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I really like the way you stated your arguments.

First: Yes, I agree.

Second: Hmm... I don't know. People talk about ghosts a lot as well. There are many people who claim that they see ghosts. But I don't think that is strong evidence that ghosts exist.

Third: We need a consistent definition of consciousness here. It would waste a lot of time if it turned out we were debating different concepts. I believe your idea of consciousness is that it is an emergent phenomenon that arises from simpler processes, much like how biology arises from the simple laws of QM. Is this correct? If so, then with that definition of consciousness, I agree with you. And we will learn more about it as time goes on.

Fourth: Yes, I agree. Chaitin's constant is my favorite exemplification of that idea.

Finally: "Do you think that this means your consciousness has nothing to do with your claim to be conscious?" Yes, that is exactly what I think. Although replace "consciousness" with "the act of experiencing existence" and that is a much closer semantic match to what I am attempting to convey.

> 1. My claim to be conscious does have to do with the fact of my consciousness. (Agree?)

No, for the simple reason that you can write a computer program that prints out "I am conscious." Its claim of consciousness is only due to a program that someone wrote.

> 2. My claim to be conscious is completely determined by physics, since I would also make it in p-zombie world. (Agree?)

Yes, I agree with that.

> 3. Therefore, the fact of my consciousness must fall out of physics.

Were 1 and 2 true statements, they would indeed imply 3. But since I don't agree with 1, 3 also doesn't seem to be true.
So if gmail's spam filter isn't perfect, it's better to have no spam filter?
(I wrote the original article.)

These frameworks typically just allow you to wrap native methods with JavaScript... so you're not really writing to a single cross-platform code base. Morever, if you can build your app entirely in the HTML/JS/CSS side of things, you're golden... as soon as you start to bridge between the Native and JS layers, things get messy (and often very slow).
Yes I did! Although there's certainly a lot of potential for refinement.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this, but:

"We'd have to be willing to fund 10x more startups than they would."

I guess that if currently nearly all of your startups are getting VC funding, there are two ways to end up funding 10x more startups than VCs: 1.) Make the VCs fund 10x fewer startups or 2.) Fund 10x more startups yourself. (Or various combinations, of course.) #1 seemed absurd to me, so I read the thought experiment as suggesting #2.

Edit: Hmm, I guess another alternative is to fund startups that "look worse" to VCs, which is basically #1 but doesn't seem so absurd. So perhaps I was misreading the quote.
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This paragraph read a bit confusing to me:

The fact that the best ideas seem like bad ideas makes it even harder to recognize the big winners. It means the probability of a startup making it really big is not merely not a constant fraction of the probability that it will succeed, but that the startups with a high probability of the former will seem to have a disproportionately low probability of the latter.

It could be that it's a bit late, and I am tired. But it sounds a bit awkward.

Anyone care to clear that up for me?

Thanks!
I did stop and thought about the tone. There were more comments (quite) similar to yours, so it was more at random that reply was to your comment.

Usefulness? Ability to communicate with more than 1.7 * 10^9 people is not enough for you? Also once you know Mandarin learning Japanese is much simpler.

...
for simplicity I will assume 364 days/year
0.5 * 364 * 13 = 182 * 13 = 2356, which is more than those 2200.

It is generally advised to learn language in place where it is being used on day to day basis, no matter what language you are using.
The chance of that having happened or happening in the future is surely 100% at the stage you invest at. There are also undoubtedly many companies who could have been black swans that you did/will invest in who don't for execution's sake.

Take the swans you get an enjoy them. :)
(I know it's not you. You seem like a cool guy. But looks I've gotten under someone's skin, lol. Sorry, whoever you are!)

It really depends on what you want to do with the computer. There's no shortage of forum debates on the merits of one computer over another without any mention of the intended use. That's pretty silly when you think about it.

Can't you cover up that logo with a sticker? (Taking a tip from the movie studios in the businessweek article.)

I don't think you are buying the MBP just for the specs though, are you? I mean, the enclosure, Cocoa graphics layer, all that ease-of-use must factors, right?

If you are saying MBP specs really are the best for a laptop in that price range, then you have made me curious.

My solution to the hoop-jumping for development would be to boot another OS, that already has a compiler installed, from USB. But I'm not even sure that would work. I'm not writing stuff in Java or ObjectiveC. I just want a working clang/gcc.
The biggest obstacle to using HTML, in my opinion, is horrible scrolling support on Android mobile websites. In general, Android's scrolling is ehh (not sure why they don't make it as good as on the iPhone), but on MOBILE SITES it's just really bad.

And for overflow: scroll areas, even using iScroll or your own implementation runs into simple bugs, such as: quick swipes make the document scroll no matter what you do!
PG, thanks for writing the essays. They're definitely thought-provoking and a lot of people appreciate them. Keep writing. :)
What does fault have to do with self-reliance? Fault is in the past, solving problems is in the future.
Does this make it so that highlighting in Terminal (prior to copying) only selects the text?

I had line numbers set till it turned out that when I selected a bunch of text for copying selected the line numbers too. Ugh.
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Thanks a lot for your feedback... You think the pricing is low for our monthly premium account or we are giving too much for free?
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Ask HN: Eye strain and e-readers
I've been wanting to get a kindle to read ebooks instead of hard copy for a while, but my eyes don't hold up for long when reading from any type of screen.

I know the kindle uses e-ink which i've read about , but I wanted to get the opinion of others that may experience eye strain when reading from devices, and if they've had success with any of these readers!
Eh, seems plausible that Jamie got >$150 worth of return for his advertising spend on the survey.

I'm sorry, did you think that there was science happening in the HN self-promotional echo chamber?
No one should be getting kudos or promotion over recognizing an internet shitstorm because people A) didn't do their jobs or B) did their jobs as usual which caused said shitstorm.

It's like a bully saying he's sorry only when your bigger brother shows up to defend you.
I disagree, respectfully, that a skilled engineer would create a framework in the process of writing an app. Instead: they'd write the app using the microframeworks chosen.

There's a big difference -- creating framework that solves a general set of problems is a different task than building an app.

This argument assumes that an engineer will create a framework to solve their problem ("build an app"), and create an ORM, and will recreate an auth process, etc. This isn't necessarily true.

Also - why assume that a skilled engineer will "hack" together anything? How hard is it to write a bunch of SQL? Not particularly hard at all - no need to hack (in the negative context of the work I infer you're using here).

In fact, a skilled engineer will re-use the micro-components he/she's created. An unskilled engineer will "hack" together a new "framework", "ORM", and so on - creating their own megaframework - to defeat the purpose of using microframeworks in the first place? Sorry, that kind of engineer needs more experience or skills.

Also, I think we need to clearly separate two things: writing an app, and writing a framework. I'm recommending using tools (microframeworks) to create apps, websites, etc -- not to ask an engineer to devolve into using these tools to create yet another megaframework in attempt to abstract away problems (that they probably don't fully understand, but should, as in your example of authentication) and failing.

In fact, I'll go ahead and posit that a skilled engineer knows how to create an auth process (using existing crypto and hash libraries instead of rolling their own). An unskilled engineer -- not so much.
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> It would hurt YC's brand (at least among the innumerate)

Worse, even -- innumerate and/or people who don't have domain knowledge. Probably considerably over 99% of all people.
Ask HN: Is YC really cool with a lifestyle business?
Apropos http://paulgraham.com/swan.html#f1n "it's cool with us if the founders want to sell early for a small amount, or grow slowly and never sell (i.e. become a so-called lifestyle business)"

I run a side business that I hope will eventually become a lifestyle business; there must be lots of other HNers in a similar position. I've assumed that since we never intend to be the next Google–or even the next Dropbox–we should never apply to YC.

Is YC really open to applicants like me? How could it be rational for YC to accept me instead of yet another wanna-be billionaire who "radiates 'winner'"?
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Which browser is the shining beacon of light for HTML5?
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Some of that was just bad code on their part. Try and compare it to LinkedIn's app instead. As far as I know, that's HTML5.
Trying to get back onto the developer world's good side?
Am I the only one to notice that both AirBnB and DropBox actually have a viable business model and a real way to make money?

I think this would be a good metric. I mean think about it, if you're a startup and your only strategy is to burn money making an awesome product that's free, how on earth are you going to return 1000x on investment?
The average student in the World encounters far more written English than average American student of any other language (in written form). And people outside of countries with English used on day to day basis don't encounter enough English to properly use it in spoken form.

I'm not too busy just learning Japanese (as a matter of fact I'm also learning German and Russian and I still have some free time).
Could you give any examples from your portfolio of such young founders? What do you consider accomplishments? ( Might be subjective?)
After I wrote this one, I had to go back and armor it by pre-empting anything I could imagine anyone willfully misunderstanding to use as a weapon in comment threads. The whole of footnote 1 is such armor for example.

You don't give your detractors enough credit. Many of these misunderstandings are not willful, and actively seeking to avoid them is almost always good practice on your part. (In my opinion.) For the record, I found footnote 1 illuminating.

I'm sure that the intense scrutiny you get would annoy any writer. But I think it genuinely makes your essays stronger, too, and I hope you don't hate it too much.
> For those of you senders who are interested in this feature, the most basic requirements are including a standard "List-Unsubscribe" header in your email with a "mailto" URL

Do they support HTTP URLs in the List-Unsubscribe header yet? Last time I checked, the mailto URL was the only one they supported, despite the fact that RFC 2369 clearly includes an HTTP option. It would be so much easier if website developers could simply reuse their existing unsubscribe link, instead of having to monitor a special e-mail account. And yet nobody seems to support the HTTP URL option.
Yep, if it's happening many times, it can't be blamed on the individuals. There's definitely a tendency among managers to do this though instead of looking at oneself in the mirror and assessing any shortcomings.
I launched a meetup when I moved to a new city that targeted self-starter developers of any sort. I knew some folks in that category would be entrepreneurs naturally or that I could convince them :-)

You can launch your own with us. I'm trying to template our once-a-month freeform hackathon approach so anyone (like you) can launch a "Code Until Dawn" meetup in their town.
* http://codeuntildawn.com
* http://meetup.com/codeuntildawn

I was and still in truth am a beginner developer, and I took that time to continue learning and asking for advice. It was one of the best decisions I've made professionally.

The community may be disparate in your city, but you can stand as a magnet for the right kinds of folks just by making an effort to organize.
Honestly, I have no idea what programmers.stackexchange.com is for.

When I found out about it, I thought it could be interesting, so I made a habit of visiting a few times a week to see what it was all about.

I stopped visiting after a few weeks because nobody knows what the point is. 90% of the interesting questions are closed as off-topic, closed because they "belong on Stack Overflow", or are closed because the answers are debatable.

It's kind of silly, really.
Stupid question - How do I pause it?
I don't know the challenges of building a web-based Instagram, however I am a long-time user of Flickr, with which I manage a huge collection of personal photos.

The Flickr web interface definitely needs a modern browser (Chrome or the latest Firefox), otherwise it will choke from time to time, however that's to be expected when you're basically playing around with 10,000 photos. For me it does a spectacular job, more so than some native apps I tried (granted, I never tried Adobe Lightroom).

Thousands of images in a continuous virtual scrolling
window in HTML land? Slow.

You can use the same tricks you'd use in a native app, such as loading only the thumbnails that are currently visible in the user's window.
Thought it was about golang at first, got my hopes up for something that actually matters to me.
Are there any apps out there right now? I don't think they list any in the application gallery.
You're not making any sense whatsoever and your points are far from clear.

For starters, as an asset class, sand hill returns are probably as high as it gets so "sucks" is definitely the wrong description.

The DoD comparisons are just weird.
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One thing about intrusive lists, you have to know and specify every list the item may be on. Maybe you like that, maybe you don't.

Also, it doesn't appear the provided code gracefully handles removing an item from a list twice.
This assumes that the software is proprietary - which is something I didn't write in my comment. gEvent, etc, aren't proprietary - they're open-source.

There's no reason an engineer who's been around the block at least once wouldn't be familiar with the various OS libraries in various languages (these days, that's probably ruby, python, nodeJS, and maybe java if you're working in big data).

There's no way that someone who knows what they're doing would be able to learn Django or Rails implementations quickly but would take "x months" to learn a ruby + zeroMQ + mustache implementation. Months? Someone's sandbagging ;)
just click on the song that's playing. i plan to add keyboard controls at some point.
You're right. Note taken.

English is pretty much compulsory in entire world. And the same can be said in Poland - almost everyone learns English in school (often for 9 years) and only 30-50% of those people can use it in its written form (and situation is far worse when it comes to spoken form).
Yep. There was a question on Programmers that was something like "What is the good/bad decision you made in your mid-20s about your career". There were a ton of great answers, and I was so proud of my heavily upvoted answer that I linked it on my website. Only to get a note a couple of months later that the link was 404ing.

I looked, and guess what: Not only did the mods close it out of some insane sense of tidiness, and not only did they hide it from normal viewing; they apparently deleted it entirely. All our writing, all the good comments, all the voting: gone forever, without warning or apparent recourse.

So fuck them and their petty, arrogant bureaucracy. I will never write an answer for them again.
> People convicted under the old law can petition a court to be removed from the offender list.

No, listing is permanent. The background check companies never remove anything from their databases. In fact having a court purge an old conviction may make your life worse, since there is no longer an official record of the insignificance of the crime, just a private database that says CRIMINAL, CRIMINAL!
Could this be because you're much more acclimated/familiar with to Django then you are Flask (and the Flask stack you built)?
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The strength (and capability to interfere) of EM radiation is subject to the inverse-square law. You would cook yourself long before your phone could put out enough juice to interfere with the cockpit.

If you can disrupt a speaker's magnetic field by placing a phone 3 inches from it, then you would need 16,000 times as much power to perform the same disruption from 10 feet away.

If every passenger in a 149-seat Boeing 737 had a cell phone, and you daisy-chained them all together to produce an EM pulse, you could improve your disruption distance to 3 feet without anything in between your output and the target to disrupt.
Love to see a little race get tossed into Hacker News. Thanks for speaking up.
I hope this buried comment isn't overlooked, but let me caution the reader that intellectual curiosity is often interpreted as animosity. It took me many years to realize that my constant barrage of questions on, well, anything was offputing to a significant fraction of people I interacted with. Perhaps this is obvious to many of you, but it was not to me.
Passion driven development led me to build Amplifize
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> Yes, there may be instances where a jury foreman misinterprets the law, but that can happen anyway, so why attempt to enforce the unenforceable and pretend domain knowledge isn't important or useful?

It's not really that domain knowledge isn't important or useful; it's that this isn't the place for it. If you have domain knowledge, its inclusion is meant to contribute to the process at the point of legislation, not the point of interpretation. If your domain knowledge disagrees with the law, then you should get the law changed, not misinterpreted.

If, like in Apple vs. Samsung, one juror has specialized knowledge and uses that to act as an authority, he's basically disemboweling the entire point of three branches of government, each disarming each other. He ignores the law, chooses his own interpretation, and gets it executed. If that's not clear, this is the "judge, jury, and executioner" powers vested in a single person.
then pilots would seem to be among the most suspicious of professions (gremlins?).

That should be "superstitious," not "suspicious." That post was made from a phone.
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Isn’t that the coolest pedestrian ever?
Really cool. Aside from any design/features/etc, I've found a few awesome bands. I did have to write them down for later, but no big deal. Thanks!
How can one quantify these effects? I don't think a histogram will do it, since that's global. How can I use digital tools to determine whether these procedures have been used on an image?...What I see is the most direct interpretation and insubstantial modification of the source material. Could you direct me to what I'm missing?

Again, we need to rethink this and set up the problem to one we can solve. Lets work backwards. Here is an image to start with.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/sites/default/files/styles/ga...

Now, take a look at this image from Prokudin-Gorsky

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bi...

Now, put the first two images in Lightroom.
[we're using LR for simplicity]
Highlight them both. Hit>G>C>Tab>L

This will let you compare them side by side. llights out. [Make sure the portrait is on the right, landscape on left.]

Analysis:

1) Overall tone, color, contast nearly the same. The portrait is a touch darker, a little more color, but primarily due to the subject matter. more detail in the city, likely due to open aperture of portrait.

2) Grass to rock transitions. Nearly identical color of grass, color of stone, relative contrast of grass to stone.

3) Shadows. Barely present in either image. Some visible in the architecture. I can see into every shadow fine.

4) The weather. One image is a "bright sunny day". The other is cloudy/overcast. But they nearly look identical in overal effect. The familiy portrait looks like they could walk down the hill into town for lunch.

5) Check this histograms, just for fun. Oops. Nearly identical. Slightly left, on one but overall incredibly similar. Masterful control of exposure. [Note: Just fun, and a sanity check.]

6) Reality check A: Image #1 2012, Contemporary Issues, 1st prize stories, Stephanie Sinclair World press photo international. Child Brides, 10 June 2011 Hajjah, Yemen

7) Reality check B:Image #2 is Prokudin-Gorsky, set image #6: View of Tiflis (Tblisi), Georgia from the grounds of Saint David Church, ca. 1910.

So, we have two images on completely different countries, completely different camereas, formats, etc. One from 2011 one from 1910. One on a sunny day. One on a cloudy day. One a portrait, one a landscape. one stopped down, one wide open. But the information resolution, detail, colour, contrast are pretty interchangible.

By pure coincidence?

8) For a real party trick, hit W and click on the clouds on the landscape, and the white tunic on the portrait. This removes the color filters that are giving both of these images that sense of nostalgia and a similar look.

This should raise a few eyebrows, I would think.[1]

9) Higlight the landscape Image and click V, to put thiis to monochrome. Repeat on the right.

What do you think?
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Footnote #1: "Each photograph takes days of painstaking Photoshop work, adjusting the color levels, removing the blemishes, adding contrast, etc" (from original post, quoted by Brown University).
Your point is taken but I don't think OP meant sentients is literally magic but that it is essentially a blackbox system to our constructs.
Any idea why Google Chrome asks "This page is in Indonesian. Would you like to translate it?"

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Absolutely. A judge's job is to make sure that everyone understands the law itself. That's one of two central purposes of a judge in a courtroom (the other being that he interprets what the law means in an official capacity).

In a very real sense, he is the Law Incarnate.
Items 1,2,and 4 are solved by running an app in its dedicated browser instance. There are simple tools for making containers like this.

4 is completely backwards. A native app has far more ability to spy on you, even to mutate data across your system, than a browser-sandboxed web app.