skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why start with the human brain? Why not do something simpler first? We can't even simulate the C. elegans brain yet http://lesswrong.com/lw/88g/whole_brain_emulation_looking_at... and that is ridiculously simpler than the human brain.
-2 2 == 2 2. I think you mean base 0.5.
I actually learned about this when I was trying to interface with a Cabellas Big Hunt orange shotgun I bought at the thrift store.

Sadly, this is not how the gun worked. It was the kind that works by measuring IR sensors.
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Imagine my surprise when I groggily google Kelly Norton.
Isn't that what "game mode" is for?
Fuck Tesla; it's not fair those cars get to run on electricity.
Ask HN: Looking for Creative Partner to SEO startup with 2K+ users
SEO startup launched half a year ago changes founders list to grow rapidly. 2K+ users already onboard, some money going arrives. You have to pay $5K to get 50%. US residency is preferable, but I'm outside US.
A project is written in Ruby, so ideal candidate is skilled Ruby/Rails developer with some knowledge in marketing/startups and SEO. But it's not a must to be ideal ) My mail is kushtech (@) yahoo{.}com
I have done iPhone consulting for years.

Don't hand over rights to use the work until they've paid. Assign copyright, don't do work for hire. etc. Have cancellation clauses that detail EXACTLY how the end of the relationship works. Get large amounts of the total payment in intermediary payments.

Also, call a lawyer, don't do this.
Heh. I think it's funny that you think $300 is a lot. I'm in the mid-west and $300 is still not a lot for a one-day conference.
Are you sure that applies for businesses? Most laws for consumer protection are personal, not business level.
The point is to use a non-blocking DB frontend. Not necessarily JVM-based.
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I've been battling with her in PageRank for years. I claim she isn't playing fair!
From the FAQ -
Why not begin with simple organisms like C.elegans?

There are two problems here. The first is feasibility; the second is the relevance of our results.
Feasibility. Neuroscientists have mapped all of C.elegans’ 300 or so neurons. However, enormous amounts of key data needed are still missing. For instance we do not have enough data on the physiology and pharmacology of C. Elegans neurons and synapses. And we still have limited data on the distribution of ion channels, receptors and other proteins on neurons, synapses and glia. Without this data we cannot build unifying models. A second problem is how easy it is to obtain the data. The crucial requirement for unifying models is the ability to access the data needed. Obtaining a deep understanding of the molecular machinery of a single neuron or a single synapse is just as difficult in C. Elegans as in human beings. And many datasets – particularly data on cognition - are actually easier to acquire in rodents, or even in humans. So we can’t just say: “let’s do this quickly in worms and do complex brains later”: we have to solve the same basic challenges, whatever brain we model. What we are actually doing is building a generic strategy we can use to reconstruct any brain.

Relevance: Studying the “simple” nervous systems of organisms like C.elegans or drosophila, is obviously very important, particularly for molecular and genetic studies. However the organization, electrophysiology and function of the mammalian brain are quite different. One of the HBP’s most important goals is to contribute to the development of new treatments for brain disease. But pharmaceutical companies already have great difficulties in translating results from mouse to human beings; with simpler organisms these problems become much worse. If we want to make a real contribution to clinical research, it is probably unwise to invest heavily in simple systems, so distant from the human brain.
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As I read about the early involvement of the secret service and in light of the later actions of the DoJ, I couldn't help but wonder if there was something to the signature of Swartz's actions that raised the Federal Government's level of interest.

To put it another way, how likely is it that that particular closet had been used for similar activities before? Is it more plausible that Swartz discovered the closet or that someone told him about it?

Hell, it was unlocked. The camera may have already been there and the Secret Service already involved. Swartz may have blundered into a honey hole and screwed up an ongoing investigation. That's the sort of thing which pisses cops off.

It's not easy to make sense of MIT's actions as naive responses to a one off event - disconnecting the laptop and alarming the closet would be more plausible as responses to a commercial crime. Putting in cameras and letting the crime continue just doesn't make sense in response to the sort of hacking which is traditional on the MIT campus (e.g. lockpicking). MIT went along until JSTOR took radical public action and data collection and observation by the Feds was no longer feasible.

If the proposed plea bargain required Swartz to cooperate with investigations of other hackers, neither side would have an interest in exposing it. The Feds for fear of tipping their hand, Swartz's survivors for remembrance of his legacy. All along I have had the feeling there is more to the tragedy than the press can get from their chairs.
Ugh. I'm getting downvoted for a tongue-in-cheek joke. :(
More edits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.138.91...
"If you don't sleep, you die."

No human has ever died from simply not sleeping (excluding accidents, etc caused by lack of sleep)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-long-ca...

http://www.abc.net.au/health/talkinghealth/factbuster/storie...
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I do like the freeware version of Toad for MySQL from Quest. I have used it quite extensively in the past. Lately though HeidiSQL -http://www.heidisql.com/ has gotten so good I have had no need for the Quest MySQL software.
helpful comment. thanks Gavin.
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At some point of course, people are going to start using data analysis of all your posts and even writing style to build up an entire history of you from all these public posts, this will happen, indeed it's already happening precisely because it is so valuable. So your curation of your online life is really the illusion of control, in fact the culture of google, like that of Facebook, leads me to believe these things will appear at the top of a google search as you fear at some point in your lifetime.
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I don't necessarily doubt the scientists' competence here, but they're just playing the fundraising game when they talk about "disease" in this context.
Looks pretty nice. Couple of issues I found (others may have already mentioned these):

* Checkboxes imply that you can select multiple tags. But Clicking on a second tag is clearing the first. You might want to use a radio button, or (better) allow multiple tags to selected.

* As a minor but useful improvement, clicking on the tag name should select the checkbox (the cursor is already changing to hand, implying that the name is clickable, but it is currently not.)

* When I selected Perl tag, the first stackoverflow user displayed (ikegami) shows 0%. A bug?

* When you change from one tag to another the user list is refreshed, but the article list on the right is not. That seems a bit of disconnect for me. I am not sure what the best way here, but I think I prefer that article list also cleared out (or at least, display it faded or something).

That's all I have for now.

EDIT: Also, it would be nice if there is a text box to enter an arbitrary tag, instead of clicking on Load more tags... and hoping that the tag you want will show up. Useful for less popular tags.
can the http-kit server be used from java directly ? last i looked, all the async java webservers seemed limited to 1000s of connections, which largely defeats the purpose. i'm willing to give up the servlet spec if needed
thx. I tried diigo before, but I think only highlight is not enough. That's why I came up with structured mark and the whole thing. Hope you like it.
Question, why don't people just use OpenGL ES on Windows/Mac/Linux as well then? It sounds like the right level of not-backwards compatable, yet available everywhere
Probably easy to miss. One really does not expect the compiler to crash on code like that.
Was my television particularly slow? I noticed the blackened screen and white rectangles around the ducks as a kid, but the article says "you don't notice" the blackout and the white rectangles. Surely many of you noticed this as kids.
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It's different in the technical details, but the aim is exactly and completely identical: to deny service to other customers as a way to punish the proprietor of a business.

Sitting at a lunch counter is legal, sending an HTTP request to a server is legal. In some cases sitting at a lunch counter for too long becomes illegal, and in some cases sending too many HTTP requests can become illegal (DDoS).

The difference here is that sitting at a lunch counter for too long got you a night in jail whereas participating in a DDoS can easily get you many years in prison and a felony conviction.

There is an imbalance here. Both of these things are acts of protest. Both do economic damage to their targets. Both involve collaboration with others. Why, then are the penalties so radically different?

We could debate the relative economic impact, but I think that's a moot point, just because a business is large does not mean that it should be immune from protest. Political freedom cannot be squelched just because we have decided to rely on fragile technology for day-to-day life.
$300 is cheap for a conference where great speakers give great talks about about focused topics that are relevant to your career and/or interests. $300 is expensive for a conference where some "cool" hackers spend the day cracking in-jokes and showing silly slides.
Damn. That's gangster.
That's one billion Euros taxpayer money and you will not be reading the results in an open access journal any time soon.
It's a good thing I don't claim to be a mathematician.

Improvements for negative exponent version 2.0 - any loss can now be called exponential growth by selecting the appropriate exponent.
This. I love IDEs, but arguments like 'the tool can generate $GARBLE for me!' are what keeps the haters a-hatin' and the mediocre programmers mediocre.
You're making the (wrong) assumption that all those participating in a denial of service attack are doing so voluntarily. Typically it's a small number of perps that harness a large number of unwitting drones.
so confused at "input.checkbox:indeterminate"

1. how does it know an unchecked checkbox has not been used?
2. why was a class of 'checkbox' added to the checkbox?
Perhaps I am more brutal than most. But if a person threatens me with potential violence to take my phone or wallet, then their life is the least of my concerns - it's essentially forfeit.

Are they going to stab me after they steal my stuff? Are they going to put me in a car and take me to another location? When violence is threatened, you simply don't know where it's going to lead. I'd rather err on the side of caution which is why I support CCP / LTC for responsible and law-abiding citizens.
Hey guys,

About a year ago I launched Lean Domain Search on HackerNews [1]. For most of its existence it has focused on helping folks find available domain names for their websites. This new tool is an extension of that: it enables you to view .com domain name registrations for any topic over time.

The link I submitted here takes you straight to the search results for "3d print", though you can perform your own search using the field at the top of the page. The examples listed at the top of the page some of the more interesting (and often perplexing) trends that I've found.

I'd love to get your feedback. It's a new tool so if you run into any snags just let me know and I'll check it out. Thanks!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470977
Heidi SQL was mentioned in passing in the article, but I wanted to "+1" it. Admittedly it's only MySQL (with some level of MSSQL support now... not sure what that level is) but I do like that it runs fine in Wine and it has a lovely 'find text across server' feature that let's you dig into any database / table that you have access to.
This has been unlaunched because there were too many reports of people who were confused by it. E.g. when you copy a link out of the mail, or when you're a compulsive text markers like I am. It can still be enabled as a lab though.
While I didn't expand upon it in the piece I believe many apply the 'evil' brush to a host of normal, though sometimes ruthless, business activities.

People seem consumed with those 'wrongs' and wind up missing the larger picture entirely.
> What if I made NotGPLPress

That might make them really mad. If they are going to blacklist on not licensing images as GPL, what do you think they are going to do to you? ;)
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Brilliant - as someone who has recently taken the same steps (and into Marionette) there is a lot of half way info out there and not nearly enough complete tutorials.

I am writing one myself - so would be interested to hear the good and bad points of this as much as the OP
This sounds really interesting - I would definitely apply to work on such a thing. But I am scared away by the science career path. So optimistically you get to develop some neuro simulation code, maybe get a couple of papers out it. What do you do then? Who in industry hires people who worked on this kind of stuff? I'm not trying to be pessimistic - if I figure out a good idea then I'll go for it and apply.
In issue 1, in the third code snippet within the for loop. Shouldn't this code:

finalParams[key] = defaultParams[key];

be written as

finalParams[key] = paramObject[key];
Then you obviously think this conference isn't for you. Too bad you can't just accept that, not by a ticket, and leave the judgement at home.
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This is a great idea in my opinion. Every time someone posts a project here everyone says "CHARGE MORE!". I think I remember people telling some guy with a jQuery plugin for giving website walk throughs to charge like $20 a month or something.

Your logic and pricing seems sound as long as its enough to sustain the company.
From the website: http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ict_platform.html
Neuroinformatics Platform,
Brain Simulation Platform,
Medical Informatics Platform

Extremely useful platforms that should be open. In addition to which I agree with you that they should allow access to their papers.
As soon as Ubuntu Phone becomes stable enough for daily use, I will switch from Android to it.

Coupled with a powerful processor and plenty of spare solid-state memory, Ubuntu Phone will allow me to walk around and travel with my entire desktop environment in my pocket -- including round-the-clock access to everything available in official and third-party Ubuntu repositories.

(Have you ever needed access to an editor, language, database backend, etc. when you happen to be without a laptop? No problem, Ubuntu Phone will allow you to install and run all these things on your phone.)
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Here is a video of Duck Hunt running on a cathode-ray oscilloscope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhvT2GMOMB8
I definitely saw it, but it might have been the same way that the image of a bright light is burned into your vision for a short time.
Since someone mentionned emacs, I feel obligated to mention vim :)

Much like emacs, a great editor. I have used it alongide the LanguageTool[1] plugin for the spell checking part.
I didn't like the fact it required Java (the plugin, not vim) to do it's job, but having spell/grammar checking within vim without having to resort to dirty tricks with Word / LibreOffice was well worth it.
[1]http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3223
Ask HN: Commercial closed-source use of my GPLed code
I built a small software as part of a project during school. It was a pretty good tool, so I decided to clean up the code and published the source code on sourceforge under GPLv3 license.

Recently, while searching for better tools for the same task, I came across a commercial tool that looks pretty much the same as the version that I built. Its been in production for some time now, so it has obviously improved upon the initial version, but I'm pretty sure that it started off with the version I released. Even one of the screenshots looks like its picked up directly from my project page.

Are there ways through which I can find out if it uses some part of the code that I released under GPL? What are my options?
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Interesting on the 10-14 minute drop off point - I almost never watch technical you tube videos, and hardly ever listen to podcasts because of the time commitemtn vs not being sure what I will get (I used to be glued to Spolsky though I knew what I was getting)
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This is why I always thought my friends were stupid for sitting up really close to the T.V., whereas I could always beat them by going as far back as the wires would allow. I was widening the field of view, requiring me to be less accurate than at normal range.
It's bit funny/sad that today having a terminal in Linux distro is news.
Or none. That's the thing - that "pick two" saying actually applies only to competent practitioners. Actually getting two is the best case scenario!

I have seen projects where the implementers happily go way over time, way over budget, and fail to deliver anything at all.
I side with Vizzini on this one. He trademarked it plain and simple and shouldn't be stripped of his trademark. I hope the Reddit community members lose this one.

It's not like the guy demanded they stop using the term, he even let them use his trademark on their subreddit. But for some people that's just not enough.

Best wishes to Vizzini.

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> "The issue I have is when the Gaymer name is used. It takes 10 years of my work, money, blood, sweat and tears and directs it to another website. Trust me, there were many tears. When you have no idea about PHP/SQL and you have to figure out how to fix a database, you will end up in tears."

Yeah, I'd be pissed if some random internet mob wanted to strip me of something I built.

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Google is only guilty of being Evil because they raised the bar by making it a part of their motto.

So people will -naturally- hold google up to the standard that google has set for themselves. And based on that standard they've done plenty of evil, and they will likely do plenty more.

'Don't be evil' sets you up for the interpretation of every act you perform against the background of what the rest of the world thinks is evil or not. That means that when you promote your own browser on services that are already very much entrenched at the expense of other browsers that some people will see that as an act of evil, and will conclude that 'don't be evil' was just a nice slogan.

If you help governments censor data then that might be construed by some as proof that you are evil.

If you collect data on every visitor to your website and you make it seem that you give them the option to stop tracking you when in fact the language is worded in such a way that you misdirect those people (likely not lawyers, and likely not able to spot the subtle difference in wording) that this is proof that you are evil.

I think google brought this on themselves. They were going to set a new standard, but it seems like they are just another large company. Nobody would have thought of labeling them 'evil' if they had not started the use of that word to distance themselves from their competition.

But now they're stuck with it and they will either have to admit that it wasn't all that easy, to be large and 'not evil' at the same time or they will have to start to really live by their motto.
> And by the way if you work hard 'enough', your dreams will come true anywhere!

Why do people keep repeating this? What is the empirical evidence for this statement outside of some anecdotes? I have seen so many counter-examples in my life...
"To get people to use the Internet more" ... on Google properties. How else do you explain Google+ ?
All artists work off of methods/themes that other artists might have coined before them.

Picasso said "Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"
Yes, but one day they will have - hopefully - results. And a commitment to publish in open access journals should have been part and parcel of a funding round like this. A billion is not exactly pocket change.
All the time, I hear people with ideas and developers with apps where their plan is to put it in the store and hope it takes off. At best their plan includes making a video that goes viral, but they've never done that.

If you're targeting a big niche with lots of competition (puzzle games, todo lists, etc.) you must have some sort of compelling hook to stand out. A great endorsement / review lined up, an innovative UI, something controversial, etc.

If you're targeting a small niche (bassoonists, bingo card enthusiasts, etc.) you really should test that niche before investing a lot of time into building a product for it. Build the minimum app that can provide value and see how it sells. It's impossible to tell conversion rates for app store searches, but if your 99 cent app with 20 bingo card designs doesn't sell at least a couple a week, that niche isn't looking good. If it sells 100 copies a week, I'd go full steam ahead on the project. You can always pull your niche testing app later.
The only firm that I'm aware of that actually trades on twitter data is Derwent Capital Management. Strangely for a company that claims to be sitting on a crystal ball for the markets they've chosen to provide a platform for others to trade on rather than simply making all those billions themselves, odd that.

I'm well aware of the concept of the wisdom of the crowd but if your incoming data is noise then your ability to build any kind of aggregate analysis on top of it is going to be nil & Post-hoc analysis means you can find only things you already know are there. ANEW/AFINN etcetc are basically the white flag to any kind of meaningful automated analysis of tweets and resorting to simply dumb word counts instead. Yes, you can capture a broad pattern but the shape and strength of that? The contours are an artifact of the list you use, it's utterly arbitrary. Throw a few more random phrases on the list, assign them some arbitrary values and presto, new results! If an tweet goes round twitter in a minute with hundreds of thousands of RTs this kind of analysis will miss it completely unless it's lucky enough to be preloaded with the right dictionary. To work in this kind of context an algorithm has to be able to trim its own sails.

There's nothing particularly wrong with your work, I'm just sick of the cycles wasted attempting to do an extreme version of the problems that NLP already struggles with.