skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am depressed due to social isolation, which others have mentioned, and constant career struggles. Past attempts to strike out on my own have failed, or just not succeeded enough. Software jobs pay extremely well, but at a cost of having to do someone else's crap work, including having to follow development practices that I'd never endorse myself.

As for the isolation, I'm introverted, mostly involved with a lot of reading, learning, and thinking. I get outside to exercise, but don't have much to talk to others about. I have no interest in the things that occupy the biggest part of shared reality, like sports, popular TV shows, or politics. I've had many girlfriends in the past, but could only get them and keep them by playing up a fake personality that was funny, tough, daring, sociable. It's been my experience that women respond best to a combination of theatrics and measured acquiescence, and that they will give you a lot of feedback on how they want you to be. But as soon as I "be myself" - they're bored or annoyed and then they're gone.

So, now I spend almost all my time by myself, and that's depressing. I wished I belonged to something. Also, I'm 35 and my life is almost identical to what it was a decade ago, except that my body is older and hurts more, so I always wonder why I don't feel a sense of progress.
How Cold War nuclear testing once made orbit unsafe for Apollo
For argument's sake: http://youtu.be/JTN9Nx8VYtk
take on multiple perspectives and we can enjoy some fruits of the discussion
I personally use Rapidpress. For less than $3 a month (the cheapest I've found) I get great service and great speed/uptime. No quantitative numbers to back it up but its great so far.

https://www.name.com/rapidpress
How Much Money Did Jonas Salk Forfeit By Not Patenting The Polio Vaccine?
But what about the puppies? :(
I released on Android first.
It costs a meaningless amount for a company of this size. Perhaps the anonymity is more valuable though.
I hope it will get a Linux version since the idea sounds awesome. Recently I have decided to prefer Linux games over non-Linux to let my money encourage those who port their games.
I druther keep my e-mail on NSA's servers than Mega's. Given .com's past, it'd practically be the same thing.
This article is attacking a strawman. The original article was dismissed not for merely discussing consciousness but for doing it nonsensically.
I'm thinking that consciousness, as it stands right now, is associated with a lot of things that should and ought to be reduced to mere sensation.

Consciousness is associated with thought, emotion, and sensation. Yet as neuroscience progresses, I think we will eventually functionalize thought, emotion, and sensation as biological processes.

Some may argue that our mental processes are fundamentally differently perceived from our external senses. But as a human being, we have internal sensations as well. We can feel internal pain and stomachaches. These have a fundamentally different sensation from the sensations that can be externally induced in us. Extrapolating further, we can say that thinking and feeling and other mental activity are mere sensations of the consciousness induced by the brain.

Before physics, there was a large role for divinities in the world. Gods and the Abrahamic God ruled Nature and Fortune, the parts of the world that we do not understand. But as human beings gained mastery and confidence over the external world, the domain of divinities shrank and shrank. We now attribute causes of phenomena to the natural world, rather than divinities; divinities used to be the natural law of the universe, today they have to be content with the supernatural.

Regardless of the philosophical justifications of consciousness, I see it going the way of divinities. The popularity of consciousness will wane as mental functions and mental states and cognition are understood. Societies will begin to use neuroscientific explanations to justify perception and behavior that provide actionable innovation and correction instead of attributing them to black-box consciousness.

When that happens, the idea of consciousness will, I think, seem as absurd as divinities.
Hardening Sprints. What are they? Do you need them?
It looks intriguing, and I can't wait to try it out. Thanks for your hard work.
This thread is incredible. How can people be such assholes to a bunch of guys who created a nice UI?
I'm sure glad I don't get all the police I pay for.
Comment Notifications. Many times I'll forget to check my past comments and only a few days later will see people have replied to it. By the time I reply to it I'm afraid the value is significantly diminished.
My opinion is that consciousness is an aspect of self-aware thought, and arises from the physical operation of the brain. There's no reason to think that a computer couldn't be conscious, given the right programming, and perhaps far more conscious than a human, since it could be aware of every aspect of its own operation.

Since consciousness is an aspect of thought, it ceases to exist when thought stops, such as when you go to sleep or when you die. A new consciousness will be created if you wake up.

A corollary is that I don't think science fiction ideas such as teleportation or mind transfer into a machine give any philosophical problems. A new consciousness is created when the newly created body/software starts to think, the same way that it's created when you wake up in the morning.
I'm sure if they went into a lot of detail on how they defined world champion you could rest assured that it would remain useless.
Poorly enforced tax regimes are the worst. You have no idea when the tax man will come by and put you out of business.

Here's an unrelated example in a notoriously insane tax state (New York). When is a pretzel a baked good, and when is it prepared food? The tax people often can't figure it out either.

http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/print-edition/2013/07/05/a...
Many of these "I'd never have imagined you could get rich doing... (groceries|steel|lumber|shoes|silverware|bandaids|etc) examples take generations to build the business large enough to actually "get rich." They're definitely not "get-rich-quick" schemes but slow, methodical progress made on capturing a portion of industries with billions worth of turnover per year. Obviously counter-examples exist (Cotsco, etc.) but by and large these stories involve generational contributions to the business.
> Then all you should need at most is a single query to a single table

Wordpress divides posts + comments into 4 tables.

> which could be loaded asynchronously via Ajax for swift loading time and less load on the server (no slow view renders)

Wordpress can't assume any particular PHP + webserver configuration. Sometimes they're configured to send while rendering, sometimes the whole process blocks until it runs to completion. Ajax doesn't magically change that.

I also dislike the idea that I should need to download what is a small application to assemble a document ... when I could just download the document straight up.

When page loads get too long, I switch on pagination.

> cached with Nginx/Varnish, and further cached on the backend with Redis

My own setup is memcache for working objects. WP-supercache is configured to write gzip'd pages to disk and nginx is configured to serve .gz versions of page directly from disk whenever they're found. The OS file cache does the rest.

> I've seen WP sites that I had to debug/fix with 200+ queries per page.

When you see hundreds of queries per page, check your plugins and widgets. Wordpress is not my favourite software by any measure, but out of the box it's not that dumb.
And I don't understand Wordpress as a CMS. It's frankly a terrible one as well. Poor internationalization support, doesn't meet government accessibility requirements, its non-structure makes maintenance and teamwork almost impossible, its plugin structure is a landmind, terrible (no) dependency management, encourages deployment via FTP, and a terrible security model.

I'm not a Python guy, but Plone kicks its ass in pretty much every way as a CMS.

Wordpress can't seem to choose what they are- and they fail miserable from a technical perspective (yes, I know they have a huge market share, but I'm not one to believe that the markets actually pick the best option. McDonalds burgers are not the height of cuisine).
when you look at consciousness very thoroughly, you will realize (as did by buddha, and several advanced advaita masters) that there is no "you" "me" "my conciousness" etc.etc. "You" are "everything" == meaning its all in your head. "You" are just a particular manifestation of nature will certain variables/parameters/context/scope. If/When all those ingredients are replicated ...it will be you. The physical body is just a host. "You" are "compute context" operating inside the host. You call it "consciousness" or "my consciousness". You can refer to advanced buddhist or advaita masters, who realized this in nirvana.

Nature is doing its thing. "You" are just one particular manifestation of it, doing its thing (aka "living life"). To end "self" suffering (the core teaching of buddhism) you need to see this, realize this - you are guranteed to see it, as you "it" yourself. And buddha has a program for you. As does several other masters/"paths".
I bet he has every trick in the book for reaching page counts without changing the content.
Thanks for putting this together Steve. Your work, and those of the Rails contributors is amazing stuff. I know this past year has been a pain from a security perspective but as a framework matures and adds n+ features, it is an inevitable outcome.

For me, my wish list would be:

- Down with helpers. Or, at least the ability to arbitrarily set them. Maybe push presenter as alternatives?

- Some native performance tuning/testing/reporting would be awesome. Gems like rack-mini-profiler and ruby-prof are great, but a near-native tool, opinionated at that, would be awesome.

- I personally love the decorator pattern that gems like Spree use. Unfortunately (and maybe this is my own failing), eval'ing filters/callbacks is a big pain.

- As mentioned in another comment, the env specific configuration provided by figaro is awesome and should be native in Rails. Specifically, it might be a welcome alternative to the secret_token issue.

- Most deployment tools (Capistrano/Mina) enforce a different folder structure. It might be helpful to include some of them by default, or provide configurable options/symlinks that will work out of the box.

I have a lot more items on my list but those are the top items that I can think of at the moment.
"My comment is intended as some sort of public service announcement: don't bother reading the article."

Isn't this by and large antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge? It's not quackery, it's not sophomoric, it's an inquisitive exploration of an idea.

Also, please see: http://duncancarroll.tumblr.com/post/57994245946/no-really-c...
I think David Chalmers might also notice that this poster is tearing apart a straw man. The "Sophomoric philosophy" quote, for example, was not someone saying "it's sophomoric to think that consciousness is worth thinking about". S/he was saying that the arguments given by the OP were sophomoric.

In fact, a tiny minority of the comments in that thread were dismissive of consciousness as an interesting topic of thought. Only one of the comments quoted in this post could reasonably be interpreted as dismissive, but even that one had interesting points to make.
Benched, thank you for the answer and I REALLY hope you can get better, if you want something you can email me lorenzopicoli at me . com
No. I mainly read HN and blogs in the toilet.

And before having Internet or a portable device I always bring a book with me. I always thought that the bookshelves must be in the bathroom: pure inspiration.
You can use any address, he gets them all...
If there's no way to measure consciousness, how do you know you have it?
have you tried curl?
Saw this while sitting on the toilet reading my brand-new iPad mini.. My first Apple product.. Thought for a second, how did they track me in here!
> We are not normal enough to enjoy a simple life of working 9-5 and partying on the weekends, but not brilliant or lucky enough to achieve the success we would like to attain.

It says a lot about what I think sometimes
There is a nice bit about her in Chandrasekhar's APS history interviews

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4552.html
Good news from the game's FAQ: "I'm hopeful to get a Linux version out but there's no timeline for it."
Agree with Logicallee. If you read it again the teen language and syntax is odd. "Dumb-dumb posted..." I don't think a 13 year old as smart and hip to the latest trends would be caught dead using dumb dumb past 4th grade.

Maybe mom is short Facebook and is getting squeezed with all this damn mobile revenue coming in :)
Don't remailer services solve the metadata anonymity?

I understand forwarding after a variable waiting period also
frustrates sender address detection. Finland still good hosts for these?

Wikipedia:

An anonymous remailer is a server that receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and that forwards them without revealing where they originally came from. There are Cypherpunk anonymous remailers, Mixmaster anonymous remailers, and nym servers, among others, which differ in how they work, in the policies they adopt, and in the type of attack on anonymity of e-mail they can (or are intended to) resist.
Wow that's so cool what some guy with really bad graphics can make good game.
Enough with the JavaScript Already by Nicholas Zakas
10 Top Reasons I Sticked to Blogger despite all odds | Onenaija Blog
That post said nothing about speed or latency.
In the U.S.A, it seems hereditary monarchies have been replaced with hereditary presidencies(Adams, Harrison, Bush). Probably more loosely related ones to.
And she inspired Joan Feynman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman
I would characterize it as a sad, kitten-lost-in-the-rain kind of look.

https://www.google.com/search?q=puffin&source=lnms&tbm=isch&...

But yeah, I agree, not exactly a cool, edgy logo like a "firefox" or "atom"...
Nobody cares about which part you're responsible for, they care about how nice the tools are. Saying it's OSS and not your problem is weak and looks bad. Especially given it's on your GitHub organization!

If you want people to use IntelliJ, you have to step up to the plate and contribute to stuff outside of the core IDE.

If things like LaClojure are garbage, it makes you look bad and people will start using other tools.

Java programmers that learn Clojure are, (in my experience), leaving their Java IDEs of choice because the support is poor for their new favorite language.

They're coming home to Emacs or experimenting with LightTable.

That makes it your problem. Nobody cares about excuses.

Let me be clear, I don't care if you fail, I'm an Emacs user and believe in programmers maintaining their tools for themselves out of deep mistrust for commercial entities owning how programmers do their work. But if you want to be competitive you have to stop being myopic.

Have you been paying attention? Companies like http://zeroturnaround.com/ make their product free for Scala users because those people are the vanguard for their respective communities and will often be the ones making product decisions.

There is a comparable thing going on with YourKit's wonderful support of the Clojure community.

How exactly are you staying on top of the latest developments in JVM languages if you're concerned exclusively with "IntelliJ-the-IDE-itself"?
Candidate basis for a theorory and definition of consciousness
I worked on that for almost a year.

Also wrote an AS3 -> XHPROF tool which recompiled .swfs as a proxy service, in scala (which was doomed for that reason, once I quit).

Fun times, indeed.
Actually, from the outside, a philosophical zombie would be indistinguishable from a non-zombie. Zombie Chalmers would write books, papers, and opine on the nature of consciousness and his subjective experience exactly as the real Chalmers would.

For a most amusing take on the p-zombie idea, see:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/pn/zombies_the_movie/

(Though humorous, it's the capstone to a series of articles on p-zombies: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Zombies_(sequence) )
My first thought was to agree, but my second thought was to wonder how much worse this makes things.

The mobile network already locates you well enough for the spooks to find out who you're meeting. I live in Melbourne; half our mobile network is owned by Singapore, and god knows how much was made in China. The spooks are scary, but the network has become essential.

No doubt computers accelerate threats to life and freedom, as they do to everything else. It got that way a long time ago, when IBM tabulating machines powered the holocaust. The problems are Singapore and China, which are being solved, and Australia, where parts of the solution are failing. Those solutions are human instead of technical.
no arrangement of physical parts has come close to qualitatively being the same as a subjective experience.

This isn't a one time affair. Every human carries DNA explaining exactly how to create more intelligent conscious creatures. It doesn't take "special conditions." It happens in squalor, mud huts, ice, desert, famine, over excess—everywhere. We are self-replacing nanomachines looking like individual discrete entities on a macro scale.

Your soul could be observing your body and being affected by it.

Nope. Not possible. You are entirely your brain. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't want to write a big wall of text, but a lot of situations come up where bugs could (if you so choose) be encoded into the type system. Here are some examples:

- The Maybe/Option type: you explicitly declare that a value may be missing, so you cannot call methods/functions on it willy-nilly; the compiler will force you to handle both cases. Say bye-bye to NoneType object has no attribute 'foo' errors.

- Different types for objects that have the same representation: in a language like Python, text, SQL queries, HTTP parameters, etc. are all represented as strings. Using a statically-typed language, you can give them each their own representation and prevent them from being mixed with one another. See [1] for a nice description of such a system. See also how to separate different units of measurements instead of using doubles for everything.

- Prevent unexpected data injections. With Python's json module, anything that is a valid JSON representation can be decoded. This is pretty convenient, but it means you must be very careful about what you decode. With Haskell's Aeson, you parse a JSON string into a predefined type, and if there are missing/extra fields, you get an error.

- When I was doing my machine learning class homeworks, I very often struggled with matrix multiplications errors. An important part of that was that the treatment of vectors vs Nx1 matrices was different. I feel that if I could encode the matrix size in the types, I'd have had an easier time and less errors.

These are simple examples, but whenever I code in Python, I inevitably make mistakes that I know would've been caught by the compiler if I had been coding in OCaml or Haskell.

[1] http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-10-18-a-type-based-soluti...
C or C++ (or both) and C#. This new languages like, Rust,Go etc you may learn after C or C++ (IMHO). It's because by using C programming language you learn much more how the computer/software works in background than using high-level ones. But don't give much of your time on it, if you aren't focusing system applications.
So let's amortize the cost of compiling and/or installing fast binaries by only relying on plain Python.

It would be great if there was a natural progression (and/or compat shims) for porting from this new stdlib library to NumPy[Py] (and/or from LibreOffice). (e.g. "Is it called 'cummean'")?
> It has low retest reliability, meaning that people who take are tested more than once often show different results.

That's good to know. I still think the term 'pseudoscience' is thrown around a bit too loosely though. There's falsifiability as a criterion for scientific theories sure, but building to a full out 'theory' requires quite a bit of maturity on the part of the 'science'. Some ideas fail at the onset like homeopathy, but others might have to be investigated more thoroughly before knowing for sure. The only thing I generally have against the 'pseudoscience' label is the effect it has on people that dissuade them from following anything approaching a certain line of reasoning sometimes. As with personality types, the Myers-Briggs framework might be bunk, but the underlying idea could be feasible, thinking of it as the emergence of certain patterns and algorithms from genetics and neurological connections; after all, we are seeing something that might end up being quite like this in the realm of IQ. But I digress.

The point is that we are approaching a future that is going to need more and more cross-disciplinary knowledge and approaches to really figure things out, and the loud belittlement and stigmatization of general approaches is a bit discerning to see around circles of intellectual people.
Is there some non-Mac user here also to me?
"Perl has a nice feature when opening a file with the open() library call, because it not only opens files, but runs programs if the file path is not a path, but a shell command ending in a pipe."

I thought only PHP did things like that :)

I hope this is disabled in mod_perl? Because if not I need to let someone know they need to audit their code.

PS. I get how useful this is, and it's well documented, but this functionality should be in the ancillary function (i.e. used when needed), not in the default one.
Just found this cyombinator.com/news URL on Google—scam?
I guess that is what you get for not co-operating with GCHQ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ku17CqdZg
Thanks. I think the architecture is very interesting how it violates expectations by having 11 bit words and 44 bit registers. The way the keyboard scan and display scan is tied in with the register processing is also unusual. The masks that select which digits are used makes up for the small number of registers.
Playthrough of some of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brTJzrXQVLU

Gives you a great sense of what it's all about.
Mostly that it's Sunday evening.
Right, and "Rather A Pokemon Emulator?" was completely, totally, in no way a backronym either.
I'd love to see this asked on Quora.
I don't think it's that they assume they don't make mistakes, but simply that they literally can't do any better. For some programmers, making something work at all is a mighty struggle, and once it does work, that's the best the can do.

We were all there once. It's a stage you hit when learning to program. Some of us passed through it, while others simply remain there forever.
Too late, Yahoo has already agreed to pay $50M and integrate with Tumblr.
If you believe in the existence of consciousness, what would prove to you that your qualitative experience is fundamentally no different to the state of a Turing machine? What would persuade you that what is called "consciousness" is of no special interest?

OP states that "[consciousness is] a situation where a root cause is murky and escapes testability", which is simply special pleading. If you cannot test your hypothesis, what is more likely - that you have discovered a completely unique and mysterious phenomenon, or that your hypothesis is inadequate?

It appears to me that the whole argument is predisposed upon that sort of special pleading. We have no clear evidence for the existence of consciousness, but it must exist because my subjective perception tells me it does. That perception different from the subjective perception of god or auras or the buddha-nature because... it just is.

Bluntly, go away and come back when you have a null hypothesis.