skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people say 'simulate a brain' they mean a very specific thing: simulating it in enough detail that it can have thoughts in fundamentally the same manner as a fleshy brain.

>it is perfectly possible to have a high-level simulation of a 'big' thing which is easier to run than a low-level simulation of a 'small' thing

While this is true, it's not being shown here until we know that this particular high-level simulation actually works. If it doesn't work then it's more of a failed attempt at creating a simulation.
I think his tips are sort of a chain. So if you've done #1 then #2 about EVP works. Since you already have a marketing channel built an exceptional product will be able to grab hold and take off right away.
Yeah. Look for the arbitrageurs and destroy them.
That certainly brings back memories... formmail, the early web discussion board (UBB?), etc
It's becoming increasingly scarier that US can start extraditing people from other countries because they somehow did some wrong to them because what he did was "on the Internet", and US happens to have a large portion of the traffic - especially when some of these crimes aren't even crimes locally, and what he did was legal in his own country.

Imagine if China all of the sudden starts wanting countries to extradite people that talk badly about China or help their citizens avoid censorship or whatever, and imagine they actually had the political power to do that, like US has right now.
Summon the NSA
What's with Google Glass? Why Google employees have to where it when appearing on camera? Or do they use it all the time? Just wondering.
> "Cows are very inefficient, they require 100g of vegetable protein to produce only 15g of edible animal protein," Dr Post told the Guardian before the event. "So we need to feed the cows a lot so that we can feed ourselves. We lose a lot of food that way.

Yes, if most of what you feed the cows are human-edible.
You appear to have a ridiculous definition of "bullying".
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I use airdropper.com for this as it allows me to create one-time upload links. Its pretty odd that Dropbox doesn't offer better functionality here. My use case is being on our clients' systems and servers and in particular I don't want to enter any sort of personal credentials; email, dropbox or otherwise on their system.
My opinion is based on the current US farm labor situation and the general history of mankind that saw hunter-gatherers forcibly displace agricultural civilizations throughout the Middle Ages followed by massive migration to cities since th Industrial Revolution. Your opinion is based on what facts exactly?
I've actually been playing around a bit with Hyper-V in Windows 8, and you can run Linux guests, but nearly as nicely as VirtualBox does (it's harder to set up, and you don't get shared folders, shared clipboard, or proper full-screen resolution). Also, installing Hyper-V breaks VirtualBox, as it seems to monopolize the hardware features needed for good CPU virtualization.
Goldman is above the law...
Reporters being thrashed by readers is not uncommon. What it is, however, uncommon, it that those commenters on TC offer any real insight and interesting discussion. So I don't see what the title's claiming or why it's interesting to HN.
Fair enough. I don't think the parent will be particularly effective, either.
Police in my country have an agreement with the DEA so no warrants are needed at all. The courts in my country are difficult for the cops to snow with BS so instead they use US courts. The police here use illegal no warrant searches and surveillance that courts here throw out, so they have the local DEA office kidnap the suspect and delivered to the US through extraordinary rendition.

Now police provide this illegally obtained evidence which is admissible in the less strict US court. Because they are looking at 100+ yrs prison sentence if they go to trial they always plead out because defense lawyers in the US tell them it's impossible to get evidence thrown out from UK, Canada or French police. It's a tidy arrangement, use the US as the world court to avoid annoying warrants. These are always conspiracy cases where no actual drugs are involved just bugged conversations, informants and emails
I'm pretty sure that's not the case, but I appreciate your perspective.
Praise to the Mighty Dollah.
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Successors in Taiwan can either take advantage of limited debt inheritance or waive inheritance since summer, 2009. In the worst case you get nothing and owe nothing. Bankruptcy in Taiwan for sure forgives your debt (yeah!) but it’s not universally granted, especially if you’re not disabled or too old to work.
Read up on homomorphic encryption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Why do I think I am the only person who connected your first sentence with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? An Ameglian Cow?

Still trying to determine why they must replicate it exactly, taste and texture should be sufficient
This is already the case. The source directory has this structure. /layouts is all the templates, /static is all the css & javascript. Just don't include a content directory and it would work just like a wordpress theme.
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This is a far bigger story than PRISM or XKEYSCORE. Both described databases compiled through known processes (FAA orders and fiber taps) and used for terrorism and foreign intelligence investigations -- not domestic criminal investigations.

The Reuters report today shows significant abuse of intelligence intercepts that should make all of us angry.

The NSA has been allowed to assemble its vast intelligence-gathering apparatus on the theory that terrorists and foreign spies do not have Fourth Amendment rights, and the executive's power to conduct surveillance is at its height when non-Americans are the focus. Now we've learned that the Feds have engaged in a bait and switch maneuver: databases are collected on the "terror spies" pretext, and then they're used for domestic criminal prosecutions. This is very dangerous.

It also shows that the Supreme Court justices who blessed the NSA's FAA intercepts in February 2013 were fare too optimistic. They said if the Feds used NSA intercepts to bring domestic criminal prosecutions, they "would be required to make a disclosure":
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-1025_ihdj.pdf

FYI here's my article from last month on how the DEA's Special Operations Division, cited in today's Reuters piece, does e-mail wiretaps:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-fo...
This is a duplicate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5805025
Ns_enum and Ns_options
Yeah. The condition of rubygems are generally so bad (unfinished and/or abandoned), that I would strongly recommend Python over Ruby for new projects - which is a shame, in the core language Ruby is more elegant and more fun to write, and I know Ruby much better than I know Python. (for a concrete example, compare "NumPy" to the various attempts at good math structures in ruby)

I wish I could recommend perl - CPAN modules generally really are amazingly high quality. But the mental cost of the perl programming model: no named params! arrayref vs array vs list! Contextual::Return! blessing scalars into objects! - that cost is just so friggin high that I can't imagine asking anyone to follow me there anymore.
I must have missed the laugh track running behind them slowly wheeling a dead car into their garage. What a riot!

Did you hear the one about the electric car? It ended up getting half it's promised range. HAHA!
There really is no 'community'. The official documentation is fine (the included comments actually make it pretty good).

The problem is mostly the widespread support and low barrier to entry. PHP is supported on every crappy $2/m hosting plan.

It's also the language of a lot of the net's more popular CMSs. (WordPress?).

People have a site and want to make it do stuff. The site is already either using PHP or that's all the host supports.

PHP gets most of the users who aren't trying to get into programming (and may have no interest in it whatsoever) - they just wanna get something done. Some of those people develop an interest and stick around and learn the language, but aren't really forced to learn any software development methodologies.

PHP acts as a filter, collecting all of the non-programmers and people who have stumbled into programming accidentally or unintentionally. People who write Ruby or Python are generally people who set out to be a programmer.

The language itself has its warts, but I see the above, not the warts, as the primary driver of all the crappy code out there.
It is a problem with JSON in the sense that it's a JavaScript subset, 'in practice' - modulo the Unicode support that goes beyond JavaScript. So it's to be expected that eval() will be used as a convenience by developers, ignoring the security implication that comes will eval() hoisting full JavaScript.

The way to have avoided the issue would have been for JSON to have a grammar that broke eval(). But one could argue the ability to pass JSON into eval() to get JavaScript is one of the reasons JSON became popular to begin with.
Yes, but as a consequentialist, I don't really have any choice but to be for it. Even if trying to change the system so that we didn't test on animals were viable, it would take so long that the delay would surely cause more net animal suffering than just doing the animal testing.
Technically if the code doesn't have an open source license attached then it is still their copyright and isn't up for you to use even if on Github.
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Yokozuna is a replacement for Riak's current search implementation. It brings full Solr search functionality to Riak.
I think what you're describing is exactly the same situation in which start up founders find themselves. The couple needs to agree on the direction and organization of their family, just like the founders need to agree on the direction and organization of their company.

For example, a couple needs to agree on:

* How to divide up responsibilities at home

* Expectations of income (who works? how much?)

* Whether or not to combine their income or keep it separate (and how will they spend it)

* Whether or not to have kids (and who will raise them)

* How to negotiate extended family commitments on both sides

I think your example of the programmer and the doctor underlines the need for more agreement than physical proximity. What if the programmer wants to quit her job and work full time on a start up idea, taking no salary for the next 3 years? The doctor will have to make adjustments in his lifestyle to accommodate that decision. If they are not headed the same direction, that would bring enormous pressure to the marriage.
Not in the same sense. From the article:

A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who
received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be
told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look
for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find
an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search
it," the agent said.

They are stopping vehicles with the only probable cause being an illegally obtained tip and then they are hiding the illegally obtained tip.
I am by no means any kind of expert in this kind of stuff, but I imagine that Microsoft could do well by examining Apple's comeback. Apple makes quality products, but their branding is top-notch. I don't think Microsoft really understands what they are selling, brand-wise.
There is only one "they" that matters in this context, the ones with all the power; the NSA.
On some level I see it as a willful misreading.

On the one hand, TechCrunch has every right to refuse money. On the other hand, this PR firm has every right to offer it. This isn't a bribe, there's no indication that they're paying for favorable coverage. The brazen tactics, in fact, suggest that they're not trying to hide anything.

Ask yourself, if you were trying to bribe a writer at TechCrunch and you had one of the biggest mobile phone companies in the world as a client, would you really put the bribe in an email? Unlikely.

A far more likely scenario is that the PR team was attempting to compensate the writer for their time and was not implying a favorable review, but a review nonetheless.

While it's easier to take the position of "Look at this bribery attempt!", it would be more civil to first confirm the intention before lambasting the PR agency in public. Could it have been phrased more tactfully? Absolutely. Did they deserve to be eviscerated in public? Probably not.

Just a shallow news cycle for TC, IMHO.
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On initial page load I usually put json in a global javascript variable and retrieve it in Angular.

Maybe you can do something cleaner with module.value() ?
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> Maybe, just maybe buying animal-products, where the animals didn't suffer, where they were raised species-appropriate, would help, as it would be a ecological signal as well.

This is almost impossible to do unless you have great connections and a lot of time and money to spare. Somewhere around 75% of beef and 99% of turkey and chicken farming is industrial factory farming. Organic and free range mean almost nothing in regards to animal suffering. Props to you for finding one of the few good farms.

If you're concerned about animal suffering not eating meat is the cheap and easy solution at this point. That's why developments like this actually make me excited.
Just create a law that forces bank to refund defrauded customers. Now you're robbing one large institution that can support the loss once again, problem solved.
I'm not terribly familiar with awk, but it seems very useful. My understanding is that it lacks a lot of the features that people expect from a modern, general-purpose programming language (not that it can't be or hasn't been done--but you're probably not going to be writing a web server in awk for example), but also that awk has been improved significantly since the mid 80s when Larry Wall decided to create perl as basically "a better awk." But awk is definitely very good in its niche, which is processing text data.
It's probably frowned upon in the way that slipping a $20 to the bouncer to skip the line is. Or hiring someone on Craigslist to stand in line for a cronut. It creates an arms race for access, which some people find annoying.
Bull. Shit. My wife is a vegetarian. I've tried probably 8-10 different brands of vegie burgers and chicken nuggets. They don't taste even remotely like meat.

Some do taste alright, I admit.

Another problem is price. You would think soy products would be cheaper than meat. Nope. So freaking expensive.
Agreed, the lesson from a product failing because the team didn't work together seems much less likely to be, "trying to start a product with a team doesn't work" and more likely to be, "this team didn't work".
The Lockerbie bombers were tried in the Netherlands by a Scottish Court under Scots Law, with a weird jurisdictional set up, as part of a negotiated compromise to resolve US/UK demands that they be tried in the US or UK, and Libyan demands that they not be tried in the US or UK, and the location and other arrangements for the trial do not represent any "long-established principle in international law", unless you include the principle that international law is mostly just whatever the involved sovereign states agree to at the time on the specific issue in question.
I believe that being a solo founder contributed to the failure of my startup. In short, it puts a lot of pressure on yourself, that can't be split with other members of the team. If the ship is sinking, you have to go down with it. Other friends and mentors can offer support, but they're not in the same boat as you. When times are tough, founders can help pull each other through.

I think the reasons described in the OP are more about having the wrong founding team. This is also why we have things like vesting - if someone decides not to work full time, consult elsewhere then they should lose part of their shareholding.
The potential reduction of animal exploitation is so great that this vegan hardly cares how it comes into being. But I wouldn't eat it myself.
Why did you link a story where the ability to think/feel was clearly established in a bafflingly-different species to argue against me?

It's not like this is some crazy threshold designed specifically to apply to humans, it applies to a bunch of animals too.

At a certain level it's kind of like checking for turing completeness.
- create linkbait articles with arbitrary number of items mentioned in the title

- throw in alternative version of "1 weird tip" wording for good measure
Even if its not, you can still use the resources used to produce that feed to produce human food instead. And feeding cows waste has its own environmental problems, as it tends to play hob with their digestive systems and make them release considerably more greenhouse gasses.
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Holy crap, look what they're eating in Indiana
Your eagerness for schadenfreude seems poorly thought out, since this is not GMO, it's cell cloning.

Maybe people will object because lab-grown meat is 'gross'. Maybe they will object because it removes such substantial barriers to GMO (the introduced traits don't have to result in a viable individual). Hopefully you'll get achieve some gratification for being an iconoclast when they bring up those objections, though.

PSA: no need to spend the second half you post explaining your contrarianism, it was implicit from the first half.
"We need to either invent a new wave of computing that makes javascript, PHP, web-design, Java, SQL, C++, and Indians seem obsolete."

Huh?! I can't downvote yet, but unless I'm misunderstanding the above, your line of thinking is reprehensible.
"It can currently self host on Linux x86-64 with -static."

Does that mean we can finally build true, 100% static binaries? I dream of being able to scp-and-run on an arbitrary Linux machine.
That's the tricky thing about the Reuters DEA revelation. Some drug offenders probably are cavalier about displaying evidence in the cars because the likelihood of their being stopped is low.

Maybe it wouldn't even matter if the drugs were in plain sight? The cop could likely just use the old "I smell marijuana" trick and then he would 'inevitably discover' the drug dealer's stash, no matter where in the car it's hidden.
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They mean to say "dark web" when they say "deep web".
Why are you assuming that meat consumption is necessary?
> Also, something about reading a blog post with a "Discuss on HN" link at the bottom irks me to the point I feel like the content isn't so much about improving understanding as it is to generate clicks and drive traffic.

Offtopic, but I've considered adding such a link to my own blog before--not to "generate clicks and drive traffic", but--since I don't have inline comments--simply to give people something to click through if they want to comment on a post of mine without breaking flow. If you know where "the" discussion for your post will be happening, why not just link to it?
I take "the whole truth" clause of the oath taken by witnesses to disallow omitting relevant facts.
> You would think soy products would be cheaper than meat.

Why would I think that highly processed products of the isolation and retexturing and reflavoring of soy products would be less expensive than meat, which is usually pretty minimally processed? The raw materials cost of the soy product might be lower (depending on what else is added for flavor and texture, even that might not be true), but you can't really ignore the processing cost.
I think you meant "can't be overstated" not "under stated" there.
Honest question: why do people pay for "pro" RSS services? There are enough out there that I don't feel I would ever need to - I was using oldreader until they shut it down to everyone and now use digg reader - is there specific functionality I'm missing out on by not using these premium services? There's always the whole adage of if it's free then you could lose it, but with the amount of readers out there it seems like I could hop to and from services.
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Well, if you're on the third strike, you might as well kill the witness instead let him go, as it does not increase your sentence, but decreases your chance of being caught.

Of course, it's not the law that's solely responsible for crazy high crime rates compared to other civilized countries, nevertheless some practices used in US legal system can give a lot of incentive to minor offenders to do things they otherwise wouldn't.
Not to be pedantic, but, doesn't it always?

I think it's easy to blame other people for problems, but the path to self-improvement is internalization.

Someone on your team missed a deadline which fubarr'd your project? Your fault for not checking in with them to make sure they delivering what you wanted.

Someone forget to put the trash out. Your fault for trusting them.

This is a bit dishonest, but empowering for the following reason: You cannot control other people. If you internalize the failure as your own, you can often make more strides to prevent the failure next time than by simply assigning blame.

Of course this theory must be tempered by the old Steven Winterburn quote: "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
SO happy I don't have to live out there & deal with that crap.
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I like the idea of being able to be a carnivore without being a killer.

However, there is a trap in this. Right now, there are cows and pigs wherever there are humans.

Fast forward 200 years when we can grow our own meat in the lab. Who's going to keep around livestock? For what reason?

Pigs and cows would exist in a wild state in a small fraction of their former "territory." If at all.
I would not be surprised in the least if they are A/B testing which prisoners return. The whole system of for-profit prisons is perverse.
Oh, God, why.
You can either get stuff done, or you can't.

I'll take working solo any day, over working with those who can't. Been there, done that.

P.S. Also applies after s/can't/won't/ . And corporate life is full of cases that leave you wondering which apply and in what percentages. "Team" is not a panacea -- not from my perspective.

P.P.S. I do not mean to ignore the roles and need for training and learning. But there are people who hardly seem to benefit from, or even genuinely engage in, these.