skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading halfway through Kurzweil's new book How to Create a Mind and getting all of the detailed explanations of hierarchical hidden Markov models and why they are better than neural nets, I am surprised to see so much news about neural nets.

How do Spaun's neural nets compare with the type of HHMMs in Kurzweil's book (in terms of capability)?
That test was done by proxying through a third-party. I don't see how that's any more credible than the other results from Google he cites and dismisses at the top. The restriction of having SPDY disabled for third-party domains also taints the results. "It won't make the web faster because not everyone will use it" is a silly argument.

He also dismisses the benefits of having encryption by default on every connection, that itself is worth a 3% slowdown.
The numbers are too small to justify a separate design. This is why Concorde failed.
You do retain the ability of saying "Fighting words" or words that create a "clear and present danger" with the threat of punishment if used improperly. The critical principle of free speech is that it is free from prior restraint. You cant (or shouldnt) stop someone from saying something even if it is something they can be punished for.

Cutting off access to the internet is like wholesale confiscation of printing presses without regard to their actual use.
I have been using Chrome for long. I went to Safari because it had a better fullscreen mode. Chrome has this strange mode where not even omnibar is shown. How in the world am I supposed to go to a different site there?
It seems that it's got some sort of whispernet type service, but I agree with you, paying for data would make this way less useful.
Flagging on HN is different from downvoting, this is not Reddit.
Monetate’s 12 step program for continuous deployment
That absolutely horrible test is somehow posted to every story about SPDY. It uses a nonsensical methodology and adds nothing to the discussion.
That's sounds like a very prudent decision to me. I fully agree that this issue should be clarified on the site. I will add it to my community service todo list to email the developer to try and help resolve the issue.

The project is still in its early stages of development, but is already very useful to bitcoin-tech savvy users. The ability to install it on my Android phone and other devices while running my own transaction server is a big plus for me currently.
I agree with many of the points being made but I don't believe that we're actually in a bubble. Speaking to serial founders and investors it's actually a much tougher time to raise money right now than six months ago. There was no pop, just a decrease in the market. In fact overall venture capital investments didn't rise significantly over the supposed 2010 - 2011 bubble. It also costs less today so it's tough to compare with the millions being raised by most startups in 1999. Which leads one to believe that many are talking but few are executing on this talk.

If you actually want to build something valuable for the long term. Now is the perfect time to start a company. If you want to raise a seed round and sell fast then you're probably too late or will be shortly.
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"It is _rare_ to find a labtop that when you install la fresh modern distro on it , things don't work..."

Nunh-unh. I recently tried to repurpose an original MBA to Ubuntu 12.10 because it isn't supported by current OSX. While I was very favorably impressed by the current state of the Ubuntu out of the box experience, it just didn't work smoothly on the MBA:

* Sleep/wake wasn't smooth, often had to click the mouse or the power button to wake it;

* "right click" is an unintuitive two-finger tap that is often falsely detected as you attempt a two-finger scroll gesture -- the Mac convention of control-click isn't recognized;

* there is a persistent "serious problem" warning that pops up a couple of times every time it wakes up, related to a known bug with the graphics adapter -- it was harmless but would be dead scary to the novice I planned to give the machine to -- and it wasn't fixed after several weeks.

* After I plugged headphones into the jack, the internal speaker went silent. Ubuntu still knew whether there was a headphone in the jack or not, but the speaker never sounded again.

I finally put OSX Snow Leopard back on it and of course, everything "just worked" (including the internal speaker). The recipient will just have to live with end of life software.
The Way of the Intercepting Gantt Chart
The point was that a lot of Apple customers and iTunes is only Apple software they use(Windows). If it is so bad, it does not make a good impression. A company can't go around saying that they put best devs and people on work with this bad software around!

Granted, iTunes 11 is an improvement but it's still not very different from iTunes 10!
it's just god damn slow.
won't load for me, latest crunchbang, also tried on Mint 13, and it wouldn't work there either.....
That's a good idea! I will work on that. I'm in college and making something like this may get me arrested or an internship in Apple! ;)
And at $999. But looks like Dell doesn't like our money.
On the website:

Free collection of Photoshop layer styles:
http://webneel.com/webneel/blog/ultimate-collection-500-phot...

Photoshop tutorials:
http://webneel.com/webneel/blog/15-best-photoshop-video-tuto...

Awesome photo retouching works:
http://webneel.com/webneel/blog/28-awesome-portrait-photo-re...
Why not compare the $499 iPad to the Surface RT?
GPU programming SDK with C, C++, Java, C#, matlab, octave support
Ah, but that's not simulating emotion, it's simulating the appearance of emotion. Big difference!

If we were going that route, I'd rather an AI actually feel empathy, rather than just being able to look like they do... Because faking it is pretty much textbook psycho!

Edit: Just to clarify, when I say AI, I'm referring to strong AI, not anything that we have now (or are even close to getting).
The PHP internals community is quite a poisonous place, IMO. Its a community that destroyed itself by being hostile to everyone who wasn't one of them.
Is there a list of cloud services that do exception reporting, or monitoring somewhere?

I've seen a least a dozen over the last few months. It seems like a very crowded space. Is this a new thing?

Heroku and AWS seem to be the popular targets. How do all these services differ from one another?
It's only been four years since iTunes 8, why would they need to migrate?
You can indeed "hack" your car. In fact, ECU flashing is one of the most common upgrades for people who want more power out of their cars because it requires no physical parts.

It's generally done commercially [1][2] though there are attempts at user-configurable software [3]. Now I'm no expert on ECU flashing so these links are just examples.

[1] http://changegears.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/apr-stage-1-ecu-...
[2] http://www.velocityfactor.net/scripts/prodview.asp?idproduct...
[3] http://www.tactrix.com/index.php?option=com_content&view...
Follow up to this (its been a week so probably nobody will see this)

http://techzinglive.com/page/1028/179-tz-interview-gabriel-w...

around the 70 minute mark Gabriel mentions that DuckDuckBot is mostly about determining if pages are spam.
Cultural Marxist: someone who doesn't like what you believe and would change it if they could.
I just upvoted something done with flash on hn for the first time ever. The zelda 1 esque levels were sheer genius. I would actually dig playing an entire game with that perspective/style.
UI anti-patterns in porting iOS apps to Android
I don't think you're missing anything, it's simply a matter of personal taste. I don't enjoy Skrillex either (dubstep to me is artists like Burial) but I can see why his more muscular approach might appeal to the American crowd.
I have never found a trackpad that works as well as the trackpads on MacBooks.
I want one. But, on the same front, I want Win8 Metro apps to do everything I want...which is why I am holding out getting one.
Sure but isn't the point that he is high enough on the "totem pole" that diplomacy needs prevail over all else?

It's not their particular authority over others but their general importance to the company's image and the company's importance to their image which incentivizes everyone to use euphemisms in the situation of a departing of manager. It seems logical that the case of a Principle SDE would be similar.
java and C# still allow casting, so I think there you will still want static analysis outside of existing language features.
Loving the fact there are FFVII sound effects too.
> I couldn't find a pdf that wasn't behind a paywall.

Here you go, I uploaded it to 2 different sites:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zz8c6dnp99abdlg

http://ompldr.org/vZ2kzbw/Science-2012-Eliasmith-1202.pdf
I totally get the theme but I can't help getting nervous goosebumps from the artifacts - I feel like I have to reset the display cable or blow into the cartridge! Well done.
Indeed, and a very real scenario that is already starting to play out is the evolution of bacteria outpacing development of new antibiotics. We've quickly forgotten the impact these diseases had just a century ago, and without further breakthroughs (which of course are very possible) we could easily see, e.g. TB return as a major cause of death worldwide (i.e. even in developed countries).

It's not only our own biological evolution that deeply affects us.
Very interesting. Rereading with that insight makes your approach clearer - side exits aren't control flow, they're for the weird shit that PHP can throw at you. Aliased local variables are one of the major differences between PHP and Javascript, and that's a really good way of handling them.

So it avoid trace explosion, and I would describe this as a sort-of local (in the compiler sense of "basic block") version of a method compiler. Can you compare the approaches?
HN FTW. Thank you.
This kind of research / line of thinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

if true, appears to support his claim, assuming that if we do have quantum minds that they cannot be simulated by non-quantum computers. Roger Penrose is certainly well-respected. I don't have a strong opinion either way.
I you consider the gene as a the unit of selection then it is not necessary to have children for selection to occur.
Developer here, since we had a click to open form at the time, we loaded the CSRF via AJAX. However that does not seem to be a good idea if we need it to work asap (and without javascript). I would look at something like SSI to put in the CSRF token to a cached page.
Agreed. I find Skrillex derivative. It's like Chicane with extra noise.

Dubstep can be awesome however.
link to independent study that shows otherwise?
I've been living in China for the past 4 months and plan on staying until May. It really is two different worlds. Having traveled through the more modern cities (Shanghai and Beijing for example) and contrasting those to Hangzhou that I'm currently in, it truly is marvelous to see the progress and more importantly the WHY to all this. The Chinese culture and gives one a fresh outlook on life. I would recommend anyone and everyone to take a trip here, it is really inexpensive and very much worth it.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought when I read his post. What a waste - I know several people who would have been delighted to get this laptop.
Using Facebook is like stocking up on buggy whips in 1925
The markup on the typecover is hard to justify when looking at the competition. The keyboard on the asus transformer cost about the same except that it also has a big battery inside, extending the battery life of the tablet when used in laptop mode.

And it can be used as a laptop, in your bed, in your lap.. not like the Surface RT which doesn't rely on the type cover but a stand that is only stable when put on a desk or table.
Your Digital Legacy: States Grapple with Protecting Our Data After We Die
I have the Samsung Windows 8 Developer Preview tablet they handed out at BUILD 2011, and I can confirm that it's going to be very tricky indeed to hit buttons on the desktop.

The Samsung tablet has a screen that's either the same size or slightly larger, and a lower 1366x768 resolution, and I have a lot of trouble using the windows desktop on it with anything other than a mouse (including the digitizer pen -- yes, it's more accurate than a fingertip, but you still have to hold it steady, and holding it steady enough to hit a 4mm target is pretty tough).
Every time I see someone pirate their content, I weep a little inside. Because on the one hand I know the desire to watch/listen/etc is strong; and I can't really be angry at them for doing it. But at the same time I know that by giving large media conglomerates their attention they perpetuate the sorry state we find ourselves in.
I hope they didn't pick the name moj.io because they couldn't find a better .io name :) http://and.io
He was talking about how current models of the brain, such as the one by IBM (http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-simulates-530-billon-neurons-1...) which has over 5 billion neurons, might be larger than Spaun, but none have demonstrated any of the AI that Spaun has. In particular, it's ability to solve basic problems, similar to that of a toddler. He didn't mention a problem in particular, simply that some of the things Spaun was able to solve, they weren't entirely sure how to explain it - but they were sure that they could reproduce. Which to me echos the fact that the brain is a very complex thing that we are still very far away from understanding.
> The radiation must be horrific.

Obviously not where there's water ice. ('doh, Antidoh!) Click on the picture on this page to look at the configuration of the shadowed craters at the poles. (Yellow indicates a permanently shadowed region, also where water was found.)

http://www.space.com/18687-water-ice-mercury-messager-discov...

In 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson describes Mercury settlements slowly rolling along huge crawlers.

http://amzn.com/0316098124

But with the permanently shadowed craters, you wouldn't need them.
No one becomes rich by not trying, and quietly accepting their lot in life.

Not everyone who tries to get rich, will get rich. In fact, most won't. That is true.

That doesn't mean that trying is foolish. Quite the contrary; it is the basis of free market capitalism. When everyone tries, our collective choices in the marketplace can select for the best ideas, most organized managers, most inspiring leaders.

If no one tries, we're stuck with whoever is on top now, staying on top. That's not a recipe for improvement in a changing world.
> No clue how well OS-X runs on it since my exposure to iTunes and Quicktime has convinced me to avoid Apple software if at all possible.

You might want to reconsider. I would imagine Apple spends a lot more time optimizing software for the operating system it sells rather than another it doesn't control.
works fine for me with the same setup
I'd drop serious dollars on one of these if it had more ram and storage.
Who Will Solve Augmented Reality’s “Jetpack” Problem?
You should try Touchfire on your iPad. It lets you easily type on your iPad when its in your lap...
Looks cool, but it sometimes takes a while to show up and flickers Consider fetching Wikipedia data at page load. I set the window to fullscreen, hover over Apple, move the mouse over the yellow tooltip, and move it up a little bit until it it slightly above the tooltip's top border.

It's a lot better than the one in FastestFox, though. That one is horrible.
I think that's a function of their inability to let go of their own work. The internals of PHP need a _complete_ overhaul to make PHP competitive on a speed/memory basis with the python and rubys of the world, but that would mean throwing away a lot of work by the current contributors and probably re-architecting things like zvals and internal opcode representation. That's something I don't think they are willing to do, and I don't know if there is enough community around the zend core to really get it done even if they wanted to.
It's being downvoted because the the tone of your post does not fit the kind of conversation that Hn users want to have here
Where is the four hours of battery life figure coming from? At least on windows 7, battery life is incredibly dependent on software configuration. Is four hours the default-settings movie-watching battery life or the power-conservation near-idle battery life? Note-taking should be closer to the latter.
Harvard scientists build tiny structures with DNA Legos
You're totally right. One of my friends helped out with that GIF, and I didn't spot check it closely enough. Thanks for the tip!
There's a difference between a VAC ban and a TOS ban. VAC ban means you can no longer play (mostly Valve) games online.

A TOS ban means your account is no longer usable.
I do give money to the EFF directly as well.

If I was after low prices there'd be no reason for me to pay more than a dollar or two for a bundle. I pay what I pay because I want to support good art, good code and a good platform for that with good goals.
I'd put Kurzweil's book down and pick up some more recent research. As the biologist P.Z. Myers once wrote, “Ray Kurzweil is a genius. One of the greatest hucksters of the age.” The full New Yorker article, Ray Kurzweil's Dubious New Theory of Mind[1], makes me question how relevant he is today.

[1] - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/ray-kurz...
> Also I am not sure you understand what "mortal coil" means

I'd like to think it is a poetic reference to our DNA.

To stay on topic, I agree with the parent. I think we have reached a point where our genetic makeup is no longer the primary factor determining our destiny as a species.

One could say that intelligent design now trumps evolution, as it were.
Is the SPDY protocol done? Have they submitted it for the HTTP 2.0 standard, or will it remain separate?
I agree, like this bomberman-inspired HTML5 game: http://powderkeg.artillery.com/
We tried reaching out to some gaming blogs, but didn't get a lot of traction. We learned a lot from the Kickstarter process though (blog post?), so if we do relaunch, we'll be smarter about the media coverage.

Keep an eye on our Twitter account/mailing list if you want to see what we do with it. We might go completely open source and just provide build instructions, or we might take another crack at it.
Fallback mode in KDE Plasma Workspaces
love the hidden humor and classic gaming references all over...totally worth a replay
s/trillion/billion/ but, yeah, doesn't seem likely.
Full paper: http://www.sendspace.com/file/942zjv

I'll add my thoughts later, after I've read it.
If your vision is correctable to 20/20, you should be able to appreciate high res screens. If you have other issues (cataracts, macular degeneration, etc) that's a different story.
I wouldn't know if that's the reason, but totally agree that the internals need a total overhaul. The entire codebase was a complete mess - hacks built on hacks built on hacks. Each variable takes what - 96 bytes I think on 64bit machines? The opcodes are terrible. The interpreter dispatch is switch based, and funnily enough it doesn't matter because the rest of the engine is so slow (function dispatch in particular) that interpreter dispatch doesn't even matter.

Disclaimer: I dont think I've looked at PHP source in 3 years, it might have changed significantly but I suspect it has not. I'd love to be corrected with some detail!
This is probably just going to be buried, but I think someone needs to tell you, Mr. Bender, that you are failing to see the forest through the trees.

In this work and in other projects of yours that I see on github, I see an incredible amount of effort wasted on semantics, formal theory, notation and attempted minor refinements to syntax.

Maybe your obvious intelligence would serve us all better if you focused more on creating new programming languages or software development tools rather than refining existing systems that are quite functional.

Have you ever created a tool that has anything approaching the utility of CoffeeScript? Because I think that unfortunately in your blog post you've proven that your study of mathematics was actually wasted.

Math is just obfuscated code that doesn't compile or run.
So is your argument then that there is so much vested in facebook in dealing with and optimizing for PHP at scale that the real cost would be acquiring that knowledge a second time on a different platform since you _will_ run into scale problems no matter what language you use ?

From my experience in dealing with PHP performance warts. You can make it somewhat fast, but man the insides are so messed up every time I get into the core and try to do anything I want to rip my hair out.
Give me a break. Do you think Dell really wanted to give this only to customers who loved it? No! The point of these beta tests is to get feedback from people. If they only gave to people who say "it's so great I love it!" what's the point of giving it away at all? They could just sell it to those people. Dell gave out these laptops to hear people like OP's comments so that they might improve their product and actually sell some to their target audience: geeks like Linus who want a portable, well built linux laptop, or geeks who have Apple laptops that would be willing to switch to a comparable linux laptop for whatever reason. Dell was beta testing these to get feedback, not to provide someone else to use their product happily for free.
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Haha! I had a great interview recently where we sketched out a design for an online game on the whiteboard. Got to explore lots of interesting questions like API versioning, REST vs sessions, and basic security problems. The good natured discussion of the various options was a big part of why I decided to join the company.
This sounds like the BS that "social media" experts say. All fluff and no meaning. The website gives zero information about what they are doing while using some key buzzwords. It just reeks of an opportunist salesman trying to make some money by selling people snake oil.
What I find perhaps most fascinating about this is that it's almost certainly an advertisement (note the iTunes link at the end of the game, and the tagline at the bottom that the creator makes 'advergames'). If it is, in fact, an advergame, it's awesome to see folks like Skrillex (and/or Skrillex's marketing folks) willing to build something so cool and of legitimate artistic value to try to build up viral buzz.
This makes me sad. That's one of the nicest features of 5.4 not needing to type array() all over the place.
Apple Now Selling Unlocked GSM iPhones in the U.S.
A sub $500 laptop is likely to easily outperform this on battery life, which is fast becoming the primary differentiator for me. My two-year-old Dell Netbook I bought for $300 can still go for 4 hours, and that's under heavy usage. Usually it's more like 5 or 6.
I'm interested in one-off pieces that I can design to solve problems around the house and if it takes a month to wait for that, no big deal

This does not seem like a big market, though. Exlcuding perhaps interior decoration. The engineering properties of 3d printed items for DIY are still TBD (lots of plastic cracking complaints, glued paper doesn't seem much better in terms of field-use). Also, in practice waiting 30 days for a DIY prototype is unlikely to be acceptable (serial project workflows & all that). small batch CNC will get you access to metal. Access to ABS does not seem all that special. Is there something in mind you have (like a project?) or is this all just theoretical?
That's rather meta, isn't it?
Heh, love this game. Like a time machine to the 80s.
Windows Store cracked
Are we talking about the same thing?

http://www.crossbrowserbook.com/

and

http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook/

???

Can you list a few items that you think are unique on the original site? I'm really struggling here.