skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have killed for one of these when I was a kid.

But I wonder what health effects, if any, these devices will have? It sounds like the manufacturers will imply beneficial effects, much like they do with the Brain Age games -- despite little evidence for either. We really have no idea what long-term effects these devices will have, especially for children.
Marvell was founded by Indonesians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvell_Technology_Group

I think a brother of the husband or wife might have been a founder too.
DPI: It’s Going to Be About More Than Ads
Programming Ruby 1.9 (The New Pickaxe) Now In Print
[Marvell is no longer a startup...]
"Invisibility 'carpets' that conceal objects by making bumps look flat can work under near-infrared light, two teams of physicists have shown"

I believe that.

"And making a similar device that shields objects in visible light should be relatively straightforward, they say.""

I do not believe that. Not because I think they're wrong, but rather I believe it is their nature to be overly optimistic. It seems whenever scientists make a new breakthrough, the next step is always 'easy' and 'should be out in the next 5-10 years". Never happens.
Why do I have a bad feeling that news aggregators will be getting their pants sued off?
Why is the title showing (.brainspl.at) ? Is it a bug? Just checked some other submissions from country domains - there are .ca, .in, .co.uk and they all are fine.
I was just looking at Django REST apis last night but didn't find this one. This seems really similar to django-rest-interface, except for the oauth. Anybody know the potential upside/downside to this versus djang-rest-interface?
Is there such a thing as the best ipod in the world? huummmm.
What I have always wondered about this project is how they expect to deal with the huge number of parameters associated with the model. Each neuron has several parameters that control its response, and the neurons can be connected in a huge number of ways, even if restricted to small-world networks.

This is related to the bias-variance dilemma in machine learning; the larger the number of parameters the larger the variance in the models that fit the behavior. A nice recent article on the limitations of reverse engineering and the brain is http://frontiersin.org/computationalneuroscience/paper/10.33...
"Comically unbusinesslike behavior struck me as actually critical to the success of a startup."

What an interesting quote. I think I know what she's talking about, but I'm not sure.

If there's a difference between commonly accepted behavior and the behavior of successful startup founders, then which is really more "businesslike"?
Is there a list of AP sites? So we can make sure we don't use any of their material on our own sites?

Not by means of protest or anything. It's just that fears of bankruptcy are clearly driving the AP nuts and I'd rather not be in the way of any random lawsuits thrown around as a last ditch effort.
'Worst Case' Scenario for Flu Estimated
Thought uses experiential metaphors from basic physical interactions with the world such as light/dark, up/down, etc.

That certainly seems part of it. I've read Lakoff, and second your recommendation to anyone interested in this stuff. I'd also recommend Pinker's "Stuff of Thought" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143114247/) for this topic.

AI will never come from digital machines

If you consider AI as limited to human cognition, sure. I don't think it's anyone's goal to clone human cognition, however - humans are full of biases, survival instincts, tribal intuitions, etc.

Then I think we can agree that a subset of human cognition could also be very interesting, and I imagine the subset of cognition which can be "hoisted" without an embodied mind is quite significant. For example, I think we can achieve the level of cognition of congenial deafblindness (those born without vision and hearing), which is pretty extensive.
Great to see interest and momentum building in HTML5.
Hamster Power: Nanogenerators produce electricity from running rodents
He had already resigned before he made the game; this was his "farewell email".
Fast vs Careful Decision Making in Startups
Hi, it's David G from Zillow.com,

Auston,

I hope to speak with you about this later today but please update this post and correct the facts here. You have misrepresented your communications with Zillow. I have the e-mail on this; you asked for $250 for the domain. That was not Zillow's offer, it was yours! When Zillow accepted your offer, you rescinded it. Those are the facts.

I look forward to resolving this ASAP - please let Drew know when you are available to take a call on this. As others here have pointed out, we simply cannot allow you to misuse our trademark but you are welcome to continue to host the site.
Google Sued Over Android Trademark
Amusing...the lead-in add for this article talked about servers 'performing like a superstar.' Are we still not over this rock star obsession?
Immaterialism
Longer story from magazine: http://redigitaleditions.com/Olive/ODE/RDN/LandingPage/Landi...
Obama's Flickr stream already inspiring great Photoshops
Where can I buy this stuff? When's it going to be out? Any hardware out there that we could connect with the computer and program ourselves?

(this is pretty neat: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/video-mattel-mind-flex-ha...)
What's the bet that if/when Google drops AP content completely AP will start suing them to get put back in to search results.
Django Piston (http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home) is a project that makes easy to implements all "good" REST practices in Django. In other words they don't do the things that Jacob says are bad or ugly.
Here's a Flowgram presentation from last year, "Needle in a Haystack", which covers these updates. http://www.flowgram.com/f/p.html#2qi3k8eicrfgkv
> they own the gateway to the web (currently) and will destroy you if they feel like it.

Which is pretty scary, really.
Honestly I can understand zillow's side here but I'm just curious. Shouldn't the original use of izillow.com been grounds for trademark enforcement? The only thing I think is less than savory is that now, when you have your own iPhone application, you're going after this person and making sure people don't mistake it for an official version.

But like you say, there are details here that have not been disclosed, so I am by no means passing any kind of judgement.
I just used Protoshare (http://www.protoshare.com) on a recent project, and it's a very good web-based tool for making clickable prototypes. It has good discussion features and there's an entire workflow for doing both wireframes and design comps as you get further along in the project.
Anyone care to tell me why my comment was pure idiotic drivel then?
Yo dawg, I heard you like frameworks.
Deja vu.

Google vs. news sites in 2009 = Microsoft vs. ISVs in 1989
Palm to Offer Free Pres to Reviewers
I like triskweline http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/
> Computers [...] cannot pass simple tests of consciousness that a mouse can

Like what?

Vision, for one. Also, running.

If they aren't computing, then what are they doing? You're looking down into the dualism abyss...

I don't think dualism is what he was thinking of, but rather Searle's Chinese Room argument. Coming from a CS-heavy Philosophy-light background, it took me a long time to wrap my mind around what Searle was saying there, but it's a pretty solid point nonetheless. The best way I've found to explain it in CS terms is that while theoretically, intelligence could be modeled using Turing machines, in practice, we will never have a machine fast enough to do so.

When I make a decision I consult my values and my goals and attempt to make the decision that gets me closest to my goals without compromising my values

We have no idea how you or I make decisions, and the notion that we can intuit how decisions are made is a huge road block in even beginning to think about decision-making. Lakoff, among others, does a great job explaining why "values", "goals", and "morals" are simply justifications we create after we've made a decision.

> And what makes you think we couldn't build a biological computer

We can, and we should - but let's agree that it won't be a Turing machine.
There are tens of thousands of organizations that disagree with you. I bet that most of them don't fork MySQL when they hit bugs (assuming they do hit bugs).

I'm not claiming that MySQL is perfect (or even good), only that many organizations think it's good enough, and are willing to take that risk.
960.gs - but I've only used it on personal sites/projects, not any of my work sites yet.
I went and looked at it, and I would have probably assumed it was affiliated with Zillow if I hadn't read this posting first.
I think a digital reproduction of biological functionality is more likely and will probably arrive sooner then the long term extension of biological life.

Which presents the interesting possibility that some day you may have the chance to download your brain into a virtual one. But your biological self, flesh and bones and brains and identity and all, don't go anywhere, so in a way you're still going to die... but also live on.
There's not fast and hard definition of life, like there is with many mathematical concepts.

The line between crystals and viruses and bacteria and higher order life is very blurry.

Because it's so blurry it will be hard to draw a sharp crisp line between old life and any new man created life.
Still interesting although they're no longer startup.
Only 1 out of so many years?
It depends on the dynamic of the group if they consider that disrespectful. I would imagine that he was talking to some of his coworkers about how he wanted to startup his own indie game studio. So I doubt that the news was such a shock to most of them.(Though that flashing screen was a shock to me in a quiet room)
Isn't there a correlation between number of pirates, and global warming, according to the guy who thought up the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

And sure enough, we have more pirates and are seeing a small period of cooling...
As far as I remember, they were recreating the network based on pure statistical properties. It's completely possible, if not likely, that the network they are simulating lacks the actual properties that give our brain its capabilities.

I see a cargo cult and a lot of hype.
Now would be a good opportunity for Reuters to come out and side with Google
It doesn't matter exactly how the are simulating it. They can test it and the real thing and if exhaustive testing shows that they behave identically, then they are functionally identical.
Analyst: Palm Pre, she is dying
No, they buy support from MySQL AB, which isn't cheap.
I agree. Now we just need pg to write his next article entitled "Google is dead".

Google is in that comfy monopolistic position where they can sit around on their advertising cash cow, tell others how they want the web to work, and no longer really have to innovate.
This is not really accurate information. The methodology is poor compared to other selector tests, and the results are less accurate and less specific. Selector optimization changes based upon the browser. The slowest browsers(ie6) actually select faster with $(tagname.classname) and other more specific selectors. Of course he didn't mention which browsers he tested in or which version of jquery or if it was an average of many runs.

In anycase it is probably more worthwhile to optimize for the slowest browsers that you want to be compatible with, and those browsers are not firefox unless you don't care about like half of the people on the internet.

edit - just to clarify, based upon his results I'm guessing he's only using firefox to run these tests.
Well you are right that these articles tend to be overly optimistic, but I wouldn't say that it never happens.

The most conspicuous example I can think of is:

Giant MagnetoResistance (GMR) read heads. These went from a laboratory discovery to a widely adopted practical technology in about ~10-12 years. It's discoverers were given the 2007 nobel prize in physics.

There are many other smaller profile examples from the materials processing and photonics industries. Exponential growth in computing power / storage depends on fast tracking these kind of discoveries.
In hindsight it's an obvious lesson, but one that is not being stressed in school.

Sadly, focus is something which is very hard to consciously apply (at least for me).
Thanks, wow need to recreate whole database.
I use Blueprint because it's easy and simple.
70 percent of Kindle owners over 40?
This sentence also stood out to me, but mainly because he used "hubristically" when he meant "heuristically".

Unless he really thinks that determining what format to send the response in from the HTTP header is an overwhelmingly arrogant move...
This is a great explanation. Perhaps new 'forms' of life or life-like processes such as this might end up helping to narrow down what life is truly defined as.

Isn't it generally true that the more variety there is of something, the easier classification becomes?
Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app
Cool. Good luck :) This area is desperately in need of some innovation.
Pygame 2001-2009(8 years), 1100 projects - an animation representing pygame work.  Enjoy
Biofeedback has been used in medicine on and off again for a while. It's hard to learn how to control processes in your body for which you have no feedback. But if you're hooked up to a machine which gives you feedback you can learn to control things we usually think of as beyond our will. You can learn to control your heartbeat at will. Migraine sufferers can learn to draw blood into their hands and relieve the migraine symptoms. But it's not clear exactly what's relieving the symptoms, the type of brain activity necessary to control blood flow or the blood flow or both or perhaps neither. That among other things is why it's not established medical practice.
1) No-one actually charges per-box but per-CPU or per user.

2) Dev licenses are usually free - the development edition of MSSQL is a free download from MSDN

3) Far more absurd is "sharding", which IBM invented in the 80s and all the major vendors abandoned in the 90s.
New Zealand Officials To Scrap Copyright Law; Start From Scratch
Wow. 90 euro for a font is pricey.

It looks nice. What makes it better than the other programming fonts? or is it a general feeling when you use it?
Heaps of games representing many projects that people have worked on with pygame.

I hope someone enjoys it. Lots of detail is shown in less than two minutes.
Anti-DMCA crusaders fight for the right to crack DRM
It's too bad that Indian Point was built before that engineering problem was solved.

"The discovery of water flowing across the floor of a building at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y., traced to a leak in a buried pipe, is stirring concern about the plant’s underground pipes and those of other aging reactors across the country."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/nyregion/02nuke.html?hp
The idea that links to foreign keys (IDs) should be in the format of a URL is an interesting idea. In practice, I don't think it's a good idea since it makes assumptions about what API consumers want to do with the data -- it assumes they want to fetch it, when there could be several other actions they could take.

Including the link URL as a template in a separate field is a potential possibility, but (a) it will add a ton of duplicated data to collections results, (b) it relies on your consumer parsing and inserting the field into their call every time, which if they care about the efficiency of their own code they're probably not going to do, so you don't get any added flexibility.
I hope there is a way to program it to do different tasks- for example move the mouse on the screen or type text. Such tasks are not that hard some ML might be able to figure out which signals respond to which intentions per person.
Open-source companies log impressive growth
I've been skimming through Falnagan's "Ruby Programming Language" to see if I should spend the time to learn Ruby. Their presentation is similar to K&R, with the exception of nonexistent practice problems, which I think is what made K&R so great.

Now I'm tempted to pick up the new Pickaxe book, but should I? In what ways does the Pickaxe do well while Falnagan's does not?
And which is more comical?
Norway tests laptop exam scheme
...there is no email address in your profile. But I don't think there's any problem putting the links here, from HN's point of view (unless you want to keep them private, of course).
The New Plagiarism
Why fight with this when you can just get the episode from Usenet or the Pirate Bay?
I up voted you because I completely agree with your points.

I have attended Sri Sri meet-up once and I did feel that the humor was forced and all the attendants were still laughing. Also most of what Sri Sri talked that day didn't make any sense to me. Let me give you an example. This is what Sri Sri said: 'Everything is nothing' and then harped about it for next 15 mins.

When I learned that course fee was 350$, I wasn't really inclined to attend the course. But I was so desperate for solutions to my problems, I decided to give it a shot. And I can safely say that I learned a lot and it helped me tremendously.

Later on, I wanted to attend another course and the fees were 450$. At that time, I and my friend spoke to the course organizer and complained about the high fees. They say that this money goes to the charity effort and there is nothing he can do. Anyway, I could afford the fee and attended the second course as well.

Personally, I don't agree with the 'forceful' charity and few other things, but that doesn't discount the fact that the actual techniques they teach, are very useful. If you can afford the course fee, it's worth giving a shot.

The bottomline for me is, there is a definite connection between breath and mind. I highly recommend experiencing this connection regardless of the route you choose.
I would love to have debugging available to me, but as it is I only have printf (sometimes not even full stacktraces on error!). Printing works. I've become much less dependent on debuggers and much more careful while writing code.
It would seem rjurney's point is that more options may have lower utility.

Suppose there are two viewers. Both are fans of Family Guy. One viewer is exposed to one episode and the other viewer is denied all access to Family Guy. The first viewer, however, is subsequently denied access to Family Guy after viewing the first episode.

If the first viewer were allowed to see all Family Guy episodes, she would eventually begin to tire of it. Each additional episode would lessen her demand for another episode. But that's only after seeing a large number of episodes. After one episode, the demand may actually be higher than having seen no episodes at all.

And if denied demand has negative utility -- the more you want something you can't have, the more it annoys you -- then that person who has seen one episode is actually worse off than the second viewer who has seen no episodes.

That stops being true at the point where each additional episode begins having declining returns, which could occur at a point after five episodes.
Finally the mainstream looks up to a woman in tech that actually seems to deserve it. I.e. not Carly Fiorina.
Could the net become self-aware?
You can buy proxy access in the US from various providers. Or you can just download the episodes from TPB or Usenet or whatever, and watch them in HD without ads.
Good point. It's always either protect the environment and lose jobs or get into a trade war and lose jobs, or don't protect the environment.

But what if we treat pollution the way we approach transportation and other infrastructure?

Here's what I mean, we don't make FedEx pay for all the roads and bridges it uses. The public pays for it, we all use it, everybody's better off.

So why doesn't the public pay for CO2 scrubbers and capture, and waste water treatment and etc?

Obviously there's great danger of back door subsidies and corruption and that might lead to trade wars. Doing it right wouldn't be easy, but surely it's better then the choice of jobs vs. clean air?
It doesn't feel like an overly comprehensive test to me either. He also doesn't mention how many test cycles he's running, browser versions, etc.
Entrepreneurial Press Releases Should Generate Revenue
Oracle's Java Problem
(I think the author of the blog post was a "she")

Do you have some links to other selector optimization tests/benchmarks/posts? I'd be interested in seeing those as well
Microsoft Pushes Win7 RC; Kills AutoRun
A brief account of the 40 years of generous wisdom imparted by my best friend and brother Ron, as well as a competition of your imagination (see the bottom of the post)
They'd have a hard time suing organic aggregators like Digg since most news sites are running their buttons.

I COULD see an RIAA-style campaign where they just start suing bloggers left and right for copy-pasting too many characters in their posts.

Also, I could see Techmeme getting sued.

Basically, anyone who's going out and TAKING content from the news orgs and repurposing it for their own ends could be a target if they go that route. Forums and social news sites should be pretty safe.
does anyone know if this was a full time logo or a single day promotion type logo? i.e. "Get it while its hot 20% off on all items!"
I think so. The blurry definitions of life tend to involve self organization, propagation, increase of complexity/local reduction of entropy, the problem is a lot of crystals meet that definition. Remove the constraint of mass and a lot of memes meet the definition of life, religion is a virus and all that.

Perhaps digital life will help us come up with better definitions and greater understanding.
There's no question that plenty of very successful people have not behaved in the way that most people consider to be "professional". The problem is that people either don't realize that or have a vested interest in ignoring that fact.

I think it all comes down to people wanting to be like the "business" people they see on TV. The persona of the rigid professional suit-wearing business person is attractive to a lot of people.

Edit: The insidious part is that they scorn you if you don't play along!
Virgin Air: First WiFi and now Absinthe at 30k feet
Blueprint. You can clean up all the extraneous "span-x" classes with the semantic_classes property in the generator if you're worried about semantic class naming.

It does trend towards div-itis, but I find that most complex layouts do over the long run anyway.

Looking forward to using CSS3 layouts in about 5-7 years... sigh.
I don't know if it helps, but I talked to John Resig last Friday night after day 1 of JSConf2009. I specifically was asking about how Sizzle works when selecting. The jist of it is that Sizzle selects the maximum number of possible elements, then pairs them down until it finds the ones you are looking for. I haven't dugg back into the Sizzle code yet to really see how this is being done, but it might help others who are curious.
This is my main css, but also I tend to use the YUI reset css.
Google: Mowing lawn with goats