skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using try/catch does not imply that you must silently eat errors; in fact you get arbitrary control over what to do with them, which I have often put to good use. I would still prefer the try/catch solution, if it is browser-compatible, on the grounds that it makes more sense if you just read it.
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I like this a lot. Compared to a visual disaster like PeopleBrowsr, this app is very appealing. The three view modes are very useful and the sparse use of visual elements doesn't distract from the content.

As to browsing content, I find the visual hierarchy slightly off in some places. In the list view, for example, the date has a dark background, pushing it in the foreground. In contrast, the actual tweet itself is in light grey. That text is the meat I want to be able to scan quickly, which is hard to do with the current visual treatment.

In the authentication screen I think you need some more explanations why you need to be able to post notes to my Facebook account. This is a tricky matter (see the other comments) and a simple explanation what you are going to do with my credentials would put my mind to ease that you're not going to spam updates to my account.

This is very promising. Please keep iterating on this.
Did you give up?
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There are benchmarks on the Release page: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/Releases

They seem to actually have a solid (early) release, and it does demonstrate some impressive speed improvements.
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I'm the person responsible for administering the server that powers this open archive. The type of data you mention is being included in the archive when ever possible. Further, the research group I work for has existing specific open data efforts in multiple fields including, and beyond, computer science. For example, today I'm working on setting up an architectural open access archive with the staff here that will include CAD files for humans and semantic web triple store data for search engines.

BTW, the archive system software is open source: http://dspace.org/
can't really say.

what you should do is pick a number that you feel your time is worth, and charge that. whatever you pick, make sure you're charging that for all freelance activities you do, iphone dev or not, because this is what you feel should be fair for your one hour of time.

edited to add: i'm talking about base rate, too. if you want to add in special breaks for long-term commitments, that usually goes over well.
Modern processors already run 250 times faster than the memory system is able to feed data into it.

Not true at all. The latency from memory is around 250 clocks, but that does not mean they "run 250 times faster than memory can feed data into it." Modern memory throughputs are on the order of gigabytes or dozens of gigabytes per second, rather than your claimed (2Ghz / 250) = 8 megabytes per second.
I developed most of the symptoms of GAD last summer after having a panic attack where I ended up in the hospital. It was weird because I'm in my early 30s and have never had any anxiety symptoms before. I guess I was probably mildly depressed, but no prior history of panic attacks or other GAD symptoms. I believe the panic attack was brought on because I got food poisoning during a time period with a lot of uncertain work-related stress.

I find the hyper vigilance the most obnoxious thing about this. The other things I can't stand are various weird chest tensions and growling stomach issues, which are related to the hyper-vigilance thing. I'd probably not even notice them usually, but now they freak me out.

I've not tried any drugs but have used the "Linden Method" which was suggested by a friend. It was relatively useful but there's not much too it. Mostly: get an engrossing hobby like photography and learn some deep breathing exercises.

Other things that have helped:

- exercise, specifically outdoor exercise like running or surfing

- more social time with friends

- avoiding caffeine... this is a bummer since I really like coffee.

- one glass of wine seems to help, but drinking to excess makes it worse the next day

- regular sleep schedule seems to help

- spending less time using computer-mediated communication helps

- avoiding certain foods seems to help. I think indigestion triggers the hyper-vigilance response.

Out of all of these things, exercise seems to be helping the most. Thanks YC for the previous suggestions. I kind of knew that exercise would be the most beneficial, but it took some external prompting to actually get started running again.

I am interested in CBT. How do you go about getting into it? Just ask my primary care physician?
The alert messages have been removed and instructions added. It's not a full fledged game, only a demonstration of UI ideas to solicit feedback. Should have been more clear about that.
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Yeah, he's going "That's what you get for trying to sell software, fascists"
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Lexapro had no side effects for me, except for mild, short-duration panic episodes when I was going to sleep, mostly during the first week. (If you have anxiety, the first week of an SSRI is known to suck.) The first three nights I had to take Klonopin (clonazepam) and by the end of the second week there were no side effects.
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This is good, because now there's at least 3 opportunities for funding/advice local to the northeast region:

1. Start@Spark

2. NYCSeed

3. NYCEnt

Anyone know of any others?
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Although the Linux distributions have come a long way in terms of hardware compatibility, I don't think any of them could match a single-vendor (OS and hardware) solution. I've not used OS X as/on a server, but I assume the hardware monitoring will be well integrated into the hardware and driver issues will be rare. I'd therefore say that it's unfair to compare OS X on the Xserve with the likes of RHEL on Dell, and that a comparison with Sun would be more realistic.
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I struggled with svn when I first started out with version control for this reason. I often found things explained as "this is how you do it" or "What if you want this? Type this!" which doesn't tell me anything unless I'm asking the correct question. I found that understanding branching was extremely important to understanding how the system works as a whole, but perhaps that's just when everything clicked.
Now I realize I should have put the obligatory ;-) on the end, although I thought mentioning Facebook, Digg, and Reddit would have been enough :)
Yes, I was kidding. I just didn't realize the ;-) on the end was necessary this time because it was such a ridiculous comment ;-)
Could you elaborate on why you think it is bunk?
"Individual neurons do not have code."

Actually, proteome-related research on synapses has found strong evidence that a significant amount of computation happens in the synapse. Higher mammals have distinct kinds of synapses, and these seem to coincide with specific cognitive abilities.

This is discussed in episode 51 of the Brain Science Podcast.

PDF: http://docartemis.com/brain%20science/51-brainscience-Grant....
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I would assume that if you go out of business, as creditors they get their money back first during asset liquidation. But you aren't personally on the hook. (Part of why it's a good idea to keep your business and personal finances separate!)

Edit (think you were asking a different question) -- as I understand it, convertible bonds usually have a low interest rate and long duration, so you aren't supposed to feel like they need to be repaid immediately. If there's no future financing, but your business starts making money slowly, you'll eventually have to repay it, yeah.
I don't think the tide is going to completely turn in the next three or four months. If this project meets its goals, I think CP2.6 -> US2.6 -> US3.0 is a more alluring migration path. If it truly succeeds, and CPython uses LLVM as its core, then the point is moot. I think 2.6 is the right place to start -- it's more stable and has a larger codebase.

To hedge a little, I say all this from a distance: I don't use Python on a daily -- or even monthly -- basis.
This seems entirely uninteresting for CPUs since there are all sorts of issues with regard to that. However, THz frequency signals have all sorts of other uses
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation)
Their thesis is that if Humans have free will so do elementary particles (in a defined respect).

Anyone know much more on this? -- Does this relate to the theory that everything was predefined at the big bang - e.g. a big random number was generated and everything since then has simply been cause and effect? Or is it on another tack?
I have read articles written by so-called "experts" explaining clearly and forcefully why we should let AIG go bankrupt. Then I have read articles written by other "experts" who claim the opposite, also in a convincing manner. When experts look at the same problem and draw entirely different conclusions, then:

i) their own interests are clouding their judgement.

ii) they don't all have the same data.

iii) their "expertise" is greatly overrated.

In the last few months there has been so much irrationality and lack of transparency, that I now truly find it hard to believe anything I read on this topic.
I'm a student and I might come to this. Can anyone tell me what usually goes on / what people talk about in these meetups?
Honestly, I think anyone asking for HP-UX or AIX "because it's UNIX" should have retired at least a decade ago.

Similarly, anyone naive enough to believe that "Any skills, staff, source code, infrastructure, and solutions you invest in any Unix are portable across IBM, Sun, Fujitsu, HP, Apple, and generic 32- and 64-bit x86 hardware." really shouldn't be placed in a position where they have any say over platform choice.
I can second that. You feel more energetic, you need less sleep, you think faster, your memory recall is better.

Perhaps more importantly, by exercising regularly you will learn discipline and focus, and my life has benefited so much from having more of that.
It'd also be interesting to see the whole thing done in Erlang, just for fun.
For the year I was living there Flickr and Wikipedia were blocked 100% of the time.
In a real [event] system, events are dispatched sequentially.

This seems off to me - if an explosion goes off, people's reactions will be simultaneous, not sequential. Similarly, in an actor/event model (which is what I'm thinking of) - when an event occurs, I would expect all objects affected by said event to respond simultaneously.
Mostly to put faces on names here as well as see what other hackers/founders are building in New York City.

I believe this is our third meetup, right? First was Shake Shack back when, then Republic in Union Square and now Shake Shack again.

Edit: Are you a student in the area?
Argh, I'm a student at U of Delaware just down the road from this conference, and I would love to see this talk but $299 to go is way out of my price range.
That all-orange room is snazzy, and it shows up in all the photographs. What is that spiky wall made of?
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The prospect of Scheme as a potential mainstream programming language went down with the rest of the Lisp ship in the late-1980s AI winter - the same one that sank Symbolics and anyone who was remotely Lisp-guilty by association.

It is no accident that it survived almost exclusively in non-saltmine sanctuaries like MIT, where industry herdthink held less sway. In the linked article, Sussman directly admits that he is unable or unwilling to fight back against the intellectual decay that has consumed non-academic programming.

He has decided to "go with the flow" - namely, the flow of industrial sewage into students' heads.
Not to sound snarky, but US news outlets very rarely deliver controversial information. They tend to avoid edgy stories entirely to stop from offending people.
Do you have any actual criticisms of modeling brains in software?

Please read http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Well, if you weren't familiar with YC, it's informative - perhaps informative enough to go find out more.

I did think the use of the "schools" verb in the title was a bit odd (Means something less positive to me).
I'd love to go but as a college student, can't afford it.
12. Never link to a page using javascript.
I really hate this one, when you want to open the link in the new tab and instead you have to open it on the same tab and then hit back to the original page. I've been forced to write Greasemonkey scripts for sites I use often...
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To the editors: cryonics is spelled wrong: "My estimate of possible defect rates in cyronics"
I'm confused why you don't see this as obvious. (There are several possible ways to represent mappings. I picked one that was close to something that you're happy with.)

{
("x" (
{
("y" "a")
("z" 23)
("q" (
54
32
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))
}
))
("r" 43)
}
> Honestly, I think anyone asking for HP-UX or AIX "because it's UNIX" should have retired at least a decade ago.

Me too. I did wonder if this was written in the 1990s, but it was actually written this year. It's silly and clueless.
You should charge what you can get. If iphone gigs are few and far between, charge 100$ an hour for those, but if your fallback is, say, ditch digging with a hand shovel, you probably won't get many clients at those rates.
Hopefully this is just much ado about nothing, but if she is infected then I hope the fact that humans are much larger than previous test subjects that the live-vaccine they gave her will alert the immune system before the ebola gets to deadly ammounts.
> I need to pass Level 1 before I am considered fluent.

Is being considered fluent important compared to being fluent enough to do what you need to do?
Though it is a little inaccurate; the article is dated too recently to miss that Boston is right out.

Perhaps it was built awhile back, and just recently published?
One of my friends who has made it "biggest" in SV spent a couple of years working in Japan. He thinks that those years helped him a lot.
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> My point was perhaps unclear, but I think ESR has a philosophical problem with the idea of a society governed by an ethos of mutual responsibility and obligations.

Whether or not your point is unclear or incorrect, it's pretty much irrelevant to whether ESR is correct about GPL.

Reminder: good people aren't necessarily correct on a given point and bad people aren't necessarily wrong on a given point. In fact, good/bad is pretty much uncorrelated with correct/wrong.
Well judging from the pg's 8 months pregnant comment, it would place it (the photo at least) 3 months ago... Which would have been before the announcement.

(Although, when I said schools, I mean it's use as a verb, not the two different locations).
What was he doing there? I spent a year working in Japan. It has had little impact on my career. If anything, it was a negative. It may be a different story if you go over there to start Yahoo! Japan, or launch your street fashion brand.
I've launched with approximately 20% of the data I'm collecting so far. I was not yet fully comfortable with the stability of those scraping scripts and so wanted to give myself some more time.

Any feedback on the data and/or presentation is welcome. I would also really love to know what people think of the design/layout - I'm not a UI guy, and I know there are many improvements I can make.
Absolutely, regulators failed all over the damn place.

But I'm not sure how to fix that. It seems they will be merged into one giant super regulator, I'm not sure that helps. Perhaps making the head of the super regulator an elected office?

And sorry about keeping you from work :) I'm in a cubicle farm... but won't be there for long.
Everyone can recognize the glow.
I've always loved these games. You have a nice start and I'd love to see more. Email me if you feel like it, maybe I can help somehow (I'm pretty busy with work though, so no promises)
From what I've read and understood, the redundancy of the brain has been approximated up to 10%. It will take time to get back to being 100% normal, but that with brain loss of 10% or lower you can easily survive and in fact return to normality within (I assume on average) under a year.

If they ever allow the freezer tubing of conscious humans with presently incurable diseases I believe it should be required for them to record their daily life for between a month and a year along with daily video journals so that they can be replayed this to prompt the reconnection of neurones.
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Sure, but it's the massive parallelism of the hardware behind "the mind" that allows a human to intelligently filter information quickly. Our serial conscious thought is in no way indicative of the amount of (parallel) processing that goes on behind the scenes in order to make a "simple" decision.
doesn't the cause and effect theory you mention and the big bang contradict each other?
What's a "one-time subscription payment"? How does that differ from any other one-time payment for something? In other words, can this be used for generalized one-time non-recurring payments, as well as subscriptions?
You lost a precious opportunity to earn some brownie points by not removing "just" from that comment. j/k :)
"if a human experimenter can make decisions independently of past events, then the particle can also make a free choice"

The article does not make clear how "free choice" is different from "random chance" -- at least not to me.
You're assuming that chip sizes are bounded by clock frequency. They're not. We already have "clock islands".
Just for the record, in case anyone looks back: I meant this only as pointing out there are men who derive inspiration from other men, and not as any sort of slam or slant.
The unfiltered questions at the White House's Digg clone are more fun than the top ones
SNS?
Funny, because my job at one point involved porting a piece of (C++) software from Solaris and it was actually rather more difficult than you'd think from reading this article. Why? Because the two OSs were rather different. Threading and networking were particularly troublesome and the UNIX trademark didn't help me. Methinks this guy is making things seem rather more easy than they really are.
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Surely that's the crux of any "we don't have free will, it's all predetermined" argument - it has to be set in motion in some respect?
Longer pipelines proved to be pretty much a dead end with the Pentium 4.

They're great and all when it comes to benchmarks and stuff, but their design has a number of serious drawbacks:

1) The control lines for a long pipeline are incredibly convoluted/complicated as necessitated by the movement of individual instructions from one stage to the other along the pipeline across many, many cycles (all of which involve storing the results of the current cycle to a register somewhere along the pipeline, adding immense overhead in today's systems).

2) Flushing longer pipelines is an incredibly taxing procedure. You either flush the entire pipeline and lose a huge chunk of work, basically throwing out several thousand cycles of work as a result of a single branch or value mis-prediction; or you can selectively clear the pipeline which is an extraordinarily difficult feat that involves keeping track of which operation in what order wrote back what data to which register... for dozens of operations.
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I do not understand. As much as I like cute carnivorous animals, what does this have to do with the story posted?
Many, many, many years ago there was a hugely popular TV show in Germany about a hospital - Black Forest Hospital

And in one particular show arc, one female scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a virus of some kind and ended up dead.

So... here's hoping life doesn't imitate art.
Very impressed on a few items here:

1. Timely turnaround in three weeks. It's clear that Spark values your time and similarly, entrepreneurs value theirs.

2. Leading legal counsel and open deal structure. Having solid legal advice is something most early-stage companies overlook (not because the advice isn't valued, but rather, it may not be a top priority to building/shipping your product). In addition, Spark allows other investors to participate in the seed round.

3. Structure of investment. I was surprised to see that Spark was offering the investment in a convertible loan, where the loan will later convert to equity in the event of the company's next round of financing. The issue of valuation or "pegging a company's valuation" is relatively mute with this format.

Overall, this is a great step for innovation in the Northeast. Congratulations Spark!
The problem is that the try/catch part is implemented in the library.

It is impossible for library developers to know how it should handle your exceptions, and you don't get to catch your exceptions, so there's no advantage whatsoever in using the try/catch.
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If you're not looking to differentiate via software/killer features, then the platform is less important than your execution/presentation and most importantly, marketing. I assume you feel there's some group of people not being properly connected, so I'll just assume you need to give them the place to congregate. Best then to begin on something that's already reasonably stable and adjust it as you go.

Social networking is still a viable niche in some cases, but it'll be very hard to monetize (if that's what you're after).
Sure, they do IP Address filtering on the actual login process, but still...
I think we're talking about the difference between processing and coding. Neurones appear to perform many different processes, but do not appear to have code.

It's like the difference between an analogue>digital converter, which performs a process as the signal passes through the circuitry. However that's very different from inserting an analogue signal into a computer, running it through a program that then produces the same result from the output.

We're talking the difference between a cigarette box converter and a computer. This is likely the difference between the action of a neurone and the action of the visual center of the brain.

There's been many experiments that IMO show parts of the brain (like the visual center) use a lot of processes, but there is obviously some computation in there. For instance, they've done experiments where a digital camera converts an image into a pixel map (i think it was like 16 pixels of black or white) that is then transmitted through electrodes onto the tongue. After between 5-15 minutes the subjects (all of whom were blind) became able to see the picture. IMO this clearly shows that there is a computation center that after repeated failure to understand begins experimenting until it finds the correct result, which in this case was turning touch into sight.
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