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Just use the octet index instead of the code point index. To use UTF-8-based strings, you do need to distinguish between octet indexes (calling them iterators is probably saner to most people) and character indexes.

With UCS-4 (and UCS-2 as implemented in practice), the iterator representation and character index are the same, which makes retrofitting those implementations to use UTF-8-based strings impossible. But for new environments, where UCS-2-backwards-compatibility isn't a requirement, it's not hard to make a string API that properly exposes the difference between iterators and character indexes, which is why newer environments are gravitating towards UTF-8 strings.
I don't think it's an unreasonable thought at all, but I think there are a few very import things to considers:

* If consciousness is indeed a variable quantity, then every single able bodied adult human has more "units" of consciousness than, say, a dog. The variation within a species is also probably pretty small compared to the gap between species.

* Just like intelligence, the amount of consciousness that a person has is not a measure of their value.
I had this happen just recently. I had actually clicked the box for 1 day shipment, and it got kicked back to ground. It ended up only showing up 2 days late ( monday instead of saturday), but it was still annoying.
The lack of G+ and Hangouts is quite obvious. I don't remember the last time they've tweeted or used Whatsapp or Viber for product showcase.
I'm sure hes talking about the size. The comparable would be worrying about how many cycles your 512MB flash drive has left.
> How many emails do you have to write a day?!

Way too fucking many :(
Does it play well with NoScript? Adblock?
Picture this: A fresh approach to Photos
Lightroom syncs photos and metadata with Flickr out of the box.
Read Blindsight by Peter Watts. Also one of the best hard Sci-fi books I've ever read, both for its ideas and writing quality.
We have not yet developed writing systems for all of the world's languages. So there is no practical bound you can put, because it is possible that in a future development of a writing system, there will either be entirely new characters invented, or new combinations of existing characters and diacritics.

In addition, since the existing Unicode standard does not impose a bound, and implementations support stacking of large numbers of diacritics, people have used combinations of extremely large numbers of diacritics as a stylistic device, for example: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/69755. Since examples like this exist in the wild, they need to be supported properly, and so the fundamental string types and operations in string handling libraries should be able to handle it.
That would explain mind as dependent on matter (and I agree on that) but that would not say anything about Consciousness.

Are you an automaton? If not, why Qualia? Why Consciousness exists? In a material Universe it doesn't make absolutely any sense and, in such Universe, it is not even needed.

And yet I know that I can experience red and sounds, etc. in ways that are beyond just receptors and neurotransmitters. Does that happen to you too?

Why? Why Qualia?!
How would a user be forced to upload all of their photos? I have (allegedly) unlimited storage with Flickr, but I manually upload the photos that I choose.
>You are either a serf or a lord. It really is that simple...

No, that is the foolish narrative that keeps this mess going. No amount of money can compensate for parenting.
Not all Exchange setups are configured to allow IMAP access...
I've given up on all of that. All my pictures are on /disk/camera/{year}/{year}{month}{day}-{eventName}/IMG_1294.jpg

I've thought about cramming metadata in there, somehow - text files on the disk? Metadata in the file itself? - but nothing ever seemed right, and like hell will I let some other application move/copy my files over and maintain its own weird binary database that I'm likely to never be able to read again as soon as my license expires or if I switch operating systems.
Printing of money to cover for the fiscal deficit is not rare or bad by itself. Inflation can be a form of taxation if the goverment fully controlls the creation of money. The problem is that goverments are stripped from their right to do so and evey cent they create is actually borrrowed from the central bank.
Parenting without money is disallowed.
Audience shot shows just one person with Google Glass--ouch.
Speculation is not useless! We are at a complete loss, not only at how to explain consciousness, but also at figuring out which direction to move in. As long as we understand that speculation is not fact, it can be useful in helping us pick directions to do scientific research in.
That sounds even more disturbing - automated, robotic account cancellation and dismissal of all communications regarding it... until you get a little bit famous, and then you instantly get a human response. How does anybody think that this is an acceptable way to do business?

The really sad thing is that I'd be more upset at Stripe if every other business you deal with starting an internet company didn't do the same thing over and over again. Never mind the ease of integration, are there any payment processing companies out there who make it easy speak to a human being in possession of common sense and the ability to make decisions if there is a dispute regarding your account, without having to get famous first?
Nice rundown from Mat Honan at Buzzfeed:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mathonan/googles-new-photos-app-is-l...

> I have a cousin who I only have a few photos of. In almost all of these, mostly taken last year, she is 30. In another, from 2000, she is 16. But it’s the earliest one in the cluster that’s remarkable. In that picture, my cousin is only 4. Google Photos successfully matched a 4-year-old child’s face to a grown woman’s, with only a lone photo at 16 to tie them together.

> Places are also useful. Photos looks at a variety of signals for this, including geodata from photos. But thanks to the wealth of geographic image data Google has amassed, it can also put your old, untagged photos on a map based on landmarks that appear in them. It reliably placed many pictures I had taken in Singapore more than a dozen years ago into a cluster, for example.

> This makes Photos very searchable. It’s easy to find places in your pictures — even ones that aren’t geotagged. It’s equally easy to find very specific things, like Labrador retrievers, poodles, and caves. Photos also allows you to search for pictures of people doing things. I found people in poses when I searched for “yoga,” pictures of people with booze, coffee, and Coca-Cola when I searched for “drinking.” Sometimes the results are odd: photos of both wide smiles and crying faces when I searched for “laughing.”

Finally, the amazing deep learning imagery algorithms Google and Stanford demonstrated last year [1, 2] are available for consumer benefit. But yes, it really does seem like "Gmail for Photos", in that so much more of your life is now knowable by Google.

edit: further reflection...I have probably a TB worth of images of me and my friends over the past five years. I've done a decent job of labeling the folders every time I move files off of my camera and into Lightroom...but the thought of going through all the folders and sorting and tagging them seemed like something I would wait to do in my old age when it's time to make sentimental scrapbooks...Google Photo seems like something that could revolutionize that chore of finding photos of remembrance (for a wedding, funeral, graduation, etc)...on the other hand, it will most definitely have the power to connect everyone to photos taken by their friends, simply through the networks inferred from GMail/G+/etc...I think for the sake of my friends' past assumptions of privacy, I'm going to sit out on using Google Photos for my old photos...but I imagine in the future, we'll be less surprised about how we were auto-tagged in someone else's camera phone.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4555.pdf

[2] http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/
Chris Rock wrote something a while ago. He says until very recently "mainstream" didn't believe at all that police treated brown and black people this way.
Photos has Drive integration [0] since a couple of months ago so you're free to do exactly this.

[0] http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2015/03/photosindrive.html
My thoughts exactly, except more fleshed out and well worded!
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You know, for all the flack Paypal has gotten, they've been pretty great in my experience.

We're using Paypal for our web game at http://clickerheroes.com/ and we have a pretty high number of disputes and chargebacks compared to average businesses (for obvious reasons, people want to get the paid stuff in the game for free).

We got a call from Paypal once when they noticed this, and they just wanted to know the reason for the high dispute/chargeback rate. I explained it to them, they understood, and that was the end of that.

Maybe the bad PR they used to get has made them change their ways. I doubt they'd ever do anything like what Stripe just did to the OP.
Perhaps the visualization is just better this way, but your question is at least an interesting one to think about. How would the shape of the curve change, and might it suggest slightly different conclusions?

For example, it seems to me the absolute income version would be steeper at low incomes, perhaps amplifying the perceived impact of things like a living wage or basic income on educational outcomes. (I'm talking mainly about the psychological impact of the curve's shape, not raw statistical truths.)
lately = entire history ;-)
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If that were the case you would expect to find that adoption did very weird things to educational attainment in families. And i can't find any evidence to assert that that's the case.

"Genetics is the most important ingredient here." is a pretty extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Couldn't anyone just start a non-profit with an endowment like a college? All profits get proportionally distrubuted to each citizen, and anything unclaimed in reinvested to grow the pot further.

I think the toughest part of the MVP is the 'citizenship verification' or whatever method you use to make sure people don't collect more than once. Partnering with an identity theft protection company might be a good way to outsource authentication.
>> It's well-known by now that Youtube is not the place to go to find quality discussion.

To solve this problem, i use the AlienTube firefox extension, which brings reddit discussions over to youtube.
Launch URL (available later today): https://photos.google.com/
I had a mixed reaction to this blog post. On the one hand it is helpful to understand the risk involved with using Stripe for payment processing. I presume, because Stripe wants to onboard users as fast as possible they back-load some of the review process for new accounts. That's an obvious double-edged sword and clearly impacted these guys negatively.

But, on the other hand, I felt that the tone was a little bit strange. Stripe doesn't have to do business with you, or anybody else. It's not offensive to my sensibilities that Stripe has it's own processes and concerns as it relates to it's customers (not to mention regulatory requirements).

And this bit stuck in my craw "..So overnight without warning Stripe had decided to stop us from using their services after 5 days.."

That email was your warning. You did, in fact, get a warning. You got 5 days to change payment processors.
Glad to see so much discussion of this here! Always cool to see our work on HN.

To answer this question, yes, we (Jeremy's cronies) are indeed using D3 to do most of the drawing and interactions. He also forced us to use Underscore.

The heat map showing everyone's responses is done in Canvas.

Hope that helps.

-KQ
"Every hard working educated parent deserves this..."

Why do they deserve this? And how do you define 'educated'? And who should provide these things if the market doesn't (i.e. how can it be fixed)?
>do we actually try and fix the fundamental problem?
>I can't be the only one
>We need to deal with wealth inequality.

Shill harder.
No thanks. I'm trying to move away from being their product.
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There was also a API for checking via Android (aka Google) if a URI passed via intents was "kosher".
Actually I think this is completely ridiculous point , because G+ and hangout as far as I can remember installed on nexus [you aware enough to know that they use nexus device for demonstration ] by default , so they cannot show the app permission dialog because all default app granted all permission by default .
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Ask HN: How to track everything about myself?
I want to track everything (as much as possible) about myself in automated fashion and in as private/secure way as possible.

Movements, sleep patterns, coffee and alcohol consumption, expenses, etc...

I working on "self-awareness-analytics" project that will be able to graph/discover interesting personal patterns - but it needs data.
And I don't want to manually enter such data.

I'm ok with using tracking apps - but prefer to minimize number of apps, favoring ones covering multiple life areas with strong privacy stance.

Any ideas?
I wonder how this will affect the Raspberry Pi foundation. They use Broadcom SoCs and seem to have a pretty good relationship with them.
I don't see the big deal either.

Our brain is able to observe some of its own functioning and that is called consciousness. We can only observe a tiny fraction of that functioning, mind you.

Practising Buddhists, who train at observing the mind, have categorized the same 5 senses as the western tradition does, but they also add a sixth sense that perceives 'mental formations.' The sixth sense isn't more magical than sight or smell, or hearing.

With training one can extend the range of the internal brain mechanisms we can observe. It's called 'expanding your consciousness' a really straightforward concept. Not some wishy washy trippy experience.
> This is a clear case of free association. MIT does not wish to have any association with Lewin...

Ha! Yes, I suspect you're right. But this isn't the reason MIT gave. They said it was for the danger he posed.

> Remember, free speech ....is foremost a prohibition on government restraint on speech.

This is a very neutered and ahistoric conception of free speech. The actual reasoning that led folks to endorse things like the first amendment is certainly not restricted to just matters of law or government. It is a normative claim that applies, in particular, to private citizens dealing with each other. If this idea is foreign to you, I highly recommend reading John Stuart Mills' classic work on this, which is about a hundred pages and available free online.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34901?msg=welcome_stranger

> Lewin actively sought out many women who were self-learning using his videos, including joining in with Facebook groups.

Very interesting (and creepy)! I didn't know. All the same hypotheticals go through, though.

> Ahmadinejad is not a professor at MIT

Neither Lewin nor Ahmadinejad should be professors at MIT -- Lewin even more so.

> Again, this is a free association question.

Again, I think you misunderstand the deep justification for the principle of freedom of speech, and how it interact with MIT's mission. After all, freedom of association would apply just as well to Ahmadinejad.

If MIT was in some business other than the pursuit of knowledge, your point could be fine.
Does anyone know what Avago's attitude towards Open Source is? Any chance we might get some decent drivers for Broadcom gear?
It would be interesting to know the computation they use to determine the monetary gain on being able to mine/scan all the information from the photos versus the cost of storing them.
It won't just "disappear". I think we can safely expect plenty (months) of notice.
A lot of this relates to where people grow up. If nobody in your high school expects to go to college then that's a huge influence. Even something as simple as signing up for the SAT's is simply off the radar. Not to mention things like how much education your parent’s friends and coworkers have.

Income strongly correlates with zip code so it's hard to figure out the 'root' cause such things.
"What about the next generation of old people? Facebook will have to keep recapturing this market. This is very problematic because the older generation only interested in family photos really couldn't care less about the service itself; they're going to use whatever their kids and grandkids use, so long as it's not too complex (and with each generation the maximum technological complexity for the geriatric crowd will go up quite a lot)."

My parents (~65) started using FB more when my great grandmother (~90) started using it. They are resistant to tech change, but they use it quite a lot. I'd imagine that given the long spans older folks tend to use technology, the drop off in folks as they die is offeset by the steady, if slow, adoption of the system by earlier generations.

I personally am not too stoked about how folks who don't know me might look at my feed (from potential clients to potential band mates to the NSA), but I might care less if I was 67 instead of 37.
They glossed over this awfully quick in their keynote, but spent a whole lot of time talking about "custom tabs" for Chrome on Android...

And the "granularity" of the permissions seemed on par with the permissions categories they introduced to Play a while back. Meaning that once you ok the use of, say, speakers, the same app can get access to anything inside the same category of permissions...
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They solution I can see to this would be moving away from the conveyer-belt institution-and-teacher centric model of education which makes it impossible to distribute the same educational opportunities to all, solely because the money will attract the resources and teaching talen which will then be trapped within one institution.

If instead we had a model that allowed students to participate in an institituion independant network that created classess and assigned teachers based on smaller resource loads, week long classess as opposed to 2 year long courses, we could have a system that much more easily lends itself to individual needs and gives more freedom to all students regardless of income level. This same problem could also be tackled by bridging the teacher-student polarity. Students are very capable of teaching themselves in small groups and acheiving goals at the same rate as if they were with teachers. By removing the teacher from the model you reduce resource costs hugely.

Here students are giving by the system what they put in. By participating and working with multiple small groups of students we build social skills and open the door for more specialized and specific learning at every level, not just the private school. If the digital revolution needs to shake things up anywhere in education its in the model and class structure.

tl;dr:A system that gets rid of large classess and focuses on connecting students to teach themselves can provide the same(and highly effective) educational opportunities to all (at a very reasonable cost).
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Get your facts right. The devaluation happened in 1999, a time when thinking that Lula would win an election was actually a joke.

If you go to BACEN you can look for yourself to get the historic data on inflation and SELIC interest rates. FHC was able to both have high interest rates, high inflation rate and a broken economy (or did you forget that brazil had to ask IMF for a huge money lend?)...

I don't know what you mean by a coupe... but it is well known that FHC paid congress men to pass the law allowing him to be re-elected. Curiosly, now they think re-election is bad... go figure.
Yep. I don't know about the percentages but many, many people are easily susceptible to mimicking the behavior of their top brass & peer group in any employment situation. After all, if you fit in, they'll fire that guy over there instead of you [maybe].
The Google Photo recognition and auto-management looks pretty cool; except that:

1. Why would I hand over my photos to a third party, that, quite ostensibly, is capable of indexing and tagging it by face- and location-recognition and store on their storage. I used to trust Google with most of my information, but I've been slowly transitioning them away to either local, or a home-brew solution.

2. What I noticed for the first time is not the cool new shiny things, but the absence of Hangouts and Google+ features. Did they get completely abandoned, or are they to be covered later? It seems like a Google style to make some AI-enhanced or Google-flavored version of pre-existing service(be it RSS, social media, you name it), let it get hyped because "Google", then abandon it when it doesn't reach some internal target.

Honestly, while I definitely agree that they're all cool stuff, but I do not see myself using those features; it's more of a trust issues over convenience. Just my two cents.
Over 30 for in state seems too high. Tuition was 10k-12k 2 years ago.

http://admission.virginia.edu/admission/tuition

But congrats on your kid getting a merit scholarship at U of C. That's great and I'm sure you are very proud. I went of school and U of Illinois and Northwestern so I'm supposed to hate U of C, but it's a great school.
That may be true in Sweden, but perhaps there are other reasons that health and education aren't strongly correlated to wealth... for Sweden.

Sweden is famous for its public services (funded through high taxes), so their citizens receive free/low-cost health and education anyway. Thus, wealth isn't as big a factor for receiving those services as it is in other countries.

Pointing out correlation doensn't equal causation is fine, but drawing conclusion from another country and translating back to the U.S. while ignoring significant differences isn't correct either.
in Brazil there were a little bit more rationality in our caos: we always cut 3 zeros. That should be insane indeed to keep adjusting your perception at every purchase.
HDMI 1.4 supports 50 mA @ 5V, I'm not sure if that's enough to power a Chromecast.
People who are new to book-keeping typically already have a mental model of it from bank statements. The salary is "credited", and withdrawals are debits. This notion muddles things up.

"Every transaction must balance" is a succinct explanation, but it is unfortunately even one more level abstract for someone not exposed to the very idea of book-keeping. The hope is that showing a few entries without being muddled in what is debit and what is credit territory, and how they relate to each other will trigger the aha moment a little sooner.
It's pretty telling that 20% of the public IPMI hosts are Supermicro. I suspect that a lot of that is completely unintentional.

Supermicro has a completely brain dead default behavior, where if you connect power to the machine and the management Ethernet port doesn't have a link, it migrates the IPMI interface to the first host Ethernet port. You can only fix this by power cycling the BMC.

Since it will just ask DHCP for an IP address and might wind up on the production VLAN, bad things can happen in environments that aren't prepared for that.
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2015/05/a_word_on_guilt_p...

"Either you think it is OK or not OK that police follow a different set of rules than everyone else does, even when they are off duty. Either you think it is OK or not OK that mainstream media institutions are at best police apologists (like the Star Tribune and WCCO) or at worst straight-up mouthpieces for the police unions, like KSTP proved to be with the Pointergate scandal."