skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great news. As skeptical as I am about the prospects for actually simulating the human brain in the near future the benefits that are likely to arise from devoting more resources to understanding it are enormous, both in terms of technology and human health. This is probably one of the best things the government could be spending research money on. I only hope that this proposal is funded at the level it deserves.
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They were oenology undergraduates, which means they are actually neck-deep in studying and applying this stuff. They will have careers in this field, some as "experts". They may not be "experts" in the sense of having some celebrity pedigree, but that doesn't matter to me, since I think it's nonsense.
Can you expand slightly? I don't understand what part of "fight or flight" could be mythical, and Googling doesn't seem to bring up anything relevant.
I must admit that my first thought was whether I accidentally got hellbanned.

When I saw http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://news.ycombinat... I realized that I wasn't.
One thing is abstracted failure-proof(ish) disks. I'm considering moving from Linode to Hetzner for the enormous amount more RAM I can afford on a bare metal box there, but the one thing that gives me pause is having only RAID1 redundancy, and having to manage it myself.
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The 4th byte is thrown away... You could use it as alpha channel? Or CMYK color.
> I thought Lisp machines were about enabling a programmer to code in a language that's high level enough to do powerful things, but in the same time that can access to all the low levels components of the machine

You can do this already without specialized hardware. People have been using the RPython trick to enable 'low level' programming in something like a high level language. (Squeak Smalltalk, Rubinius, PyPy) There was recently a post about using Lua for device drivers. If you make the VM model quite simple, many high level languages are flexible enough to serve as low level ones.
Seems like at most you could sue to get back some of what you paid them.
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It's not that it hasn't been tried before.

I would guess it's similar to Atwood and his new Discourse platform. It looks nice, and developers & designers get excited about it. But one reason forum software hasn't been dramatically overhauled in the last 10-15 years is because it's working for most people.

I've sold plenty of junk on craigslist and I've bought a few things from there as well. I did the same thing with Freecycle and Cheapcycle when we lived in a town that did those. None of those were glamorous. In addition, the people I met there were from all walks of life.

I get why startups think CL is ugly and not useful, but go do a UI overhaul and sit back for the barrage of hate that is going to come from the core users.
No decent 24-hour options? Safeway is open 24 hours. There's one just off Sand Hill and another on El Camino.
In Japan, Store Mannequins Mimic The Movements Of Customers
I don't drink vodka but I'm curious.

Does it have flavors from the natural creation process or is it added in at some point? From the various flavor vodkas I've seen I've always assumed any flavor is added and not a part of the actual process.
Well, it embeds multimedia into the page and it has a more readable, less cluttered design compared to Delicious.
It might not be the worst idea to secure a job, before you go ahead and dish on your former employer.
This is a really good idea and something like this will be the 99designs of the coding world.

I am not entirely sure it will work, (the effort to write the
unittests is high) and there is little understanding of the codebase it will enter and the code reuse issue is ...

Add to that integration and delivery and this unittest approach is a problem.

But change it to be "here is our code and CI on github", create a pull request that will change the flow of the credit card processing to use swipe and paypal as well as our tired old merchant bank.

People could bid for the project, and so forth.
yes you can! if you have money
> What's stopping these "private analogs to the FDA" from existing now? If the FDA is doing such a poor job of protecting our food, why isn't private industry stepping up to the plate?

What's stopping them is the fact that there is a much stronger body that already has an anointed legitimacy. The "market opportunity" for doing this is gone if the government is already doing it, and on top of that is the final say on the matter (they after all do get to take things off the market).

> These problems happen because the FDA is too much in bed with the private industries they're supposed to be regulating. What needs to be done is to make them more independent from those private industries, and strengthen the FDA

Should we do this before or after we make bank regulators more independent from the banks? Or before or after we make the military committees in congress more independent from the military contractors? Are you beginning to see a pattern here? Go into more or less any government agency that interacts with industry and you'll find them in bed. Its easy to say things "should" be more independent, but its hard to actually accomplish it. One reason, again, is because its hard to hold anyone liable for anything in government (who polices the police?). After all, its already the case that in theory the FDA, composed of "non-political" scientists is already supposed to be 100% independent. How exactly do you propose making them more independent? Mind you, giving them more power does not make them independent, it just makes their decisions harder to fight against (which can work against you if for example they rule against a small company since it is in the interests of a big company). Again, the "libertarian" point here is that there is no real incentive for them to do a good job. We have to rely on them wanting to be "good people" and make the right decision. Because if they make a bad decision, there are no negative consequences since there is no competition: they certainly wouldn't lose their right to decide things, whereas making a wrong decision in a private market could be devastating as no one would trust them anymore.

> not to get rid of the FDA and replace them with some pipe dream that only works in some libertarian utopia.

Please stop referring to these proposals as "pipe dreams" of "utopias", it is a really shallow straw man. No is arguing that things would be perfect, it is simply an alternative idea that some people believe would be better, but no rational person thinks would be completely without issue (just like you think the current system is better, but clearly has issues as well -- there is no perfect answer). The most important thing to realize is that by discussing these opposing viewpoints in a respectful manner, you might actually gain ideas about how to improve your own system (for example it might give you inspiration for a way to truly make the FDA independent, which I agree would be great).
I imagine the first X covers cost of production, where cheapo brands cut corners to satisfy the quantity crowd. After that, you start to see price heavily affected by market segmentation, and availability. The small batch shop need to sell above a certain price.
At some point, it starts to mirror high fashion or art.
It will be a good idea when you can actually get paid for implementing contracts.
From what I see in the EU project, while it's stated goal is to simulate an "e-brain", still a big portion of the money and manpower of it is going to (a) the mapping of biological brains that seems to overlap with this proposal, and (b) biochemistry and neurotransmitter basic research.

I mean, a mandatory prerequisite in any serious 'brain project' is some progress in almost all of the related fields, and in a sufficiently big project you try to get some leading scientists from all these areas under your umbrella.
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Triage is support software, used for managing requests. It's different from Redmine, as it's meant to be used during the support phase of a product, not development.
Opera isn't switching to WebKit, it's switching to the Chromium codebase (which uses WebKit). Chromium is a full browser, so Opera is basically outsourcing it's browser development to Google (which aside from practically all Chromium work also does most WebKit work these days).

This makes perfect business sense for Opera - why work hard to make a browser, when it can get one for free. As a plus, that browser uses WebKit, so its main competitors - mobile Safari and the mobile version of Chrome - will never be ahead of it on core engine features. Furthermore, one of those competitors, Chrome, will never be ahead of it in any way since they will be practically the same browser.

For that reason I doubt anyone believed Opera would be putting much engineering effort into core WebKit or even core Chromium. It makes no business sense - Google is already doing all the hard work on Chromium (and WebKit, with others), and anything Opera adds to WebKit shows up in its main competitors immediately.

What Opera does need engineers for is to replace the Google-specific stuff in Chrome, like login to Google services and other Google web services. Also Opera will modify the UI. Opera can also add some stuff on top of that to differentiate. But Opera simply no longer needs a significant browser engine department - Google is now that department.
This article is open-ended but still incomplete. Incomplete in sense that it does not define a replacement or how to benefit from saved time. It should say: Boost your productivity by replacing X with Y. If I leave farther from my workplace, replace "time spent to commute" with "exercise/recreation etc" or "an extra hour of billing" - "increase in rent".
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I think the title of this article is a little misleading. It's easy to bash Craigslist over their dated (or lack of) style, but the problem with Craigslist really comes down to usability, which is not the same thing as prettiness.

Craigslist could make lots of feature and UI improvements to their site to make it easier to find and post, but they choose not to for the most part. If they did, sites like PadMapper probably wouldn't exist. Instead of innovating themselves, they've focused on trying to kill other companies innovating in this space.
Hey - I should have mentioned your implementation - I stumbled upon it and was like "whoah, this guy actually wrote this from scratch" :)

In this case, it's a combination - the algorithm Jenks arrived at is not just the math-implemented, but a clever solution that (afaik) has not been expressed in pure-math terms.
I was considering something related for my own software -- giving some level of differentiation to "Anonymous" users in a discussion, to reduce samefagging; users on the same subnet would get similar colours, etc. The main downside with that is that it's then plausible to look at somebody's colour and work out their IP address :P
Looks like the URL was stripped out of the initial post. Here it is:

http://gettriage.com
To be fair, where I'm from when you say you want a Coke you are simply saying you want a brown soda of some type.
The one-ip to one-ssl-host thing was solved quite some time ago with Server Name Indication[1].

You still need one cert per host, but that is a cost that could be transferred to the customer (not the user getting logged but the one wanting the log :). You can get incredibly cheap certs that would probably be appropriate for this case.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Considered it, but CMYK only go up to 100 in value - alpha channel could be an option though...
I guess it is reasonable to assume that a wine making undergraduate has much knowledge about wine as I, as a regular wine drinker, might collect in my life. If they cannot tell, I wont get to a point where I would.
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I've long considered CL one of the biggest tragedies of the internet age. The problem is it's just good enough to prevent competitors from gaining critical mass, but it's not good enough to consistently do an adequate job. There's a huge pent-up demand for what CL provides, including local person-to-person commerce, sublets, apartment hunting, job hunting etc. I probably use CL about 2-3 times a year, and I end up regretting it about half the time.

I think the primary thing that is missing is a system to establish the reputation of both parties. CL could tie accounts to real identities, and let users rate each other. But CL has no need to innovate. I agree with the article that it acts like a monopoly.
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He probably did not express himself correctly. Good vodka is supposed to have a flavor as neutral as possible.
And this product was already posted in one of those threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499937
I enjoyed your article. Thanks. Makes me want to try meditation again. (I've attempted it a few times)
Not sure why you think that.

Because that's how grant peer-review works? Who will compose the review panels for this funding? Mostly the same people who already compose the review panels for existing NIH/NINDS/etc. funding mechanisms.

I can only guess that you find this paper convincing.

The nanoprobe and "complex emergent properties" stuff at the beginning are a bit hand-wavy, but the concrete 5 and 10-year goals are sufficiently ambitious while certainly not outlandish.
You can name the color too - http://chir.ag/projects/ntc/

It's not an exact match of course but I did my best to make it as close as possible.
"easy grab", exactly. Hiring ex Opera employees who worked on a rendering engine will be cheaper than hiring c++ coders who then have to ramp up knowledge on how to code a rendering engine.
If it takes as much effort to write the unit tests as it does to implement the solution then the problem was trivial to begin with, but that's probably true of 90% of all programming work.

It might be more useful for harder problems but there are already a number of sites addressing those : TopCoder, kaggle, Innocentive, etc.
Cool! I've been building something similar: https://github.com/cscheid/facet (demos: http://cscheid.github.com/facet/demos/index.html)

It also has a "javascript fragment shader layer", so that you can evaluate GLSL code in CPU-land. This is pretty nice to prevent repeating things like coordinate transformation code, which turns out to happen all the time when doing mouse-picking in 3D, etc.

Another big win comes from writing your shader abstractions in Javascript itself. When you need to reuse bits of glsl here and there, you want 1) to pass around objects that are smarter than strings and 2) to configure the shader to behave differently when you have uniforms, attributes, textures, etc. Doing the heavy lifting in javascript and compiling down to GLSL really pays off here.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) was an absolute shitfest. The critics gave it rave reviews. So was the book, and the critics gave that rave reviews.

I'm not sure how critical opinion shapes my evaluation of a film. (My decision of whether to go see it on the other hand, is so shaped; I generally won't go to see movies that have been universally shat on in the criticsphere.) Maybe I would have had less fun seeing TGWTDT had it not been so acclaimed?
I would say Archlinux. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_...
I would imagine that wine makers that worry over wine experts are the ones that want to win awards. The wine makers that want to sell wine care more of what the customers think.

I'm not a wine maker though, so I admit I could be wrong.
Thanks for the feedback. That's definitely part of the plan. While I'm not quite sure just how detailed it's going to get, I've started on a one-page checklist of the items that I talk about in the book.
We have a 40-hour workweek because most people prefer work twice as much and be paid twice as much as a 20-hour workweek. Sure, there are people who would prefer 20 hours and half (or less) salary, but they're in the vast minority, so that's not what companies build their workforces around.

Excuse me, but do you mind if I label this as a fallacy? It's a new one: the Free Market Fallacy. It's the fallacy of believing that a particular way of doing things came about as a result of a genuine consideration of popular opinion, as in a democratic election or the mythical "free market".

First of all, the United States doesn't have a 40-hour workweek, except in theory. It has a 30-hour workweek for wage workers, a 50-hour workweek for salaried workers, and a 100-hour "workweek" for the capitalist class (who actually mix leisure and work as they please, writing off cocktail parties as "networking" and other such things).

Second, we don't have what we do have because of popular opinion. We have it because of combat between opposing ideologies: the elderly, weakened "day's pay for a day's work" ideology of most workers, and the "love what you do" workaholism of the capitalist class and many salaried professionals. Their relative power over each other dictates the terms of their compromise.
Tesla offers, for a $12,000 fee at time of purchase, a replacement policy that will replace the battery AFTER 8 years of use, and only after 8 years of use. This brings the price of the 240 mile range model to $91,900, plus tax and licensing. It is not a warranty that replaces the battery if it fails. It offers no coverage before 8 years, and at 8 years one may replace at any time.

Tesla also has cited a price of $40,000 for battery replacement for drivers whose batteries have failed due to not being recharged properly or other reasons. This price is consistent with the lowest wholesale costs of these battery cells on the global market, with no markup for their added value of the battery enclosure, cooling, heating, monitoring, and recharging hardware, thus it is a fair deal and good value as Tesla is clearly not taking any profit at this battery price point.

Tesla does not sell the 85kWh batteries (the ones needed to have a 170-240 mile range) for $12,000. If you hand them $12,000, they will not hand you a battery pack. If Tesla could sell these batteries at this price, they could sell a tremendous number to Nissan, GM, Boeing and others. They could even charge $20,000 and would still have plenty of buyers as it is far below the lowest wholesale cost of the 6800 3100mA 3.7V Panasonic 18650 Li-ion battery cells it contains. Or even better, customers could buy the 6800 new 18650 cells in the pack from Tesla for the $12,000, remove them from the battery pack, and become a wholesale dealer of the cells, able to undercut Panasonic's lowest wholesale price by up to 75%. One could make millions selling new battery cells to laptop battery pack manufacturers that use these cells. It is a sure fire guaranteed profit if, as you say, Tesla is selling battery packs containing 6800 brand new 3100mA 3.7V Panasonic 18650 Li-ion battery cells for only $12,000. It is the bargain of a lifetime. No VC would pass on funding such a venture, it is a guaranteed profit.

The claim that Tesla is selling these battery packs for $12,000 is false. Tesla is not selling these batteries for that price. They will sell these batteries for $40,000 though, as Tesla's Vice President J. Joost de Vries has stated that that is the price for those who need a replacement.

Tesla does offer to deliver a replacement battery in no less than eight years from purchase date for $12000 (February 2021 if you buy today), to the original owner, provided this fee was paid for when the car is purchased, and provided Tesla is still in business. This is not the same as selling batteries for $12000.
In your opinion, what job is it that CL fails to address adequately in a consistent fashion?

Ignore the real identity / account reputation issue, which nobody has managed to solve in an adequate fashion. What is it that CL promises, that it fails to follow through on?
Imagine you are at a nice party in London. You are chatting to an interesting sounding person who turns out is an actor, and then you hear phrases like this

"just one summer with the RSC back when I was younger".

"Of course Johnny said, ... umm, Gielguld of course dahling, did you see him in the Tempest in 74? Wunderful"

"I was saying to Sam just after that Quantum thing. You really should talk to Barbara about directing the next one. I have her number; charming lady, did I ever tell you about the time she ..."

A small red rotating flashing light will rise up out of the coffee table next to you and the words "luvvie alert" will be flashed across your field of vision.
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BrainVoyager's approaches are from the ice age and not flexible enough to handle modern protocols. Only a moron could defend using it for research. It's tranlational at best (a toy you give those clinicians that can't even figure out SPM). But it does make pretty pictures.
Airtel (Indian ISP) has gone ahead and blocked google cache of the page as well.
They do: https://github.com/kraih/mojo/blob/master/lib/Mojolicious/Gu...
Since it's out of 100, you could do CMYK based on proportion. e.g.:

C = (byte1/255)x100;
M = (byte2/255)x100;
Y = (byte3/255)x100;
K = (byte4/255)x100;
Hmm would be neat if the site saved the color scheme the user's IP created and showed a list of them sans the actual address. But then again, the users IP could be easier figured out by the colors as well :)
One thing on my "to-do" list is adding a test suite builder, that allows you to specify inputs and outputs and then generates the test code for you. That would allow people who can't code or just aren't familiar with the syntax of a particular language/framework to still post contracts.
How many services are there where you can't import/export your data? I run one (http://historio.us/) and import/export has been available from day 1, it's pretty much the most requested feature after actual storage of bookmarks.
Thank you so much. I am humbled by that, sir. I will take your advice to heart.
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National security wood be improved by a thorough mapping of the 'lizard brain' http://www.lookfordiagnosis.com/videos.php?title=What+is+the...
I, for once, would also like to receive this information - purely for educational purpose.
Definitely, but it doesn't mean that nobody can tell, either. I'm not sure if anyone can tell, but this article gives us no information one way or the other.
Why fight sites like PadMapper? Why not try and buy some of them? Think if CL owned a bunch of these businesses that try to mooch off of them? They could integrate in like Padmapper.craigslist.com -- without major redesign hurting existing people.. Build an API but either charge for it, or use it internally among acquired related companies...
I remember Mythbusters doing something like this with vodka. An expert came in and IIRC they were able to rank the various vodkas very effectively.

For me vodka (and tequila for that matter) is similar to wine. The cheap stuff I can tell is cheap because it really does taste bad. Once you're into any of the premiums it is all mostly good so it's harder to tell the difference in price bands. I can almost always pick out Grey Goose though because it has a subtle sweetness vodkas like Kettle and Belvedere to not have.