skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't feed comments like this. Instead, flag the comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag'. (This requires a small amount of karma, currently 30.)
Not sure how much you know about neuroimaging, but in case you don't know, it might be worth my pointing out that this is a structural image -- i.e. it doesn't measure "brain activity" in any way, only brain shape.

The same scanner could take functional BOLD measurements, of course.
Just because we can formulate an optimization objective, it is not guaranteed that we will find an algorithm that solves it within a reasonable amount of time. In case of humans, these objectives or preferred states are possibly very simple ones, like hunger and pain avoidance, reproduction and curiosity; and it is actually easy to write down an algorithm that optimizes these objectives (if you ignore how reality actually works): Simply try out all possible ways of reacting to the environment and choose the best one.

This works in theory, but in practice you only have a limited amount of chances to try something out (because of the arrow of time). This makes learning a necessity. You need to keep a record of all trials you have performed so that you can reuse this information later when the same situation reoccurs. How to do this in an optimal way is described by Bayes' theorem.

The key to AI will be a certain set of priors, biases and fixed function units that make this computationally tractable; we'll likely need things like invariance of the learned information to various changes so that it can be reused in different settings, segmentation of data coming from the world into episodes (hippocampus), attention, control (basal ganglia), mental rotation (cortex) and path integration (hippocampus, grid cells).
I'm seeing more and more news article saying that Brizilian judges want to shut down the social web? This seems like a huge over-reaction, no?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/brazils-congress-has-shut-d...
Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And how many heroes does the world revere for rising up and doing something about similar situations, even if it was in the past? There are a lot of people dealt very shitty cards. What this is trying to say is that, even in the most horrible of situations, people have found a way. You can too.
Bikers have done this too, here they own development corps which are just rackets to exploit city tenders. Nobody else can bid or else you find your yards and equipment robbed or destroyed. Police don't do anything because propping up org crime is part of their management strategy of the failed war on drugs. Young violent upstarts who heat out the city with public shootings are better handled by the dominant org crime group so they let them racketeer it up so long as they promise to reign in the lesser groups that make the police look bad with public violence. Since these young upstarts need the money laundering services only mafia/bikers can provide on that scale they generally fall into line.

They also are propped up in the prison system in turn for helping the guards establish order in overcrowded units. Guards do set ups to make sure the dominant group always has an upper hand in any conflicts, like 4 associates being "accidentally" put in the same class/program with a rival of another group.
Evaluating what’s easy and what’s hard to automate in your workshop
Space: Where Russia and America still get along
The Internet Falls Asleep as the Force Awakens
Not any easier than other browsers, such as Chrome's Widevine, for example.
Book-Writing: Just Do It
You may not be sure, but the researchers that study this subject are sure - http://andrewleigh.org/pdf/GunBuyback_Panel.pdf

And for the US - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/1...
Wealth inequality may be a problem broadly but it doesn't invalidate his argument about incentives in drug production.
I'm sad to see how children are being deprived from basic rights to freely exchange information. It's not the age, that makes you dumb enough to share something you shouldn't for your own good.

This, and enforcing religion on kids by their parents are two things why we, the Internet, should start a campaign for children's rights.
Advertising Web Design Services and Seo Techniques
There's a senate committee currently investigating the common theme of companies buying out-of-patent drugs that have a small market and marking them up immediately after purchase. His arrest might add a bit of fire to the argument, but I suspect it won't have much effect in the long run.

For the record, though, they are looking at the industry as a whole, not just his company and the few drugs he did this with.
Does anyone know where the complaint is or at least the specific patents? I guess they are claiming infringement against a method to coat the blades somehow to improve shaving?

Why do I have a feeling this will be another one of those cases that expose just how corrupt and broken our patent system is.
Thanks!

I think we've focused a lot more on relational support. For instance, on a detail page, you can view and edit all linked records, and add new ones inline: http://docs.fieldbook.com/docs/go-beyond-the-grid

We have a full-fledged query UI: http://docs.fieldbook.com/docs/focus-on-relevant-items

And we have a grouped view (think Trello meets spreadsheets), which is great for any kind of pipeline/kanban view: http://docs.fieldbook.com/docs/track-a-workflow
A 17th-Century Japanese Artist Is Once Again Making Waves
But that's not everyone working at the big bank.
The NIH and NSF funding doesn't appear to have that much in the way of low-level decision making by politicians looking for election day limelight.

Of course there is some, such as disparaging attacks on why we should put shrimps on treadmills, to the other extreme where the government, following public demand, funded a lot of HIV/AIDS research.

Also, as counter-example, the US government funds research in tropical diseases, not because it's a great photo-op for the next election, but also not completely altruistically - the military wants to be able to go into tropics and not have many of its soldiers die.

So the evidence so far says that your supposition isn't the whole picture by far.
Can I name my company after a computer science algorithm? Like YC
How YCombinator did this? Does anything in the law prevent it? Do you have to take permission from the creator of the algorithm?
If you have an opportunity to increase profitability and you don't take it you _are_ losing money, at least so long as the opportunity is sustainable.
That is kinda interesting but....

"This means that an attacker can easily ... use any kind of attack tool such as IDA Pro, debuggers, emulators, etc."

Attack tools?!
So the human lives saved would be the valid rationalization.
> If I could downvote this for being a sensationalist article, I would

You can't technically downvote, but you can morally do so by clicking 'flag'. Many of your fellow users did so, and your desired effect would have happened a bit sooner had you joined them.

Making a fine substantive counterpoint, as you did, is excellent too!
It's still a security win, because the CDM sandbox is allowed to do substantially less than the Flash sandbox. Flash can access your webcam, filesystem, make any network connection, etc. The CDM only decrypts and decodes frames.
Here's the step-by-step how-to for making those Netflix movie-pausing socks
Which is what makes it so funny that people can't be bothered to read further into the article than "HERESY against glorious deep learning!".
Sorry I wasn't clearer: I was referring to colloquial use of the word, not what's actually clinically accurate. My experience has been that in everyday use "sociopath" can refer to any of the three, even if (as you mentioned) these are very different diagnoses.
A solution can be no simpler than the essential complexity of the problem it is solving. It is not clear to me that the essential complexity of the problem is significantly simpler than the autotools solution. Across the totality of all C/C++-using systems, across all of the mostly-POSIX and vaguely-POSIX-ish systems, across all the libraries, the toolkits, the OSes, across the decades, across all of what it is trying to span, the essential complexity is quite large. Contemplating all that probably makes autotools come out looking pretty good in context.

I'd observe that every major modern language since then has taken an approach that in one way or another, obviates the need for a full autoconf. C's contribution to large-scale code reuse was largely showing all the ways in which it could go wrong, and encouraging future language developers to get it more right to start with, which they mostly have.

(Note I'm not saying there aren't any problems with the way any modern language works. But they're still all simpler, generally more powerful, and even in their worst case, nothing like as bad as the autoconf-world's worst case.)
As someone with a coarse beard, safety razors are the only way to go. A safety razor blade from feather lasts 2-3 shaves, while one of those 4/5 blade things from gillette clogs fast, and dulls completely before 1 shave is over. Safety razors really don't clog, and they're much cheaper.
Docker Networking with No External Cluster Store from Weaveworks
From the people I talked to, it was mostly about morale and the work environment, but certainly, the erosion of wages and job security increased the economic risk of being a teacher. I'm not sure the numbers work out for giving up 15 years of salary in the hope of having a slightly higher pension.

I think that an unusual problem for public sector employees is that their wages are public knowledge, and as a result, are a target of resentment.

Going forward, I expect to see more of a relationship between pay and skill. As I said, the best teachers are the ones who are leaving.

Granted, I'm not wholeheartedly pro union, but I see some areas where unions have served a vital role with no obvious replacement. One is to function as a labor movement in general. The unions weren't perfect at it, but as the unions have been effectively defeated, nobody else has stepped up to speak for workers.

The other has been to make certain occupations -- such as teaching -- worth the risk of pursuing as a career, by providing a trustworthy career roadmap. Other countries provide such a roadmap through government oversight of education -- perhaps the state functions as a union in countries with more pro-labor governments. But our governments haven't stepped up to serve that role. Again, the teachers union wasn't perfect (most teachers believed that it needed to be reformed), but nobody has figured out an alternative way to make teaching career-worthy, or how to make schools work if teaching ceases to be a career.
On comparing Swift runtime performances
Since swift is released as open source it would be interesting to compare swift performances. I found the interesting project http://github.com/andreaferretti/kmeans that compares the execution time of the KMeans algorithm on several languages.

From the results it looks like that the execution time is comparable to python and it is pretty distant from the top.

http://github.com/andreaferretti/kmeans/blob/master/results
Results
-------
nim (0.11.3) 148 ms
java (1.7.0_76) 183 ms
....
python (2.7.6) 10632 ms
pharo (3) 11170 ms
swift (2.2-dev) 11391 ms
perl (5.20.2) 15680 ms
rubinius (2.5.2) 20878 ms
ruby (1.9.3p484) 24819 ms
It's really fine. The problem is not the app itself, not by a long shot.
But Math.random() never promised to be that (reproducible that is). So changing the underlying algorithm is just fine.
How Intellectual Property Destroyed Men’s Shaving (2012)
Wow, both of these look really cool! I'm glad to see the database + friendly UI category is getting some reinvigorated attention.

Last time I researched this category, the best options I could find were MS Access and FileMaker Pro. I'm often annoyed with overly use-case-specific apps, as they do not have good flexibility in interacting with the data they use. It seems like many use-case-specific apps would be better suited as templates in a generic database UI tool.

Chris Granger's Eve is also tackling the database UI problem, and they are investigating wider-scoped UI patterns, beyond spreadsheets.
Indeed, the Python 3 Unicode string object is fascinatingly clever. Code worth reading:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/unicod...
More companies launched recently, including Simbe Robotics, Dispatch Robotics and there are others still in stealth.
> Because "tyranny will never come to America..."

If I'm not mistaken, the implication here is that tyranny might come to America, and I 100% agree with that. Of course it might, and in fact I think the increasing surveillance state atmosphere makes it seem increasingly likely.

But any implication that civilian gun ownership could make a difference if it happens seems overly hopeful. The US military is the largest in the world by a large margin. If tyranny comes to America then a few civilian shotguns aren't going to help much.
I would adopt some nuance regarding your third point: If you're successful at college, but are unemployable because of your degree, then if you get a graduate degree that is in demand, you have turned a negative into a positive.

But you still have to demonstrate employability to get hired.
This looks like their last line of attack they created https://www.gilletteshaveclub.com (Whois shows this site was created 23rd April 2015).
Not even borderline! My God, what a clear and distinct admission of having a severe personality disorder.
Daniel Mendelsohn wrote a beautiful piece on this theme. That is, exactly which viewers have which nostalgic feelings as fans of Mad Men (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/02/24/mad-men-account/).

Finale:

"As for the appeal: Who, after all, can resist the fantasy of seeing what your parents were like before you were born, or when you were still little — too little to understand what the deal was with them, something we can only do now, in hindsight? And who, after having that privileged view, would want to dismiss the lives they led and world they inhabited as trivial — as passing fads, moments of madness? Who would still want to bash them, instead of telling them that we know they were bad but that now we forgive them?"

Note: this is similar to, but critically different than, the comments above. Mendelsohn's assertion is that the nostalgia is for the past lives of one's parents. How did they live? Who were they? Can we forgive them?
Interesting. But I have no idea what it does.. that picture and bullet points don't really tell me much. I want screenshots!
Yes, it's time for the FileMaker/Access category to be reborn for the age of webapps, mobile, and APIs.
Or just google the article title and come in through google. Then you can see the whole thing.
Flash is a general-purpose virtual machine with a large attack surface, including a JIT and access to the GPU. The Adobe CDM has a tightly-controlled API. Unless Adobe's Flash updater, Firefox manages CDM updates so any CDM security fixes can be deployed to users within 24–48 hours.
> Let Liberals cry all they want

Please don't use ideological buzz-phrases here. It lowers the quality of discussion, regardless of what flavor of ideology you prefer.
It's a security feature but also an innovation roadblock. I don't fault them for having security features it's how they are administered thats the major issue.
But I thought DSC didn't make the razors? I buy them direct from Korea under the Pace brand name.
But is it guaranteed to be buggy and insecure just because it is by Adobe?
[Pre-Register] Not from the Valley – Showcase Tech Made Outside the Valley
I've found this with myself as well. In one of my worst-ever interviews, I had the flu really badly the entire time, and read the signals of all of my interviewers to be both negative regarding my technical chops and negative toward my weakened state. I got the job, and was very well liked. In another trainwreck of an interview where I seriously considered standing up and leaving after getting extreme negative signals, I was offered the job as well-- but I should have paid attention to the negative signals, as they were indicative of larger problems with that group.

In other interviews, I've massively overestimated my own performance, seeing positive signals everywhere and being very impressed with myself-- of course, these didn't pull through, and my confidence was dashed. In another incidence, I did get the job offer.

The most confusing are the interviews in which I don't have a strong feeling of doing well or poorly either way-- not the median case, but certainly it happens frequently enough that I've gotten a job where I didn't think that I stood out. If anything, these cases are a consolation that others may see something positive that I don't see in myself.

This tells me that my ability to correctly predict my interview performance is no more efficacious than random chance. I think that there are a few confounding factors which make interviewee measuring interview performance as perceived by the interviewer difficult. Interviews are a time of endless posturing, flagrant lies, propaganda, and overt deception hopefully mingled in with actual mutual interest, excitement, and good will. There are many social signals to keep track of in addition to self-monitoring to ensure the correct outcome. For people who are not the strongest socially, I think that these social signals tend to get dropped intermittently as attention shifts inward (don't say the wrong thing) or outward (get this technical problem correct).
Beware the digital disparity
If Dorco is manufacturing out side of the US or anywhere that P&G's patent is valid and not selling them into a valid country P&G can't really sue Dorco. At that point Dorco isn't violating anything it's the company that imports them that is the first point something is really being violated.

edit: typo and pronoun vagueness.
Well the DRM software has to come from somewhere and Adobe has long proven themselves to be adept at such things for the most part. Are there alternatives? Is this because of Adobe muscling out others?

I found this [1] interesting:

> Firefox does not load this module directly. Instead, we wrap it into an open-source sandbox. In our implementation, the CDM will have no access to the user’s hard drive or the network. Instead, the sandbox will provide the CDM only with communication mechanism with Firefox for receiving encrypted data and for displaying the results.

So the open-source fix for a closed-source, proprietary CDM is to sandbox it? How is this any different than Flash or Silverlight, really?

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...
"Anywhere we can afford to put a human", and I'll remind you, that's under the new, wildly cheaper domain of space flight, not the current one. If only a robot is affordable at all, there's no debate about which is "better". Clearly that is not the argument being made, though, because then there's no point in even repeating the line about robots being more cost effective.

If space flight is cheap, you're better off sending a far more capable human than a robot, because if you're going to spend $3million for a robot or $5million for a human, the human is going to be more than 40% more effective than a robot. It's a totally different story than when the difference is $12billion or $500billion.
I disagree about it; I'd say gaming is actually a great way to exercise creativity and to progress to more... practical stuff.

There is, on the other hand, one "easy fix" that most kids end up taking - it is spending time with people. Hanging out. It's an infinite time sink. You can get bored or tired with a video game, but other people are the best at inventing something new to do or experience. Except if all the kids do is hanging out with each other, they aren't exactly learning much.

So I guess it depends on who you want your kid to become. If you're aiming for a "people person", then by all means, cut out computer time. But if you want an engineer, I'd personally stick with video games.
I think ReactOS is still targeting XP/2003? The way things are going, Microsoft may open source Windows before ReactOS catches up, likely with a more permissive license.
Well I hope this ban bites the Judge who ordered it in the rear. This is a stupid thing to do and should never happen again.
HDI is the worst metric to begin with.
Mordac is: http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-17
2015’s best movie trailers
Humans Caused a Major Shift in Earth's Ecosystems 6,000 Years Ago
I desperately hope not, my original comment sure appears to come off as rooting against Adobe, but I'll absolutely hope this means success and is the start of secured content playback on HTML5
It's nice how they got to choose between that and being unknowns for the rest of their lives.
in America, criminals have rights, including the right to privacy. Convicted criminals and convicted felons do not

It sounds like you are rather pedantically making a distinction between criminals and convicted criminals.
> Anyway, desktop applications are not that relevant today, and most of those that are (like web browsers, developer tools) are cross-platform anyway.

Yes, but PC games are very relevant. They are the entire reason I have a Windows machine at all.
Is there any solid guide to preventing browser fingerprinting? Or is the only protection constantly changing your accept headers + user agent?
For momentarily confused people like me: not P&T's Jillette.
Good eye! :) Netflix has been A/B testing the Adobe CDM in the Firefox 42 release channel for a couple weeks (and in the Firefox pre-release channels for months). This is just the official launch announcement.
A place for people who make tech (apps, websites, software, hardware, etc.) outside of the valley or people who are interested in tech made outside of the valley.

Fire away if you have any questions about plans for the site.
Yeah, because we can't access ICQ, Skype, Telegram, Viber, Line, WeChat, GroupMe and several other apps, right?
I'm talking about practical limitations. It turns out human exploration becomes impractical :(
I stopped getting razor burn when I switched from disposables to a safety razor, and it's no less convenient. My main complaint was the high up-front cost for the razor but I'm now seeing starter kits in Wal-mart in the $20 range which IIRC included razor, blades, brush, and soap.
Hacking maps onto a Kindle as the first step to a full OS
I bought a 50 pack of feather razors on Amazon for $10. I haven't bought blades since last year; granted I don't shave every day. I find I get around 4-5 shaves a blade.
USPTO:

> Patent infringement is the act of making, using, selling, or offering to sell a patented invention, or importing into the United States a product covered by a claim of a patent without the permission of the patent owner. Further, you may be considered to infringe a patent if you import items into the United States that are made by a patented method, unless the item is materially changed by subsequent processes or becomes a trivial and nonessential component of another product. A person “infringes” a patent by practicing each element of a patent claim with respect to one of these acts. Further, actively encouraging others to infringe patents, or supplying or importing components of a patented invention, and related acts can also give rise to liability in certain cases.

If the P&G patent isn't valid where the blades are manufactured the manufacturer isn't in violation. It falls down to whoever is importing them. If they could sue the manufacturer then getting patents in one place would make them defacto valid everywhere and punish companies for the actions of their customers who they have no control over.
We can extend your logic to just about everyone on this website.
Signup for PayWhirl Recurring Payments v2 Beta
Nobody on HN has taken the PE or FE exams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...