skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those don't really work, though: http://lesswrong.com/lw/88g/whole_brain_emulation_looking_at...

From the Human Brain Project http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/neuroscience.html

Why not begin with simple organisms like C.elegans?

There are two problems here. The first is feasibility; the second is the relevance of our results.
Feasibility. Neuroscientists have mapped all of C.elegans’ 300 or so neurons. However, enormous amounts of key data needed are still missing. For instance we do not have enough data on the physiology and pharmacology of C. Elegans neurons and synapses. And we still have limited data on the distribution of ion channels, receptors and other proteins on neurons, synapses and glia. Without this data we cannot build unifying models. A second problem is how easy it is to obtain the data. The crucial requirement for unifying models is the ability to access the data needed. Obtaining a deep understanding of the molecular machinery of a single neuron or a single synapse is just as difficult in C. Elegans as in human beings. And many datasets – particularly data on cognition - are actually easier to acquire in rodents, or even in humans. So we can’t just say: “let’s do this quickly in worms and do complex brains later”: we have to solve the same basic challenges, whatever brain we model. What we are actually doing is building a generic strategy we can use to reconstruct any brain.
Relevance: Studying the “simple” nervous systems of organisms like C.elegans or drosophila, is obviously very important, particularly for molecular and genetic studies. However the organization, electrophysiology and function of the mammalian brain are quite different. One of the HBP’s most important goals is to contribute to the development of new treatments for brain disease. But pharmaceutical companies already have great difficulties in translating results from mouse to human beings; with simpler organisms these problems become much worse. If we want to make a real contribution to clinical research, it is probably unwise to invest heavily in simple systems, so distant from the human brain.
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Or "sling shot", as in the event of a shot with a sling.
Right. I went through the German system, and I'm not entirely sure what you mean here.

First off, congratulations on doing Abitur, it will open up many many career options to you. To people not acquainted with he German school system, secondary education is divided by "quality" into three tiers, with Abitur being the diploma you get from the highest after 8 or 9 years of Gymnasium (which the top tier is called). With that, you can attend higher education. Apprenticeships are quite common in Germany for more practical jobs, but there's an awkward overlap between apprenticeships and technical or specialised higher education institutions (which aren't actually called universities, but are basically a less academic version of the same thing. Brilliant, huh?)

So yeah. Doing an apprenticeship to a "Betriebswirt" is more akin to an apprenticeship in business studies - but it's not an MBA, as you do that at university in a subject called "Betriebswirtschaftslehre". Woo-hoo, go German education!

Anyway, I guess your your basic problem is that people are telling you to carry on the apprenticeship route and you want to go to university?Considering the tiny cost of going to higher education compared to the US... go for it. It's well worth the experience.
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I am sure that I get 25 hours of real work done per week, if that. Once I factor in the meetings and phone calls that knock me out of the "zone", it is certainly less than 40.
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I wonder what people in unsafe neighbourhoods can do. My family didn't live in an unsafe neighbourhood. But one night, when going out on a walk with my dad, we got attacked by a bunch of kids with mace. It was totally set up. We walked by a kid, he yelled, "don't push me!" Then a bunch of his friends and him came to us and said, "hey, this guy says you pushed him." They surrounded us. One kid hit the back of my head, my dad saw that he was about to do something and yelled at him, then that kid sprayed my dad's face. I've never seen someone in so much agony. It was like my dad had lost all sense of reasoning.

This is a benefit of living in a nice area and should not be taken for granted.

The weirdest experience about all of that? Just a bunch of high school kids, I was bigger than all of them. If we came to blows, I'm pretty sure I could have taken them. But my mind was processing everything in super slow motion. I'm not sure if it was panic; maybe more like incredulous shock - I can't believe this is actually happening, deer in headlights kind of thing. And it was dark, so during the session when we were trying to identify the kids from photos the next day at the police station, I actually couldn't recognize anyone in the photos. Weird, because I thought I should have been able to do so.
Says someone who obviously doesn't have a child support payment.
So what, then, do you think the purpose of technological advancement is? Quality of life and wages have more-or-less flat-lined while productivity is way, way up. We are producing heaps more wealth per person than at any point in history, and yet we don't have much to show for it. Nowhere near proportional to the productivity increases, that's for certain.

Don't misunderstand, I'm not a Luddite by any stretch and I'm not suggesting we should go back to an agrarian society, but we have a serious economic and political problem where the benefits of technological advancement are going in overwhelming proportion to a very small subset of the population. If something isn't done about that, and soon, the resulting upheaval may force us back to pre-industrial living anyway (or more likely, much worse).
Exactly, nowadays the majority of people in the developed world are "working" in marketing, finance and other useless areas. It would be far better if they just stay home.
Most jobs in developed countries are service related. These jobs will not disappear even if you automate the production part of the economy.

Why not? They already are. Self-checkout, online forms and purchases, ATMs, touch tone phone menus, etc.

Here is Marshall Brain's optimistic but well explained and convincing view: http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Maybe you first buy them on a MS-approved device and either copy the app from that device or are able to get a DL link that works on the other device.
>>>You could start your own company, be your own employer and work as much as you feel like.

Most people in the United States do not have this option because they do not have enough money to do so.
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HTML (and the Web in general) has many, many examples of this, for example the way we parse <i><b>x</i></b> is required to be compatible with pages that relied on the way early browsers did it. In fact almost all of the Web's quirks are because of this.
Very typical number for the great battles of the era. This was Alexander's great rampaging army after all, I'm not sure why you think his army shouldn't be on par with Hannibal's.
I never claimed that the physiology of C. elegans should be preferred over that of the human brain.
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Sadly, the author can probably be jailed under the DMCA for explaining how to circumvent this DRM scheme.
This is a crucial part of the plan neo-hippies seem to forget
Seriously? How many 70 year old people do you know? Let say you need to urgently take your child to a doctor and can choose between a 30 yo and a 70 yo. What would you do?
Hopefully they don't put Windows on that computer..
But (as the OP says) you can have browser tolerance without leaving it undefined.
I made something similar, but using Git and phantomJS instead.

https://github.com/Tanner/Time-Machine
No offense intended, I'm just trying to contribute to the discussion.
> identical to creating Strong AI

One of the wonderful joys of brain emulation is that you don't have to worry about "designing intelligence into it". Your goal is different; your goal is the human brain itself, without our historical baggage of abstractions like souls, minds, consciousness or intelligence. What if all of those ideas are wrong?
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Yes, looks like he chose to not get married, not have a kid, and not get divorced.
I left my job a year ago, and started doing remote work for a small company. Since then, I've worked between 15 to 25 hours a week. As a result:

- I'm more rested and stress free

- I get a lot more exercise and I eat healthier

- I'm much more efficient and motivated in my work

- My creativity and exploration into new fields has bloomed

I used to put almost all of my effort into my work, with not enough time devoted to maintaining and improving myself.
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I've heard that dust and bacteria can even cause hail because the ice precipitates around them, with them as the nucleus.
A Terminator Skynet scenario is currently playing out in my head. I wonder how long after this human brain simulation runs it takes for it to become self aware and starts attacking us? In all seriousness, if this works this could potentially unlock so many mysteries and help solve & understand a plethora of medical issues like mental illness. We are living in extraordinary times.
You can however sell your phone and buy one for a different network. iPhones in particularly have a very high resale value, and regardless the phone you bought maintains its market value and is resalable.

Telecom networks are extremely expensive to build. Having more than a few on the same technology would be wasteful, and consumers benefit from a diversity of technologies in the long run in addition to some level of network compatibility.

But seriously, don't like your network? Sell your phone on eBay and buy a different one that works on a different network. How hard is that?
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It sounds like they're saying 300 neurons is too hard so let's do 10^11 instead.

Science usually proceeds somewhat incrementally from easier problems to harder problems and I'm not seeing the foundation here.

Weren't simple genomes sequenced long before it was proposed to sequence the human genome ?
If you're like most people, somebone already does: your boss, who answers to "convention."
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Yeah, a desperate attempt to break independent from the Hollywood/TV crooks.
Well, the biologist quoted in the story is Danish, so may be starting from different norms. The de-facto minimum wage [1] is already around $18/hr, and would probably increase if the work-week were changed. That could perhaps be funded in part by putting less money towards retirement (current employer contribution is 17% of salary), since his proposal is to raise the retirement age considerably as well. Serf wages are a bit less of an issue in any case when that's the starting point.

[1] A bit complex: "de-facto" because Denmark has no statutory minimum wage. Nonetheless, a negotiated wage floor of a bit above 100 DKK/hr (~$18/hr) covers most workplaces. Denmark's labor system, partly driven by law and partly by cultural norms, makes heavy use of sector-wide bargaining agreements between large employer confederations and large cross-company unions. The whole process tends to be very consensus-oriented (strikes are rare), and reaches blanket agreements that apply sector-wide. Small mom-and-pop stores, freelancers, independent moving-van operators, etc. are the main exceptions, since they aren't part of one of the employer confederations that's party to those agreements.
Obama Must Face the Rise of the Robots
I didn't realize this was paywalled. Here's a Google News link to it:

www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=Obama+Must+Face+the+Rise+of+the+Robots+(ft.com)+&oq=Obama+Must+Face+the+Rise+of+the+Robots+(ft.com)+
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That's a rather simple way of looking at it.
Parent cited an experiment that found 70 year-olds to have mental functioning on par with young people. Would you like to argue against the study's conclusion in a meaningful way? Or are you just pointing out that regardless of what is true, humans tend to act in a biased and ineffective manner?
I'm actually quite excited about this. Netflix is in a position to a first example of a new type of higher-budget independent entertainment.
Interestingly someone named Aaron Schwartz is listed as a dev. Not sure if its legit (when was this held?) but strange nevertheless.
I think it's pretty interesting that the movie studios stopped using Flash for their promotional sites (except for the parts where they use it for youtube embedding)

The short videos seem to be playing with video canvas and some CSS3 tricks.
That's a paywalled link.
Probably one of the best technology news websites to work for at the moment. The Verge is definitely my goto site for tech news nowadays, the quality of the writing as well as thought and effort that goes into the articles is second to none. Greg Sandoval is a great writer and undoubtedly a smart hire from The Verge who not only have a chance to attract a few new users, but also a great new writer who understands the industry.
The missing instructions:

You are the ‘x’. Your immediate goal is to beat the level by reaching the right side. Press D to walk right one step. You can press A to step back left, but there is never a reason to do so.

The ‘~’ and ‘.’ are obstacles; you will die if you walk onto them normally. To safely step onto the obstacles, press W or S to turn your x temporarily into the same character as the obstacle – W for ‘~’, S for ‘.’. Then, when you move right onto the obstacle, it will be removed, and your character will be an ‘x’ again.

When you walk past the right edge of the level, you are arrive at the left side of a new level, with randomly-generated obstacles and spaces. When you die, your score is equal to how many steps right past the start you are.

If you are careful not to step right unless you’ve transformed yourself to match any obstacle to your right, you cannot lose the game. Beating the last level, level 10, is simply a test of perseverance and thinking before you step.

Some tips:

Resize your terminal window to change the length of each level. Note that beating a level provides no bonuses to your score. The maximum possible score is the width of a level times 10, so make your window wide if you’re aiming for that.

It does no harm to transform yourself before stepping on an empty space. Thus, if you have a series of obstacles such as ‘~ ~~ ~’, just repeatedly press WD to safely step across. This is easier than deciding whether to press D or WD before each step.
I could kiss you for that.

If the use of a format for interoperability can only be reasonably used by a single vendor, it has no benefit over a binary protocol.

The entire SOAP and XML-RPC space is postels law writ large.
I think that the title should be: "It should only require 25 hours per week to make a comfortable living"

We should all put in the most amount of time to our lives and passions, but to maintain a comfortable life should not consume 100% of our available productive hours. (assuming productive hours == 8/day, 5 days/week)

If maintaining a living (comfortable or not) requires 100% of our productive work time (40 hours/week) then how are you not a slave to that subsistence lifestyle?
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.

Why not be even a little ambitious, and make something an order smarter? The human brain size is arbitrarily bound by the female pelvis size. Presumable the artifical one won't have that limit.

And separate it from concerns of survival, paranoia, love etc. Maybe it could think straight, solve a few problems for us.
You are thinking of Aaron Swartz
Wait, what? In what sense are "property rights" over content a tool exclusively for the powerful? Apart from "Glee", what content provider routinely appropriates and resells independently produced content? Moreover, without the protection of the law, how does any market for independent content exist?

I don't think you've thought this point through carefully.

Finally, your invocation of "might makes right" is comfortably made on Hacker News, where you feel like you have a good sense of both the ability of your peers to screw you over and the causes to which they'd put those abilities to use. Let me just once again inform you that people on HN are far less "mighty", as regards technology, than they think they are. In particular, money buys a whole lot of "might" when it comes to software security.
Different Aaron. This was held this weekend. Local coverage here:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Seattle-sports-geeks-Super-B...

Link to the team's project page:

https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/sports-hack-day/hack...
Yes, this is the specific issue separating liberals from conservatives in the US fucking A.
Does anyone know how the Amazon Studio's projects are coming along? Amazon was also looking to disrupt the Hollywood model and it has been a while since it started.
In fairness to his audience, it wouldn't have been a big deal if he were otherwise polished and practiced at public speaking, debates, interviews, etc. As it was he looked like a goof most of the time, so most people actually were thinking "Ok, Seriously: who is this guy and why is he here?"
why use Redis for sessions?
That helps a lot. This is a pretty complicated nuance in the implementation that you rarely find in libraries in any language.
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See you all there! (knock on wood No major Rails security release at 3 AM the morning of this time.)
I'm really hoping this works. Partially because I'm a Netflix subscriber, but mostly because I want HBO, AMC, and Showtime to follow suit eventually. If Netflix shows that they can support a high-profile show with a subscription model, maybe non-cable subscribers can eventually get HBO. Or am I just dreaming?
if a brain in a box becomes sentient, its attempts to "attack" us would probably look a lot like this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1847
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I don't see the issue. It's not like people are going to be tossing up Wine apps in the market en massé.
https://github.com/paulrosenzweig/hipstersnake
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If you look at a site/product like Lumosity.com, you can compare your results to other age groups. If you accept that the tests on Lumosity do test particular brain functions/areas then its clear to see that from the millions of user that take part, the performance average does decline with age. It's actually quite dramatic to see that a 40 year old that scores in the 90% in a test category, fits in at 50% among the 20 year olds.
Postel’s Principle is wrong, or perhaps wrongly applied.

The Robustness Principle is a prescription that lays down a strategy for growing robust systems. It works. The problem is that the robustness it provides isn't quite what people want it to be.
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I don't think its just a matter of economics, Netflix doesn't have a choice if they have to survive long-term. Thanks to the internet, the power is shifting from content providers to content creators and they risk turning into a dumb pipe at the mercy of whimsical broadcasters who can choose to stream their show directly to their viewers. Reed Hastings has said that it is a race for how fast Netflix can become HBO before HBO becomes Netflix. They need to produce their own shows else soon they will only get access to B-grade content.
only half the lights were out inside the stadium and the city didn't lose power so it's pretty safe to assume it's a problem in the stadium's lighting equipment and not the city's power grid.
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See you guys there. Looking forward to putting up the tweet wall again #hntokyo #lovethattweetwall
> Quality of life and wages have more-or-less flat-lined while productivity is way, way up.

Can you support this? Millions of people all over the world are being lifted out of poverty.

Here is a chart of per capita GNI for the past 20 years
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

edi: linked wrong chart
There's something about 500.co and it's members which makes me think of them as a totally different cult, very closed group of people, arrogant and somehow not a very good feeling about them. It must be just me.
Nuuton will allow you to have the ability to discuss such subjects directly without such policies. You may even discuss the actual stackoverflow site if so desired (or the book homepages).
Absolutely agreed. I just did the opposite--quit remote freelancing to take on a full time job (this one with insane hours unfortunately, 14hour/day average)--and my level of stress and unhealth has skyrocketed. Autonomy and agency matter, and part of that is the ability to choose the amount of and timing of working hours that are best for you.
I'm basically just using it as memached right now. I need to use something since I have more than one app server so storing it in memory on the machines won't work.
It's beyond exciting that over a whole percent of the money is going to an ethics line.
Your phone is freely salable. You are not locked in.
Actually, I'm using Google's Cloud Messaging infrastructure which means I get the benefit of the same technology Google uses to deliver Gmail notifications, etc. It also means there isn't any incremental battery life harm. :)
I think you do that very real debate a disservice by minimizing the argument in this way. You know that's not the actual argument and it helps no one to propagate falsehoods.
This is why I read Hacker News. Incredible.