skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a biologist and the parent poster seems to know in far more detail, but from a bunch of neuroscience lectures on how the dentritic spikes travel up to the soma, my takeaway (as a computer guy) was 'hmmm, it looks like a system implemented in FPGA layouts - the geometry features can work as logic gates or delays'; and 'hmmmm, it looks I could design a dendritic tree geometry for almost any boolean function of the inputs, so any computer-chip-like-functionality could be built out of them'.

I mean, if I needed (A xor B) and (C or D), then my impression is a single neuron with rather simple geometry and appropriate dendritic connections could calculate that in the sense that this neuron would spike iff the A,B,C,D neurons spiked as required by that formula; but since neurons tend to have much much more connections, then each neuron is technically capable of much more complex calculations, even if many of them in the end do something like 'spike iff any 100+ of my 1000 inputs are spiking'.

It's not so simple as that because timing is also relevant, and there were examples of known dendritic structures that do "processing" in terms that a neuron spikes if it receives A slightly before B, but doesn't spike if it receives A slightly after B; so it can be used for detecting motion direction and such.
No one sees themselves as a bad guy. Most working at the NSA probably do believe they are protecting the nation.

Everyone is happy having done a job well. It's just human nature.

/except on HN, where we are all expected to act like robots.
I agree. This is a case where some marketing thinking would probably help.

Lots of large businesses would probably like something like this (the ones that buy rsa keyfobs and use VPNs). My old company would strongly discourage email from the company system to non company email address for security reasons.
That's why I mentioned »innocent US citizens«. ;)
No soul, is not imprecision.
It is the expression of humans feelings in form of variation of duration, velocity, loudness.
For example speed in music is like speed in breathing.
You are not breathing with the same speed all the time.
It depends on the context.
If you are in a hurry you breathe fast and short.
If you sigh you breathe deep and slow.
An interpret has to understand the emotions that should be transported.
These emotions are unfortunately not sufficiently presentable in MIDI files or music notation.
As Mahler said the essence of music is not in the sheet.
Therefore a computer can not reproduce the essence of music.
Yeah, you could argue me over to your position quite easily. My thinking is it's less dangerous because you can put it down. But I'd be fine with taking licenses away for DWT.
I've no doubt it varies from locality to locality, but Wikipedia's generalization for the US (sure to have many counter examples) is:

"A civil infraction is violation of the law less serious than a misdemeanor, and which usually does not attach certain individual rights such as a jury trial."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_infraction
Impractical is in sense "nobody can actually it, only the papers are written about it." Practically impossible to use.
What's wrong with bitmessage?
"He recently Skyped me about co-patenting a new method of microwave cooking."

PATENT TROLL! ALERT APPLE, SOMEONE'S TRYING TO GET IN THEIR MARKET!!! WE DON'T APPROVE OF INNOVATION AND PATENTS HERE ON HN
Awesome, glad to hear that. I was president of the ACM for a year, and we totally stuffed our budget from organizing i-bank recruiting events.
The negative response to this post is over the top.

At most, you can say that they overstated their case by neglecting to talk about server trust and using the word "comfortable" in an article about security. :)

To address a few red herrings:

Saying that no solution is better than a flawed solution is absurd. There's no such thing as impenetrable security. On that basis, we shouldn't bother with HTTPS. For that matter, we shouldn't bother with passwords, either.

We do these things because they make attacks incrementally more difficult and thus redirect attackers' efforts to more vulnerable targets, or make it expensive enough not to bother. Every little bit helps.

Saying that you can't do this because you have to verify everything on every page load utterly ignores the past decade of development of rich client applications.

Saying that you shouldn't do this because it's been tried before also ignores virtually the entire history of technological innovation.

This is important problem and constructive criticism from security experts is extremely valuable. But the only "sophistry" I'm seeing here is from the people who can help the most.

This is a beta, invite-only app bootstrapped out of the proverbial garage. Their blog post on the technical details missed a few things. If you've ever been in those shoes, you know how easy that is to do. I've seen billion dollar companies do worse. Most of the article was accurate, well-written, and probably helpful to a lot of readers.

Help 'em out, don't tear 'em down.
I have a nice, clean version that I wrote up in LaTeX, and another 'fancy' version that I did in Illustrator.
"Anyone with data to back this impression ?"

No. Because it's not the AS that is slow. Someone else's code that is not efficient enough or doing too much DB calls.
What makes you say that? Having built systems in this space with very large number of users using the .net platform, I wonder why you stated this.

I am a supporter of open and non-MS software but I don't think we can blame it on the technology this time.

In my experience so far a well engineered system, will perform regardless of the technology stack picked. Picking technology X or Y will not compensate for bad architecture and engineering practices.
People appear to be missing the point that _the website_ is literally the smallest part of the project.

While it's easy for people to crap on things like js-minifying, cache control, etc - the hard reality is the stuff that is the hardest is so hard that most people have never done anything even remotely close.

Having worked on 10m+ loc codebases, life gets very hard. Dynamic languages tend to be unworkable. Module control, strong interfaces, and a lot of division of responsibility becomes the order of the day. And just figuring out how to build the thing becomes it's own team.

For those who are just thinking "so, just slap together some JSON/web services and call it a day" - I invite you to research EDI and then report back here. Assuming you're still alive.
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Or use a diff tool that can do this automatically..? [1] Diff without the ability to edit the changes you see is only about 10% as useful as the ability to edit those diffs inline, change how it's decided to compare the two (or three) files (match THIS line with THIS OTHER line...), or trivially revert the changes a line at a time. [2]

I hop back and forth between GUI-based editors and the command line. Some things are just better in a GUI, and diff is one of those things--especially any nontrivial diff.

[1] http://www.scootersoftware.com/

[2] I'm sure you can do this in vi and/or emacs as well. I leave how to do that as an exercise to the reader.
You are missing the "and therefore there it is unreasonable for you to be upset" leap.

Pointing out that illegal things are illegal isn't really a interesting contribution to the discussion, is it? I assume that wasn't all you meant to do.
Archived Copy of Missing Healthcare.gov Repo
I hope people in the connectome camp take this to heart. I strongly doubt that modeling the connections of neurons will reveal the way the brain works. The mouse and rat brains are very similar in connectivity, but the behavior of the mouse and rat are quite different. One explanation is that the individual neurons are actually processing information differently, and so differences arise out of neuron functionality rather than connectivity. This research bolsters the argument that meaningful information processing occurs within individual neurons, and even at the sub-cellular level.
Why does it require iOS 7.0?
For Photoshop, at least, I suspect most of their cool image manipulation tech is patent protected, and that they've got a legal team rigorously enforcing those patents.
Don't forget:

- Software licenses

- Software support/contracts (Redhat -> JBoss AS)

- Hardware

- Office space

- Benefits

- Infrastructure contracts (for 10 years... or 100 years)
control + shift + eject/power.

But really, I'd prefer this to be an app on my phone instead of a keychain. I usually walk away from my computer with my phone but I'll leave my keys on my desk because they're more uncomfortable in my pocket.
Same here. But I continue to endure a WebM only world. I miss out all the vimeo screen casts.. but so what? just means i will have to find another tutorial in text and life moves on.
What I said doesn't imply that I find the idea silly, but "Firefox 150" does indeed sound silly to me. However, what you say seems to hinge on the idea that each of Firefox's steps are consistent in their impact. Is that true?
This is quite interesting. Does this mean all clients are seeing the same video rendering? What made you do it this way rather than render on the client and update positioning over WebRTC?

Regardless id love to read more about your progress if you have anything written down.
If you hire 10 web developers fulltime for 2 years, it would come down to ~$7000 hourly rate per developer.
So, talked with some folks about an idea similar to this a few months ago.

As the conversation evolved, they came up with "tagging" a given chat room to denote what was in it, and letting people choose their own names...some kind of "handle" on the identified "channel".

The proposed messaging fabric would use servers hosted in the cloud, each functioning as sort of a repeater to their client mobile devices.

A sort of internet-relayed chat, if you will.

There is nothing new under the sun.

EDIT:

The location functionality of this could be bodged together really quickly with the geo pg extensions, I'd bet.
Content Calendars: a Guide to an Important Content Marketing Tool
Because it's a new app, and actively doing work to support anything older than iOS 7 is a waste of time.
Amen to that. This thread and all others that mention the healthcare.gov debacle would go on forever talking about MS and ignoring the fundamental issues of bad architecture and government waste.
>Do you think that drivers should avoid listening to the radio?

Yes, radios are distracting and therefore dangerous, especially if drivers take their eyes off of the road to adjust the controls.

>Should they pull off the road before manipulating their heater? Windshield wipers?

No. It is often necessary to adjust windshield wipers and climate control systems to ensure safety, and sometimes those adjustments must be made in situations where pulling off the road is unsafe or impossible. For example, if it starts pouring rain while on a narrow bridge (no way to pull over), you will need the wipers to keep the windshield clear. The heater can be used to de-fog.
Is Category Theory useful for learning functional programming?
There was a discussion on that article here earlier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6635021
> Users won't input that data.

Sites like MyFitnessPal and MyNetDiary would likely disagree. They have hundreds of thousands of users. However, I agree that if you're in generally good health then it probably is too high of a burden.

> I know what I shouldn't eat

I'd argue you probably do not know what you should or should not eat. Sure, in general you know you should avoid eating candy for every meal, but I suspect you don't really know which particular ingredients are resulting in a change of your state.

For instance, many people are gluten intolerant for years before realizing it. If you were able to track foods to the approximate level of knowing the level of gluten in your body at a given time, you could identify gluten as a cause of some symptoms. I would also make similar arguments about the long-term effects of certain diets (semi-vegetarian, low-carb, etc.).

I guess there is a divide between the kind of myopic analytic insight you're looking for and the more long-term ones I'm interested in. Both are valuable, but they require different data sources.
If voters are concerned with the plight of non-voters, then the plight of non-voters is by definition of concern to voters.

Asking voters to be concerned with what their government does to non-voters should never be discouraged. It may be futile, but it should not be discouraged.
Dutch designer wants to 'vacuum' China's smog away
Tickets for wearing them while driving is a good start, but when are we going to start cracking down on GlassHoles in public?
In techempower's web framework benchmarks[1], Java-base frameworks top most categories. One C++-based framework, CPoll, gets a few percentage points more in a few tests, but Java servlets are the highest performing across all tests. (As always with micro-benchmarks, take all this with a grain of salt, but at least it's some data.)

1 - http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6
I am pretty sure they would be considered a traitor if someone told their new company how the NSA was doing things, just look at what they are calling Snowden.
Sorry, but you obviously have no idea what you are talking about when you call it, "a website"

Or is google just a website? Is yahoo.com just a website? Did you look at the infograph?

How much do you think it will take to talk to 5 agencies and 300 insurance providers that have 4500+ health plans, and get them to agree/adhere, understand their EXISTING system and build a site?

I'm not justifying the expense, but let's not trivialize the task at hand and call it just a website.
What production OS do you use with PostgreSQL?
I hate to be that guy, but hasn't this idea been around for a while, but using the bluetooth on your phone? Aside from using Bluetooth 4 (LE), what would the advantages be to this?

I'd also caution against marketing this as a "Mac lock"... I at first thought it was going to be an alarm for the physical device, not the OS.
Not a restaurateur, but I'd imagine they would be most interested in how you handle negative reviews. Couldn't find info on how you guys handle that.

Is this more of an alert system on reviews being placed?
I think it's actually quite promising. We're good at cell biology but poor at systems biology. If we can convert neuroscience to understanding what types of neurons exist and how they function, that is probably very tractable. In comparison, even measuring the connectome is an insane problem, and modeling trillions of neurons to reveal brain function seems intractable.
"much of it presumably leased,"

This is a very interesting assumption

http://www.howstuffworks.com/tech-myths/5-myths-about-google...

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=633236
Because the relation weight/power its outstanding. well i don't think using solar could help at all,because it will make the robot heavier and it will need a big area in order to power up the robot which for this type of robots its not possible i think, and also unless solar cells improve their energy efficiency this doesnt sound possible yet.
It'd be interesting to port the JavaFX/GL stuff to WebGL...

...but I'd rather stab myself in the face with a screwdriver.
Just a quick note:
This application only has jobs for india and you need to signup to actually see the jobs that match your profile and I give you my word that you will not receive any spam email or I won't post anything to your social network profiles I only use those to find out if you have any referral for any job and count towards your match score as you are more likely to get notice by recruiters/employers
Snow Crash, anyone? :).
Testing the CastAR Augmented Reality Glasses
Seven billion people, seven billion terrorists
XML is like violence: if it isn't working, you aren't using enough.
Monroe Doctrine 2.0
I fail to see what value this really adds:

If you have a laptop, just close the lid. By default (on a Mac) you have to log in again when you return.

If you have a desktop, what kind of environment are you going to be in where you need to guarantee the screen locks when you are away even momentarily?
Yeah, I wonder how that works actually. If radius A intersects with B and C but B and C don't intersect with each other, do B and C see A chatting to someone who they don't see?
The range is configurable. One of the things this adds is a button. A button-press can be required to unlock the screen in addition to being nearby. It's very reliable.
PayPal Customer Service Is Painful; WePay Is the PayPal Alternative
"The government takes the position that their agents are almost completely unconstrained by law when it comes to actions taken abroad aimed at non-US persons.
"

It's worse than this.
You also generally can't sue the US government civilly unless they allow you to.
US has abrogated sovereign immunity in certain situations for certain types of torts, but ..
NO! WRONG! tl;dr NO CODE IS BEING RELEASED AS BSD!

nothing is being released as BSD-license! NOTHING! take down this title! it will only harm the public perception of webM and make webM supporters sound as crazy as i am sounding here (i am the exception guys, everyone else is pretty sane)

CISCO is releasing header files and such so that you can compile their still-patent-encumbered binary blobs into a few major platforms. NOTHING even slightly relevant is being given out as BSD-license. Nada. Zero.

This is nothing but harmful propaganda against open standards.
Yancey Strickler to Succeed Perry Chen as CEO of Kickstarter
You're lucky, I was doing the same things in middle school. Took me until college for that last part... :)

That same game project I started then still has been going on since then, multiple compilers and VMs written to do parts of the game. It's ended up an incredibly complex monstrosity with procedurally generated worlds and randomly altered scripts (some actions just won't be available on some play-throughs).
Wow, those colourful tiles are overpowering. Lost my focus immediately. You should consider simplifying them, focus on key features and not too wacky of colors, and more whitespace.
It argues its campaign is conducted "consistent with all
applicable domestic and international law". Unofficial
reports, however, have suggested that hundreds have been
killed in Pakistan alone, with up to 200 children killed.

So how exactly are drone strikes in countries we are not at war with "consistent with all applicable domestic and international law". I imagine that it should at least be considered murder according to Pakistani law (and other countries where these strikes take place) and that it would be within the rights of these countries to demand extradition of the individuals complicit in the crime so that can stand trial in Pakistan (and other countries). The US obviously won't acquiesce to extradition requests for the crime of murder that it considers legitimate, but that doesn't mean that those committing crimes cannot be arrested while traveling abroad to countries that do have extradition treaties with Pakistan and other countries in question.

What international laws allow this to continue?

If I were a citizen of a country where these remote drone attacks were taking place and no war has been declared, I would be campaigning to put every person directly responsible on the list of criminals wanted internationally and have them arrested by my allies if those criminals travel to my allies' country.

I would be far more comfortable with what is going on if there were a requirement that all drone operators had to be citizens of the countries being targeted. They can be supervised and trained by Americans, but the trigger must be pulled by a fellow countryman. If we can't find people to do that, then we need to cease what we are doing or formally declare war via a Congressional vote. Alternatively, we could request or even fund that Pakistan and other countries send in police to arrest those responsible with a drone on standby and only send in the drone if the person refuses to be arrested peacefully. The moment they fire back on the Pakistani police with weapons, the drone would be sent in to resolve the conflict. Either way, fellow citizens of those targeted should be directly involved in these attacks or they should not occur at all. Sentencing people to death without trial is un-American.

What happens when we've killed as many innocents as were killed on September 11th on US soil? Death of innocents from above is simply unjustified.
/r/worldnews is no longer a default sub, so none of its posts appear on logged-out frontpage anyways.
> It turns out Stallman was just (far) ahead of his time -- as usual.

Indeed, and it was always obvious if you took security seriously instead of regarding it as a game of probabilities and trade-offs where convenience wins.

As we are being pulled very strongly towards a future where everything and everyone is connected all the time, we should really consider such radical approaches again and how to make them more convenient for "normal" people.
I wouldn't be discouraged - this is actually a way of computation that we could "read" by looking at the brain.

The dentritic 'computations' would depend on the geometry of the dendrite and the location of synaptic connections; so the current projects that want to slice a brain in thin slices, scan them, and reconstruct the neurons, would be able to build an exact map for that type of computation, simply by automatically converting each dendrite's connection geometry to a formula/model of that dendritic tree.
stackoverflow and plentyoffish are windows stack. I just found out and read about this a few days ago, I'm very impressed. So I won't shake my fist at windows stack. With competent developers, windows/c#/MSQL, etc can holds it's on too. it's been demonstrated.
"will be in the red for the better part of a decade" - right in time for getting a mortgage :(.
My co-founder's parents own a restaurant. Being the technical person of the family, he has always been responsible for managing the restaurant's online presence.

Checking and updating the large list of review sites and social networks took more time than he had, so Bistro was originally created as a way for him to keep a pulse on his family's restaurant's online reputation.
Did you build it so others could use it? Link?
Don't most patrol cars have laptops in them? Laptops that I usually see open and turned on, while the officer is driving?

I don't care what kind of special training you have, a vehicle can still pull out in front of you in less time than it takes to look at a mirror, let alone a laptop screen.

Yet police officers hand out expensive fines to citizens for doing the same. Bewildering.
Sounds like an attempt to rationalize unsafe behavior to me. You can always roll down your window and stick your head out for an unobstructed view until you arrive at a place where you can pull over.
Hasn't that transition been going on for 6+ years now? I guess that's what counts as agile in the enterprise space.
and clojurescript, circle is complete.
Anyone care to comment on FBs Max Kelly, head of security flip-flop employment between FB and NSA?

How can that guy be trusted with anything?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347047/Former-Faceb...
If you had read the article you would know that this data was given to the NSA by the GHCQ. Would you cut off the UK? Australia and Canada?
He is checking if we are generally cool enough to hang out with.
I had the exact same feelings when I saw so many people go "They will just borrow more money" in the recent US govt. shutdown. The arrogance is unbelievable. Shows complete lack of remorse over leeching off the rest of the world.

Very disappointed in the american citizens' reaction to the catastrophic political decisions their leaders have been making for decades.
Any institution responsible for maintaining a nations safety should be something to be proud about, but apparently with each news NSA sounds more like a virus.