skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if the substrate had artificial neurons, that could do everything normal neurons could, then it's plausible that consciousness could copy everything over. At that point, the only thing binding consciousness is the 'idea' that it belongs to the cells.

If you separated them before the host dies, then you'd have copied the consciousness into the substrate, and they would exist separately until you reattached it.

Wait until the host dies, then the consciousness would experience that death yet still persist. It would carry on experiencing through whatever senses the substrate offers.

Notice that it's not just a signal being transferred, it's the actual mechanics of consciousness, neurons firing and communicating. When the substrate, connected to the brain, communicates, it's just as if you added brain cells. So it's not just a signal, it's actual thought.
Yes, though the off-course radar contacts were eventually acknowledged after having been reported, and then completely denied.

From the New York Times: "On Wednesday, after four days of reticence and evasive answers, the Malaysian military acknowledged that it had recorded, but initially ignored, radar signals that could have prompted a mission to intercept and track the missing jetliner. The radar data vastly expanded the area where the plane, which took off early Saturday from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, might have traveled." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/asia/missing-malaysi...

With that track record it's hard to know whether to credit the Malaysian government's vehement denials.
I try and walk down at least one new street a week (preferably per day but that can be tricky during the work week.) London does make this easy, mind.
It gets worse. I'm bilingual since childhood. I mostly speak English.

People can very obviously tell that the second language is not my native tongue. This is after 30 years of using it.

It comes down to how much of your day is spent conversing in a language, I'd guess that if it's less than 20% it's a dead giveaway. Speaking to adults is completely different than speaking to children.

The Pareto principle he cites is actually deceiving. Yes learning 20% of the vocab gives you 80% of the commonly used words. Now try and go to 90%. If I remember you have to double effort. So e.g. if 80% is 1500 words, 90% is 3000, 95% is 6000, 97% is 12000, etc. It's diminishing returns.

The problem is to have adults conversations all the time you probably need a vocabulary of around 6000 words, depending on the context of the conversation.

Ever hear what a foreigner sounds like when they speak broken English or English with a strong accent? That's exactly what you sound like when you're talking to someone else in their language. Like some complete retard. Mess up one single thing or say something unidiomatic and the show's over. If they feel their English is better they'll switch immediately, but just keep going and hopefully they'll switch back.
No true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.
Probably not actually a lot of people. Most likely most people will continue their subscriptions. And if you haven't cancelled already, I'd be surprised if you actually did, even with what you said. It's just human nature. You'll put it off. You'll forget about your rage daycamping. And 6 months from now, when you accidentally look at your credit card statement, you'll say to yourself "I really should cancel Prime" and go back to playing Flappy Bird instead.
The free shipping isn't 2 day I don't think
The requested URL /2014/03/12/why-you-might-not-want-to-incorporate-in-the-usa/ was not found on this server.
my impression is that quite a lot of the time, people get away with selling pigs. Lipstick can be really distracting
I didn't. I joined to keep up with a few friends and family, and they uploaded photos with me in them, nicely tagged.
It's a great machine for playing and devving games for old machines. Made an MSX Dots (see itunes) clone on JFK on a 9 our lay over :)
Its not incorporation itself that attracts patent trolls. They go after the scent of money. Like, after you announce a round of funding, a troll will suddenly realize you are 'infringing' on their patents.
You will be surprised that my wife buys items worth $2.99 from amazon at times. Sometimes, it is not possible to bunch orders together because it is all "on demand". Because we have prime, we don't care about whether it is 1 item or 5 items in same shipment. So our orders could look like ($2.99, 1 item )on one day while it could be ($40+$6, 2 items) another day. Other than fixed subscriptions, our buying pattern is very random.

And Prime is not just about free shipping, but it is a lot more about "fast" shipping. I am not sure about non prime but I doubt that free shipping will be 2 day or less like Prime.
I would dispute the unreliability of the USPS based on my own anecdotal evidence. (FedEx/UPS was always iffy based on the driver)

But, assuming USPS is totally unreliable and packages go missing a lot, have you ever had Amazon NOT either refund or replace the item?

I ask because I 'received' a package via UPS with a GoPro and when I got home it was not there. I reported to Amazon and they shipped one out overnight to replace the missing item. That's just one of multiple instances of Amazon having an amazing policy regarding shipping and returns.
Well, I think marathon each day is possible. I believe that's not far from what average persistence hunter runs a day (I have not checked my facts however). Running 3-4 times that is impossible IMHO. I have found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_Ra...

It is 60 miles / day. Maybe it is upper limit?
This is definitively the wrong way to handle the problem he describes in the article. Even if you set this in the manifest you need to store your state and resume from it correctly. An orientation change is the most common configuration change that causes activities to be restarted, but is far from the only one.
I think this was his personal experience, or maybe his german level is too basic to be useful. I’m a brazilian living in Germany and people here are very open and forgiving about your german even if you are still learning and make a lot of mistakes, they really like their language and prefer it over english if it’s possible, at least that’s my experience.
The key question in my mind would be how predictable is the flow of WordPress projects? Is the flow steady? Also how much sales effort does it take to land the projects?

If the flow is reasonably steady and you know where and how you would market yourself and can discipline yourself on a sales process, it would seem you are ready to make the switch.

Another question you could ask yourself that might help clarify the situation is this: If I quit my full-time job and pursue the web design projects but find the flow of work is too uneven, how hard will it be to find a new full-time job at comparable rates? If you are convinced that it would be relatively easy to go back to full-time work if needed then make the jump to freelance work.

Also consider cost of living. Are you able to live on $500 to $600 a month, or do you need the full $1100 that you are currently making?
I'm contemplating walking the Scottish National Trail (http://www.scottishnationaltrail.org.uk/) - backpacking and using bothies (http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/).

I've walked a fair bit of this trail before - at least the bits in the Highlands and walking it in one go would be rather cool.

Cycling round the North Sea would be rather interesting as well (http://www.northsea-cycle.com/).
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Well, as I said: For me it is the combination of these things.

Even if the content would be awesome: I cannot access it. Unless I own a particular brand of TVs, a weird Amazon tablet, an iOS device (all negative and no interest in any of these things) - how am I supposed to get that stuff on my TV (which happens to BE a 'smart' TV with optional internet connectivity, but it's offline for a very good reason)?
You get free shipping with orders over $35. After I heard they were going to increase the price I did a quick check on last year and found that I buy more than I thought on Amazon and if I just let stuff accumulate in the cart for on average less than a week I would have a cart that had free shipping.
The vast majority of orders did not need to get to my door in two days. (A common example was sure it was nice to get a book quickly, but I wasn't able to read it until the weekend anyway.)
So I won't renew my subscription and just let things accumulate for a few days at a time. The other thing I have noticed is that the last year I have been finding things cheaper on other sites, but continued to buy from Amazon only because of prime, now that reason goes away and I can support other on-line purchasing options. The most amusing thing about this was that it was only because of the price increase that I looked into my purchasing history. If they hadn't said anything I most likely would have let it continue auto renewing.

*The other two benefits both don't benefit me: video (I have netflix which last when I compared last fall is better) and the cheap upgrade for overnight (both times I have used this and really needed something it failed to get there overnight).
Do they know for sure it stopped transmitting? The problem with ADS-B is that it is lost over large ranges, like oceans.

A space-based system to track aircraft globally is currently in the works. http://www.aireon.com/Solutions/TheGlobalAdvantage

edit: Here is an informative ADS-B coverage map I found: http://uk.flightaware.com/adsb/coverage
It's nice to not aggregate your items. I looked at my prime history, and it's a combination of books, music, and household items that don't always meet the $35 free shipping (used to be $25 until Q4 last year). For example, my most recent purchase was a $15 book that I got on 2 day shipping.

Also the way free supersaver shipping works is that you wait 3 days or until the warehouse is low on work, whichever comes first, before they pick your order. You then have to wait for 3-5 day ground shipping. You can pay for shipping at any speed to avoid the product picking delay.
But it is not 90 miles / day. Still very impressive :)
Classy post by Amazon. Not a lot of marketing fluff about the added value of this price increase (many companies try to spin it). And a link to cancel on the page. It felt like I was being treated like a respected adult customer.
Just as a side note, the over $25 shipping is the slowest they can find. So if it is all books, it is media mail (which is _really_ slow), and otherwise it is whatever the slowest that UPS does (3-5 days), vs two day shipping on everything.
Exactly right. My budget walking in England (see my other comment here) was about 230 USD per day for two people; cycling in Malaysia it was 50 USD for the same.

If you're going to do this for a really long time, you may as well travel somewhere that will excite you, and where you can do it four times longer for the same money.
How does it compare to beanstalkd ?
There's some truth to it. Patent trolls are doing alot of the former (you don't hear from most of their victims, by design), and the latter is undisputably true unless you're over the age when social security payments and medicare coverage kick in.
True, but note that public transportation is much better, and riding your bicycle is easier. Denmark has one of the lowest daily commute times in the OECD countries according to the graph on http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2011/10/american-co...

Basicly any type of vehicle becomes twice as expensive

No, not vehicles used for business. The high taxes are on personal cars.
I agree. I just let mine lapse because they kept sending me packages via UPS SmartPost, and it was more often than not taking days(!) extra after the handoff to USPS for packages to arrive to my apartment.
Depends on who you are, and how good they know you. Germany is a country that historically had a lot of low skilled poorly educated immigrants working in professions that require almost no skills. Those people never really integrated (not always their fault).

When unknown person approach a German with broken/half-broken/non-perfect German skills, that German has immidiate prejudice about your social status and education level. If your friend is from Brasil, I guess skin colour also plays a role here. Happened to me numerous times. You will get much better treatment speaking English, since that level the playing fields and then they consider you as an equal. Also happened to me numerous times.

So yes, the only way to actually speak German in Germany and not be intimidated is to speak it with people that you already knows and you can consider friends.
This is NOT about PRO-Europe or PRO-USA. It is about how difficult the current government makes it to come to the US, build business and live there (as a European).

I personally know one CEO who runs a 80 Mil./year company in the USA, has 250 employees (3/4 are US citizens) but only received a green card or allowance to stay longer then one year in the USA 10 years into the business.

That said, you can't compare the USA with the European immigration laws. As an example, there are many Americans living in Berlin. The way you can live in Berlin is by flying to Berlin and show up at the immigration within a week and tell them that you want to move here, pay taxes and work. It is even easier if you already have an employment.

Additionally, there is something like a "Language" & "Artist" visa in Germany. Under these visa's you can simply stay and live here. You can even build businesses and start employing people.

That's Germany. Want to live in Denmark? Same there. Want to open a business and live in Switzerland. Go register yourself and work. Right, you cannot vote and don't have a nice "credit" but at least you are given the chance to build something.

Now, if there would be a startup-visa in the USA, I'm sure there would be many willing to move and try to build a business in the USA. But as it is now, you can't. I'm not taking way jobs from any US citizen, quite the contrary, we are hiring people and try to contribute to the US system.
A star behaves like a star, a pulsar behaves like a pulsar, etc. Of course, there's some random component, but those bodies do not go out emitting any random wave you can think about.

You won't get a WOW signal out of any know phenomenon. It does not matter how many of them you measure.
I think you guys are reading different parts of the article.

They present both results, supervised and unsupervised (where unsupervised uses the SFC dataset to train). They achieved 95.92% accuracy LFW with unsupervised (section 5.3) - so they can train on SFC and then classify a single image in a different domain with 95.92% accuracy.

They achieved the 97.25% accuracy level was achieved as you say, when they let the pairs into the training set. But they overfit with LFW alone, and has to add an additional 100k identities with more samples (30) per identity. A very impressive measure, but not quite as good as being able to generalize with 97% accuracy from a single training photo.
Oldie but relevant:
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=49&id=14#article
Different teams handle Scrum in totally different ways. On my previous project, it actually felt quick and light and agile. From one sprint to the next, we could switch to an entirely different sub-project, planning poker was quick, we never got around to backlog grooming, but somehow that wasn't a problem. We got lots of stuff done.

My current project feels more sluggish. Long planning meetings where just one or two people decide on the story points. Somehow we never really get all our stories done in our sprints. This isn't a big problem, but it makes you wonder how we plan this, and why we plan this.

The main differences I can tell between the two: this project we have a lot more documentation. All on wiki, but on the previous project, be barely had anything, and just asked people what the idea was and then did it. But my current project is at a bank, so it makes sense they want more planning and documentation, and less just figuring it out as we go.

At another job, our Scrum wasn't really Scrum. We had standups, but that was it. No sprints, no poker, no scrum board, no burn down charts. But what this article makes me realize is that that project may actually have been more agile. Very few formal planning meetings, lots of informal communication and programmers just doing what they're good at and calling the shots.
Seems to depend on the device. I have no issue using Amazon video on the PS3. As for total selection, I'd say it dwarfs Netflix's library, but you have to pay to rent/own most of it.
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Twitter crashes second time in nine days, blames software glitch
My theory - just made it up - a lightsaber is a hologram formed by phase conjugation of third-order non-linear vacuum polarization (chi-3). A fusion energy source emits gamma rays which form the hologram, and in turn the hologram shapes the beam, it's a feedback effect.

A lightsaber beam can block another light beam in the following way - the incoming beam acts as a wiggler for the lightsaber pump photons, which first get downshifted and then disintegrate into matter-antimatter pairs. The trick is to separate the matter from antimatter and channel them into the reactor. So firing at a lightsaber actually charges it.

The problem of course is conservation of momentum. To counteract the backwards jolt, a lightsaber creates a forward momentum impulse. This counteraction is not perfect, so Jedi are trained to maintain their balance in such situations.

When two lightsabers contact their beams are actually consumed by the other. That's why the Jedi/Sith can go on fighting forever, all the while throwing senate furniture at each other.
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Comment if you want one and hopefully someone within this thread will invite you.
Those dreams you're having are the "lost opportunity" dreams that any of us have from time to time. On a larger scale it is the same feeling that forces entrepreneurs to lose focus and expand into another product before their first MVP is done.

So, focus! Grow this side business until you _cannot afford_ to work at your $500 gig any more.
I'm curious, how have you built this?
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Yes. North Korea also appears to have been too far away: http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/AI-CH295_MALMAP_G_...

Of course, it could have been flown someplace else.
Show HN: YinYangPaint, an HTML5 image editor I made
Heck, why not just title it "a web server with no library function calls" and call an array of bytes as a function? Then everybody would be able to see what it really is, which is an unremarkable shellcode embedded directly in a C program. I feel like the "printf" was only included so that people would have something to recognize in the title.
Well, and also that the people who get stuck with the bill for fraud are not the same people who pay for the infrastructure.
I hate shopping in physical stores as I don't like crowds of people and find it a waste of my time. As a consequence, I order most things online. Over the years as a Prime member, I've saved an enormous amount of money in shipping.

If you cannot control your impulse buying in a store, what makes you think you can control it online any differently?

Where are you shopping that you can get free shipping for everything? Hell, even getting free shipping for anything before Prime came out was rare, at least for me. After Prime, many stores have shifted to offer free shipping to compete with Amazon. But still, finding everything you want online with free shipping is difficult or impossible. I know because I still find myself buying from other shops when Amazon doesn't carry something I need.
True but "ultramarathon" is "anything longer than a marathon" and 40-50mi/day easily disproves the "humans can't ultramarathon every day" statement.

I'd agree that it's very unlikely anyone could keep up 90mi/day for very long. If Karnazes can't ...
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Motivation, sure.
Full time focus during those three months. A lot of people will say that they've studied a language for a certain number of months or years but how many hours have they put in over that time?
I think the biggest thing is that you're likely seeing them after a few weeks in country, remember that these guys have to get out and do their pitch for 8+ hours a day, every day. So their command of basic greetings, introductions, and specialised religious and other context appropriate vocabulary would be expected to get better very quickly.
If you take the funeral industry's advice and guidance, you can indeed spend 10-20K on a funeral. We spent 10K on my grandma's and she already per purchased her plot of land. Her casket alone cost something like 5 grand.

Of course the funeral industry exists to make money. To convince you you need the expensive casket, the flower arrangements, and even the plot of land and headstone.

Reminds me of the wedding industry as well, which invented new "traditions" that one needs and also needs to spend money on.

Like anything, you don't need to spend 10 or 20 grand on a funeral, just most people want to for some reason. Perhaps a display of status? Social obligation? I don't know.

Personally, it is important for me when I go to be cremated as fast as possible. No embalming or viewing of the body (needless and creepy). If my family chooses to honor me by throwing a party, that would be nice, but that should only be a few hundred dollars. I don't want my body to be there though.
Email
Phone Calls
Github ( Source code hosting + Issue Tracker )
Skype
Google+ , Docs

Surprised that no one is mentioning email.
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The answer is that when there's 100+ planes parked at an airport it's confusing to have 100's of transponders on as other planes are trying to land.
Congrats - seems very interesting.

My initial impressions - in an unfiltered, stream-of-conciousness "Ignore if you like" form:

- Why would I pay a per month fee for an Excel add-in?

- The visual examples - the screen width was so wide that I had trouble grasping how I would use this to see the big picture without zooming out (as you did)

- At no point did I understand why I needed to use "the cloud" yet the pricing implies that I do

- The Prezi demo took a long time to load

- The Prezi demo showed me one thing: error handling. That's an edge case though isn't it? The question is, "Do most people who work with Excel spend most of their time trying to spot/correct errors in spreadsheets, or do they spend most of their time trying to understand the data in pristine spreadsheets?" I'd argue that it's the latter.

- I have absolutely no idea about how it works with a sample data set. This is very important to me.

That's just my random feedback. Maybe it's useful to you. it seems like a cool product.
It's not just fast but free shipping. For someone who orders from Amazon regularly throughout the year, that's the real value.

Also, Amazon has way more content on their video streaming service with the caveat that you have to pay to rent/own a lot of it. Agreed about the interface though, Amazon's app offerings for PS3/SmartTV have been subpar in comparison to Netflix though.
POS systems "battle hardened"? We're all paying through the nose right now because credit card companies refuse to update their POS POS magnetic stripe readers and pendants.
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It's also documented to be the wrong way to store state and a horrible idea.
A small bomb that can destroy an entire city? Did anyone actually predict the invention of them?