skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your presumption is that consciousness falls within the domain of physics, which is not by any means a good assumption.
Unintentionally a bit misleading, but not disingenuous. The market value for an ordinary TF2 weapon, on sites like http://scrap.tf/ but also in the TF2 aftermarket generally, is usually the equivalent of about $0.014 . One you have a basic acquaintance with TF2 trading, the idea of buying weapons at the official store is so outlandish that it had genuinely slipped my mind that it was even possible until you reminded me. (Even if you don't want to mess around with item crafting or trading with bots or humans, at Valve's other official item store you can buy a fancier, kill-counting version of that same weapon for 15% the price! http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/440/Strange%20Clea... ) I suppose there must be a significant number of people still doing it though.
I don't remember laughing about this. Building a train route overland isn't really that amazing, especially considering that we know how to deal with the permafrost these days. It would be totally possible to build a line from Beijing to Seattle, or even just Fairbanks to Seattle, it just wouldn't be economically interesting.
Certainly they aren't debated outside of naturalist circles. But even amongst "non-religious" people, it's somewhat of an open question whether our physical, observable universe is the only thing that exists.
Physics and the Integers
Oh quit being such a drama king ;)
Understanding the mind has been a priority for Buddhists for 2500 years.

Many state of the art understandings of mind do not assume any sort of objective reality. So, questions like "where does mind come from", "is it a physical/nonphysical phenomenon", which are based in on a materialistic theory of reality, may not be valid when talking about theories of reality that are based on perception.
This is exactly it - they give a 'fun' listening experience that people enjoy, and mistake for sound quality. They're paying a high price for a brand and experience, rather than for the quality of the components, like many other premium brands.

I don't wear them, but I don't hate the people who do (though I'm not huge on Beats' "the way it was meant to sound/the way the musician intended" branding)
This project was started originally at Stypi where we needed an editor with a better API than just getting/setting the text to support coauthoring. We didn't find any good enough and because it was core to our product, we started to build our own.

Stypi was acquired by Salesforce in 2012 but we continued to work on Quill because we felt it was a missing piece of the web. We're now working for GoInstant (also acquired by Salesforce in 2012), who are also working on some very cool stuff.

Quill was originally called Scribe but then another editor released a bit ago with the same name so we changed it to Quill.
How is that obvious? You can't presume that the physical world is a component of consciousness.
Which pages do you mean by "those pages"?
Apple in final talks to acquire Beats Electronics for $3.2b
Vim was released in 1991 and is still incredibly popular today. Compare that with the myriad other editors (I'm looking at you TextMate and Sublime) which come and go. OP's money is on Vim and so is mine.
That's a valid question and one I have considered myself.

So what drives the folks at McAfee to do this?

Maybe it is the same thinking that drives programnmers to not want to write code.

"Don't reinvent the wheel."

"Code reuse."

"Use a shared library or a scripting language with batteries included."

Why crawl the web when Google has already done it for you?

And so on.

Personally, I do not have trouble understanding why McAfee would do this.

What I have trouble understanding is why OSVDB would think they could crawl some public data and then charge a fee to access it.

It is the "sale" of "free" information that puzzles me.

By all means go ahead and try, you may well recoup your outlays for compiling the free data and even make a profit.

But should we really be surprised when someone does not want to pay?
Having used CDE on both Solaris and Tru64 I can say that CDE was a steaming pile. The day CDE replaced OpenWindows in Solaris was a sad day.
I'm not trying to shut you up. I'm trying to get you to phrase your message so that other humans will want to consume it.

How am I hiding my connections?

Accusing people of felons is probably also not a good way to rally them to your cause.

Even here you are bent on turning the discussion to your cause. I'm talking about the phrasing, not the message.

It does seem creepy that you see enemies and opposition everywhere. Good luck with your cause - you need it.

FWIW my investment in Square was small and because Jack was a friend. I'm not really injured either way, though would generally like to see laws make sense in the interest of parsimony.

Also FWIW, I think plainsite is pretty good.

Wow, news.yc makes this thread really narrow. Probably punishment for belaboring the point.
Apple In Talks To Acquire Beats For $3.2 Billion
I've considered buying a run down house, spending a year fixing it up using youtube, and then selling it for hopefully a profit- I have no doubt I could do a good job with just youtube and the internet, but the only thing stopping me is confidence that I will be able to sell it. Has anyone done something like this?
If rockstar does this with GTA, I would be so happy.
I think it just means missing as in something you always wished you had.
When used with heavy PDFs which basically contain tons of images (like scanned books) PDF.js is noticeably slower than native plugins (like Kparts plugin with Okular on KDE) used with Firefox. For more lightweight PDFs it's acceptable.
Same here. I have a business debit card (bad idea, I know) that I wasn't actually able to complete a purchase with due to Woo being a UK company. That didn't stop the card number theft, though, I had over $3k of fraudulent charges before the bank shut the card down. Spent all morning filling out dispute forms. Good news is I shouldn't be liable for any of it. Charges were from all over the US.

Bad news for Woo, issues like this cost a LOT of money to resolve. They better own up to it soon, this will be a major blow to their reputation if they don't.
I more or less completely dislike change in my desktop environment. That said, I think there's room for some innovation, particularly simplification, in the Linux space. And if this creates a usable alternative for people, so much the better.

The first principle of GUIs is that there's been very little real innovation since the first demos at Xerox PARC at the Mother of All Demos 46 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos).

And there's been little reason for it. Once people understand how to interact with the basics of their interface, there's little gain, and a lot of cost, to changing things.

Most computer interaction is textual. Some isn't. Supporting text, formatted text, images, video, and sound is pretty much the entire scope of what needs to be done.

The best interfaces haven't changed much. Apple's Aqua interface is hardly changed from its introduction in 2000 -- that's 14 years. Some visual elements have been modestly restyled, and virtual desktop support added. That's pretty much it.

Other attempts to push radical UI changes on users have been dramatic failures, whether from Microsoft or Linux. Windows 7 was an absolute flop, and I'm among those who've been massively disappointed and frustrated by the GNOME 3 and KDE 4 transitions. While neither is my primary desktop, I do interact with them occasionally, and with apps designed for them more frequently. The experiences have been disappointing and frustrating, to say the least, as well as the attitude shown toward users by the development teams (Linus Torvald's outburst to GNOME was pretty much on point).

The place to experiment, IMO, is precisely where LXQT is: in an experimental space, away from the mainstream. If the desktop does prove useful, people will tend to migrate toward it, as has happened with the xfce desktop: not as featureful as GNOME or KDE, but vastly less frustrating and more useful (I also try it from time to time).

My own home? WindowMaker, which I've used for 17 years. I know it, it knows me, we work well together, and I see no reason to change.
Algorithmic Information Theory is really amazing to me. I am still learning about it but I feel like I can see the connection to nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory
Anyone moaning about a $20 pricetag for software this sophisticated: how much do you spend on food in a day?

On the other hand, I'm going to moan about how this isn't cross platform. I would dish out $20 for a Linux version in a heartbeat... ;)
Ask HN: What iPhone screen sizes should I make my app for?
I'm making an app for iOS, and there are 3 screen sizes I should make, but is it necessary. I've seen places that use 640x960 and 320x480. Should I make it for 640x1136 too?

Which ones do you think are important?

320x480

640x960

640x1136

Also, I'm not worried about the new iPhone screen sizes that are coming out in September (probably) yet.

Thanks
While it is natural to ground a discussion in the laws of physics, it is also important to recognize that we don't yet have the complete picture, so those laws are still subject to change.
They do, for even stranger reasons:
" In particular, memory functions must be vastly non-lossy, otherwise retrieving them repeatedly would cause them to gradually decay".

To paraphrase babbage, "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement."

Being lossy does not imply reading is lossy, it could be that writing destroys old information.
Actually, OWO/EA mostly ignored them. Blizzard, however, has been vicious in their legal response to third-party hosted servers.
They're also building a high speed rail network from China to Singapore - http://shanghaiist.com/2014/01/15/china_to_build_high-speed_...

And also: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1318178/...
I believe there's an argument to be made that consciousness is computation itself.

I have a particular thought experiment about consciousness. Take a book, say, Lord of the Rings. Is Frodo conscious? Probably not. But lets say the book was extraordinarily detailed. Lets say the book was actually a mathematical model that described the workings of Middle Earth down to every elementary particle. Each page, a very long page, would describe one 'tick' of the Middle Earth universe.

So you've simulated consciousness on paper. Not in a machine, mind you, but on paper. But it isn't really a simulation as much as a description. It isn't computation, but information. And that information doesn't make Frodo conscious.

Now what if this book were put into a computer? And what if the world were modeled just as accurately and explicitly as the book? Would Frodo then be conscious, simply because a computer calculated the sequence of atomic movements within Frodo's brain?

If so, is it the actual movements of those atoms that creates Frodo's experience of reality, or is it the computation that calculates that movement itself? Whatever process it is that allows reality to compute itself -- to obey the laws of physics -- whatever process that is . . I'd say that act of computation has more to say about consciousness that the actual result itself.
Meditate and you won't find it preposterous.

Absolutely everything you experience is consciousness. You have never experienced concrete objective reality, you have only ever experienced experiences, which is consciousness.

Every idea you have about concrete objective reality is an idea. Ideas are experiences, which are consciousness.

As much as you think you know what is "real", when does "real" exist? Thoughts of the past only ever arise in the present. Thoughts of the future only ever arise in the present.

Within this present experience, which is when everything has ever occurred, can you find anything that is not an experience?
The wording is confusing, but I thought perhaps they were assuming that an artificial brain would indeed be lossless and therefore could not be modeled computationally.
Thanks! Finally, a Google search term that will give you a lot of slow PDFs:

controller site:automationdirect.com filetype:pdf

based on a hint from Gracana's comment.

You have to try to actually see every page in any of the PDFs to get the idea of pain.
Looks fantastic, but I can't use it in my projects because it only seems to support very recent versions of IE (9+), Android (4.3+) and iOS/Safari (7+). I don't care about IE, but I do need to support Android phones from 2012.

Is there really no way to write a modern rich text editor that remains compatible (and/or degrades gracefully) with slightly older browsers?
A bad reference damages the reputation of a previous employee, but honesty and duty can compel an officer of a company to furnish a bad reference.

Wrong.
Raining Basic Bitches
What would be exciting is if the bases had properties that made them amenable to easy read operations using non biological means. Currently it takes 1 - 3 days fort a DNA sequencer to read what is effectively a few gigabytes of data in a human DNA sequence. That is painfully slow for any practical use. However if we had DNA bases that had atomic properties that could interact with some sort of electronic device, we might be able to engineer a sequencer that is quite easy and cheap. In fact, we might even be able to design an enzyme that translates regular DNA into a synthetic form for easy sequencing (similar to how RNA polymerase turns DNA to RNA)
It sounds like you subscribe to Materialism [1].

In fact, these are widely debated questions. Materialism is only one of many philosophies that seek to answer these questions (e.g. dualism). Be careful about accepting answers like that if you haven't examined at least the major alternatives.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism
Yes, we did, from log4j to logback. Due to using slf4j, no code changes were required.
I don't think anyone absconded with anything. The company legitimately gave up the ghost. An email explaining it and then shutting down the company so I can take my losses would be nice, though.
Does anyone know any good books with similar stuff in it?
There is causality. This present moment is the very leading edge of causality being computed.

When do you make decisions? Do you make them in the past? Do you make them in the future? Past and future do not exist. They are simply memories and fantasies arising in this present moment.

If past and future don't really exist and decisions are made this present moment, is your decision pre-determined or is simply instantly determined, now?

If the future were totally deterministic, it would have already been computed. But, it hasn't yet been computed. We are the computation happening right now, and there is reasonable reason to believe that a multitude of possibilities may collapse into the actuality of this moment.
I think it's a fine example because practically all Sony software sucks, and whether they wrote it or not, it sucks because the company doesn't understand or value software.
Also crashes chrome on ios 7.1.1 on an iPhone 5S every time
Slightly off-topic, but here's what Wikipedia says (in part):

"""

Consciousness — The having of perceptions, thoughts, and feelings; awareness. The term is impossible to define except in terms that are unintelligible without a grasp of what consciousness means. Many fall into the trap of equating consciousness with self-consciousness—to be conscious it is only necessary to be aware of the external world. Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it has evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.[19]

Philosophers and non-philosophers differ in their intuitions about what consciousness is.[20] While most people have a strong intuition for the existence of what they refer to as consciousness,[21] skeptics argue that this intuition is false, either because the concept of consciousness is intrinsically incoherent, or because our intuitions about it are based in illusions. Gilbert Ryle, for example, argued that traditional understanding of consciousness depends on a Cartesian dualist outlook that improperly distinguishes between mind and body, or between mind and world. He proposed that we speak not of minds, bodies, and the world, but of individuals, or persons, acting in the world. [...] More generally, many philosophers and scientists have been unhappy about the difficulty of producing a definition that does not involve circularity or fuzziness.[19]

"""

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

Suppose that consciousness didn't actually exist, but within this theory you grant that people really do have perceptions and experiences. Is that really so bad? What does it miss?
Forms of mindfulness
I wonder what experts and those doing peer-review would say? Is this good or bad quality work? How do we make sense of a social science article with no context and specialist language?

Is there anything good here?
well if Goldman just offers them their old job back, that should cut down on the recidivism rate substantially.
Really? I can provide plenty of evidence that consciousness falls within the domain of physics. Can you provide any that it's not?
I saw a Gary Crossley dealership, but how did you find out what dealership he owns?

I'm from Independence, but currently in Tacoma, WA. I have family there though so really interested in getting them involved.
So, this: http://xkcd.com/505/
Luckily no Flash to speak of there.
What I said last time about this:

What I have to say about your perspective on references is that I will never, under any circumstances, work with, for, or over someone who believes what I think you're saying you believe about references. "Bad reference => war", to me, is essentially an endorsement of professional dishonesty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433552

At any rate, thank you for confirming my suspicion that your third "ethic" was "the ethic of not providing bad references ever".
What made you come back to PHP after such a long time? I have seen many people running from PHP to ruby or python. Please share your experience.

thank you
I hope you don't take this as a personal attack, but your comments read to me like a bunch of mystical nonsense.

Have we conclusively defined what "consciousness" is? No. But we haven't, as a society, conclusively defined what a chair is either. That doesn't stop us from accurately and precisely measuring and modeling all sorts of chair and chair-like objects.

Measuring and modeling get more difficult when it comes to information. Take the Bible and rearrange the letters alphabetically and it will be the same size, same weight, same chemical composition, etc.--but contain a lot less information.

A lot of the things that seem weird about the mind are not that different from most information systems. But we're learning to measure and model those too.
I used to have a good friend (I moved away) who was a carpenter. One of the things he said that stayed with me the longest was "there's nothing I do that the average Joe Homeowner can't. They're just paying me to get it right the first time."

Try as I might, I simply can't wrap my head around what you say. I'm a pretty imaginative guy but the thought of what could go wrong is rarely more than a speedbump along the way. I honestly don't know how I could get anything done otherwise.
Which clause would that be?
There is something else going on here. The writer's alternative to DIY was likely a time and resource consuming process of searching multiple stores for a suitable product (and even then probably not exactly right). There is a point where the custom product is easy enough to make and hard enough to find off-the-shelf that DIY is a compelling route even for the timid.
A friend on facebook mentioned it. I'd assume he's related to Dave Cross[0], but like I said, that's just from a facebook friend, so not entirely sure where he figured it out. I'll ask him to make sure I'm not spreading misinfo.

For what its worth, Gary Cross at least has a degree in Automotive Sales[1] and has received campaign contributions from Dave Cross motors. I'd imagine the relationship goes deeper.

[0]http://www.davecrossmotors.com/

[1]http://ballotpedia.org/Gary_Cross
Singer sangs "summertime" on family feud
Typically, @homakov is holding some of the cards: https://twitter.com/homakov/status/464568812583800832
RicegrowJS – an educational text-based rice farming game ported from BASIC
#4 seems an ethics question to me. Severance compensation should be done on a fair basis relative to the resources the company has available.
Interview with Kim Heras
FWIW the kibitzers on pprune.org don't think much of this article. There's a 10,000+ comment thread there [1] on MH370. There are also other sites discussing the disappearance, but I can't even keep up with pprune.

Bottom line is that very little about the plane's disappearance has been made public. Do the authorities know more, and are they withholding this information? Perhaps.

[1] http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines...
Funny, I've been looking for something like ratpoison for a while, and though the name seems familiar, I had never tried it before.

I'm using it now... I think my search is over :)

Thank you!
When it's half that I will start to get interested. I can't see what advantage it has over food, other than fad appeal, when it's more expensive.
Being fired for "not being a culture fit" within days of being hired sounds reasonable to you? Especially after what was most likely a rather involved interview process?
Flying 3D printer could seal off nuclear waste
Even if they're not interested in the subscription service model, there may be something here that can improve iTunes Radio's song selections:

"The service uses a personalization system combining recommendations based on listening habits and algorithms with human curation and playlists from music professionals, including other "guest" curators, such as Rolling Stone, Rap Radar, and Pitchfork. Song searches prioritize the original, master recordings of songs over other versions (such as covers). A feature known as "The Sentence" allows users to generate playlists by filling four blanks in a sentence with words describing various activities, moods, and genres."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats_Music
I don't understand your argument. Beats also supports Android and Windows, like Spotify.
What if C++ looked more like Python or CoffeeScript?
The 6 Vital Ways to Engage Users of Your App
I hope they are "doing some kind of next-level mole hunt to level-up on secrecy" here. I do not see any value in Beats other than a superficial fashion trend that has already run its course.
I haven't heard any rumours about trials in iOS for ages, has it come up again recently?
Amazon.com, Inc. Suffering The Pitfalls Of “Buying Revenue” [CHARTS]