skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to look slightly outside the Neuroscience department. Math and CS departments also do quite a bit of computational neuroscience.

Here at NYU, we've got at least 5 computational neuroscience people within the courant institute (math+CS depts), and there are several more in the actual neuroscience department. Plus we have a computational biology Ph.D. program within cims.

I know Rutgers has the BioMAPS computational biology program, and I think princeton has something similar.
Maybe I just have had good luck with it, but I have never had problems like this with any version of Ubuntu since 6.04, but I'm also not running intrepid yet.
Just a few misspellings: "рпедставляет" instead of "представляет" (1st paragraph), "ечли" instead of "если" (7th paragraph) and so on.

Better no translation than translation like this. Those who don't know English to read original Paul Graham essays may have wrong impression about Paul and his thoughts from such low quality translations.

And I completely agree that "everyone who follows Hacker News knows English and has seen the original, so this post is clearly redundant".
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South Korea had booming markets in the US and Europe to export their way out...
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You're thinking like a guest, not like someone listing a room. It's pretty obvious how it's different in that case.
Highly ironic comment from Steve Yegge (scroll down to "Lame Languages")
Depends on whether there are cheap hotels in the part of the city you want to stay in.
Why use Ubuntu for servers?

In my case because I use it on the desktop, I like it and I'm used to it. Ubuntu may well be similar to Debian, however I've never used Debian and I know Ubuntu is similar to Ubuntu.
http://www.startupwarrior.com can map some of the Middle America startups.
From Wisconsin. I colo my servers out of Chicago. Wisconsin (And indeed most of middle America) has a pretty cheap cost of living which allowed me to bootstrap my own startup. Living an hour from my servers for that once-every-few-months trip for hardware maintenance isn't really a problem.

Overall, it's quite pleasant, aside from Wisconsin being rather boring in the overall. I'd rather live in Chicago, but my wife's job is here. It's not an intellectual hot-spot or anything, but it's sufficient for running a business.

And it's a pretty peasant place to raise children whenever we decide to start squeezing a few out.

*The property taxes such HARD in Wisconsin (particularly the Milwaukee Area).
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Let me know if a Indy HN meetup ever forms. I will definitely be up for it. Right now I live right downtown and work up in Carmel.
Which works better for a startup: a forum or a social network?
Right - they're both good, but several things about Ubuntu do it for me:

1) Since it makes such a nice desktop, I can run the same thing on desktop and server, which is handy, and a good way to reduce nasty surprises.

2) The regular release schedule is a good way of doing things.

3) I can run it on all the computers in the house, including my wife's, which makes it less of a hassle to keep track of.
.net stack VS lamp stack VS ROR
I am a small business owner and developing a business plan for financial web application. I am stuck at the software costing piece of it and want to know which resources I should look into for the following:
1) .net stack - cost of production environment
2) lamp stack - cost of production environment
3) ROR- Cost of production environment.
i started looking into sql server licensing etc, for figuring out the licenses that i would need if i go the .net and that quickly has become unmanageable.
What about MITECS? [1] Is it outdated?

Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended it[2]. But I'm not sure if he still would.

I know you work at MIT, what do you use?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/MIT-Encyclopedia-Cognitive-Sciences-MI...

[2] http://sl4.org/wiki/MITECS
I would be willing to bet that you'll also never see Ted trying out the betas and giving back some useful feedback other than "OMG! FAIL!!!".
Sounds more fun than NACHOS, which is what my OS course was taught with: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tom/nachos/
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That's just a reference volume. It's fine for what it is, but really as a launching off point for specific topics. And reading it cover to cover would get old, fast.
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Most people who work on large scale websites know about it :)
I suppose that our main disagreements revolve about the ambiguous definition of "neuroscience," which is nowadays an all-encompassing term which has seemed to broaden to mean "absolutely any work which even mildly studies any aspect of the nervous system or behavior." In this respect, there are many opportunities for computation people.

In neurobiology (the original "neuroscience"), the opportunities may be more limited. I was moreso discussing this latter definition in my posts, mainly because this is what many neurobiology-centric academic departments are called.
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.

Even my parents reacted like this. For a while my Dad thought it was little more than a pipe dream. I'm sure he secretly thought "What the hell is this boy doing? He gets back from Afghanistan, decides not to finish college, and instead moves out to Boston for some Internet... thing? WHERE DID I GO WRONG?!?!" ;)

He now understands things better and though my parents still don't really understand the entire idea of a "web business" and "venture capitalists" (which obviously aren't a web-only thing, but they are from Ohio after all...) and all that rot, they are now more realistic about it and "get" why I did this... why I had to, even.

The 13 hour stretch from Cincinnati to Boston was easily one of the best days of my life. Shedding the shackles of mid-western suburbia to embark on an adventure, having no idea how or when it would end or where it would take me. I'd never felt so... free. Where I came from exhibits quite the contrast; a society content to live firmly within the lines of what is considered proper, reasonable and safe.
This is probably outside of your pricerange, but have you looked at Wolfram's Mathematica? I find it invaluable for all sorts of statistical data modeling.
Check out EngineYard for a solid RoR production env. You'll probably want to start with 2 slices.

For a lamp env, 1 or 2 slices from slicehost might work to start.
Uwaterloo also used NACHOS. I thought it was a great course and a way to build the foundations of an OS.

I think explicit memory management was a big part of that course though, creating virtual memory etc.
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Thanks! I sent a longer note via email :-)
You are right. But to play devil's advocate: what if very high intelligence individuals are not more likely to do science, mathematics or engineering?

For a very rough approximation: if I remember well, SAT averages for Harvard/Yale/Princeton (more likely to be doctor/lawyer/executive) are very similar to (or even higher than?) scores for MIT/Caltech/Stanford (more likely to be scientist/engineer).

So, could it be that it's not the high intelligence by itself that has said dampening effect on one's earning potential, but it's more about interests of the individual?
That's not actually true. What happens in such a case is an author write about how he discovered something and changed.

If you discover something that is against what you stand for, almost everyone will change to match it. So you'll never see someone say: look I found this, but I won't do it.

Instead you'll see someone say: look I was a, but I found b, and now I'm b.

And you certainly see plenty of that.
Yeah, but nobody takes them seriously.
You're wrong, it's redundant, saying hyper text markup language markup sounds ignorant. Your defense makes zero sense.
It's not reasonable for people to have changed their opinion after four years?

ECMAScript itself has changed since then, too.
Southwestern Ohio. HN is a remarkable service for me.
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I have. Up until this last summer, when I got a new computer, I'd either have problems with my video drivers or with my sound card. It was an absolute pain.
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Yeah. The Obama one was incredibly functional, and while I haven't seen any follow-up stories on it, I'd love to see how it was used after its release.

This one seems like crude garbage. Whether Apple should have that control is another question, but if the argument is "does this app have merit?" the answer is no.
And Chicago rocks.
I dunno if he is, but Scribd does that, and the Scribd founder is a user.
I disagree strongly with the sans-serif online argument.

Serif'd fonts are harder to get to look right, absolutely. But they can be used well, and they look incredible when they are.
does anyone know if there is one like this written in common lisp?
I love all these articles. A downturn forces us to become way more efficient. By the time the next boom starts, the improvements have become best practices and carry over. There are so many things we take for granted now that were once breakthough cost-cutting measures. A good example is the move to commodity hardware, which was the result of the previous bust. I love what happened to Sun during that period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_microsystems#The_.22Bubble....
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Envy was painless for me (if you need to get an nVidia card working): http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
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It's free in the sense that any other ad-driven media is. Don't forget that Google is making massive amounts of cash from Gmail, though.
Think of it more as an investment of time, in preparation of founding your own start-up. Accelerated networking, powerful names associated with you, etc.

It's not bullet-proof, but there are worse ways to prepare yourself and your reputation for launching a new venture.
I got one. I started a consulting business (for the purpose of bootstrapping a startup) just before SXSW last this past year. My partners and I were looking for a product to build around that time when we were approached by another business savvy startup that needed a strong development team. We immediately started working together and now have our first version of the product rolling out to select Hooters restaurants tomorrow. If we had not gone to SXSW we would have never run into this other group of guys and stumbled into a really, really strong product with an amazing business model.
In one of the comments, Fred writes "I'd like to do to standardized testing what napster did to the music biz".

Napster as a phenomenon was possible because the cost of distributing music had fallen close to zero. But testing is different than music, because the value of test material as a reliable measure of proficiency is lost as it is propogated, while the value of an MP3 is preserved, regardless of how many times it is copied.

After all, test material, unlike songs, is subject to cheating. All it takes is a Google search to compromise the reliability of an assessment.

If you want your tests to be reliable measures of proficiency in a given area, then you need a way of creating test material more quickly than ever before.
To be fair, the Ubuntu quality assurance process seems somewhat shoddy. On stable releases, I've seen 2 rather serious issues with minor updates.

In one update, Ubuntu pretty much broke the PCI detection code in X, so that X always thought that there were no cards. Luckily, it was only a matter of waiting several hours for a fix, and updating from a text console.

In another update, the Canadian english localization completely broke KDE, making it segfault on startup. Again, wait a day or two and update from a text console.

Right now I'm on vanilla Debian (unstable branch) and I find that it has had less critical breakage than Ubuntu's mainline branch. I'm not sure how Ubuntu should update their QA process, though.
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> If you want your tests to be reliable measures of proficiency in a given area, then you need a way of creating test material more quickly than ever before.

I wonder if it was possible to take a block of text, and automatically generate question&answer pairs from it using some kind of AI software (probably bayesian networks combined with grammar rules).
Possible, but it doesn't sit right with me intuitively. And since I don't care enough about the issue to spend time collecting data to refute your premise, we have to leave it at that. :)
Think it might have something to do with the "Hodo Hodo" generation?

http://www.careerjournal.com/article/SB122548483530388957.ht...
Sure, there are some issues with it - I think a 6 month release cycle is difficult. I tend to wait a few weeks before grabbing Ubuntu updates for that reason.

But Ted's attitude is lame - open source software doesn't really need poisonous people like that.
I'm from the Grand Rapids, MI area, and develop for a small-ish company involved with the furniture industry (which is big, locally). There are a couple tech startups that have come out of here (but I don't particularly care about startups at the moment, so I can't name them offhand). The area seems to be culturally favorable toward startups in a way that e.g. the twin cities area supposedly isn't, though; there are some local businesses such as Amway that gently encourage an entrepreneurial outlook, and there has been a lot of money lately going into medical research / biotech stuff here. There are also several colleges in the area. The Ann Arbor area (East side of the state, by Detroit) might be good for startups, too.

This ask.metafilter post is about the Kalamazoo, MI area, which is about 50 miles South of here: http://ask.metafilter.com/105668/Growing-up-no-one-thinks-th...
Much of it applies to Southwest Michigan in general. Not the greatest area tech-wise, but it's quite pretty if you're outdoorsy (particularly for fishing and kayaking - there are lakes and rivers all over), the farmer's markets are nice, housing / office space is is not terribly expensive, etc.

It's also an easy (and cheap!) train ride to Chicago from here, FWIW.
> Surely for some applications Windows would be a good solution too?

No.

That's the old model, as of last week you should stop paying too much for your Operating System every couple of years and start paying too much every month to run you applications in the Azure Clouds.
That's a few months old. I love it. It's really an excellent feature that humanizes forum pages, makes them more accessible to people. It works for a lot of things, too. It supports Drupal, which is always a surprise. So I wonder: is it custom for each application, or did they come up with a holy grail of forum analysis?
Which one would you remove?

Secret message in Digg's HyperText Markup Language

Secret message in Digg's HyperText Language Markup
I know a great algorithm: Mechanical Turk.
Question and answer pairs would be too difficult to do automatically, or semi-automatically.

Fill in the blanks would be easier, since all you would need to do is isolate a correct answer, and then retrieve wrong answers. And then make an interface that would make it easy to crop or edit the quiz item in a few seconds.....
I use a whiteboard and an 8 megapixel camera for backups. ;-)
Yep, Ted is a bad writer with very few points to make, so he fills in the gaps with anger and poison. Some people can pull off the angry rant in a a worthwhile way. He can't, and I generally despise his writing.

As far as Ubuntu's update process, these updates were small point updates in the middle of the release cycle, which is why they were so disturbing; it seems that Debian's "constantly up-to-date" system works better for me, at least so far.
For me it's the release cycle - Canonical means I'll never be stuck with a 3 year-old OS with 3 year-old apps + backports if I'm game.
There's an event called "Indy Startup Weekend" coming up in December: http://indianapolis.startupweekend.com/
Are they? From free users? I've read that it doesn't monetize very well.
All this talk about how "we" need to redesign education hints at a major problem with our current system: it is a democratic institution and not a market. Therefore, "I" cannot decide on a change in the way "my" child is educated, rather "we" must decide on changes in the way "our" children are educated.

Group decision making is a phenomenally slow and stupid process, filled with all sorts of interest groups with all kinds of different incentives. The slowness and stupidity of this process is why education feels like it is stuck in the past. This is also why school choice advocates are so passionate about their issue. A school choice program would allow each parent to pursue educational choices which he thinks would be best for his child. He could choose some new educational model without first asking permission from the rest of society to do so.

Technology is great. It is making real change on the margin. However, it can only do so much good while children are inmates in a system designed by a public bureaucracy for 40 hours a week.
There's a very helpful Firefox plugin that lets you switch between them easily. Google's cookies cause you to keep logging out and back in otherwise.
There are certainly UI issues. However, I do believe there are precedents for open marketplaces that are not overrun by crap. The digital music businessed of iTunes and Amazon do a good job of being open to any vendor while giving the most popular artists the most exposure to casual browsers.
They form every eight minutes, and the sun is about eight light-minutes away. I know where I'd start if I was trying to explain why it happens every eight minutes.

Of course, I'm sure the people doing this are looking into that.
Of course, the real importance of this article is in the observation that its thesis does not just apply to the discipline of Economics.
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Nice idea. I'm not into dating sites, but i think getting your users via the skype tie-in for communication is a good way of going about things.

My two cents.
1 cent - the design is nothing spectacular, but particularly having a few different image sizes makes the site look cheap, and it isn't easy to skim. At the same time, making putting the pictures front and center is good as I assume most people will interact and make initial contact based on a photo. except...
2 cent - i don't seen any geographic search type feature, and I can't tell if there is somewhere that users put in there location. I wouldn't want to meet-up with a girl half-way around the world, so being able to see who is using the service locally would be paramount.
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hard to call HTML the "source code" :)
"Do you mean it's illogical? If so use the simpler English equivalent."

I hope that was a joke. What do you propose? "A bit of a 'does not follow' there?"
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Posted by rhialto

Steve Yegge changed his name from "Rhialto"?
Wow this is scary considering how much I rely on gmail.
Ah cool. Presumably this is not against terms of service? I know you're only allowed 1 adsense account which sort of sucks - what if you own a couple of sites and want them separate...
Open-source educational resources, e.g. video lectures, semantically organized testing materials, etc. will definitely be ubiquitous in the future. The real sticking point will be in society and individual's perception of the 'legitimacy' of online self-education versus, for instance, a college degree.
You're being silly. I meant that "Secret in Digg's HTML" is better of course, not "Secret in Digg's markup", which is obviously less precise. But "Secret in Digg's HTML markup" is blatantly redundant.

edit: Wouldn't you agree that "Digg's HTML" provides exactly as much information as "Digg's HTML markup"? If so then "markup" is clearly redundant. You're really missing the point by saying that not all markup is HTML. All HTML is markup, it's the HyperText Markup Language. Damn.

edit-ps: It's really annoying that I only see my own message when editing, I should see at least the immediate parent also.

edit2: "HTML" does add information to "markup", but markup doesn't add information to "HTML". "HTML" is a "strict subset" of "markup".
from what my google-fu is indicating rhialto is one of his "in game" names from a game he developed called wyvern? If you go here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/boring-stevey-status... you can see people referring to him as rhialto and referring to wyvern.
Such a good idea. Thank you.
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Well, he does seem kind of dismissive. He paints Tcl, Lua, etc... with the broad brush stroke of "any other languages that aren't as good as Python."
> A fantastic plumber might be twice as good as an average plumber, but he isn't a hundred times better.

Have you ever had a bad or fantastic plumber do work for you?

Trust me, there's a difference, and it's way more than 2X. Bad plumbers have to keep coming back to the same job to fix their mistakes (job security, I guess). Fantastic plumbers will point out other issues that will likely become a problem in the future, and fix them in 5 minutes before you need to call a plumber again. In that regard, they're not all that different from programmers.
Did we both read the same story? The story I read says they haven't even submitted a browser, much less had one rejected. The original headline is perfectly fine even if you haven't read any speculative discussion about or paraphrasing of paraphrasing of quotes.
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
Intel and ASUS ask people to say what they would like to see in a PC.
The thing that bugs me most about this app is the unrealistic physics model on the bobble-head.