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Let's not forget a free online book if posted on Hacker News is impossibly slow to access! I am getting 502's.

I am fairly new (3-4) years as a developer and I have gone the free route, still do. But Some of my best books came from early releases @ Oreily using the 50% off sales they almost always have floating around. Typically the free books are older and dated in my experience, but not always. Depends if you have the time to learn and possibly unlearn some things.
I hear this "What if the minimum wage was raised to some ridiculous amount" argument from conservative people all the time. (I think they parrot it from conservative AM radio talk show hosts)

That is a loaded question. The minimum wage does not have to be increased to some ridiculous amount, but it does have to be high enough to keep the people off of government benefits.

Additionally, if raising the minimum wage by a modest amount causes a business model to crash and burn, then that's a flaw which needs to be corrected. Maybe that business model wasn't so robust after all?

If a business depends on an exploitative minimum wage to be profitable, that business needs a new business model. If that means more automation and robotics, so be it. It is not good public policy to pay exploitative wages that force employees to go on government assistance at the expense of the taxpayers.
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Ancient Sumerians had battle-tactics and formations around 3000 BC.

Which suggest that the soldiers of Bronze-Age Sumeria were _professional_ soldiers. Their Lapis Lazuli mosaics have stood the test of time, and we can see these artifacts 5000 years later.

Sumerians were a society, a true civilization with specialized jobs, training, and technology.

You can't have battle tactics without the "conscious" year long practice with your kinsmen. We may not know what the Acient Sumerian's battle tactics were exactly (those artists weren't exactly... good... at drawing what they saw). But we know that they had formations, and it sorta looked like a Phalanx. (Big Shield + Spear with everyone lined up)

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Another obvious "consciousness" bit is the Code of Hammurabi. Dated to 1754 BC (or roughly 4000 years ago), it demonstrates that the ancient Babylonians did in fact have law.

Kind-of-crappy law, but its law nonetheless. The Code of Hammurabi assigned justice to slanderers, thieves and murderers.
Looks very handsome. What differentiates this one from all the others out there?
I forgot to add, I have had healthcare providers, attorneys and other professionals with legal obligations to maintain client privacy ask how they can do this on the web.

I have to advise them to use ad blockers as part of their privacy tools.
I don't think that article is necessarily wrong. You can have natural monopolies that switch companies, but still remain monopolies (look at Apple's early 80s success that was completely squashed by DOS/Windows). Everyone migrated to Facebook and ditched myspace. It doesn't really compete with anyone now. Facebook seemed to have learned from myspace's mistakes and have been successful for a decade now. I think a shift to another social media platform is just not in the cards, at least for the forseeable future.
Oh good, so I'm not the only one whose mind tries to translate mathematical prose into the notation of dependent type theory!
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> And show yourself pictures, video and audio files that you stored around in there, commenting on them each time?

As best i can tell we don't so much replay a video file as recreate it using random bits of sound and imagery we find strewn about.

This in turn makes witness testimony much less reliable than the weight it is current given in court would suggest.
So I just poked briefly through Wikipedia on the dates; your link suggests a time of ~200-300 BC for those writings, the Iliad ~760-710 BC. Given the slow rate of diffusion of ideas at the time, it strikes me as just as likely that even if this idea is true and the Iliad was written by humans with a profoundly different psychology than ours, it was some peculiarity of Greek culture rather than a universal human condition. The spread of consciousness at this time in history can hardly occurred that quickly.

(By no means am I claiming that these areas are entirely isolated from each other, but note the bandwidth of the cultural communication from the travel between them is so low that the net effect is that the various areas of the ancient world were basically unaware of each other. Even if some travelers occasionally made the hikes they didn't amount to much at the civilizational scale.)

And I find it far more parsimonious an explanation that this is just a crazy idea from a too-close reading of a work of literature that thematically chooses to be about "the gods" to imbue the work with mythic power, just the fact our culture has Star Trek does not mean that we have warp drive or that Gene Roddenberry's vision of happy coexistence has been realized. A fun idea, a great idea to build some sci-fi on, but not really a serious idea supported by the totality of the evidence we have from history, in which humans have been musing about the nature of consciousness for basically all of recorded history.
I'm not sure how plausible I find this. The (admittedly self-serving) perception within Delhi is that most of the bad stuff happening there is done by villagers from Bihar and UP, not by native Delhiites.

Most of the big city cases that I've read about (e.g., Uber rape case, 2012 gang rape) do fit that perception. So it would surprise me if things were somehow better in Bihar than in Delhi.
Github used to have a simple binary files service, this was removed with no replacement, and then the release asset system was added shortly after.

I only recently found out release assets.
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>> So if the trial was not corrupt then it must have been incompetent?

In a sense yes. Clinical trials are not great at finding things like that. Phase 1 is all about determining toxicity - in other words, how much of a substance can people tolerate. Later phases are for determining dosage and effectiveness - how well does it treat a condition, or in this case how well does it immunize a person against infection. If side effects are not reported during the trials or are of low frequency, they may not get noticed at all. In fact, the FDA is starting to look at all-cause mortality for some drugs. For example, does taking something to lower cholesterol actually increase life expectancy (vs does it lower cholesterol which theoretically increases life expectancy). Do you really think they've been looking at all age-related effects (arthritis is one) of taking a vaccine?

I'm not saying the claims against it here are real, but that it is unfair to lump those people into the general category of anti-vaxxers. Especially since they were supposedly vaccinated.

Also, companies don't generally pull something from the market unless there is a serious reason to do so. Vioxx is thought to have killed 500k people before it was pulled from the market: http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/46535/when-half-million-american...
> I really wish there was a resource that would collect pieces like this, meaning, journalism right before some large societal self-inflicted disaster (war, financial etc) where media and cultural hype helped blind everyone to impending catastrophe. When the idolizing puff journalism and self-congratulation of industry heads reach a deafening crescendo, it's time to brace yourself.

Reminds me of Nassim Taleb's quote:

"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers."

I try and do this once in a while to provide some historical perspective and introduce some skepticism in my thinking on current events
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Creating art for engineers
if people don't reply to your emails, maybe that says a lot about how much they care about you.
sin and cos are the natural basis of solutions of y'' + y = 0. How do you define them?
I've never used an ad blocker and I feel like you are over-exaggerating each of these points. I'm guessing I'll be in the minority on HN though. What kind of sites do you visit that have all these terrible ads? I don't even think porn sites, which have notoriously bad ads, are even that bad.
But you can just write for each cell the index of component it belongs to. It can't belong to many, right?

So it is O(N) in space?

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I mean space requirements for the results of preprocessing.

Preprocessign itself may require computing cluster for all I care.
Some do. It depends on the nature of the development. Mailing lists are a very popular format. One of the other projects I manage communicates near-exclusively through IRC. But good mailing lists have the main feature of topic-centered discussion, usable with just an email address (very low barrier of entry, easy to add new people to the conversation, easy to continue a topic in private).

Voting isn't generally a feature you want for discussions - voting provides visibility over a short period of time, and then the topic dies off, which is a very big issue with reddit-likes being used for discussion. Newcomers to a highly popular topic are on equal footing with the rest of the participants, while on Reddit/HN the topic is overwhelmed and only the highly popular, old comments get visibility.

This is very suitable if you don't want everyone to have equal footing. For example, discussions centered around video games, politics, social issues, etc. For open source it tends to be bad. This is an off-topic meta-discussion I'd love to take further, in private, if only it'd take me a click to do so. :)
Yes, somewhat. Anything shareable. The major point would be the github-like financing model: It's not the individual users that pay for the service by enabling targeted ads but companies that want to get in contact with potential customers on their page. It seems like a minor difference but would have quite strong effects on user privacy - there would not be a need for ever more tracking of every online activity.
> how did you miss the two other comments that repeated this information nearly an hour before yours?

One way this happens is.... people open HN, click on a few links to open them up in tabs, then get distracted by work or other things.

An hour or two later, they don't refresh the page and just make comments based on what they see.

I'm guilty of it too sometimes.
What I meant is, you don't create art if you are not conscious of your existence and of your mind in the first place.
It was a kook idea then and is still one now. No scientific support, just conjecture.
PL is a very common abbreviation in the research community and has been for at least decades. Common usage in academia probably stems in part from the fact that conferences are often named by their initials, so the conference on "Principles of Programming Languages" becomes "POPL" and so on.
I'm quite fond of of Ingy's git-hub command, https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-hub, which also gives you most of Hub's features, along with much, much more. E.g., the the ability to manage things like a repo's collaborators, issues, etc. from the command line. And it's a normal git extension command, so you run it as `git hub clone foo/bar` or `git hub issue-new` or `git hub pr-list` which feels like a better point of integration.

Edit: And per some concerns elsewhere in the comments, there's also a --dryrun parameter to ensure that it's going to do what you want it to do. ;)
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If pronouns are a universal linguistic structure, then doesn't that suggest that the cognition that they reference is innate rather than linguistically acquired? How does one determine that consciousness requires the linguistic category, rather than the other way around?

I can see how, in children, the development of consciousness and the meaningful use of pronouns might coincide, and that the two might be conflated in a description of normative developmental psychology.

If one strictly regards consciousness as emerging from language development, however, the suggestion is that a child that was never capable of speech or language comprehension would never actually become conscious.

It also leaves as an open (and rather curious) question whether an adult would continue to be conscious after the onset of any of the more serious categories of aphasia.
-well that's not easy, in my school we didn't solve it yet. BYOD offers lots of possibilities but it quite difficult to have a good "control" even more if you don't want to spend lots of money for a software. Still waiting for a solution...
Ask HN: How did your app launch go?
For those who have built iOS or Android apps, how did you go about the launch? Was it successful? did it end up in app store obscurity? Any lessons learned?
Similar situation here.

Frustrating as it is, it's The Right Thing to do. It's a shame that some people assume you're disinterested, but then don't return emails/calls.

I heard about an old Norwegian guy who had always made short calls to friends and family throughout his life and that those people appreciated that. That's more the direction I'd rather go in over the passive friend-surveillance that has crept in.

I'd rather do that over an encrypted line with open protocols, but you can't have it all! At least I've managed to move over nearly wholesale to open software - phone, OS, email, syncthing, text file notes etc. etc. - so that's one of the major personal benefits to me.

The drawbacks I still need to learn to better work around.

Addiction/productivity doesn't really come into it for me; I have my days of perfect self-discipline and others where my procrast-fu is strong. I've used and use all manner of productivity systems to make sure the bread and butter work gets done (currently running an espeak Pomodoro reminder every 25 minutes, with semi-ironic (totally not...) inspirational quotes read out in the breaks), it's just the side-projects that sometimes suffer. That's no fault of social media, though, that's on me.
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I think legislators are already arguing about both increases of spending and metrics of inflation. Remember the whole "chained CPI" debate about the metric to use to calculate cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits?
Yeah, but what pays for search? Remember the early days of Google, they got the search tech right, and returned the best results, but there was concern how they would make money. They lucked in AdWords and took over the online advertising industry. Commerce is one significant (if not the main) source of the ad dollars.
Facebook has long said they want to be the glue of the Internet, the guys that tie it all together. And they're winning at this through their login feature, their messaging, their ad platform, and their commenting features. I don't know if in the future people will still visit FB like they do today, but I doubt they are truly going away anytime soon.
>I am urging everyone who still has projects on Sourceforge to do the same.

Where is that other great free service which hosts large binary assets, web sites, wikis, forums, and trackers i.e. everything you need for a project.

Github is only a solution for software without meaningful binary assets where the user is expected to build the software himself and no community interaction beyond pull requests and issue reports is desired.

There is no free alternative to SF for many users, that is the problem. And well, "free", that is the key word here, at the end of the day SF has to make money somehow. As a non-paying SF user I cannot really complain about ads.
You have to slow down the creation of money, but in a hyper inflationary setting, the assumption that inflation exists creates money itself. So not only do you have to slow down the creation of money, you have to do it in a way that strips away the assumption that the government will just create more money. In this case, by embracing the fact that the government was just printing money and pegging a currency to the expected inflation rate, they were able to prevent people from doing this sort of math in every transaction they encounter.

All of this only works if you have an economy that is otherwise relatively stable. Brazil happens to have an abundance of diverse natural resources (oil, timber, mining, etc.), which provides a lot of economic stability. Now if you tried the same tactics in, say, Argentina (which currently faces many of the same problems that Brazil did with regards to cyclic inflation/deflation) I would expect different results. Because Argentina has approx. 15% the population of Brazil, its economy is much less diverse.
They could just make the code available for the installer.

It's not as if an installer is software worth protecting via copyright in 2015.
The thing is that bootcamps are also businesses trying to grow. The filtering process exists, but it's not as great as it should be. I took one of them, and wish about 25% of my class hadn't been accepted so we could have actually picked up the pace.

Regardless, no hiring manager should expect someone to jump into a professional role. The program teaches you the basics and how to find relevant resources to help you learn. If a hiring manager is expecting more than that, that's on them, not the program.
>This is actually rather disturbing on multiple levels. Is there any actual basis for this science, or is the guy a crackpot? The article kinda seems vague on it, which makes me think the guy straddles that fine line between insanity and genius.

Here's what we do know:
1) It's a fact that pre-modern humans didn't just believe in deities but interpreted their world through them. If you were Ancient Greek and feeling love it was because Eros or Aphrodite was causing it. This is true across cultures. Judaism has a saying about how there is an "Angel" behind every blade of grass. The saying is implying that there is an anthropomorphic entity behind every object and action in the world.

2) You see this anthropomorphic interpretation of the world at the pre-operational stage of child development. Toddlers anthropomorphize the world in a similar way which suggests that this way of seeing the world is not socialized but a biological stage most of us go through.

With that said I don't know what a "Bicameral" mind is. People will have different ways to interpret these data points.
Maybe OT, but does anyone have decent estimates for what percentage of users are blocking ads?
Would also be interesting to know percentage vs browser.
The Brain is like XXXX technology, where XXXX is:
1) Clockwork (18th century)
2) Factory (19th century)
3) Computer (10th century)
4) Nueral Net (21st century)
5) None of the above! Ding Ding Ding
yes due to lack of data results are not relevent, definatally index documentation for racket. good points though. thanks
I think one thing one must be careful off is to think everyone woke up one day and was conscious.

It may well be that early writers etc was first on the scene so to speak, perhaps standing one leg in each group for quite some time.

It could very well be that what made Buddha special is for everyone today, but be do not recognize it because it is so common and we don't expend effort to reach it.
You're using the Gmail model, where mail has labels and gets archived. I think a lot of people are using the other model, where email goes in folders and gets deleted.

Living in the MS world, I struggle to use the Gmail model. I create an Archive folder and put it as a favorite folder. When I'm done with an email, instead of deleting it like Outlook wants, I stick it into the Archive folder. I constantly have to check my Sent Items folder to move those into the Archive folder as well, as there doesn't seem to be an automated way to move those there.
1. There is little money in google play.

2. If the retailers are big enough, they can easily strike deals with carriers/ phone manufacturers. Or, like Amazon tried, create their own market place.
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JWTs give you a really lightweight auth token. You don't need to store any state on the server, you don't need to do any encryption/decryption to verify them, you just verify them by hashing. Plus there are all sorts of extensions to the JWT spec for things like timeouts, etc. Plus, the payload is usable by the client, so for example, you're authentication might consist of just sending the user a signed version of the user id or other information that they can use with the API
Bootcamp graduate here.
Short story: Took a low paying startup job to get my foot in the door, 2 months later got a much better offer, first place offered me a raise but not match, I said ok bye. Next day I walk in the CTO (who supervises me) says "why are you leaving" I say "no match" he says "Let me smash some heads." An hour later I have a match.

tl;dr CTO fights to keep me.

Some other notes: I think the quality of instruction was very high at my particular camp. In retrospect I feel I was perfectly well prepared to contribute from day 1. However, I'm a philomath and my skill set and personality are both good fits for coding. I probably would have made it without a boot camp, the boot camp just got me there faster.

Happy to answer any questions about my camp experience, motivations, contribution level, etc.
You're repeating a classic human error.

1. Hmm, there seems to be a phenomenon here. Let's call it X.
2. Hmm, I think I must be caused by Y.
3. Ah, here's some proof that Y is not the cause of X.
4. X DOESN'T EXIST!

I do not understand the appeal of the argument, it's completely illogical, but it's very popular. But, what you proved is that your old conception of matter is wrong. You have not proved that there is no such thing as matter. The rational answer is to update your understanding of X and move on, not get stuck on your first thought and never move on ever again.

Still, you are in good company. This is a staggeringly common logic failure in the philosophical arena.

What I call matter does exist, to within the limits of our observation... you see, I've updated my understanding in the light of the evidence. So all the arguments you have marshaled against the old definition don't affect me at all, and trying to convince me that I really mean some other definition so that you can salvage your arguments is a waste of time. I tell you what my definitions are, not the other way around. Update your arguments, which, in this case, probably consists of discarding them.
I'd imagine playing the piano as an expert is like typing as an expert.

You may think about what you want to do as an end result, but not necessarily how to place your fingers.
Is it easy to detect people who are using adblock and serve them nothing? Not that that is the best way to handle it but the OP does have a point. At least it would stop leaches. If you put content out for "free" because you make a few cents from advertising if they block the ads it's not much different than stealing.
>Women who give birth to daughters are murdered; those daughters are murdered;

That would be your crimes against women. Not the abortions themselves.

>doctors are bribed to break laws about giving information about the sex of an unborn child

Doctors should give the patient full information to make an informed medical choice, including for an abortion. In this case, the law is the problem.

>At some point a society has to pass a bunch of law to drive change, to signal that some things are no longer considered to be acceptable. They tried persuassion and it didn't work.

Yet sex selective abortions aren't a problem in much of the world. In China's case, sex selective abortions are a result of the laws.

Change the culture so that people don't feel pressured into a choice. Change the laws so that forcing people to make a choice is illegal. But don't remove that choice.