skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon also has a startup program where you can get like $7k or similar free AWS credit when you register. They do some basic checks, but it's pretty easy to get IIRC.
> That also means the the brain could be copied

Unfortunately, no, it doesn't, because there is no way we can "read" a brain. "Reading" tiny parts of a brain is possible, but requires destruction of a lot of other parts.

We have billions of neurons, and each neuron has connections to thousands of other neurons, and all of that is mashed together in a lump of gray mass.

Scientists today can map the structure of a handful of neurons in a single brain. A typical procedure might involve perfusing the organism with a chemical that plastifies the brain, and then cutting slices out of the brain.

Besides the fact that these mappings are just tiny 2D recordings of a tiny sliver of the full 3D brain, they are not precise enough to actually simulate the neurons. The connections between Neurons, the synapses, are so tiny that you need extremely complicated microscopes to see them, and you have to be fast because the light from the microscope actually destroys what you are looking at...

And, of course, the mice these brains come from will have some genetic modification that makes their cells phosporescent so you can see parts of them better.
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"I only got really into Linux with Debian-like systems after Nano became those distributions' standard editor."

I'd recommend learning an editor that has any sort of power - vim, emacs, or something lesser known. Trying to get anything done in nano is like pulling teeth. Yeesh.
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I can play go (I am 1kyu). The game against crazy stones is really impressive. I feel that Ishida played at his best level against crazy stones and that crazy stones would not have won if it hasn't found the marvellous move 52. In the game against zen, I feel the level was lower.

The handicap of 4 stones seems to be very accurate. This means that crazy stones has the same level than top amateur players.

Generally, in Go, fast games are an advantage for computer. I wonder what would give a slower game.

congratulation to crazy stones.
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Tip: I've got both, the blank one isn't worth the hassle. I can type fine on it, except when I need to find & or something. Then I have to press all the numeric keys to figure it out.
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Interesting benchmarks. I am really impressed with the depth you have gone with these tests. It will be great to see newer companies included in that list too like cloudways.com and jumpstarter.io.

Pantheon, Cloudways and Jumpstarter are three great platforms with a potential to beat a lot of higher players in this industry.
That's a not an answer. You claimed that Bitcoin introduced new kinds of scam, and I asked for an example. How does that make me a lunatic waiting for my stash to grow?

The only thing I can think of is software mining cryptos in stealth, which is not a scam but a trojan. The idea to outsource computing to hacked machines is not new, so even then it would barely qualify.

And pyramid schemes which we both know are as old as trading itself.
I doubt this. Opposing gay marriage makes you homophobic in my view like voting for Apartheid makes you a racist.

There is no "I have nothing against them but they should not have equal rights". If you opt not to support equal rights for any given group of people you believe their way of life is not as valid as yours.
And yet, very rational people, with full understanding of the costs of both environments, and pretty detailed spreadsheets (I've spoken with them) continue to buy into PaaS/IaaS offerings aggressively.

For the most part, it's because the cost of hardware isn't the only factor, but the flexibility, ability to rapidly scale (and descale), and, most importantly, the fact that Amazon takes care of all the dirty network engineering/system administration work required to keep the plumbing working.

But, hey, that's the great thing about the free market - every company/individual gets to make the choices that are most advantageous for themselves. I wouldn't be surprised that in regions where network engineers/sysadmins make less than $125-$150K/year, and there isn't a need to turn up a dozen servers overnight, (and, turn them off the night after that) - that AWS/Azure/GCS isn't attractive. But, clearly, for others, it is.
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> why not use ice cold blood?

Cold blood doesn't flow, it becomes too thick.
I hardly see this as relevant. For all we know he found a credit card on the internet and signed up for Brazzer's.
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Yellow Mountain Imports has a good looking and feeling bamboo set (bowls, board, yunzi stones) for under $100. GoGameGuru has some cheap sets too, but not with bowls. Both have a shin "kaya" set for under $200.
I've been on the alternative last.fm beta streaming player for a while. The alternative is using their recommendations and scrobbler for youtube hosted content. This version is not shutting down. It could use a little curation, but overall I haven't minded the switch so much.
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It's the internet. Copy+paste für immer. Get over it.
Sorry, no,

P(A) >= P(A n B)

Always holds whether or not A and B are independent. A contains (A n B) therefore is always bigger.

The assumption being made is that the NSA can't abuse the Huawei access without Huawei being complicit. I.e. if NSA pwn me, Huawei gave them access, so actually it's the NSA and Huawei pwning me together.

P(NSA pwn me) = P(NSA pwn me because Huawei pwned me and gave them access) <= P(Huawei pwn me)
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Thanks for this clarification on HMAC - I was also failing to see and understand the relevance to passwords when investigating after watching the talk.
Does this also mean that "back in the days" when continents were kludged together, the rotational spin was way faster/slower?
days do not have an upper bound; therefore you see 8bits on the most left position. Hours can be at most 24, so 7th bit is not present, minutes&seconds can be at most 60 so 8th bit is not present etc...
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I was under the impression that the difference between nearly all pros is 3 stones or less.
I also think their "dig" on the Rift is pretty weak. So people aren't willing to put on a virtual reality headset, but you think they are going to play laser tag in their office with their smart phones?
"Your phone wasn't able to record all of the movement. Please try again"

can't get past 2 walls. iphone 4s
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This is why the permissions model needs to be improved - not just to deny/grant normal ones, but also to stop apps from unexpectedly running in the background.
Right on. The thing about the kind of language weeniedom that smart enlightened people commit, is that there are always smart, enlightened intentions behind it.
I remember reading about this research in pigs many years ago and over the years I kept wondering "what's going on with this?"

If they can make this work only in a statistical sense, reviving more people than would have died otherwise, it'll lead to even more research. My firm belief is that this is one of those things that the more we do, the more we'll be able to do. It wouldn't surprise me to see people being "dead" for 4-16 hours then brought back to life -- assuming a decade or two of research.

At that point, all kinds of weird things become possible, like head transplants, or people who have lost their body from the navel down being saved.

Very cool stuff.
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I don't think so, as MS would promptly ruin it by closing it and folding it into the xbone rather than being available for PCs.
I would bet that yes your picture is correct.

He posted on twitter:

"I suppose I will get a FB account now, so that may lead to some writing a little longer than tweet length..."

Never signing up for FB account indicates to me that he's got as much disdain for Facebook as many people here.

He also tweeted:

"I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale."

Which hints to me that he's at least intrigued by the possibilities that partnering with Facebook will offer, and he sees some potential in this partnership.

Carmack has earned enough of my respect over the last few decades that if it turns out he's ok with the acquisition and stays with the company, then as much as I dislike Facebook, I'm going to trust his judgement and be confident that he's hard at work on something 'game-changing'.
yes but it took some time to build a series of tubes to your home.
We use cdn77 and are happy with the service. They're cheap and they properly route Google DNS users (lots of them), since they support edns-client-subnet.
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I think firefox lost its way because it focused on extensions for things that should have been browser core functionality. What does firefox stand for these days? Why would I use it over Opera or Konqueror?
This does not appear to be new - there's a story from last year here: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/may/cd47.html
In 1997, Janice Kim (1p) gave HandTalk a 25-stone handicap: she won.[0]

In 2006, Crazy Stone ran on a 4 x 2-core CPU at 2.2 GHz and won gold in a tournament.[1] In 2013, the author purchased a 4 x 16-core CPU at 2.8 GHz for tournament play.[2] I would imagine that that was the hardware used for this game.

For such a slow machine the Monte Carlo method has proved devastating.[3] Consider that the the author's computer can reach 332.8 GFLOPs per 2P node[4] and the slowest supercomputer in the world's Top 500 list can reach 236,300 GFLOPs,[5] which is ~710 times faster. The Tianhe-2, for giggles, can peak at 54,902,000 GFLOPs, or ~164,970 times faster.

In theory, the Tianhe-2 could demolish a 9p, today. If Moore's Law holds out,[6][7][8] Crazy Stone will likely reach 9p in under 7 years, by virtue of hardware improvements alone. Were IBM to dedicate resources to Computer Go, a machine would be awarded a 9p rank in as few as 3 years.

[0] http://mechner.com/david/compgo/sciences/

[1] http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/09/71804

[2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.go/26670

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go

[4] http://www.amd.com/us/Documents/6000_Series_product_brief.pd...

[5] http://www.top500.org/list/2013/11/?page=5

[6] http://phys.org/news/2013-05-nanowire-transistors-law-alive....

[7] http://www.advancedsubstratenews.com/2014/02/fd-soi-keeps-mo...

[8] http://www.economist.com/news/21589080-golden-rule-microchip...
Those are encouraging words, but what do they mean in practice? E.g. are they reverting the changes that had gnome's login manager depending on systemd?
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My initial thoughts too. I can't see any other reason for it's use.
Are top RTS games like Starcraft hard for AI? I know the default AI isn't strong, but is Starcraft in theory difficult to trounce humans? I spoke to an ex-pro player and he asserted AI could never get close, but I don't see why. It seems like being able to do precise calculations and a near infinite APM could be a significant advantage.
"Personal Computers" have had viruses and malware for decades. They are most assuredly not full of "all wonderful things".
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I hope they will someday eradicate cancers, or at least make it less lethal :)
What is the value of getting good at Go?
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Is it just me or is this totally useless and uninteresting? Are people so bored nowadays that they end up doing this kind of stuff?
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I am into that - and you can change the behaviour to only alt-tab windows in a single workspace if you're more used to that.
The minigames remind me a lot about Year Walk's finale :) http://youtu.be/tD6ZROIlZhU?t=16m11s
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Hehe :) In fairness though, keep in mind they've gone as far as mice.
What an irresponsible headline. I'm not familiar with the research in question but I've worked on cancer during my PhD and the headline alone is sufficient to discredit the article.

Every kind of tumor? Really? Because we don't even know all the kinds of tumors that are out there. What we do know, however, is that, to this date, no commonality between _all_ tumors has been identified. The smart money is on the hypothesis that there is no commonality, since many possible combinations of cellular malfunction can lead to tumorgenesis.

For instance, I distinctly remember having read a review in Nature a few weeks back about a study of certain brain tumors that can either be caused by mutations of some genes, or alternatively can be caused through a purely epigenetic mechanism. How about that!

So given all this, how likely is it that the antibody they created blocks CD47 in cancer cells and only cancer cells but of course all types cancer cells, as the article claims?

Why don't journalists think/care about the consequences of tabloidizing cancer? These articles play on the feelings of very desperate people, just to get some asshat a few more click-throughs for the monthly metrics.
The original story above is from March 27, 2013. Perhaps the OP didn't see the year?
They are on the list too! Pantheon and Media Temple as well.
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I was not aware that the NSA had decided to restrict TAO's operations to China. That must be a very recent thing if so. Can you provide any references to that?
Wow, that's smug. My comment had nothing to do with Haskell. He said I was being ageist when I said there are some things that only become apparent with experience.
It's a combination of:

1. Keeping all your data in constant sync with a third party
2. You'd obviously have to do a sanity check now and then, even more code
3. Search isn't that important on most sites, 2.5% of visitors use ours
4. Trusting what is some of your most business critical information to a third party
5. Extra point of failure

We have an autocomplete (with all the 'reinvented' features you list), but it sorely needs some TLC to handle mis-spellings. I like the idea of that kind of easy to use auto-complete.

But on my server.

As I say, perhaps I'm not the target market.
"I've had monads explained to me several times right here on HN"

Well, let's add one to the pile, though I second the "use some monads" recommendation. This is one perspective; there are others:

Monad is an interface. It is used when reifying certain kinds of context to give a standard way of chaining those contexts. That reification means 1) you can talk explicitly about those contexts, and 2) the type system can enforce more rules around those contexts. The abstraction provided by the interface means we can hide away a lot of the plumbing.

The Monad interface is defined in terms of a type constructor; that is, a type-level function that takes a type as an argument and produces another type - like a C++ template with one argument. There is a sense in which the monad "wraps" the "inner" type, though for some monads this is metaphorical at best. Still, it provides a vocabulary.
The article discusses the NSA embedding themselves in the Huawei support infrastructure. If true, Huawei's access is being abused by individuals who work for both Huawei and the NSA. So, in order for the NSA to abuse Huawei's access in the way discussed in the article, then that requires Huawei employees to abuse Huawei's access. Hence,
P(NSA abuses H's access) <= P(H abuses H's access)
Music industry is screwed in that sense and that's understandable move from LastFM's side.

What I cannot understand from LastFM team is why are they loosing the "Music Events" market (basically, making mobile app easier to discover / add them). I think they could make a huge success in that sense to keep up.
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What a ponderous false dichotomy. No one believes experience matters more than individual variation in skill. Don't put words in my mouth.
"Users are dumb, they won't notice, and hey, the app's free anyway."

Maybe we've stumbled on a great alternative to the freemium model?
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Are you serious? Every business with 1 or more consultant or sales person deals with expenses and they're a right PITA for all involved (employee, manager, accountants), the market is huge.
That seems as silly as asking if when I reboot my computer is it has the "same" data or a copy. The bit pattern is the bit pattern. Another way to think about it might be "how would the 'copy' know its a copy? If it doesn't, does it even matter?
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It was all downhill after ASCII took over from EBCDIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC from our beloved IBM
I fully agree. IMHO scala has one problem: the compiler slowness. It is really a marvellously designed language.
Then you'd have 2 problems.
I just upgraded from my 2010 MBP to the most recent Macbook Air 13" and I am so happy I did. The screen isn't that bad because they stepped up the resolution to 1440x900. It gives the effect of a much larger screen.
Play it or hack it, 2048 and beyond.
That would be strange, given that the only Google-produced code on my Android-running phone comes from AOSP and has had plenty of eyes (and network sniffers, and firewalls, etc) on it to weed out any such mining.

If you run Google applications (on Android or on iOS or elsewhere) you send data to Google. If you don't want to send data to Google, don't run Google applications. The same goes for Apple applications which phone home to Apple, Microsoft applications to Microsoft, etc.

Android works fine without Google applications ('gapps'). It does not need the Google Services Framework to survive. You don't need the (horribly named) 'play store'. Nor Gmail, Google Maps, Google+, etc. This is one of the big differences between Android and the other bigger players in this field - you have a choice.
That's true. Well at least the imbalance is only in a single age group, not for instance like in China where selective abortions have lead to a nationwide gender gap[1].

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific...
thirded. the entire point was social listening. even when I didn't like what a friend was into, it was interesting to laugh at the differences in taste.
given that consciousness is inherently subjective (I cannot assert that you or any other human being has a consciousness /lives a subjective experience.), I have doubts that the scientific method will be appliable someday to such a field.
When, not if: how do San Franciscans live with the threat of the next quake?
Can you explain how this works? I read the page, but I don't quite get it. If Bitalo has one key and I have one key, what's the benefit?

- If Bitalo loses their key, I lose my money.

- If I lose my key, I lose my money (so I still need backups).

- Still need my own keystore device, so it's not more convenient.

- If I have a single device and it gets hacked, the attacker can emulate me to Bitalo.

- If I have multiple devices, why can't I use m-of-n without Bitalo?

I'm not trying to be negative, I just feel I'm overlooking something simple.
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To give you an example, if I pick something up at random, the probability that it is a shoe is at least as big as the probability that it is a red shoe. That's because it can't be a red shoe without also being a shoe. Same thing with the A's and B's. If A and B happen, then that means A happens.
The most profitable route would be aiming for a sharing platform, getting early stage investment, build a userbase, then sell the company. Both Facebook and Google are eyeing this field.

It's not even clear if this is more risky than a paid model, because the internet landscape is littered with corpses of paid-model web applications which didn't take off "enough".
This headline does not make any sense!

It seems to be simply using the name "oculus rift" for the sake of getting clicks for something that has nothing to do with the oculus rift.

And it also has some rather snarky (and probably wrong) editorializing: "The difference is, 13th Lab has a product people might actually use." Oh come on!
I'd rather experience 60s and 80s language (Lisp, ML/Haskell) than something like C or Java, even if I have to put up with a text editor.

I'd really much rather get both, I want AST editors in the spirit of paredit.
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One thing that has really helped my running has been calf sleeves. Here's an example: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00G6E291W?pc_redir=1395807977...

These aren't the ones I own personally but they seem similar enough. Basically a compression sleve that covers your lower leg.

I was running up to 10 miles when I started having shin pain for even less then a mile. Since getting them I'm comfortably back up to usual distances for 10+ miles. I even ran a marathon wearing them.

Other then that I have support running shoes (some asics) and orange super feet insoles. Unfortunately combined this probably worked out to 200 but I just went to shorts chalet and bought it all, didn't really look out for the best prices. I run on the road so I think it's pretty hard on my knees but with these three things combined I've had no problems over 6 months of a least 20 total miles a week (normally a 10 and two 5s).
From http://stemcell.stanford.edu/CD47/:

TL;DR: Clinical trials expected in the first half of 2014

(1/14/14) Update on the anti-CD47 cancer therapy clinical trials

Researchers and staff at Stanford are continuing to work hard preparing the groundwork for the clinical trials of our anti-CD47 antibody as a cancer therapy. We are anticipating the start of clinical trials sometime in the first half of this year, though unforeseen delays may yet slow that progress. As we get closer to the start of the clinical trials, we will be posting information about eligibility for the trials and how to apply.

There has been a huge amount of interest in these trials from patients and their families and friends. However, we feel compelled to emphasize that, as is typical of FDA phase I clinical trials, the first tests of this therapy will be very small safety trials involving only a very few patients. Unfortunately, this means only a tiny fraction of those interested will be admitted to the first phase I clinical trials. Accordingly, we are urging patients to continue exploring existing treatments and other clinical trials.
These "workers" that are being "exploited" are just copying and pasting code, in this situation. In this case, the code doesn't even work properly, since it's calling someone else's analytics callback. No work has gone into this, just willingness to steal code.

That's called cheating the customer...fuck these guys. Even if they need the money.
I would have thought it was obvious that minds are not like computers, the really interesting question is are minds Turing machines?
Are there any example where somebody used Javascript on a website to do something like this?
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Really ? A hole the size of a ballpoint head ruined the table ?

It's a £100 table after all, not some old, 300 years plus table. So I think your clients won't expect them to be that good in the first place considering the price and quality.
After massive AWS and Google price drops, UpCloud is still more competitive
>tourniquet

tournament?
Or the academics could just buck up and unionize like all other exploited workers, including, frankly, academics in many countries.