thomasrossi
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9 years ago
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on: Stem cells shown safe, beneficial for chronic stroke patients
1 year after the stroke, the difference in a month is very limited in my experience. I am not a doc, but I've crunched some numbers related to this topic, what was your experience?
thomasrossi
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9 years ago
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on: Former NASA chief unveils $100M neural chip maker KnuEdge
Super nice, is it an asic designed for ML algorithms? Which ones? Well, I wouldn't call it a startup though, 100 employees, 10 years of development.
thomasrossi
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9 years ago
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on: Stem cells shown safe, beneficial for chronic stroke patients
You should compare that 7/18 with what happened to other 18 in the same condition. 1 year after stroke, it is quite safe to say that 0/18 would have any improvement in 1 month (the patients were testes also 1 month after).
thomasrossi
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9 years ago
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on: Functional Programming: Is It Worth It?
Most of the interesting work I do is in C, so probably not the very top commenter on this, but I have some business in Java. I've seen some functional programming and I agree mostly on the point: "isolating side effects". All the other advantages are yet not very clear to me:/
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Firefox and Thunderbird: A Fork in the Road
to create a business model like airmail, but for the android counterpart. It would be cool!
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Open problems in finance?
Offline and secure it's the possibly impossible part, but it would be nice!!
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: 191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database
When the vote they implicitly consent for that data to be public. The problem is that this db is serving the data to users who are not gong to the proper office to ask for them.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Operation Easy Chair: How a Company in Holland Helped the CIA Bug the Russians
I love these stories, I would have liked more details on the operation, but also the personal story is nice to read.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Democratic Debate Spawns Fantasy Talk on Encryption
No, you are right, the correct word is another. Steganography
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Democratic Debate Spawns Fantasy Talk on Encryption
The funny thing is that the "big project" should really be about stenography, not cryptography. It would have much a bigger impact.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Tripdelta Finds Cheaper Flights Through “Secret” Airport Routes
If the traveler is very price
sensitive, that is an option he would consider
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: The Earth is not running out of oil and gas, BP says
"We envisage increasing competition between energy resources," he said. "This will likely result in increased competition in the energy market and disruption for the incumbent." - speaking of clean energy sources.
Making the scenario competitive is the only way indeed, responsibility assignation like Kyoto protocol are meh.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Do you have to be intelligent to develop AI?
You need Statistics to understand machine learning, then of course one may learn some concepts by hearth. I am not sure then he could "develop the new AI" though.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists
There are indeed plenty of third-generation Algerians in France. The ones I know are happy being in France though, I am not sure it is home-grown, it has been planned with local help, but the source was tracked in Turkey, then lost. I think they have a good protocol to handle communication outside internet.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you usually unplug during the weekend or continue to work?
I work most of the weekends, sometimes it is necessary and we know it. But when it is not necessary I like to take the Saturday, so on Friday night I can go out with friends, Saturday is for relax/recover and Sunday I can be up and running again.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: PageFair: Economist hacked
One of the best handled security event in a long time (at the best of my knowledge), especially on the PR side.
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: Physical 'Emoji Keyboard' for Macs and iOS Devices Lets You Type Emoji Faster
It looks like a toy, so maybe it is intended that way. A simple screen to slide emoji and select them with a tap, leaving the keyboard as is would have been better for me. I would not buy it as is. Probably it is thought for another public anyway, I'm old skool on my emoticons ;P
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering
The proposed approach is allarming in a way, but if you see it in a unit test way, it is ok as long as there are sanctions on the provider when a client realize (using input and output) that the software is not running as advertised
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy
Intelligent life building something big "approx half the size of the star".. mh, either they gave up on nano technology or they have found out that macro technology is better:)
thomasrossi
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10 years ago
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on: The Ubuntu Conspiracy
I would change my ubuntu machines on all the projects, the idea terrifies me (both the operation and the Microsoft).
