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At what resolution would you have to simulate the brain to get "human like" properties like consciousness? (quantum/subatomic? molecular? cellular? biologically inspired mathematical abstractions of neurons? simplest computationally useful mathematical abstractions of neurons - like current artificial nns?) - this is the question I find most interesting ..instead of unrealistic goals like predicting drug effects in-silico.

It would be helpful to run simulation algorithms with "tunable resolution" on supercomputers to see at what level the interesting properties appear. Though I have better hopes of seeing an answer to this question from the guys doing AI research than from a medical mega-research project or a collaboration... This is very different from the human genome project (where people alredy knew what information they needed and they put together resources to obtain it faster) that they try to imitate in the PR vids...
I have had it almost 7 months. 0 down time. If you can get FiOS I recommend pulling the trigger... unless you can get Google Fiber :0
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Excellent work, thank you for sharing.
I'm not attributing anything to malice. And I rarely assume people are stupid.

The Feds and MIT administrators are smart. And what I describe would be just them doing their jobs - and doing them with professional efficiency.
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While this is interesting, I am less than convinced that twitter users are a representative cross-section of the UK population.
Google Scholar lists about 855 papers mentioning the term "blue brain project", the Human Brain Project's predecessor:

http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=%22blue+brain+project%22&...

And even though the project has just launched, there are already about 1,980 papers mentioning the term "human brain project":

http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=%22human+brain+project%22...
1.Hong Kong never was, and never will be the trend setter. Dont know who make this BS up but he properly dont have a clue about the Region. And neither Singapore will.

2. The Point about Chinese Writing and Video are mostly true. As a Phone, and purely as a phone it is rather hard to argue about the quality iPhone offers. Indeed Single Handed operation is important if not the most important factor. However these days they aren't using it as a phone anymore. Phone has neglect into a relatively 2nd class function. The region ( I mention the region as CJK, and some other countries close by; ) uses Whatsapp, ( or other type of IM that most of US and EU users never heard of ) more to communicate then calling. While it is extremely popular to use iMessage in US and EU. This isn't the case there. Writing, ( Specific to Chinese, since Japaness and Korean has a comparatively simpler and default input method ) is harder on a iPhone with a smaller screen. Since IM is used more often then Calls this create another barrier for users compared to a larger screen, and much better selection of input method on Android devices.

The Video Part as well. Compared to US and EU users. CJK regions are very used to Subtitle. ( Yes even the video is in their own languages. And of coz all the Hollowood movies will have subtitle as well ) Now imagining watching Video on iPhone compared to a Wider devices with Subtitle. The Subitle would have taken significant amount of space.

3. It is hard to explain the Korea Pop to everyone. KARA, Super Junior or Girls Generation. If you dont know them dont worry. You properly know Psy from Gangnam Style. The pop culture, mixing in the 10 times more advertising budget from Samsung compared to Apple. It is not hard to understand why these are more popular region where K-POPs are hot.

But knowing Apple. Chances of Releasing a bigger iPhone is slim or next to zero. I was hoping they release a 3.8" and 4.34" with iPhone 5. But Since they took the 4" size that is likely to be the case in the foreseeable future. And even if they did release a bigger screen size version. It properly wont be called an iPhone then.
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It is a little bit more complicated than that. Transferring out of EDTX has been easier since the Fed Cir granted mandamus in In re TS Tech and its progeny (which was based on a 5th Cir decision, In re Volkswagen). The case law is still developing, but patent trolls are having a slightly more difficult time staying in EDTX. http://patently-useless.tumblr.com/
That's not what I said. I said that Swartz's case is unusual because he's white and rich and well-connected in the community, and he wasn't accused of a financial crime.
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Using the same password everywhere means a hacker only has to break the weakest of any service you use to get at all your accounts. Using oauth or any single-sign-on system allows you to put all your eggs in one (potentially) more trusted basket.

Your scenario certainly is a legitimate concern, but it depends on how the other services implement account linking. If you create a non-oauth account and then sign in with Facebook, some services will allow you to link the accounts based on your email address matching, others won't.

Of course in the case of Google, if someone hacked your account, they would probably also have access to your Gmail and could reset passwords from any other service. So the risk isn't significantly different.

As a general rule, I only use oauth SSO on sites that I trust less or care about less than my oath provider.
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What a lad.
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This is an amazing post and worthy of a publishing to 2600 Hacker Quarterly.
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It's not clear to me that everything appearing in the terminal is a shell response. It may be a more sophisticated interface than, say, UXTerm, with some mid-level processing for command completion perhaps. At least we can hope....
I see possibility that I (as geek) will choose it over cheap slow Android phones for my mother or younger sisters.
I remember when the parent selector was taboo - this should be handled by javascript, yet here we are, because javascript serves a different purpose. It can be ok as well but not embedded in its current form. I'm not saying that IE got it right with its proprietary inline javascript properties or htc files, but we have css variables. How about we take it to the next step?
Game mode reduces the delay but does not entirely remove it.
Yes, the 'Don't be Evil' motto sets Google up for being a target for every little thing that someone thinks is wrong, whether or not it really is or not.

What I think is meant by that motto is that they want to be a positive force, to use their technology and smarts for good. But of course, there's an ends justify the means argument and not everyone will have the same definition of good.

The censorship stuff is ... sticky. The data collection stuff is largely fine though a full opt-out is difficult. The problem there is that Google knows that personalized experiences are better for users whether they know it or not.
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After researching this field (biomedical R&D) a bit, I found that the mindset and workflow is mostly pre-computers. The relevant decision makers in the labs usually don't see a need to change something because "it works" and "it's done always this way".
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I want to add that I've been using heapq for scheduling in every piece of software as well and it's never been a problem even in heavily loaded projects.
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Can't drop names as they might not like it but in my experience knowing and talking with several major tech publishers, yes - publishers are more desperate for authors than ever before, thanks to both the loss of stigma with regards to self publishing and the relative loss of cachet of going with a mainstream publishing.

If you clearly know your stuff and can convince a publisher you'll deliver a book in an area that isn't entirely moribund, your odds of even landing a major publisher are not insignificant.

One thing that even happens from time to time nowadays is publishers will approach successful self published authors to offer them distribution, editing, and similar services, just to get their books under their umbrella. (Pragmatic Bookshelf did this a few times last year with people I know.)

Note: I'm only talking non-fiction tech books here.
And pine as default e-mail client?
The point of this study and others like it is to research questions just like that.
I am not talking about this. What I means it's when you have to deal with more complex interaction, between different systems, old technologies, ...

What you say it's true, JS it's going to evolve in the next years until to convert in something totally different, you will see. Some people call that reinvent the wheel.

I am not against JS at all, I just dont think every single problem can be resolve with that, sorry.
I covered Google+ in the piece. It's definitely a bit of an outlier. I see Google+ as two things:

1) A way for Google to get primary and active signals about user preferences to better personalize search results. (aka - make search better).

2) A way to break the monopoly Facebook had on social attention. The strategy only works if users are in places where Google has a presence. That's almost everywhere - except Facebook. So ensuring that attention doesn't pool and persist in a dead zone was important - and I think they've succeeded.
> The problem there is that Google knows that personalized experiences are better for users whether they know it or not.

That's really problematic, that Google would even think that it knows better for its users whether they know it or not.

Users know best what is best for them, period. No need to second guess.
BTW - As you may notice from our landing page our video is outdated (UI-wise) - so we'd be open to having a HN'er make us a new one. Any takers?
Jerome Guillen, the company’s director of Model S programs
previously directed the business business innovation
department at Daimler AG. He comments, “We are doing things
in a couple weeks that, at my previous employer, would have
taken two years.”

Knowing quite some people working within the German automobile industry (mainly BMW) attesting how slow and corporate the decision finding process is, I think this is what will cause the traditional car manufacturers quite some headache in the future.
It seems they gave another billion to graphene research:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/28/us-eu-science-idUS...
If I remember correctly, I saw it too. But it was kind of camouflaged to look like the effect of shooting the gun.
I'm in Thailand for the next couple of weeks and roaming data costs about $8/megabyte. It's too hard to predict and control data usage when you're used to free data. If I forget one background app or get one setting wrong I could end up with hundreds of dollars in charges.

So no - it's not easier to pay roaming charges. It means I can't trust any app unless I fully understand how it uses data. Swapping out the SIM is the only reasonable option.

Of course - the real solution would be sane roaming data charges.

To get normal usage out of my smartphone
> “I clicked on the video b/c I thought the warning was a joke,” wrote in the comments. I’m furious I had to see something like this.”

Really? And somehow it is Vine's fault you saw porn while clicking on a video named "Dildoplay" with the tags "nsfw" "porn" "nsfwvine". I can't feel sorry for you. Yes it is too bad that this showed up in the first place but lets not start with the pitchforks. This was a simple mistake that was completely avoidable by users who have 2 eyes and can read.

Like I said it shouldn't have been there in the first place but lots not act like you accidentally clicked on a video that has all the correct warning of it's content. "Officer, I didn't know that when I pulled the pin out of that grenade that it would explode, I thought it was a joke".
According to the work plan (not public as far as I know), all the platforms will be open to researchers not just from Europe but from anywhere in the world.
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Sounds nice, but I am sure there would be some employees floating around with families and mortgages and bills that work hard and honestly, that you might feel a bit beholden to, no?
In all fairness, I did use a lot of big words; perhaps monochromatic doesn't understand the meaning of the word "plagiarize". There's also that moniker; I wonder if it is arbitrary or chosen on purpose . . .
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I recall seeing the flash as well. I go the opposite route explaining it though: my TV was fine, it was just that my eyes were that good!
> I couldn't help but wonder if there was something to the signature of Swartz's actions that raised the Federal Government's level of interest.

Of course it was the "signature" of Swartz's actions that raised the federal government's interest.

1) The "target" was MIT;

2) There was physical intrusion into MIT's network;

3) Millions of documents were downloaded;

4) Swartz previously did something similar to PACER.

You can argue about whether walking into an unlocked closest is "physical intrusion" or whether the "actual target" was JSTOR but that's all just a matter of characterization. The Feds are not "shades of gray" people--everything is like the show "24" to them. They will assume the worst.

I'd bet money that the "bullet points" similar to the above landed on someone's desk, and even though I think the prosecution definitely was overzealous, I'm not at all surprised at the way they reacted. I'm really shocked that anyone is surprised.
>Reproducible code: extremely important. Correct code: extremely important. Readable code: very important. Efficient code: often not as important.

You want Haskell. :)
Cutting a normal SIM to size isn't that hard - or buy a SIM punch in advance to do it an a fail-safe way.
https://appstorerankings.net*

When you write about your site, you might want to refer to the URL as "https://AppStoreRankings.net. It's obvious to me now, but when I first read your URL, I took a few seconds to parse out the correct word boundaries - I read "apps to re-ran kings" or "apps to re-rank ings" before it became clear. Or maybe it's just me!
More like: "well, this'll show the world that we are color-blind when it comes to heavy-handed prosecution."

I think that was the poster's point. Not necesarily agreeing, just clarifying what I read as the intention.
Great article David, I like your use of inline svg, did you do any tests to see if you got any reduction in filesize? or solely want to reduce the http requests?
How long ago was your experience? This may explain why (over the past 5-10 years or so) I've encountered more and more machines that require to press OK after entering the four digits (before, some machines would submit after you type the fourth, without confirmation).
Users know best what is best for them, period. No need to second guess.

I disagree, there are plenty of examples were groups of users will make poor decisions about how they would like things to work. Gaming and security are two things that come to mind immediately.
Don't worry yourself too much with my study if it bothers you that I wasted cycles. This study was merely a an undergraduate university dissertation that attempted to take a look at one area of sentiment analysis. I am not an expert in NLP, nor do I pretend to be. I'm sure there are better and more appropriate ways to do this.
I agree that the word "disease" is certainly overused these days, there are still some things that should rightfully use the word.

Besides, whether you call them "diseases" or "disorders" or another term, there are many ways that our neurology can fail us. The "Classification" section of this Wikipedia article lists several major ones, but there's countless more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurological_disorder#Classific...
This leads to such elegant conflicts as: what if abortion is going to save the life of the mother?

Let's make this clear: if you want to call yourself 'pro life' then you have to be pro life across the board. What I notice is that those that call themselves 'pro life' will usually use the abortion issue as a way of forcing their way of life on others, regardless of what happens to unborn children. They're just a convenience to use in order to restrict the lives of others, they're not a goal per se.

'pro lifers' appear to have no compunction when it comes to bombing abortion clinics and assassinating doctors.

If you're pro-life then I assume that you have transferred 90% of your savings to help out kids in countries where food is scarce?

That would be a lot more effective then getting on the anti-abortion bandwagon.
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I upvoted you, because I think you raise a valid question.

IMO, to build a successful smartphone that is appealing to the average user, that smartphone will require a base of desirable applications.

I see basically two routes to attempt to achieve this:

1) Build a phone that is so desirable to average users that app developers will find it profitable to develop for it (eg, iPhone).

2) Build a phone that is so desirable to developers that many will pick it up regardless of the profitability of the market. Then hope that these apps are of sufficient quality/desirability that they become part of making the phone desirable to average users.

#1 is incredibly difficult to achieve right now due to the maturity of the market, with two major players. Even Microsoft is having a tremendous amount of difficulty with this route. For Canonical, I believe it would be effectively impossible.

With #2, getting to step 1 (modest developer adoption) is easy. Where it often breaks down, is in getting the developers to build apps that aren't just appealing to them (eg, more terminal apps, more ssh apps, more special purpose tools that appeal to geeks, etc). But modest developer adoption is better than no adoption at all, perhaps?

I honestly don't see Canonical having much success with this at all, but I don't think avoiding apps that are appealing to coders will help in their case.
There is little difference between "structural typing" in go, where function signatures reference named and separately defined interfaces, and "static duck-typing" in F#, where function signatures using constraints effectively define an anonymous interface right there in the signature.

In either case, type errors are detected at compile time. Some people prefer to use "structural typing" for both (maybe using "implicit structural typing" to describe what can be done in F#), and to use "duck typing" to describe languages without type-checking, where type errors only happen at run time.

But it's all just terminology.
lol, kinda like Violet Blue (the journalist) unfortunatly , s long as people will search for the porn star nickname , the genuine person will come second in google results.
That is not the right context here.

You can pull in examples from all over the place but the context is if a user demands privacy over customized search results then google has no business second guessing that users decision.
>Having a Terminal application will make the Phone more appealing to coders and old school Linux users. I fail to see how this will make the Ubuntu Phone more appealing to the average user.

Step 1: Get coders to use your device.

Step 2: Coders want their own apps to run on their own device, so they port them.

Result: Now your device has lots of apps and you've removed one of the most significant barriers to normal people using it.
Not necessarily. Yes, the comparative advantage of roles playing to their strengths can net you a lot of short-term gains, but you run a tremendous risk of getting stuck if one person quits or get hit by a bus, for example. Knowledge sharing via cross pollination of roles is a good risk mitigation strategy.
Won't many of the projects in the Ubuntu repositories be unavailable because of architectural reasons, i.e. ARM phones versus x86/64 desktops?
I agree. To simulate the effects of a drug, you would need to simulate not only the neurons, but the circulatory system, the blood-brain barrier, perhaps even the immune system, and all of their respective interactions. Give the state of our knowledge, a massive publicly-funded project seems premature, like setting out to do the moon landing in 1870.
This sounds somewhat too optimistic? Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd think the majority of people using their laptop for the tasks you talk about would prefer a real keyboard and some usable screen estate over a small screen and slow typing anyday. Might get the job done, but fun is otherwise and it's definitely not the right tool for the desktop job.
Yep - we know. We're working on it.
> I can't help feeling this is backwards.

What they are trying to say is that we can put a lot more data into our simulations and run them at different abstraction levels, which will help us improve our understanding of the brain. This improved understanding can be used for innovation in computing, e.g. through neuromorphic processors, see http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/cms/groups/vision/projects/... which is one of the project partners.
That's a good question - there are still objects, or groupings of data, and even tags that identify which behaviors or functions apply to them in various contexts. What strikes me as different is the entire hierarchy is a nested data structure that is easy to reason about and modify at runtime without the use of a fancy debugger. The use of 'encapsulation' that hid the underlying data in each grouping and also bind functions / methods directly to each object in this case would only make it harder to work with. Why? Because to view, construct, augment at runtime or serialize the hierarchy would require constructors, serializers, deserializers etc, instead of having something that is just a data structure, ready to be viewed, put on a queue, sent over the wire etc.

The idea of 'behaviors' also provides flexibility in what functions can act on any grouping of data - the key value pairs needn't be associated with a 'class' which dictates what the associated functions will be adds more flexibility. As the author hints, there are other ways of achieving this agility - dynamic mixins.

Finally, while having a well defined protocol (or API or endpoint or whatever you want to call it) is valuable and helps organize code, I think taking this idea to the extreme and saying that every single object or piece of data you pass around as arguments or return values from these end points needs to be expressed as an abstract protocol itself is where you really start to lose. An expected format of the data structures of the arguments and return values can and should be part of an API, but needing to wrap them in objects doesn't really help - and that's where this trend I speak of begins to seem like progress to me.
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When working in Xcode there are many different views you can attach into your iPhone App. Most of them work within Objective-C libraries, but the UIWebView class is particularly different. This gives you have the ability to render a full HTML webpage inside your iOS app. This can provide a solution for developers who are not yet familiar with programming in Objective-C.
In this tutorial I’d like to go over the basics of setting up a web view for an iPhone application. We can include a small demo webpage inside the webview to see how rendering works. Additionally I’ll provide my project source code so you can download a copy and work with this application on your own.