skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In one sense we did know about the capabilities of neurons, or at least made similar predictions. How all of the ingredients come together to achieve this is not understood.

The computational properties of neurons are massively complex, e.g. local filtering in the dendrites, attenuation of depolarizations down the dendrite, the effect of local excitatory and inhibitory inputs, just to name a few. The authors of the manuscript present their interpretation of some of the these properties to achieve the goal of spatio-temporal pattern recognition by neurons (I haven't read past the manuscript yet). Others have done the same.
But if the hypothesis is that thousands of little local functions can learn to recognize feature vectors, that's been a well-tested assumption in discriminative machine learning models for decades. Is there a biological twist to this finding?
Is there a way to contact you?
This site doesn't mention it, but the original PDP-8 Lisp interpreter (which this is a tweaked version of) fits in under 3 kB of RAM. That's pretty darn impressive, IMO.
Because I installed it and clicked on the new browser icon to see what it did, and it said I couldn't browse the web for the next half hour of my evening unless I uninstalled it. I understand some barrier to change of mind in a self-discipline app, but forcing me to uninstall (which the user is perfectly capable of with a different couple of clicks) does not make me want to install it yet again, because the app annoyed me on purpose the first time I did.
If I'm not mistaken, this is all people who will make less money because of this change claiming that "some other people" will make less money because of this change. It would be considered "FUD" if it was a Silicon Valley company saying this.
Go to your address bar and type this special and complex incantation: https://plus.google.com
The Dictatorship of Data – Will Big Data Lead to Big Brother
That's fantastic, thank you for the tip!
I can't test it since the change hasn't happened yet, but it certainly seems that way. It sounds like they are saying they don't want people having any sort of root access on their VPS.
They're not 'the real reason' but it is definitely a contributing reason. The people doing the most to get us out of this mess are working on electric cars.
You mean Alphabetas?
I wonder why they really need 1600 employees...to be quite honest, and I have a feeling half of them are contractors / consultants.
> For example, no standard ABIs and toolchains supported segmented stacks; we had to build that, so it was going to be incompatible from day one. If step one had been "learn the GCC or LLVM toolchains well enough to add segmented stacks", I'm not sure we'd have gotten to step two."

LLVM now supports both segmented stacks [1] and precise garbage collection with patchpoints [2].

Tweaking support for segmented stacks is quite easy—I added the support for it on x86 Mac. You simply adjust the prolog emission code in X86FrameLowering.cpp and likewise for the other targets.

[1]: http://llvm.org/docs/SegmentedStacks.html

[2]: http://llvm.org/docs/StackMaps.html http://llvm.org/docs/Statepoints.html
This, albeit without the mess, is my current office setup. I can't quit as I've only been here 8 months, so I'm waiting to complete a full year.

Sort of hoping the company just runs out of money so that I can have a free out.
It's been that way for years...
> How about we fork the Qur'an like it were source code

That is the problem. Muslims believe that Quran is the word of God. When you say that it needs to be changed then it means God was wrong which is not possible.
>> in order to acquire a patent you have to give details of how to perform it

Software patents don't have to include code, and generally are not useful to a skilled practitioner in actually creating software. The are written in legalese by persons incentivized to seek as boad a claim as possible, while revealing as little usefully information as possible.

>> if it was so obvious then it would have been done

By this reasoning every new product should be protected by a monopoly. Sometimes how to do something is obvious, but no one wanted to do it before.

The question should be whether treating every new situation as an oportunity for government sponsored property grab is good for society, or just the first guy to file.

A huge number software developers get sued because they wrote software that violated a patent they had never heard of for a "business method" type of task, but "with a computer". There are hundreds of thousands of software patents, so it's not possible to read them all before selling software to make sure one hasn't infringed, assuming one could actually be sure without simply defending a trial. The reason there are so many lawsuites is because it WAS obvious, and lots of people did the same thing without ever hearing of the patent untill they got sued.

I'm guessing that your not a programmer who's read any software patents. I have never met one who has that did not agree that the contents of software patents were obfuscated and worthless for creating a storehouse of usefull knowlegde that benefits society, what is the constituionally mandated purpose of patents in the first place.
I'm not going to attempt to explain it all. What I wrote about only explains some of the people joining.

And women can desire to kill too. Or see conservative Christian women in the US (where I am) choosing to deliberately set aside careers and other "modern" or "masculine" things for their beliefs.

I can't explain that either, seems bizarre to me to deliberately reduce your agency, but some people think it's the thing to do.
uhh, don't know what beach you guys are working from, but I appreciate a strong 'Work hard' vibe, myself.

You want a chilled out work-to-life ratio, there's a number of places out there for you. Hell, some of them are startups. But part of the appeal of working at a startup is that you gotta get shit done.

Work hard and be nice to people. Not a bad thing to see on your wall.
You mean an Alphabater?
How about that Youtube comment unbundle? Whats that? you lied? oh ...
You do realize that there are discreet intraday crosses already right?
I'm very intrigued to hear about your Golden Age philosophies or at least some Silver Age ones.

Because the core ideas of Buddhism are the only ones that can be applied directly to your behavioural patterns. They are practical, they are purely logic. I don't know what's the "supernatural claptrap" you're talking about, probably you picked the wrong school to study it and got distracted.

In my opinion other philosophies (especially European schools) are mostly a wordplay without an applied part.
>appear
>public feels

You did not make a counterargument.
Magnesium, Taurine and Inositol. Why? Requip Is the Answer
> The family fled to America. Mohamud’s father, Osman Mohamud Barre, went first, quitting his engineering professorship at Somali National University. Mohamud stayed behind, spending a year in a Kenyan refugee camp with his mother, Mariam Hassan.

> The U.S. granted Barre refugee status. He settled in Hillsboro, Oregon, where he worked 13 hours a day at an Intel assembly line. By 1993, he had saved enough money to bring his family to the U.S. “They were malnourished and suffering, but they were happy,” Barre later testified at his son’s trial. “We were grateful to America.”

-- Above quote is from the article

> This teen's family should be stripped of their citizenship and sent back to Somalia. Reason: this kid probably learned at least some of his hatred for the U.S. at the dinner table.

Yeah, and the families of felons should be put in prison too, since the felons probably learned their hatred for society and the law at the dinner table. /sarcasm
Is this the end of Debian being available in a manner that fully boots from the install media without requiring installation, or just the end of a project called "Debian Live"?

("live" installers are widely useful; eg. Kali and Ubuntu I believe are based on Debian and I can't imagine either of these projects abandoning the possibility of a "live" boot)

Edit: thanks for answering, Wilya and maheart! If you two are right, then maybe this topic really isn't important enough to merit the front page of HN (I mean, Debian drama is nothing new)?
Delay is 50ms on my MBP. Here is a profile: http://i.imgur.com/ty11Utl.png

With the main bottleneck being here: https://github.com/BelkaLab/react-yearly-calendar/blob/maste...

Implementing a good shouldComponentUpdate() should fix it.
Batch auctions don't deal with the main area of "high frequency shenanigans" which is cross exchange arbitrage. There isn't "a market" there are lots of little ones, geographically dispersed and across jurisdictions.

Further, there are already pro-rata matching engines, and they also have "high frequency shenanigans". In fact, they actually can encourage more gaming as you have to put in more quantity than you want, so you have to do something else to manage your risk.
Nice. But after browsing a few pages trying to see what we can help, I am disappointed. I spent almost a minute before finding a link to the source code, but I still don't quite see a nice introduction on how to compile, run test, contribution rules/guides. They are all over the place, some in source control, some on the web page (spread across different pages). This would be the first and most critical area to improve.

I probably should hop on IRC, and ask someone to demo how he/she works with the code, setting things up, and then probably help write up a guide. It's better than figuring out everything myself, despite being really good at figuring things out (hey you need that to be engineer...).
We're totally on the same page here. Which is one of the reasons why I'm advocating restraint and attacking root causes rather than perceived symptoms. That will only worsen things (and quickly so).

> And weren't abolition of state borders and prevention of another Hitler the motivation behind EU?

That never was openly stated afaik but it would seem to be that the architects of the EU had as one of their main driving forces the fact that they wanted to re-structure the EU in such a way to avoid another war. The problem with their approach is that they did many things without sufficient buy-in of the residents and on top of that started out by setting up all kinds of irrational schemes inside the EU to funnel money to their pet special interests. If they could have waited a few decades with tricks like that it probably would have worked a lot better.

The major issue that I see with a really unified EU is that the divergence of cultures within the EU is enormous, much more so than say the Americas, where a strong federal government was the result of a large group of people uniting behind a single good cause. And even then - in spite of that much more homogeneous culture - they had to have it out in a civil war to beat the remainder into submission (and that war was a war of ideology as much as it was a war over money and power).

> If so, its failing apart (not a syntax error, figure of speech).

Unfortunately, yes, it looks that way. The Euro is quite fragile, the intra-communion tension at record high levels since the previous world-war.

Separatists may get emboldened by all this, the refugees are so much kindling on a fire that is already smoldering. It will take some really smart people with the long view to repair this.
How did you listen to it? Are you using some text-to-speech software? I didn't find a link to download an audio version of the article.
I agree completely. Delayed 'ticks' are the way popular RTS games handle latency [1], and yet it doesn't hamper the high-level players from needing very quick reaction times and strategy. In the HFT world, it might require a rethinking of strategy, and honestly some 'thinking turns ahead', but I don't see that as a bad thing.

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131503/1500_archers_on...
> They signed up because they are violent psychopaths and they were given an avenue to do all of the fucked up things that struck their fancy.

If they signed up because of this, boy I wouldn't want to be in their shoes once they realize their mistake! Judging by everything I read, ISIS rulers enforce a strict Sharia law, with patrols making sure everyone is using the correct dress code.

I've also seen a documentary with a woman going undercover into ISIS-held territory (I think it was by the BBC) which claimed that Jihadists that break the "law" get killed, and that in fact ISIS welcomes any reports of misbehavior of their troops and punishes them hardly. ISIS seems to be ruling their territory with an iron hand, it's definitely not the land of do as you please and kill whom you fancy.
It is a pity: I consider this kind of notification really attractive but proved to be a antipattern in the projects I implemented.

Notifications are better when shown near the event source. If your user base includes some non-technical profiles they can become confused by this kind of message without context.

It can work for global announcements that can not be tied so a specific source or they are hidden and are important ("remember to activate your email").

This was just my experience. Congrats anyway for the work, it is really visually appealing.
The Charleston shooting of 2015 comes to mind as the perfect example [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Confederate_flag_controve...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Confederate_flag_controve...

Edit: spacing
I wonder if there's any overlap in the writers. Is there a room full of people generating serious content, surrounded by content farmers? Or are they obligated to generate five listicles for every paragraph of investigative journalism?
What does that have to do with what you responded to?
Exploring the WSJ's Pulitzer-Winning Medicare Investigation with SQL
Don't worry, seems like we were a bunch thinking it was true. The idea didn't seem that "bad".
Debian community is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
Holy shit what a great comment. I was thinking about how to convey my initial thoughts on the OP, but jesus, way to nail it on the head. Zero sarcasm here. "B player" sounds like those job posts with "looking for JS ninja".
Not surprising, given the CEO's history.

http://labs.openviewpartners.com/uber-zenefits-ceo-quora-deb...
I haven't found that to be the case...but I do mostly LOB apps, which honestly aren't all that demanding from a UI perspective.

Requirements gathering is hell though, which is where my team actually earns their money.
That's quite the rage quit.
And actually that's Mormonism anyways.

They were the last to be visited by god, and had the most-recent prophet, according to whom their mortal leaders speak ex-cathedra. Mormonism is even growing faster than Islam. It is the ultimate(1) Abrahamic religion.

Mormonism is even truly a religion of peace. Its leader was under persecution at the time and he does not speak out for killing and injustice.

1) Judging all religions objectively by the same standard of proof.
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Telecoms are notoriously difficult to market to. Actually I wouldn't mind discussing this with you further, my email is on my profile page for the time being if you'd like to get in touch.
Commissioned salespeople for sure.
Terrorism, Backlash, and the Assimilation of Muslim Immigrants in the West
I'm glad there's no conflicting incentives or anything.
> I'm not calling for aggressively imposing a structure change upon people,

Ok, than how do you propose to go about this? Telling the united Muslim population of the world they need to change their holy book is tantamount to telling the Roman Catholics to restructure their religion without the Pope. It won't happen.

Putting conditions like that on the table is to redraw the lines in terms that the other party will find un-acceptable right from the get-go, and will show nothing but our ignorance about their personal relation with God. That's not going to end well if there is a reaction at all.

> I'm calling for people who call themselves moderates or progressives to formally recognize their progressiveness by explicitly altering their holy text.

Even moderates and progressives are not going to change that text. They will happily ignore the pieces of the text they don't personally agree with, but if you force them to re-write the text they just might switch the other way and become more literal about that interpretation because a very large chunk of their identity is under threat.
All you had to do was read to find out about the family. There are several grafs devoted to the family's history and its surmised impact on Mohamud.

And yeah, let's definitely start stripping entire families of citizenship because of something a member of their family does, or for not being good enough country-lovers. What could possibly go wrong?
> The US has the amber alert protocol which also has a function for the president to dispatch any message (and can only be used by the president iirc), and that level of message can't be turned off via settings.

This is the Wireless Emergency Alert system, which carries Amber Alerts, Alerts about imminent threats to life/safety, and Presidential Alerts. The last (and only the last) can't be disabled in settings, because the legislation requiring support for the capacity required that Presidential alerts not be disabled. (The system is basically the mobile-device equivalent of the broadcast Emergency Alert System.)
cnn.com gets 95/100 on mobile user experience which must be a joke of some kind. My own page (the development version) gets a similar score in spite of loading much must faster. reddit.com also almost fails the desktop test.

This is a nice tool to give you suggestions about things you might want to change but it's hard to use it as a predictor of page quality.
Prior work: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ :)
I think the problem is that people see the beauty of the pinterest layout (which works well for pinning images) and then adapt it to show textual content (which works much worse than a plain list of headlines for scanning news).
I wonder if this keeps people mystified when they visit the news feed, wondering what's beyond the fold and scrolling their hours away.
Pegged orders are an order type where you tell the exchange "keep me at the best bid/offer" or even sometimes "keep me n levels off the best bid/offer". Its basically an order that allows the exchange itself to change your price for you so that you don't incur messaging latency and inconsistency.
Would you pay money to exercise those options?

If you don't expect them to succeed then staying a full year for the options is pretty pointless, since they typically expire in ~90 days after you quit.
Microsoft Web framework: Design philosophy, guidelines and resources
I was thinking about this on the way home. Regardless of what has become of Google they started off with "don't be evil", whereas Facebook has basically been "by any means necessary" from day 1.
Well said. It's as if Steve Ballmer's nephew is now running the products team.
So, what's your middle name?
The original conversation was that Walmart was selling a $10 phone that was more powerful than the original iPhone which had been labelled by some in the press as the "Jesus Phone". This offended the sensibilities of a number of iPhone owners who have argued a number of side points to refute that assertion. The article here pointed out how horrible the restrictions were on unlocking so you were "trapped" using Tracfones crappy service for at least a year. However, that fails to acknowledge that when it was first released, the iPhone could not be unlocked and many felt its biggest weakness was the crappy service from AT&T (I certainly did).

So today, with some legislation help, unlocking phones is not quite as burdensome, and both Apple and Android makers have more carriers to choose from given the amount of business they "swing". This LG phone and others like it are totally adequate smartphones. Which only serves to illustrate the chasm between where we started and where we are.

In alternate history speculation, had Microsoft released the Lumia 550 the same year that Apple released the iPhone? Microsoft would have outsold and out performed Apple in the smartphone market and Apple might never have gained the necessary momentum to fuel its growth. But we know that Balmer didn't see it, and as an employee working at Google when Android was being developed, Google didn't see it either. The original Android phone concepts were very much like Palm Pilots, not what you see today.
> I'm calling for people who call themselves moderates or progressives to formally recognize their progressiveness by explicitly altering their holy text.

If their understanding of the meaning of their religion and its text is already moderate or progressive, why should they modify it (especially when part of their understanding is that it cannot be modified?)

The Christian Bible has some things in it that support shockingly regressive interpretations, and which some Christians apply in exactly that manner. There isn't pressure on moderate or progressive Christians to change the text of the Bible in response to that. Why should it be different for Muslims?
Well I bet based on their target market they'd be ok with this outcome.
80% of antibiotics are being given to livestock animals:

>The proportion of antibiotics sold in the United States each year that go to animals turns out to be not 70 percent, but rather 80 percent. Here’s CLF’s Ralph Loglisci, who got the confirmatory numbers from the FDA.

http://www.wired.com/2010/12/news-update-farm-animals-get-80...

And they also do it because it makes the animals gain weight:

>especially troubling is their use not to cure sick animals but to promote "feed efficiency," that is, to increase the animal's weight gain per unit of feed. These drugs are also regularly added to the feed and water of animals that are not sick in order to prevent diseases caused by overcrowded and unsanitary CAFO conditions. These nontherapeutic uses translate into relatively cheap meat prices at the grocery store.

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-...

I wish they'd save the antibiotics for humans so they'd be more effective. I also wonder if all the antibiotics are making humans gain weight.
If you had read the article at all, you would know that Mohamud's parents sacrificed a lot to give him the opportunity of a fulfilling life. I find it hard to believe that he learned such hate from people who raised him with such love.
Why not make your window narrower?
Pennsylvania Judges Propose Record $50M Fine Against Uber
> Writing to LLVM in no way restricts you to a backend. You simply need a language-level IR that you can retarget to different backends as you would like.

It still ignores toolchain flexibility. Especially given the specific needs of Go's managed runtime.
Debugging is highly underrated. Give a developer a bug, make em solve it. It's a challenge, it's not some weird algorithm that you may or may not know, it's practical, and troubleshooting tactics demonstrates a lot of analytical skills.
They touch on it in the article, but it is worth calling special attention to the use of antibiotics to add weight to the animals. It's not being used to treat disease, it's being used to "hack" the biology of the animal to increase yield.

Debate on the use of antibiotics for the agricultural industry seems to conflate this indiscriminate usage with targeted therapeutic use.
Midori was Microsoft's version of DEC's "No output division". They basically shepherded all the super senior people there to fool around with shit and not impede progress elsewhere. No real product was ever expected.
In this context, FAA is a 2008 amendment to the FISA legislation, not the Federal Aviation Administration.