skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not as simple as that. We don't really know what consciousness is. We know its correlates but not how brains seem to cause consciousness.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#5

At this stage of our knowledge saying "computation X will be conscious" is just a statement of belief or a simple definition as there is no consciouness-meter that I can use to test it. Such statements are unfalsifiable.
This is the most ridiculous framing of Hungary's problems with racism and extremism [1][2][3][4][5] I've read in a long time.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/hungary-...

[2] http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/16/hungary-rule-law-under-th...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobbik

[4] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/hungary/100...

[5] http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/id-moe/09566.pdf
My work MBP has a spinning drive and FileVault 2 (whole disk encryption) turned on. Anything I/O bound (booting, starting applications, paging) is super slow.
Emacs helps you time travel
Technology will enable us to be immortal within 20 years
Regarding 4, the split package[1] is the widely accepted standard for splitting lists in various ways and you will likely already have it installed since quite a few packages (142 to be exact) depend on it.

Regarding 5, I have never heard of LazyLists, nor can I find them on Hackage, nor does that name make any sense since normal (:,[]) lists are already as lazy as it gets. (Lazy) ByteStrings are, as the name indicates, more for raw binary data, but can also be used for text . The modern standard for strings is Text[2].
The OverloadedStrings extension makes it considerably easier to work with literals of the differnt string-like types.

Regarding 6, I find documentation in Hackage packages quite good. Your example, Foldable, not only has a decent explanation of each function in the typeclass definition, but there are also good tutorials (e.g. Typeclassopedia[3]) since it is definitely a non-trivial typeclass.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/split
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text
[3] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Typeclassopedia#Foldable
Argentina does not have a synchrotron but have particle accelerators.
Nice! Managed to beat it, but it wasn't easy: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127246/Screenshots/5ths.png
With modern FPGAs, you have the CPU on the same chip, which means you can use just one chip and then it's OK for cost-sensitive devices - and your problem of moving data across chips is gone as well.

The speed of the typical CPU on board an FPGA is ludicrously slow compared to the amount of data the FPGA itself can process.

BTW it's true for GPUs just as well: just integrate them on the same chip, and forget about the PCI slots. Every high-end to mid-range cell phone has done it a long time ago.

They pretty much have the same problem, exactly as OP stated. Nobody's using mobile phone GPUs for algorithmic acceleration. Hell enough of them have huge weak spots in doing texture upload/download themselves.
Popularity.

If activists want a potential mass audience, facebook is an essential part of of that. Something private will not get to most people. Its the exact same reason it is hard to compete with facebook. Its is a virtual monopoly.

"Force"? No. But by using that word you are in the same disingenuous camp the "what have you got to hide" people. I mean, why bother about privacy at all, no one is "forced" to use the internet. Why bother about anything facebook does, no one is forced to use it.

I could go on, but I'm not forced to....
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That's not true. It redirects to https://encrypted.google.com/ and works just fine.
> Ford couldn't possibly service every municipality in the country

Why?
There aren't any scientific definitions of consciousness that don't derive completely from the empirical study of people who have been declared conscious (philosophically.)
Whatever they're technically capable of doing, I assume they're doing it. If they can't store everything yet, I assume they're working on it. I also assume they're somewhat ahead of whatever we commonly think is possible.

Maybe not everything, maybe not now, but close to it and soon.
news.ycombinator does this too.

edit: at least for me, it's impossible to log in to HN and when I occasionally succesfully log im, everything I post while being on Tor is instantly dead.
Meh, I bet they have a process in store where they walk you through customization and the sale gets recorded for the store's figures. There are people who aren't into delayed gratification, but a computer purchase is still serious enough that people will wait a week or two for what they want.
I've certainly used Google with Tor.
Supreme Court Rules That Pre-Miranda Silence Can Be Used Against Defendant
I must say, as an iPhoto user who currently is drowning in a mountain of around 30k photos, this salesperson did you a great disservice by recommending you get a standard platter external HDD instead of opting for the larger built-in SSD (or even a thunderbolt connected external SSD). iPhoto absolutely starts to crawl with enough photos and videos thrown at it, to the point where the speed of an SSD is all but required.
Should have signed this "A fascist".

"It's not fascism! It's just Common Sense that Racial Group X is the real threat facing Country Y."
Yahoo joins rivals in PRISM data request admission
kind of pointless using Tor to access a site that has all your personal information on it.
This is illegal and not in use by legitimate ad companies.
They've learned their lessons [1]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/ad-network-at-center-of-third-...
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For the folks who are interested, as a Hungarian I can give you a small report based on first hand experience.

The current Fidesz government is simply a Mafia. They are the sons and grandsons of the communists who killed hundreds of thousands of Hungarians. Sándor Pintér[1], Minister of the Interior of Hungary is the biggest godfather in the country currently. They kill rivals, or send them into prison.

Hungarians have the fewest rights in this country. They intentionally positively discriminate the Roma population to spark a civil war. Divide and conquer.

There is also an ongoing international propaganda about how "antisemitic" are we. Nothing is further than the truth, there are 0 jewish people beaten per year. But this will be a good excuse to further decrease our liberty.

A bill is going to pass (in a couple of weeks) which will allow foreigners to buy unlimited amounts of land without any control exposed on the process. This will result in the poor Hungarians losing land to wealthy people. If the bill passes (it will), Hungary will cease to exists in decades.

The Jobbik and a couple of true politicans fight against these issues, they want to preserve the Hungarian nation.
That's why you see a propaganda about them, framing them as evil, fascist, hateful people. Because the Jobbik and the defense of the homeland interferes with the bussiness of the Mafia government.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Pint%C3%A9r

A Hungarian

Edit: a little bonus, worthless anecdote, probably I am crazy and fascist because I find it disturbing:

The Fidesz announced that to prevent minors from smoking they will move the selling of tobacco products to certain specialized shops.

Poor dumb masses were like "ohh, not a stupid idea, young people smoking is bad hmmkay". Then, came the news, that the government decides who can run these shops. Of course all the winners were Fidesz friends (parts of the Mafia).

Then first they raised the price of tobacco products, to provide bigger margins to these shops because "this is their only source of income".

Then they allowed to sell other products, like chips, ice cream, whatever, they allowed such a wide range these products combined make up 40% of shop sales.

So basically, with this move, the Fidesz took the right to run shops from the common people and gave it to the Mafia members.

Well played!

This is how the Hungarian middle class is being erased.

And this is just a recent story! There is more to come I am sure.
Except police/prosecutors can grill subjects of investigations for hours. Annoy a politician or public official and a journalist's interview is over. An interview is a chess match: It has to be strategic, and even if the subject anticiaptes a trap you still have to lead him there. In the case of a draw (most typical outcome) the journalist loses.
> They are being called fascist because they want to stop the current practice of paying 2000$ for Roma families for raising children, while Hungarian families get 1/20 of that for the same task, all this while the average Hungarian works for 400$ a month.

In all fairness, the uniforms, the cozy media bill and all that don't help very much, either.
The article simply states the issue. Its not up to the writer to come up with excuses for facebook, which if you are really hot on bad journalists you would rightly write off a mere speculation. Its up to facebook to explain their position. If their excuse turns out to be a reasonable reason, then lets hear it.
Haddad is not left-wing. PT is not left-wing.

They marched to the state hall because Alckimin (São Paulo governor) has the control over the military police (yes, our everyday police is military), and after the brutality of 06/13 it seemed only logical.
Google's VP9 web video codec enabled by default in upcoming Chrome
typing news.ycombinator.com seems to work in the latest tor browser. maybe news.ycombinator.com/news works if the former doesn't.
Not for me, I can login fine.
No monetization plan, part time work, difficult to find talent to help with the growth because of money... what if you made it open source? You would get really talented guys helping you with the project for free. You can win some money using donations.
Interesting: Co-inventor of Sprouts is John Conway, inventor of Conway's Game Of Life
It has nothing to do with racism or antisemitism. These guys are simply the first real politicians of the last 60 years - unfortunately, in a negative sense. They started as liberal democrats (not the Liberal Democratic Party), and they're just changing the ideologies as they see fit.

I think one of the big issues is that people believe that these guys are driven by ideology, and that's how they want to fight them. They aren't. They want to stay in power and they'll do what's necessary. Simple as that.
No racial group is a threat to my country.
The leadership who intentionally creates these problems between racial groups so they can steal everything while the public is occupied with these visible problems is.
It's probably a government request. But let's give them benefit of doubt. My guess is that there's a business reason behind it. Probably they want to track you.
Why are is the FISA court secret? Because if the CIA went into a courtroom that was open to the public and asked for a warrant that was part of a legitimate investigation into a group planning an attack on the general public, then there is a good chance that the group could find out about it.
"Fill center, as he describes. Fill (e.g.) northeast corner in the same way."

I don't think you can force that. When you have the nine center squares of each square and he has the 8 non-center squares of the center square, it is your opponent's move.

The 'force-fill the center square' only works because, in your first move, you occupied the center square. That move prevents your opponent from ever picking the center of the center, thus forcing you to move in the center square.
Who watches them? Are the watchers watched? By whom?
What is your point exactly? I can call your post ridicolous and link 4-5 links too but I will still lack a point!
It would be a lot better if it happened before Brazil decision to host the world cup and olympics.

Theres nothing much that can be done now.
> I agree about the pile of EE stuff, but it's not unlike having to learn a pile of math to work on, say, graphics

If you're thinking about CGI, honestly I'd say that the maths really isn't that hard. Most of it is basic linear algebra and a bit of signal processing.

I might be biased in saying that (because I have a solid maths background as well as a computer graphics one) ; but I've done a lot of electronics as well (including working on FPGAs) and I still feel that EE is a whole different world.

(Off-topic: I realized that you were the guy behind the C++ FQA. Thank you a million times for that! )
FISA has provisions for surveilling "facilities", buildings, and locations, and is not limited to orders to surveil just an individual.

A more generous reading would suggest that is what "foreign entity" is referring to - cases where the NSA is surveilling a safehouse or a military base and not necessarily a human being.
There are no official Apple Retail stores in South Africa, only stores run by Core Group which is the official distributor. That's why they're called 'iStores' and not 'Apple stores', they're not the real deal.

With few exceptions, the sales staff at South African iStores are utterly awful; the smarmiest, smuggest and most deceitful bunch I've had the displeasure to buy from who will most certainly not try to find you the solution that suits you best but will try to upsell you on the option that boosts their commission the most.

It would do wonders for Apple's damaged reputation in South Africa to establish an official presence and set up real Apple Retail stores.
Ask HN: How to find a software dev summer job in london?
Hi,

I am a second year CSE student and currently on holiday (until Sept) and I have a lot of time on my hands. I have recently just finished a great industry placement, however I am still hungry to do work. I am trying to pass the time by doing various projects, and also taking the time to go through ml-class.org - so I can use the knowledge for another project plan I have. While I enjoy doing this - I am tempted to do a part time job where I can gain more experience. I have 1 year industry experience with software development (python+django etc) and I have played with other languages as evidence of my github account (https://github.com/viperfx)

Does anyone have any advice on how to use this experience in looking for a job? It would be great to just do a small summer job in a small team doing whatever software development (web dev related would be even better) Something in London would be ideal because of short commute.

Thanks
Here, you forgot this: ؟
I particularly liked his Core War game too. Its still around, although admittedly quite low-key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Unless I'm missing something, this wouldn't work because the Orwin gambit gives initiative back to the opponent by sending them back to the center board when it's already full. They would have the chance to employ the strategy back against you before you could pull this off.
Your example of good parallax scrolls SIDEWAYS when I scroll down. What?
True, sorta.

In my past experiences, if you're on tor (or proxy'd through a known portal), and have Javascript disabled entirely, Google will sometimes (not always) give you an error stating that your IP is a known abuser. If you DO have JS enabled, I have encountered the "Your IP is known to be abusive, so type in this captcha in order to continue" and then it forwards to encrypted.google.com.

I get similiar behaviour with VPNs & Google.
Option 2 or 3 seem pretty likely. I'm pretty sure wikipedia blocks edits from Tor IPs because a huge number of them are malicious.
Canadian Open Data Project
Look, this is what i want to know, whats the difference between this and the NSA separately collecting the data via the FISA court from google, microsoft, at&t, etc.? Besides sludge-like speed?
TV Licensing's top TV Licence dodger excuses
Awesome! Ideally 11"x17" and 18"x24" in 20 & 100# - I'd love to see pricing for those!
Do you really think that the NSA isn't sensitive to not being seen as spying on Congress or the President? That would be an obvious scandal that any moron would be smart to avoid.
Slightly Off Topic, What happened to Rubinus which is based on LLVM?
BAFTA WINNING ANIMATORS MAKE EXCUSES FOR TV LICENSING
Is that because welfare payments going towards many of the children of 5% of the population are somehow crippling the Hungarian economy, or because racial identity is strengthened by attacking minorities?

Whether a Hungarian supports or is against what is happening in Hungary, they always seem to confirm what I'm seeing on TV. Go figure.
Pretty much they all are.
Verilog is in some ways much prettier because for instance it compiles down to itself - the output of synthesis tools, a netlist, is Verilog source.

This is a terribly lame analogy. You could have the C compiler output C that exactly resembles what the actual CPU instructions do. And even write an assembler for that if you wanted.

Nobody does this because there's no real point.
After the recent rulings, I'm sure you could be arrested and DNA swabbed under the assumption that you are threatening them. You'd be let go, but they'd keep your DNA.
Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud
My point should be perfectly obvious: the people that you nauseating describe as patriots are nothing more than racists, thugs and nationalists. I've provided several different independent and credible sources to support this claim - can you do the same?
No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA?

I remember very well all the coverage here about the occupy movement.

So just because it doesn't affect your ass directly doesn't mean it is off-topic.

Edit: Same thing as all the Turkey Riot threads. Did you comment against every one of them?
I've thought it would be interesting to have an app to play this game. The hard part would be intersection detection on beziers or splines.
The quotes you have highlighted are discussing two different things.

Obama is referring to the phone metadata database.

Snowden is referring to what an analyst sees after an email address is targeted, meaning that an active surveillance process has been started for that specific email address and that the email provider has begun to provide access.

So of course these two statements are different, because they are talking about different things. The operative phrase in Snowden's statement is "If I target", which should be read as "after I start data collection for an email address...".
And due process would continue as normal.
The problem is that multiple times in the history of science the search for somehow philosophically sound underpinnings led to stagnation and not to progress, that was in fact what Aristotle did to a large extent and was the main obstacle to development of science altogether. The recent example of this is the search of aether. In the end the way that science has progressed is by dropping too much "whys" and sticking to "hows".

There might never be a philosophically satisfactory definition of consciousness. Our subjective experience that we call consciousness might be an amalgamate of very different things happening at the brain level and a single definition might just not do. Meanwhile the operational definitions like the ones I mentioned allow us to make useful predictions and draw conclusions, for example that the brain activity that happens when we experience states most people would describe as consciousness also happens in certain animals. It is not perfect philosophically, but again, you could also have a long philosophical debate about what gravity is and you would never go anywhere scientifically - that's precisely what people did before the scientific revolution.
"Squeezing the bucks out of consumers" leaves them dry.

Apple wants them to stay customers. There are a lot more bucks in the long term.

Really anything else is an extremely short-sighted business model.
What personal information exists in facebook?
It doesn't matter why.
To be fair it's quite likely your IP has been abusive. There aren't that many exit nodes and it doesn't seem unlikely that a lot of Tor users have suspicious or malicious behavior.
I never realized that turning on/off noscript had something to do with google blocking me, thanks.
TOR/SSH Tunnel + startpage.com + Stylish extension + Startpage Google Look = hehe ;)
Those are quite reliable sources, while you are just one person who seem to sympathize with Jobbik. If you post 5 links to (kind of) neutral sources, i'll gladly read them.
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That's how we used to play as kids, there's an algorithm so that the first mover always wins.
Maybe you could simply check whether the graph is planar?
This trend is also notable in Slovakia. Similar attitude toward Roma minority and sparks of shocking nationalism[1]. This is combined with nonfunctional judicial system and one party rule[2](recent poll).

It is fucking scary.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2013/03/slo...

[2] https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/10134...
Goofball hypothesizing about people as grouped objects is always fun to read. Wait, no. It's the other thing. Terrible to read.
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I think his point is, when policy is your only protection, and the policy is "ask secret court in secret for permission to look at data" then you really have no protection at all because there is no oversight - no way to see what is going on. At least with a technical protection (e.g declare 'they are not allowed to tap into undersea cables') you have some method of oversight, because there is some physical evidence outside of the NSA.
It's up to the journalist to investigate and find out why Facebook is doing this so he can write a more complete story.
What's "philosophical backup"? Scientists normally get by without any help from philosophers, so why do they need to get philosophers' imprimatur before they can use the concept of 'consciousness'?

Why doesn't the concept of, say, 'the gene' also need this backup? Or maybe all of those geneticists are also stumbling around in the dark without philosophers to guide them...
This proves again that Neelie gets it.
It seems then that the Brazilian governments have good press then.

In general Latin America countries are very similar, but I think developed countries are moving to populism too (think Obama). Obviously right now comparing US with Brazil is comparing apples and oranges.

The quality of life in developed countries is much better but in US you don't have a public health system. I know that the quality of public health is not the best in Latin America but you have a chance to have a good physician and advanced treatment for free. Poor people in the region can move to countries like Argentina, obtain a citizenship and be included in the health system. I am not trying to be a relativist, just giving more information to people who doesn't know about these things.
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See, this is why the OP has a point.

1. The religious text is the constitution itself, the ordained religious authorities are "Real Americans" (whatever that means). Lots of people throw out accusations of unconstitutional acts without any basis but their interpretation of the text - that's fundamentalism.

2. Case in point: the constitution made no distinction of US citizens being created equal. All persons are created equal.

3. If there is no greater check on fundamentalism than the constitution, why is the US home to the largest population of Christan fundamentalists?
Instead of filling the center square on the last board, you can fill the corresponding square and then start forcing your opponent to win that board.
I've noticed this too in the past week, for me HN won't even load so i need to either use a regular browser or read another news site.
Personally I think its shameful if this is being done intentionally
EDIT: Right now it seems to be fine
I've asked for 8 GB, I think it's on the way.