skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article and comments miss what I think are tremendously important issues in this discussion: collective memory and group think. People in groups often take on a particular culture with group-specific reactions, activities, and memories. We've seen people get internally divided between their individual thought/reaction and the group thought/reaction on a given experience. Further, although author rejects U.S. feeling pain, Americans as a whole reacted with much of the same pain and shock when they watched planes hit the Twin Towers. Their emotional response mostly went in the same direction with the conflicts coming in on their assessments of what happened and what do do. Much like internal to the brain, conflict resolution and consensus kicked in to converge majority on an overall reaction that all Americans were conscious of.

So, groups and even America often act like an individual might even in terms of feelings. The groups memory is spread out among parts of its members. New members, like the author's aliens, even get some of that memory through information exchange, stories, sharing feelings, and indoctrination. Their mind can transition to a cross between individual mind and the group's mind.

So, brain stores its knowledge in neural connections and states updated by certain processes. Consciousness emerges. Details of it have varying levels of internal strength, conflict, and so on. Human groups store their knowledge in individual brains and connections between them via senses. Group's consciousness similarly has varying levels of commitment to specific ideas or actions with conflict. The question is, "What's the real difference here and how far can it go?"

If it can go far enough, then the U.S. might be conscious, have a collective memory, have the ability to feel pain collectively, and have an intent formed of members' consensus. That's stronger than the author's own claim. Yet, I think I've cited examples to back some of it up. The U.S. itself doesn't need a brain: its identity can be made of pieces of other brains, both storing knowledge & having feelings, plus their interactions with each other.

Note: I'll end with a possibly controversial view that I don't think all of U.S.'s members make up its consciousness. I think it filters out a lot of them. It has it's own self-organization and learning principles that are quite a bit different than the brain's aside from basic concepts of sensory processing, reflection, conflict and consensus.
I had exactly the same setup, but I had to create 10 fake Gmail accounts, add the email address to the address book and flag several emails as "not spam" before it was useable. Google Mail just ignores the fact that there are private people who want to have their own mail server to be independent from Gmail.
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What about the possibility that 'vanity' email servers are more likely to have something non-obvious misconfigured? Maybe, for example, they send spam rejections back to the envelope from address (generating backscatter which looks like spam), rather than rejecting spam within the SMTP session?
If any of you are into unique bow ties, you may dig this.
Just about the only thing that google persistently misclassifies as spam for me are logwatch emails. There must be a large number of people who don't know how to turn them off...
I've seen it happen too (from my parents no less, who I have replied to 100s of times), but not recently.

Yahoo's spam filter also does this.
I always thought it would be cool to play an on-rails first person shooter where the "rails" matched the road you were travelling at the time.
>> This is logic that says that SQL Injection is fine, so long as the HTTP request bearing it elicits a 200 response.

For my tastes, this is actually a reasonable configuration of things.

Nobody is forcing you to use HTTP. If you decide to, and you provide access to your database via HTTP, and you allow me to submit a payload which makes changes you don't like, you are welcome to stop me and issue a 403. It's your database, after all.

Nobody is forcing you to use a door. If you decide to, and you provide access to your home via door, and you allow me to open the door and do things you don't like, you are welcome to stop me by locking the door. It's your house, after all.

You cannot say that issuing a 403 instead of a 200 is OK but turn around and say unpermitted access (what should give a 403) is okay so long as you are given a 200 in response, even if by accident.

If door is locked > return 403 else return 200

The only difference is that the 403 and 200 are implicit with the door being locked or not, rather than an explicit response from door since door is incapable of giving a response (unlike server). Although both server and door are handled by a human.

The shared point of failure is how the human configured the server//door to return a 403/200//unlocked/locked status to individuals other than itself.

Forgetting to lock your door, failing to set -NOACCESS for ${Robber}, is exactly like forgetting to disable the -READ flag for ${User}. Therefore, the configuration is not reasonable.
I don't think that philosophical zombies are a nonsensical line of thought at all. As Ray Kurzweil states in one of his books (paraphrasing), "I take it on faith that the universe exists". Accepting the inability to receive proof of others' consciousness is a major battle in the quest for developing a rational view of the subject.
Serious question; how would they know it's no more than 100million years old. I consider myself a some what smart guy but this is... beyond me :)
They're hearing aids in reverse. They filter out light instead of adding to it. Still, I'm colorblind, and when I tried them on in sunlight, it was an amazing experience. Maybe not a cure but damnit if I'm not happy these things now exist! Seeing that a carrot was orange instead of green for the first time was mind blowing and emotional. Enchroma will open a whole new market that might lead to a cure! Until these glasses started going viral, color blindness was an invisible disability that the real world mostly ignored despite its prevalence, because there was no market in fighting it.
It depends on what we mean by "from", I guess :) The first working draft was (AFAICT) published February 1999.
Three Dog Day
> You shouldn't have a problem with how many people we kill with drones, you should have a problem with how many people we kill.

I agree whole heartedly. The problem is, before, you had to convince and train enough people to fly jets and kill. It was "one person for one jet". In theory, in about 3-5 years (if not now) we could have one pilot in a room flying over 3 different regions of the world, only taking over control to "go in for the kill". I'm confident as a hobbyist I could build a system that would let me fly 3 small quadcopters (drones) in my back yard with autonomous mode & then switching each to manual control 1 by one. The technology has outpaced our policy around peace. Drones represent the potential for a disproportionate amount of people to be put in harms way vs the old way.
We can't track a user across different domains, or customers.

To be super clear- yes you can. You don't. That's very different. With full JS access on a site you have the ability to collect a lot of information. As another poster mentioned, it only takes 30 bits of entropy to identify all 3 billion internet users.
The itch.io randomizer
Dragging the message to your 'primary' inbox sends a stronger signal than 'not spam'. Maybe worth a try.
I think that being unmanned is largely what makes it seem acceptable to engage in attacks on nations we aren't at war with (or rather, to not label it as a war when we attack them).
> Not saying this isn't a problem, but it probably doesn't affect 99% of email users.

So, with a conservative one billion email users, only 10 million users see this problem.
You can split them into two numbers which look like zip codes (in the US anyways).

555-123-1234 would become

"55512

part 2

31234"

I've done this to get around the issue when trying to get in touch with the property owner.
The false positives with GMail really sucks. Case in point literally all Microsoft emails relating to billing on some of my products simply go the spam (my credit card recently updated and I forgot to update it everywhere). So thanks to this post I noticed and can go fix it!
You can check the first link in his post where he explains more of that http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/05/so-dust-has-finally-settled.... as well as the first link in that post http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/04/today-marks-two-important-mi...
:)
I suppose I could, but I"ve seen MANY variations, and tbh there are enough mis-sends to tylere@gmail.com that it wouldn't really help.

TBH I hardly use personal e-mail these days, it's basically a bucket that receipts and confirmation gets dumped in to, in which case search works well enough. Most actual conversation is done via Facebook or IM, etc.
Ah, the math grenade.
"How does this actually effect his family life?"
It's probably where the wife part of his article comes in.
That idea sounds compelling at first, but the data doesn't support it. There are plenty of email marketers who are focused on a non-technical audience (who presumably use 'mark as spam' to unsubscribe frequently) and which have no problems with spam folder placement.

There's a spectrum, and if a given sender looks considerably worse than average, they're more likely to get filtered.

If anything, if a newsletter is getting filtered, it's more likely to be the marketing manager's fault - perhaps they don't adequately monitor deliverability, or they don't test their content, or they don't use activity segmentation... etc.
Nice. Not quite as convenient as Tesla, but it's great that they give you the ability to do it yourself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956
Remember the Honda Civic hybrid? No? It predated the Prius and looked exactly like a Civic. The first generation Prius looked pretty normal, too. It wasn't until the second generation Prius, with its radical styling that announced it was a hybrid, until it took off.
No.. From their documentation it says they use "Industry Standard Logistic Regression", which just means logistic regression. Which can be very useful, but is also the most basic model you could use.
It has absolutely nothing to do with CMOV. I'm talking about computing, say, 16 results in parallel in a SIMD register, for both sides of "if"-statement. Then masking unwanted results out. SSE/AVX can simulate "CMOV", but for 128/256/512 bit wide vectors.

To make it even more clear, there's not a single CMOV in my code, anywhere. The data doesn't usually even touch general purpose (scalar) registers, because that'd totally destroy the performance.

What you are talking about is how things were done until 1997-1999 or so. SSE in 1999 and especially SSE2 in 2001 changed radically the way you compute with x86 CPUs.

I'm talking about things like vpcmpw [1] (compare 8/16/32 of 16 bit integers and store mask), vpcompressd (compress floats according to a mask, for example for SIMD "sorting" if and else inputs separately), vpblendmd (blending type combining, this example is for int32), vmovdqu16 (for just selectively moving according to mask).

You can do most operations on 8, 16, 32, 64 unsigned and signed, and of course 32-bit and 64-bit floats. Some restrictions apply especially to 8 and 16 bit operands. When appropriate, it's kind of cool to process 64 bytes in one instruction. :)

[1]: https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide... SSE/AVX instruction and intrinsics guide.
The Porsche 911 is an exercise is excellent engineering defying abysmal physics. That big engine hanging way out over the rear wheels... Well any first year engineering student could tell you why that's a bad idea. But they do drive like a dream.

On another note, my daily driver is a Charger with gunslit windows, and you do get used to it. That, and the fact that it's a 485 hp engine mated to a Mercedes transmission and suspension, and it drives as well as any 7-series I've ever driven.
A theory on Reddit – where and what next?
Consciousness is an appearance, same as when an external observer sees an "intelligence" in behavior of a whole colony if bees or ants or, which requires special tools, bacteria.

One of CMU's AI Guru (I forgot his name), back in 60s, described brilliantly a principle that "incredible complex" observable behavior of an ant is not due to its "intelligence", but due to obstacles in environment. This is the clue.

There are "meditation" techniques to observe "discrete" (non-continuous) nature of what we call consciousness.
Not sure why you are down-voted. Perhaps because everyone (that run their own mail) generally runs individual filtering per account. Typically spam assassin will score an email, but filtering (based on that, and other criteria) is up to the individual user (eg: by having a white-list, choosing spam score to treat as spam etc).

As mentioned further up, some scoring works well for many users, but not for all, such as marking eg: Russian/Chinese/Not-spoken-here-by-most language as spam.

I really see no reason for why Google should be so bad at classifying email as they apparently are.
STEM Disruption
I think one of her tweets points towards a less malicious explanation for the problem, the one where she says "people asked for and got equitable pay". I'd like to see another column on a sheet like that basically asking "have you ever asked for a raise or just taken what was given?".

My anecdata and limited experience is that women rarely ask for raises and men do -- even if you don't mean to have uneven pay, over time that will create that situation.

It seems like other people have similar experience, I believe this is what prompted the no-negotiation policy at Reddit (which I think is a terrible policy for talent retention, if someone feels undervalued and comes to talk to you about it and your response is "no raises sorry" I'm not sure how you can possibly retain your higher performing employees).
Sounds like they're just using the wrong tools. Eiffel's SCOOP model[1] made things a lot easier back around '95. They've been improving on it since, with a lot of great work recently [2]. Various modifications proved absence of deadlocks, absence of livelocks, or guarantee of progress. I believe a version was ported to Java. A few modern variants have performance along lines of C++ w/ TBB and Go.

What are the odds that it could be ported to a restricted use of C++ language, I wonder?

Note: Ada's concurrency strategy also prevented quite a few types of errors. They're described in this article [3] on ParaSail, a language designed for easy concurrency that goes much further.

[1] http://cme.ethz.ch/scoop/

[2] http://cme.ethz.ch/publications/

[3] http://www.embedded.com/design/programming-languages-and-too...
Not too sure about Thumbtack, but Home Advisor basically just buys Google Ads to get consumer traffic, then turns around and sells the lead to contractors at a higher rate. If contractors spent 20 minutes figuring out how to set up a Google Ad campaign, they could easily outbid Home Advisor for the exact same customer. I feel like this is pretty much the same thing Thumbtack does, with a few logistical differences. These business models really seem unsustainable (or rather uncompetitive) with any service professional that takes his or her business seriously and doesn't mind putting in the work to market themselves. These companies are basically playing Google Ad arbitrage.
You only need enough range to go as far as the next charger, or until your bladder is full, whichever is last. 300 miles is plenty (overkill, really) for long distance travel.

Gas car range is more about how many times per month you need to stop at the gas station in normal use. More range makes that more convenient. With home charging, the convenience of an electric car is better even with less range.
So it's an optical notch filter?

It doesn't shift anything, just blocks the ambiguous "inbetween" colors.
The sourceforge.net website is temporarily in static offline mode
Thankfully there's Hangouts, so we can all move off email... /s
java.util.concurrent has some great functionality, but I have found that some of the concurrent datastructures cause significantly more garbage generation than their non-concurrent counterparts.

I was writing some highly concurrent code and initially wrote it with the jdk's lock-free containers, but found that GC was about 5-10x worse (depending on the workload) than simply wrapping the non-concurrent equivalent in a lock.
Except that article is dead wrong. The court decisions were a convenient scapegoat that had nothing to do with the shutdown whatsoever.
That's the point, of course.

(Not that I agree.)
I assume their contract with Google covers this eventuality. Google probably has meaner, scarier lawyers on retainer than the VC firms, anyway.
they increased their prices more than 75% a year ago, which signaled that they didn't have a sustainable model.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/25/homejoy-home-services/?fb_c...
True. We send thousands of emails a week and all of a sudden a large portion weren't even delivered. Turns out it's all DMARC and once those policies were fixed (assigned at all) the delivery denials ended.

This helped us:

https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com
Nothing and some market players are known to make generous offers to the critical people they're interested in. For the entrepreneur "raise some angel money to help build a resume" strategy works only once though.
Given that we already have hundreds or thousands of years of convention and understanding of property rights, no.

Please point me to the long and well worn case law regarding robots that do what you tell them, but not what you actually intend.
I'm not sure how you go from: Unless you have Google Apps for Business (or whatever), there are no vanity domains for gmail; to: email is a broken system?

Gmail.com is certainly broken in the sense that they want to cram 10 billion users into a single domain. It's ridiculous marketing/brand-motivated UX failure.

Since forever most mail services had a few vanity-domains, so people could get first.last@wherever.com. But no, Google doesn't want to provide email, they want to provide "Google Mail".

Apologies for the rant, but I can't stand it when big companies create problems through stupidity.
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I've been wanting this feature for a while as a clean way to combine the results from several queries into a composite object.

def combined(*dicts):
return {k: v
for dict_ in dicts
for k, v in dict_.items()}

dicts = [({'a': 'a', 'b': 'b'}, {'b': 'bb'}),]

assert [{'a': 'a', 'b': 'bb'}] == [combined(a, b) for a, b in dicts]
> appearance

Just a comment that this is called an "emergent phenomenon" in some circles, and an "illusion" in Buddhist thought.
Steam does give instantaneous torque (once it's built up pressure, that is).
Found a Type I on eBay a few months ago. Had a repaired handle so it was marked down quite substantially, but it looks and works great. Sits on my desk, I love it to death - it just feels so good.
They do because they don't want the person to cause a scene. Most restaurants feed homeless people if they ask nicely too.

It's not so much a kindness thing as a shrewd prevention of costly issues.
Same reason why the BET channel exists. Africans want their own netflix. I love this idea! Great stuff here guys.
Interesting that this is mentioned in the Misc/NEWS file, but not in the “What’s New In Python 3.5?” document.

https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.5/Misc/NEWS

https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/3.5.html

Relevant bug tracker issue is http://bugs.python.org/issue2292

Mailing list discussions:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-July/thr...

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-January/...

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-January/th...

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-February/t...
> "consciousness" is on a sliding scale from dim awareness to focused lucidity

assuming that all consciousness resembles that of humans. I'm guessing our tiny brains are capable of only a thin sliver of what is possible when it comes to apprehending and interacting with reality.
The funny thing is that according to the comments, some mail from Google itself is being marked as spam.
I probably should have clarified. I mean, if you host the project on github pages will the other assets of the project aside from the static html page be served (css, js, images, etc)?
There is definitely a gap between Leap and Tesla in driving range. Tesla does 400 miles in a charge where leap does 70 or smth?
Interesting, of course talk is cheap as they say. I don't think anyone has spun up a factory to make something as sophisticated as a car in less than 14months though. That is going to be a real challenge, and supply chain? Fugiddaboutit! Not to mention the entire world's supply of Lithium battery production for the next 4 years is already allocated, going to be really tough to hit the 2017 date I think. But those things aside, the world could use more voices in the space, if only to keep the folks in the space looking in their rear view mirror and improving.
Norwegian company doing high temperature Stirling heatpumps:

http://www.sppower.no/velkommen
I have no particular opinion on the matter, but I think the fact that it has made killing people more economical is noteworthy.
Translation: Capitalism is whatever you say it is, not what it actually is. OK, got it.
Need? no. Could it be improved on? I am certain it could (and Rust looks like an interesting way to do so), but that improvement would probably not be via a Turing-equivalent macro language that could, to an arbitrary degree, subvert the semantics of the language in which the programs are actually written. The trend has been to move away from macro-processing code, rather than towards strengthening the macro processor's power.

One might argue that C++'s template sub/co-language is a counter-example, but, putting aside the question of whether it is actually progress (on balance, I think it is), it has a syntax which discourages its use in a completely arbitrary way.
It's funny, because when he sees "purple" you have no idea if he sees the same purple people without color blindness do (and other commenters seem to confirm it isn't) but it's still enough of an upgrade that he's emotionally moved.

You can't beat that with a stick.
I like the idea, though with corporations it's clear where the intentionality comes from: the CEO, the board, etc. It doesn't seem to "emerge" as much from lower level entities à la neurons. Not that that invalidates a group-level consciousness of course...
I'm not sure the comparison with Drama Fever (or even Crunchyroll) is fair. There was an enormous market of people looking for Asian content (as evidenced by the fansub scene, and Asian-themed conventions worldwide), which made the bet much safer. An African Drama Fever would probably have to create its market to reach such a stage.

That said, it's a good idea, a big bet, and I sincerely wish you the best.
I've been actively interviewing for the past few weeks, and I've noticed that a very large number of emails from companies and recruiters (mostly recruiters) have been marked as Spam or at least shunted off to a non-Inbox folder. I don't have any specific custom filters in place, so this is 100% Gmail's doing. I find that interesting and frustrating -- and none of these companies/recruiters have ever seen this before! Seems like a relatively new phenomenon, at least for these people.

I wonder what Google's internal metrics show...
If you were happy with 2.5 a few years ago, why is it any more unbearable to use 2.7 today?
We haven't added special logic for handling such cases.
I think having servers with particularly unstable connectivity in a RethinkDB cluster is really uncommon though.
If you want to run a RethinkDB server on your mobile device that's a different scenario of course...