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So there's evidence that electrical stimulation to the brain can increase memory retention and even enhance creativity; and running electrical currents through your head can potentially be unhealthy for your brain..

The current state of this technology reminds me of what acupuncture can do—it mostly stimulates the nerves and muscles and encourages blood-flow to the pin-prick.

But is this just the beginning? I think a futurist would say so. Acupuncture is ancient, but brain science is in its infancy and is backed by the internet and logarithmically-improving computational instruments.

I'm glad this article makes a reference to the history of shock-therapy and the science-fiction it inspired, because the potentials that this EEG tech is bringing to light area mind-blowing. Then again, all the life-extension and deep-learning AI technology that billionaires are steering towards sound crazy too.

I'm guessing these EEG kits will be the next major thing in wearables, maybe in 4-5 years some iteration will be adopted by the early majority. The machines can already give feedback if there is heightened brain activity or calm brain activity. How is that any different that the step counter and heart-rate monitor on your fidbit?
DOSBox is a separate project from Wine. It has also been said that DOSBox backward compatibility is better than cmd.exe on recent versions of Windows.

That being said, Linux can run old binaries just fine. You just need the libraries. Windows does not have a stable syscall API, so that cannot as easily be done with Windows. As for win32, Sun tried to standardize the Windows API during the DOS days to ensure backward compatibility, but Microsoft killed it.
I think you might have gone the wrong way in the units conversion. It's around 40 lbs (~20 kg) rather than 55 kg (~120 lbs). This still seems heavier than it would need to be, but not as absurd. Here's more details about it:
http://www.techinsider.io/google-street-view-trekker-snaps-h...
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If we, as the human race, want to avoid upcoming desasters, not that i am summoning them, neither predicting those, we have an obligation to make research and its gains available to all mankind.

Financial burdens are a stone in our all way, be it in the taxpayer who funds R&D, or be it the institutions that want to profit from it.

There cannot be a "middle ground", we all have to stand back for the greater benefits of free flowing knowledge.

That is a principle of the "web" itself, profit from open data, but also keep personal data protected. Easy as that.

There will be no win in restricting access to scientific research in the end, but to keep corporate interest and greed alive. I fear that future.

Edit: Institutions.
I don't see anything wrong with adding the option to do scripting. No one is making you use it. But when you need it, there's no alternative.

Many projects start out with just simple config files. But then they realize they need to do logic, and hack that into it. Then they realize they need more complex logic, and hack even more stuff in. And it's just a mess. It would have been much cleaner if they just started out with a scripting language.

Whether you should be putting logic in the config file is a different issue, but as long as people do it or have a need to do it, it's much better than crazy ad hoc solutions.

See these discussions on the issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/648246/at-what-point-doe... https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/configuration-files-suck-6...
That is the core contention, the mass self-plagiarization is very much secondary in the article and is a rather different issue. The actual plagiarization of the NYT puzzles is relatively minor and the sort of thing that should be considered fair game and it's irrational that we think otherwise.
Ask HN: What's the best way to relinquish control of an open source project?
I created the original repo of a popular Web Audio plugin but I have admittedly been less than stellar about maintaining it; many unmerged pull requests have piled up and issues have been opened without response. I feel awful about letting down the community like this. My repo has been forked many times, but people often run into my original repo instead of the forks.

What should I do? How can I communicate to the community that I want to relinquish control? Should I just add a note to the README directing users to a better-maintained "official" fork? How should I decide which to pick? Or do I just do nothing and let devs sort it all out?

Any advice is welcome. Thanks.
There is tremendous activity in OpenJDK projects which means Oracle is finally concentrating on core technology. So many of these projects seems to directly help developers as compare to JavaEE stuff which is mostly targeted for vendors peddling there gigabytes size application servers. I have had misfortune of using those products. Now I am much happier using Core Java / servlets with tomcat.

A possible fallout of Oracle focussing on core Java and cutting down on JavaEE monstrosity is that all those pattern laden enterprise architect/astronauts/evangelists seems less in demand at least at Oracle. I may not be biggest fan of Oracle but I think in case of evangelist types leaving Oracle is good thing.
People are building ZFS systems with thousands of drives.

As for being different than virtio because it needs PCI-E lanes, what keeps QEMU from emulating however many are needed?
good quality code is not cheap. doing both biz and tech is not mutually exclusive at an early stage
Sorry to have been unclear -- thank you for making the effort to read my measly comment, however!

It does appear similar to the idea of abusing tuples, insofar as having to keep the meanings of each element in mind without any help from the syntax. shrugs I guess my nervousness around Internet commenting surfaces as excessively formal language. Apologies again for any future confusion :|
The article says these will be 10-truck convoys with one driver. So I don't think splitting is likely.

HGVs regularly have blow outs and there are parts of the network where they're frequently rolled by high winds.

It's bad enough when that happens to a single truck. If it takes up to nine others with it, it's going to be carnage.

Convoys may not be the best way to make automation happen.
Please point to the exact paragraph in Reg NMS that backs up your story. To those reading, don't waste your time awaiting an answer because there is no such paragraph in Reg NMS.

The Regulations (Reg NMS) are very clear about this. That's why I was awarded $750K from the government after all.
> If on every trade you flip a coin, but intelligently limit your losses and ride your wins

What does this mean? Sounds like gambler's fallacy combined with a Martingale system
This, loosely, describes my views as well.
Yeah, it's definitely the case that having a common language enables collaboration. What I imagine is kids who don't speak English getting interested in programming and learning the basics in their mother tongue, then moving to English programming as they get more advanced. Basically my hypothesis is that it's easier to jump one hurdle at a time than it is to jump two at the same time.
Unfortunately, religion is a dragon that difficult to tame. My family is Catholic... My wife once was accosted by some fringe evangelical "Christian" guy warning her of imminent doom due to her idolatry of the pope. Not acceptable.

You have the right to live as your conscience and values dictate. But you don't have the right to interfere with the ability of others to do the same.
UK truck drivers are usually better drivers than most of the cars on the motorway. They don't like sudden changes in speed and their skill shows in traffic jams or roadworks, where the lanes of truckers will tend to keep moving. My major bugbear is trucks overtaking one another on 2 lane roads, when there'll often be a really small speed differential and so the overtaking manoeuvre will block the road for longer than needed.
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I don't think Tinder wants to keep out 30-year olds. In fact they want to monetise them as they know they have more available income and are more willing to spend it in a dating service.
The very fact that something like innocence project needs to exist is depressing :(
Don't let those incapable of empathy prevent you from airing a grievance. If it sincerely hurts you, or the people you hold close, then go for it!

After all, a well-articulated concern that resonates with others will become popular. Likewise, a poorly thought out or unnecessarily vengeful post will be ignored all the same.

I, for one, believe that shining a light on wrongdoing, instead of fearfully pretending it doesn't exist, is one of the privileges of our society. Yes, doing so has several drawbacks, and yes, people are inclined to whine, but it is one of the few recourses the weak have against the strong.

More power to you!
When the going gets tough, the questions are dumb? This is the hallmark of lobbyist talk.
I wouldn't want the vendor lock-in that comes with Oracle's "AWS".

There has been a lot of teeth gritting over how locked into AWS certain parts of a customers company has become, using their API's, their services, and with no real way to move away if anything ever happened.
You are a married lady older than 32
who makes more than $52,000/year

the answer you get if you mark no's for all except the two that came with my nexus 5: gmaps, yutoube;

where are my favourite apps on the list?: fdroid, kidsdoodle;
Really cool, super helpful, but a guide to tipping that doesn't include bars as a separate category baffles me.

In the US bar tipping is extremely important, not remotely optional.

In the 90s I had my tips returned to me with irritation in bars and cafes in London. Can't remember what the deal was last time I went.

And I think this guide might could use some crowd sourcing? I tried to tip 10% in a restaurant in Milan a few years ago and my companion freaked out saying it was waaaaaay too much money.

I tried to tip a cab driver in Beijing about 7 years ago and she was old school, laughed, and gave it back.

These things are constantly changing so a guide is a wonderful thing, I am just a bit curious where the info is coming from.
This is incorrect. We destroyed a Barron's article for making similarly false claims and we back it up with solid data: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4685.html We even caught Barron's cheating! The nerve of some people to lie with abandon.
Oh don't get me wrong - safety wise they're a total liability I am sure. But 1. That's the case with all old cars, and 2. The main thing I was saying was that IMO they're kinda pretty
Andrew Ng has a machine learning course online if you are interested: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
I made a side trip to Wuppertal when I visited Köln because I'm a monorail enthusiast.

The system was amazing for its time and its safety per passenger-distance is quite good for rail.

It was full of schoolchildren heading home at a leisurely pace, suspended over the river.

I had forgotten that you have to disembark at the end station so that the cars can be manually pushed onto outbound rail. I got some puzzled looks when I didn't de-train right away.
30 yards a second at 60mph. Doesn't take more than a couple of lorries to cause a rolling roadblock, so 10 could easily start causing chaos. And accidents. You don't expect anyone to stop on the slip road, unless you see gridlock.
Respect for your reader, for one. Citations ensure your reader knows that:

A) It isn't your original thought or original words

B) They can look up some certain work by the person if they're interested in more

There's no doubt some level of it that's just academic elitism (don't even get me started on "authoritative sources"), but not deceiving your reader is a good portion of the requirement. It's not just about the fact that you used someone else's words, it's the fact that you did so, and passed off that work as your own.
France : "Taxis: Plan to tip cab drivers about 10 percent."

No fucking way. Maybe we'll talk about it when UberPOP comes back, but for now 60 euros for some 30min rides to the airport means they seriously don't need any tipping.

Thailand : "Taxis: Tip 10-15 percent for black cabs and licensed minicabs, or just round up to the nearest Euro. Tip extra for help with loading or unloading baggage."

Same, now way !! They are already trying to charge you more than the legal fee in Bangkok or lying to you about the distance to do....

The Restaurant tipping discussion should be over internationally and for goood : just put in the bill the stupid "expected tipping" and people will just 'maybe' tip more if the service is actually outstanding (and if they feel like it... and IF THEY HAVE MONEY TO TIP)

I've alway found insane to be 'expected to tip' in the US / CANADA when you are a poor student and nothing was special, when I come from france where waiters all have an actual wage and only the 'financially at ease' people tip...
Probably one of the best online courses available. He's very engaging and makes some pretty tough concepts seem straightforward.
AFAIK the intent of segwit is not to reduce overhead but to fix tx malleability. As an consequence of the politicized block size debate a discount was added to increase the number of txs per block--and this was seen as a compromise for the big blocker camp. It turns out you can roll it out with a softfork as well (and provide script versioning), making it a safer alternative to upping the limit with a contentious hardfork.

Can you clarify what you mean by the majority hash rate needs to enforce the new rules?
If companies like Coinbase, which live and die by the health of the Bitcoin ecosystem, have taken so much capital, why can they not solve this problem by spending money to shore up the health of bitcoin ecosystem (I assume this requires adding processing power)?

I don't know anything about Bitcoin, so maybe it's just unfeasible.
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Agreed. The next step to opening up research is to make it easier. That's what we are about publicly to launch over at http://www.myire.com in the coming months. We are battle testing it with phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials in enterprise before the launch. After the launch it'll be far easier for any researcher to do their job and to publish their work.

If you work in research and want a peak into the future email lane (at) myire dot com and I'd be happy to demo.
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Why is my position, that our slavish obsession with plagiarism is counter-productive, untenable? Especially given that plagiarism inherently implies a lack of credit.
What if you are the innocent person being murdered by someone who would have been deterred by the possibility of capital punishment?
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I remember talking to a coworker my age (about 20 years ago). He was born in the early 60's in Britain and his family was middle class. I was born in California and my family was middle class. When he was a small child in England his dad bought the first family car. Like ever. In my case my great grand fathers all bought cars before 1920.

I just seemed to me that Britain, Europe, and especially eastern Europe after two world wars was a big mess. The US came out of it producing 50% of the world GDP, not including, Britain, Canada, France, etc.
Women who consume peanuts during pregnancy are also less likely to have children with peanut allergies.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/23/peanut-...
Tipping is always an interesting topic that often gets discussed on HN.

The best arguments against it that I have come across, are that amount of tips received are heavily dependant on sex, race and age [0][1]. These studies are however based on US tipping patterns.

[0] http://esq.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/06/54d4001699b01_-_TipAveJA...

[1]http://esq.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/06/54d40019befbb_-_customer...
Unsurprisingly, countries that produce more content than they import have tended to adopt strong copyright laws, whereas net importers of works have typically espoused views like those of the senator qouted in the sibling comment.
I understand the argument. Your rephrasing overlooks that our society demands that most people make money to live a decent life, and it's a lot of people making a not-crazy amount of money off the inefficiencies, and it's not obvious what industries could be expected to provide a comparable living to that many people.

That said, I don't think making everyone pay more to ship things so that some people can do something that isn't valuable any longer is the way to go.
"United Kingdom, Taxis: Tip 10-15 percent for black cabs and licensed minicabs, or just round up to the nearest Euro."

I see that the "in" campaign is really upping its game.
Always good to be vigilant to notice if this is happening in general: "When people are locked into an ideology created by a dogma they tend not to focus on rational alternatives." Interesting area to explore would be techniques to catch yourself if this has happened. Anyone explored this and have tips?
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"That is all that was determined."

Do you work for the SEC? Because only the SEC knows what I sent them. If you do work for the SEC, then you have some explaining to do. If you don't work for the SEC, you have some explaining to do. I thought Hacker News was a place for logic and reasoning. Yet it is so easy to pick these inconsistencies out. Why do you suppose that is?
I think you are going to need to define what you mean by "richer experience" there.

There are plenty of examples of how younger people develop their own complex (rich) social norms and behaviors which confuse the fuck out of "olds".

The (now outdated) behavior of "deleting" (ie deactivating) your Facebook account every night and reactivating every morning (so you couldn't get tagged and embarrassed) is a great example that confused most older people.
The cause of the fork you mentioned was not related to the threshold. Miners had software that falsely claimed to supported the new, stricter checks. Even if the threshold had been 100% of the last 1,000 blocks, the fork would have still happened. Unless you think no threshold is ever acceptable (because software can lie about its capabilities), your argument proves too much.

I mentioned RBF as an example of Core adding complexities when they should be focusing on scaling. We can reasonably disagree as to whether RBF's advantages outweigh its disadvantages. I lean toward, "Not worth it." but debating RBF gets away from my main criticism of Core: That they are not being careful or conservative. They're just doing a terrible job of scaling Bitcoin.
And living with dogs or with the windows open reduces asthma.
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You are making straw man arguments. While I'm happy to discuss what the SIP should be in an ideal world, the topic at hand is what is current law. For those that don't know, it's Reg NMS (google it).
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I remember both Charles Dickens and Gilbert & Sullivan having quite the problem with this in the States. The opera Pirates of Penzance was first performed in New York rather than London in an attempt to establish copyright in the U.S., but according to Wikipedia the attempt was unsuccessful.
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Maturity does not imply richer social interaction. I can make a good argument for the opposite: as one matures one stops caring as much.
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trains
A tad flummoxed by this. I know rail freight has diminished, and there is the issue with transferring load from rail to train, but surely with clogged roads that is a better idea.
I travel a lot (been to 115 countries) and have lived in several countries.

My traveller's guide to tipping, for non-USA folk:

* when not in the USA: Don't tip. There is not a country I know of where it is necessary or even expected. (It may, however, be appreciated.)

* when in the USA: Tip, and expect to get it wrong, no matter how much you try and learn in advance what is expected. Ask locals frequently how much you should be tipping.
Plagiarism isn't merely taking someone else's work. Plagiarism is a lack of acknowledgment that you've done so. It's lying by omission, not theft. You can even plagiarize yourself, by taking something you did before and presenting it as something new.
And perhaps most hilariously, there's almost no actual way to prevent people from lying about their age on the internet.
Your understanding of soft forks is incorrect. Changes to the consensus rules implemented by soft forks are in no way optional, nor are they backwards-compatible [0].

Nor are soft-forking changes meaningfully more limited in scope than hard-forking changes. Soft forks, by introducing new rules referring to data unreferenced by the old rules, can be used to make almost arbitrary changes to the protocol. Bitcoin Core's planned implementation of segregated witness uses this technique, which is how it is able effectively to loosen the constraint on block sizes. The technique can be extended to implement an arbitrary increase in the blocksize as a soft fork [1], or even to change the rule that limits the final supply of bitcoin to 21 million units [2]. Name a change you want to make to the consensus rules: chances are that with enough cleverness (and a willingness to make a big enough mess) you can find a way to implement it as a soft fork.

The most salient consequences of changing consensus rules by soft fork versus by hard fork, to my mind, are that (a) soft-forking changes ordinarily introduce substantial additional complexity compared to effecting the same change with a hard fork, and (b) developers can introduce changes via soft forks without having to secure the same degree of explicit consent from miners and users that hard forks require.

Phenomenon (a) occurs because soft-forking changes must be implemented by roundabout mechanisms that preserve formal (but not semantic) compatibility with the old rules, whereas hard forks provide the freedom to make changes in the simplest or most technically appropriate way. Point (b) perhaps helps to explain the preference of Bitcoin Core's team for soft-forking changes: they are less constrained by the desires of users and miners under a policy of implementing changes to the consensus rules by soft fork than they would be if they were to attempt the same changes with hard forks.

0. https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050...

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1296628.0

2. https://np.reddit.com/r/bitcoin_uncensored/comments/43w24e/r...

Edit: I encourage interested readers to verify what I have written by referring to the sources I cited or by doing their own research. Downvotes in discussions of Bitcoin here unfortunately tend to reflect the voters' loyalties in the blocksize brouhaha more than their honest assessment of whether a comment is informative and correct.
I welcome debate over specific topics. I demand specific examples from wild accusations. Since I've published over 3000 pages (and have never had to retract a single page), you have plenty to chose from. BTW, what have you published?
UK here. After we had a kid, they told us 'no peanuts and no honey' I was like, hm, whatever. I eat peanut butter and honey on toast some mornings so baby had a bit of that with me. Turns out being a normal person doing normal things is now good advice.

My parents used to dip my dummy in whiskey when I was teething. Not sure where the medical community stands on this one.
If you are so happy to discuss what the SIP should be in an ideal world, why don't you? This reply seems to be a deliberate non-answer.