skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DIA: http://live.gnome.org/Dia/

I think the darwinports page for it is currently down (actually the entire server may be down), but regardless dia rules! Saves as svg so it's really easy to write reverse engineering tools for your code base/database. When I say really easy I mean possible.
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Can I suggest not copy-and-pasting an entire article?

What he's saying is this: "Keynesianism sure did a great job ending the depression, right? Let's try it again!"

That's what he's saying, and he's saying it in the context of an old, indebted, war-weakened country. In 1929, the US was young, solvent, and free from a large standing army.
Surely rather the "other fields" of collaboration are things that orbit the blackhole known as the free market. (wait, can you actually orbit a blackhole...?)
Hey, sorry we didn't respond earlier, just saw this post and the Anyvite reference.

Our system is very basic right now and needs to be expanded on in the future. We start by setting a return path on all emails we send. This directs any bounce messages to a single mailbox that we can then process.

Parsing the bounce messages for us is fairly easy. We took some ideas from David Rusenko's post at: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/06/startup-email-monitor...

You seem to be trying to tie a bounce back to a specific outgoing message, which may or may not be the right thing to do depending on your application. For us, we only care about the email address it was sent to so we know not to send them anything else (if it's a hard bounce).

Best of luck.
both of my parents have doctorates, so I think it's safe to say that there's a strong genetic component in my case

Both of your parents have doctorates, so I think it's safe to say that there's a strong nurture component in your case.
Everyone who follows Hacker News knows English and has seen the original, so this post is clearly redundant.
I'd say the new MacBook, if you've never got one before and don't need graphics. It means you have the advantage of the newest design - I disliked the older MacBooks a lot, personally - and you're not paying for the MBP, which is double the price and offers a lot of things you don't exactly need. Then you can customize it with whatever RAM and graphics updates and hard drives you need.
Aye, I'd settle for a contract insuring 75 percent back by the time I retire, instead of the 0-50 percent I expect.

Get rich or die trying.
Doesn't work if they work from home.
> When people argue for high IQ being superior

The Bell Curve is probably the most misrepresented book ever. Indignant liberal weenies turned it into some sort of white supremacist book about race and IQ.

It's actually about how high IQ people have systematically reorganized society to their benefit, isolated themselves, and stripped lower IQ people of the sorts of employment and social systems where they do best.

> When they argue for immigration, it's because they are not affected

High IQ people argue for the liberal immigration policies that hurt laborers. Murray is opposed to such policies.
I skimmed it and didn't really find any misspellings. The language itself is a little dry though, but thats probably the guy did a literal translation
nah, they are the same as our regular keyboards. Except in Russia they put little stickers on computer keys and then you just change your settings to Cyrillic.

Of course those people who don't do it often, just use a web based typing tool
how much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
I've seen the claim that "The Deerslayer" sold so many copies in the 1840s that most American households must have had a copy. The idea of the majority of Americans even attempting to read a book like that now is just ridiculous.
They don't seem particularly cheap either. Most hostels are much below the prices listed.

I use couchsurfing, which is free, and whose goal is to meet other travellers, not to get a "cheap" stay.
Ask HN: What is a good introduction to neuroscience?
I could just browse reviews on Amazon.com to find a good introductory book on neuroscience.

But I want something that's both good and appeals to a technical mind. Which books do you recommend?
I'm pretty sure I'm right: I had to hunt for an original white Macbook in 2007 because the Core 2 in the new Macbooks broke Dino's Vitriol VT-x rootkit code.
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http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/YCombinator.html
The Shallowest Generation
Ask HN: Any Hackers in Middle America?
I understand the advantages of being on either coast for hackers looking to get involved in a startup but which hackers reside in Middle America and why?

Note: I recently moved to Indianapolis and have found it much worse than expected (which was pretty terrible) for anyone interested in web app startup.
Count me in as someone not surprised that Apple isn't crudding the App Store up with listings for applications that will be obsolete 4 days after they're submitted. In fact, given the timeline, it's possible the app wouldn't have even made it up until after the election.
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I would suspect that above a certain threshold, intelligence would have a damping effect on one's earning potential, i.e., leading to the pursuit of a doctorate in physics instead of a medical, law, business career. Or even plumbing.
I recommend Graphviz, which is free:

http://www.pixelglow.com/graphviz/
I have to ask, what is the difference?
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I believe you're talking about Persi Diaconis, who's now a Stats professor at Stanford. He's not that old (born in 1945), and while he didn't complete high school, he did have an undergraduate education, but it was taking evening classes at City College of New York.
One has to hope for South Korea: Crisis and insolvency done and over with inside three years.

Some form of default is inevitable. The only real question is whether anyone will be smart enough to take the shortest way out, which is straight through.

I would guess not and anticipate hyperinflation.
Zune and even iPod are both going to fail, because very few people want to carry around a music device separate from their phone.
i'm unfamiliar with social security

what happens if a person can live to 200 yo? Will USA, starting from retirement age, pay till s/he dies?

what if the person only lives to retirement+1 age? can descendant carry over the benefits? ot it just poof?
Robg, are you out there?
Doesn't it disturb you that political discourse has sunk so low that out of context quotes are enough evidence on which to judge candidates?

The Obama app at least had a fair amount of utility. What utility does this app have?
I'm not sure this is as big a problem as he makes it seem...

Baby boomers don't seem to be retiring. Or if they are, they're taking a second career. Like my mom, who retired from teaching to become a teacher consultant, or my friend's dad, who's starting his second company at age 70. Instead of drawing down social security, they're putting more into it.

The nature of work has changed since social security was enacted. Back then, most Americans worked in physically-demanding manufacturing jobs. They physically couldn't work past 65, because their bodies wouldn't hold up. Now, most Americans work in white-collar knowledge or service work, and there's nothing stopping them from going to work until they die (though many want to cut down their hours).
Learn to laugh.Its a fun app.

Use common sense to filter out 'out of context quotes' while making judgment.Thats how human beings work.
Who will enforce the contract?
OK, I'll bite.

The message itself is 106 bytes.

Digg gets ~70 million US visits per month (Compete), with 50% traffic from the US (Alexa), and average ~5 page views per user (Compete & Alexa). So let's say 700 million page views a month.

700,000,000 * 106 = 74,200,000,000 bytes/month ~= 70 gigabytes/month.

Slicehost charges $20 for 100 gigabytes/month. I'm assuming Digg pays for unmetered bandwidth, which should come out to a lot less.

So, I guess the answer is - not much.
Excellent question, as the trust I am purchasing is from the untrustworthy offender. Oh, hell, time for a gun purchase.

[EDIT: Maybe securitize the default risk and sell it to third parties, a collateralized debt obligation? I'm on to something here....]
You called? :)
http://www.unununium.org/ was an earlier attempt at this, and I think it was even self-hosting, but the site no longer even hosts their source code.
Everybody jump in and correct me if I'm wrong.

Social Security was put forward as part of the New Deal in the 1930s. The idea was that truly old people would never be destitute. Once you reached a certain age, the federal government would send you a check each month. Sort of a "retirement package just for being a citizen" At the time it was enacted, the activation age was about a year more than average life expectancy, so it wasn't a huge promise. The checks would be paid for by the younger folks working. I believe at the time there was a ratio of workers-to-receivers of something like 45-to-1

Several things have happened in the last 75 years. People are living a lot longer. The benefits have been increased to cover people with profound disabilities, no matter what their age. Most critically, the boomer generation is coming through, taking the ratio somewhere south of 5-to-1. That means that five workers have to come up with the money to pay one person -- no matter how long they live. If life expectancy increases to 120 due to some new medical miracle, we're hosed. It's already common for people in their 90s to have receive benefits longer than they have worked.

You might ask -- what about all that money that was put into the system when the ratio was high? Surely that has accrued interest and is more than able to pay these costs. Well -- we spent it. Seemed like a good idea at the time. The current phrase is "intergenerational promise" -- in other words, it wasn't your money, it was ours, and we promise to make these new young workers help you out. And no -- unlike something that would be your money, this is just for you, and just for as long as you live (there are exceptions for a surviving spouse, I believe)

The current trick is to see how long we can keep from actually working on this problem while we invent even more wonderfully great, moral. feel-good ideas that some later generation can screw up.
I worked at a neuroscience lab for a bit. I was focusing on EEG, the signals, oscillations, and emergent patterns in the brain. For this, they highly recommended I read Buzsaki's Rhythms of the Brain: http://www.amazon.com/Rhythms-Brain-Gyorgy-Buzsaki/dp/019530... .
Mapping the Mind is a fun book. It probably doesn't serve as an introduction to neuroscience, but it has a lot interesting, useful information.
You left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
Could you be more specific? Are you looking for a populist read, a textbook, or an anthology of review articles? Straight up neuroscience is usually lower-level or a more cognitive/psychology high-level slant too? Research oriented or general principles or abstract ideas?

Your purposes might also help. There's been good work done on Bayes and datamining and I think some has made it into a book format.
Seems like you would have the best answer for this one, mate. Have at it.
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Well, yeah. That's why Apple introduced the iPhone. I'm interested in seeing if Microsoft follows with their own product.
I'm a student at U of I in Champaign, IL. Because of the school, there are a lot of good hackers here. But they all move far away when they graduate.
Java UML tool like ArgoUML?
Thanks. I'll take a look as soon I have time.

The direct links for the book: ftp://joshua.smcvt.edu/pub/hefferon/book/book.pdf

The direct link for the answers: ftp://joshua.smcvt.edu/pub/hefferon/book/jhanswer.pdf
Django (currently the best Python web framework) originated in an innovative local newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas. A number of other Django hackers reside there: http://djangopeople.net/us/ks/
Yep, I remembered about compression after I posted.

So did you have anything to do with this hidden message? :p
Welcome to Indy. It is pretty bad here. So much so that I'm moving away.

There are lots of companies that call themselves startups around here, perhaps 10% truly are. The most notable one in all the media is ChaCha, and its a fucking joke if you ask me.

There are good developers/hackers around here, but its not the same as the west coast.

Either way, welcome to Indy... It can be an OK city if you like Insurance, Transportation, Conventions and Basketball. :p
Visualization is for sissies. Directly editing SQL scrips in TextMate is the only way to go. :)
No, I don't think it is. The noun "L" in HTML is "Language", so "HTML markup" means that the markup is written in the HyperText Markup Language. Now, "HTML Language" would be redundant.
I forgot to mention... There are two saving points for Indy that help it a little:

1 - IU Bloomington (not far) was ranked the #1 Public University (#2 Overall) for Entrepreneurship in the country. There are lots of people down there that are trying neat things and are willing to help startups.

2 - The cost of starting a startup here is retarded low. I can get full office space with utilities included for <$500/mo for a small slace or <$1000 for a medium/large space. You wont find that anywhere. Employment costs are lower, living expenses, training costs, infrastructure costs, etc -- all lower.

Still, it wont help you that much since there are very few people in the midwest with startup mentality. And finding '1st' customers here is a real pain. I had my last startup here and we had the biggest problem convincing someone to even spend 3 minutes to try something new. There is a conservatism at work that shuns new things until they are 'proven'. Most successful software/startup companies in the midwest still find their first customers on the coasts.
Uh?... Isn't HyperText Markup Language markup redundant?
I need a textbook - I'm looking for something that would be given to first year Neuroscience students. I would prefer something low-level, but it would be nice if the book ties high-level concepts to the low-level concepts.

I've wanted to do a Ph.D. for some time, but neither pure CS nor pure Maths (I have a masters in the latter) excites me anymore. Neuroscience interests me, but I want to make sure that I'm not deluding myself; therefore I'd like to work through a proper introductory text before making the next move.

EDIT: Listened to my inner grammar Nazi and fixed capitalization & sentences.
I knew about it, not much more than that. Timeless, our dba, put it in (digg user philovivero).
It's because the gaming world is an incredibly divided and not-exactly-smart one. When it was Sony versus Nintendo, there was just an absolute wreck. Nintendo was incredibly closed about their system, and they focused on less mature gaming titles. Sony took everybody in, and that worked last generation. However, they never really had a vision. Microsoft made a smart decision, and turned the XBox into a media center. A lot of people got the XBox in liu of a DVD player. The 360 expanded on that a lot, and it really had a vision: when it entered alongside the GameCube, it crushed, because the GameCube had nothing to offer outside its niche. I think it's safe to say that: I was a GameCube owner, and I was happy for Viewtiful Joe and Melee, but it was incredibly weak as a competitor.

In this generation, Sony showed that it had no idea of what made their original product good: the PlayStation 2 was cheaper than its competitors, and as such was able to amass a huge gaming library. Microsoft and Nintendo both had visions. Microsoft focused on online gaming, and Nintendo focused on casual gaming. They both succeeded. Sony assumed the competition was about making the prettiest box, no matter the cost. They made a system that was a luxury item: the other two made consumer products. Sony's paying for it now.

I think that in a way, you could say that Microsoft basically used the same strategy they've always used. They made something to appeal to the everyday user - though in this case, "everyday user" meant "everyday gamer" rather than expanding to the casual markets - and they profited. I think that Sony could have easily stopped Microsoft, and made the XBox the last-place console, but they messed up in a big way. Nintendo took the lead in droves - I think it's safe to say they've gutted the two other companies, considering there's still a shortage of Wiis - and Sony went from first to last. Microsoft took over in the vacuum that got created.
As you can see in my reply, I wish there was a simple answer. But I'm afraid the field is so young there really isn't a great general purpose read. The more popular ones leave me wanting. The more research oriented ones are a slog. The problem is, I think, that the field is so young relative to something like physics so the general themes are hard to discern for everyone involved - generalists and specialists - to relay out to a wide audience.
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Not necessarily. See for example D.E. Shaw, J.H. Simons, N. Myhrvold.
SproutCore, Mochiweb and Mnesia (What do they have in common?)
I think the barrier to entry (money, online access, etc) helps clear out the trouble makers. Sort of like making users register in order to comment.

Bolt Bus can only (for the most part) be booked online and has free wifi. It also uses variable pricing based on demand (initial tickets usually are priced at $5 or less). Greyhound sort of does this, but it doesn't change as much. Consequently, Bolt Bus attracts professionals, college kids and much more uh...civilized...client base than Greyhound. At least that's been my experience and my friends' experience as a frequent user of both.
My undergrad neuroscience textbook was the classic "Principles Of Neural Science" by Kandell, Schwartz, and Jessell.

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Eric-Kandel/...

If you're looking for something a bit more digestable, you could try "Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience", which is more appropriate for a survey level (100, 1000, depending on your school) course.

http://www.amazon.com/Biological-Psychology-Introduction-Beh...
handing sql scripts over to clients in the first stage of planning development is a great idea :)

so easy to read!
Brushfire, good to hear that I am not the only one. I graduated from Duke this May and moved to Indy because I knew a bunch of people here and it is so cheap. I had no idea what I wanted to do but figure I would try it out for a year. Pretty miserable.

Funny that you should mention ChaCha because when I got here the most intriguing opportunities I could find were with Scott Jones' companies (founder of ChaCha). I recently started working for SAJE and GalaxiaLighting.com, two of his newer companies, but am holding my judgment until I am there a little longer. I have a feeling I may be on my way out of here when my lease runs up next summer unless something changes. Scott is a serial entrepreneur who is trying to bring the spirit to Indiana through his companies and foundations but progress seems to be slow.
There's all kinds of Windows Mobile phones that have iPod-esque features. However, the device makers don't want use the Zune branding, because they want to use their own branding.
No, you can have markup in plenty of other languages. Thus, the modifier "HTML" adds information to its subject, the "markup". The subject of the modifier is also important, as it makes clear that you are talking about some specific markup written in HTML and not HTML in general.
Interesting. Please dont take this the wrong way, but my opinion of Scott is that he is terribly smart, but cant find anything to focus on for more than a year. So he continually starts companies, raises money based on his name, and then forgets them after a bit, and moves on. Perhaps this isnt fair/true, its just the impression that his history gives off.

Either way, good luck.
Okay, that helps, thanks.

For neuroscience first-year grad students, the gold standard is:

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Eric-Kandel/...

The fourth edition does a good job at higher-level stuff. But be forewarned: It is biology intensive.

For less biology and more cognitive neuroscience, you can try:

http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Neuroscience-Second-Michael-...

or

http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Neuroscience-Neuropsychology...

I used the Gazzaniga when I taught Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience even as I wasn't super impressed (which is a common complaint - tolerance, not true acceptance). I know some folks like the Banich book instead.

If, with your Math background, you're interested in neural computation and modeling there are also some good books along those lines. Just let me know and I'll hunt down the links.
It's called a geekstain to me, and I '2.01355321270u 137.03599911 6.6742x10-11m3kg-1s-2 6.6742x10-11m3kg-1s-2' it.

The Google logo is also partly one: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_explanation_for_the_Go...
Upvote for Kandell, not BioPsych. The latter just emphasizes the wrong things and too broadly.
At this point I think he has something like 8 companies that he is founder of that he is hasn't sold. I can't argue with the terribly smart part but as I have had very minimal interaction with him I am reserving my opinion for a little farther down the line. Even if what you say is true it has been clear to me that he is willing to give a lot of responsibility to those who show promise so I am going to see what his companies may have to offer in Indiana. It is true that there are not enough hours in the day for him to focus completely on all the companies which is why I have not had much interaction with him yet. Do let me know though if you see any interesting startups in the area or want to bounce some ideas around.
I'm a computational PhD student in the field -- I think you'd most enjoy "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, an inspiring book written by a hacker himself!

If you'd like a very excellent, fascinating title on mathematics and art and mind, try "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Hofstadter. Another fun, classical book with more of an AI bend is "Society of Mind" by Marvin Minsky.

For more classical neuroscience, "Phantoms of the Brain" by Ramachandran, well-known in perception research, is good. I haven't read it, but "In Search of Memory" is supposed to be excellent by Kandel, a memory researcher superstar. (I've found that many of the books by non-scientists about the brain are often shallow, claim to know too much, and use the same familiar stories over and over.) For neuroscience at a lower level (i.e. the biology of neurons, neural networks, cells), I'm not aware of a good popular account.

I also recommend picking up a copy of Mind magazine from your bookstore! And if you can get a copy of a Scientific American magazine special on the brain (every few years I believe), those are usually very well written as well :-)
Middle America: Even people who "support" you kind of pat you on the head "oh that's nice" because they don't really get it.

Get Lucky: You might find a friend or two, and that's all you need to stay motivated, but don't anything beyond that.

The Wasteland: I lived in Nashville for far too long. People just don't give a damn about ideas. They don't even think about ideas. They just want to make some money and hang out. They don't value work and ideas for their own sake, but only in terms of the financial benefits they bring. That is what slayed me. Not having people with any kind of vision.

Get out: I would be curious which city you came from before Indy? If you haven't spent a couple months in sf/seattle/austin/boston/nyc, give it a shot, you'll never want to go back.
Obviously Digg didn't read the Sequoia presentation. Cutting that out would extend their runway by at least 2 seconds.