skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another reason to break down the US into States, where local policies dominate.

I glanced at the 466 page report for this and couldn't grep a US state... Someone should sell the OECD on an OLAP system so they can easily find this stuff out and publish it. (Or even let journalists and/or the public have direct access...)
How it differs from magit or fugitive except price? I've tried magit and fugitive for some time, but as for me, adding this plugins to workflow just complicates tasks related to VCS. At the time of this writing, whichever editor/IDE I use, my VCS stay in command line.
Consciousness is in the brain; the idea here is to simulate the brain, resulting in the mind.
>And if concerts and not recorded albums are their craft, they will need to spend lots of time on the road perfecting it. But how? Practice does not make you a good stage performer. And you can't play 10 times a month in your home city and expect fans, promoters, or clubs to think nicely af you.

Not to mention that this "just make money through concerts" thing is a US-centric, narrow view, of the musical landscape.

Not all artists are rockers/jazzers, enjoying touring and playing to crowds with their guitars and stuff. And even fewer are like Phish or some heavy metal touring band.

Some don't even have the kind of material that would draw a crowd at a concert (e.g ambient music writers), but they still managed to make money in the record era.

E.g you could sell 40,000 records worldwide and make a decent living (know several artists who did), but still not have enough fans in more than 1-2 cities to make a concert possible.

So this whole concert thing mostly works for either huge familiar brands (like the Stones) or pretty, trendy musicians that can manage a wider following of younger people, like Amanda Palmer and such.

For most bands, historically, concerts were a loss leader for album sales.

And, no, selling t-shirts is not a musician's job. That's like "pivoting" your web 2.0 startup into a fast food franchice. It might make you money, but it's not what you wanted to do.
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Thanks.

This discussion prompted me to back up that account locally, just in case... It was long overdue, anyway.
You should probably mention this in the FAQ or something, for the next person to wonder.
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@2

1. Maybe they know of vulnerabilities that you don't. Remember the bug in Debian where cryptography was being seeded by the process id?

2. They might have put a lot of time into ensuring that one particular product was 100% secure and trust only that one. This is often the case for hardware, where vetting for security compliance can be difficult.
You may or may not also be interested in some of the projects discussed at:

http://online-deliberation.net/

and in some of the projects linked from:

* http://www.communitywiki.org/ArgumentMap

* http://www.communitywiki.org/en/MappingArguments

* http://www.communitywiki.org/en/DebateTool

* .. and other related pages at that wiki
It would be interesting to see that list, against the amount each govt spends on health, education etc...
Yeah, but the recession is a fairly recent thing, while current adults received most of their education in the past decades.
You didn't actually understand the parent post. If we make a copy of you and I kill you, am I extending your life? You're dead (you are not capable of having conscious experience). But there's a biological system with a nearly identical behavior that's living. That copy of you will have a similar conscious experience, but it won't be you. That's the point of the parent. The parent's not talking about a soul.
While I disagree with the OP, comments like this seem to imply that someone just found out what a strawman is or logical fallacies and is now using this tool outside it's relevant usage.
> It's long been known that America's school kids haven't measured well compared with international peers. Now, there's a new twist: Adults don't either.

That's not a twist. It's the exact same statement just 10 years later.
From TFA:

This leads to my last topic, the psychology experiment Gladwell deploys in David and Goliath to explain what he means by "desirable difficulties." The difficulties he talks about are serious challenges, like dyslexia or the death of a parent during one's childhood. But the experiment is a 40-person study on Princeton students who solved three mathematical reasoning problems presented in either a normal typeface or a difficult-to-read typeface. Counterintuitively, the group that read in a difficult typeface scored higher on the reasoning problems than the group that read in a normal typeface.

In my review, I criticized Gladwell for describing this experiment at length without also mentioning that a replication attempt with a much larger and more representative sample of subjects did not find an advantage for difficult typefaces. One of the original study's authors wrote to me to argue that his effect is robust when the test questions are at an appropriate level of difficulty for the participants in the experiment, and that his effect has in fact been replicated “conceptually” by other researchers. However, I cannot find any successful direct replications—repetitions of the experiment that use the same methods and get the same results—and direct replication is the evidence that I believe is most relevant.

This may be an interesting controversy for cognitive psychologists, but it's not the point here. The point is that Gladwell makes absolutely no mention of any uncertainty over whether this effect is reliable. All he does is cite the original 2007 study of 40 subjects and rest his case. As I mentioned in my review, in 2013 this is virtual malpractice for a sophisticated writer whose beat includes social science, where the validity of even highly cited results has come into question. Readers who have been hooked by Gladwell’s prose and look to the endnotes of this chapter for a new fix will find no sources for the "hard stuff"—e.g., the true state of the science of "desirable difficulty"—that he claims to be promoting.
What's wrong with dying ? I mean, obviously people want to live longer for some (mostly selfish) reasons, but isn't dying part of the 'living' deal ?

Dying is similar to being born - your whole universe changed when you transitioned from womb to this world and the same happens when you die.
In other words, they have cookies and chocolate there :).

The whole deal about spirituality is that one discovers that we are in fact immortal and that this life is a step of an infinity of other steps, before this life and after.

The other thing one realizes is that each individual is actually a facet of an infinite whole (some call this God, but it is actually You), or in other words - We are all One.

That's what all the religions and mystics have been telling us for millenia.
Wait, isn't the government the one who makes the rules? So if they made the rules that makes them incapable of doing things that they are supposed to do, while the people, technologies and ability to do the same thing is readily available and the same thing can be and is done by others - isn't that a very definition of incompetence? Not doing what is perfectly doable because of self-inflicted inhibitions?

It doesn't "make people believe", it is incompetent. And, unfortunately, the very capable and competent people are working hard at making it worse by electing exactly the people who would perpetuate and expand the problem.
>Are you claiming that music is a dying art form? Really?
The music industry is at best a 100 year old historical anomaly compared to the at least 4000 year history of music.

Well, we care about "popular recorded music" as last century knew it and that's a dying art form.

I'm sure Gregorian Chants and Peruvian Flute Music will continue to be written.

That's not what people complain about dying. People want Elvis, Beatles, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, Madonna, Beastie Boys, Metallica etc -- with all the externalities that the way of them producing and selling music had.
True, that. Don't see much happening here, though.
Hey, I said this 1216 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1420913) Can I get a column in Slate now please? ;-)
What are you going to do to protect the store from the spam? Especially with the "upload for free" feature? Looks like the potential for trouble and the inconvenience of all the users of the store.
Actually, Jesus himself isn't fictional and his existence is pretty much agreed upon as a historical fact.[1]

It's the details of his activities in the New Testament and various Gospels that are hotly debated.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus (use this as a starting point for further citations..)

/pedant mode off.
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Simple compounds of boron used in soapmaking and household cleaning sell for order ~$1 per kg. If you can't make isotopically pure Boron 11 for under $10 per kg in bulk out of such products in far greater quantities than could ever be used in fusion, I would be very surprised.
Some abstraction would probably be involved; the idea is to recreate all the relevant activity that impacts consciousness while avoiding going any deeper, and most neuroscientists would (I think) speculate that individual molecules aren't necessarily the finest level of detail needed. Neurotransmitters, maybe, but I imagine a neuron doesn't have to be simulated as its constituent atoms to exhibit identical enough behavior.
>There are plenty of examples of the non-3 minute song and generally they've been done by masters of their art, the reason songs are 3 minutes long is because that's our attention span for average music.

That might be your attention span, as you have been conditioned into, all your life.

Plently of cultures cherish much larger popular music forms.
It is racist if the meaning is "we'd be scoring fine if it wasn't for them dragging us down with their genetic inferiority about which nothing can be done" rather than taken as a reason for improving schooling for the poor and otherwise disadvantaged.
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"I'm just trying to make a living for my family" is the last refuge of telemarketers, car dealers, and the assholes who ship me junk mail every week that goes straight from the mailbox to the recycle bin.
I have an impression that they're are saving oil/profits for some possible "black day" in the future. And, the "profits" which are shared among all citizens come from high taxes. I might be [partially] wrong though.
Can you give a link to good example code and documentation about this?
I've just got a little python script that sshs around my boxes running grep on each, writing it to the a log file with the box name prefixed, and sorting them all by date (as my log lines have date prefixes and this makes sense for me).

Using ssh instead of running a service on each server seems more straightforward to my thinking.
Actually, although I don't agree with the idea, this is part of a conservative process. What is supposed to be conserved is the established order (Rich over poor, work over lazyness, God over men, etc.). The premise is that order has value, even if unfair, and that an established order is better than no order at all.
Well speaking for Portugal, we have had education cuts since around 2000.

Unless you live in big cities, there are also not that many libraries to go to, or the possibility to connect to the Internet in a workable manner.

Sure, when one wants to learn, even with limited resources, they might try to. However, the majority just won't bother.
I find the simple-minded dogmatism that the mind = brain hugely amusing. The fact is that right now science has absolutely no idea how consciousness works. There is no proof that reductionist materialism can explain how a mind arises from bunchs of neurons. And yet some believe without proof.
>Hm, then why did I start learning the piano at age 6?

Because your parents made you.

If you had made the decision to learn an instrument yourself, later in life, chances are "mating display" would play a huge role in that, and that the instrument would have been a guitar. Can't argue with statistics.
Challenge accepted.

As a non US-citizen, I have, upon entering the US in the past, almost without fail been subjected to "additional scrutiny" and questions upon entry simply because I live on a farm, which triggers an automatic customs red-flag. (I understand the concern about having been on a farm - they don't want me importing foreign weed-seeds or insect eggs via my shoes. But the customs system makes no distinction between someone flagged for such concerns versus someone flagged for more legitimately nefarious reasons.)

Since things got more draconian it has become one of my very, very few non-negotiable conditions of contract that I do not travel to or through the USA or any of its territories. It's just not worth the hassle.
This is fantastic. Small gripe: if you pay via Paypal, why don't you accept payments from Paypal?
I have an inkling that, when we finally have the means to live forever, we will realize that we actually are just a program running on a brain, and it won't matter if we die.
Every country has more and less developed regions, even super rich mini and micro states like Monaco, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg. And inside these regions, every town has more and less developed areas, and inside these towns, every street does, and on these streets, there are more and less developed homes. Inside these homes, there are more and less developed rooms.

You can keep zooming in, to the most highly developed desk in the most highly developed building in the most highly developed street, in the most highly developed town, etc, and then be content with the absolutely stellar performance if it wasn't for the periphery dragging us down.
>In this case, very strongly my idea. No-one really knows why we play music - even musicians don't know.

A lot of musicians I know, would not hesitate to mention "the opposite sex" as a major reason.
And on a longer scale Europe is where people from the Middle East immigrated to.
The point is that the recipient of the money doesn't interact at all to receive it; the rest of the network just "decides" (based on the transaction) that such address now has X more coins. The machine with the address/wallet is not consulted.
It's scientifically certain that we can abstract away from the physical system. In fact, we're already doing that today. We run simulations of molecular interactions all the time. We can even "do" a cortical column in incredible detail.

The problem is not that we don't know whether it's possible. There are two issues concerning this development: we need to know what the right detail/abstraction level is for simulating a mind, and once we do we need to actually get that information. Doing the simulation itself is comparatively easy, though certainly not trivial.

> What exactly are you going to save to that file? Positions of molecules? States of atoms?

To be useful, it can't be just a file, it needs to be a database that can be executed. Positions of molecules seems to be the right detail level according to our current understanding. That includes the spatial configuration of proteins and their exact position in relation to another. But there might not be that many unique molecules to store, just a few thousand maybe.

An interesting question then becomes how can we abstract these scans even further and still be able to have a high fidelity mind simulation?
Obligatory Straight Dope link: Has a passenger ever landed a plane after the pilot was incapacitated? [1] in which Cecil mentions several such cases.

[1] http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3090/has-a-passenge...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
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Again, there is no "forever" in this universe. But this technology certainly holds the promise of a drastically prolonged existence, which may be unappealing to some.

> we will realize that we actually are just a program running on a brain

I think a lot of people realized this quite some time ago already, and they're fine with it :)

> it won't matter if we die.

That's a personal decision to make. It depends on your definition of importance, and whether you think that a mind can have value in of itself.
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>As software people, we have a unique advantage over other humans when it comes to understanding the process of copying information. I invite you to look at it from that perspective.

Still small relief compared to the existencial angst of dying to see your copy survive.

>The difference, as I said, is that it is you who lives on.

So, if I have managed to offload a complete and working copy of your brain and memories, you'd be OK with me killing you, right?
We can abstract however we like whatever we like. The point is: will the abstraction accurately represent the original physical system? And how do we know? We run simulations of molecular interactions. So what?
Sure, they're working, but they haven't "got work"; they don't have a minimum wage, health insurance, federal holidays etc..
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http://nodejs.org/api/net.html#net_net provides one example, instead of binding to a host/port it listens on a UNIX socket.
I don't know what consciousness is but I'll be the first to volunteer to copy my brain and find out.

Screw theory lets just do it and see what happens.
Magit effectively has a plugin system too. I know the guy who wrote it.
This is only news if you live in America, I guess :) It's common knowledge around the rest of the world. In fact, it has become somewhat of a defining characteristic of what it means to be american.
Well, all you need to do is do your 10,000 hours and ask the Collectors in your network for an introduction.
I use this mainly for "Git: Diff Current File". It's much easier to see in Sublime than Terminal for me.
Feedback on site: adopt the same demo as http://www.sublimetext.com/, it's incredible.
I think I'm being dim but I don't understand what this is.

Does it prompt me for a commit message when I save code, with like a special CMD-Shift-S to push or something, or is it just using sublime as a GUI for git?
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Ask PG : is company culture a priority from day one
9 months into my startup project, I've been working on and off with quite a few (expert accountant, famous author, cartoonist, developer and web designer), all volunteers. I feel now I'd better wait and find a really fitting match for me (=different skills, tech, but personality match) and for the project (=living a life coherent with the content/positive parenting). How much of a priority is it?
You need to buffer the input in any case, why not just

LS=$(ls)
./cruncher <<END
$LS
END
./muncher <<END
$LS
END
The problem would be better named "too many customers, too much hassle and not enough income to support it". It might be wise to come up with a premium service for users who can/want to pay more. In general you don't want to compete on price, but on quality and convenience.

Congratulations btw! :)
Not a biologist here. However, haven't all the cells I was born with died a long time ago? Am I not a whole new set of cells, just with some stored electrical impulses in my brain?
You seems to be on Mac OSX, if that is the case, try out the file merger that comes with XCode, it's pretty awesome for doing both diffs and merges.

Screenshots of the software:

http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/FileMerge-fil...

http://anoved.net/images/filemerge/filemerge.png

http://www.defraine.net/~brunod/fmdiff/filemerge.gif
Yeah, I'm aware (fellow countryman here ;), but as far as I know Spain hasn't had our eternal crisis. In fact, I believe they had a decent surplus for a number of years.
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Are you likely to do the same for movies?

If you think the music industry's distribution model is broken, check out the movie industry. Currently it'll cost me over $1,000 to use the easiest route to getting a feature into iTunes.
The Tad WIlliams Otherland series deals with these ideas. In the book, the biological original is killed the instant that the copy goes online. Thus there is no me and my twin, there is only me.

At the end of the day its my memories and knowledge that I treasure, not the meat its running on. The real question is: can we make a synthetic analog for brain goo that can run the consciousness program?
You realize that the majority of Engineering Phds in the US are foreign born ? - the US heavily relies on being able to attract international talent to maintain its advantage.
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Peroni, I notice you're a recruiter. Shouldn't you be distancing yourself from clearly bad recruiting practices?
The existing git sublime plugin shows a diff when committing. That on it's own is enough to keep me using it instead of switching, which is a shame as this does everything else better
Interesting , it may be illegal but it can also be cheated by a sort of insider trading.
Say i own a number of ASIC miners , I turn them off , and then bet for a number higher than the one expected by the public at large .
At the very last moment i turn all of my ASIC miners on.
I make money with > 95 % probability.
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I can't see any part of that article that supports your claim. On the contrary, the article appears to claim that one of the reasons he was resisting so strongly was that handing over the keys would allow full access, though the reporting isn't very clear when it comes to already stored e-mails.

From the article:

' On July 25th, Lavabit petitioned to cancel the subpoena and warrant, arguing that if the “government gains access to Lavabit’s Master Key, it will have unlimited access to not only [the account], but all of the communications and data stored in each of Lavabit’s 400,000 e-mail accounts.” Lavabit also asked the court to unseal its records and permit Levison to speak. '
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Excellent point. But do we ever lose consciousness, though? Arguably, a continuum of consciousness is what defines us as individuals. If there was an absolute loss of consciousness, you would indeed die every time you fell asleep, but this is never the case. The impression of loss of consciousness is related to the fact that memories cannot (usually) be transferred between different states of consciousness.

Moreover, when you talk about the substrate of consciousness, that begs the question of what consciousness actually is, and how it can be transferred. Creating an exact copy of the substrate (or an exact copy of the data pattern, but on a different kind of substrate), and then destroying the original substrate and crossing your fingers - this is a product of magical thinking on the part of scientists.
One thing to try: ensure your LinkedIn settings allow other people to know when you've looked at their profile, then look at the profiles of lots of recruiters.
I use it every day.

`shift + cmd + p --> qcc` for quick committing the file I just finished to edit is priceless.