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OK, good, so we have in common that we both believe qualia exist. I didn't get that from your preceding posts.

"What we shouldn't do, is say humans have qualia and jump to the conclusion that machines can't have qualia, and can't be "aware" in the same sense a human can be. I apologize if that wasn't your intended argument."

No, we can't make that jump. But my intuition as a programmer (and one who is interested in A.I. and does A.I. in the sense that some of my mathematical ideas were incorporated into a number of spam filter products) is that they don't. There is simply nothing there that would "add" awareness to the algorithm. All there is is information processing. It can classify something as either having the attribute of yellowness or not. But something beyond that functionality is required to have it experience the qualia of yellowness.

My point is that we have no idea what that something extra is. Somehow, people have it. But we don't know how. There are hypotheses, like those of Roger Penrose who discuss quantum phenomena as possibly being behind it, as made manifest in certain microscope structures in the brain. Suppose Penrose is right. Then, maybe one day a quantum computer can incorporate the same phenomena and be conscious for the same reasons we are.

But I do not believe that, for example, a spam filter as we know it today has the slightest experience of qualia. There is just no "room" for it. Everything in the spam filter has a specific function for the classification task and has nothing to do with experiencing qualia. The same is true for the most complicated deep learning network.

Maybe software as we know it can induce qualia as some kind of an emergent phenomenon, and the brain also induces it through some kind of emergent phenomenon. But I tend to hypothesize there would be something that causes that, some mechanism that the emergent phenomenon grows out of, that is not embodied in something like a current-day deep learning network.

My hypothesis is that to create a machine that experiences qualia, we will first understand the mechanism behind our own experience of qualia, and then reproduce that mechanism in a machine. I hypothesize that this would be a new and extremely fundamental, and transforming, scientific discovery.

And if we do reproduce that mechanism in a machine, and THEN that machine passes the Turing Test without us programming mechanisms to merely MIMIC human behavior, then I'll tend to assume that we've created a truly conscious entity -- though we may never be able to completely prove it.

On the other hand, there's no reason to assume we'll ever discover how it works -- for instance, we can't rule out the idea that there is a God who doles out souls to human bodies, and that we'll never have the means to understand God or souls. I don't believe that's the case -- but plenty of people do, and we can't presently prove they're wrong.
Offer to relocate them?
Shia LaBeouf wants you to go to our hackathon
you're not playing over rdp; that would be terrible.

you're using steam in-home streaming through the vpn.
You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know what's happening.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
Yeah, using OpenVPN allows your client and server to reside on the same subnet, which I presume is necessary for Steam In-Home Streaming.
For this setup, yes - a VPN is necessary to use Steam's inbuilt streaming feature.
It could also be that the 'solutions' I have are also idealistic which is more demanding than other simpler solution possibilities. Maybe this is part of the problem?
The Myth of the Psychopath
Here's what I want: Something with programmer productivity similar to Python, but type-inferred for predictably good execution speed, with more support for functional programming style, with green threads preemptively executing in parallel and immutability baked deeply into the whole thing. And then a track record of deployment so the ugly GC and type system edge cases are ironed out and libraries are plentiful.

Elixir/Erlang will probably never be fast enough, Go didn't commit to immutability and its functional programming support is minimal, Rust could have all that but it's too low-level...

I guess OCaml is as close as it comes for the moment -- it's got everything I listed except a reasonable parallel execution story, but it looks like that's being worked on at the moment.
The difference is that PHP is far more accessible to the average beginner than C/C++.
It's not necessarily true either; it's not difficult to have your continuous build process build images from the Dockerfile, run tests, swap green and blue, etc...
Ask HN: Why do tech interview recruiters not reject me
Let me explain. I have been interviewing actively with tech companies and startups recently having already done about 15 interviews with different companies and into multiple rounds. I go through the phone screening, technical round and then meeting them on site. So far so good. Sometimes I know that the interview did not go well but sometimes I feel that it was really good. But after this starts my biggest headache.

They stop communicating totally as if the company doesnt even exist. They dont send any emails accepting or rejecting me (has been weeks). This has happened with 4 companies so far and I am fed up of sending email asking them again (mind you these are big named ones trending here often).

I dont mind being rejected. But to leave me 'hoping' is the biggest problem I have with them. I understand that you dont want a bad hire but atleast saying that you are not a fit right now is what I am expecting.

I also find this to be a bigger problem in the US than in some other countries I have worked.
In California they are public and searchable by name, see http://transparentcalifornia.com/.
> We might just have seen the future of PC gaming DRM. That you will pay per hour instead of a one-off payment.

While I would hate to be locked into an ecosystem that was pay-per-usage, this article is just amortizing the cost of hardware over time.

The PC gaming community is (I hope) fairly intolerant of any sort of lock-in. If Steam went the way of pay-per-hour there's enough competition that we'd see a transition to other services.

Unless Valve goes through some other route to give themselves an advantage (e.g., buy Xfinity Valve package and get unlimited access to Valve Streaming services, the rest of the internet is low-bandwidth/high-latency), there's not much to worry about.
So... turns out the good guys do win after all.
Is Apple a monopoly? In a normal market, competition and market forces should take care of this.
Better ways are not emerging though, or they haven't yet.
Would you be willing to publish an AMI of the completed image? Seems like that'd make it really easy to run without all of the package management work.
Good luck. I admire your drive to improve yourself.

A note on mindfulness: it's often intertwined with New Age-y bullshit, but the core of it is actually very powerful. It was studied scientifically in the 60s, forgotten about, and has come back into the scientific mainstream in the last 20 years. All research that's been done so far shows that it's beneficial, although how much depends on many factors. It seems to be better than placebo at treating depression and anxiety disorders.

So if you plan to look into mindfulness, try to find a scientific/secular approach that doesn't feed you the New Age stuff.
Check out www.axioms.io!
This is so very important. As hackers, we have a strong cultural legacy of disrupting the traditional structures of power. Anyone can patch some code. Anyone can publish online. Anyone can share information.

Now that hackerdom has, by all counts, won, should we turn around and build our own little world where we are empowered to give power to CEOs and their CEO friends, and not to the common man, so that the common man claws his way to the top so he can in turn exert power over his former mates?

Hackers, we should not be the pigs in Animal Farm, bringing with our revolution the exact social structures we set out to destroy.
Target Opens a Ministore in SV for the Internet of Things
Hi, thats frankly a good idea for introduction. However I think to make this work it would be unwise to tax the rich as they have de facto a lot of influence and would I would assume have the power to stop something like this. I have thought about baking something like a community tax directly into the currencies so that everyone would benefit for a very tiny fraction of the economic prosperity of a whole country e.g
I imagine the OP probably meant that and simply wrote the wrong thing in the post. I probably wouldn't have noticed it was the wrong wording if not for this comment chain.
Sorry, I am not able to contribute a solution to your question. I don't think you can do this without politics being involved, otherwise you are asking everyone to participate instead of mandating that everyone does.

Doesn't basic income cause inflation? It ensures that everyone can have the basics, if they choose to use it that way, but will drive up prices on the basics because demand increases. Am I missing something?
32-bit CI for Rust on Travis and Appveyor
I work for a large company that does this - except it's pretty much useless for guessing someone's salary, because the salary range for each job title are something like $X to $2.25X.
From the St. Louis supercharger to the one in Kansas City is 213 miles. No problem in an 85kWh Tesla. Lexington to St. Louis is not doable on superchargers, and you'd either have to go by way of Indianapolis, or find a friendly CHAdeMO charger in between.

Ithaca would depend on where you're coming from and where you're going. It's well within range of the supercharger at Paramus, NY or Syracuse. Coming from Pittsburg you'd have to detour through Buffalo.
"And how do you know that a human experienced anything while writing a "heartfelt-seeming" post?"

Because I wrote that original post, and I had experiences while writing it. I know that from direct observation and I don't need other evidence.

"Regarding your argument about being aware of the color yellow upthread, have you asked someone that is red-green colorblind how they tell the difference or how they experience red and green? It's clearly not the same as people who can see the full "visible spectrum", so do they not have awareness of those colors??"

Yes, I was wondering if someone would bring that up, but my point wasn't that they have the exact same experience of yellow as me, but rather that they have an experience of a color (or sound, or taste, or anything) at all. And sure, some people experience fewer colors. That doesn't change the argument.

"I asked if it was the same as the difference between colors, he said yes, but more like the difference between teal and a slightly different teal." Interesting!
> Since there is about 80M people in germany it would need 80B € per month to finance that. I would very much like to solve this problem with technology and dodge politics.

IF you want do it with technology and dodge politics, then you need to create an enterprise that generates 80 billion euro [0] in monthly revenue above what is necessary to maintain the enterprise, and then sends out the money.

Good luck coming up with the technological solution which provides nearly a trillion euro in annual profits, and can continue doing so (and growing with population and inflation) while distributing all that to the people of Germany.

[0] actually, more, because you need funding for the money distribution part, too.
One time an HN headline took me to an article written on pastebin; the HN comments were not full of UI complaints.
People are rude and their inboxes are full. Use the phone when you follow up and leave a voicemail. Do this 2 or 3 times and the move on.

Sometimes you'll feel the most hopeless right before a breakthrough. This has happened with 4 companies, but the 5th might be a perfect fit. Be persistent.

If you do get those companies on the phone, be brave enough to ask them why they passed. If they don't know, ask they if they can put you in touch with the interviewer. You can't work on your weaknesses if you don't know what they are (and people rarely know for sure).
This is pretty much what I was hoping for. I couldn't get Extempore running correctly, so I was using Taube's Grace all-in-one executable for my Windows machine.
Any chance this compiles on Windows, or are too many Linux library dependencies?
My ideal is this with a gsl environment like shadertoy. I know Overtone has Shadertone, but I am not a clojure fan; I prefer CL.
I like the golang tut because it works incredibly well on a phone.
For better or for worse, with shell, the line between "a list of instructions to be typed in" and "shell script" is very, very thin.

Toss a

#!/usr/bin/bash

set -e

on top of that, call it "setup.sh", and give it a runthrough, and you're halfway to it being as "automated" as it needs to be to start with. You're fall more likely to get people start PR'ing a running shell script than dead text files.

(set -e will make the script stop when something returns with an error exit code. Despite temptation, given the size of this script I do advise doing your best to work with that... this is just the sort of script that if you let it blunder ahead blindly, when something doesn't work you'll need an hour just to figure out what didn't work, let alone fix it....)
The problem with that is that there are lots of things that don't need to last 5 years because the upgrade cycle is faster than that, and if you have to design them to last that long, they cost more, with little added benefit to the average user.

It's like, the last time I bought a DVD player, it cost $26. They tried to sell me an extended warranty on it, and I laughed, because I didn't expect to actually need a DVD player longer than a year or two. I was right. It lasted a bit over a year, and then I got a bluray player. That's all I needed or wanted for my $26, and I'm glad that there was a cheap little DVD player that could provide it.
There's already a standard EV charging port, called J1772, and the Tesla Model S comes with a J1772 adapter.

A Tesla Supercharger has a maximum output of 100 kW (400V, 250A).

J1772 level 2 has a maximum output of 19.2 kW (240V, 80A) but I believe most don't put out the maximum amps.

If you have an EV with a small battery and you're trying to get around town, a J1772 stop might be useful. For a Tesla on a long distance trip, a J1772 stop won't be worthwhile on its own unless you're desperate. (If you're stopping anyway for some other reason, you might as well plug in if it's convenient.)
Yes, I have a running instance up now in USWest. If it is free and somebody could shoot me instructions I'll make it an AMI (after lunch, on the way out the door right now).
Sorry, not used to speak about that with competent people :D
What sort of dysfunction?
That's news to me, most companies seem to understand full well that if they want support on a free program they have to pay for it.
This can work very well for some applications. I have a startup doing something similar to this with the Second Life Viewer with good results. The most painful parts turn out to be in the plumbing around state and change management as you might expect.
What Is a Network Operations Center (NOC)?
I have written a simulation where a tiny fraction of every financial transaction was distributed evenly over all members of the economic community. It did not change the outcomes for individuals all that much but nobody went bust anymore. I thought it would be potentially possible to do something with cryptocurrency as well.
I'd like to chat about it. I've been looking for a service like that and have tried the AWS GPU instance approach as well. My email is on my profile.
Yep. Well said.
Apple has actually been doing really well on the software side of this iOS9 will support the iPhone 4S (released in 2011) through to the upcoming 6s. That's 5 generations of devices that will be on the latest version of the OS. To put it into perspective, how many other cell phones out there are able to run the latest version of the OS 5 years after their release date?
We've implemented your recommendations. Glad to hear you liked our post even without the suggested improvements.
Some of the steps require user input. Is the "set -e" for dealing with that? Also at least one reboot is needed, the script depends on a lot of external sources being up, and I have seen different behavior on the kernel upgrade steps.
How a team of young people helped rebuild Healthcare.gov
So my first thought was (will this replace the doves by space labs). Which was an earlier story on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158295

It won't because these are geostationary satellites (if I read the post correctly). So you'd need at least 3 of these to get a good image and that's not even considering some of the bigger issues with this. I also don't think the resolution is on par. But the images will be really cool to see.

Link to space labs. https://www.planet.com/story/
Not reassuring. If there's money to be made, people will try to make it. It's reasonable to assume a group of friends would take a weekend trying to collude at poker.

There are a few things you could potentially do to make it not worth their time. The first is to take money before assigning a table, and then randomly assigning the person. The second is to have the house take such a large cut that even with collusion it's not profitable.

You still have to worry about Sybil attacks. It's one thing for me and my 3 friends to play poker together and try to land at the same table. It's another for me and my 1000 bots at different IP addresses (bots who will, of course, play computationally perfect games and collude any time they are at the same table) to try and beat the odds.
250% income growth over eight months
If you aren't disproportionately taxing the rich to fund it, and you are giving everyone the same amount of money, then you are either (in net) redistributing upward from the poor to the rich, or you are doing nothing.
My poker buddies from college are now all over the world. You can't identify us and ban us from playing at the same tables.
Latency will only be an issue if it's non-constant - most gamers can adjust for lag if it's expected.

I think the underlying idea here is consistency. If I point and click on something that was merely a "mirage" due to network effects, then this is somewhat of a bad experience.
"This article is an indictment of the navigation system."

Yep, for sure. But note that that's all it is. It's not an indictment of Tesla overall, or the Model S's ability to road trip. The trip planner does need some serious work. But if you ignore it, road trips can be a joy.

As far as remote access while the car is driving, why not allow it? That means that, for example, somebody in the back seat can adjust the controls using their phone instead of bothering the driver to do it for them. It's only ripe for abuse if you give your account credentials to someone you shouldn't trust. And why would you do that? It's pretty much on the same level as giving your car keys to your coworkers and then complaining when they prank you by moving your car to a different parking lot behind your back. Don't give them your keys!
No, see edit. But there are ways to do user input in shell, see Google. (By which I mean I literally do not personally know the best answers and that's what I'd be doing anyhow if I tried to explain here.)
Mysterious 5,000-Year-Old Artifacts Unearthed in Ermenek
I have played games like this in the past. They are extremely addictive not sure what part of the brain they tap into, but its powerful. However, in the end it sort of boils down to hitting +1 over and over again on a calculator then going "wow look how big the number is now". (Yes, there is usually some minmaxing that allows you to increment faster.) Having said that... I will still probably still end up checking this one out. =P
I love it. The explanations for equity, salary, etc are great. If the individuals within the company are on board with having this information public, then it's proof that they hold the same values as the company with regard to transparency--almost like a test, right up front. All of the comments below about people wanting to keep that information private is perfectly fine, but that means you don't share the same values as the company.

I agree with the previous comments about government/military salaries being pre-defined. It completely removes the negativity usually associated with secret salaries. That's now a non-issue.

Well done.
I don't know man. No one got this upset with the Potato Salad kickstarter.
Thank you for your feedback. I have though of a lot of ways how it would not work out. This is why I am asking HN if someone would have a practical idea that might work. I always have the feeling that the people here are of much great creativity and intelligence than me.
I think a site like this can easily make more money then say a drug-store on darknet, but perfectly legal.

There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.
Well, it’s the cheapest dedicated server that Hetzner and OVH provide, so I used it for comparison, and a lot of people have similar specs nowadays.
"perpetrator of a planned crime"
> Nest's competence is design sense/simple ux which Apple already has plenty of but Google doesn't.

I think this trope is rather out of date. If you look at Inbox, Google Play Music, Keep and a few other Google properties, it's not implausible to argue they are ahead of many Apple products.
India issues dress code to discourage use of cheating technology for exams
Pull the cat5 from a critical nfs server and you'll see plenty of psychiatric conditions, both in computers and people. The analogies were a bit tongue in cheek, but I think they relate well enough. Why does a human have an urge to poop? Is it because of "human-ness" or because there's waste that needs to be disposed of.

I don't think computer people think they have the definite answer, it's just easy to apply familiar abstractions to things when they map well. Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_action_pattern seems quite like a conditional to me, and neuroscientists seems to agree. Comparing things at a higher level doesn't mean being oblivious to the lower levels, it just means it's outside the scope you care about. If we could 1:1 replicate every single possible input/output/decision/etc that happens in the human brain with transistors and have the exact same properties as a human when interacting with it, does it really matter if the path to get to those interactions is different? To me, it doesn't. We don't define people by which neurons fire in their brain, we define them by the actions and decisions those chemical reactions cause, and I don't see why it should be any different if they're made of silicon.
Well right now the rich and poor are equally taxed with value added tax of 19% for everything they consume here (except for food and book 7%) whick means that it would be technically possible since it is already happening, right? VAT in Germany is generating about 20bn a month in revenue
I love it how on HN you can get down-voted for a personal experience with you then adding insult to injury with slurs against my former employees, who did not strike me as 'dumb people' by any stretch of the imagination.

You weren't present, you don't know these people and you know better?

And when you think you may be under fire you're going to go all cool and composed and reason out that this can't possibly be gunfire and so you stand around rather than to panic first and think later?

Really, that's is for me. Bye.
I've had great results using OpenResty in combination with the Lapis[0] framework. Screaming fast and pretty easy to work with.

[0] http://leafo.net/lapis/