skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this why a few groups are working on iphone coding apps? :p

I had a teacher in elementary who didn't like her students staring at the ceiling while she taught. Thinking that we were trying to escape from the lesson, she put several famous paintings (Mona Lisa, Sistine Chapel, etc) on the ceiling so we would at least be learning to appreciate art while in her classroom. There was nowhere in the room to look which wasn't educational.
Just make the metric to be money and it will work. It takes a big re-org to put the tech tasks in terms of profits, but it's possible to a big extent. Break the software into ownership domains that are peer reviewed and monitored on how much money they contribute. Then sell the software in packages assembled by customers or your internal marketing and solution consultants. This way you encourage the developers to talk to the customers or marketing to collect input and requirements what needs to be done next. Developer can choose to work on something profitable or something cool and obscure, but make no money on it, it's his choice. In both cases, the developer is motivated to be efficient.
> Like it or not, BI is the future of journalism on the Internet.

Sad but true.
OK, what's your definition of consciousness?

Most animals, even single celled, need to have some way to handle the separation between "me" and "the rest of the world". I look at say my cat - it definitely has this concept somewhere in its brain circuitry. What human has is just more neurons.
> American healthcare is already cheap?

Yes, dirt cheap. As in we could abolish all payment plans and life expectancy would barely budge. Vaccines and generic antibiotics give you the lion's share of what is possible. Blood pressure and diabetes control gives you most of the rest. If you want to get extravagent, add trivial insurance for broken bones, treatable cancer, and the like.

Obamacare is one size fits all because it tries to give everyone the same treatments. There is simply no way to give $400/month anxiety pills and $100k preventative cardic caths to every dirt farmer in Mississippi. Either the poor will get a heavily rationed version of Medicaid or the budgets will explode.

I think the Massachusetts program is a pretty good idea. I have even considered moving there to get on the rolls. If it actually works in the long run, other states would naturally have adopted similar programs. The only reason to try a single national program is to pander to voters.

One of the big problems in American health care is price manipulation. Obama could have become the first black Republican president by proposing that no Medicare provider may render services to anyone else except according to a uniform fee schedule. (If you think a Latino single mother is pissed off about a $300 aspirin, try talking to a country club Republican.)
Yeah, I thought that was an odd way to phrase it as well. Undertones of "well, it's not _real_ literature" levied against science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and most anything not written by people long dead somewhere in there as well.
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So a guy with no experience teaching in a classroom decides that he has what it takes to found a university, and then instead of trying to create a transformative experience, he's going to turn out a bunch of trust fund babies with non-accredited general studies degrees who will be almost certainly deprived of the ability to do real research on par with even small directional universities. Oh, and elite professors will just FLOCK to this school in one of the most expensive cities in the world and be rewarded with.... no tenure and no resources to conduct research.

Brilliant.
a network is not like car, it's like traffic
You can always be sure that when Seinfeld is mentioned, somebody will be there to let everyone know they didn't like it.

Well, really any super-popular-thing/group/person. See: The Beatles, Seinfeld, etc
Saying it emerges from neural activity doesn't explain the mechanism; it's merely the result of something we don't understand.

So neurons fire and we see this pattern of activity in a state of wakefulness etc, etc... well, okay but WHY?

I would say it will never be explained until we can recreate a consciousness artificially, and since it's next to impossible to experience another's consciousness, it might be an unsolvable problem.
That's what your player character in an action video game "thinks". If I get killed, I won't care anymore, because there would be nothing left of me.

Guess what, his consciousness is you and you will close the game and walk away. In a consciousness dimension your character can't even imagine.

This is absolutely unrooted parable, except that consciousness remains a mystery. What does it hide? We don't know.
Wow, there really doesn't seem to be anything off-limits for this dude.

Even traditional ponzi schemes:

> He set up a network of interlinked companies, including Trendax which was claimed to be an artificial intelligence-driven hedge fund delivering an annual return of at least 25%
Ce here to say yesterdays or todays as it changes all the time but now i see you were talking about the other 'style'.

Code reviews would be fun...

Seems pointless / useless to me but not unsellable imo.
I like our style guidelines pretty well. The bigger problem I have is that some of my co-workers ignore them. Maybe I should get them to use your product :-)
I'm in the same boat, though I took an intermediate stop in Ireland. It kills me to see the country I grew up in and still love losing its soul. This is most definitely not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they drafted the Constitution.
I don't understand what you're saying. Pretend like I am idiot and explain it to me in simple terms.

1. Can you define consciousness? Or is consciousness = awareness? Is that what you meant?

2. You ask "What is the origin of awareness itself?". I really don't understand this question. What is awareness? I can't even comprehend what you mean when you ask "what is the origin of [it]?". Colloquially, physical things have "origins", which is to say that at some point some physical thing was "created" or "crafted". My intuitive idea of awareness is that it is an experience, it's not something physical.
Depends on the writer.
> why can't we be friends?

Indeed. Here, have an upvote to counteract the downvotes. It looks like this thread is heading to be derailed just as much as the last one unfortunately. HN is cool when it's about concrete subjects like tech/programming/business, but anything more abstract than that is really unnerving to watch unfold around here, and I'm sure we both wish it wasn't so. Honestly, the only reason I even comment on HN is to try and invoke these sorts of underrepresented viewpoints into conversation, but it's quite overwhelming to even try sometimes.
> What would keep your interest?

I know why I lost interest after the 2nd page refresh: I am not sitting on the throne right now. :-D Leaving aside the kryptonite and smurfs, trying to figure out which of those ingredients were real was quite a challenge!
It's a theorem that starts off with some assumptions, and gives you some implications. It does not say anything as general as "some things are unknowable in mathematics".
"police protection"

I've had the misfortune of having to deal with the police of two different police departments this year. In the first instance my car was stolen, in the second someone ran into my car that was parked on the side of the road. In both instances the Police were totally incompetent and arguably caused me more financial damage than the criminal and the out of control driver.

Here is how; Once the Police "recovered" my stolen car I had to pay their towing company of choice about $400 to get my car back. In the second case they have taken over a month to issue the police report about the accident; my insurance company won't pay to have the car fixed until they have the report so I've had to front the costs in the mean time and hope that they get their act together at some point.

I think I would have been better off in both situations if there had been no police and my taxes were a bit lower.
Video game characters aren't consciously autonomous though.

There's always the reductive argument of "Well, we could be running in a computer simulation and when you die here you're perfectly recreated in another simulated universe."

But, we're not.
And that there are exactly four of them so it turned out like the well-established excellence of Apples design is an happy accident as well? ;) Come on - it is highly unlikely you (=the project) would've arrived at the current result without some form of OSX influence. Anyway, that's beside the point, and if you find that insulting I won't repeat it here - probably enough comments in that direction for now.

Trying to be constructive: You might want to try to use visual distinction to minimize the appearance of copying, especially if that wasn't what happened. Things like the font and the OSX-icon are unnecessary in every case.

Thanks for the invitation, if it's a serious one. I'm using my own ambiance-themed icewm-desktop with my own dock at the bottom, had a look at a lot of window managers, and HCI is what I do atm. If I someday want to work on a desktop for more user than myself I might even remember the offer and will count on a proper introduction^^

Part of my point was that it is harder than just to copy Apple. I'm happy to hear you say that.

In every case I give you the benefit of the doubt that it might behave so much in its own way that the resemblance would be insignificant when actually using it.

And have fun with your release - I bet it will be quite popular.
I have a 13-year-old daughter. She and all of her friends use email. Also iMessage ad WhatsApp. And they pretty much all have Facebook profiles as well.
I found one, but I haven't tried it since I got used to the keyboard shortcuts, and it's also Windows only.

Baka MPlayer - http://bakamplayer.netii.net/index.php
Email is pretty bad, but its not going anywhere so we should try to fix it.

The service would remain store-and-forward but the content would be encrypted throughout, something which is not currently possible without both parties knowing how to setup and use PGP.
So everyone is driving without a license and your solution is state-of-the-art driver-side airbags?
What's the renduring engine, firefox or chrone?
It is in drink straws.
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iMessage is free. It works on Macs, iPhones, iPods and iPads.

I don't know what the usage stats are like, but those factors are probably worth a lot to teenagers who either have to pay their own phone bills, or have to convince their parents to do it.
That's not exacty how polticians treat billionaires, or anybody really. I'm not saying its free of corruption by any means, but almost nothing that transparently corrupt occurs
Is it something like amazon silk browser?
So neurons fire and we see this pattern of activity in a state of wakefulness ... well, okay but WHY?

We see ones and zeroes go into our ALU and the result is an operating system. Okay, but WHY?

Or, we see two molecules joining... and the result is a human baby! Okay, but WHY?

You can't necessarily see the entire outside system from micro-components.
Hey Stevesearer,

My name is Kevin, and I am one of the cofounders of Dealflicks.com. We help fill in empty seats by targeting showtimes that are much slower. Based on our research about 88% of seats go empty. We launched in July of last year, and we are now in 180 locations across the nation. Which theater does your brother work at? I would love to connect with him.

Best,

Kevin
Someone should write a blog about this topic.
I think it's worth adding to this thread that Buddha in his teachings said, eye has eye consiousness, ear, tongue, mind.. has their consiousness. He described consiousness as one of the five aggregates of human state. I never could wrap my head around the concept that awakening means also to see consciousness as empty.
You might be right! I'd be surprised if there was an OS or even framework-level CPSRNG bug in Android, but it's possible, and the obvious bug Patrick mentioned downthread is nowhere to be seen in bitcoinj or SpongyCastle.
Citation needed.

There was a 'network traffic anomaly' a while back - but it wasn't a confirmed compromise.

Not saying it wasn't.. but I think you should provide examples before blindly calling a hack.
I probably still have Friendster, Orkut, and Tribe.net accounts. A lot of attempts have been made at what Facebook finally became successful at.
there's also a reflex which causes your hearth rate and breathing to slow if you feel cold water on your face.
> My question is why are hackers so depressed?

Consider the possibility that this conclusion results from a sampling error. Hackers may not experience depression at rates different than the general population. Your observation may depend on the fact that hackers are willing to post about this issue anonymously, where if they had to identify themselves, they wouldn't express the same ideas.

Also, because of their technical knowledge, hackers are more likely to access and use online discussion forums, which may make them seem to have a higher depression rate than people less able and willing to make posts in social media.

So maybe this is a non-issue.
I've been on Internet based social networks since about 1990 when one could actually keep up with EVERY post on usenet. Fact is, every identifiable social network has a distinct lifespan and will evaporate - Facebook being no exception, and now would be a good time to sell FB stocks if you have them.
I'm fifteen and nearly all of the time use PGP-encrypted IM/email to communicate.
I'm wondering how the Snowden revelations affect companies like them. Having all your mobile browsing pass though a single point in the US probably doesn't sound like a good idea anymore to many of their potential users.

Also, I'd like to know whether they have the same kinds of speed improvement when loading resources over SSL connections.
Would it be possible to design Android Bitcoin wallets to consume their entropy from a file on your SD card? You could just periodically refill the entropy from another device that you trust.
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Most B2B businesses are little known to end customers. In this case I think more so because they would only deal with a small number of people running and managing shops by name. Something like salesforce for example though has products used by a large number of employees so is probably more well know amongst non tech people.
Durability will typically be very expensive to implement unless you have a fast SSD or RAID controller with NVRAM, so it will skew the test considerably if you make MySQL offer it, but say MongoDB does not have to.

But I do recommend it for the majority of people. Shameless plug: http://www.tocker.ca/2013/06/19/deciding-whether-or-not-to-m...

Also: http://dom.as/2013/08/09/on-durability/ (Domas works on MySQL@Facebook).
If PGP is the solution then a first step could be to agree on a standard markup inside the email so that we could point the email client to the public PGP for automatic unencryption.
It looks like a lot of stuff is prerendered. Check their pro version which offers "unlimited Adobe Flash minutes". I guess it's a VNC-like tunnel.
Clojure and Incanter have served me well in the place of Python and R lately.
Can I ask - do you use Git or SVN? (or something else)
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Sure it is. They wouldn't describe it as I have in plain language but that is basically what goes on albeit with the veneer of propriety provided by campaign fundraising events and congressional horse trading.
I don't mean to be a dick, but the CISSP is a weak certification. You could just do rote memorization for it. Being sarcastic and throwing around letters like CISSP makes you sound childish and uninformed.
As a minor quibble, I'm not sure it's fair to saddle technologists with the likes of Ben Nelson. He made money in a technological milieu, sure, but as a purely biz guy. Neither his background nor his mindset nor his interests involve technology, and he has not contributed to the advancement of technology.

Technologists can have dumb ideas too, of course. But this particular dumb idea doesn't come across as a techie's idea.
No, F11 is the only way documented in the menu to get full-screen playback. F is not documented anywhere in the player UI; instead, it's buried away in the keybinding section of the preferences. The whole point of showing accelerators in the menu is to enable keyboard shortcuts for frequent commands to be learned; that VLC doesn't do this consistently is, alone, an indictment of its UI.

F11 and Alt-Enter are generally the two idioms for getting full-screen behaviour on Windows. Both work in Media Player Classic. Alt-Enter comes from the old DOS box from Windows 3; I'm not sure, but I think IE 4 pioneered F11. In any case, F11 works with Firefox, Chrome and IE; Alt-Enter also works with IE, Mintty, etc.
In my experience we send "email" type communication almost exclusively by Facebook messaging.

I have never in my life written or received an email from someone in my age bracket intended to communicate. When my classmates and I use email, it is to share attachments or to communicate with adults.

iMessage is just slightly nicer SMS. Very common in Apple-heavy social groups and not that useful in others.
Understandable mistake, since fibonacci is the helloworld of functional programming.

You might want to suggest something with the Sterling formula instead, but that would be trickier (it's an approximation, not an exact formula).
Am I the only one who thought from the description that this would condense users' social media feeds, making them look like they were product back labels?
I'm going to be a little serious here, and suggest that you should actively avoid engaging with anything that might keep you on the toilet longer than necessary to do your business. That position puts a lot of strain on the rectum and anal hemorrhoids, and can exacerbate health problems that tend to go hand-in-hand with desk jobs.

That said, this app is frickin' hilarious.
Oh, yeah, the cost issue with EpiPens is a huge barrier. Getting a doctor to prescribe you one when you don't have a documented life-threatening allergy is another.

As far as I can tell, there's no fundamental reason for either of these issues. Epinephrine doesn't seem to be particularly expensive to produce, so my guess is that the auto-injectors are expensive simply because of the small scale of the market.

As for doctor reluctance, I don't know what's going on there. Our doctor said he didn't want to give us a prescription because he "didn't want us to use it instead of calling an ambulance". Ridiculous. An ambulance would easily take 10 minutes to reach us. Without oxygen, that's enough time for irreversible brain damage. (I'm also iffy on the wisdom of taking someone whose immune system you've just suppressed into a breeding ground for drug-resistant bacteria, but I digress).

Which brings me to one last thing: you cannot rely on benadryl as a solution in cases of anaphylaxis. For one thing, the onset orally is a minimum of 15 minutes. That's time you simply do not have if someone's airway has closed.

Worse, there isn't really good evidence that benadryl is effective at treating the symptoms of anaphylaxis in the first place. It is commonly used as an adjunct to epinephrine. But this seems to be on a "hey, it can't hurt" basis, given the lack of evidence.

For my part, $200/year (you should have two, in case the first is insufficient) is well worth it.
I really don't understand Wordpress as a blog platform sometimes. Why so many database queries? Why even have database queries at all- aside from perhaps comments? Static pages make significantly more sense for almost all blog setups (Octopress ftw). Making a blog handle this amount of traffic should be trivial, but Wordpress itself is often an issue.
>Your premise that if people's needs are met they will do nothing I feel is plain wrong - people will be bored then, and there are other societal pressures that can drive people to do, to improve themselves, to be productive.

My point wasn't that if people's needs were met, they would do nothing- my point is was that with needs met people wouldn't be forced to choose to either starve or spend the majority of their waking hours working for someone else. And if the profit motive was not the main force driving productivity society, more time and energy can be dedicated to personal pursuits or actual work that 'changes the world' for the better.
To be fair, I've only tweeted screenshots of the AES spreadsheet -- you'll be getting the actual .xlsx file with my set 6 answers. AES128.applescript is waiting in the responses@ and cryptopals@ mailboxes right now, along with my set 5 answers.

I don't know what I'll do for set 7 yet. Maybe Excel implementations of the SHA-3 finalists...
Once you start to have a wider social network and meet new people (i.e., when multiple middle schools feed into a single high school, you can drive and develop friendships with people in other districts), email-like messaging by real name because a killer app and Facebook dominates.

I could not imagine, for example, navigating the landscape of my new college class of '17 online on a pseudonymous service like Instagram. Facebook is perfect for this.
And, as with anything that involves Wikipedia, this is disputed. Jimbo hired Sanger to work on Nupedia before Wikipedia began. Wikipedia was later launched by that team. Sanger claims he co-founded it, while Jimbo claims he was an employee and not a founder.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17798723/#.Uggmx5LrxYw
The financial press rarely acts to piss off rich people. This article was probably written with the billionaire's consent. I don't know why, but I would not be surprised if they planning to take the company public.
Except, it's impossible to write something that can tell if code ever stops which would seem like a much simpler problem.
Thanks!

Just for the record, on our i7 tests, starting with Round 6, we have been using a Samsung 840 Pro SSD for the database server.
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The fact that this is the #2 link on Hacker News right now says a lot.
Very abrupt... are you on EE or Virgin Media? Do you live in the UK?

Perhaps the OP can provide a screenshot as proof?
More useful than minima and maxima by themselves would be an mean and standard deviation.

It's more useful to know how the sites perform most of the time.

I'd also have been interested to know if tests were controlled for time of day. For example, the sites I host are almost all Australian and so the traffic I see follows a 12-hour wave as daylight crosses the continent from East to West, with small peaks around lunch time and after dinner.
I don't think you make a very strong argument as to why studying for a specific liberal arts major, as opposed to receiving a generalized American-style "liberal arts education" (referring to the uniquely American method of having a core curriculum and general education requirements), is advantageously able to impart these vaguely defined "critical thinking" skills. You haven't given any solid reasons as to why a pre-professional economics degree does not impart critical thinking skills, especially since even those degrees require classes with a great deal of theoretical abstraction, discussion, and argument.

There's a reason that "Communications" programs have a reputation for being full of fluff. If you want to learn how to communicate, communicate. Trying to "study" it isn't get to help you personally.

I think this is awfully pedantic. Your are making an assumption that for some reason this class won't involve communication, and will just involve studying, based on a quoted snippet of what Ben Nelson said.