skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While his research is very interesting, I'm not sure Sid Kouider actually can say much about consciousness.

He came to speak at my school and his philosophy basically boils down to "working memory = consciousness." However, this definition of consciousness is highly disputed.

Specifically, it fails to account for any of consciousness's phenomenological aspects. One might feasibly construct a computer to simulate working memory, but it seems unlikely that such a mechanism would be truly "conscious."

Ultimately, Koudier is attempting to answer with science what philosophy hasn't even yet established a framework for.
Smart plug to alleviate power cuts in India
In the spectrum of inappropriate things to say, this is far from the worst. My point was that 'Fuck you, Jason' is never appropriate. I don't think he would have been hell banned had he said 'screw you' or just omitted the three words, but saying 'Fuck you, Jason' crosses the line (and to be fair, I don't disagree with Sabat's point)
(I am only addressing the US).

Price shopping happens when the payer is directly affected by the costs (note: you mentioned your mother is uninsured) and when you can evaluate the quality (or don't care). It's actually very difficult to evaluate who's good and who isn't because a) statistics aren't often released (because hospitals and doctors block them) and b) the statistics can be difficult to interpret (a good doctor with bad stats can just have a sicker overall population). A big problem was that the data capture to adjust for these factors wasn't there (records were frequently kept on paper and billing codes barely correspond to reality). A big problem has been simply that even when the data was there, it is incredibly expensive to aggregate and report it.

In the US, we are attempting to fix some of these things. Medicare has implemented Quality Metrics and the requirement that doctors implement electronic medical record systems that measure some of the easier things to measure (patient counseled about managing diabetes, summary slip issued at end of visit, et cetera). Hopefully, price transparency plus a modern statistical reporting system will result in price shopping being viable in the next decade (of course the patient must be willing to discriminate).
Not only that, we can tell by the sound if the cries what they want. For instance, our first child had three cries: bad diaper, feed me, and hold me. I knew exactly what she wanted from the sound of her cry.
This post should be called "Go 1.1 old broken crypto performance" ;-) If you're designing a new system, there's no sane reason to use MD5, SHA1, or RC4. These performance improvements, though, are good for the native TLS implementation.

There are some small improvements to SHA-2, though, in Go 1.1.
Were they profane comments? Telling someone to fuck themselves isn't exactly the most appropriate thing to say
Thanks for sharing this. I'm filing it away for future reference. There are some tips here that sound like they make a lot of sense. However, you state that "here are some important lessons we discovered while producing our campaign for Issimo Magazine". So, am I correct in assuming that this is your first crowdfunding experience? If so, I have to question the validity of some of your assertions, considering that your campaign is currently at less than 10% of your goal. (Full disclosure, I have no crowdfunding experience to lean on to refute your points.)

Regardless, I consider this a good list of aspects to consider when creating a campaign. I just think they would carry more weight were your campaign at least close to fully-funded. (Or maybe you learned them from someone else while constructing your campaign?) Good luck, nonetheless.
Does this not just play into the conspiracy theories of the (already conspiracy theory and delusions of grandeur prone) bitcoin community?
They also constant kill machines (and replace them with fresh instances of the image) that participate in key load-balanced activities.
Anyone remember Ristorante Ecco in South Park? Its rent double around 2000.

The space was vacant for a long time, and I don't think the landlord ever got the new rent - something happened to the local economy around 2001, but I can't quiet remember what.
Yes, you could do that. It would be very simple to give the same channel to two goroutines. Each goroutine would transmit the solution on the channel. You would just wait around to get the first item off the channel.

Toy example: http://play.golang.org/p/imM9nOwer_
The general rule of thumb is that if a trading strategy is successful, you won't find it in a book. Books are useful for understanding the general concepts, but I use books in the negative sense (if I find the idea in a book, I immediately throw it out)
Bitstamp: "We are under attack. Will be back as soon as possible." 12:25 UTC
https://twitter.com/Bitstamp/status/326295596963090432
Sort of a side note: does anyone have any insight into law enforcement activities related to DDoS / zombie networks? It seems like this problem has been growing out of control and nobody in government cares even the slightest bit about it. Yet if you download academic articles that are already ostensibly in the public domain then you can easily raise the ire of the criminal justice system at the federal level.
Orbital has scads of experience with solid rocket motors. Simplicity is the major advantage (and disadvantage).
Papers, Please: A Dystopian Document Thriller
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As a counterpoint, I've spoken with several who have visited and/or studied Singapore, and they attribute its cleanliness to police enforcement, not janitorial staff.
No, I mean in a purely technical sense, the majority of miners are the ones who validate blockchains and the ones who have the power to change the protocol.
Windows 8.1 set to bring back the Start button
Would it make a difference if your editor had better support for these sorts of things? For example, collapsed comments, where its shows only the first line, might help a lot. Then you could put a summary in the first line and elaborate in a paragraph that would be hidden by default.

Or what if the editor supported such comments in the margin, like the LibreOffice or Word review comment features?
That's their problem, not yours. Remember, we're talking about Chrome here, not IE6/7.
There seem to be alot of corner cases where well-intentioned folks who follow the rules, but don't have encryption subject matter expertise can find themselves with some corner-case problem with encryption.

Oftentimes we rely on third parties to get it right, but who knows whether they have or not?

Are there good best practices or products out there to implement and evaluate encryption implementations? We use FIPS-140 validated modules, but is that enough?
Your second question is the only one I care about. The answer is, "just fine", especially so if not everyone is behind CG-NAT. Surely you're creative enough to devise ways for two parties on the Internet to rendezvous through a third party server. We already have overlay networks that are NAT-compatible; they're called CDNs.
Trading trading strategies? Getting a bit meta. The first thing to ask yourself is if you're a trader - from what I've seen it's a unique trait.
The rent controls are for residences not for businesses.

Businesses operate on leases, and usually long term leases, like 10 year leases for a restaurant. This will protect the business for the duration, then when it is up, its up.
The interesting problem is that the underlying AWS system seems to come up with more and more interesting failure modes due to system complexity, that the testing could never catch. Like Netflix had a major outage recently on Christmas Eve 2012.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/12/a-closer-look-at-christm...
Startup Kick
Dreams Fly High at Venture Hive: The Hidden Treasure of Miami’s Startup Scene
Oh, I assumed some of it was from the GC/scheduler work, or mostly just the asm impls?
Hey folks. I'm a Kera cofounder.

We believe in the Lean Startup. Probably more than most. We launched three separate tutorial products trying to find something that people picked up easily while still giving great results. We basically ran out of time and had to scale our team back to just the three cofounders.

We are still kicking the can trying to get traction (albeit in a different direction).

If anyone wants more details about why we shut down the producg I'd be more than happy to share. It's fundamentally a CAC being higher than LTV type issue.
Using this in bed will answer once and for all the eternal question: "Do you make love like Barry White or Nickelback?"
My rule of thumb is unless the person sharing the strategy:

* owns their own private jet/yacht/other signs of opulence

* didn't share it with anyone else

try to ignore it
Red Hat Comments to USPTO on how to improve patent applications
1)Apple was never a dominant incumbent in mobile. It focused narrowly on the high end market. For the vast majority of the population, especially in emerging markets like Asia and Africa where Andrioid is now the strongest, iPhone was simply unaffordable. Google didn't fight Apple head on but instead take advantage of its weakness in the mass market and open sourced Android which resulted in a flood of low cost smartphones that quickly capture a large majority of the market, the part of the market where Apple never had much of a presence to begin with.

In short, Google played a different game.

2) Nokia rose to power on simple cellphones. It was never a dominant player in smartphones. In fact smartphone was a wide open market with no dominant players when Apple entered that market. So Apple never needed to fight any incumbent.

3) Google still sells 10X more ads than facebook, so it's rather premature to say facebook has beaten google in ads. And even if that does happen eventually, it'd be because facebook avoided fighting google in search ads (unlike Microsoft tried to with Bing) but instead invented the new market of social ads & newsfeed ads. Once again it's the strategy of avoiding fighting the dominant incumbent in its own game and inventing a new game instead.
Slow down. There are women listening.
When I run the benchmark in C-ruby (2.0.0) I get:

real	2m35.450s
user	2m35.257s
sys	0m0.139s

On jruby with invokedynamic:

time ruby -Xcompile.invokedynamic=true file2.rb C-large-1.in

real	1m17.711s
user	1m15.618s
sys	0m0.830s

In jruby without invokedynamic
time ruby file2.rb C-large-1.in

real	1m37.856s
user	1m39.260s
sys	0m0.854s
When my mother died last year, it was after six months of pure torture. She had always been healthy before, then she developed sudden pain which quickly led to the diagnosis of end-stage cancer. Though my mother had previously been opposed to advanced medical treatment (she would probably still be alive and well now if she had gone to regular checkups), she agreed to chemo and radiation therapy. During the next months, her body gradually but radically declined. Before severe morphine psychosis set in, she re-iterated her instructions that no life-extending measures were to be taken. Her plan was to die at home, surrounded by her things, and the people who loved her, if possible in her green garden.

I quit everything to care for her during those last months. Our routine was to have short hospital stints to apply quick fixes for whatever was wrong, and then be sent back home where a nurse and I were taking care of her. One day she could not move anymore at all, and by sheer coincidence she was lucid at the time despite her heavy morphine dosage. We decided to arrange for another diagnostic stint at the hospital. There, she deteriorated very quickly, within hours. Sadly, she was completely delusional on that last evening so we could not say good bye to her. I had not even managed to get her some basic things like her digital picture frame or her favorite stuffed animal, because we had all thought she would be able to go home again. She was not. During that night she slipped into a deep coma, which was quite a merciful coincidence all things considered.

Because she had made sure that she wouldn't receive any life extending treatment, the hospital staff interpreted this to mean that no treatment at all would be given. I was at her bedside when she almost suffocated on her own vomit. If I hadn't been there to turn her around and make sure the fluid was drained as best as I could without any equipment or other assistance, she would have died quite horribly right there under the eyes of nurses and doctors. Next the day, her swallowing reflex had seized to function. It was very painful to watch, yet staff did nothing to drain the fluid despite my repeated pleas to ease her suffering. Finally, she died (relatively peacefully) that evening.

I can't help but feel after this, and despite having completed medical school and despite having some experience with terminal illness, that everybody failed in this. My mother should not have agreed to this huge amount of palliative care that put her through hell, for longer than was necessary and forced her to cope with the horrible staff at our local palliative center. I shouldn't have agreed to and then arranged for that last hospital visit. The hospital staff should not have denied her basic comforts and care on the grounds of a DNR. The entire thing was a huge screw-up.

Somewhere between trying everything we can and knowing when to let go, between planning and sudden decision-making, between being professional and being compassionate, there is a balance that we have not found yet.
He had a paper in CompCon 94 (it's behind an IEEE paywall, though).

"Low power hardware for a high performance PDA" http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&ar...

Walter Smith's site may have a mirror, but I can't get to it right now.
Here’s a rebuttal in the form of a partial list of links to Google
initiatives that exist primarily to advance the “open web”:

http://www.chromium.org

That's funny. I see Chromium as their OSS alibi for doing whatever non-standard they want with open-web HTML, which doesn't exist in any other browser. But now it's not "proprietary", because it's in a OS code-repo somewhere.

So now it's "standards" even though it hasn't been submitted, ratified or approved yet. And everyone else, if they dont want Google's stuff to work poorly in their browser, has to be a dog and follow Google's leash.

I consider Chromium some of the worst damage Google has done to the open web.
Has anybody had any real success with in-app advertising?
The stuff you can do with current IPython notebook is already amazing and immensely useful, as the examples mentioned in the posts demonstrate. Browser is not a good place to manipulate gigabytes of data (like Python), but it is the easieast to use, most versatile rendering engine for visualizations.

I keep envisioning a marriage of Light Table with IPython. If this post is any indication of Light Table's prowess, it could very well work with IPython backend: www.chris-granger.com/2012/05/21/the-future-is-specific/

I mourn the lack of language to build these editors. Schema languages only validate document's structure and content. Browser based editors either abstract editing away to wiki like syntax or hide it inside Word processor emulating widgets. Both come with a set of assumptions that makes them hard to customize to suit the needs of the data.

It should be possible to create a declarative editing and visualization language (a Domain Specific Language) that would drive this browser/data structure server combination. You could describe the editing environment for one particular domain (like exploring and visualizing a statistical dataset). This should be data driven, ie. it builds the environment according to chosen dataset. Language should allow macros or modules in suitable languages for additional functionality, like complex validation, animations and transitions. You can export your view of the data, complete with your code and command history.

Tools for data visualization and editing need to look like they are build for this data, for these particular visualizations. And they should be customizable, right there in the same environment so the link between the data and your knowledge of its domain stays in view. I think these tools hold the promise of becoming toolmakers tools, too.
https://github.com/sricola/socode/commit/e8161e74a27d194c91f...
Shift+Reload takes care of all caching issues.

It's hard to nail down the difference between Chrome Dev Tools and Firebug with just one thing. For me it's not one killer feature it's a quality of life issue. It's all the little things that, IMHO, Chrome Dev Tools does right.

I have no problem using Firebug or even the Firefox Inspector when needed to actually find a Firefox specific problem but for working day in and day out, I prefer the experience of the Chrome Dev Tools.
I realize it's in quotes, but very few academics hearing the phrase "academic freedom" would think of "the ability to work on anything you like." They would, rather, think of what Wikipedia aptly describes as:

". . . the belief that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment."

I've been in academia for (including graduate school) a little over twenty years, and I've been astounded at the ways in which freedom of inquiry is threatened from without and from within. And while few American and European academics face imprisonment for their views or objects of study, many academics in other parts of the world do. And U.S. and European academics certainly can face job loss or sanction for being interested in "inconvenient" things.

I would encourage the author to confine his use of this phrase to its traditional meaning, lest anyone forget the far more important problem to which it refers.
Normally if someone has 250,000 of anything it would not be to their advantage to crash the market before a sell-off. If anything they should prop-up the currency value with fake press releases as they sell in order to cash out high and buy back in as low as possible, then write a story about the sell-off to cause a panic.

That said, I suppose it's also possible that a group would want to destroy the currency in its current form too, for giggles?
The only winning move is not to play. ;-)
And don't discount that they own their own private jet just because they got lucky, or were in the right place at the right time.
Don Pako Sex Shop: Saninex una marca de calidad.
Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
Ever wondered how Netflix delivered their content? Open Connect
It seems someone doesn't want this operation to commence.
Why, are the women not curious?
The hardware design page is particularly interesting. It's a system similar to the Backblaze Pod https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
Apparently you haven't been to many 50-year-old farm towns in the US lately. (All these businesses would be closed and a Wal Mart Supercenter would be off a highway somewhere close).
What "culture" would that be? A 10-year-old restaurant in the Marina? I lived in SF in 1999 and never heard "The Grove" called "San Francisco's living room".

This is one person's property rights versus another's, not property rights versus something else.
"An army marches on its stomach."
I'm sure I remember a debate being had in the news at some point about whether this antidote should be included in all paracetamol/acetaminophen pills sold.

Since this seems not to have happened, does anyone know if there's some side-effect of taking N-acetylcysteine alongside paracetamol/acetaminophen as standard? Or was it just a question of price?
Helvetica's great, but it's pretty awful for body text, and particularly awful on a monitor.
Seeing as he claims "1,000,000+ compromised machines", my guess is this is just a spoof.
Ask HN: Set up own eCommerce Site vs Hosted one
I'm more of an infrastructure kind of guy that dabbles in websites, some basic programming and such for learning and (fun).
I was asked this question by someone looking to set up a small Internet store (eCommerce) selling some things for decorating the house.

Now, there are plenty of choices, Magento being the most known to me, but the question is first:

- Do I choose to set up a server and install everything or do I choose to go the hosted (pre-installed/configured route) benefits etc??

Second:

- There is Magento, but what would be a better solution if any?

Thanks for any helpful answers/remarks!!
Maintainable JavaScript – Make Time to Save Time
Depends where the delay lies. If the font is loaded in such a way that page rendering blocks in all cases then they need to rearrange their code somewhat, but it could be your browser that is broken: unless there is something blocking rendering (the font being loaded synchronously in a static script tag or something) then the browser should render the content using an alternative from the CSS definition or what-ever its default is, and reflow once the font is loaded. While it is extra processing it isn't like modern phones are short of a CPU cycle or few.
Release to your customers, continuously.
The product changed, the widget didn't.

In other words, because TACODA was selling services, by changing accounting practices their customers saw a radically different product - one which made the person recommending it to their boss look clever.

The pivot more fully leveraged TACODA's expertise. Because their they understood the how and why and when of the data's value so much better than their customers, the fraction of their monetization sent to their customers was more money than their customers were ever likely to extract.

"How can I send someone a check?" is a counter-intuitive business model for most people. Even though it is used all the time.
Our Dashboard:

==============

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /nfs/c08/h04/mnt/147456/domains/perksapp.com/html/application/views/profile/dashboard.php on line 14

The messaging tab:

==================

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given
Filename: helpers/twitter_helper.php
Line Number: 38

Fatal error:
Unsupported operand types in /nfs/c08/h04/mnt/147456/domains/perksapp.com/html/application/views/profile/messaging.php on line 54

The tweets tab:

===============

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: strtotime() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given
Filename: helpers/twitter_helper.php
Line Number: 38

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: json_decode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given
Filename: controllers/profile.php
Line Number: 81

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /nfs/c08/h04/mnt/147456/domains/perksapp.com/html/application/views/profile/tweets.php on line 61

And no (obvious) help or support link where to report this. Otherwise I would have done that.
The dorm probably hasn't been torn down. Kenyon gets rather attached to its buildings.
> I guess this will finally show how self regulation doesn't work when profit is the motive.

No, it exposes risks, which can be a market differentiator for exchanges that examine and provide plans to mitigate the risks (and sell services on those points).
It seems like this problem has been growing out of control and nobody in government cares even the slightest bit about it.

What are you basing this on? Take a look at this:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-internat...

I believe that the Microsoft DCU has also worked with the government on a number of botnet investigations and takedowns. Rustock and Bamital come to mind without googling it but I think there are more than several additional ones.