skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem like that much of a bullet to bite.

If you accept that many-celled organisms can be conscious, and that eusocial colonies (ants, bees) behave more like intelligent organisms than any one member, it's not much if a stretch to say "hm, a country belongs on that scale".

It's moderately surprising that a consistent system would put the US at eg 25% of a human by consciousness, but it's not the kind of thing that makes you say "oops I made a wrong choice somewhere".

The lense of homeostasis (or autopoiesis more generally) is useful: it does allow you to put things on a meaningful, insight-yielding scale: there are humans, and rocks, and then fire and hurricanes somewhere in between. So what does it take to make something past human in the scale?
>To see like a tetrachromat?

Yes this is exactly what I was thinking.

Your narrow bandpass scanning idea sounds cool. Even if it was slow it would be interesting to look at something and watch it change over time - if you have three separated bandpasses then you should get something like colour vision, but where the colour of an object changed over time.
Anyone know if Sendgrid or AWS SES is affected? Or even the email marketing shops like MailChimp, Aweber, ExactTarget, etc.
Doesn't seem as concise as an ML is one of my factors in "nice".

I guess I don't care about a bulletproof VM because I've not had issues with the JVM, CLR or other systems. And BEAM reeks of instability.

Furthermore the resulting apps seem to bear no relation to Erlang's robustness. Look at RabbitMQ. Lots of stability problems... So what's Erlang saving us from?
I can think of at least one thing some people do in their beds that would be awkward to have recorded for posterity.
I have had the mazda3 model since it first came out in 2014. They actually do release updates from time to time. The only unfortunate thing is you have to go to the dealer to update. (However the system is completely hackable, and you can update it yourself and even add your own apps http://www.mazda3hacks.com/)
Mazda has said that in 2016 all cars with this infotainment system will get an upgrade to android auto/apple equivalent.
There's some real haters who are downvoting your realism. Sorry about that, I think you are simply being truthful.
Quirk of human psychology: you now know what you're missing. I have this problem sometimes. When I remind myself that it's just a quirk of my own mind, it sometimes helps.
Can someone tell me how these super cookies work? Cookies can only be read in the domain/origin they were set, so how is a cookie passing data off to other domains?

Or is it just as simple as two companies working together and fingerinting and matching thereby making that called a super cookie?
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The pzombie line is "posit the same world as ours, but no one's conscious". At best, it's useless because we don't know what consciousness is. At most likely, it's just dumb and non-sequitur. Like saying "OK imagine this glass of water. It's identical to water in every way. But it's fire. Ah-ha! What does that mean? <spooky voice>".

So either consciousness is based in physics, in which case pzombies are non-starter, or we don't know what consciousness is and it's a pointless conversation.
I thought it'd be about software tapes, but I'm not surprised - vinyl records are even older and more fragile in many ways, and yet there's still plenty of interest in them, so why not cassette tape.
If it's conscious, it has the wit of a paramecium at best.
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I have seen a few of them around Silicon Valley, FWIW.

It doesn't really appeal to me either, but a few people are buying them.
Indeed. Ultimately, I think most private enterprises would rather not be competitve contestants of a free and open market but would rather be monopolists, monopsonists and above all, rent seekers (ideally a monopolist rent seeker earning rents from a entity spending other peoples money).

It is often much easier to compete by sabotaging competitors and potential competitors than by competing on the merits of the product/service that you provide.

Neoliberals have been very effective at promoting confusion between free and open markets (which most definitely require some form of regulation to remain free and open) and captialist/private ownership framework, largely to further deregulation and the rent seeking opportunities it affords.
I'm using a very simplistic definition of the term. Essentially, anything that responds to input is "alive." I'm actually basing it on the notion the author gives since he considers rabbits as being "concious." I'm not sure rabbits are self-aware though in the sense that humans are, ie., becoming a "strange loop" as Douglas hofstadter would put it. Self-awareness is one thing, conciousness, as the author presents it, is another thing.

The thing is, externally, one can talk about a nation in the same ways we talk about a person in the same ways we talk about a group or even a couple. You can consider it responding to input and even being "self-aware" as an entity, even being deliberating. A materialist doesn't believe in the immaterial, s/he can only judge an entity by observing its reaction to stimula, so as far as s/he can judge, the materialist can observe the US from the outside, and apply the duck rule[1] to conclude it's concious.

However, I'm not talking about qualia[1]. Qualia, a materialist would say, is an illusion. But, again, going by the author's definition, I'm not sure we can say whether rabbits or flies experience qualia, and qualia is sort of a hard to thing to reason about from the outside of the head. For me, the question of qualia is a much more interesting argument against materialism.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure I'm a materialist, but I'm a scientist by trade, so I have to work in that mindset. Still, I never felt comfortable with it.

[0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rule+of+Duck
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
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Option one: turn off those features? Option 2: Set things up so they only activate in the right time window?? (Not sure if that's possible, but sounds like it should be.)
Tier 1 = fermilab?
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The text goes right off the screen on my phone. http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot_2015-07-17-23-30-27-nIBS...
Something like this happened to me recently:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2015/03/12/alarming-number-of-spa...

A Googler on HN was kind enough to get in touch with me and help bring the problem to the attention of the right people at Google, who fixed things on their end and made a few suggestions on my end. Presumably, Linus Torvalds will get about 1000x as much Google love as I did.

Good idea to check often though: I just discovered a few LiberWriter customers in my own spam filter... :-/
Maybe OT, but i remember the "power of tape" when i was 10 in 1987, when an italian public radio broadcasted a full videogame (compressed by "turbo loader") every day and it was possible to record and play it on that beautiful commodore 64!
You won't believe how honest this CEO is about blowing $185M
We should backport all the good features from 3.x to 2.7: I bet it would only take a few days.
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Having grown up with tapes... I just don't understand the appeal. After obtaining one of the early cdrom based boomboxes for the first time, I was perfectly happy to replace my tapes with cd. Sure, there was zero buffering and even the slightest bump caused a skip... But the sound was great!

But hey, why not. :)
I agree 100%. The VC should have put all the class action law firms in this area on a retainer.
Okay, that sounds like it must have been pretty cool!
Yes, a lot, too much to write in a comment box though: http://audiokit.io/features/
SuperCookies are generally considered to be cookies that recreate themselves after deletion. A variety of techniques are used for this, ranging from cooperating domain to flash cookies to local storage.

Information us passed between sites using JavaScript and backend cooperation on ID matching.
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As I said below, if you really are a materialist, then this shouldn't bother you. As a materialist, you can't judge something from the inside, you can only apply the duck rule.[0] And the US, a book club, a couple, all of these deliberate, form consensus, act for self-survival...they act like living things just like us bags of meat do, so they should be "concious", just like a person or a rabbit or a duck is.

Or, if this still does bother you, may be you should question your faith in materialism.
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I can't see how drones made killing any more economical than high-altitude daylight bombing did in WWII and Vietnam.

Once you've established absolute air superiority, and the USAF is good at that these days, the bombers would be approximately as safe as people flying drones are now, and a single plane dropping literally tons of high explosive is a pretty efficient way to kill a lot of people in the target zone.
Panopticlick doesn't use everything available. WebGL alone adds an additional 5.11 bits of entropy[1]. Other things such as your local network address from WebRTC, core count, etc. all can add a lot more entropy for fingerprinting.

[1]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.01408.pdf
40gb data transfer at 1kbps
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> Someone stepping on the pedal and being where a pedestrian is in 2 seconds could be very fatal for inexperienced drivers.

Probably far more likely to be fatal for the pedestrian
>They just had a "feeling" that it was real, despite not being able to provide a functional definition of what it is.

If you think it's hard to define what a soul is, try defining what it is for something to be "material".
It seems like the key to writing current code is to abandon the idea of understanding how to construct a concurrent architecture and to figure out how to adopt a pattern concurrent which provides certain guarantees. Often it is something baked into the language, but frequently it is a library. This is one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with Clojure.

1) Because it has STM baked in and there is a core library for CSP.

2) Because it is a lisp so adding foreign syntax is as simple as a library and doesn't need to be a language extension.
> Thread-based concurrency has no future. It's complex and it doesn't scale beyond a certain point.

Beyond what point? Every single company that handles petabytes of data, starting with Google, seems to be scaling just fine with thread-based concurrency.

And why shouldn't they? Thread-based concurrency has decades of study behind it, it's very well understood, the tooling is terrific (IDE's even tell you ahead of time when deadlocks can happen and when they do, they can tell you exactly why) and the performances are unmatched.

I'd say thread-based concurrency is going to be around for a while, as opposed to the many fads that come and go trying to replace it, starting with actor-based concurrency and transactional memory.
ISIS and their ilk are such a small percentage of what humanity is all about. Don't look at them and think that we're moving towards a new Dark Age. Life in much of the world is as good as it has ever been.
But it is different!

A drone allows killing with zero risk of US life. That dramatically changes the likelihood that it will be used, for better or worse....
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> No one needs a car that can go faster than 85mph

... until they REALLY do.
Some old mechanical typewriters didn't have the Zero '0', one had to use the 'O' character. That's the historical reason.
Because if they were employees then it wouldn't be a "platform" and it would just be a maid service company with an app.
I read the entire exchange. The other quote is far more definitive.

>You might think you don't see life through a racial prism, but the Republican party of the eighties most definitely did, and they exploited it.

No they didn't. For Republicans Willie Horton was a story about a guy who killed someone on a weekend furlough. Only for Democrats was it about a black guy who killed someone on a weekend furlough.
There are forms of construction that don't require an intact roof to keep the walls upright. E.g., normal steel post-and-girder with regular wind frames/braces. Tilt-up just isn't such a form of construction. I'm surprised they can get away with this sort of building in Tornado Alley.
Congratulations Ludovic! I just want to echo that this is absolutely an underserved market. Yes there are definitely challenges, but also great opportunities. African content is just really beginning to emerge; Nollywood and the like are just scratching the surface and yet to unearth the richness of 1000's of years of heritage. Kudos also to YC buying in :)
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This is entirely true.

If I run my Samsung Note 4 in it's extreme power saving mode, it's got a standby that is something like 17 days! I can easily go a few days, if I'm just talking on the phone, text, and the occasional web browser session.

If I want to play audio, it will do that for the better part of a week in that same mode. Just point Chrome at the files and go.
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> I can't see how drones made killing any more economical
> than high-altitude daylight bombing did in WWII and Vietnam.

Presumably there is a USAF whitepaper or two that outlines exactly how much cheaper drones are (else: why are they using them?) but here are a few possibilities that spring to mind:

* The drones themselves are cheaper than the equivalent manned aircraft

* Supplies and support for the pilot are cheaper to procure on a base in the US than on an aircraft carrier or forward base

* No need to carry life support, etc so drone can carry more weapons or fuel

* Lower pilot training costs due to no KIA on drone loss and lower lifetime medical costs for survivable injuries.
Do you not believe that's how mature businesses work?
It really is old and hasn't been updated in a while, but the API's excellence is timeless. It's most security professionals' go-to for when they need to do some complex packet crafting.

The performance isn't great, but most people don't use it that way.
Is there a link to the spreadsheet? I think open salaries are important, and that would be really interesting data.
what are the modern languages that are the real competition?
> He points out that we can with some actual mathematical rigor observe that the mapping itself can be said to be doing all the work.

There is no mathematical rigor whatsoever in that portion of the paper. He just conjectures that there would be no efficient algorithm for encoding (e.g.) chess positions as states of a waterfall. This actually seems fairly unlikely. You only need to be able to specify a set of physical states that compose in such a way that you can, e.g., incrementally push items onto a stack, and you're basically done. How can we possibly be confident that there is no state description of a waterfall that makes that possible? Note that we have to allow the state descriptions to be very complex, since the physical states corresponding to the computational states of a microprocessor are also extremely complex. This complexity happens to be easier for us to deal with because microprocessors have been designed to make it easy for us to put them into particular computational states. But the relevant states of a waterfall, while much more difficult for us to manipulate, will not obviously be any more complex. And to make the key point, we need only find one suitable inanimate physical system. It really doesn't seem so unlikely that there are a few of them out there.

On top of all this, why should it matter if there's no efficient encoding algorithm? It would obviously lead to an infinite regress if we say that a physical state has to have been "encoded" in order to count as a bona fide computational state (since then the input to the encoding algorithm would itself need to have been encoded).
No. It's not available externally.
Anything that responds to input? So a Roomba or those little robot dinosaur pets? Nginx hooked up to a photosensor?

Also: A materialist view of consciousness does not need to examine from the "outside". After we have figured out what consciousness is, then it's a matter of examining whatever bits of matter there are and seeing if they have the right properties. Of course that requires some serious breakthroughs, ones some folks are convinced aren't possible.
So they send you five million "I'm not a robot" recaptchas, and let you through if you only click one...
It's really not that hard to write multi-threaded code. I just laugh when I read articles like this - I've been doing it for more than fifteen years now. By taking a tool like that away from your team you're stunting their growth and your product.
Yeah, good point. I guess I was feeling unnecessarily cynical.

If I were on the jury, I'd definitely buy it. Their counsel would have to really bone up the argument that it was such equal treatment, they were flagging their own messages. And the prosecution would have to really stretch things, probably entering into conspiratorial territory in order to make a case.

Then again, I've found myself perplexed by jury decisions on tech-related cases more than once. Although having sat on a jury, I can see how such decisions might be made.
Sneaking into an R rated movie. Stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from pension funds. Yep, pretty much the same thing.
Believe it or not, it's illegal for companies in the US to prevent employees from discussing their salaries.
Too much code, needs some node-based interface.
That's not true. There is a market for labor that is constantly in flux based on supply and demand. Let's say that you were hired when there was excess supply and limited demand, you might have settled for a reasonably middle-of-the-curve salary. Fast forward to today where it's much harder to hire and all of a sudden, fresh grads can command salaries that might be equal to what someone with 2-3 years of experience was previously offered.

In addition, if you are hurting for someone in order to hit a deadline, it might just make sense to pay unreasonably as long as the numbers still work out.
Confirming this.
Yes, I remember this spreadsheet. It listed pay by SWE (software engineer) level and geography.

Google has ~10 levels for SWE's. Most people are either SWE II, SWE II, or Senior SWE, and about 10% are higher than Senior SWE. In the Bay Area, IIRC, pay is in the $110k range for SWE II (base), around $140k for SWE III, and around $170k for senior. There is additional bonus (15%) and stock (can be 15-30% of base, depending on circumstances), and health insurance. Within level it varies by +/- $10k in base, and there are proportionally fewer women at Senior SWE and higher levels.
Other than merit and qualifications, you still have capability. You can graduate from Stanford with honors and not know how to program well.
As in, google does not make it available? Or, no copy has made it out?
Yes. There's even a section on it in the article.
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The reason I bristle about blog posts like this is that there are two wholly disparate types of multi-threaded programming:

First, there's the type that's hard and should probably be avoided except by supergeniuses. This involves big hairy lock graphs where locks are held across complex operations that may involve other locks, and swirling dependencies of doom. This shit is nasty, and I completely agree that you must be "this tall" to be trusted with it.

The other kind of multi-threaded programming is the simple kind, where you need to have a threadsafe interface to a module, the locking is dead simple if you know what you're doing, and your lock graph has about three states, all of which clear in constant time and have no dependencies. In this case, there is no excuse for not having this basic competency, and the attitude that we should all just throw up our hands and never hope to write multi-threaded code again is massively counterproductive. This shit is not brain-bendingly hard, it just takes a small amount of practice and discipline.

Let's stop pretending all multi-threaded programming is wizardry.
> 300 miles is plenty (overkill, really) for long distance travel.

Don't read trip with me, then. I drove from Hartford, CT to Dallas, TX last month in two days (900mi the first day, 750 the second). Trips like this are specifically why I nixed the Model S as an option and went with a turbodiesel Passat (with its 750+ highway mile range).

I realize I'm in the minority, but it is a notable minority. I don't want to be forced into an hour-long stop every 300 miles.
>Fast forward to today where it's much harder to hire and all of a sudden, fresh grads can command salaries that might be equal to what someone with 2-3 years of experience was previously offered.

Perhaps -- and existing salaries should be adjusted to reflect that.
I don't think she meant to write a post; just shared thoughts over time with friends / followers.
> Page 50: Hey, that's how you're supposed to use heatshrink! Wow, I've been doing it wrong for years.

How did you get it to stay if you didn't do the ends first?

> Page 62: Mildly surprised that they don't want crimped connections soldered, but I suppose that compromises flexibility, and shouldn't add all that much strength if they're properly crimped.

Soldering a crimp really only helps if you've done a poor job of crimping; but it's relatively easy to inspect a crimp. If you solder, you could cause a previously excellent crimped join to be not so great, and it may be hard to see if the crimp opened a bit due to heat, or other things.

> Page 76: Wow, had never heard of "connector saver" jumpers before. Sounds bananas, but I suppose if you're going to test everything ten times for every launch, it's mostly reasonable.

I've seen these in stores for ISA/PCI slots; since all connectors have a limited number of mating cycles, it makes sense to use them to reduce the number of cycles used by testing, since you can't easily go and re-seat your connectors once you've launched the thing.
We did a similar thing at Microsost a few years ago. We discovered that it was not just the gender, but also your race mattered. A lot of us (south East Asians) were paid a lot less at the same engineering levels and there was a disparity in the bonus payouts too. The data was not insignificant, and we got to a statistically significant size really quick at some engineering levels (senior and principal).
An algorithm can make the game harder after it confirms you are willing to buy items. It's getting to the point where games are short circuiting your ability to reason.
As in https://twitter.com/coryaltheide/status/622165475502362624
Can you provide some examples where the readability of F# is better than Haskell?

I know F# is a descendant of Ocaml and many times I find Haskell code much cleaner and more readable than Ocaml.
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