skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat. I like the idea. As a prof a school with grades, I'm often disappointed by how grade-oriented, rather than learning-oriented students are, being much too concerned with what precisely is going to be on the test, how many points each thing is worth, etc. But it's hard to blame them personally for it, when the entire incentive structure of grades, GPAs, and class rankings is set up to encourage them to focus on it.
It's amusing how things like that can happen. I felt like I was spinning my wheels on a problem with a project -- consisting of treating each viewing of a video in a 24 hour period as separate orders for statistical purposes -- yet not cluttering the users history (among other things) with multiple "orders."

I started going through a complex process to make sure everything was properly collapsed and still recorded when it suddenly occurred to me: "Hey, we already have order renewals for dvds. This is basically the same thing."

So, a day or two of complex work ended up being solved by s three line change that I should have thought of immediately. Good times. :)
On the streets? Where I run, its too dark at night, but the temperature is perfect.
I assume that such a simple question is intended to allow its author to make a point. So, perhaps we can skip the dance and get right to what your point is?

Else, if you really are unaware of the market's purpose, perhaps you can spend a little time on Google. There is much available information online that you might find helpful in answering your question.
If transfer of ownership never takes place, then why do they keep trying to call it theft?

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
It pays here to look at a map of how small an average principality would be in medieval times versus how large Alexander's empire was.

The population densities were, it should be noted, not that different in the two periods. It was not until the mid-1700s that we started to see sustained significant improvements in the carrying capacity of the land thanks to agricultural improvements in England. Until then the carrying capacity would vary, higher during a warm period in the 1200s, falling significantly when things cooled down again in the 1300s.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%9313... to get a sense of how much worse life was in the 1300s than the 1200s.
I'm actually somewhat grateful that we don't live in a world where scientists dig up balrogs and Elder Things.

> The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum...
http://www.winulator.com/

P.S. knowing this dude's previous work (coLinux), he's pretty good :)
It'll be interesting to see when HN gets into Political Philosophy : )
Two words: Precompiled Headers. Once they're used programs can be designed specifically with them in mind. This gives the compiler more flexibility for code generation and inlining as well, not just for templates.
Yeah I just noticed. When I wrote this I lived a substantial distance from the ocean, however now running it against my current address (which is across the road from a marina) it advises I ought to take a ferry sometimes.

Not sure what I can do about this. I have a vague idea you might be able to flag the Google Maps API to avoid ferries.
I agree; I just think it is important when considering why e.g. Jewish people aren't leaping to accept Jesus--the hellfire that say, Baptists, claim he is going to save them from, isn't part of their beliefs. Many Christians are confused on this.
I've got 7K+ rep there (hardly a high-score) but I don't really like the site anymore due to arbitrary behavior of mods.

It wasn't even a "discussion" (specifically forbidden because independent thoughts and points or view are something frowned upon on SO, which is bent on crushing individuality)... Just a friggin' good list.

The really pathetic behavior of SO mods starts when they see people criticizing SO (and leaving or rage-quitting SO) and then try to say: "Do not speak about it here (e.g. on HN), bring this to meta".

Yeah. Sure. Meta is even worse than SO ; )

As a result of this crazy mod behavior people, like me, are quitting and stop helping others on that medium.

It's not that big of an issue that said because something, one day, will rise just as fast as SO did and shall have fixed the arbitrariness of SO mods behavior / rules.

A pet-peeve of mine is that they clearly said on SO (on Meta) that it was OK to rewrite a question entirely so that the question fits a totally bogus response (totally bogus response of course made by a user with lots of rep).

When I saw that non-sense I realized it was time for me to quit.
Show HN: Authorize SSH public keys from trusted online identities
This video/lecture is rather long, but it's an excellent introduction to what the Blue Brain Project is working on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gFI7o69VJM&list=PLgO7JBj...

That was back when Henry Markram was still collaborating with IBM. It explores some of the intricacies of reverse engineering neurons and the human brain.

Another good source of information is the Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/brain-emulation-roadmap-repo...

This was the funding proposal that they sent for the Human Brain Project:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/HBP_flagship.pdf
It surprised us too. And it is actually the merchant account provider, Adyen in our case, who ask for this reserve. This money is used as a security in case we would charge eg. 100 customers, receive the money, spend it all on marketing and then notice our product is broken and we have to declare bankruptcy because we do not have any savings left.
As I understand it, the amount can vary greatly depending on the amount of risk they see in your business plan.
What did it cost you to get to 0$ + 15K users?

And as others have said; setup tiered pricing ASAP.
Do you suppose the author is a lefty? I'm right-handed, and one of the challenges for me was using my left hand on the WASD keys.
"...an international group of researchers has secured $1.6 billion..."

An international group of researchers has scammed $1.6 billion away. And that's with EU taxpayers money.

Do you really think that anyone involved in deciding to allow that kind of spending has any idea as to where we're at nowadays regarding AI? Did any of them read "On Intelligence" (its author knowing more than a thing or two about AI)?

I'm sure not. And I'm not happy my taxpayers dollars are funding this.

I'm all for research and fundings going to research.

But this one is going to be a gigantic waste not leading to anything. And in ten years people will apologize and explain why "x is not AI", "y is not AI" and why it was a gigantic waste.

On a positive sidenote $1.6 bn for the duration of this project is peanuts compared to the yearly $140 bn the UE is spending ; )
In prinicple, anything worth having is worth having in a Android-native touch-optimized implementation. But...

There is a lot of software, especially on a formerly hegemonic platform like Windows with a decades-long history, that will never get ported or functionally recreated.

Most of it deservedly so, but some some of it is going to be valuable enough to enough people that a compatibility system will be just the right thing because a reimplementation would take too long and/or cost too much.
I can see it handy when using a Middleman with its live-reloading functionality. Probably just for documentation purposes; or showing off the whole process of development.
"Barrett's love points" is one of the items in the save state. The love points determine who you'll end up dating in the Golden Saucer.
You're sure that every member of a worldwide collection of top neuroscientists has no idea about where we're at nowadays regarding AI? Really?
Look at it from the ISP's perspective. Most are not doing metered billing (yet) so they have little to gain from customers having faster Internet connections. They certainly aren't getting a penny from the companies that are/will be making money using the fat pipes to customer's homes. What's in it for them? They will do it if they must to remain competitive but will wait as long as possible to see if new technologies will allow them to push the old infrastructure further. The technology to do 1Gbit/sec (download) speeds on 30 year old cable systems is on its way to market now.
Would that qualify as one of the biggest "sales" ever? :)
Fr. Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J.[1] (d. 1616) has sometimes been called a "Christian Seneca".[2]

I had never heard of him or his major work "Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues" until 2004, when someone I met on a retreat recommended that I hunt down a copy of Joseph Rickaby's[3] masterful translation from the original Spanish.[4][5]

I had the opportunity to read through "PPCV" over the period of about a year back in 2007-2008, and I can only say that it leaves a remarkable and lasting impression. I would think his treatises on humility, examination of conscience, and mental prayer (meditation) would be of great interest even to those who aren't particularly religious -- i.e. the practical wisdom contained therein is like a toolkit for coming to "know oneself" for true.

[1] http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Alonso_Rodriguez

[2] http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2540029

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rickaby

[4] http://bit.ly/PPCV-1of2

[5] http://bit.ly/PPCV-2of2
Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry if i've hit a nerve with what i said, but, yes, i do think that purchasing things legally is still, in a lot of cases, more difficult than, say, going to The Pirate Bay and downloading a torrent. This comic, for example, illustrates that quite well and it's not from 2002: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

> You think iTunes is "too hard" to use?

On Linux, yes, it's quite hard (compared to native Linux media players).

> You have a problem figuring our Netflix?

It wasn't too long ago that Netflix came to Argentina. If it'd had more content then i would consider using it, but frankly, with the current little content they have, i see no much of a use for it.

> Is Amazon more than your tiny brain can take?

Actually, Amazon is quite good for buying things like tablets or laptops. They end up costing like double or 50% more than what they cost on the US, but that's usually still quite less than what they cost buying them here.

But for "smaller" things, like e-books i wouldn't consider using Amazon, especially if i lose the freedom to copy or share that book thanks to some stupid DRM polices.

> At this point, if you're still having "trouble" paying, it's because you don't have money, not because you can't spend money you have.

Well, that's also quite true. Legitimate movies or videogames for some reason cost quite a lot here.

I remember that not long ago, before Blockbuster Argentina closed, an original PS3 or XBox game was about AR$ 500 (which was like $125 at that time); that's a substantial fraction of the monthly salary for most people (a normal middle-class salary being around 4000 and 8000 AR$). No wonder why Blockbuster broke here; people can but those same games for AR$ 10 on a pirate stand, and they are even easier to install :S

I'll probably won't convince you, but at least i'd like you to consider that the things that are easy for you are not easy for everyone else, and not necessarily because they are stupid or have "tiny brains". In case of replying, i'd appreciate you dropping those unneeded personal attacks.
Of course he's sure. He's a hacker. A maker, man. If we were that close to simulating a human brain there would be implementations up on github already, waiting for a $1.6B supercomputer to become available to run it.
Pascal would agree with you, but the problem is that the clay has no way of knowing who its potter is, if any.
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This is fascinating. In a previous life, my job was building/running supers at a DOE lab, and while the work done on the machines were quite interesting, the really grandiose projects were all physics related (supernova simulation, liquid salt reactor cooling, jet combustion, etc.)

The biological projects were still cool and I'm certain they were important, but they were harder to relate to (ion channel simulation, behavior of water in confined spaces, etc.), mostly biochemistry.

This could provide a nice bit of press to the large scale HPC community, which sometimes suffers from its association with DoD and the "other, darker side" of the DOE. (Or other non-US equivalents.)
Fair enough. Me using the word "shocked" might have been a bit of hyperbole, maybe I should have said "surprised". But nonetheless, I'm not shocked to see some meaningful interest in this subject among this crowd.

Of course, I'm FAR from an expert on this topic myself, and one thing I'm really happy about, from this thread, are all the great links and suggestions for other reading material.
How can you be radical if you feel "a bit biased"?

I just mean, biased relative to what you might call "the mainstream". Luckily I give about half a shit about what "the mainstream" think.
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Until we come to grips with what will likely be a post-labor world, this is a good transitional approach. The 40 hour week is an arbitrary standard, and it may now be rational to reduce that number. Few jobs are now so arduous that 70 year olds cannot perform well. We are suffering from outdated standards for work weeks and retirement age, and un-sticking our assumptions is likely to benefit the situation.
In Medieval Europe there was less surplus, a crappier economy, a population closer to the edge. Rome linked prosperous lands in Italy, Egypt, Gaul, North Africa into one empire. Romans overfarmed Italy at their peak and depended on Egypt for grain. After 500AD these luxuries could not be sustained. Economies became local and if you mismanaged your farmland you had to live with it. Italy's recovered by ~1000AD. Much of Europe faced similar issues. Cities declined all over around 500 because farmers could not produce the same surplus locally.

Most fighting inside Europe was done with 5-20K armies during 400-1500. It started with the Romans. As they faced rebel "Romans" ever more frequently, they faced similarly equipped and trained men so results of big battles were unpredictable. They would favor skirmishes over big decisive battles. And if your fighting is indecisive, why field large armies at great expense?

The well trained, well armed foot soldiers, "man of arms" was equivalent to a Roman legionnaire and formed the basis of these armies. At the time a full suit of mail armor cost as much as a Ferrari today. Now this is an issue of economics because there were few complaints about the price of similar kit from Roman times.

Well trained and equipped armies could face numerically superior "peasant uprisings" with predictable results, just like in Roman times. Romans faced a lot of poorly armed opponents in Europe.

BUT it's hard to say what these trends were driven by. There was a lot of traditionalism around warfare.

Macedonian armies were actually poorly equipped early on. They used long pikes instead of reasonable spears like the Greeks. Macedonians wore rags for armor, while some Greeks they faced wore 70 lb almost full body armor. And similarly in Europe, states started fielding cheap pikemen combined with crossbowmen, archers, muskets and a few well trained melee fighters.

Such armies could stand up to more expensive Ferrari suited, trained all their lives, born into a higher class men. It was probably the noise of firearms that changed military traditionalism. But handheld firearms of the period were mostly noise and smoke. And as Macedonians demonstrate not really necessary to face better armed and trained opponents.

But I don't think any historian could untangle all the factors without a Matrix level simulator, complex systems and all that.
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This is interesting. I live in Indonesia, where except on our capital (Jakarta and most Java), working 60 hours a week is the norm. I have noticed (and I think this has been proved over and over again) that people who works 60 hours a week is actually less productive and less happy than those who have a free weekends and work only 8 hours a day.

I wonder how much working time can we cut until the benefits disappear.
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Working on a new mobile game/social network, currently using this page to gauge interest. Please give critical commentary... does it have the right draw to it?
Dude, people are not judging you. And, the world is not turning around you either. So, relax a little bit. If this is how you are going to cope with life, it is fine. But, you might appear to react to something that doesn't exist. Just saying... People are usually nice, and when they aren't, be sorry for them, not angry.

Just my 0.02 cents.
Is there a way to measure the flexibility and expressiveness of a language?
As someone that has built many Li-ion batteries, there isn't any acid. The only liquid that could have possibly oozed out is the electrolyte, which is an organic solvent with lithium salts in it (which is somewhat hazardous).
Centrist professor takes a moderate position about halfway between the "standard" workweek and Tim Ferriss's 4-hour workweek. ;-)
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> Few jobs are now so arduous that 70 year olds cannot perform well.

I think it's mostly physical jobs that 70 year olds cannot perform well. And that kind of job can be automated by robots anyway. For job like programming or CEO, I kind of think that 70 year olds can do better than say 20 year olds.
> If we were that close to simulating a human brain there would be implementations up on github already

IIRC, the Blue Brain Project uses NEURON.

hg clone http://www.neuron.yale.edu/hg/neuron/nrn
More details: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/power-outa...
Their goal is not to create an AI, it is to create a model of the human brain. If you look at their website, you will notice the project is very much a neuroscience research project, not a computer science, AI, research project. The fact that the technical implantation of this project requires specially designed computers and highly algorithms (which will likely merit their own computer science papers), and the fact that this project might produce benefits for computing, does not change the fact that the goal is to understand the human brain through computer modelling, not to create a strong AI.
I don't think the author was making the point that people are always judging you, the author is saying to get over or disregard the fact the people may judge you. It has to be a common mindset that people care what others think about them.
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> This old argument?

No, it's not. Congrats on being another knee-jerk reactor.

> With digital goods, one master cracker does the work once

Your analogy only fits the use of DRM by big companies. With a lock guarding long tail or personal data, there isn't one lock to be broken just once. There are millions of locks. Sure, a cracker can get Jane Doe's data and post it to the Internet, but someone could also break into her house and steal her grandmother's old brooch. In both cases, the damage is done and can't be undone. The point is -- is there enough economic incentive to make it happen all the time? No, there isn't. The value is too diffuse to normally attract intensive hacking.

Instead of guarding something everyone on the Internet cares about, why not use the tech for guarding stuff only a few care about, in a context where the parties involved are largely trustworthy. There's still a need there, as evidenced by very weak physical locks used by small parties as deterrents to crimes of opportunity.

> Also, with cash, you don't hand over the entire box to someone and say "you can only take a few dollars out and then must give us the rest back", but that's what DRM does, to keep with pointless analogies.

You think you're being clever, but just have missed the point. In this case, it's more like the lock box at the local church Bingo. It's not much security, but it doesn't have to be. There is still value in being able to prevent crimes of opportunity and tremendous unacknowledged need.
How can people be so naive? THIS is the marketing throw for VC.
Virtual Reality applications and games, next big thing or another bust?
How does the HN crowd feel about the upcoming return of VR? Anyone here order an an Oculus Rift dev kit from Kickstarter like me? Anyone actually try the device out first-hand?
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Some things you guys may find interesting.

Best Oculus Rift Reactions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJo12Hz_BVI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uso6vxZ5O4c&list=UUFq6WCd...

Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation:

This tech is being discussed for use in VR because it stimulates nerves to make your body feel like it's moving. Imagine that roller coaster feeling while playing a flight simulator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guaiDZdsDjI

Sense of Smell

This tech was a little crazy before but people are discussing its possible return if VR becomes popular.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/internet-odor1.htm

Interesting Projects in Development for the Oculus Rift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRHVJVgFF38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjtQwk7zg24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O-n-4S0E2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWRVGlwkAx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7tm_T6-0-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I-pGCpl2PE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JdjWhXrq68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCIRkfNES0Y&playnext=1&#...

Possible Peripherals for Rift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSTge5IDxF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40L3SGmcPDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKLv8tyL2vU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBQhyqhuLxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvxM-pC7K2U
Most states have online information about the process of registering the business (including registering with the IRS)
There is a bit of a XSS vulnerability if you make your name <script>alert("Hello")</script>.
There's more information about the project here: http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/files/HBP_flagship.pdf

The project is not actually as absurd as it sounds -- the funding is over 10 years, and it's funding a large number of different research programs in molecular neuroscience (8%), cognitive neuroscience (12%), theoretical neuroscience (6%), neuroinformatics (7%), medical informatics (6%), brain simulation (10%), HPC (18%), neuromorphic computing (14%), robotics (11%), and society/ethics (2%). About half of the budget is going to personnel / students, and the research is being done by a large consortium of established PIs.

Basically, they're creating a "European Institute of Neuroscience". IMHO, the way that it's been branded as as a giant "brain simulation" makes it look a little silly to other scientists -- but on the other hand it seems to have worked pretty well with the politicians.
This is such a weird comment I wonder if you were being serious or even read the article.

Are you seriously responding to an article about a research consortium (using a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist as an outreach person) by suggesting that they haven't read a book by a tech magnate and a science writer)? I mean, nobody would suggest that Jeff Hawkins is a slouch, but get real. These people are not bumpkins tilting at research money windmills because they haven't seen the light in the best-seller aisle.