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At nearly every company I've worked at or consulted for, the only peace to be had anywhere in the building was in the bathroom, on the toilet. That's a sad state of affairs in an information+ideas economy. So I won't be firing up any apps on the john, thanks very much.
It's great to see mpv talked about on HN. I started using uau's patches for MPlayer a while ago (mainly for mkv segment linking, which has already been mentioned in the comments here and is a feature that MPlayer-svn still lacks.) That set of patches got renamed to mplayer2 and since mplayer2 development ground to a halt, mpv was the logical next step.

Development is fast and the developers are friendly and helpful. It's exciting to see improvements in the accuracy and quality of the GL video output and, since I like to use the same video player on Windows and Linux, it's also nice to see much needed attention to detail in the Windows port, including support for Unicode filenames. Overall, mpv is probably my favourite media player and I recommend it to any MPlayer/mplayer2 user.

The lack of a GUI may be a problem for some users, but hopefully that's fixed soon. A new slave mode is planned that doesn't suffer from the problems of the old MPlayer one, which was always very incomplete and required GUI frontends to parse MPlayer output that was intended for users. There's also the possibility of using lua and libass to draw a minimal QuickTime-like on screen display with a seekbar.
Russians have kept dog heads alive and reacting with nothing attached by medical support machines. French have chopped off heads and had the person react to voice commands. Plenty of people have broken their neck and still been mentally there.

Claiming consciousness does not come from the brain is just silly nonsense from before we had modern biology. Early philosophers thought the brain was for cooling blood. Even if you want to make up quantum superposition nonsense or whatever other big words you can find the place it is occurring is still inarguably the brain.

It's OK to go talk about useless, meaningless, non-diagnostic bullshit after that. But you should realize you are just being religious and not talking about anything worthwhile that then has meaning toward physical structures. You should no longer talk about the brain after that because you are just throwing in physical terms to try to get people who would otherwise dismiss you to pay attention.
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Yes, we reverse engineered Puffin 2.x and implemented a partially featured client in python. We used this client to run map reduce on puffin's servers. You can read about some of the benchmarks we measured here:

http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~butler/pubs/acsac12.pdf

The short answer to your question is they run and render all the js/html/css in a server farm (rackspace when we benchmarked it) and send the client a rendered stream of the contents. The paper above gives the benchmarks we measured.

Note: all the above is only relevant to Puffin 2.x. Im not sure how much has been redesigned for 3.x None of the above may be correct for current versions.
People still don't love javascript.
I don't see anyone pretending that we know consciousness.

However, we are in the process of understanding, and there has yet to be any proof or indication that that process will end before we conquer that knowledge. Given what we already know, and that we're in the infancy of real research in this area, there's every reason to believe that we're going to solve this mystery in the near future.

And it's intellectually cowardice to pretend otherwise.
I would leave that company immediately if I worked there. This isn't a TV show. You don't fire people that coldly and abruptly regardless of the circumstances, especially not in public.
Indeed, but since I do not know anything about the developer it is still a quite weak statement.
On my mobile so haven't had time to read all the comments or finish original article, but I agree, consciousness is worth thinking about, and trying to understand scientifically/rigorously. Many people are doing so but in particular in my research this one known as Integrated Information Theory[1] is a strong candidate, or precursor to such a candidate, and I'd encourage anyone intereated in the question or in advancing discussion of this proposed language and theory to do so[2]. Maybe I'm using the citation brackets wrong there though, apologies, I'm on a bus and it's dark and I'm tired :-)

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6197184
This has been happening for years and years. It's their method of preventing people from spamming you unsolicited.
Java. Oh, don't worry, that's like totally secure.

[tries to keep straight face, fails utterly]
awesome suggestion about raising your feet! I'll keep that in mind :D
You cannot reduce or hand-wave consciousness away by calling it illusory, or by reducing it to neural activity. You can try, but you'll just be stringing words together to make nonsense.

Every one of us experiences consciousness - subjectivity, qualitative awareness, 'what it is like to be a me' - directly. We gain one type of knowledge about consciousness by studying and poking the brain, and by observing people with abnormal brains. But that can only take us part of the way.

We gain another kind of knowledge about consciousness by making subjectivity into an object. We can do that via means such as meditation, LSD, DMT, mushrooms, marijuana, some types of physical exertion, and perhaps more esoteric means like astral travel, or involuntarily by near-death experiences. These give insights by allowing us to become aware of awareness, to perturb, or to side-step normal consciousness.
Awesome. I've been using your software since mid 2009. I've transfered ~100GB of pictures using it. Thanks!
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Now you're pushing it, but it's getting there :)

Shadow DOM is the specification that will fix the collision/cascading issue, making it possible to isolate components. You can now write your own shaders, use custom masks/clipping etc, and of course, SVG for unlimited vector shapes. If that's not enough, write your own graphics layer with WebGL or Canvas.

http://jsbin.com/ezocec/3/edit

http://cl.ly/1q1b0T0n0l0u

Now around ~80% less code.

This is a fun but pointless showdown of course, these are technologies born worlds apart, with different audiences, purposes and constraints. HTML appeared in 1990, with the sole purpose of marking up hypertext, grew organically and has a hundred other interoperability concerns; QML showed up in 2009 (?), twenty years later, and was designed to solve specific problems. I'm certain the web wouldn't have grown as fast if it didn't have a stack as accessible as html/css.
My girlfriend is:

- Lithuanian

- Studying "International Migration and Ethnic Relations"

I thought this would be a fun game to give as a joke - international student from a former Soviet country with that specialisation and all that - but she's actually really into it.
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I used to work for a high level executive that would throw around the words "you're fired" as a joke sometimes during all hands meetings. The fact is, using those words on someone in public (joke or not) is embarrsing and cringeworthy for all.

I've also had the "get on board or leave" speech thrown at me. More times then not, those words are a sign to run away as fast as possible.

This guy is a joke and his product is a joke.
Would you read product labels if they were randomly generated? If you couldn't possibly know them by heart? If you didn't learn something new about the world?

Randomly generated walls of text are no fun :-(
So it essentially has a server that pre-processes javascript going through it to increase speed...cool. Not foolproof, but cool.

Digging around online, a bunch of users have submitted their own speed test results[1][2]. There are some concerns that the way it does this is unreliable for large multimedia websites and is potentially insecure/buggy. And, of course, a lot of people hate how it looks, claiming in particular that it sacrifices stability for the speed increases.

Personally, I don't want everything I'm doing being streamlined through a secondary server just for a speed boost, but I can see why this is attractive.

[1]:http://wi.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/17rwg1/insanely_fast...

[2]:http://www.techjamaica.com/forums/showthread.php?110199-Is-P...
I'd recommend the ReDistricting Game, which is about gerrymandering: http://www.redistrictinggame.org/. It's got a great core mechanic that makes you despise your own actions.
I have using ascii.io for quite a while, and it has repositories for share with others. I like it!
There are plenty of examples, articles, tutorials, videos, presentations on that topic (many linked here in this thread). You won't find what you're not looking for.
Do you yourself experience subjective awareness? Why? And what does that subjective awareness have to do with a Turing machine?
I suspect that we cannot define what consciousness is because we are consciousness. Only an observer outside a system can say what that system is. An entity cannot observe itself.

The expression "experiencing consciousness" makes as little sense as "seeing vision" or "tasting flavor". Experiencing is consciousness, seeing is vision and tasting is flavor.
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> I would say it will never be explained until we can recreate a consciousness artificially

Even then it would probably end up being an emergent phenomena not necessarily understanble. As in you can simulate a brain perhaps in the distant future and well you have consciousness by some metrics we choose to measure it. So what? We put these bits of code in, we ran this training input set on it, and now consciousness comes out of the other end, we won't necessarily understand how and what it is.
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Those that don't use Elance, Odesk, etc, how do you collect payments?
This happened to del.icio.us, too. It was on some list briefly, which blocked the site, and then removed from the list, but Virgin Media/NTL took years to remove it.
I doubt that this call and the exchange that we're shown is all that there's to it. Having said that, if you're on a conference call and you say such a thing without context, you can expect it to get interpreted in ways it might not have been meant.
That's not the right question. The right question is how many more people would have died if he had.

Note that the patent system did exist and he chose not to use it, so murky questions of incentivization should that system exist or not exist needn't be raised. He just chose not to enrich himself so that more people could live. 10,000 Nathan Myhrvold's couldn't fill one of this guy's shoes.
Never been a fan of power trip humor. If you actually have the authority to fire someone, you should never ever say "you're fired" to them, even as a joke, unless you are actually firing them, and that should be done in private.
Good lord. There's no way that lady doesn't have a high-ranking job by now.

[EDIT] - automatically assumed it was a 'guy'.
What are the specs (CPU, RAM) for the card?
waited this for my entire life.
Wikipedia's creative begging for donations is annoying. IMHO.
And before anyone thinks about disrupting the step stool market, it's been done:

http://www.squattypotty.com/

Complete with puns.
While it doesn't appear to be malicious (I got a redirect to here), it also doesn't have the same WHOIS information as the official website. I guess that means it is probably owned by a nice person helping us when we fumble keystrokes, but as it has the potential to become less benign in future, the official domain should remain the preferred option for access.
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I was being somewhat hyperbolic, though one part of me rejects any sort of wiretap.

But in practice I would be happy with the way things are supposed to be, where a warrant backed up by probable cause is required for each individual being targeted for surveillance, and it must be for a specific investigation only, not for dragnet searching in the hopes of finding something on them.
>We are only brains. If your brain gets squished, you don't really care because you'll cease to exist in this light cone.

I agree with you. However, we both have to give serious consideration to the objection that our brains are a necessary but not sufficient condition of consciousness.

We do not know, as of yet, that our brains are not merely some sort of wireless router for some higher existential consciousness. I don't think it is, but intellectual integrity demands that it's seriously considered.
I'm sorry, but at the risk of boring all the HN readers who "got it", I must ask for an explanation of what "unintentional irony" you saw.

Were her verb tenses all mixed up? English is my primary language and I can't even really tell.
Nice, sounds good.

I vaguely remember reading about a downside when using the console to run tests, maybe I should give it a second look.

All I care about is being able to run tests on file save from my editor and seeing feedback in a terminal window. Speedier the better of course.
At the end of the day whatever crime you are trying to get them for is occurring in the real world as well. All that physical evidence should help with convictions.

When there is a murder, there is a body. When there is a rape, there is a victim. When there is a robbery, there are stolen goods. When drug trafficking has occurred, there are drugs. When there is child porn, there is a child involved. When there is a network breakin, there are server logs. When there is drug or bomb manufacture, there are raw materials.

The police should be able to put people in jail based entirely on evidence of a crime without ever having to rely on anything a potential suspect has said or written. If that's the only way they can put someone away, I question how much of an actual crime has even occurred. If you can't come up with physical evidence, has society suffered enough harm for it to be even worth jailing that person?

If all the physical evidence is still not enough for a conviction, then get a warrant and observe everything you can about that person of interest the old fashioned way. Eavesdrop on them with bugs (but don't remotely activate a backdoor in a phone that shouldn't exist). Stake out police officers at their house. Do undercover work. etc.

Will some people get away with their crimes? Certainly. And that's okay. That's the cost society pays for their privacy. Police work is expected to be expensive. The cost of investigative work is something that provides checks and balances to abuse. A corrupt individual will have a very hard time hiding the misappropriation of police resources for political or personal reasons. If you need to stake out cops at a politicians house to get dirt on them to blackmail with, that probably won't happen. If you can just type an email into the system, then the barrier is so low to committing such an abuse and the likelihood of getting caught so low, that you can be sure that that abuse will happen.

Also, keeping the cost high ensures that only those people who actually are terrorists, like active members of Al Quada are investigated. Right now the bar for investigation is so low that there has been a massive re-categorization of many domestic groups such as Occupy WallStreet as terrorists to be surveilled.

I have absolutely no qualms with paying more taxes to hire more detectives as the alternative to making sure that we catch the terrorists. Having a high price to pay for investigations forces us as a society to ask the hard question of what we actually think is worth investigating and what is merely a nuisance for some that we can live with. Paying for those investigations with our privacy is entirely too high a cost.
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:yawn:

Who cares what AOL is doing?
Well this guy was in a league of his own. He openly made jokes about a fellow employees lazy eye in public and once made a semi-racist off color joke to begin another all-hands. I'm pretty sure he was left off of the investor quarterly calls for being such a loose cannon. Amazingly enough he left on his own and didn't have any openly public HR complaints or lawsuits against him.
The old fashioned way: invoices, usually emailed. Payments arrive in the form of paper checks, which get deposited. O. G. OLD SCHOOL.
> but it must exist because my subjective perception tells me it does.

What is there besides one's own subjective perception? Hello! This is a figment of your imagination calling.
From my comment:

> At some point, you'll have to either give up ... security (you'll have to trust something you're not in control of).

The anonymous remailer must be trusted for this to work. And this doesn't get around the fact that email is broken generally. Companies wont start using anonymous remailers.
Since we are doing another meta-discussion on how supposedly nasty the comment section is sometimes, I'd like to say I don't have a problem with the tone of the comments at all, and I for one would be really sad if people started pulling their punches. The extremely high degree of criticism found in the comments is actually something I value very highly about this community.

One of the things I love about the comment section is that people treat each other like adults who are capable of handling criticism. This isn't the office, this is HN.

Not being able to handle criticism is a debilitating personality trait for someone who wants to achieve a high level of success in any sort of intellectual pursuit; and that is the reason why I strongly disagree with the desire on the part of some to change this aspect of the community.
Yes, in the end, as others have stated, it's definitely your job to make sure that you follow the practices that will make your system safe, but I'm essentially hoping that .NET is so old that most gaping security holes have already been found
Yup. We don't have to wait 10 years. The people with less scruples are in office now already abusing the system. If these are the norms of acceptable behavior now, I fear what they are going to consider acceptable (ab)use of the system in 10 years.
Again, you're trusting something that isn't yours. In this case you're trusting the state's server.
Some people get so used to the idea that science explains everything, that they became completely blind to opposing views. It's hardwired deeply into their brains. That's how I explain to myself this kind of blindness I witness in every discussion about consciousness.

Why do I feel pain when the atoms in my brain are in a specific configuration? Current state-of-the-art physical models can't possibly explain that. And it's even impossible to describe what feeling of pain is in physical terms. (No, I don't mean neural activity during pain, I mean the feeling of pain.)

Every physical theory is based solely on consciouss experience. Everything we know about the world is through consciousness.
Nope. Not possible. You are entirely your brain. Nothing more, nothing less.

You cannot reasonably claim to know this. Of course, your parent comment cannot know that "no arrangement of physical parts has come close to qualitatively being the same as a subjective experience" either, as long as he only has access to his own subjective experience.
1. I think in this case it could plausibly be a coincidence.

2. One possible pronunciation is not at all a problem for talking about a project because you can just use a different one. Especially if the innocuous pronunciation makes more sense, as I think it does.

3. "Rather A Pokemon Emulator?" is a problem because it's an acronym. If you want something that applies to this situation, try something like "Car: A Pokemon Emulator". Saying that 'carape' or 'CarAPE' is offensive is pretty ridiculous.
I actually thought it was going to be a feed reader with a built in timer than discouraged you from sitting around too long...
I'm on Virgin and it has been blocked for me. duckduckgo.com still works as normal however.
Definitely agree here too, but, the point I'd like to make is at least, a framework that has been around longer (like .NET) has already had it's tires kicked, and most of the low hanging fruit has been picked.

Though I'm also not crazy about .NET in general, Microsoft does have a pretty vested interest in making it very secure, around the clock.
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Last season of the Office was awesome, wasn't it?
I know you are poking fun, but it is legitimate to start working on something that is opensource and free on an unfree OS to one day offer the minority that are on a free OS the option.
I agree with morality being a social construct. But to the extent that we project onto nature as humans, we find virtuous the efficient killers. We respect eagles and lions. And arguably engaging in the most advantageous behavior is virtuous in a way, in the broadest sense of the term.
Criticism and nastiness are orthogonal.

Indeed, I think effective criticism is bound up with kindness. I know the times I've been an ass while criticizing somebody aren't about fixing the problem; they're about me looking smart at somebody else's expense. At best, I'm making them work past my obnoxiousness to get to the hopefully valuable bits. At worst, they discard the criticism as pure meanness.

On the other hand, if I'm really delivering criticism because I'd like someone to get better, then it usually works best when I make it easy to see that I'm on their side.
Why should it matter whether or not "qualitative experience is fundamentally no different to the state of a Turing machine"? I don't see a claim anywhere that a Turing machine can't be conscious.

"but it must exist because my subjective perception tells me it does." seems like a rhetorical trick, consciousness is the underlying mechanism of perception, so it's not my perception of it that tells me it exists, it's the fact that I have perception at all.

As for a null hypothesis, how about this: "If my qualitative experience is no different to the state of a Turing machine, it should be possible to temporarily modify my mental state to remove all qualia -- so that I perceive nothing, but am still able to process everything" (In short, if I'm running code like sensoryData.processWithFeedbackTo(consciousness.Perception), it should be possible to do sensoryData.processWithFeedbackTo(null) temporarily)
Nice. I know plenty of biologists who would love to have a simple to use interface for making publication ready figures. Excel just isn't cutting it anymore with the complexity of the data we get today.

Hope you guys will still be hiring when I graduate next year. This sounds like a really fun project to work on.
> "the first ever on quantum mechanics"

Well that's a statement.
I commented elsewhere, linking to Integrated information theory[1] but it's relevant here also because you claim theres no way to measure consciousness, but as soon as you accept a formal definition of consciousness like IIT than there is a way to measure it, at least hypothetically. So this is a fallacy preserving the immeasurability of consciousness as a side effect of rejecting any specific formal definition of it as incomplete [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
Yeah but the current problem with SecureRandom is that it returns the same random number more than once. That armoredbarista page only describes cases where the numbers are less random than they should be, not that they are returned multiple times.