions. And it gets harder until you learn your first language, then you can "ladder" (learn a 3rd language by using your 2nd language, not your 1st language).

There is a lot of snake oil sold out there. Similar to self-help, they all sell the wishful idea that you can learn language without strain or effort. That is not the case... if you are over the age of about nine. Before the age of nine, almost every human has the ability to pick up multiple languages without effort. As you transition into adulthood, that ability diminishes, until it is an effort. Yes, there are people who can pick up a language without effort like my friend in Canada who can speak many languages after just having spent about a month or two in a place where they speak it. However, for the vast majority, it is not going to be easy.

"Ultimately, it's not about the number of months or years [that you study], but the number of minutes every day that you devote to this challenge. These minutes are what truly count."

-Benny Lewis, "Fluent in 3 Months"

Remember language is to communicate. If you can communicate, express emotions, tell people about your day, ask people about their life that might be enough. Yes, you might not know the 10 ways to express the nuances of an emotion like excitement. But you might know the one generic word.

Reading Harry Potter or the original novels that are so popular that they were translated into English in your new language might take more time. Ask yourself if you really want to be able to do that.

Going to see a comedy show in your 2nd language is not going to be fun. You'll be knocked off your presumed language level ability perch. You likely won't understand anything, likely. That is because humor is quite possible the highest form of any language.
We blame it for the weather; why not everything else as well?
Seems like gibberish.
Parent is saying Gabor filters are typically effectively recapitulated by the first layer of of the network anyway, as they are a natural representation.
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How Hummingbirds Drink (2017)
> There are plenty of operating systems that use C++ on the kernel side of things

Language-wise, Darwin/XNU/IOkit uses a subset of C++, notably one that excludes exceptions and templates IIRC. stdlib-wise I suspect it's even more restricted/different.
>But I use it because of a lack of viable libre and open alternative.

In what universe is LineageOS not a viable alternative?
Do you really mean Series A or do you mean priced? I did see a presentation from a seed fund that insisted on a priced round recently.
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"Facebook does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed. Some recent articles have suggested that we must be listening to people’s conversations in order to show them relevant ads. This is not true. We show ads based on people’s interests and other profile information – not what you’re talking out loud about,” said Facebook in a statement last year. “We only access your microphone if you have given our app permission and if you are actively using a specific feature that requires audio. This might include recording a video or using an optional feature we introduced two years ago to include music or other audio in your status updates.”

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2017/10/31/faceboo...