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Your choice is up to you. I am not into homeopathy, or blind faith of any kind really. I am not criticising science, just saying it is not very useful at making predictions of bad things that have no past occurrence.

Science is about discovering truths, when the truth of a disaster has not occurred, how can you predict it?

We can model climate change, but what we can't say is for sure how bad things will get or if you are a stupid climate 'sceptic' - how they will stay the same. Air travel in my layman's opinion has to be a massive contributory factor, of which I don't want to be a part of. I am not saying you shoudl not fly, in fact I don't care what you do.

My article was more about how we make choices as individuals, sometimes waiting too long for science to back us up (we don't really hear the proper science in the media anyway - is mostly marketing noise and frivolous arguments) - when really we just need to make the decisions ourselves, do what we feel.

Gut feeling may well have caused miscarriages of justice. But gut feeling is also quite useful at self preservation - like saying: prove to me that the light there is a freight train is coming down the track, instead of just moving out of the way.

And as James Lovelock says - you are on your own.
Evolution knows no future, but it still makes sense to talk about evolution being prepared for a possible future. In particular, what ronaldx is saying is quite close to the accepted explanation for sexual reproduction. Sex produces, and maintains, a great deal of variety within the population that you won't see in an asexually reproducing one. It also imposes a very large penalty to the speed at which the population can grow (males, roughly half of any sexual population, cannot reproduce at all). It is felt that, historically, sexual populations have been so much more able to weather changing circumstances, because of the variability that their lifestyle ensures, that it must have outweighed the susbstantial reproductive penalty -- since sexual organisms have taken over virtually every ecological niche in the world. And this is for an adaptation the entire purpose of which is to guard the population against the future.

In summary: variability in the gene pool is a form of future protection, and one that has been specifically selected for. Be careful before you shout "fallacy!"
The problem currently is that we actually don't know how the brain works. I know a lot of people claiming that they've found out - but if you dig deeper you'll find most experiments only work in certain cultures and are far from being THE theory which explains everything. I mean nobody today can actually be sure that the power at which a synapse is firing has a meaning. We simply have no idea - it may have significant influence but we're far from proving it (can't find the paper describing this, as I'm not able to connect to the university network currently).

This is bad news - especially for the AI-robotics guys, as they need this knowledge to implement the next generation of smart robots. They hope to get some "self reprogrammable robots" as this is what your brain seems to do all the time.

So what do we technicians do? We're trying to build a machine to simulate a brain (and hope we're right in our assumption how the brain works). There is a huge project like this going on in the EU too [1]. This is the bottom-up approach and it's far from all the press releases as there are too many assumptions in it - even if those guys hate to hear it. There is a nice documentary film with Jospeh Weizenbaum (former professor at MIT and close friend of Chromsky) about this very issue and its ethical aspects [2].

The up-down approach is researched by system biologists (and other related sciences). They aim at the bio-chemical and physical layers to figure out how a brain works and it seems like this is complicated as hell. We're some kind of programmable - even if nobody can tell how far this actually goes. Just being raised in different cultures can have significant influence in how a brain reacts in situations. Even siblings with the same DNA and are being raised within the very same family you can find differences in how their brain reacts...

So don't get too excited about all this - we're far away from being "downloadable". Which is maybe not the worst thing if you're thinking about it for a while. What would life mean if it's endless? And by the way: even if you were downloadable, what tells you that you're still alive if a copy of your brain is stored within an robot? There are hard philosophical questions behind such issues...

[1] https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_%26_Pray
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If you assume that "the spontaneous creation of life from inanimate matter is extremely unlikely", then it is extremely unlikely that anyone exists to run the simulation, no?
"Do you think these are fine, too?"

Seems a lot better than your own name calling.
No, because "plausible theory" doesn't equal "proof". We can have a lot of fun discussing whether or not your theory is plausible, and I suggest that we do because I like your theory, but you got nowhere near explaining why it must the only possible situation. That's a proof.
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I'd be interested to see what effect (if any) modafinil has on this cranial garbage collection routine. Given subjective reports that modafinil allows one to go without sleep without accruing sleep debt for some period of time, maybe this would shed some light either on how modafinil works or what other functions sleep has (or both!).
Thanks...

The point is, I had an idea, I built it, I released it. I've not finished developing it. For someone who isn't an iOS Developer, I feel like I've achieved something.
I personally would love to be able to donate more to open source (specifically Postgres and some of its related projects) but I haven't found a way yet which meets my few simple criteria.

* The money has to specifically go to developers or development and testing related costs, not general advocacy or evangelism.

* It would be nice if donations could go into specific pools, eg in the Postgres example, I might be interested in contributing funds for performance enhancements but have no interest in logical replication.

* Variety of payment methods supported, with annual, repeating donations allowed.

Bountysource (https://www.bountysource.com) comes close, but rarely has many projects for funding.

Its surprising that in 2014, one of the best ways to supporting open source is still to select a company which does work on your favourite OSS project and buy a support contract or something, even though it's not a very efficient way.
> "Put down those quote marks until you've learned how to use them properly."

Speaking of elitist mentality...
Very cool and clever scheme. But what happens to immediates that can't be encoded that way?
How do you address the problem where you get impossible superpositions that are difficult to resolve via repulsive forces, leading to a massive deposition of energy in the objects?

http://i.imgur.com/ZgMNXpS.gif
For Safari:

The Open Source WebKit part is significantly less self-contained than Firefox or Chromium. A whole lot of stuff that Firefox or Chrome implement themselves relies on OS X system APIs in the case of Safari. (Some of those things may be open sourced separately, though.) Non-OS X WebKit ports have to implement all that stuff on their own on top of whatever infrastructure they use, such as Qt.

For Chrome:

Everyone knows about the PPAPI Flash Player.

Additionally, https://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/build/all.gyp gives hints about other stuff that's built in Chrome but not in Chromium. Some of that stuff is actually Open Source. For example, courgette shows up on the Chrome-only list, but a quick search suggests that it's Open Source.

However, in that file, you can find references to Widevine (DRM) and the PDF reader without finding source code for either in the repo.

Also, there's some Chrome-only print stuff and it's not clear how much of that is Open Source and how much proprietary and if it is Open Source, why it's not built in Chromium.

The stuff in all.gyp is not the whole story, like the can concluded from knowledge about Flash Player without seeing it mentioned there.

To find out more, one would need to go through https://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/third_party/ and figure out which dependencies aren't Open Source. In addition to the adobe/ directory there, you can see swiftshader/ (software fallback renderer for WebGL). It comes with a README.chromium file (https://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/third_party/swiftshad...) that says: "License: Proprietary".

So that gives a minimum of:

* Flash Player

* PDF Reader

* Widevine

* SwiftShader

* Maybe some Cloud Print stuff.

(Edit: typo and formatting)
Now I see my post might sound like a critique. But it wasnt meant like that. Just a weak attempt to be funny.

In fact I like the app and your attitude!

Congrats on getting your first app onto the app store. Its something I still have to achieve.
>>Actually MLK acted perfectly
Q: How many times was Dr. King arrested?
A: He was arrested 30 times.

Perfectly as in "perfectly good in my books", not perfectly legal or Mother Teresa like.

In fact in my very next sentense I lament that they present him as much more timid for how dynamic he was.
Why are mathematical proofs that rely on computers controversial?
I think you're not understanding that you DONT have to eventually manage all of the systems on your own.
S3 requires effectively 0 management. Dynamo requires effectively 0 management. The list goes on, and grows every quarter.

Sure, if you're just running EC2 nodes, there's some sysop requirement there. But if you run those on ElasticBeanstalk instead, you don't even have to manage that!

It's very hard for server and hardware-focused folks to 'get' the dramatic difference of running with AWS or GCE or other large cloud ecosystems. It's trivial for a, say, Java developer, to have a large, scalable system and have 0 access to each try to manage the actual machines and software that everything is running on.

You CANNOT replicate that in a private environment today, for anything less than a large infrastructure management cost.
Well, we're connected to iTunes and YouTube, so nothing is stored on our server. Does it might rapresent a problem anyway? We're in Italy so licensing might be different from US
The term "culling" is chilling when use by those in power. I've formerly only heard it used in context by some as a term for forced reduction of human population.
You can alias imports, Eg

import (
cont_list "container/list"
)

func main() {
list := cont_list.New()
}
There are reports that Yelp ad sales people claim if you buy advertising with them they can make bad reviews go away [1]. Of course, it's possible the sales people are just claiming that to make the sale and don't actually deliver on it.

There are also people on ebay [2] offering five star reviews for around $15.

[1] http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-...
[2] http://www.ebay.com/sch/Web-Computer-Services-/47104/i.html?...
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Validate and sanitize JS objects like a boss
Do you have any experience with embryonic breathing? I'd be really interested in reading more about what you have to say on this topic.
I gave up on that, ie trying to fit in. One time, when talking to a co worker who I was fed up with, I just kept raising my voice and repeating what I said until I was yelling, he was stunned, and my co workers looked on admiringly.
Well isn't the real hope that we'll get the hardware close enough in capability that one day a learning general AI just kind of pops out of it?
Ah, I see. Well, thanks?

As I said, I've not stopped developing it. Now it's out there, I can continue to develop it without feeling like I've let myself down by not hitting my MVP. Check out my blog post to read more; http://james.brooks.so/contare-my-first-ios-app/

I've got another app that I'm working on too, but that is something I want to release as a proper and worthy app.
We still can't properly simulate the puny caenorhabditis elegans brain with some accuracy. Don't hold your breath on this one.
You have to place them in a constant pool and load them.
... results may vary.
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Should GitHub implements a poll system in repos?
There are a few options for producing other values:

1. load them from a constant pool in memory (often this is put nearly inline in the instruction stream so that it can be addressed via a small constant offset from PC). If your code doesn't saturate the LSU locally, this is usually the best option.

2. assemble them via bitwise or arithmetic combinations of literals that you can represent (or already in-register values that you know something about). If you can do it with just a few operations, and the LSU is otherwise occupied, you should do this instead. This is also preferred on some limited cores that can dual-issue logical and arithmetic ops but not LSU ops.

3. in recent revisions of the instruction set, there are a pair of instructions MOVW and MOVT; MOVW conjures a 16b immediate, and MOVT sets the high 16b, so with these two instructions you can conjure any 32b value.

There is a bit of subtlety to choosing the correct approach. Some assemblers provide a "conjure this value" pseudo-operation where the assembler will choose what it thinks is the best option to materialize a constant; that way the programmer doesn't need to worry about these details. This looks something like the following:

LDR R0, =0xff0000ff

the assembler might actually stash the constant somewhere and generate a load instruction, or it might instead do:

MOV R0, 0xff000000
ORR R0, R0, 0x000000ff

and assemble the value via a couple instructions with immediates.
(2010). Also, not about the web framework, but about funding options instead.
Well, we only have information from within the simulation. It might be common outside of the simulation.
Just remember that literacy for the masses was opposed for centuries. Being able to code is the computer equivalent of writing. Writing is 50% of literacy.
For approximately 500 years [science's] argument for its pre-eminence was that it could create beautiful toys: aircraft, railroads, global economies, television, spacecraft. But that is a fool’s argument for truth! I mean, that’s after all how a medicine show operates, you know: the juggler is so good, the medicine must be even better! This is not an entirely rational way to proceed.

-Terrence Mckenna
No disrespect, but dkural's idea of what mathematics is about is no more irrelevant than sillysaurus2's or yours, and dkural's view is quite well represented among research mathematicians, first-rate ones included. For a famous example, see William Thurston's "On proof and progress in mathematics" at http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236v1.pdf .
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Forgot to mention that the service is free, the streaming as well
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Ask HN: Asking to add a badge. Is Google happy about it?
Some companies ask you to add a 'badge' to your website in exchange ofsome extra features/promotions.

After reading what happened with RapGenius and Google, and I wonder if also asking to 'add a badge' is a bad SEO marketing strategy?
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A master of the web. A webmaster.
Sharing painful secrets anonymously with random disposable strangers on the internet via chatroom helped me a lot when I had to un-love a girl and had no friends to help me go through this. After less than a year of such chats when I felt especially sad and lonely I got bored with my own sad story and people in general and I was cured of my loneliness.
Ah. But then - did anything ever got proven? Is a falling apple proving the existence of gravity?
You should ask the mice!
The problem with Go it that it is fundamentally non-exciting. It brings very little to the table, when compared to C.

On the top of my head:
- GC (which some people find to be actually a cons)
- Some more modern ammenities for debugging.
- Coroutines (this is really where go shines)

On many other fronts, Go is actually a regression from C, because it favors being "safe" over being expressive. Goodbye macro, pointer arithmetic, etc.

Omitting exceptions is a moronic decision. In a program that does its fair share of I/O, this means that error checking will end up taking a huge % of the code written (easily 30%). It will naturally push people to either eschew error checking, or to write huge methods to dilute the error checking code.

So in the end, I'll use C with a coroutine library. It'll feel (and be) more hackish, but I'll be more productive and my code will be easier to understand.

Now, that's my opinion. Maybe other people have different sensibilities and Go is just fine for them. But I think it's pretty obvious that Go is not right for a lot of people, and nothing's wrong with them. It's unfair to pretend they haven't a point. Go is not for everyone.
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Edit: Never mind, I made a mistake reading your comment.
I'm interested: what is it about the wrd 'code' that you think people don't like? Do you think such people are generally coming from an elitist view, or just a pedantic one?
Yes, I already read it. Can you add an rss feed to your page so people can subscribe to new posts?
We mapped people who pledged for Whiskey related products - not any alcohol product.
(please take no offense, and forgive me if you think my words are a heresy, I'm not a deist)

Just disproving spontaneous creation doesn't prove the existence of God.
Actually, God may have invented spontaneous creation of life from inanimate matter (it was the official christian belief less than 200 years ago).

That way of thinking makes it impossible to disprove God, but it doesn't prove God.
BTW, there are aliens all over the place: their existence is similarly impossible to disprove, but that doesn't prove their existence either (the same holds true for unicorns).

Unlikely events are all over the place: if you can read this message, it's because humans learnt to use sand to make computer chips (silicon) and fiber optics.
Can someone or the OP provide a Tl;Dr; first?
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> their sincere and informed interest in young people studying computer science

Cheap labor?
You misread that. It says "I hadn't gave 1 star just because I want my comment gets shown on top"

He is saying he hasnt only given 1 start to be at the top, he actually does think the app is terrible
Your child has been kidnapped and brainwashwd, and the kidnappers claim the he his their son. I challenge you to prove otherwise. A birth certificate would come in handy.
I'm using Ghost[1] and I don't know if they do RSS? I'll see what I can do though.

[1] http://ghost.org
One thing we have to understand here is that 1 second of human brain activity is quite a lot of computing! It's not 'just one second'. This incredible experiment shows how the human curiosity has gone so far to build a artificial thinking machine. It would be great to see the compute result of if we could add 10 Supercomputer.
Thanks, updated title w/ year.
It's not that being a stay-at-home mom isn't valuable it's that you're giving up your independence. For most of history women of course didn't have much of a choice, even if they were educated.
boltzmann brain

http://www.volconvo.com/forums/philosophy-religion/26464-bol...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
This benchmark is missing Chicken Scheme: http://www.call-cc.org/
It's not just colloquialisms, but entire dialects, that are not allowed. A small subset of the population just declared that they way they write and speak is "correct" and everyone else is inferior simply because it is different.
How did you detect that the DRM check was removed?
Citation needed on the second paragraph? I'm sure that's a GPL violation.
> "evolution cares little about a 2 generations scale."

I'd take that a step further and say that evolution doesn't care at all!

The tendency to get fat isn't protecting us, it's just something that happened to be an attribute (randomly) of those of our ancestor who didn't die.
People tend to use the concept of a "grandmother" who downloads what the site offers her, which in Google's case is the closed-source non-verifiable Chrome. However, people usually counter these grandmother arguments noting that the grandma has no big understanding of privacy and so Chrome is fine for her.

However, in this case, a more apt concept of a "mother" should be applied -- i.e. somebody who understands the values of privacy on the internet, but still gets influenced by what the website offers her.

So me, you and the hypothetical mother all want a browser that's supposed to be as safe from intrusions by the NSA as possible, but unlike the two of us who will understand Google's claims like "Get a fast, free web browser" in the proper context, the mother would not.

---

My point is that I believe we should strive to make it very clear, for this particular group of "mothers", which browser is as secure to intrusions as possible and which is only "fast and free" according to the corporation that issues it (and has a harder-to-find open-source variant).
The art of 'just good enough' - or why I never finish anything
The major hurdle for fighting for men's rights are people like yourself that keep lowering the debate by not being able to conduct themselves in a decent way. Frankly, the attitudes behind why women doesn't have a place in technology or used to be barred from many sports, are the same as why men can be forced into military service or has a higher risk of injury at work.
Furthermore, AFAIK he wouldn't be tried in the jurisdiction in which he committed the crimes (Hawaii) and instead would be tried in the backyard of the intelligence community (Virginia), where the makeup of any jury would likely be members of the IC community or greatly sympathetic to the IC way of doing things.
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my favorite quotation on loneliness:

http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/think-on-these-things/1...

You have a point about how if one always has a goal to pursue one never allows himself to feel his deepest sense of loneliness and therefor he doesn't fully process it and learn from it. It's tough though as a software developer because if you have "free time" you could always be using it to "be productive".. to create a product, make fortune, etc. One has to schedule in the time to sit with his loneliness I suppose. sigh
The notes and recommend button probably lead to a lot of clicking.
> As we know, in comparison to compilers, interpreters have “interpretive overhead” when they execute programs. What if you run the interpreter itself inside a copy of itself? The overhead roughly multiplies.

Wouldn't benchmarking this factor be more interesting than just benchmarking multiple compilers for a a fixed n levels of interpretation-recursion?
Holy crap. ARM's encoding makes so much sense... compared to what I have waded through at sandpile.org.
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Here's what I got out of it:

1: VC interests and founders interests aren't entirely aligned. The VCs want a large return on their investment, fast. What your business needs to do to achieve this isn't necessarily what is best for you as a founder.

2: Don't take VC money unless you're absolutely sure about how you're going to use it to grow your business.

3: The odds that it'll work out in your favor otherwise are incredibly slim.
since you are statically sharing the server details... Isn't this as leaving your id card on the crime scene?
anyway, for who might be interested, the technical term is "reverse shell" (the one in the article) or "bind shell" (the one I wanted).
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