skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Henry Markram has always been adamant that there are enough details already discovered and put into the neurophysiology journals. Of course, now you have to fish that data out and into some usable format.

I would tend to disagree. For example as recently as ten years ago everybody knew that most of the computation was implicit in the neural connectivity of the synapses. We now know that there is significant computation within individual neurons - in the dendrites of all things (previously thought to be pretty much passive carriers of output from other cells - just wires basically).

(See http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.neuro.2... for example).

Go look at the neurophysiology journals - people don't seem having problems finding new things to talk about ;-)
Basically, the headline is bad.

As a florid recap of the SOPA and ACTA disputes and the extremely high profile public actions taken to defeat them, this article is a success.

As an insightful or perceptive explanation of how or why "geeks" have become "the new guardians of our civil liberties", this article is a vainglorious failure.

The conflation of "civil liberties" with "developments in the legal and technical concerns of modern copyright disputes" is insulting. Understanding and improving the scope and sweep of liberty and law has filled lives and libraries since the Enlightenment. This is Gawker filler for a slow Thursday.
Ha, my greatest takeaway from reading Marcus Aurelius was "All is vanity" - a good one for the entrepreneurial crowd...
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Not only dynamic languages, but also statically-typed languages that have type inference, such as Scala and the coming Java 8.
I do really despise how LinkedIn asks me to install the app every single time. It would be easy for them to store a preference that I don't want the app advertisement every time I go to their site.
Mmm... I guess I'm a cynic, but people are, surprisingly, not as stupid as you think. If a company has a phone app, there's a reason.

It might be so they can harvest your contacts.

It might be so they can have a 'premium' version because they think it'll convert better than a web pay wall.

It might be so they have add invasive (read: profitable) ads directly to your device, which (arguably) convert better than web banners which people have 1) banner blindness to and 2) are more difficult to block.

It might be because they are stupid and they're playing "me too" because other people have apps, and hey, there must be a reason for that right?

...but I'm pretty sure the people in category (4) aren't the majority. Most of the people making these apps are doing it for their own nefarious reasons. It's sure as hell not because they're chasing a 'good user experience'.

Dont download and install this kind of app, ever

Even doing that once is probably a +ve data point in the 'lets keep making out ##$@ty native app' business case.
If it's a native app rather than a web app, I'm curious how they would do such a thing. There's no way to get 10,000 evaluation codes.
Obviously it will cost Google (or whoever else) money to provide such an API, and without any revenue from it, what would be justification for providing such a service ?

If Google's API is too expensive for you maybe you should consider the Bing API (which is around $2/1000 queries). Alternatively if you want to roll your own search you can access the Common Crawl on AWS and pay for the processing cost directly.
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It's dying in some contexts, and perfectly alive in others. Netflix is stuck dealing with big, slow lumbering companies who'll be saying "We'll license, if you have DRM". Protecting content isn't particularly unethical, it's just annoying.
Never mind. The singleton pattern, I can see why it should be used judiciously - to my mind none of the arguments I've read are completely compelling.

However, the template method pattern I do understand now. Far better to define an interface, then inject an instance object that implements the interface and work on that.
I get it, its interesting to understand our intelligence. But model a human brain? Why? Its pretty cheap to make them (and fun). They don't work all that well in the end - they're all bound up with food and sex and fear.

Because we still don't understand the human brain in many, many, many ways. Building a model of it and comparing that model to reality is going to help us better understand the human brain. That, in turn, will likely help us understand things like dementia, mental illness, affects of drugs, etc.

That's one reason.

There are others ;-)
Google docs has had a labs project for latex for a while:
http://docs.latexlab.org/
I'd say the 70 yo doctor is less likely to prescribe new 'fad meds' that cost more and perform worse than the classical drugs

Also, experience
While I agree with you in general, to some extent poverty/luxury really is relative. If getting a decent job (or starting your own business) means learning how to operate a spreadsheet, then suddenly you're going to need a computer. People didn't have personal computers 50 years ago, but does that make them a luxury now? Likewise, if not having central heating and an indoor toilet makes you a social outcast (who would want to come and visit you in a cold, dark house?) then it stops being about just personal comfort and becomes essential to a happy life.

So, yes, perhaps we don't always have our priorities right (choosing money over time) but it's not necessarily something an individual can do something about -- there's a huge social dimension to it.
Perfectly said.

I'd also add that I'm not sure bitcoin ever needs to be anything more than a medium of exchange. In digital commerce there is no reason not to denote in one currency, exchange in another while marking to a third.

Chargebacks, speed, etc all get translated to transaction costs. Lower transaction costs by an order of magnitude or two and all sorts of things become possible.
The transition was rough. The way the tickets are handeled is draconian.
There was a time when taking a ticket on the train only costed 5CHF more... Now it cost you the 90CHF fine every single time + the price of the ticket.
Thankfully the mobile app is rather good and I never been fined for taking the ticket as I jump on the train. But surely you shoudn't wait a second before buying the ticket once on the train.
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Hmm I understood that the invoice/receipt stuff is not related to blockchain, just an additional protocol for these. However it might be questionable if this kind of stuff should be included in the main client.
The problem with e-mails are not the front ends we use with them, but the protocol itself.

Everything is transferred as text, which means binary files (embedded images, attachments, etc) have to be Base64 encoded. This adds a CPU overhead, but most importantly inflates file sizes by ~30%

Then there's security issues; the vast majority of mail servers default to clear text rather than SSL. But that wouldn't be so bad if there was some inbuilt method for end-to-end encryption. Sadly there isn't, so we have a whole plethora of 3rd party hacks for the mail client - most of which are incompatible with each other.

And while we're on the subject of clients - things are a complete mess there. Trying to design a HTML email that will work on most clients is like trying to design a webpage in the 90s. So we need a more standardised way of displaying that data - and if that means forking HTML for email purposes specifically, then so be it.

Also, horizontal scrolling webpages are counter intuitive and a complete pain for most users who only have vertical scrolling on their mice / trackpads. Quite frankly, if that's an advert of their product design then it leaves me less than excited about the 'innovations' they'd make to email clients.

I know all this seems highly critical against this project - which isn't really the best etiquette on HN. But honestly, why are the old ARPNET protocols (FTP, email, etc) still in widespread use when we have the technology and experience to release vastly improved specifications?
Ah, great observation. That really does explain it. It's not unlike the zeal of just-reborn Christians, or even just-'deconversed' nonbelievers.
I don't know in the US, but here in Europe the gov't does not need to "use violence" for that. It is pretty much general consensus that people with no monies should get money (not "foodstamps") from the gov't, payed by our taxes, so they can live with dignity, independently of what the reason for their unemployment / poverty might be.
What are the hacks to make good use of an old 19" LCD screen?
I think the main problem is that companies have their website designed for large screens only. Since it sucks on mobile screens, they then build an app instead of redesigning their website so that it works on little screens. The most famous example for that is Twitter.
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Interesting. I'd be interested to see a version that uses WebSockets to transfer the data points and draw it on another screen (e.g. analytics, see how users interact in realtime).
For example, hash(document) is extremely hard to forge and very easy to verify.
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But he wasn't, or anything close to it, when he wrote this letter.
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Well, for example, at Google it's possible, some people I know work less than full week, however I doubt that this option is immediately available to a new hire.
I like all the people in 500S, both the organizers as well as the participants. But I associate the brand with "unintelligent". It's like for the people who didn't quite make it or something.
One issue with these permissions is that I don't have a clue what they mean. Does the list of permissions I posted give that app the right to read all my personal data and upload it to one of their servers? Can it delete all my contacts or pictures? Can it make phone calls on my behalf or record my phone calls and upload the audio file to a server?
They do, it's a really painless process. I submitted an application during the end of the world sale and within a day or two I had a licence. I then felt bad at getting it for free during the epic sale, so I also bought an intellij license out of my own pocket to even things up :)
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There's an idea that a Strong AI won't be hostile to humans, due to not being mortal as we are. It has no need to be emotional, jealous or hateful. The idea as that these feelings are due to our own mortality and fragility.

Why would an advanced, technically immortal, machine want to hurt us at all? You are humanizing it by thinking so.
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I am yet to see an improved "reading" experience in an app. It's words on a screen. The ability to innovate is very limited.

Want swipe page turns ? That can be done in web. Scrolling? Zooming? Etc etc can all be done with a website.

Apps have there place, but I don't think news readers are it.
I believe that noonespecial's "ridiculous contract" was such that the other party claimed copyright ownership to all copyrightable material generated by noonespecial, including work which had no relation to the other party.

This would, therefore, include work done for school, if a transfer of copyright for schoolwork is required as part of the education.
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I think this is a valid position in the native/web app debate. Most apps are actually web sites, but they are mistakenly built as computer programs. This is not good engineering. In an ideal world %90 of the apps (anything but utilities, games and graphics applications) would remain as web sites, like they are on PCs. We never install a shopping application to our PCs. Web is the standardized and correct way of presenting interactive content.

Also note that Apple was against Flash mainly because it contradicts with this walled garden approach. Web+Flash (or HTML5 today) was the standard and free way of building almost all of the "apps" in the PC era. Native may have a performance gain in the short term (which becomes irrelevant in the long term as Moore's law dictates) but our loss of time and standardization in the development of an open and accessible (mobile) web lasts longer.
On the 2nd, wasn't that validated by the 1960s at the latest? That was a common perception at the time, anyway.
Take, for example, the young man with a ticket which must be date-stamped by a machine on the platform. The machine is out of order, so he carefully writes in the date by hand, gets on board, and is fined by the conductor for not having a valid ticket.

If the ticket inspectors are going to behave like robots, I don't see why human ones are needed!

I haven't used the trains in Switzerland recently, but I used to quite a lot... being able to buy the ticket on the train was a very welcome feature.
I like the German approach which says, you have to buy tickets on the platform/at the station for regional trains (that often lack collector who control the tickets), but you can buy them on the train for Inter-City service, while paying a small premium. Of course the latter gives you the possibility that for short trips the collector may not come past your seat or you fall asleep right after getting on the train and the he doesnt see you when going through the carriage.

For the cases, where the ticketing machine isn't working (and you dont have the ability to buy on the train), the normal procedure, that so far always worked for me, is to walk up to the conductor who steps out to the platform before entering the train and tell him about it. Normally you will be able to purchase the ticket from him in this case.
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I have the app installed. I would be glad to pay $2/mo or a bit more. I think subscribers usually come & stay for regular app updates. If the developer is already doing that, he should charge indeed!
Excuse me sir, is there an option to subscribe to more of these?
I saw a live stream of 500s presentations. There was a guy who couldn't stop swearing. I have nothing against swearing if there's good reason for it (eg. someone's really truly upset and needs to communicate how upset they are), but for a pitch to outsiders? It really bugged me. I guess for similar reasons, I love HN because it is really civil compared to other forums on the web; many other places (excluding quora), the trolls seem to run wild.

I don't want to think all 500s participants are like that, but it rubbed me the wrong way. It seemed childish, like, "I'm cool because I can swear, check me out!" I don't think I should let it colour the way I think about all 500s participants, but for some reason, it's a permanent link in my mind whenever 500s is brought up.
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Tar is one the less confusing commands in my opinion:

CREATE:
z = gzip
c = create

EXTRACT:
x = extract

AS ALWAYS:
v = verbose

AND LASTLY, ALWAYS INCLUDE
f = file name

thus:

tar zcfv filename.tar.gz folder

will create a tarball of folder.

tar xfv filename.tar.gz

will extract a tarball.

Personally I find the ps command much more confusing; which is only compounded by the fact that GNU, BSD and SysV all have their own switches >.<
Minimal is the best way. Get rid of all the clutter. Even if it means going wireless with your physical workspace. Don't annoy your eyes with portraits or quotes. You are all the motivation you need. You need to focus. The same goes for virtual workspace. Do not keep too many tabs open; too much CPU; too much Ctrl+Tab. Try to keep the workspace as free as possible and you'll find that it works incredibly well in keeping you focused. This works well for me. For e.g., if I am working on an app, it's only vi, stackoverflow, github and windows with related docs. Everything else like FB, twitter, mail remains closed.
As long as it isn't a single application for each and every source you'd read things from.
Yes, compass heading can be queried through the browser: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/

As of April 2011, the article claims various degrees of support from mobile Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox.

There's also plenty of work on application caching and offline support (though, to be fair, that's a very hard problem): http://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/offline
The biggest point he doesn't handle is speed: Viewing a news article in a fast newsreader app is much faster than downloading the whole website.

I wrote an app which uses rss feeds and smart preloading of data when it is not yet visible. Making it blazingly fast. I don't want to wait for we website to load.
$20,000,000 for 160 units. $125,000 each. Slightly more expensive than the remote control helicopters you buy as toys. If this number is correct, I would love to know what justifies that amazing cost per unit.

EDIT: Jeebus, it is actually 20 million pounds.
there's no need for that to be part of the library though or am i missing things?
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Speaking of ASCII games I found out that there are tons of rogue-likes, but no C&C/starcraft-like games. Or I couldn't find one except for very old DOS games maybe.
I wouldn't overestimate Apple when it comes to web technologies.

Everything they run — from iTunes Connect, developer.apple.com, to the App Store on iOS and Mac OS X, feels damn slow.
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Probably a separate code to enter into the app to unlock it.
Or why don't we just look at what Richard Feynman had to say about science and truth: "[The Big Bang] is a much more exciting story to many people than the tales which other people used to make up, when wondering about the universe we lived in on the back of a turtle or something like that. They were wonderful stories, but the TRUTH is so much more remarkable. And, so, what’s the wonder in physics to me is that it’s revealed the TRUTH is so remarkable.”
Interesting how he predicts the reason for Sun demise.
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You can find an extensive categorized list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_Android_app...

I think there are more.
Photos used to be analog and not so easily transmitable. Even with digital cameras, not every photo gets uploaded.

This whole, lets film everything and store it concept is an entirely new thing. You can't get away from it. Someone just looks at you and you've been recorded. At the moment I can at least try and avoid appearing in pictures.

The fact that there could be spy cameras around also does not absolve you from filming me. Just because I don't know about some speculative super secret tech that may or may not exist does give you or anyone else any rights over me.

So far I am not entirely opposed to Google Glasses though. But I'm hoping that they turn out to be more than just an expensive camera.
How do you measure productivity for management, especially.
> Only to find out it's about some obscure 19 century tech with a similar name.

Maybe my irony sensor is low this Monday morning, no coffee yet, but trains are sexy as hell. And speaking about trains and snow, there this French comic book called "Transperceneige" that is about to be put to film by a South-Korean director: https://www.google.ro/search?q=Transperceneige&hl=en&...
Nope. That's the idea. The library gives you a high performance drawing engine. What you feed it is up to the respective use-case.
it is hard to believe a recruitment agency can stop emails.
> the message on a request to appstore.com is infantile (and unstyled) "Bye Bye You shouldn't be here."

That's ridiculously unprofessional. Every other domain Apple owns redirects to apple.com/ if you go somewhere you shouldn't.
I would have preferred they spent a few hundred million per year on lobbying and amicus briefs to urge Congress and the Courts to adopt compulsory licensing. Then Netflix would be able to stream HBO shows without HBO's permission for a reasonable fixed fee. So could Amazon, and Hulu, and Google Play.

All of them could compete on service, rather than in backroom negotiations.

Instead, consumers should look forward to a war of content exclusivity deals, which should be a boon to content owners, and ultimately lead to increasing prices or decreasing convenience for consumers.
This is brilliant. I volunteer for IEEE and am presently Chairing a conference to be held in July. Sometimes our email loop keep going. I am going to follow this for the volunteer group!
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This combined with Google glass. Each soldier could have a couple of them buzzing around with "autonomous" or "controlled" modes, with a landing/charging pad on their backpack.
If you believe this, do you also believe in minimising government enforcement of private property rights?

I ask, because this argument about the "proper role" of government tends to start growing all kinds of exceptions that expand the role of government the moment someone starts taking it to its logical conclusion and argues for removing protections of exclusive access and use of land in particular, as a means of maximising liberty by removing government enforcement of artificial monopolies.

Most countries even today do have substantial exceptions to private property rights for the purpose of increasing liberty for society as a whole (e.g. granting access to natural resources to society as a whole).
The average joe might have passion for work, but also a family and other responsibilities that preclude extended periods of long workdays. They might not want to get divorced.
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Suicide isn't 'rational', hence 'suspicious'.
Pui-Wing Tam has been writing hit pieces on the Valley for the better part of a decade. Take with a grain of salt.

Here she is stalking Benioff all the way back in 2006:
http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/ceo-calls-cops-on-wall-stree...

She dug up dirt on HP and then got mad when they did the same to her:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116122600055097332.html

Here she is with another hit piece:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119741476977621971.html

And another:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020445080...

And another:
http://allthingsd.com/20120104/some-venture-funds-hit-pause-...

And another:
http://allthingsd.com/20121224/start-ups-adjust-to-webs-down...

Click those links, every one is about the same thing (startups failing, can't raise money, funds going bust, etc.). In general she likes to write downbeat pieces on the Valley. Just keep that in mind. I feel bad for Ignition, who probably thought they were going to be the heros of a Wall Street Journal story and turned out to be Pui-Wing's latest whipping boy ("take Ignition, for example").

Lesson for entrepreneurs: if you ever get an email from a reporter, google their name and read all their old stories. Don't just grant an interview. They can't do much if you don't play ball.