skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along the same lines: What does everyone think of the new LinkedIn Today news feature?
Self-help is often legal.
I'd definitely pay for this, but the pricing feels off. I have about 70 domains right now, and I just can't see spending $12/month for an automatic renewal reminder.
- you can edit your bash prompt and clean it completely if that satisfies you,
- I have no problems to remember exactly where I am the most of the time and if I forget I can type pwd
- graphical autocompletion is useless in keyboard controlled interfaces as it hides part of the screen and takes the same number of keystrokes to reach a result
- we call it man and if you are late for your date, -h
- you are in front of a tool, not a teacher, rtfm
- no comment
Just my opinion, but this feels really scummy. I'd wonder why your site caused my CPU to spike, and probably consciously avoid it from then on.
monitor and laptop both elevated, with magic mouse and keyboard below
it also works in retrospect: all apps that have gotten permission in the past to access your direct messages have to ask again for that. Which basically means all twitter clients have to be updates in the next weeks and ask all users for permission again. Nice job twitter
Area 51 'Uncensored': Was It UFOs Or The USSR?
Personally, I think that's naive. There are a lot of people that will overreact in the extreme. Especially since they've been caught with their pants down (even though they haven't been specifically outed by name).
Let's be clear on at least one thing: they're building a simulation of the physical brain hardware. At least according to the article, there is no goal to simulate human consciousness.
What you're describing sounds like the Gold parser: http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/
Yes, same results whether I try logging in via email or via linked in.
A site devoted to documenting every Facebook investor
Man builds computer from scratch, including the CPU
This. I deal with this kind of sentiment daily after switching from lamp to work here at microsoft.
Since iOS4 if you double-tap the home button the left most icon in the application switcher is the last application you were in. Probably not as seamless but it prevents accidental back button presses which is something that has caused me problems on Android. If I buy another Android phone I will definitely try to find one with hardware buttons that are not located directly below the display.
Maybe “account” is the wrong word. I think that the domain’s owner should be able to create an entirely new “instance” of Google Apps (with separate users and separate data), whereupon the old instance would be detached from domain.

An admin of the old apps instance should be able to get into it to access data, delete it, or attach it to a different domain name.
Google's problem isn't in their authentication, it's in the whole idea that having a domain name now means I should have access to the previous google apps account. They're separate entities.

This is probably related to why google isn't able to move an apps account to a new domain (our real domain is just an alias to our google apps account on previous company name's domain).
Scsh competes with bash where bash is strong
You could do that to someone already with the aid of drugs. Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress is an absurdist novel which explores these ideas.
CloudFlare looks cool but the sit does a lousy job explaining the service. I even watched the video. I'm actually more confused than when I started...I thought it as a cloud layer like Heroku, but you keep your current host, and don't install anything. How does this work, is it DNS? Why is it so cheap?
At least people wouldn't voluntarily sign up to live in hell forever. Virtual heaven might be a Great Filter -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter .
If copying everything wholesale is possible before brain science is able to fully understand every detail brain scientists want to write a thesis about, then using systematically modified copies for "knock-out" studies will seem like a very tempting methodology. Also gives researchers numerous virtual insane patients to try virtual drugs on.

Or perhaps something with some clear virtuous intent (and nothing particularly tortuous)... what about running Monte Carlo simulations using many identical instances of the same copy to find which pedagogical method(s) and steps best educates someone about a difficult to grasp subject? Even when the creation of the virtual minds is only of good intent, one can wonder about the ethics of it. What if anything is owed the legion of virtual students after the classes are done? I suppose some of them could be given some other useful employment to earn their watts.
Danger Will Robinson! Danger! As anybody who has recently decided to browse Sarah Palin's email can tell you, accessing a computer system to which one does not have legitimate access to with genuine intentions is still a federal crime and "It was easy to do!" is not a defense.

If you ever find yourself logged into someone else's account log out and, if you absolutely have to reproduce it, reproduce the attack against an account you have legitimate control over. (e.g. Register dummydomain.co, set up a Google apps account tied to it, transfer the domain, regain access to the Google apps account using nothing but the DNS settings to the transfered dummy domain. If this succeeds, you know you can compromise any account linked to a Google Apps email account on an expired domain -- you don't need to commit a federal crime to demonstrate this.)
Spork, RSpec, Sham and Caching Classes
Nit:

> One example of a future looking architecture decision is how different applications can flow back and forth between each other.

I think you mean "...how data from different applications..." or something.
This sounds great until an entire group leaves your company to join another. I guess if you reap the benefits of hiring an entire team, you must willing to endure the loss of that entire team as well.
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"Even disabled in-app purchases still leaves you open to litigation."

I can't believe no one has commented on this. How is this possibly true? Not using a patent can open one up to a litigation on a patent?? This statement makes no sense.
In what way do you think human consciousness is detached from the physical operation of the brain?
I am interested as well. jean dot barmash at gmail. Also, let me know where you are located geographically.
Maybe we are all already living in a digital brain simulation.
It would be neat, and perhaps useful as a diagnostic tool (for troubleshooting the real thing) but I'm not sure how emulating the brain has any practical application (they are fairly common and inexpensive to acquire through natural means).

I'm not saying I wouldn't love to burn billions of OPM building one, but then again practicality is rarely a requirement for me personally.
Agreed, it gets really interesting when we bring it around to ourselves. It's difficult to import digital property without expressed permission, but I think the space will evolve a lot over the next few years and create a lot of opportunities for story-telling and narrative.
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2. Simple and plain and costing little: "a frugal meal".
Why Don’t Mobile Apps do a Better Job with Push Notifications?
If you were running at 100x clock speed, how much interest would you have in working for someone running in real-time? You'd receive project requirements, comment on them and ask clarifying questions, and send them off... and receive a response in four months, subjective time.

Then again, I suppose that was the state of the world until sometime in the 1800's, and people managed to get things done.
I get the data structure, but is there some metadata? How does it know the contents are, say, an URL, or a vcard?
There's a light at the end of the tunnel. It's likely whatever energy source for the simulation would be disrupted by some catastrophic event. Even without sentient intervention, over tens of millions of years you've got starvation of some resource -- even if it's something like fusion or the raw resources needed to build and maintain "renewable" energy. Over hundreds of millions or billions of years you've got asteroid impacts and cosmic events, eventually ending with the heat death of the universe. Not so bad after all, just tough it out soldier.
If we simulate a physical brain, and then it talks to us and says, "Consciousness? Yes, I understand what you mean, I feel that too," is there a distinction to be clear about?
Haskel i'd dare say. Nevertheless I'd go with Erlang for the pragmatics/usefulness of it. Maybe route via one of:

https://github.com/tarcieri/reia

https://github.com/josevalim/elixir
I have the same problem ... I don't know if it works like a reseller hosting account or more like a shared hosting account ... have no idea how much control I have over the website or if I have ssh access ... and I really don't want to sign up to find out ...
I don't see how the deepest knowledge of Microsoft Windows would help them fight website memory usage issues. Those things are entirely unrelated.

However the reported bug is non-trivial, therefore it would be very strange if it would manifest itself identically on different non-related browsers. They might all leak, but I doubt they all leak 1M for 22kb file.
What if human consciousness is an emergent property of physical brain hardware?

edit, s/emergency/emergent
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I believe the idea is that you profited from using the patented technology in the past, so you still owe Lodsys a cut of past sales.
Making the most of Scala's (extremely limited) type inference
"Good morning, Virtual Patient 2872. Sure, we can call you d0m if you'd like. Today, we'll be testing out a new suite of anti-schizophrenic medications. Please describe how you are feeling, in detail, so we may shut you down and try another variation."
Joel Spolsky said:

>> We have discovered the primary axiom of online communities: small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves, and feels.

Q. Could you make a feature where I check a box that says "email me if somebody replies to my post?"

A. This one feature, so easy to implement and thus so tempting to programmers, is the best way to kill dead any young forum. Implement this feature and you may never get to critical mass. Philip Greenspun's LUSENET has this feature and you can watch it sapping the life out of young discussion groups. <<

The full article available at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswi... .
Interesting, since Facebook is employs face recognition to to encourage users to 'tag' their friends in photos.
Anybody remember when Apple in its beginning years hiring teams?

The story goes that there were internal battles..
Tonika: social routing with organic security
There is an option in the Google Apps cpanel: "Delete Google Apps for mintcake.com". Underneath which it reads: "You can close your Google Apps account and delete all user accounts and data associated with it." It's in Domain settings > Account information.
Test your IPv6.
Get the concrete stuff right:

-Links should be underlined, and a different color. No exceptions.

-Get button padding right. (make the entire button clickable, not just the text).

-Pick the right verbs for buttons. ("Submit" "Delete" "Copy" etc... not "OK")

-Web-form Usability: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/shopping_cart

-Do simple, task-based usability testing on real users.

-Etc.
Indeed. There is a huge distance to go before we can simulate things like actual thinking brains. The blue brain proejct and the proposed project use compartmental models, that essentially break down neurons to equivalent electrical circuits. These are plausible models of neurons, but there are many pieces of the biological puzzle that are elusive or highly hypothetical in these, like plasticity, brain rhythms etc.

It's not the first time someone attempts to replicate a "whole brain"; somebody used Izhikevich simplified models to simulate a cat brain (Markram had a very public spat with them) a few years ago. Those results were not very revealing - they did notice some brain waves but nothing like an indifferent catish thought.

That said, this project needs to go forward. It's the LHC of computational neuroscience. It can be completed much faster, though, all we need is computers, lots of them.
Just by the structure of the contents. Clients are supposed to parse the string contents, realize it's a URL, and open the browser for example.
It wouldn't play that way in court of public opinion. It's not too hard to recognize Lodsys as a leech on productive companies like Apple.
"I've come up with some nasty tricks you can play with brain states that I don't even want to record to electrons, though the odds of nobody else ever thinking of them are zero."

Even before we get to minds on chips, there are nasty mind tricks coming ever closer to our reach. Imagine how much more successful an "investigator" at Guantanamo Bay could be during "interviews" if they (unbeknownst to the person being interviewed) had a "pleasure center" or "warm friendly feelings" remote control in their pocket. That just requires advanced brain prosthetics and some surreptitious surgery. An advanced form of putting a euphoric drug in someone's iv when they see you, so they come to like you a lot over time.
Even when I search for LibraOffice the first link is LibreOffice.org...how did you make it to HN?
I was about to mention Altered Carbon, glad I'm not the only one who has read it. He did an amazing job of exploring many of the far-reaching impacts of being able to transplant consciousnesses.

To your examples of crime and law enforcement I'd like to add religion and drug use as well.

(minor spoiler alert)

All that's left of Christianity is basically a small fanatic cult, and drug use is far more casual and widespread.

If your body is almost disposable and death isn't necessarily inevitable, then I guess it makes sense things like this follow.
Hey, that's really great to hear you would pay. It's great idea validation. Would love you to answer a few quick questions:

- Could you suggest a monthly price you would be happy to pay?

- Would you be willing to pay a yearly (saving over the monthly cost) fee? If so what would you be happy paying?

Thanks for your time.
This is not about making a machine that thinks, rather making a useful large scale model of neurons so we can test how they respond on a very large network scale. Robots will not rise out of it. Think of it like an expensive telescope; do we need an ethical framework for that?
I'm doing Winphone dev right now, so hopefully I can share some insight into it. It's not necessarily bad, it's just restrictive. The APIs right now for silverlight applications on the winphone (the primary development framework, the other being XNA) are pretty sparse. If you want to do something outside of the scope of what silverlight provides, then you're going to be flustered. That said, the WYSWYG (expression blend) editor for animations and basic app construction is the best out there in my experience. On android and iphone I typically just wrote front end by hand. While the drag and drop functionality in xcode was very nice, I felt restricted by it. Eclipse's WYSWYG editor feels like an afterthought rather than a primary feature.

Now keep in mind, I'm a vim guy. I'm by no means a fan of WYSWYG editors, but winphone's one is actually quite helpful. It makes sense though - silverlight was Microsoft's solution to flash, so they built a program that followed the same nonlinear editing model that Flash does. It wasn't a framework that they built for a phone, it was a phone that used an existing framework - and that's the reason for all of it's pros and cons.
Yes, I think my current thinking is: this should be considered.
But I'm also cynical that lawmakers could get it right, or that the laws would be followed.
Strong AI would presumably have military applications too, or could allow rogue nations to outcompete economically if they had 'friendly' strong AI.

As, as long as most of the population / electable people are religious, probably the idea cannot be debated (as many religious would say consciousness cannot be simulated).
> I want control over my brain state.

But who is "I"?

If there is a meat you, and a digital copy of you, does MeatJerf get to control DigiJerf's distribution?

How about one MeatJerf and two copies, DigiJerf1, and DigiJerf2?

How about when MeatJerf dies, leaving behind two digital-orphan-clones?
It's a lot easier to go to the SEC offices (or the offices of our elected reps who appointed them) with pitchforks than it is to get to the folks running mybitcoin.
Word. Yeah, I wasn't doubting the power of LinkedIn profiles to be public, just how gatekeeper-y they tended to be ("in between you and an opportunity, stands LinkedIn") :D

I have numerous thoughts about LinkedIn. I am kinda disappointed by it.

(I am a social software nerd, so no offense if anybody tunes out for this...)

I love the Internet. And LinkedIn is like 90% not taking advantage of the Internet. It's mostly a digital version of old school processes.

I know more people offered jobs via Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, StackOverflow, HN than LinkedIn.

I guess this all goes back to "jobs offers/business deals happen because of relationships..." LinkedIn is basically bad at cultivating relationships/communities. It started out requiring symmetric (like Facebook) relationships, which i think has many bad side-effects. Also, despite doing it years before other good QA sites, their searchable, linkable questions/advice content is weak.

Relationships aside, for presenting work/history, things like about.me/Flavors.me, despite not being made to be resumes, are also promising. (here is stuff i MADE, here is stuff i've presented, here is stuff i've coded, here is a gallery of my work, etc).

Lately LinkedIn has been making OKCupid-esque cool use of all the data they have. I love the reports they're making. But i don't feel this is really being integrated into the user's experience of what it means to be a LI member. (It's more like these reports are a by-product.)

I hold out hope. But for how long they've been around, and how many users they have, and how basic the part of life they address is... LI really makes very little out of a giant opportunity + early advantage.

--

Good luck on your current job hunt. I'm sure you'll get snatched up in no time. Ignore my LI rant. If it's working well for you, werq it. :-)
My mother called me, waking me up, to let me know that there were a lot of tweets about me. I would have never known.

Figures I get on HN again while I'm asleep and when my analytics code isn't there.
This could be a great alternative to Odesk/Elance/etc. I've done a decent amount of outsourcing ($X00,000) and some projects are much more suited to a team that knows each other than a group of individuals.

And past just doing group projects, this could turn into a linkedin for developers, where you could inquire about dev X from people who have worked with him.
...or Amazon, with their product images that have hotspots to hover over.

Wait a minute... Isn't this all just a fancy application of image maps? All of geocities is prior art!
Ya it's currently hard to find. http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/

I need help from people like you actually. What I've done.

1. defined the protocol

2. implmented it in a C++ daemon that

a) talks to other daemons

b) serves the content managers (frontend UIs)

3. written a (crappy) example content manager.

What needs to happen next is step 3 needs to be repeated by other people who know what they are doing. They don't need to understand the details of the protocol, they just need to understand the basic model, which is just message broadcast, distributed agreement, etc.

Email me for more details, will get back to you later tonight.
Please stop with the URL shorteners, this is not Twitter.

Parent linked to http://www.emersonkent.com/images/maps/native_american_map.j...

We like to know what we're clicking, particularly on actively monitored networks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
That technique doesn't even require drugs, and has been used for millennia. In fact, drugs can tip potential "interviewees" off that something is not right.
Scarily enough, a few years ago, people were out pushing a bill (which got dubbed the "right to virus") that would have made this sort of thing legal. And to our PCs, too.

Anyhow, I definitely won't be getting a 3DS.
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I think it is just: store bytes and let the reader decide how to deal with them. Starts with "http", it's a URL. Starts with "BEGIN:VCARD", it's a vcard. Primitive but it works well enough I guess.
No. According to the article, it's being able to tag discrete regions of the photo. What you describe is a tag applicable to the entire thing, not separate notes attached to, say, each face in the picture.
another sad day in human history
They are related systems. DMS is much more mature.
Not my area of expertise either, but I don't believe so. The dark matter (and energy) comes from very very large aggregate gravitational forces that are observed from galactic movement as a whole, but I think you already are aware of that, so I'm not saying anything new there, but I would certainly imagine that there would have to be a whole hell of a lot of extra-solar planets in order to account for what they're seeing, and it makes more sense (and they have presumably produced the stuff for a brief period in the lab) that there is an antithesis to matter (or energy) that is out there causing this behavior.
I've taught Ruby to six or seven people now. We're talking average joe people (well, for the most part. my girlfriend is a nerd). All of them told me point blank "The Pickaxe book made me fall asleep".

The storyline and madness keep the reader's attention in a sea of absolutely alien ideas. If you can't see the value in that...
This. I think the advantage is in ease of transport vs. wood and related wooden building materials. Furthermore, not every disaster site is going to have in situ wood on hand for building, let alone in a form suitable for any sort of ad hoc construction needs.
Awesome technology. How do they even get the nerves to interface with the bionic arm?
I get where you're coming from. Here's an interesting thought: consider this as an alternative to advertising.

Which would you rather: a website use your mind by taking your attention to an advertisement, or a website using your CPU?
They hire the best in the valley to come up with this kind of crap so they can patent it? bring on the downvotes, but f*, what a waste of resources.