skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that WebPI is for developers ... it installs on your computer the stuff you need for developing / running your application, with the bonus that you can also quickly install a prepackaged web app like Drupal.

I'm sure it wouldn't make any sense to make it available for Linux / Mac OS X since it's a Windows complement.

The problem here is that the TFA is wrong ... Microsoft hasn't released an "iTunes Store for Web Apps". It's just a convenient way to get your Windows Server up and running, or am I missing something?
http://arcanius.silverfir.net/blog/clinical-research-experie...

Maybe this guy can help.
The solar storm part is scary :/ (especially if you've seen the Nicholas Cage film 'The Knowing'.)
Well that settles it. Leftists know nothing about science and so humans have never caused, nor could we cause, any appreciable difference to climate.
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IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain
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Well, I'm sure you could help out the project instead of building another one, or you could just continue on :)
Guess what, rocket science isn't that hard either.
Apparently its attributed to Greg Walsh who got the idea working on the Titan graphics computer at Ardent Computers with Cleve Moler, the author of matlab.

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/15/
A guy I knew actually quit his job last year to prepare for this event.
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I think he might mean "SimpleDB" where he says S3 and "SQL Azure" where he says SDS.
Yes, I was actually expecting the cartoon to go in that direction. Academia: "You're going to be modestly famous in mathematics textbooks!" Business: "OMG your brilliant code [1] has saved me three hours of work per day and generated an additional $1M in revenue. Here, have a raise."

But this is a cartoon specificially about deep magic: About the bittersweet joy of discovering something great that only the well-trained can understand. It's not about the money, and it isn't even about happiness in general: It's about a specific sort of happiness and how delimited it is.

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[1] i.e. "the CRUD app that you copied from the framework documentation in one afternoon". But a well-placed simple CRUD app is a godsend. Businesspeople don't care about methods, they only care about results, but by god are they happy with results.
Interoperability will suffer! Interoperability and open standards are two of the lynchpins of the Internet.

Ultimately, if a large group of users keeps to the interoperable philosophy, the large walled gardens will fall. (Witness AOL.)
until the iPhone, a bit of a backwater in terms of mobile phone stuff.

That isn't true. Rather it is the case that BlackBerry has had very little visibility to consumers until recently. For example, BBs have had a multitasking OS for a long time now, whereas Palm are touting it as a great innovation.

Also you can run your own Java code on them...
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People see the 2-4% that credit card processors take and view it in comparison to cash - something they see as having no cost per transaction. What people don't see is the cost of taking cash - it gets stolen, it gets you robbed, it needs special help(armed guards) getting to the bank.

You're online and stuck with credit cards and 2-4% fees, but that's just the cost of doing business. Money cost money to transfer. Build it into your model.
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One of the first things I learned in business - never pre-announce.
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(sic)? Not where the post was written it's not :P
Profitability is a lower baseline. The real metric is opportunity cost. What else could have been done with an investment that took a decade to break even?
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Seems like Microsoft these days is doing everything to ameliorate its own weaknesses.
I don't know where the idea comes from that academics value elegance in programming type problems more than businesspeople anyway. In my experience, academics are the ones who only care that it works. It might be an abstract thing that works rather than a practical thing, but it has to work and no further. In business (businesses I've worked with), you have a motivation to make something that is GOOD, and "it works" is never good enough, and only making things that work is a good way to get managed out or fired.

I've never seen code in the business world that even approached being as horrid as the stuff I saw in academia.
I find this a fascinating area of research, however a prediction of my dad's always comes to mind. "A computer as intelligent as a human will take 18 years to 'program.'"
Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on making some design changes to the site. Changing the color of the description text is a good idea.

And, thanks for the input on changing the description text to make it unclickable. I'll have to think that one through a bit.
A lot of what is said in this post is right on the money. Listening is the future, but you need to take it futher than that. Identifying trends amongst your data, seeing what works and what doesn't work and determining your ROI for whatever you are trying to gauge(gains in sales, followers, facebook friends, etc.) is where the real value is going to lie.

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3% is as low as you can get with Amex. 2% is as low as you can get with Visa/MC. The only other thing consumers can pay you with is an ACH transfer (which is like a check) and even that costs money for both ends sometimes -- but the systems that let you write "electronic checks" are clunky and weird and 90% of your customers will want to use their credit card for fear of giving you their bank account numbers. That puts you back at 2-4%. So you're definitely on the high end, but you're going to save max about 1%. Is 1% of your revenue worth the cost of setting up your own merchant account (it will be a few weeks of work if you run your own payment system). If you use an off the shelf shopping cart system, go with authorize.net and it should work out of the box.
GSM or CDMA?
http://www.modha.org/ has much more detail:

"The model reproduces a number of physiological and anatomical features of the mammalian brain. The key functional elements of the brain, neurons, and the connections between them, called synapses, are simulated using biologically derived models. The neuron models include such key functional features as input integration, spike generation and firing rate adaptation, while the simulated synapses reproduce time and voltage dependent dynamics of four major synaptic channel types found in cortex. Furthermore, the synapses are plastic, meaning that the strength of connections between neurons can change according to certain rules, which many neuroscientists believe is crucial to learning and memory formation. ... We were able to deliver a stimulus to the model then watch as it propagated within and between different populations of neurons. We found that this propagation showed a spatiotemporal pattern remarkably similar to what has been observed in experiments with real brains. In other simulations, we also observed oscillations between active and quiet periods, as is often observed in the brain during sleep or quiet waking."

I'm pretty skeptical about this line of work. The thing that's interesting about neural circuitry is not so much large scale population activity patterns but transformation of information (e.g. construction of a receptive field, place cells in hippocampus). As far as I can tell this work captures some of the large scale oscillatory dynamics but says nothing about the fine-grained information processing that is actually where the rubber meets the road.

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Edit: that said, the tools for large scale computation being developed here could be an interesting foundation for further work -- given the right stimuli and learning rules, can one recapitulate formation of receptive fields? If yes, what would the relationship be between the simulation's implementation of receptive field structure, and the implementations found in biology?

But the media hype is pretty off scale for what is, essentially, preliminary work.
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I'd really rather not look inside anyone's toolbelt. Their toolpants just might slip down. That would be embarassing for all concerned.
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I think some people might view this as borderline spam. It might be. If I get down-voted flagged, so be it. However, I want some feedback regarding ways to make it more viral. (I also want votes and shares -- i.e. it may be spam.) The web stuff is not my thing. I just learned what a retweet was yesterday.
Not of it's a computer doing the programming
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The same thing happened with fighting games (such as Street Fighter). This type of game is extremely deep and technical, with highly refined skills which can be transferred over successive generations of a series. There are people who have been honing their Street Fighter skills for 15 years now; that makes it difficult for new players to participate on a casual basis.

As a result, the genre is pretty much a niche these days, despite the unexpected popularity of Street Fighter 4.
Thank you everyone for your kind advice and suggestions
My guess is that it stopped because there are no longer any HN readers who both like xkcd and don't check it anyway. We reached xkcd-awareness saturation a couple of years ago.
Data has to be transferred somehow from the power transmission grid to the front-end network. Once a hacker breaks into the network, he can usually find that connection.

A fair enough point.

Though in my experience the kind of access you would need to harness this connection is of a higher level than simply compromising the website - you would probably need access to the underlying system (a whole different ball game - though entirely possible it is not mentioned in the article at all)
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"DOM model" or innerHTML? Did they control for normal modifications that browsers do, like inserting missing <tbody> tags, removing whitespace and the like? Any more data on the nature or amount of modification?
I'd be less worried about the cut they take and more worried about their annoying capacity to take a disliking to you and shutting down your account without warning while taking your money, and never, ever telling you why.

Make sure you have a backup.
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That's an interesting suggestion, I would have never thought about that myself.
I really hope it's GSM... I'm starting to weigh my options in terms of unlocked Android device to develop with.
>If you're going to put some faith in evolution, put it in our ability to adapt to available food sources. If we were as brittle as needing to consciously micromanage nutrient input, I doubt we'd have made it nearly this far.

It depends on your definition of "need." You can obviously live to be old enough to reproduce on extra value meals from McDonald's - people do - but that doesn't mean its good for you.

>Anyway, I don't see any particular reason to expect 'natural' food to be more healthy. Most of nature, given its druthers, would like to kill you.

Because we're adapted to it and we're messing with systems that are not well understood. Some of this is obvious and well-known - for example, the link between sugar consumption and diabetes.
A very interesting research but we have to take some aspects into consideration. Computers that can work like or close to a human mind is simply impossible. Human mind keeps on upgrading every time we learn something new while computer can only learn this things through upgrading them by a person who recently learned something new, what if that person dies, then the computer will stop its progress and will no longer be considered to work like a human mind.

Just my point of view.
I took it Tuesday early AM, but didn't experience any lag. Good luck!
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BB's are nice, but they're sort of a niche product in some ways, and what I really meant was that the whole... "ecosystem", if you'll pardon the buzzword, was just not as advanced in the US. I think that's starting to catch up, in part because of the iPhone.
Cash4Gold?

Many of them seem to have focus.
Peak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels....

Peak Oil would be the end of the world in the same way that the cod crisis destroyed Canada. Pollution has been around for centuries and hasn't offed us yet. The threat of nuclear war is pretty much the only thing that stops real wars from happening between great powers. An out-of-control climate isn't something you talk about in the present tense, and won't be seen for twenty or thirty years if it happens at all. Tsunamis have been around as long as the oceans. Nuclear fallout at a civilization-threatening scale could only result from a nuclear war, which I just dealt with. Disease has been around for billions of years and medicine is getting better, not worse, at keeping people alive until they're in their mid-eighties or so. Rising sea levels will mostly inconvenience third-world island nations, if they become a problem at all.

My prediction is that 2012 will be a hilarious year, because so many people will be so worked up about it.
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There are definitely opportunities for someone with your skills to ease into bioinformatics. Having conducted a job search not long ago, they are unfortunately a bit hard to find at times, depending on where you're located. In general, I think you'd have good luck starting with some of the less science-heavy bioinformatics work. For example, I'm at The Center for Biomedical Informatics in The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. Our group spends a lot of time meeting with researchers, understanding what they need, and building (or buying) systems that solve some of those problems. The team I am part of is much more focused on biomedical informatics than pure bioinformatics (though we have people who do "pure" bioinformatics as well). Our setup really makes things interesting. Many of the "big questions" in bioinformatics are real tough problems to crack (such as protein folding). But there is practically an unlimited need for people to have many smaller problems solved (with great impact). Simple things like integrating research data into a database-backed web-app can give a clinician the tools he or she needs to conduct their research more efficiently and uncover new hypotheses. Plus, we get to work on things that directly impact the health of kids. Many times, we're working directly with a physician who is conducting research into a particular disease. They literally will be seeing kids early in the day, and having a meeting with us about UI design later in the day.

We are actually hiring for two positions right now:

Senior Data Integration Analyst:
http://www.chop.edu.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExt...

Analyst/Programmer
http://www.chop.edu.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExt...

We're always looking for the right kind of people and I maintain that hacker news readers are a good pool to draw from. Don't let the corporate sound of those descriptions fool you, we're a pretty entrepreneurial group. If by any chance you're within easy travel distance from Philly, or even if you just want to chat more about bioinformatics, feel free to email me at italiam [at] email.chop.edu.
I think there's a reason to post this one in particular - to set up a comments thread on HN about it.

I kind of thought it had harsher implications for Academia - for every self-congratulatory paper of something new, it's already been done a hundred times in the "Real World" in an unheralded source control repository.
Not exactly related, but it really annoys me when people have twitter accounts but don't respond to @mentions.
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I think this was really more a joke about Rupert Murdoch than his personal view, especially since Murdoch's 'parasites' comment has been discussed a lot recently.

Edit: adding link to show a reference http://www.mediaite.com/online/google-rupert-murdoch-decries...
You should start a blog & vlog on this guy. I have a feeling he would be a goldmine for you ;)
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And also how they deal with customers who reverse charges (happens more than you'd think). Not to mention dealing with actual fraud.
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The copy is too aggressive, I understand your position but as I was reading more of the page the more disconnected I was.

IMO, you should rewrite it to make it more persuasive.
I didn't think it was too aggressive. Maybe you're just not comfortable with frank, direct writing?
I really don't think they broke even. If you're putting a title like that on an article, I at least expect to see some hard numbers in it, not just a vague quotes ("The Itanium business is now profitable"). So let's see numbers first.
My friend seem equally split on this issue. I prefer direct writing, but even some of them -- people who liked me -- said they were turned off. On the other hand, a lot of them said things like, "I wish most solicitations were like this. Just tell me what you want and if i can I will."

I.E. I am not sure if i should or should not change it.
Check? Look at how NearlyFree does it: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/mailing

Cost of handling at some volumes may be more than 4% though.
agreed. I also felt the copy reads like the writer is angry specifically with us. Particularly the bit at the end needs to go.

Some parts of the text seem irrationally argued as well. Particularly the graph. There is no real evidence (or links to evidence) to back up the claim.

Finally it does look a tiny weeny little bit like the "EARN $500 A DAY" pages that crop up a lot. Only a little but probably enough to put people off.
Those who don't study history and all that.

Though as I sit here on a project written over 17 months, never tested against actual data, with a QA team who had higher priorities until it was handed to them in July, I can appreciate rereading the experience someone else had on a similarly screwed up project if for no other reason than to know I'm not the only one. And now I'm off to pour some more bourbon in my coffee.
I think it's more effective to ask for a specific dollar amount. If you notice, radio pledge drives and the like mention a "suggested donation amount" constantly. That way you short circuit all kinds of over thinking people do. Ask for $100 then tell people if they can't afford it, to give less, and that every bit helps.
It's not spam, it's a cause, just don't know if it belongs here on HN. Regardless, I'm wishing you the best.
You Are Indifferent

So, you don't really care about people who die from
Chordoma? Fine. There's room for you too. If Chordoma is
cured, you wont have to be nagged by me anymore. Pimp.

This sounds quite aggressive to me. Probably if somebody is in deferent and reads this won't be convinced.
Deleted the bottom part (indifferent). I agree. It was ill conceived.
amazon , paypal ( first in a niche market )
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Citation neeed.
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While the idea of buying commodities might fit your criteria (though I would disagree with that notion), Cash4Gold is not a great model: http://consumerist.com/5144296/10-confessions-of-a-cash4gold...

Ebay, despite its problems with scammers, is a good example: a store that sells almost everything, with no inventory costs.
I'm always suspicious of anything that people claim "works like the human X". In many cases (the brain especially) we have only the most rudimentary understanding of how things actually work. Our ability to create something that works the same way is therefore only as good as that rudimentary understanding. That said, it's clear they are trying to use this computer to understand more about brains. But whenever I read an article like this, I can't help but think of all those grainy movies of early failed attempts at manned flight by people trying to immitate birds.
I guess it's a difficult choice, I'd stick to the one that feels more authentic to you. It's impossible that everybody likes it.
Agreed. Deleted that part. Thanks.
I'm not talking about the interface of the device, I'm talking about the complete picture of developing mobile apps — Apple's offering, while flawed, is a huge step up from the state of mobile development prior to the iPhone.
Divided we hang.. (Part 1)
FlickPeek - video search engine 
You can watch your favourite tv shows on FlickPeek.

FlickPeek, one time a top 5000 Alexa website, is a video search engine that indexes popular video sites.

Would you kindly give some feedback on the current version of FlickPeek ?
Thanks !
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I don't know if I have ADD, but I get easily dis
Ask YC: Any entrepreneurial events in Boston around Thanksgiving week?
Long story story: I moved back to Bulgaria after our startup (thefeelgood.com) didn't pan out, but I'll be visiting some friends in Boston next week and I'd love to join a startup event if anything's going on.
(Raises a virtual glass of MacAllen Cask Strength to the spirit of a colleague being sent out on a suicide mission)
If you buy a phone from T-Mobile (GSM), they will gladly unlock the device for you if you tell them that you will be traveling with the phone to Europe. Alternatively, you can purchase either the ADP1 or ADP2 phones directly from Google already unlocked.
I found it effective. I logged into Facebook immediately and voted, so at least in my case you had the intended impact. I had never even heard of chordoma before today, so good on ya!
Here you go, this should help, http://venturefizz.com/events
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How will it work on a carrier's 3G network? My understanding was that even most tri-band GSM phones have a custom chip from the carrier in order to work on their particular 3G network. Is that incorrect? If not, how will a phone not tied to a carrier work on, say, T-mobile 3G?
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Thanks! And yea, it's really rare. You should not have heard of it. I was in the ER recently for a allergic reaction to an unknown substance. The ER doc doing a history said, "um...a...what?"
already covered in
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943253
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That's what he's referring to; specifically ADHD-I. ADD and ADHD have been merged into ADHD-I/H(Inattentive or Hyperactive)
They've been preparing ways of dealing with fragmentation since day one: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/resource...
Um 3 lines? That's not 3 lines. Sure it FITS into 3 lines but every time you see a ";" you also see a new line. So

#define mu_run_test(test) do { char message = test(); tests_run++; if (message) return message; } while (0)

Isn't one line but

#define mu_run_test(test) do {
char *message = test();
tests_run++;
if (message)
return message;
} while (0
That's kinda what I thought. The "OMG MSFT THIS IS CRAZY!!!1" was a bit much.

It's good to see people compete with Heroku and Engine Yard (and for more things than Ruby, as much as I love it.)
University of South Asia's website promoting Desi Girls and Porn.
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