skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cells certainly have a kind of independent existence (consciousness is a different matter...). But our body needs its cells. It's not simulating cells in another substrate.

The 'cells' in the case of the hypothetical technological singularity will be computer hardware, not organic cells or human brains. There is the tacit assumption that silicon-based AI tech is somehow superior to our own carbon-based 'tech' and will displace it.

Human brains forming into a kind of super-organism would be a different phenomenon. It wouldn't even need AI, or much more advanced technology. It could indeed be argued that this is the case already with the internet and even printing press before it.
Why should it. The energy is supplied by gravity.
You mean why I think it isn't deterministic?

Even if it was (I don't think so), it's possible that consciousness is a passive observer of the universe.
Hans – IP over ICMP
Is this a desktop-only solution, i.e. no mobile? Then it is bound to be a no-go for most users. My checklist is pretty short:

1. Clients available on web and/or all platforms, must be able to add/copy to clipboard passwords on all platforms.
2. Synced or Shared database between all clients.
3. No subscription cost (upfront cost OK).

Nice-to-have things would be browser plugins, command line interface etc., but that isn't essential.
..if they sign up.

Here comes another horrendously expensive government scheme with a total audience of 10 people.
Fun fact: KFC in Australia doesn't have biscuits. They have rolls. I was besides myself with distress.
You described the challenge to solve, I think quantum effects does take place in the brain. However, there are numerous experiments on quantum teleportation. In the next 30-50 years technology could advance significantly.
Even older, the ODBC text driver for Windows 3.1x supported this, 20 years ago:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/146220
Is the Singularity compatible with feudalism?
More reasons to use http://ebookoid.com
The first link in that link describes a flexible command line you can use for a number of operations. The second describes how you can write c# like script files that will be loaded. Both require the KPScript extension. Why not just bundle/reference keepass.exe since its a .net executable? see http://stackoverflow.com/a/9028433/259130 . Also if you haven't tried it yet you might want to try messing about with https://www.linqpad.net/ (run c# as script file/interactively) like he did.
Also, Peter Thiel isn't all that libertarian from what I can tell.
Twitter Redesign w/o Bootstrap
https://twitter.com new design does no longer use the CSS Framework Bootstrap, what do you think?
> if I "upload" my "consciousness" -- how is it, well, me?

It won't be you but you'll be the only one to tell the difference.

Thinking of the social pressure (from family, work etc.) of "uploading" yourself is more fun.
You implied that employers always have the power in the relationship. I'm pointing out that it can go either way. Obviously people working for free must be in a weak negotiating position.

Even still, nobody's forcing them at gunpoint. Presumably they chose a an unpaid graphic design internship because they value the experience. They could have chosen to work elsewhere for pay. As long as they are not being forced, are not being deceived, and are choosing according to their own priorities, it's their decision.
I certainly could - and might - but the lack of such information is why OSM s still not a viable replacement for commercial maps. (Yet).
I think that VSO confusion arises only when there is a single subject and verb.

Take for example a common prefix notation:
(< a b c d)
this stands for "are all increasing?"

Since none are really the subject, most Java-like languages (if they had this at all) would have to invent a subject Integer.areIncreasing(myList). No longer does this give you a valuable subject, just a made up subject.

Certainly some operations (mostly arithmetic) are easier on the eyes since we've had a lot of practice with it.

Whenever I do arithmetic, I use threading macros to make it easier to read. Suddenly, it reads like infix, but with more flexibility.

(+ 4 (- 1 (/ 4 2))) ;; what?!

becomes

(_> 4 (/ _ 2) (- 1 _) (+ 4)) ;; ah

In infix, it would be:

(1 - (4 / 2)) + 4

The threading macro isn't quite as nice as the default infix, but it allows for both notations.

I think the second reads very well all things considered, start with 4, divide by 2, subtract from 1, add 4. (_ is the placeholder).
If your description column has any embedded commas in it that are escaped in quoted fields as per the CSV spec, it won't work whereas textql will.
If it's only about employee retency and not about money, the solution is simple - just pay the employee enough for him to stay (counter the offer competition gave him). No need for illegal conspiracy.
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Worst error message ever.can't they be more informative ?

Edit: It's still the same even after logging in.
A neo-liberal is just someone who is strongly pro free-trade and possibly some lowered/standardized regulation of business(although not universally, possibly(but not always) formerly or currently associated with center-left(or at least center-left from a US perspective)
Yep yep, back when it was thefacebook.com
Yes, I just want the sugar. Also, must not be any slower than the if-then solution of course. If the func calls aren't inlined/removed I don't think it would be good enough perf wise.
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Perhaps the person's experience diminishes slowly as each part is replaced, until he is finally snuffed out without anyone noticing :)

reminds me of "how to get ahead in advertising", or William Burroughs' "Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk" heh..

It's a fascinating question.
I don't get if you imply that Clojure has pervasive laziness or not. The contract of lazy sequences is too loose to make tying the knot not a brittle hack -- and I think it's a good thing.
Yeah a person could write trash like this all day long.

"If humans are such a great species, how come I don't like rabbits?"

"Mother Theresa talks a good game. If that's true, why was Hitler such a bad person?"

This is a terrible essay.
It's not a "stereotype" when it's enforced with the full weight of the law in some cases and by self censorship in many others.

If Google and Apple feel the need to restrict adult content to the level they do it's not really a stereotype; it's a real problem.
I'm logged in but still get the error, although my account has very little activity (i only use it for dev purposes).
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As a sysadmin, the major problem is if two clients happen to have emergencies at the same time (DDoS, phishing hack, hardware failure, or something else that's hard to mitigate in advance without more money than such a client is prepared to spend).
Ok, yes, I post way too many cats. Way too many.
Oh but they don't have verbs! http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/execution-in-kingd...
Or even a "semi-sequential downloading", X% of the bytes are sequential (say to get smooth streaming), the others are normally downloaded.
I'm using dwm with the flextile and systray patches.
Nationality is a pretty common way, if not the most common way to describe someone. What's wrong with it's inclusion?
The old new method of self-improvement, daily small steps.
I feel unhappy every day because I'm not where I thought I should be at this point in time. Salaries are underwhelming, living is expensive and everyone is fighting for the same jobs.

Also, I'm 28 and starting year 2 of a CS degree. I wish I started 5 years ago, even though I spent the last 5 1/2 years before uni working as a dev.

It's hard being gen-y :)
We're talking about a British article on an international forum, I think it's fair to not assume an American perspective and vocabulary.
if one would use projects like this or pass for storing website passwords, what more do those programs offer that firefox sync does not? legitimately asking here..
Oh wow that was amazing! I wonder how they tackled that too
To google's credit it keeps the organic search and the paid search separate and everyone knows the paid results are 'bribed(through a fucking API)' as you put it. To me when that came it that was great - I think the biggest competitor at the time Google came in was Yahoo which I think allowed straight bribery in the main results and most other information came through main stream media, in my case in the UK things like the Guardian and the BBC which were ok but had an official kind of politically correct line and not much coverage of anything else. I'm not quite sure how Google could do better while still making money. Perhaps if they allowed people to rate the paid ads as good or rubbish etc.?
Is ergodicity a reasonable hypothesis?
but, to be fair, you've obviously had lots of experience, and understand a great deal more about formal languages and how they translate to something that is trivially parsed, than the majority of people who will read this article. should they attempt a language, they'll likely fail to produce a working parser long before they spendthe rest of the hours on it.
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How hard is it to roll your own version of AWS's security groups? I want to set up a Storm cluster, but the methods I have come up with for firewalling it while preserving elasticity all seem a bit fragile.
Libertarianism is a scapegoat here. These people are all Democrats. More or less in the same vein as all the Democrats on Wall Street.
And, in the UK it had the impact of ensuring that the conservative government led by Thatcher won at least another election. Before the war it wasn't looking that good, but due to the patriotic pay-off from the conflict her popularity numbers shot up.

So there you go, as long as you 'win' a war it's beneficial to your election chances. We're all tribal underneath!
That is the "I think therefore I am" approach. Once, this approach led me to a fun conclusion:

I think, therefore I am. However, I also observe what seem to be many consciousnesses. If I am the only provable consciousness, then I also am all the other consciousnesses. How can that be? By the Fermi paradox, I must be the first consciousness. If that is so, the most probable sequence of events is that I (my consciousness) appeared into the the void by pure randomness. Then I got bored, and created all this to pass the time. I am you, and I am every conscious being out there (so, that's why there is this "do unto others" golden rule!)

This is kind of the unified theory of all religions, from mid-eastern origin all the way to Buddhism.

Religion: solved. Now, on to the unified theory of physics.
My "Lookback" was beautiful; brought back some memories. Made me realise how much my life changed in 6 years.

As for your question, they are not generating it for every user; my test account doesn't have it. It's a 5 years old account.
You might wanna take a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG71U
Personally I would not mind using my own machine. I think your choice of computer is a personal thing. Some like smaller more portable other like the bigger (as we all know bigger is better).

I would prefer being given $500 and being told get yourself the equipment you need be it a chair, desk, keyboard, mouse. Whet ever is going to make your life the easiest.

There is no point in having a lovely laptop if you get back troubles because your desk and chair are not up to the job.
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When a troll calls accuses someone else of trolling, you know you are living in a lunatic asylum.
> What's that mean, even?

A directly accessible computer hooked to your brain, to augment your processing capabilities rather than just memory.
Yeah devtree was what I was thinking of. And yes, Mir was the reason given to me, though these are just devs, not spokespeople for Canonical.

Also, I just giggled, cause I just remembered we have "streaming" in X as is, from decades back... Though it's not quite the same thing I suppose!
A node library for Busylight (usb LED + ringer)
Are you including the time taken to make the parser produce helpful error messages? That always seems like the hard bit to me ...
You're claiming that 20m people in the US have died from malaria since DDT was banned? Because the scientists who got DDT banned in the US never pushed for it to be banned for fighting malaria in countries with malaria problems, and it in fact was never banned for this purpose. You're just spreading the same bullshit corporate propaganda this article is about.
Does anyone even still use a Kindle?

Only pretty much everyone I know who buys e-books. For them Kindle is synonymous with e-book reader.

The good thing about Kindle is that everything you buy from the Amazon-store can easily and almost automatically have its DRM stripped.

That's not true (or at least not near as seamless) for any other sort of DRMed e-book solution I've seen.
Eh? They have been on Hn several times before you know. Several blogs too. Don't you remember their other Product? The Pencil?
they've also posted on their blog: http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/graphene-circu...
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The whole problem is that no one tries to use iMessage, the texts just get automatically converted and sent over that system when you are both on apple devices.
I was a huge apple fan when they were the underdog, but they are getting a little too big now. iO$ is still the best target operating system for developers, I just wish I didn't like apple's products so much.
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Does anyone know how good the transcoding is on the stream? I torrent a lot of x264 video with multiple complex ASS subtitles in the MKV container, so it'd be nice if it handled those.
> Edit: It's still the same even after logging in.

Same for me
Believe it or not, many of those programs childcare programs are for anybody regardless of income. Yeah, I'm speaking as someone who has gone to MANY of them. We had one that was completely free for anyone who lived in the county and there was tons of middle class people who lived in the county, probably more middle class than poor people. The well off don't want to send their kids there, they want to spend time on a waiting list to send their kids to an expensive but "good" childcare place. Same as they want them to go to a "good" school, so they spend twice as much in housing.
The biggest issue is the glorification of web-development. It's just a GUI layer in a weak script language in the end of day. Just pick any framework you like at the moment, there will ten new ones by the time your next project starts.
Bill Gates' quote rings so true here:

"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
The math is very simple: register spill is the same, GCC generates 7 vaddsd and 9 vmulsd. ICC generates 7 vaddsd and 15 vmulsd. addsd latency is 3, mulsd latency is 5. There are multiple add-multiply units on intel CPUs, but this code loads them all, so ICC should be 30% slower with this assembly.

> Maybe ICPC is inlining things

Check this. Looks like it generates vectorized code. I don't have Intel compiler, so all I can do here is to read assembly.

> having looked at a fair amount of generated SIMD x64 assembly

There are no SIMD in any of your asm files. All these sin1-sin7 functions accept only one double and return only one result. They work with 128-bit operands, but only the first 64-bit part contain values for operations.
"Your ill-advised actions also play to some of the most basic fears among some citizens, which is that a police officer may indiscriminately exercise his or her power in violation of their rights," Urquharts discipline letter continues. He explains people fear that "in the event of a complaint, the officer will just deny the allegations and 'circle the wagons' with his or her fellow officers with the expectation they will take care of their own. In a matter of minutes, your actions violated the trust that we, as a department, spend years trying to build and maintain."

Heartening.
What do you mean by learned data?
Wait, I don't get it. This is basically the same as running a server with a torrent daemon (like Transmission) on it, except you pay them instead of get your own server?

Also their arguments are somewhat invalid:

> People sharing your internet connection. They hate you! With put.io, you won't disturb them, because you won't be hogging all the bandwidth.

It doesn't matter whether I download 18GB from http(s) or from a torrent, the data remains the same size, except you can usually limit the torrent traffic whereas most people wouldn't know how to limit http(s) traffic in their browser.

> Watch RSS feeds

My torrent server does that too, but I never use it anyway

> Huge torrents are hard to get

Why?

> Get to your files from anywhere

Okay this is the only advantage if you don't have your own server.
No. They shouldn't. They are publicly funded so efficiency of cash flow is important. No reward should be required in this circumstance apart from perhaps an acknowledgement.

They should operate an open submission policy though i.e. a bug report form and actually feed back to people.
I'm curious why you don't buy the "we're all criminals" line? Since the federal government cannot even produce the number of current federal crimes, it's at least fair to say none of us can possibly know that we're not criminals. I have a pretty good memory, but I can't even remember all the criminal offenses in my city's municipal code, much less the state and federal codes and statues. I'm sure I've broken enough laws to rack up at least a 100 years of sentences if every infraction was automatically prosecuted with the maximum sentence.
Redis 2.8.5 is out
Please reconsider using an flipped beats logo (cringe).
Full consistency lag on eventually consistent systems
KeePass can copy to clipboard or do autotype. And I'd say every password manager has to make sure to clear the clipboard afterwards in such cases. This is basic and bog-standard functionality which was present in every password manager I used so far.
I just don't see how this is something to celebrate. Facebook is an awful company and an awful product.
Not sure - I'd have to do the math on the shipping, because I hardly ever use the streaming service.
The fallacy underlying the claim that piracy hurts artists is that, but for that pirated copy, the artist would have sold that copy at full price.
I don't think they look at it like that themselves though...
Well, electricity is made out of rotating things if you strap a magnet to them somewhere ;).
Maybe they are hiring people to implement features that are completely useless in production code but are nice to implement?

PS: why do you even need to ask JS developers puzzles - all the most difficult problems are on server-side anyway (unless it is Node.js of course).
It is great that in this case the policeman was sacked but I get the impression it was because he lied afterwards.

Police in the UK and US continually treat citizens as beneath them and with contempt - he should have been sacked because he was rude and wrong, not because he lied.
There's a similar situation in finance - Goldman is known to pay slightly below market to entry-level/junior employees, and the gaps swings the other way with senior employees who make above market on average.
The way I view consciousness is that it's outside of the physical world, but it can directly interact with something physical – the brain. The interaction can go both ways. Physical world can obviously affect consciousness, if I put alcohol into my brain, my consciousness changes. But consciousness can also "push" physical particles in the brain. One possibility is that this happens through quantum phenomena that are supposedly random according to current theory. Or perhaps the brain just pushes atoms. Either way, this should be testable in the future.

If you accept this view on consciousness, you can conclude that a deterministic system cannot be consciouss.

Of course, you'll probably argue that my view on consciousness is ridiculously unfounded. I disagree, I think there are very strong arguments for it :) A very brief version: (1) There are good reasons to believe that consciousness is more than a complex interaction of physical particles. But physical particles can affect consicousness, so the mind is at least a passive observer. (2) It's actually an active observer, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this. (3) If it's an active observer, the mind must have a way to affect brain's matter.
Now we have to filter ICMP packets too?

Run to the hills!
NeXT DBKit, 1992 or so, had a CSV adapter as well.
This makes me feel old
eh, that one's real. It's a wedge issue, and there are not entirely unreasonable libertarian arguments for IP. I happen to totally disagree with them, because they're wrong, but I sympathize with the libertarian that believes in IP.
I routinely use it for entering passwords to SSH or RDP sessions, and various other non-web passwords. Why would auto-type work only on the web anyway? You can also customise how the password is entered depending on where you invoke auto-type, e.g. if you need username/password, separated with a tab key in one place, but only the password in another.
pretty amazing, how fast this is becoming industrialized...
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Here's another example of a bicycle powered washing machine - in this case, using the tub and impeller from one commercial machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYmK9Rsh4Pg
awk. :-)
And DNS: http://code.kryo.se/iodine/

It even works using a "complacent" recursive resolver, without direct connection.
Because it's so good
I've had the watch for some months now, and it works great with Android! With 4.3 and up, use can dismiss notifications on the pebble and they will be dismissed on the phone as well (using Notification Center). I use it to set timers on the watch (using Simply Alarm Holo) and also recently I've using it to track sleep with the Sleep as Android integration. And the biggest attraction to me for it is that with PebbleTasker you can trigger any Taskeer task you have set up to do pretty much anything you can think on your phone.
I loved it! And still do, but sadly I moved to a RPi/XBMC/transmission/SickBeard/Couchpotato setup which was very easy to setup using xbian, thus not using showRSS anymore. The raspberry is a bit underpowered (according to me) though, so I'm thinking about replacing SickBeard with showRSS again. Pitty there isn't a good & easy way to do it. (not that I'm afraid of doing it all manually).

Perhaps also interesting, before using showRSS I was using TVshowsApp (http://tvshowsapp.com/).

Something I'm missing from showRSS btw, is the ability to browse trough all episodes/seasons and be able to select an episode/season to be added to the RSS-queue, so my downloading box would fetch it next time it checks the feed. But than, showRSS does one thing very well, so I'm not sure more features like that would be helpful for everyone.
The name "putio" sucks. It's sounds like the spanish word "puto" (that means faggot) I think the service is great, though
hey, no physical violence please, psychological one will do!

Yes, because physical violence is provable, psychological violence is easier to fabricate. If the state cannot satisfy a certain level of probity, then it should stay out for the risk of making the accused a victim of physical violence.

That doesn't make psychological damage is morally acceptable, it just means as a society we should find another means of punishing it that doesn't involve the state.