skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human brain is designed to live inside an innervated body. It receives constant updates on how the body is doing, and unconscious processes, some of them chemical, control every aspect of our internal life, from homeostasis, to the perception of time, to breathing, mood and muscle tone. Upset one part of that balance and the brain goes into blind panic. Although the brain also has electrical activity, it is not just a sophisticated computer program running on a general purpose computer. For one thing, the hardware is unique in every individual! Secondly, what makes you you? And what is consciousness? We have no idea. Perhaps it is not possible to reconstruct the real you, rather than an emulation of you, without copying the exact quantum states of the atoms in your body. But this may require complete destruction of the old you and construction of an identical quantum copy elsewhere (teleportation), which is hardly an electronic download of "data" into a computer. You might be able to extract your memories and store them in a Von Neumann architecture, but the rest is a pipe dream.
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I believe my statement is more broad than your clarification and so I did say that, but for the sake of the argument, yes, that is indeed what I'm asking for, and I believe that's entirely reasonable. If you have the ability to send encrypted data over any particular communication channel in such a way that no untrusted third party can ever decrypt it (let's assume that it's possible), then I think that should be entirely lawful.

I'm not saying that all communication channels are designed in such a way as to make that possible, but for those that are, I believe that's completely ok.
In "the obvious", note that the switch to ARM64 also allows a more efficient Obj-C runtime: there are more unused bits (due to alignment and effective pointer sizes) in AArch64 than in AArch32, and more in ARM64 than x86-64.

This allows the obj-c runtime to smuggle significantly more information inline in the `isa` pointer on ARM64 than on ARM32 or x86-64 (via pointer tagging): http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2013/09/24/objc_e... http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-and...

(amongst other things, 19 bits of the pointer are now used to hold the object's reference count, for any object with less than half a million references an incref or decref is just an atomic increment or decrement of this field, instead of an indirection through a global refcount table with a bunch of locks involved)
This is the direct result of what happens when similar specced petrol cars are just way more expensive (taxes) than electric cars.

So if any government wants to embrace the use of ecars, this is one way to do it! Governments of countries with a healthy car industry would be hesitant to do this though.
"Malcolm's a very good storyteller. He reads a few quirky scientific studies done on very small samples and weaves them into a myth about how if you blink for 10,000 hours you'll end up dyslexic but people will give you lots of money anyway."

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/06/david-goliath-m...
Free shipping for a low priced item isn't sustainable. It's there to get traction. That's what amazon.in is doing right now. There's nothing wrong with offering free shipping above a certain threshold (like Amazon.com has a $25 threshold).

I don't think the biggest benefit of Flipkart was free shipping. And they have grown far beyond books. Amongst the e-commerce players in India, they are in the "better" category.
Still beats dying.
"Gay" as a derogatory term is common in English. You can find it in most dictionaries and it is neither slang nor "informal" (whatever that means).

Here is the thing. If you can accept that "gay" as a derogatory term is incorrect, despite it being present in dictionaries then it's a small step to question other word usages in dictionaries. It allows you to think for yourself instead of just parroting "he is gender neutral" because you read it in a book.
1. Get a LinkedIn account
2. Put web tech buzzwords in it - extra points for Ruby, Rails, social, mobile, or big data
3. Profit
I'm skeptical that it will happen in the planned timescale - but the current estimates for "effective fusion power" are actually 20 years away. This is based on ITER (currently being built) going well and the DEMO plant - which will actually generated power, being built after that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO

For fusion there is at least a plan for getting there, and some understanding of what the engineering challenges are.
's Dead for me here in Europe, but isup.me says it's up.

I still get a "AkamaiGHost" response via telnet though.
From my brief last.fm experience, industry standards are a huge mess. I think we actually had our own program for doing at least some of the conversions, but it was just a couple of hundred lines calling standard libraries; commandline ffmpeg would not be unreasonable.

And yeah, it's an actor-like model, except you don't really have a problem with concurrency. You just need some kind of task queue that you add encode jobs to and a bunch of worker machines that take tasks off this queue, run them, and respond. Almost every big system seems to start looking like this.
Rooming opportunity in sf 
have a really nice place in one of the liveliest places in sf, working on a startup funded $100,000 by a billionaire. living with a few other dropouts working on awesome projects as well.

Have 2 opportunities available: We could meet up and you can see if you'd like to room together OR if you're a talented developer we can give you free rent if you work on some projects
The June 10th order is on page 2, and seems to be only for the Target's account details (not metadata on messages, AFAICT.) Page 19 (and again on 97) says "Mr. Levison provided very little of the information sought by
the June 10,2013 order." This sounds like he did not refuse it, and may have actually not had much data to turn over since part of his business niche was to not collect that kind of stuff. (Page 98 says "Levison claimed 'we don't record this data'" although in context "this data" appears to be non-content message data, which would not apply to the June 10th order.)

The June 28th order ("pen register/trap and trace order", page 7) is the one he started refusing, then tried to negotiate on later. I think the order "that Lavabit shall furnish agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, forthwith, all information, facilities, and technical assistance necessary to accomplish the installation and use of the pen/trap device" includes keys implicitly. The June 28th Order Compelling Compliance Forthwith (to the earlier order on the same day) notes, "To the extent any information, facilities, or technical assistance are under the control of Lavabit are needed to provide the FBI with the unencrypted data, Lavabit shall provide such information, facilities, or technical assistance forthwith."

The first explicit order referring to keys seems to be the July 16th search warrant, specifically Attachment B on page 36. According to page 98, FBI agents discussed encryption keys with Levison as early as June 28th.
Guilty. I won't win the lottery, die in a plane crash, or burn up in a house fire.
Might not do. There have been experiments with people with mental issues or just general experiments abusing or cutting nerve endings in different ways and a lot of the more radical ones (like this would be, at least for the first 1000s of subjects) end up in insanity. And you would rather be dead I think.
Law enforcement has a variety of ways with which it can gather evidence. Ignoring the internet and tech world entirely, there are plenty of criminals who are clever enough to cover their tracks sufficiently so there is no way that evidence can be brought against them.

I don't see why the law should require that all services should be built with wiretap points. If a user of a service wishes to ensure perfect secrecy, and a service allows that use case (ideally by never seeing the user's cleartext or keys), I see no reason why the law should be allowed to interfere and require that the service be changed to disallow that.

Sure, that might make law enforcement's job harder in that case, but too bad. Catching a few extra criminals here and there is not a good reason to weaken the possibility of privacy for the rest of us.
You may be interested in http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/picola/current.html http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/picola/ . I'm not too familiar with it and i don't think it automatically splits people into groups but it was created with Fishkin's Deliberative Polling in mind.
...they've completely taken the human part out of it and the fact that that email was sent by a machine?

As I said, that may be annoying but it's not rude or patronising.

I'm not attempting to justify her approach or persistence. Had you previously asked her to stop and she subsequently ignored that request then your response would have been entirely justified.

Professionalism goes both ways regardless of how little value you place in the other persons use to you.
Dude, I get where you are coming from but seriously, the word No doesn't get processed by a salesperson the way normal people process it.

My Linkedin profile explicitly says "No third party recruiters". I have explicitly responded to multiple third party recruiters telling them I do not want my resume in their hand, I don't want to be considered for any position from whatever shitty stealth startup they are working with. Nope. Nothing. I still get emails; GUESS WHAT? THEY ARE FROM THE SAME FUCKING RECRUITER(S).
True, however there might be other factors. http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem03364.htm

Perhaps the CO is generally produced mixed with other more heavier gasses and is colder, thus less conveyant.

I can't find source but I found a pamphlet that mentioned that when in fire you shouldn't try to crawl on the floor for risk of CO poisoning, or something.
All EU countries provide tax incentives to buyers of EVs.
That doesn't make sense. They are measuring countries, the EU is not a country. In theory the USA could join the EU.

The point is to measure how government policy affects education.
Here to with 2.3.7-CM. If you explicitly check the certificate it even says: "This certificate is valid" with a reassuring green check mark. Seems legit ... These things really makes me pull out my hair.
Quick list of secure video-calling tools
Great... also to see the distribution channel evolution and the implied step in maturity: from CDs to generic distribution, from Baby to Kid. Smart naming.
Step 3 is always ???. Step 4 is profit.
Wow! Given how awful it was on Oct 1 and that it was broken under the load of less than 10 req/s [1], it is outrageous how much it costed. It is probably standard for the government contracts everywhere, but when it is where I know how badly it is done and how much it costs, it's just doubly disgusting.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-california-he...

BTW it looks like Accenture is not the only one. This page:
https://www.coveredca.com/shopandcompare/#calculator

has this in the source:
Produced for Covered California
and the State of California
by Kiefer Consulting, Inc.
www.kieferconsulting.com

(and then for some reason Apache license - copy-paste from somewhere?)

So 180M might be just one part of it, the whole sum may be much bigger.
Sometimes I worry. All this time I spent learning to maintain my own server, even though I am definitely a developer-first, is it wasted when PaaS are getting more common. Am I holding myself back by sticking to my own setup or am I keeping things cost- and performance efficient? Will this be an issue when I (finally) really need to scale up?
Some problems with SQRL
Passenger takes controls of plane after pilot falls ill
This is great. On one hand I'm happy that record labels and middle men are cut off from the process, on the other, being an old-fashioned music listener, I will never stop considering music as part of an album, and I will never buy a "song". I will always buy full length albums. I like real bands, not Internet phenomena‎. Not saying that one excludes the other, though.
But the concept is absolutely brilliant and the same is true for the execution.
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But isnt one of the biggest problems the overpopulatin of the planet ? So living longer doesnt really make that better.
sorry, but you are ranting fucking nonsense. The fact that you think everyone should just do as they are told, does not make them do so. No one in their right mind would leave an alarm enabled that is destroying their quality of life due to pets or a child sleeping. They will disable it and forget/procrastinate on fixing it.

The truth is, products like this will save lives. Screaming like a neanderthal in favor of Jurassic tech that people disable because it doesn't do its job right is not going to decrease mortality due to fires.
First off, this looks excellent.

This undoubtedly trumps the likes of CD Baby in many ways, but one reason I could see people sticking with them is that, even though to upload an album at CD Baby is more expensive up front, it's a one-off payment. You pay the $40 or whatever it costs, then that's it, the music stays up there at no further cost. From the DistroKid FAQ, if you stop paying your yearly fee then the music can be removed.

Clearly though such users aren't your target audience, you're going after the musicians that want to upload songs all the time, as opposed to albums.

Good luck to you though, this is the type of innovation this industry desperately needs.
Don't forget the ordinary UNIX domain socket: you can think of them like TCP connections bound to 127.0.0.1 but not assigned a port number but a path name. This can be useful if you have e.g. 3 instances of the same program that needs to do some client/server work: rather than figuring out a port number assignment it can have a UNIX socket. Linux has also an extension to this mechanism, where the UNIX socket does not create a corresponding file.

In addition to doing cool things like passing open files over a UNIX socket, or credentials (your remote server can verify the UID of whoever opened the file in the other end!) the SOCK_DGRAM UNIX sockets are reliable and accept packets beyond normal UDP limits. This is useful for load balancing (you don't have to proxy your connection but can pass the new accepted socket directly to whowever is going to send data to it).

So if you want to make a simple server yet requesting/replying good size packets you can bind it to AF_LOCAL/SOCK_DGRAM, then the client calls bind() and sendto() while the server calls bind, then recvfrom() (which fills in the address of the caller) and sendto() back.
What were those little things that you talk about?
Ask: Does anyone have a ASP.NET site to show off?
That caused me to lose 4 points of karma.

Seriously ????
The exact "copy" of you would be you, exactly as you are now, i.e. equivalently mortal.
I agree with your second paragraph entirely. There's nothing to indicate that OP had a similar disclosure on his LinkedIn and he implicitly states that at no point did he tell her to stop prior to this email. If he had and she ignored that request then his response would have been entirely justified.

Most agency recruiters are terrible. Most couldn't care less what you think of them. Most of them are entirely deluded and believe they are the greatest sales people to walk the earth. Most. Not all. Recruiter bashing is easy however remaining professional is more appropriate.
Why is a world with ideally zero ability to prosecute child porn (to pick one) a world we should want to live in?

Closing one potential avenue for gathering evidence is a far cry from removing law enforcement's ability to prosecute child porn offenders (or any other crime, for that matter).

Look, I'm not saying that law enforcement shouldn't have legal tools at their disposal to gather information. They should. They do. But if someone is using strong encryption and has plausible deniability, then they win. That's just how it is. If they're going through a third-party service that can isolate that one user, then sure, great, by all means, get at that data via legal means. But if getting at that data means exposing all users of that service to breaches of privacy, then hell no. That's entirely unreasonable.

And if criminals are indeed clever enough to cover their tracks well enough to eliminate the possibility of law enforcement gathering evidence on them... well, that sucks, but that's life. That happened before the internet, and will continue to happen in spite of it.
I think the point here is, that even the you from "now" and the you from "a moment ago" aren't the same. Consciousness is an illusion.
But reader was not used by 1000+ times as many people, quite the opposite. They namedropped vice which itself has far more daily readers than Google reader had. That's one customer, there are thousands of others that use app engine to serve billions of page views a day.

Stop wallowing over reader and move on.
> because you find a notion inconvenient to deal with doesn't mean it's not factually possible.

That is a completely unjust accusation.

Even from a materialist perspective, I think the guy was raising one of the most important questions.
I honestly don't understand why everyone hates recruiters so much.

Yes, you say they're a "good problem" to have but how are they a problem at all? How much effort does it take to delete an email/message, especially if you automate it?

I just don't understand the fuss. If anything, I enjoy the little ego boost every time I log in to LinkedIn and see another recruiter knocking. It's nice to be wanted.
Actually free shipping, and cash on delivery are two things that helped Indian e-commerce scene gain some customers.

And spending for shipping will be non starter in India, people here bargain for a rupee or two for 1kg of potatoes with the local vegetable push cart vendor who comes right in front of your home to sell things. And we are expecting them to pay up 50 rupees for just showing up.

And its not just vegetable push cart vendors. You have clothes salesmen, pickle vendors, biscuit vendors and what not. Who just just go from street to street trying to sell stuff. Our people are culturally trained to forget giving them a extra shipping fee, but rather bargain for a lower price.

You are trying undo centuries of free shipping, and cash on delivery culture here.

Books work fine for e-commerce, because books are what they are. You read reviews on the internet and buy them, it doesn't matter what's inside as knowing that by reading is the whole point of the book. Its like a movie.

A mobile phone, tablet, laptop, clothes, glasses etc are totally different. I will never buy anything such, unless I see them or at least get a real feel of it. The Indian customers are very sensitive to this, try to convince an average Indian family to simply buy a thing online, without even seeing it once. Most won't, and for a good reason.
But other countries aren't fucked. They did well on the test, so why can't the solution be to do what those other countries are doing?

Flanders and Australia are every bit as 'incomparable' as Finland and the US, so let's just compare anyway. It turns out there are major consequences for income inequality, and most of the countries listed in the top categories have worked aggressively to reduce it and to alleviate it's consequences through social programs.
Definitely! Unfortunate that the Web Audio API doesn't work with PhoneGap on Android due Android's built-in browser not supporting it.
That made me think, what if technology was developed that allowed a portion of the brain's processing functions to be offloaded to an external system.

So, you would copy most motor functions to a "brain emulator" first.

And after you have acclimated, you would continue to the copying process (I have very little doubt that if properly done, the brain wouldn't be able to readjust to this, just like a prosthetic limb or "seeing" through stimulation of nerves on the tongue).

And this process is gradually performed until the entire "consciousness" is running on the external artificial computer.

I wonder how the perception of self would be affected by such a method.
The W3C is a restaurant
I would move my enterprise CRM package over to GAE as soon as this becomes a reality.
Email isn't broken - we just need something new
I appreciate what you're saying, but I'm just numb to recruiters now - I've received enough bad-form contacts (cold-calls from people looking up my phone number in DNS records even) that I've lost all sympathy. I guess that is my failing here.
Measured reading, maths & problem solving.

What about, creativity, critical thinking and arts?
Harder to quantify, but just as important.
"the word No doesn't get processed by a salesperson the way normal people process it"

how true. don't all self professed sales gurus teach that you need to get through 7 "No"-s to get a "Yes"
I was under a similiar impression but even with high taxes and cost of living Norwegians have an estimated individual net worth $350K, third in the world, on par with Australia and about $150K less than the Swiss.[1]

It still seems bizarre to me that somebody would buy a car that is a third or even a fifth of their net worth, though.

But Norway also has almost 55K millionaires (net worth).[2]

1. http://www.businessnewsnorway.com/2011/10/norwegians-are-the...

2. http://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/jul/13/business.intern...
I would like to contribute the point to back this up that the question isn't really e.g. "is it OK to wiretap murderers?" Actually, it's "is it OK to wiretap suspected murderers?" And the second one is a vastly greater burden. It means we need to trust the guys who decide who to suspect. This is far from a solved problem, of course, as most people agree that some justice system is necessary, and it's a hard line to draw, but the point is, one must be extremely wary of granting broad powers over arbitrary people without requiring an amount of evidence proportionate to the damage exercising those powers will do to them.

In short, if you just say "who cares about suspected murders, probably most of them are murderers", you are leaving a lot of discretion over your life and the life of those in society around you into the hands of those whose power it is to enforce the law. And while they might be the best people for the job, ultimately they are just people too.
Most of them just seem kinda dumb.

They write mails to me where they tell me stuff about how they read my profile and think I'm the perfect fit for the position they want to fill, because of reasons that aren't in my profile.

I put stuff about ux-design, software engineering and JavaScript in and get mails about embedded systems...
I didn't mean it as an accusation. The argument was literally that this can't be possible because that would allow multiple copies of a person!

> Even from a materialist perspective, I think the guy was raising one of the most important questions.

I fail to see how that's even a debate at this point. Either you see that the mind is a process being executed on a certain kind of substrate, or you believe that something from outside the physical universe is making up the mind and the brain is just an actuator. Pretty much everything else derives from one of these points of view.

If you think there is "special matter" and "ordinary matter", or that there is something special going on in the brain beyond its information theoretical content, that's not really a scientific/materialist position.

If there's any defensible position in between, I'm genuinely interested in hearing it. Again, I don't mean to attack or upset anyone, please forgive me if I inadvertently gave the wrong signals.
Cracked metal, heal thyself
well, atwood & spolsky have the stack exchange network. the biggest show off i guess.
great idea. I had a similar site going for awhile called http://livecode.in/

I want to watch more badasses like notch rip code