skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "Social Justice Warrior" is what happens when you take liberalism to an extreme. When you take Conservatism to an extreme you end up with "Religious Patriotic Fanatics" who desperately want to be their own group's hero at the expense of other groups. While Social Justice Warriors desperately want to be someone else's hero at their own group's expense.

Both are extremes, unhealthy, and start out with good intentions. Social Justice Warriors often times fantasize about making bullying, name calling, and stereotyping illegal. They can be found in high concentration at places like Reddit, Vice, & Gawker Media sites constantly talking about race/gender/class while ignoring statistics on race/gender/class. They demand that you are politically correct in everything you say. Their favorite insults are "you're racist" and "you're sexist". Basically "the thought police".

Example; When Paul Graham of Y-Combinator mentioned how strong foreign accents can hinder a founder's ability to communicate with his team (which is common sense) he was attacked by silicon valley news outlets for being anti-immigrant, possibly racist, and xenophobic. When he later gave his opinion on why there's so few women in tech he was again attacked and called sexist. This is the problem with Social Justice Warriors, they are warriors, warriors are willing to go to extremes to achieve hero status.

In moderation social justice isn't bad. Religion or patriotism isn't bad either. Neither is conservatism or liberalism. But when taken to an extreme these ideologies end up becoming illogical, irrational, and causing damage to a society's expressive or civil freedoms.
There's also the distinction between x = (3) and x = (3,)
One reason I loved the original Tribes game where the main weapons were slow moving like the spinfusor and grenade launchers.

That, coupled with the high mobility (Jetpacks!) of the players lead to real duels that could last a while.
I don't know anything about build quality or customer satisfaction, but this video gives you an excellent idea how they sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pK7QbLNjno — try to listen to the demo with relatively neutral headphones. FWIW, I listened to Beats at an Apple store, and the video fits nicely with my impressions.
That link in (in the article itself) indicates that most do (but I've never been on a rear-to-front flight myself either):

with rear to front being,
Air Canada
Alaska
American
British Airways
Continental
Frontier
JetBlue
Spirit
Virgin Atlantic
Forgive the TL;DR; - the examples on the site don't include any image inserting. How would I go about adding image insertion capability? Would the idea be that I build/find an image handler plugin module and add it in?
Severance is compensation. Compensation is a contracts issue, done at market terms. His first point captures all the ethical concerns required to fairly negotiate contracts. Near as I can tell, formal severance guarantees are also rare, meaning that you're often negotiating for it against other candidates who won't demand it.

Employees aren't intrinsically entitled to severance pay, as some sort of natural law of business.

Another way to rebut the idea that severance is an ethical requirement is to say that the same ethics would demand giving engineers raises, or paying them the maximum amount the business can bear paying. That's sometimes true, but often not, depending on the role of engineering in the company.
If anyone's interested in two-way markdown/HTML editing, give visual-marks.com a try, it syncs contents both way.
With realestate, you make your money whwn you buy the place, not when you sell it.

Also, with flipping houses, the adage that time is money rings very very true. Each month paying a mortgage,and interest is money thrown out, and mostly lost opportunity. For example, if you can make 10k from a flip after costs, but it takes 6 months, as opposed to making 5k from a flip after costs, but with a 1 month turnaround, you can see which strategy wins out.

For selling, location will be a bigger determinant of liquidity than your ability to sell it.

If you want to do construction, I would learn on small projects as opposed to fixer-upper houses.
I agree. If they can't build a streaming service on the back of itunes, why would they need beats?

I'm sure Beats, Pandora, Spotify, or any other streaming service would have killed to launch with the full support of the iTunes ecosystem.
Michael Graziano's theory that consciousness is computed awareness of attention suggests a far more interesting and perhaps computable solution.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223025/pdf/nihm...

http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Social-Brain-Michael-Gra...
Outside of Siri, are there any acquisitions in recent memory from which they've kept and leveraged the branding? This seems surprising as at least the physical Beats products are more of a triumph of marketing than engineering.
This is going to sound pretty absurd, but I have this unscientific hypothesis about what consciousness really is.

I believe there is a chance that consciousness is a requirement for a universe to exist. Without consciousness the universe exists as random information, contained within some infinite outside universe, where there is no time or space.

So imagine this infinite outside universe full of all possible information, it exists in some metaphysical location, it has always existed and it will always exist. All this data makes zero sense and has zero purpose. Within this information exist patterns of every kind, everything real and not real is there. However for this data to become expressed, a conscious entity is required to exist inside of this data for the overall universe to place it in some sort of order.

Therefore consciousness acts as a binder of random information, for this very conscious entity to exist some of this infinite information must be placed in a coherent order. So in this view, the start of the universe does not occur with the big bang, but with the first conscious entity. After this point, for consciousness to continue to exist, it must have a narrative based on fundamental laws which explain how it came into existence. All of history is created after the first conscious entity appears, the formation of the planets, evolution, etc.

To better understand this, imagine a roll of film. You take each frame of this film and make it a separate slide. If you shuffle all these separate film slides and ask someone to view them in no given order, it would make very little sense of what the storyline is. However if you let them sort this information, they might be able to arrange this film in a continuous and coherent storyline. Similarly each planck time of our universe is a separate slide of information which exists in infinity. If a conscious entity exists in that frame the universe must provide a coherent storyline for that entity. Therefore additional frames are pulled out from infinity to allow consciousness to glide through infinity and essentially exist.

I hope that made sense, if I have failed to explain it I apologize.
They all look clunky and unrefined.
Not trying to be difficult; just pointing out that language cannot work apart from PNC.
I use iTunes Match and iTunes radio, and still use Spotify to be able to search and play any song I want without having to buy it.
The Way the NSA Uses Section 702 is Deeply Troubling. Here’s Why.
Wouldn't the point of YC's investment and share have been to help and teach them how to work out SEO (in addition to other things) so that they could beat Yelp? (if truly Yelp is a competitor)

Isn't the point of YC to pick and help startups that will elucidate a path to rapid, lasting growth?

That reason for rejection doesn't make sense, unless one is to believe that nobody can ever build a successful specialized directory because Yelp is already and will always be king of the world. Did YC invite them because they were somehow going to be the New Yelp?
By that logic, you can't even assume that other humans experience consciousness. You are effectively defining consciousness as your own consciousness alone. By that definition, it follows that consciousness cannot be computed because you wouldn't experience it. I don't think this is the definition most people have in mind though.
Chrome's PDF renderer runs inside a NaCl sandbox, where any potentially unsafe machine operations are checked before execution. That's arguably _harder_ to break out of than Firefox's Javascript sandbox.
Civil lawsuits indicate disagreement.

It might be more on track to say that criminal lawsuits indicate criminal activity, since DAs are only supposed to commence with prosecution when they believe that the law has been broken and when they can prove it. It's a safe bet that the majority of people criminally accused actually did what happened. But it violates the spirit of innocent until proven guilty, where even after an investigation the state must still convince a jury of the defendant's peers beyond a reasonable doubt.

So that's just to contrast with civil lawsuits. There is essentially no bar at all for those.
Whatever he means, there are also a lot of slow PDF's when googling:

controller site:automationdirect.com filetype:pdf
Apple saved the music business with iTunes. Why do they need Jimmy Iovine's connections? I don't see why they need Jimmy Iovine for anything.
So I wrote a longer piece, and then realized that their whole premise is simply incorrect. Our brain lies to us and fills in the gaps all the time. We do not have perfect memory and continually deal with lossy information integration. The idea that consciousness is lossless is basically a straw man. I think it is fair to say that the brain enforces consistency of representations of the universe and in that way provides something that appears to be unitary, but it does so by discarding lots of information. Furthermore it is pretty clear that we do not have lossless memory. Any cursory look at the literature on eyewitness testimony will show this.

TL;DR The brain lies to us all the time. Just consider the blind spot. Our unitary perception of the universe is an illusion and there is enormous information loss on the way from the sensory environment to motor output.
I remember reading "Latency Mitigation Strategies", by Carmack. It doesn't mention the Oculus except in an acknowledgment at the end, but it might be about the same thing lifeisstillgood is talking about:

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/02/22/latency-mitigation-...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5265513
The "prefab in a day guy" did build a 15-story hotel in two days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Sustainable_Building

He's now trying to build the world's tallest building with the same method, and while construction hasn't started, it's a lot less vaporware than this high-speed rail project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_%28Changsha%29
> Is Frodo conscious? Probably not.

How do you know?

> I'd say that act of computation has more to say about consciousness that the actual result itself.

And what is the act of computation? Is it not just a progression of relationships in the physical world? Surely consciousness doesn't require an observer to look at the atoms bouncing around in the computer to decide that they are simulation of Frodo. Surely it's just the evolving relationship between the atoms that's all that matters. If we could interpret any physical system as evolving in a way that's isomorphic to a brain, shouldn't that also produce consciousness? Maybe at the end of the day consciousness is just the "existence" (whatever that means) of a certain Turing machine or number.

And if all of your understanding of this world is based on the state of your brain now, then isn't it a simpler explanation that now and your impression of consciousness, in this moment, is all that really exists?

A philosopher is someone bright enough to pose such questions and dim enough to pursue their answers.
>>Amazing how we assume there is a need to board the plane >>faster

I agree. For all I know, it's part of their business model to make a small profit off of selling fast-passes.
Take a look at StumpWM. IIRC it's done by the author of ratpoison.

Bonus: If you're an Emacs user the interface/keyboard shortcuts should make you feel at home (or so I've heard).
Yeah, I realize they're having a problem with that, though I'm not sure what they expected. Young people don't exactly jump at the chance to pay for something they don't want on a deadline.
You are approaching philosophical zombies!

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
If I ask you to be my reference then you can say "Sorry mate I won't give you a positive reference because I don't believe you produce quality work. HR can confirm your start and finish date but if they talk to me I won't have anything positive to say." And that's completely ethical.

On the other hand if you say "Yeah great mate no problem" and then tell my potential new employer they shouldn't hire me you are acting like a scumbag.
sorry if I came across as difficult; honestly not my intention.
I think any sane or even insane person knows the human brain is nowhere close to a lossless integrative device.
Vermont v science
Consciousness is very probably a computing process directly reliant on quantum effects. As such it wouldn't be directly computable any more than any quantum system is.
Unreal Engine 4 Roadmap
You can only share the source code with other Unreal Engine licensee who is authorized to access the same version of the engine as yours, and if you copy and paste the Unreal Engine code into your own project or engine, the your product will be governed by the EULA and royalties will have to be paid.

TLDR: This is non-free. It is not open source, its not free software, and it is unlikely to ever exist in distributions like Debian and Ubuntu.
Isn't consciousness itself a pattern in that infinitely possible universe of yours? It's kind of a circular argument you're making. If you have no constraints then anything is possible, including consciousness.
That guy is an absolute machine
>It comes from electrochemical reactions in your brain

This isn't an explanation. None of it answers the interesting questions.

How and why do computers work? Well they are made of atoms and run on electricity. They do useful work and we call it computation.

This is all true and important to understand, but it is filling a slot that needs to be filled with things like computability theory.

I'm not sure what was meant by nonphysical property, but many materialists disagree over whether consciousness can be copied like a text, or is necessarily destroyed as a book is.
OnePlus One review: a $300 smartphone has never looked so good
Not every possible thing in the universe should be seen through the filter of "how will this affect the people who are in The Other Tribe." It's not healthy.
I haven't used my account and don't care about it, am I at risk if I dont do this?
If Goldman also paid off the police they could make a killing on this.
Widely debated by whom? These other philosophies are useless for trying to figure out how consciousness (or anything, for that matter) actually works, as nothing they explain is falsifiable in any way.

I may as well argue about how many angels fit on the head of pin—some will find the topic fascinating, but at the end of the day it doesn't actually reveal anything useful about the world.
The Navy's new, secure e-readers are called NeRD
There's no way to create that book without doing the calculations from each tick to the next. So when you put it into the computer, it's just repeating the calculations done the first time in the creation of the book.

I do think your broader point about the importance computation is correct nonetheless. Though it gets more confusing when you start thinking about what computation actually is, or about the possibility of Boltzmann brains ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain )
Reporting bugs in Firefox is intimidating to say the least. Will a bug filed at GitHub like https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/4761 still reach the right place?

bgirard's profiling work in this thread has been amazing, but I don't think I have the knowledge to interpret the profiler results well enough to file bugs on slow PDFs. A way to post "slow" PDFs to be picked up by pdf.js developers would help.
"You are effectively defining consciousness as your own consciousness alone."

That is a good point, and it bothered me for some period of time, but there is a way to resolve it.

First, we have to recognize that "your own consciousness" is a dualistic framework that assumes that there is a subject (observer) and object (observed).

If you do not assume experience to be "my experience", but rather experience that simply knows itself, then we can see that all experiences are simply known of themselves.
When hearing a sound, there is just the sound. No hearer.
When seeing the sight, there is just the sight. No seer.
When feeling the sensation, there is just the sensation. No feeler.

Why is it then that the feeling and the seeing seem to be occurring to "me" when they are in actuality simply occurring to themselves? It is because this self-known experiences are highly integrated with each other within this body.
I assume that you too are having experiences that are not "happening to you", but are rather self known. So your hearing is just the heard. Your seeing is just the seen. Since "your" seen and "my" seen are not integrated, they appear to be happening "over there" and "over here".

But, due to this lack of integration, I ultimately can not be sure that there are other experiences out there, but it seems like a good pragmatic assumption :-)
Planes get about 90 mpg, and trains about 450. The difference is there, but it's not all that dramatic. It's enough to have a difference in cost, but not a difference in availability.

Planes are more efficient than cars, so why do you think aviation of all things will become too expensive to be viable?

You have an unrealistically pessimistic view on things. Fuel will only get cheaper, not more expensive.
That also applies to "Not behaving in a way that damages the reputation of his/her company or of YC."

I agree with what you say downthread about "the demands of honesty", and so insofar as mchurch believes what you believe he believes, I disagree with him (ha, how convoluted).

But I think that it's an ethical issue to grant employees and ex-employees the same sort of reputational respect that you would grant your company, or YC, etc.
The elephant in the room there is the importance of tooling. Consider, explosions and explosive chemicals are themselves ridiculously dangerous and for the most part to be avoided. However, with the proper tooling and use, one can use them to accomplish some fairly amazing things.

That is, many of the "safer" languages try to get by with disallowing explosive and dangerous constructs. With some of the more advanced tooling that is available and good discipline, one can still do some amazing things with them.
My experience: using paypal is so confusing for me, compared to alipay. And ebay makes you uncomfortable and doubting your purchase decision more than taobao.

I think it partially explains Alibaba's success in China. how you do shopping and paying is very much dependent on the "tradition" and regulation environment, and a local company can optimize that better than a global one.

Aliexpress is a mess though, i agree with that. But I think the language barrier faced by the shop owners there may be the biggest problem.
This Parking Lot Is Paved With Solar Panels
Crashing tech stocks close the IPO window
I would consider it somewhat harder. However, that's only after assuming that the author of the document has managed to get the PDF reader to start running arbitrary C and JavaScript code within the sandboxes, respectively. Because JavaScript is a fundamentally memory safe language, it is drastically less likely for a document parser written in JavaScript to end up running arbitrary code from the document than the equivalent in C.

Not that it matters in this case, since an attacker can just hand you a HTML page and run JavaScript that way, but it's worth noting that parsing in a high-level language is an accomplishment in general.
Techniques like superresolution make this quite possible from a grainy video image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superresolution
What are the data structures that you think every entry level dev should have a solid conceptual grasp on?
You get the ... professionalism and expertise of a cab driver

Hmmmm, that's usually stated in inverted commas and the precise argument why Uber/Lyft is better.
One question I would pose to the infinite turing tape consciousness argument is whether or not experience is falsifiable, and is it falsifiable at the level of the micro and macro?

If we cannot derive precise atomic movements of a mass (a brain), which I believe is impossible due to the nature of measurement at a QM level, Then how can we make statements (programs) that mimic a computation occurring, potentially, beyond that threshold of falsifiability? It seems we are definitionally cordoning off where and how computation occurs in consciousness.
How does this apply to AirBnB?
Portland experiments with secondary housing units on small lots
Fun fact: Beats' industrial design lead is Robert Brunner, Jony Ive's predecessor as Director of Industrial Design at Apple.
We have no reason to believe == we have no way of knowing?
Indeed, pure Java crypto libraries (Bouncy Castle) were really nice a few weeks ago. When other languages/frameworks are wrapping or calling openssl, it's a really nice feeling to have a common crypto algorithms implemented in your languge/platform. Same goes for image encoding/decoding, database access, lots of examples.

Plus, there's the benefit of (essentially) standard builds, project layout, dependency management, and deployment strategies (jar or war). A java developer can walk into a new job and be productive right away.
Seriously! I would love to spend one evening in that guy's brain.
The Yin Programming Language
I wasn't laughing about that project, and I don't remember anyone else who was. A lot of people were surprised it hadn't been done sooner, as an assertion of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. The desire to reinforce the territorial claim to Tibet was why all the considerable engineering difficulties were overcome with sufficient resources to push through the project.
I think it's a bit of the opposite -- as the economy gets better (or in some cases, "better"), there's more people willing to take the risk rather than keep their heads down, which is going to produce a lot more hopefuls that aren't quite as good vs. those who would rather polish things and wait for the better bet (whether that be an improved economy or a better pitch).
Bose professional and aviation products are actually superior to Apple quality. Their consumer noise canceling is pretty good. I agree about their consumer speakers.
Amazing work! I'll be on the Online Ads team at Facebook, Menlo Park this summer. It would be great to get some tips from you on how to have an impactful time at Facebook! I'm a little nervous as this is my first software engineering internship.
Goldman actually makes a huge number of these kinds of investments every year, and has since at least 2001.

http://www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/investing-and-lending...
You could easily use a + operator then.
I find the behavior surprising. I would expect a syntax error. You get a syntax error if you write two integers next to each other (separated by a space) or two of any other thing but somehow "a" "b" got converted to "ab".
If I've discovered it myself I would be tempted to fill a bug report. It goes against Python mantra:

"Explicit is better than implicit"

It seems someone thought along similar lines and took action: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3126/ but the issue got rejected.
Fraud is so rampant, that all of Paypal's competitors were either more worrisome or got defrauded to death. Paypal found the very narrow area where you can be careful enough to be profitable without chasing away all of your customers.