skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember it firsthand, though it must have been in the news. I was 15 at the time and living near Chicago.

Everyone on the trip was cursing the guy's name. I first got curious about New Madrid sometime in the 2000's after seeing a Wikipedia link, but don't remember the circumstances.
tl;dr the United States may be conscious because consciousness is a purely physical manifestation.

You could skip most of this paper and ponder the deeper question posed by Sam Harris: how do we know anything is conscious? What if stars are conscious. Could we ever tell? Fundamentally we don't know the mechanisms that give rise to consciousness, so in theory anything could be conscious with a complex enough physical system. A country could be consciousness and we'd likely never know. Fun to think about!
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"Two things, was it something that needed to get done in the next 45 minutes? If not then a meeting is a big hammer for a small problem. If it only took 10 mins spread out over the course of several weeks it is still a time savings."

Not true. There is an overhead to loading the relevant context into your brain each time you approach the issue.

Looking at an issue 10 times over the course of a month is typically going to take much longer "person time" than blocking out the time to look through an issue all at once.
All media, unfortunately, has its bias but readers are usually aware of any leanings. However to move so brazenly into political activism and what amounts to censorship is plain stupid. If Trump wins the GOP nomination, what then?
> That's basically victim blaming though.

Not really. Nobody's blaming AT&T's CUSTOMERS for doing anything wrong. They are the victims. They are the ones who had their personal information made available to people outside of AT&T.

This might better be called perpetrator blaming. The perpetrator is the person who commits a crime. AT&T had an obligation to keep customer data safe regarding the privacy policy that they tell customers that they will uphold. They failed to uphold it in any kind of meaningful way, by failing to provide any kind of access control to said personal information.

Calling it victim blaming is to fail to apply any kind of critical thinking to the situation.
That is precisely the point. People with similar qualifications should have similar salaries. The "not great" trends implies salaries were correlated with something other than merit and qualifications.
I personally reject that definition of success. Acquihires happen all the time.
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I'm colorblind and thought theirs was one of the best online tests available, but it seems they've changed it. I took their old test a few times and it seemed quite accurate to me (based on the symptoms they list). With their current test I keep getting "inconclusive". Here are my results from the "good" test, I agree 100% with the symptoms but I don't agree with the simulation: http://enchroma.com/test/result/strong-protan/?completed=1&r...
Why would the null hypothesis be that there is a supernatural force allowing human brains to work? In any other
phenomena do you say it's magic until proven material?
I remember listening to her talk way back when there was sam altman's startup video series.

I thought it was very cool that she worked with her brother. You don't see sister/brother as business partners usually. She was also a hard worker from the impression, reading quarterly statements to find 'gems'. Lot of doing this and that. It really sounded like they were doing great, she and her brother knew what they were doing. $39.7M in 5 Rounds from 15 Investors seem like a pretty good winner.

And then suddenly this. A shift in the industry or inability to be profitable and sustainable ( I don't know why homejoy failed). Cleaning houses to find out what home services would be like (lean startup approach) and YC branding (quit your job and lets go) with 5 rounds of funding and still did not emerge as a winner. In hindsight it looked like they were doing everything out of the YC/lean textbook without really forming their own ideas. It's probably comfortable this way.

It appeared like they did everything right and they probably were but it did not produce success from the investors point of view. I think what we can learn from this is that just because somebody or something looks like they are doing everything right or talk like they know what they are doing it may not be the case.

I wonder had they bootstrapped and operated as a small business catering to a focused market instead of trying to expanding to different markets with easy capital flowing to SV, they could have ended up with a cash flow positive and recurring source of income.

I wonder if the bubble is popping and the skewed flow of capital is forcing stakeholders to operate outside of their means or comfort zone and resulting in failure. It was valued at $130 million dollars apparently. Who else out there YC or not, have unsound valuation? Surely, there will be similar stories in the future.

http://wpcurve.com/homejoy-adora-cheung/

Reading that article it is the same type of very logical and well rounded writing found on YC that shows expertise but then in this case it wasn't enough. What I observe to be interesting is that it mentions 'from failure to $XX million dollar in funding'. Perhaps raising a ton of money feels like success and that gives false confidence and incompatible strategies.

I find it really hard to swallow that it took 50 million dollars to figure that out where investing 150k in airbnb would've yielded immense return. Back to my original strategy of avoiding piling up positions on a single bet no matter how certain you are it's a winner and instead making numerous limited bets across large number of startups. Sell half of your equity to the guy investing $15 million dollar in the next series round in case it fails.
<hat type="conspiracy">Not "ignoring", more "actively penalizing"…
From the Enchroma website:

"Do these glasses work with normal color vision also?"

"The EnChroma Cx lens causes a very powerful “super-color enhancement” effect. The same “boost” that it gives to the vision of a person with color blindness can be appreciated with normal color vision as well. In addition, the lens also has a neutral color balance, which means that your sense of color accuracy is not compromised or disturbed.

We have received testimonials from some customers who have normal color vision that the glasses have beneficial effects on their mood, such as from seasonal affective disorder. While this is an interesting potential application, this particular use case has not been studied in detail yet and we do not have any official claims that can be made regarding this use.

The EnChroma Team all wears the Cx Sunglasses, even though most of us are not color deficient–and we love wearing them!"
I'll leave this here http://kevinboone.net/kbox3.html.
I'm using it for years now, together with Android Terminal Emulator.
Well, that's precisely the point of the article. According to the author, the United States indeed "walks like a duck and talks like a duck," to the extent that it is homeostatic (feeds itself, defends itself, undertakes coordinated actions such as trade embargoes) and large scale information transfer does occur between its constituent subsystems (humans, say).

Of course there is something intuitively bothersome about that: somehow, we don't believe that there is something it is like to be the United States, but we do believe there is something it is like to be xenophon. That's why the core question isn't absurd at all -- the author is trying to understand what truly differentiates a conscious system.
I imagine many of the most expensive years were due to the space race with Russia. Basically, a side-effect of the cold war. Can that really be taken to represent the peak of human interest for the sake of science alone?
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> I'm tired of saying this, but I have to say it again. The NASA budget is four tenths of one penny on a tax dollar. If I held up the tax dollar, and I cut horizontally into it, four tenths of one percent of it's width, it doesn't even get you into the ink. So I will not accept a statement that says, we can't afford it!

> Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout; that sum of money is greater than the entire fifty year running budget of NASA.

> How much would you pay for the universe?

[1] "We Stopped Dreaming" - Neil deGrasse Tyson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc
There are plenty of problems that have more elegant solutions in other languages. I don't see that it makes your life unbearable for other solutions to be available.
Another car for the 1%. Is this really necessary?

"Connected" may not be the future of cars. The Google self-driving car isn't very "connected". It doesn't talk to other cars, nor does it need to. It watches what's happening in the real world. Urmson, who heads Google's self-driving effort, threw cold water on the "connected car" people at a conference recently. All the effort on car-to-car communications is a complete waste of time for automatic driving.
I don't accept consciousness as anything of real value as far as intelligence goes. There's no reason anything should want for consciousness. It's an abstraction layer our higher order has to the lower order, and emulating it is senseless. It's merely the childish desire to make something that resembles us. True, pure intelligence would be something so mechanically terrifyingly above anything the human mind wouldn't even register it as intelligent. Consciousness isn't worth emulating, it's just the crappy UI evolution gave us.

In the same vein, I see emotion associated with AI so often, and that is so frustrating. Emotion is the opposite of intelligence, it's a series of global variables the left over parts of our brain use to influence the parts in control, it's a bad system and need not be copied.

If there is a god, this is how I imagine it. Free from the flawed systems we live and deal with, free from emotion, free from compassion, a horrifying being of pure logic who you could never begin to comprehend
> EVs need to be able to do 0-60 in 2.8s to be widely accepted??

ryguytilidie's comment, in context, included this explanation: "PR stunts like this get people more interested in a great thing."

And yes, products which are new and different generally need good PR in order to be accepted by consumers. Quite a lot of the press is talking about this today, which is what Tesla hoped to achieve.
Marvin Minsky said something to the effect of "We stand on the shoulders of giants but we quickly jump off them when they found out to be wrong." Ancient wisdom is not something that should be respected in terms of understanding the universe if it is known to contradict it.
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I don't think so. At least, it hasn't been publicly reported as far as I know. So although I'm not saying it's impossible, I'd be very interested to know the source for your statement?
Yup. Apparently they weren't even invented for colorblind people; they were popular among surgeons because the glasses would enable them to better differentiate what's going on in a pool of guts.

The story is that a colorblind friend of a surgeon thought they looked cool and just asked if he could try them on.
Out of all the people in the world who regularly get mailed "gibberish" patchfiles, and not only fail to mark them as spam, but continue to interact regularly with the senders - do you not think it's reasonable to assume Gmail might notice Linus has been doing this for two or three decades?

I wondr what other forms of "gibberish" Gmail classifys as spam? GPG encrypted mail? Mail containing public ssl keys or CSRs? ANy foreign language not regulalrly hard in Bro-ville, South Bay?
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A C program computes sine by linking to a program, sin(), that computes it. Usually the program works by examining the argument provided and using various equivalence formulas to reduce the range to an interval for which there is a good Tchebysheff polynomial or Pade rational approximation to sine. All this is done keeping an eye on the representation and the potential for rounding errors. Some of the computation may be done with integers, some the mantissa and exponent independently, and so forth. A good knowledge of machine arithmetic, arithmetic error propagation, and machine performance is needed to make a universally acceptable sine function for C.
Of course it's easier to replace than rebuild. I doubt I would be keen on rebuilding a fuel injector, even an old one. But replacing a carburettor on a 1983 is trivial.
> consciousness in spatially distributed group entities.

I understand you're a dualist, but from the materialist standpoint, "spatially distributed group entities" describes neurons.
That's not actually the case for a market of any scale. More like 1000 providers / market. :)

Also, routing optimization is a fairly hard problem and requires significant critical mass in a geo. Pretty hard for individual service providers to build this on their own. The closest thing may be a small-town service pro who has been in business for 30 years and eventually reached sufficient mass / frequency to optimize his routes, but that's a rare case.
Thank you so much for all the gems guys!!!
Thanks! That's exactly what I figured was the reason.

Personally I'd have gone for the practicality beats purity side of things here, but oh well.
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The vast majority of humans have never been in space, yet Humanity has.
Google can also decide it's not even worth showing in the spam folder - the spam folder is for things it's less certain of.
I don't think we have, so far, a clear definition of what's 'material'. Thinking of the centuries old question 'why is there something rather than nothing', I believe magic and natural don't make much difference. Even an agnostic and occasional religion bashing deGrasse wonders in face of the mathematically describable world. Isn't it magic that make us wonder? Hence, supernatural is not such a despicable minion concept.
But that is his/her definition of spam. And as someone who has worked in the anti spam field, I'm ok with that.

However I have the same problems Linus has so I am not excusing gmail one bit in this.
From a dualist pov, neurons are spatially distributed group entities too. :)
You are "flagging spam/not spam in those lists" but Google may then associate that list (not the content) as being spam or not. Google sees that mail comes from the list and decides based on that.

This is why I never mark mailing list email as spam, even if it is in fact spam.
I am working on Mapout. http://www.mapout.in - An indoor map website for shopping malls, trade fairs and conferences with product search, mall & store/stall search. You can also get/write recommendation from your facebook friends for stores. Shoppers will get to know latest deals and new product launches. Launched this website few months back and currently working on improving the UI.
This defeatist attitude is dangerous, especially when the solution is simple: just stop browsers from leaking >= ~30 bits of entropy.

Deprecate HTTP headers that leak entropy (like the user agent). Rewrite fields like If-Modified-Since so they can only express a value quantized into values no smaller than days. Remove JS APIs that leak information (like the ability to read CSS attributes). Impose stricter same-origin policies to eliminate 3rd-party cookies and javascript. Some people will complain that this breaks some use cases. Just as Dan Geer put it when discussing software liability, "Yes, please! That was exactly the idea."

Unless a platform puts user safety first - without exception - then it inevitably creates moral hazard. If for some reason this does not entirely fix the problem, then we apply the force of law - just like we do in every other area of society. If this concerns you, you should encourage self policing and removal of the business models based on any kind of fingerprinting, so no legal remedy is necessary.

People may indeed deserve jail time (or other legal remedy) for stalking. Technical literacy does not except you from social responsibility. As for your concerns about a jury: the problems with our legal system are far broader than your concerns over "technical literacy. A lot of work is needed in that area, with great urgency. That aside, a jury is also not expected to be an expert in advanced kinematics when they hear a case involving cars that crashed into each other at an intersection. It is the responsibility of the lawyers involved to explain such technical details to the jury. My grandfather - a physicist who reconstructed accidents and a frequent expert witness - has given quite a few remedial lessons in physics from the witness box.

I understand the concern about having to worry about this kind of legal threat. It is scary, but you will learn to live with it, just like surgeons learn to live with the possibility of malpractice charges or civil engineers that could be liable if the building they design falls down. Really, the concerns of a developer shouldn't be that bad compared to the doctor or civil engineer who have to worry about people dying if they make some kinds of mistakes.

What I find a far scarier future would be the future where people are not only afraid to speak their mind out of fear of being recorded, but where they are afraid to even seek out knowledge because of the trail it leaves. Our judicial system certainly has problems, but I'll take it over de facto feudalism, where the only people that can freely speak their mind are the lords that control the aggregate databases of everything their peasants do.

By the way - while it certainly isn't perfect, the EFF's Panopticlick tool reports my browser as only leaking 14.03 bits of entropy. The user agent accounts for ~9 of those bits, and ~4 more bits from the HTTP accept headers. Both of those are trivially removable, and the remaining entropy would not be easily to fingerprint. I'm sure this analysis misses some entropy sources, but this should be sufficient to show that it is possible to fix this problem.
I looked at my own spam folder, there were 51 messages. ~15 of them were from recruiters and probably meant for me, ~20 of them were newsletters I had probably signed up for, but didn't miss at all and the rest were split evenly for people trying to sell me prescriptions and people trying to use my bank account to hold money. Overall, 50% of the messages were actually FOR me, but it's totally fine that I didn't see them. I'm definitely wondering how many of Linus' messages were actually important enough to not belong in spam. I understand that he probably receives a lot more mail than I do, but I'm wondering how many of those messages he actually missed. Other than the ones that are part of threads he's replied to.
> A materialist rejects "consciousness" as a fruitful term

Some certainly do, more specifically eliminative materialists: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/

But my read is that this article is intending to throw a challenge in the direction of philosophers who advocate a materialist understanding of consciousness, but who aren't eliminative about the concept of consciousness. I.e. they believe it's meaningful to call humans "conscious", and they also believe that the phenomenon has a materialist explanation. This article aims to force them to either drop the concept, or accept that it can be applied very broadly.
This made me check my own mail box spam and that seems fine so dunno.
Surely less accidents. A common metric with road cars is 'TED' or Time Exposed to Danger, measuring how quickly you can accelerate to overtake a vehicle - the less time you are in the other lane, facing oncoming traffic, the better. Obviously very low 0-60 and 60-100 acceleration times are better, and make for lower TEDs.
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Thanks, KBOX have been one of the inspirations for the app!

The main technical difference between how Termux and KBOX runs packages is that is that KBOX uses libfakechroot for running binaries under a fake chroot environment, while Termux runs without a chroot, having instead patched the packages to live under the file system hierarchy enforced by Android.

Besides that, the ambition is that Termux should give a more "out of the box" user friendly experience directly after installation to encourage newcomers to the world of terminals :).
I think we should try to build a modern version, with 3D printed parts.

If anyone's interested...I have no idea what it would take, but I have dedication bordering on obsession?
Yes, that stood out to me too. I recall there being two competing camps in the mid 70's regarding whether to 'slash' the O's or the 0's. In search of who these sides were, I came across http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/characters/sl... which is a useful summary.
Sorry for my delay responding; HN Notify just, very belatedly (10 days later), spit out a notification of your reply.

In case the information is of any value, this much later, the first link (at nqsb.io) works for me, now. (So does the second link.)
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Representative government is not democracy.
Imagine two typewritten pages on standard A4/letter-size paper, which is ~11 inches high - that's probably the entire RAM of those systems at the time; several KB at most.
The content is awesome, thanks for that!

As for responsive design, my laptop screen & browser width is 1440px, which makes the font size 24px. This is way too big and is uncomfortable to read. I would say 20px should be absolute maximum because it's so much bigger already than any other text on screen. Line width is also too wide imho, could be 800px easily.
I was thinking if they could be used to try and get the equivalent of tetra-chromacy.
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Notice the MAT (matrix) commands on page 51.

When I first came across BASIC in the 70's it was known for three things in particular: (i) being interpreted rather than compiled, (ii) having these MAT commands, and (iii) being simpler and beginner friendly than FORTRAN or Algol.

The MAT commands seem to have been dropped from most later versions.

(It was at first a compiled language, but it really took off once interpreters become available on time-share systems. It was probably that aspect, rather than the syntax, which made it more suited to beginners).
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It's probably too early to start guessing, but have scientists come up with any possible explanation for the "hot core" yet?

Could Pluto have an unusually large amount of radioactive elements in its core, despite its low density overall?

Could it have recently collided with a large KBO, melting much of the surface even though the core is long dead?

Could it have been subjected to large tidal forces relatively recently, e.g. it was much closer to Neptune until a few hundred million years ago?
>If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious

The author is lowballing here in the extreme. It would be the universe that is conscious.