skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they actually mentioned that they used a virus to modify the neurons such that they would express the right protein when hit by the correct color of light.

The beam of light doesn't create the memory -- it triggers a remembrance of the memory.
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Anyone who has played online poker on a rock-solid platform like PokerStars and then witnessed Zynga poker crash, mishandle network outages, skip players turns, auto-fold due to timeouts, etc. knows that they don't have a chance in hell to win over serious players with their tinker toy poker platform.

And when real money is involved EVERYONE becomes a serious player.
The Supreme Court gutted the CDA by holding parts unconstitutional, and what was left was the safe-harbor provision which is actually a good idea. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act#Lega....
As an iOS Freelance Developer myself - Meetups. Through Meetup.com, I am connected with about 100 developers, many of which I would (and have) recommend in a heartbeat. I have also had many people that are looking for an iOS Developer contact me through Meetup.com . If you go this route, you can generally post in the comments section about who you are and what you're looking for.

If you're looking to cast a wide net that will earn you MANY responses, post a message to Google+ Communities and LinkedIn groups. The downside is that you will probably have to sift through many emails until you find a potential right fit.

Here are some useful places:

iOS Meetup Groups in San Francisco

http://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=ios&radius=25&userFreef...

iOS Developers across the globe

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11202662879070871797...

Subreddit dedicated to posting available work

http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire
Seriously, came in here to say "gzipped flat files." :)
> Then the title is slightly misleading.

The whole story is BS. There is zero evidence that they implanted any sort of memory, let alone a false one. All they've shown is that when the mice encounter situation X, they are afraid because their memories of situation X are associated with fear. Basically it's like how if you have a nightmare about dying in a car crash then you may be afraid of driving the next day, but that doesn't mean that you have a memory of actually dying in a car crash.
No, you're right, I didn't get any actual sense of the scale of the endeavor. Maybe this guy just loves doing it full time.

But to answer your question: this whole thing makes me want to reconsider licensing my software as GPL. Just do MIT and not have to think about it.
Using google just makes me feel dirty. When it's decision time at my company there are a number of us who will be lobbying against google, skype, dropbox et al.
They have a North American datacenter in Canada, but nothing in the US. The website makes it seem like they do presumably for marketing reasons.
I understand what you are saying but it just seems a little silly to me when the "silly mnemonic" is exactly the same as the "actual meaning" except for the word associated with one letter -- xzf meaning extract zee file instead of extract zipped file.

To relate with some of the examples you provided, it would be like remembering the order of operations PEMDAS by remembering
Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Sally.
Yes, database fuzzers exist. (http://sqlmap.org)

To answer your second question, Standard Query Language is very, very complicated, and you would have to be a genius to make a proper input scrubber. That's why you are supposed to use things like parameterized queries and bypass the danger of sql injection entirely. However, security mistakes still happen, and you should code in such a way that database leaks are not catastrophic.
It's interesting to see the great lengths the TC writer goes to to justify (primarily to himself, it seems) this idea as socially valid. I would have thought the efficiency benefits of passing off home labour to specialised businesses would have been patently obvious, especially to a technology journalist. Do we really still stigmatise people as being "lazy" just for wanting to focus on their specialisation?

I also notice a similar prejudice among commenters here. Come on people, this is basic economics.
As far as I know that's the expected behaviour. I also saw it in practice, although I did not study the exact distribution in much detail.

The reason for this behaviour would be that you would normally use this for load balancing.

You can normally get the same behaviour by setting one MX record to a local A record (mail.example.com), and then serving several IPs for that A record in a round-robin/random fashion.
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True, while warrants are not necessary for the NSA to snoop, they don't like sharing with local LE.

Depending on the quality of your local police, they have nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
hmm. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/poignant?q=... (also my dead-tree concise oxford, with a longer entry, doesn't have anything that's not emotionally affected, one way or another).

i suspect it's a cultural variation.
Or it could be that for many people, "good enough" is good enough

I don't think there's any "could" about it. What you said is certainly true, and a huge proportion of the most successful web apps have been built on that premise, and there's nothing wrong with that.

However, that doesn't mean those who still need or want something of higher quality are dinosaurs who are somehow being left behind the times. While I understand your music analogy, I don't think the relative differences in quality and flexibility are very similar at all in the two cases.
The argument stands on its own merits, not my qualifications.

You've extrapolated DannyBee's mention of some risk of implied-warranty lawsuit all the way up to "lose your house many years later because you chose a whimsical license".

But, there are no examples of something like that happening in the open source domain. It's worst-case speculation, without precedent.

That's spreading "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" to deter a particular course of action. Now perhaps, fear is justified, and the uncertainty will be resolved in some future case that confirms it was wise to be afraid. (Literal "FUD" isn't necessarily false!) Or maybe there's a prior case that hasn't yet been mentioned – that's why I've asked for an example.

But for now, the idea of someday losing your house over a insufficient disclaimer-of-warranties on freely-published, unmarketed, uncompensated source code is just a scary bedtime story.

A few years ago there was legalistic FUD about how releasing code as public domain was dangerous; without a license you'd be at risk, and no amount of disclaimerizing could save you, because without either a license or contract, the disclaimers had no force.

Thankfully, that FUD has receded, so that now even legalistic worrywarts can recommend the CC0 or unlicense.org dedication as a safe and reasonable approach.

I predict such common-sense progress will continue, driven by irreverent young programmers with no patience for obsolete complexity. But that's a socioeconomic prediction, not a legal opinion. If being airtight-alright by all the lawyers and judges is someone's top priority, they should take your circumspect advice.
This looks like a horrible business. It's old (one of the world's oldest professions) and it doesn't scale (huge marginal cost). It uses unskilled labor with repetitive motion--factory like conditions. Competition is fierce: a dry cleaner already exists on practically every city block. Can someone explain the innovation? To me it looks like someone who wants to do a startup more than they have original ideas.
They acknowledge the latency of about 120ms. I can see this being a problem with smaller drones, but high latency hasn't stopped the military for remotely flying drones in Afghanistan from facilities in Nevada.
>>Why haven't they called?

They probably have, or are trying to. But even if they want to, a start system say 2000 light years away looking at us is seeing the world as it was during the time of Jesus. And we are looking at them when they were equally ancient.

And not to mention, if they tried to communicate with us we won't know until the next 2000 years. Basically you get the point. For a civilization to communicate to us, they should've started the process of sending signals out x years, based on for x light years far they are.

And that's just the first problem. The universe is so big, each galaxy has billions of stars and there are some billions of galaxies in the universe. Given the vastness and size of universe, its next to impossible to search such a large space with already existing limitations of distance and time.

Thirdly, we've hardly been listening for a few decades, we might have missed a signal if it was ever sent out or haven't received one.
I'm hoping for a doctor that makes house calls.
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> I've been thinking quite a lot about that exact thing as well. There must be a way to build great commercial tools that are also truly secure. I'd love to discuss further. Contact info in my profile.

'state', to solicit this collaboration, would it not be prudent to init a new HN account under a different name?
I disagree with this. When I was a poor grad student, laundry was the greatest time sink of my life. I spent many Sundays trucking loads of laundry between my apartment and my laundromat a mile away. $20 was definitely a reasonable sum to have that time given back to me. And I'm sure many of the other people I met there (often mothers who were disciplining unruly children) would have said the same thing. If you think this is purely an entitled tech worker problem, you've never spent significant amounts of time in run-down laundromats.
Trying that approach will probably result in people throwing up. In an immersive environment even short latencies are extremely disorienting. When I first started recording audio for film, the industry-standard recorders used Digital Audio Tape and there was a switch to monitor either the live feed from the preamps or the recorded feed from the tape (so you could be sure you were recording - you'd be surprised how easy it is to mess this up over the course of a 12-hour workday).

The latency was small, on the order of 10-12 milliseconds, but it took me months to overcome the weirdness of opening your mouth to speak but not hearing anything until ~1/100th of a second later. I shudder to think what it would be like to have this in your visual cortex but with a longer delay and also while your eyes are telling you that you're floating above the ground.
That would not be terrible.
an open source version of New Relic?
Is the proposed change limited to state laws that have only an incidental effect on businesses?
Although their pricing is a bit high I feel there is clear trend supporting higher price for convenience.

This is the same trail that Stripe blazed. For a little bit of work I could get my own merchant account setup with much lower processing rates but the ease of integration and time savings is worth the cost.

I don't see Lob being that useful for people already doing printing. But I do see it offering a simplicity that will enable a whole new set of business to use printing in creative ways (ours included). Again, somewhat similar to Stripe.
This is an interesting story, but let's be careful not to dwell on the potentially sinister uses of optogenetics.

Other research groups at MIT — i.e. within the McGovern Institute for Brain Research — are using the same techniques to better understand the biological basis for psychiatric disorders. For example, they recently used light stimulation to rid rats of compulsive behaviors.

I'm very excited about the potential for this technology to help people suffering with OCD, general anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
So... this is where that "street cred" comes in. Digital Ocean is a new startup, and I like what they are doing. But never forget, Digital Ocean is less than a year old.

They are having growing pains, they don't know which policies are hurting them long term. (ie: their former "unlimited bandwidth" issue).

Naturally, Digital Ocean will be cheaper than more respected and established players. When you're building a business on a web hosting company, saving a couple of bucks a month is not really worth it if reliability goes down.
As of yesterday I've been noticing various Google applications (Maps in particular, both web and iOS) nagging me to turn on centralised history recording, in order to have any kind of search history or bookmarking.

My answer is "hell no", always has been and even more so now; and I can deal with the disappearance of functionality, but the nagging is especially irritating and the timing doubly ironic.
The public's reaction hardly matters in our two-party system, in cases where both parties are firmly against the public.
Just did this. Now (in french of course) they want me to send an email to verify my identity with a scan of my drivers license or passport before being able to purchase. Not sure if I want to do that...
.. and there's a street in SF named after her: Nancy Pelosi Dr.
Zimmerman story was bigger, I'd say. Maybe Paula Deen too.
I'm interested to know how you manage the risk inherent in project-based billing.

In my experience it is simply unworkable: the client will provide the vaguest of specifications and providing them with a set-in-stone price raises unrealistic expectations. The requirements are simply too fuzzy at the outset of a project to be able to price it accurately.

Of course the solution only becomes more concrete as the project progresses and requirements change and crystallize based on feedback. This is expected behaviour of course, but I've never been able to reconcile it with project-based billing.

Do you simply allow a certain buffer zone and take the good with the bad?
Scott Wiener came to Google and gave a talk about pizza in NYC [1]. It was an interesting talk but one thing I remember was this: he said that you can't just cut up a sell a pizza by the slice and replicate what you have in NYC.

The point of this is that pizza by the slice is a culture that comes about and continues to exist for historical reasons, namely that Manhattan (in particular) is densely populated and people walk a lot, which has a bunch of other consequences. You can't just replicate that.

Also in NYC we have wash and fold laundromats. I walk five blocks to work and pass four of them on 8th Avenue. They're open 7 days a week (one from 7am-11pm every day). They will pick up your laundry and drop it off or you can drop it off and pick it up yourself.

Typically you pay $0.60-1.00/lb (plus something per load) for this and drop it off in the morning you get it back the same day. There are historical reasons for this but again it survives due to cultural and infrastructure reasons.

So something like this doesn't really work in low density car-dominated locales like the Valley.

I'm a little confused by Prim because ultimately they're just a courier service for clothes that subcontracts the cleaning to local laundromats. Okay...

But I question the demand for this given the economics and different culture.

This also highlights to me the benefits of living high-density as lots of things become possible. Effective public transport for example.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayGAx9ngvo
I've been using these guys and they're great. Obviously they're thinking hard about every element of the service experience.

While there are plenty of places that do this kind of thing, none are delivering great service at the scale they're shooting for.

No doubt this isn't the last service they're going to improve via service design.
Could you set the url to yourdomain.com/fbapp.php and have fbapp.php simply set the header to the URL with tracking parameters embeded?
Until congress starts to realize that nerds are not basement dwellers, and instead are pop culture (Facebook, The Internship) they will continue to roll their eyes at any sort of lobbying.

Good. That creates an opportunity for more enlightened people to challenge the incumbents, backed by the ample funding that the nerds are going to be throwing around increasingly in order to protect their industry from the incompetents.

A saying that begins "First they ignore you" comes to mind.
The green glow of a successful build spreads such cheer :)
Wow, I guess that's possible. But I wasn't that disagreeable with the post I replied to. I said it had some merit, identified a solid example to support my contention and then still hedged back towards the OP's side.
All I can do is point to my real, practical experience in using Docker.

http://tryrethink.info - over 3,000 happy customers (unique, sandboxed instances) served in 24 hours. With about a day of effort total.

http://nick.stinemat.es - my blog, which is pretty Docker focused because that's what I've been working on since I decided to start improving writing.

This covers basic continuous integration and deployment of an application to pretty non-trivial volume.
Whatever they claim at the keynotes, they have never been about education and technology. They have only been for and about money. That's it.
A step forward was made by RoomKey. You should read what their CTO wrote. At RoomKey, they made several radical decisions that gave them a very unusual architecture:

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Decision One: I put relational data on one side and “static", non-relational data on the other, with a big wall of verification process between them.

This led to Decision Two. Because the data set is small, we can “bake in" the entire content database into a version of our software. Yep, you read that right. We build our software with an embedded instance of Solr and we take the normalized, cleansed, non-relational database of hotel inventory, and jam that in as well, when we package up the application for deployment.

We earn several benefits from this unorthodox choice. First, we eliminate a significant point of failure - a mismatch between code and data. Any version of software is absolutely, positively known to work, even fetched off of disk years later, regardless of what godawful changes have been made to our content database in the meantime. Deployment and configuration management for differing environments becomes trivial.

Second, we achieve horizontal shared-nothing scalabilty in our user-facing layer. That’s kinda huge. Really huge.

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http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in...
Candy Crush may be a bad example... King has been around for 10 years, so not really a startup. They're somewhat similar to Rovio in having a late hit.

It depends what they do with the success that determines their future, I'm pretty sure they're aware that Candy Crush is a fad, just a matter of exploiting it while working on the next thing.
The implication is simple and frightening -- classify it as munitions and making illegal to possess.

You know we went through this in the 1990s and PGP was declassified as a munition, yes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in...

Before taking the claims at face value it's good to do a bit of background research. Also, I generally find anything where every paragraph consists only of a single sentence can safely be ignored.
I sort of wish that google wasn't a private company anymore. Their service is so pervasive and so fundamental to society that I think it should really be nationalized. Or, since it's international, taken over by the U.N.

Or: to attack the same problem from another angle: I'd be happier if we had either decentralized replacements for Google and Amazon and Ebay.

I'd prefer these platforms - and the vast wealth and power they create - to be either in the hands of the general public, or in the hands of democracy, than to be controlled by the whims of the nouveau riche.
The people I really feel bad for are the ones who worked at other companies which were taken over by Zynga.
People can bitch and moan all they want on HN, but how many actually took the time to call her office? I did and the aide wrote down my support of the amendment. If the 1000s of readers of HN had all called, she probably may not have voted against it (but may still have convinced others to do so).

What we need is someone to run against her. Someone sane and not a cuckoo. She's old-school, represents the establishment, etc.; someone young, tech savvy and willing to spend the time could put up a tough fight.

Anyone thinking of running against her: I can promise you that I will work for your campaign for free and pound the pavement like crazy. Let's do it!
You should (in theory, at least).

I can't speak for all DNS servers but BIND will return them in a different order each time it answers an query.

For example, the first query returns "mx1, mx2, mx3"; next query returns "mx2, mx3, ms1"; next query returns "mx3, mx1, mx2". Many resolvers seem to simply use the first one so it's roughly equivalent to round robin load balancing.
The thing with west coast states (and others, but shut up!) is that, as they were "settled" later than other states, they tend to have very dense urban areas and very sparsely populated rural areas.

This is OK in the House, where people have reasonably proportional representation (although districting is notoriously prone to corruption), but the senate seats and electoral votes tend to belong to the urban areas.

I'd be more than happy to cede everything east of about 121ºW to Nevada. It wouldn't necessarily resolve the problem, but it just feels right.
I dont get the hype. BSD and Solaris have had proper containers for years now. Just because Linux hasn't had any all these years and LXC is maturing only now, it is wrong to think that containers are the next big thing.
~Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.~

Ouch.
ha.. Talk about doing the right thing at the wrong time and wrong thing at the right time. Microsoft is pushing hard to move everything to the cloud. Office, Search, Storage - Skydrive, pretty much your entire desktop by the middle of this decade. Had they stayed put, they could have had a easy bright future.

Rule #1: Never follow your competitor in pitch dark.
He's also a poker player and quite friendly in real life.
I agree with the first commenter on the link. This is quite a reach. It's unlikely that the order to take down an old, unmaintained site would have come from someone who's in on some sinister agenda to revise history.
Microsoft has such a good relationship with the government that its unlikely to be able to extricate itself to every accomplish that.
So much for that
Every hosting service will have at least one security breach, especially if someone is doing something reckless like storing $230,000 worth of digital money on one of their servers. Leaving a provider because of a breach just means you're in an endless game of VPS musical chairs.

The way they handled the breach is another thing, though.
Show HN: I plotted and analyzed IGN's entire game rating distribution.
They specifically mention in their slides being aware of how crappy PSNR is with respect to blur, so I doubt they will fall down that particular pit.