skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So after reading "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins [1], it would seem that the algorithm of the cortex is mostly figured out and it missing only the hardware capable of simulating enough neurons. One comment I read a while back was that the description in the book was good as far as it goes but there's more to do with regards to making it a two way process. I.e. the part where the nervous system takes action to confirm a prediction (I probably didn't explain that very well).

My question is why would you want to build a human like intelligence? Wouldn't it be enough to build tools that simulate parts (pattern recognition, inference, reasoning etc) of our own intelligence so that me may augment what we're capable of? What purpose would it serve to include emotions feelings and what makes us human?

I'd love to hear from people who actually know more about this stuff than reading a couple of popular science books!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence
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flytov.com

Can you understand from the LP what this company is about? and would you be interested in this?
Exactly:

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Risk I/O Releases a New Heads-Up Display
Learn more about Risk I/O's new Heads-Up Display, which visualizes the current state of your vulnerabilities and defects -> http://blog.risk.io/2013/01/heads-up-display/
Thanks, edited to include OO (how could I forget this one?).
Vert.x heading for Eclipse Foundation
What is this "flossing" he is talking about? Nobody I know flosses their teeth, is brushing and then using mouthwash twice a day not enough?

Also, having a public health care helps with the bills, I go for a check-up every year and never had any serious problems.
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The official proprietary drivers for nvidia and amd gpus tend to work pretty well, and Ubuntu will prompt you to install them. The open source ones are generally not suitable for games yet.

Most Intel gpus just have open source drivers.
<pedantic>

'Launches'? they aren't launching, they are unveiling themselves. No Launch yet... that's planned for 2015.

Sorry....

</pedantic>
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You want an answer, but people don't necessarily want to give you one. So how do you make them want to answer you?

The answer is: sitcom + question = Answer.

Situation (We need to)

Complication (But ...)

Question (So how / what / when / where / can / could ...)

Answer (This is what you want from them).

I think there's a lot of other good communication advice in it, but most looks pretty generic (cut out the crap, use appropriate language, have some structure, etc). You've read Strunk and White right?

(Note, I've just scanned a summary, so that might not be all there is to it).
Right here.

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It's real science. Bacteria in your mouth can enter the bloodstream through wounds and travel to your heart.

//EDIT: Apparently, although the association between gum disease and heart disease seems to be science, the causal link is not.
I agree that traditional businesses often have too many managers. However, my perspective is that well functioning teams do not require day to day involvement with the manager. Consequently the manager may appear to add less value.

It is a tricky balance, I've worked for good managers and seen them lose track of things as their team grows either as a product of being successful or pressure to grow. There are also bad managers who are wasteful (of people) or are just skimming off the efforts of their team and not adding a lot of value. From the top of the organization it is probably quite difficult to tell the difference.
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Income Inequality: China Is The Most Unequal Country On Earth
Have you tried using a spreadsheet for this? If not, why not? And if yes, then what problems did you face?
> Looking forward to your Show HN :)

I can show you my latest forever project distraction / music-player project, which I just blogged this morning and am feeling quite pleased with:

http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/baremetal-midi-lv2-raspberry...

It's probably not the same kind of music player as graue's though.
I live in Denver and while my wife and I have a car (one) we use it solely as a means to tour the mountains.

Denver is blessed with amazing central neighborhoods. I live in a house with a yard and the whole bit. Yet I'm 11 minutes by bus to Downtown. I generally ride my bike to work (we have an amazing intra-city bike path system) or take the bus. Because Denver is so incredibly compact getting around without a car is easy.

Our neighborhood has lots and lots of restaurants, coffee shops, dry cleaners, etc... so we almost always walk when we go out.

Point being: Denver certainly fits the bill.

It's also rather affordable. I'm a huge fan:)
I agree, but the caveat for any city/town where you can get by without a car is "affordable".

full disclosure: I've lived in NYC without a car for 10 years, but grew up in Ohio completely car-dependent.

Edit: There are in fact many places that do meet the requirements of affordable and walkable, but a new concern in an age of urbanization is keeping them affordable. The desire for such neighborhoods is growing, but the supply is too low as of 2013.
No.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I am asking _why are you using inline styles?_ I'm trying to explain "stupidity," not "malice." You're interpreting assumption of malice from my tone, style, and frustration. And I am frustrated, furious even. I'm furious about typesetting. I'd happily go down being that guy. The guy who foams at the mouth and rages about typesetting; what's more, when it's about liberating dyslexic users.

Yes, go ape-shit about typesetting.

I'm citing my sources, and making my arguments. You're not reading me aright. And that's a matter of "opinion filter"; that's all I can really say about that. We don't read the same self-help books. Where I come from, Nietzsche and Mencken are the tour de force, not diplomatic tongue. My apologies if you feel that is inappropriate for Web development practices; but I honestly do not care. And moreover, I just saw Torvalds flip off Nvidia. So, what? Who do I follow? Not one of you has the right idea on personal brand.

I'm asking why. The question is why. Why? It's "why?" "Why?"

I'm calling them "poor development practices." How do you get blame out of that?

"(nonemotional deadpan) How?"
Islamic hackers get Egyptology site shut down
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When you check for the Ask toolbar and click next in the Java installer, the toolbar installer is fired off in the background, and installs itself after 10 minutes, regardless of what you do with the Java installer.
Forget priority
This was more infomercial than blog post. I have no issue with the author looking to build awareness for her new offering but wonder why it's on here as it doesn't add anything to the question around Angel to Series A or to Crowdfunding.
The pun appears to be the work of whoever submitted the link, the proper page title is "Asteroid-Mining Project Aims for Deep-Space Colonies".
The reason this is an attractive prospect in space and not on Earth is that the cost of getting rocket fuel off Earth is quite high. Once fuel becomes available in space, it makes refueling possible and lowers the cost of further activity or exploration.
I think you need to check your ego and re-read what I wrote without an outside bias. Maybe English isn't your first language and that's causing some block for you - I don't know. But to yet again quote me out of context just highlights how poor your reading comprehension is for a second time.

Protip: I'm not a 33yo dad who wants to start a business.
To take water from the surface of the earth, separated or not, you have to spend a CRAP TON of energy.

Moving the fuel to release such energy to space is almost by definition cheaper than moving the separated storage medium.
Show HN: Instagram filters in the browser
We just released the ability to add filters to images that you upload at img.ly (Log in to see the upload form + add filters)

Try it: http://img.ly/

Preview: http://img.ly/system/uploads/006/675/955/original_Screen%20Shot%202013-01-22%20at%205.55.04%20PM.png
I'd say extrapolating Alaska to the rest of America is also a big problem in the point the author and her contact are trying to make.
Mountain View is a straight up exurb. It's more dense than your average neighborhood in Dallas, but it has all the hallmarks of exurban design..including blasted curved streets.

Where were you San Francisco? While I've never lived there, I've done a few month-long stints. It always felt like people were always out on the streets when I've spent time there.
Related: Teambox offers tasks, conversations, notes and files in a similar experience to Asana or Trello, just a broader feature-set.

http://teambox.com

Strong points vs others are All Tasks view to filter by users or tags (#p1, #pull-request, etc).

Free for 5 users, and integrated with Dropbox, GDocs, etc.
Well, YC does not control the entire market but they are certainly prominent in it and seem to have no lack of interest from investors and entrepreneurs.

I think what YC does probably does send stronger signals to the market through the startups they invest in than it does through pure dollars and cents.
What are people's experiences here in managing projects or even to-do lists using spreadsheets?
Solution: use a different type of bracket (sort of like this :])
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EVE Online is now EVE IRL, I suppose.
Yeah I've tried learning Scala for a year.

It was painful, real painful and I felt like I didn't learn much from it.

Now I'm learning Erlang and I'm applying what I've learned from Scala to Erlang and wow. I'm glad I took at stab at Scala. Erlang is wonderful btw, it's so simple there are some minor drawback like no string primitive... I also love the fact that there is no loop, it forces me to think recursively. I guess because it's so simple I can just focus on learning the functional part instead of other stuff such as new objects paradigm (traits, etc..), design pattern ("pimp my whatever"), and type. I'm guess once I'm done with this I'll focus on type, thinking Haskell...
I have accidentally enabled this a million times and I've no idea what it does other than messing up my keyboard.
Welcome to our post-WWII 'prosperity'. When we decided that everyone should have a car & own their own home with a yard, we forced ourselves into this suburban sprawling. While Alaska, which the article talks about, might be a rather extreme example the entire western US is built up like this.
Top Gear used a whole bunch of the songs from it over a season or two - I guess they bought the rights to use the soundtrack and wanted to get their money's worth ;-)
Defending Presentational Class Names
Microsoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux migration success
> I find that shutting it down and even putting it on standby requires too many actions.

Make sure no windows have focus (i.e., click on the background) and hit ALT+F4. This also works in vmconnect and remote desktop windows, where hitting the corners is near impossible.
+1 for Spring not aging well

The only thing that makes me happy in the Java world lately is Scala. It has it's flaws but is much more pleasant that old school Java.
Side note, but dear god it is fantastically ugly and jarring to have advertisements inserted inline in that article between the card images. Can't anybody figure out how to make the World Wide Web better than this?
While you are right, I do think it's fair to say that this is still a pretty prominent advert.

Usually Linux gets so sidelined that you have to hunt about for any details regarding compatibility/support, where as here Tux takes more screen real estate than the Windows download link. This is very unusual, so I can't blame a few Linux enthusiasts getting excited.

Also, the article does also raise a valid point about Valve's long term interest in Linux; their Steam Box is powered by it. So it's not a huge leap of faith to see this as the first of many gentle nudges away from Windows.

Though obviously there's also the chance that this might just end up as flat as the "year of the Linux desktop" predictions that happens every year.
I would have paid someone 20$ a month (and I'm sure more will), to humanly read top HN posts, and summarize them. Kind of like tldr.io + audible.
I submitted the link; the title is from the first sentence of the article: "A new asteroid-mining company launches Tuesday with the goal of helping humanity expand across the solar system by tapping the vast riches of space rocks." I used that instead as the first one is ambiguous, and would likely be referring to Planetary Resources without context.
I'll give you he's not the most incompetent CEO out there, but turning the Microsoft he received from Gates into something that's "still afloat" is not that much impressive.
> No. It really isn't.

Then we are observing very different realities. Beginner's mistakes have been evident for years and years in the iTunes (desktop) application where the GUI thread is routinely blocked by anything from network activity to slow disk IO.

With the latest generation of iOS, these problems have started cropping up elsewhere in iOS apps. For instance if you use the podcast app as intended, and download content directly on your iPhone, the UI has a tendency to block on IO operations that should have taken place in the background. The UI will hang and refuse to scroll. Also, the player has become really temperamental -- often refusing to accept volume control inputs via the screen for many seconds after laboriously starting to play a stream.

(And why the hell did Apple have to split up the iPod application in the first place. Now you have iTunes U, which is sluggish and buggy, you have Podcasts, which is sluggish and buggy etc. WHY!?)
I did. The biggest problem for me was the lack of email reminders.
Edit: The obvious solution is to buy another dyno. This isn’t the issue, however. I wrote this post to show the unfortunate grey area in their pricing structure. It’s possible for low-traffic customers to pay a lot and still be subject to the poor performance that comes with a dyno being set to idle.

The greater underlying problem is there are some customers who only need one dyno (especially those of us who are running unicorn. My dyno can handle three times the number of requests) and we would rather spend a little extra on an upgraded database or some other addons.
When I lived in Dallas we had tremendous trouble finding anywhere to live that was "very urban". Outside of a couple of areas in the park cities (which we could never afford) it was really hard to find. Even Downtown was nothing but large streets with limited retail options. I remember looking at a condo building near McKinney ave. that had as a main selling point "parking for your Suburban". When I asked what was within walking distance they pointed in the direction of McKinney and went "some stuff is that way, about a 10 minute walk".

That was 6 years ago granted. Maybe things are better now?
I believe the logic goes something like this: Research shows that perio disease may be linked to heart disease [1]. Flossing has been proven to reduce your chance of heart disease so it also reduces your chance of heart disease.

I'm not going to try and dig up a bunch of studies to back this up. I drank the Kool-Aid years ago. It appears to have paid off for me in the dentists chair!

[1]: http://www.perio.org/consumer/heart_disease
"Can anyone elaborate why is it a Federal crime...?"

Because the golden rule is that the one who has the gold makes the rule?

Seriously now: it's when I see crazy stuff like that that I'm happy to live in Europe. Even if not everything is clean here: especially with all the ones who have the gold trying to lobby hard and use insiders to push crazy EU laws in.

Another really serious issue is that "TV on demand" can often be really sucky: I'm using a TV+Internet provider that sells movie but the offering is really lame. I mean: it's terribly lame. As a result I'm sometimes asking friends who are into piracy to give me copy of some movies I'd be fully willing to pay 4 or 5 Euros for (the typical price at which my provider sells me the movie).

Going to the DVD store to rent a DVD? I used to that and pay for my movies. But these stores they're dying one after the other (due to the competition of both "tv on demand" and piracy).

So for some movies I "need" to pirate them if I want to see them, which is sad.
FTA:
Just recently I decided that I would give myself another dental check up. I seemed to have forgotten my horse racing lesson because I was expecting to have perfect teeth, again. I didn’t. I was given a bill that would be the equivalent of buying a decent used car. Ugh. Could I have prevented this? Yes, I could have. If only I had been flossing my teeth two times a day, I would have had less problems.

My personal anecdote: last time when I went to the dentist, for the first time in ~10 years, because a tiny bit of a tooth broke off while trying to strip a piece of wire with my mouth (yes I know that's bad), I expected my teeth to be in horrible shape. Dentist fixed my tooth and did a full check-up including X-rays, and as it turns out, my teeth where in near-perfect condition, no cavities or other bad spots, just some dental plaque that needed to be removed. I haven't flossed a single time in my 30+ years long life.

Moral of the story: flossing probably has nothing to do with dental health, as long as you brush your teeth and don't eat a lot of sugar.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092097
Very cool story addressing a key problem for entrepreneurs: finding a co-founder
And this is why Apple creates their own install packages for Java.
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Which raises an interesting question - how do you make money on a platform like this?

I've been wondering because I think that my preferred managed environment (.NET) is doomed if Microsoft continues keeping it tied to Windows. On the Microsoft side, I suspect that Microsoft's market share in the server and enterprise space is going to continue dwindling for the foreseeable future, which means that their current plan for making profit is far from certain. But neither Sun nor Oracle seem to have figured out a way to distribute Java for free to the world at large and make a profit off of it, and it's hard to imagine that Microsoft is any more capable of pulling that rabbit out of its hat.

Perhaps the trick is that you don't try to make money on it, at least not directly. And there's a great project out there that's trying to do it that way. But, well. . . . ugh. I love Mono; it seems like it has everything going for it. From a technical standpoint it's been rapidly closing the gap with Microsoft's implementation, which I suspect means it's probably already ahead of the Java platform in many respects. The flagship language is certainly way ahead. And it has the singular distinction of being the only Free platform in this sector, which would make you think that folks would be extremely interested in seeing it win. Why that doesn't seem to be the case continues to mystify me. I know it's still got a few Big Business cooties on it, but it's got way, way, way less of them than Java does.
> To do this, you need a lot of energy, it is essentially charging a battery. If this was really feasible wouldn't we be using solar panels to separate water into hydrogen on Earth?

We do. If you buy commercial hydrogen, it was probably extracted by water by that process (although other processes are possible), using energy from the grid of which some percent is solar.

So what exactly is your point anyway? The needs in space are far different than on Earth. Solar energy is abundant and available 24/7, but stored energy is needed by rocket engines in large amounts and all at once.
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The term may have originated here (edit - actually, probably not based on the publication dates.) But it's where I first saw it:

http://bitquabit.com/post/coding-is-priority-number-five/
Google docs and Open Office look very similar to MS Office... And why should it look different? :)
I think this is in a large part due to the way programs install on Windows perhaps.

These programs seem to rely on getting the user to make a choice during installation time. Windows is the only major OS that seems to rely on "installers" being programs in their own right.

For example on debian, .deb packages provide a standard installation process. Whilst it would still certainly be possible to inject all types of crapware into a .deb the actual install process is not really conductive to this, because there is no way (AFAIK) to pop a custom screen during the install.
Correlation. Causation. Not the same.

People who floss twice a day tend to have all sorts of good habits. In fact, they tend to be the sort of people who just plain "take care of themselves."
A battle rages over open sourcing the tech that got Obama reelected
US Lobbying Against The Data Protection Reform Intensifies
This is for if I want to fly somewhere on the same flight as my friends?

Or it's a reverse auction site for plane tickets, but then I don't understand why I need to get my friends involved.

(I'm totally not interested in this, but that's because I don't fly.)
$30 for a replacement monitor off of ebay since t400 will work with some t6x parts.
Why the release of one time price products instead of recurring revenue?
To be honest, it's likely that the why is simply “because we can”. I'm sure there are other advantages—having a fully-functioning brain in a digital realm where you can modify it at will has a myriad of probably psychological and biological research implications. But even if most people asked themselves ethical questions about whether doing that is right etc etc, someone would produce it simply because it is possible.

I hate to say “it's in our nature”, but I think there is something (perhaps each other?) that is constantly pushing us to prove that the boundaries others thought were there aren't. And even if we know intellectually that they aren't, we want to manifest the breakdown of those boundaries.

So why would someone want to build a human-like intelligence? Because they can.
Thanks Jim. So would you use a spreadsheet app if it had email reminders?
One thing that keeps bothering me are circular app icons. I don't know, it's different but I just disagree. That facebook logo in a ... bubble :)
There are some choices, but I think you overestimate the amount of choice most people have with American development patterns. Sure, you could live in SF or Palo Alto, if you're well off (my brother pays over $1000 for one room in a shared apartment in the Mission). But if you aren't, you're going to be commuting from somewhere else; your only choice is whether you're going to commute from Gilroy or Fremont or whatever. With different development patterns, that's not necessarily the case: in Copenhagen or Berlin, you don't have to be particularly wealthy to live in a centrally located apartment.
free can't stay free forever without someway to collect money
Zuck continues to not surprise me.