skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an interesting thought experiment that came to me: some persons live with only half a brain, for example after a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy. And they can sometimes still execute actions that the missing hemisphere was normally responsible for, like speech or motor control, because the other hemisphere learns how to do it due to plasticity. What if we had the medical ability to take the hemisphere that is removed from person A and to transplant it into another person, B? Would the consciousness of the original person now be 2 independently functioning consciousnesses, A and B? Would your memories be split, eg. person A remembering half of your life, and person B remembering the other half? Would A and B feel they have the same consciousness? Could we go further and split a brain in 4? Would splitting a brain more and more progressively degrade the quality/complexity of consciousness? If so what is the smallest part of the brain that can still be capable of self-awareness, introspection, etc?

So many questions...

On an unrelated note, I have a crazy idea, but bear with me for a second:

A central point of the New Testament is that the "Holy Spirit" was given to men when Jesus died. Could the "Holy Spirit" be a term used by people to describe what it felt like to have consciousness appear in their mind? Jaynes says consciousness appeared ~3000 years ago, but if he is right, if society caused consciousness to appear, then it did so at different points in time for different societies, because each society develops at a different pace. So it could be that to the people living around Jerusalem consciousness appeared 2000, not 3000, years ago.
> I don't need to drive to Costco anymore

...unless you care about price. Staples (detergent, drinks, etc) on Amazon easily cost 30% more than the comparable Costco purchase. I'm as lazy as the next guy, but I can't fill up that Pantry box without cringing at the prices, so off to Costco I go.
I simply am genuine in that I do like to talk about all sorts of things by nature - sports included, but because I'm not the most versed in sports history and just don't follow (I care about baseball and basketball about as much as I do Star Wars and Star Trek, so I have to pick carefully). However, I've managed to learn while giving a bit of an ego boost to people I meet just asking for their opinions on stuff (I do care, I'm just looking for data constantly, especially ones combed through by SMEs of any sort). Ask some sports nut to explain a few simple things and they'll react a bit like someone that humbly asks a developer "So I don't know much but could you explain REST to me?" Nothing wrong with enjoying some company that might be a lead, it usually doesn't hurt, so why not have a good time and possibly lead to a ton of money?
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That's clearly orthogonal to immutability.
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I think it depends on the market and probably the item / load level. I had a same day item the other day and it was fulfilled by OnTrac.
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> What can you do with constant time access to code points that is actually correct?

Compute an offset into a string in one part of your code, and then pass a representation of that offset to another part of your code that then accesses that part of the string and does something with it.

It is theoretically possible to produce an abstract representation of such an offset that would allow constant-time access into a non-uniformly-represented string, but no programming language that I know of has this feature. Even Common Lisp, which is probably the most flexible and future-proof language ever designed, requires that offsets into strings be integers. (Actually, it's even worse than that: Common Lisp requires that strings be arrays of characters, which is truly ironic if you think about it.)
You just cancel the subscription and start a new one on the larger size.
I hope there is going to be a new chromecast today
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Sounds like a great A/B test. Show half the users the 50th %ile and half nothing, then compare the resulting curves.
No Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, and Kansas City. Upper Midwest is conspicuously absent.
What don't you get about 'in my experience'?

I read lexicalsope as trying to control my speech, and to deny my own true experience.
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Perhaps more importantly no support for partials. But I guess your task runner can deal with that.
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In the Sabbasava Sutta of the Pali texts ( http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.002.than.html ), the Buddha says that there are six types of wrong view about the self:

> As he attends inappropriately in this way, one of six kinds of view arises in him: The view I have a self arises in him as true & established, or the view I have no self... or the view It is precisely by means of self that I perceive self... or the view It is precisely by means of self that I perceive not-self... or the view It is precisely by means of not-self that I perceive self arises in him as true & established, or else he has a view like this: This very self of mine — the knower that is sensitive here & there to the ripening of good & bad actions — is the self of mine that is constant, everlasting, eternal, not subject to change, and will stay just as it is for eternity. This is called a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. Bound by a fetter of views, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person is not freed from birth, aging, & death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. He is not freed, I tell you, from suffering & stress.

So while it is important to continue to examine things to realize that each thing under examination isn't a self, isn't me, isn't mine, isn't unchanging, isn't eternal, that doesn't mean that there is a doctrine that there is no self. The Buddha explicitly refuses to answer the question of the existence of a self, and says that to hold either of the views "there is a self" or "there is no self" is unskillful, a fetter, an impediment to freedom.

cf "Selves & Not-self: The Buddhist Teaching on Anatta, Thanissaro Bhikkhu" http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/selves...
This is quite interesting, especially for the women in the startup world, many of which are debating the pros and cons of having kids.
Her reason of why to actually get pregnant in the end was a bit weak I think.
Who's we, white man?

FB is superb for organizing events with people. IMHO that's its strongest offering. But I'd rather just use webapps, word of mouth and email.
"Google wants you to upload all of your photos into their data mining machine"
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The current government is just so bad?

Come on, just look at SELIC during the second FHC government... the interest rates went sky high, the Real had a monstrous devaluation overnight (from R$ 1.32 to U$1 to R$2.16 to U$ 1).

FHC sure helped to stabilize inflation rate, but he almost destroyed brazilian economy. His second government was nothing short of a disaster.

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It's not that I can't develop software on Windows, I could if I really wanted to.

It's just that GNU/Linux happens to be my preferred environment for writing code, and I see nothing wrong with that.
I sleep six hours and drink one cup of coffee about 2pm. I have monitored my coffee intake for three years. I average 5.4 a week or ( 1 cup a day most workdays)

I should mention that I run 4-5 times a week in the morning.
Subscribe and save isn't too bad, but I agree, costco is definitely cheaper. Unfortunately in the metropolitan area without a car it's extremely difficult to get there. Have you guys checked out Boxed Wholesale? The prices are pretty comparable.
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Make it run on Windows you said, it will be good for the market you said.
> "On a similar front, C.S. programs don't do a great job of teaching what industry really feels like - if I had known, I might not have gone into C.S."

Just curious, what would you have majored in to know what the industry is like?
> So what's your view on sites blocking people with AdBlock?

It's the web equivalent of an a entitled-feeling child throwing a tantrum.

People who use ad-blocking software, and temporarily disable it on your page just to view the content, are not going to click on the ads.

Furthermore, if you take additional measures to make them click on the ads ("please visit our sponsor first"), that constitutes click fraud. Users who click on an ad just to view the content are not interested in what is being advertized at all, and will not convert to buyers.

Morally, it is within a hair's breadth of sending Javascript to the user's browser which simulates that user clicking on the ad (so that it looks like a real visit, as the ad syndicate knows), which would be blatant click fraud.
Agreed. I suppose it makes the aggregate result a bit more tidy, which makes it easier to show that most people had relatively the same idea about the relationship, but for me at least having that dot to strive for in the middle skewed my projection from my initial imagining.
Does anyone use XML or JSON feeds connecting to multiple apps to manage events, news updates etc? Curious about your setup.
Pretty neat idea! I think it would be really cool to declare my default languages though, so it only returns results from what I specified.
>If this same product was released by a company you had never heard of, would you use it? Would you honestly believe it to have a greater chance of survival?

>My suggestion is to simply judge this product on its merits, and accept that nothing is guaranteed, whether it's made by Google or not.

Maybe RMS was right and the answer is to stop using cloud services?
Do you ever have problems with the debugger losing its place, failing to step properly, or not being able to evaluate commands, when using a VM with Vagrant? I was really excited to get PyCharm working with our development VM, but these issues made the debugger useless for me.
I agree, having a child in case something happens to your husband? What if something happens to your child? Statistically you're at the same risk exactly
this is literally the opposite of an IDE

Would it be a UDE?
Or the various tribes, such as those in the Andaman Islands, who have NEVER been contacted. Do they have no consciousness at all, even now?
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anything that can access the lock screen.

this also crashes Terminal on OS X, so it looks like a pretty huge deal.
Yeah, I just recall reading an article where Amazon was denying it was a warehouse.
I use Google+ entirely for my photos. I pay $2/mo to have all my photos in full resolution. So this is good news!
Hey Kylnew, I am the author of that post. Just wanted to say that i've had a phone call from Stripe 5 mins ago and this has been resolved. Not sure if you want to keep this post up or not.
With what kind of new features?
New app permissions in Android. Nice.

Edit: Asks when needed, not at install time. Focus on the web with Chrome custom tabs looks good too. I only got 5.1.1 today but 6? (M...) looks great from the small amount seen so far.
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But as lambda points out, that offset could be measured in code units rather than code points. You still don't need random access into variable-width data.
Gmail was supposed to be "Unlimited Storage" too.. I like how that turned out..
When you pick to get those vouchers your delivery is intentionally delayed though.
I wonder what the cause of your slower shipping was. Another poster said he doesn't have Prime but his shipping speed is still Prime fast.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9619203
Taking that further, the following things would be illegal:

- The HTML parsing specification (created by reverse engineering IE6 without Microsoft's cooperation), and by extension all non-IE Web browsers.

- Except IE is also illegal, because JScript was a hostile clone of JavaScript, down to the APIs.

- The x86-64 ISA, for two reasons: first, because AMD cloned x86 to start with, and second because Intel cloned AMD's work after seeing its success.

- All versions of Unix in common use; thus, by extension, 95% of smartphones by market share.

- VMware, by providing implementations of the proprietary x86 supervisor instructions in user mode.

Reverse engineering of proprietary APIs for the purposes of interoperability has been responsible for a lot of technologies that we use all the time. I understand the argument about IP protection, but I think an absolutist position in the other direction is a bit too far. In all of the cases above, there is a specific reason why the dominant player responsible for the proprietary API was failing to capture a market need, and the legality of API cloning was what allowed a smaller player to come in, address that need, and achieve a better economic outcome. I'm having a lot of trouble imagining how a world in which all of the above things were illegal would be a better one--you could argue that the dominant player could have done each of those things, but the fact is that they didn't.
Has anyone dug up a higher-resolution stream for this?
Or, it requires a 2-byte memory access and a 1-byte memory access.
I'm in NYC, and I love Fresh Direct. I use Fresh Direct for the food, and Amazon for everything else.

I feel guilty for not patronizing my local retail establishments, but the cumulative advantages of 1) huge inventory, b) rapid delivery, and c) competitive prices, makes the decision to prefer the online giants a no-brainer.
> Photos was easily my favorite part of Google+, but I was never comfortable having my entire phone connected to a public-only social network.

In what sense is G+ a "public-only social network"?
Anyone can compare toga vs kivy?
> if the product is popular and produces value, it will stick around.

I'm afraid there are more factors than this at play. Reader was both popular, and it produced value (to me and many others). I was never even given the option to pay for it. For whatever reason, Reader didn't fit Google's strategic vision... so it got axed.
Ugh I ordered something from Deal Extreme a while back and had completely forgotten I ordered it by the time it came in the mail several months later.
Huh, what? Amazon search works great.
So here's my takeaway from the article: concious thought is the evolutionary advantage of being able to modify our own subconscious thoughts. The simple fact that we are aware of our subconscious gives us the profound ability to actually change it - nothing else seems to be able to do this. An earthworm can't suddenly realize that all its day-to-day routines exist in a tangible sense and make an effort to change those. A dog can't do this, apes can't do this. They might exhibit strangely human behaviours sometimes because their subconscious can get quiet advanced, but they still can't change it, they have no control over it. When you think of it in those terms, that our concious thought is just this thin veneer that sits on top of our unconscious thoughts (which might make up more of our day to day choices than we expect), it's kinda creepy. Could we meet someone who seems human in nearly every way, but they have no awareness of their subconscious? Would that person be a concious being?
As much as I respect djb, the title is a huge misnomer. If you're a mathematician you want analysis and topology. You want definitions of continuity and differentiability that generalize nicely to arbitrary dimension, to manifolds, to Lie groups, to whatever. You want to marvel at the connections between certain special integrals and infinite sums, and you want to see the full construction of the real numbers for its own sake. You want a list of equivalent definitions of differentiability so you can get a better intuition and use whichever one is the nicest for what you're trying to do.

In a very strong sense, writing a document that "focuses purely on calculus" is antithetical to mathematics.
So? SourceForge hijacked the GIMP page on SourceForge, which shows up in search results for GIMP downloads.
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You don't have to cancel the subscription, they have an option for many items to just change the size.
PP takes all your files and makes them smaller for when you need a “little help”
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I have a cousin who lives in Austin and he says he's ordered a Mountain Dew from Amazon and had it delivered two hours later by someone in a hatchback. This was about two months ago. YMMV.
I've noticed that the same sites/apps will be submitted several days in a row, which is irritating. And it doesn't help that the comments are so restricted. It's rare that you see anything other than "wow, this is fantastic"-type comments. Not a lot of real discussion happening there, which may or may not be the point.

It used to feel curated, and now it doesn't really feel that way. But maybe I'm just being old and stodgy. :)
Jumping the gates is a form of trespassing.

This is more like watching the trains come and go, from outside of the station, but ignoring the ads which are painted on the train.

Speaking of looking at printed ads, imagine you had a car which, instead of a windshield, had a high resolution camera and a display. This display would contain image processing which identifies billboards and blackens them out, while leaving traffic signs intact.

Would that be stealing?

Basically, the argument is that not looking at something is stealing.

Where does it stop? What if you're looking, but not processing it congnitively? That must be, in Orwellian terms, a "thought crime": you're looking at the ad, but staring blankly, and its semantics isn't sinking in; you're not allowing the ad to turn into meaning in your mind make you want the product.
"Unlimited" until they retire the service 18 months from now.
In my experience, direct words and direct action are much more effective than sensitive hand-holding. Your experience is different. I have no problem with that, and I encourage you to do what works best for you.
> 1.5B casts from Chromecast

Interesting, I didn't know that every cast was reported back to the mothership.
Does your personal ethics allow you to go to the washroom during a commercial break?
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Alexis in person mentioned that they were told to "not worry about their competitors"-- I can't remember if that's in the book. He said they were worried about Digg's team at the time, which was much larger, but that ended up also hurting Digg and helping Reddit.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think the quote you used is actually pretty worthless and not smart on its own without the other discussions they were having together. If you ever have a chance to see him in person, you should. He has a lot of fun little anecdotes--like what the first downvote of reddit was.

It'd be great too if https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing popped in this thread as my memory is pretty fuzzy.
A large number of people can't tell ads from search result, so the difference isn't that big in in practice.

In some cases this can be caused by the background colors chosen for ads being perfectly eliminated by cheap laptop LCDs at slight vertical angles. The pale yellow or blue completely disappears to white. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that A/B testing of colors stumbled upon the perfect color to disappear into a cheap LCD screen ;-).
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I remember when the Argentine government took 4 zeros .. so 1,000,000 become 100 .. it was a completely mess!!
Whatever the reason though, she seems to be happy in retrospective. Maybe she did the right thing for the wrong reason?
I pay the same for my grandfathered Flickr Pro account. Flickr gives all accounts 1TB of storage. I'd rather have a limit than an "unlimited" Google service that'll disappear at any time.
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This could finally be the year I start using Android. The horrible all-or-nothing permission system has made me stay clear of it so far.
>with developers, the intended audience of this piece,

I'm not sure why you feel the document targets developers specifically. I didn't see any text that's a unique bridge to a developer's perspective.

For example, a text for "developers" might include examples of video game "tokens" or multi-player "weapons" that can be traded. You'd outline a rudimentary outline of what data structure to keep track of the source and destination of where the tokens went.

Or an example would be bitcoin money being subtracted and added to various accounts. Since many developers know bitcoin, maybe map bitcoin ledger concept to accounting concepts. Or explain how they are radically different.

Your current document is a generic introduction and one can search & replace "for developers" to "for biologists" and nothing else would have to change.
Pretty cool, like to see fellow Italians involved in computer vision. Assume you use 8-point/5-point for initialization like in PTAM? Any NEON optimizations? Do you convert the speed to absolute scale by knowing the size of the field?
I did a comparison to Walmart a while back and Amazon was definitely pricier for bulk goods/detergent/etc. And I have one close by that I can easily drive to. If I lived in a city without a car, the savings in hassle might be worth it but otherwise doing a few runs to a local big box store each year is pretty low on my list of tasks to eliminate.