skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assumes that the neuron is the level of granularity that we need to simulate?

Is there any research on what other chemical/electrical interactions might be necessary to simulate the brain?
> The explanation for most people’s dislike of CoffeeScript is probably our natural resistance to new things and our comfort in what we know.

This is a mildly insulting, as is the invocation of Blub.

CoffeeScript doesn't have a ton of exotic features. String interpolation, list comprehensions, and class definitions (!) are all familiar to programmers from other languages.

I'm guessing that a lot of people have weighed CoffeeScript's feature set against its overhead and decided the trade just isn't worth it.
Most code that most businesses write is dull business code.
> If you look at the timeline, the CIA had such a spectacular failure that an ambassador was raped to death

That's doubtful. http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/stevens.asp
Discussed a couple days ago @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6150490
This was my first thought, but after researching for a while it seems pretty complicated. The tutorials I found literally have hundreds of steps to configure everything properly.
>Witness for example several weeks of intense belief that Google had allowed NSA logins to its own servers in order to pull information off of them

At least HN is a place where (presumably) there are users informed enough to set the record straight, rather than having the theories perpetuate. As someone who frequents Reddit, I appreciate that much.
Yup, and those old analog copiers - good ones at least - had beautiful crisp output. The resolution was good enough to reproduce printing dots so they could even duplicate photos from books. Continuous tone of an analog photograph didn't work as well. They sure were expensive though.
This Is What Happens Every 60 Seconds On The Internet
One that people use a POSIXy API to program for?
> something complex about thought

Can you elaborate on this class of 'something'? There are intelligent behaviours that can be reproduced this way, so without more specifics I feel like you're making the same mistake you're condemning.
newscomers will stop comming because they wont fell welcome, and that space is not really democratic..

this will eventually degrade to more elitism, like (now just people with a big karma)

HN is like a collective mind.. more pop ot gots, more of the average mind it will represent.. its something i fell about facebook too.. with the first open-minded friends, it was a good environment.. than.. the thing get popular, and your news feed look like a toillet flush..

i think whats bother some, its what attract others..
for me particularly i dont mind some political biased posts.. more than i do for the startup mentality stuff..

but then both of them get they fair share of the HN front page.. i think people here at HN do a very good review of things that are important, also for the moment, for the modern times.. live in broaders and bigger communities is this.. the average collective IQ gets lower.. but it make sense to say: "i dont want to grow anymore if thats whats grows means?"

should we kick off the average and make they fell unwelcome?

maybe i am the average, how can i possible know that?
Maybe more like how lobste.rs allows you to filter out topics you aren't interested it.
What benefits does upgrading from python 2.x to 3 have? Why would you undertake that task? I don't understand why, unless python 3 offers some extremely compelling feature, or you are one of the small percentage of developers who delivers importable python libraries as your main developmental output.
Moxie Marlinspike gave a fantastic talk on this subject in 2010, even down to the government mandated tracking device vs mobile phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
Famed Trader Joe Lewis Backs Bitcoin
"Not really used outside of Rails" - Do you have any source to back that up, or is it simply what you've seen? I first used CoffeeScript in a Python shop, personally.
Meet Paulo Machado, the man who has lived in hospital for 45 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
No yellow safety line! The madness of it all
Seriously jealous, and irritated that I always seem to find out about much-desired shows just days after they happen. Wish there was something that gave heads-up notices about looming events, like Amazon cross-correlating my music purchase history with Ticketmaster offerings in my area.
The thing about political topics is: anyone can talk about them. All politics requires is a difference of opinion, and we've all got opinions.

On the other hand to really talk about product engineering, software innovation, business management, etc., you have to have experience and expertise.

So as technical forums grow, they trend toward political topics.
While we're recommending things, allow me to share one of my favorite contemporary minimalist composers, Lubomyr Melnyk: http://youtu.be/FuiUhnDf-qA

And, more impressionist, but Harold Budd is great: http://youtu.be/w61vMYCd-sY
I am so fucking happy someone people may listen to has been able to articulate visibly what I've been thinking for months now.

>The site isn't merely the boy who cried wolf; but rather a boy with a wolf-oriented case of Tourette's.

I almost hate coming here now, for that reason. Which makes me sad.
Are you thinking of something different to surface pro?
>(2/3 is the wrong answer according to this definition; the right answer is any n > 0 or aleph 0).

Which is exactly the problem: it's not well defined.
We've built a product in coffee-script that is made for navigating websites and forms logging and scraping and pulling in data.

It's quite useful outside of rails in that sense I'd say. It could have just as easily been done in JavaScript but I'm not a fan of the syntax(fuck curly braces)

I'd maintain that just about anything out there can be used outside of the context you think of it in.

Asking if coffeescript is useful outside of rails is similar to asking is perl is useful outside of scripting, it's a poor and misguided conception that languages can only be used in a certain way or with a certain tool.

I'd say that's true much more often than not that if you know a language well you can build complex applications with it.
I don't know if you are an idiot, however you appear to have not even the slightest bit of technical understanding of the subject you are offering opinions on.

I am not attempting to be insulting, I am attempting to point out to you that you need to go and learn a hell of a lot more about the sciences than you seem to know at the moment if you are going to have any sort of productive discussion about the technical aspects of modelling biochemistry.
Just to scratch the surface of how complex water is, I suggest taking a look at this wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water
We use CoffeeScript with both Ember and Angular. Rails is not used.
Mattermark Weekly #9 - All Eyes on Mobile
It doesn't necessarily have to cost that much. I am the founder of Software Craftsmanship Guild in Ohio. In our program if you are a job seeker we defer tuition until you get a job (you have to pass an acceptance test to get in).

Our current cohort still has 5 weeks to go and several of our students already have offers on the way.

You will learn MUCH faster from professionals than you will learn elsewhere or on your own.

The other benefit about doing a cohort in Ohio is that the cost of living and cost of tuition are way lower than on the coasts.
A beginner's reflection on using Django
I stopped using CS because it's going to have some issues when ES6 becomes more of a real thing. For instance, how is CS going to handle for/of loops when ES6 has it's own for/of loops that is slightly different. The same goes for class and super.

There will have to be CS2 that introduces new semantics and old apps will have to be migrated.
Orthogonally, i've always wanted a decent pair of foot pedals just to cover Shift, Control, Option and Alt or run key macros. It might be possible to coopt one of the new USB guitar pedals that also control DAW (Logic, ProTools), shd investigate something like:

http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-TCE-GSYSTEM-LIST
> Students cannot possibly evaluate which of the teaching methods are better because they do not yet know what they are supposed to be taught. . . . it is pretty absurd to think that students could ever be objective in evaluating the teaching methods they are subjected to.

It's easy to recognize good teachers. They are first, understandable and second, motivating. If a teacher is not readily understood, or if they do not motivate the student to learn, then they are not very good. Children as well adults naturally use these metrics to evaluate not just teachers, but communicators in general.
I really liked QNX, when it fit on a couple floppies, and before it swallowed the POSIX anchor, and so .. sure.
Are the suburbs dying, or just evolving?
I explicitly said for streaming content you don't own. Does iTunes let you do that without involving any form of DRM?
A domain name component can't start or end with a dash, so it's effectively disallowed.
Thanks for bringing that site to my attention.

Although, I was picturing something more "dumbed down" like StackOverflow. I didn't see any important issues mentioned on the front page. It took me a few tries before I could find a link to important issues. I ended up clicking the "Get Started" button which I expected to take me to a registration page asking for my personal information. The "Get Started" link did take me to important issues though. Upon closer inspection, I do like the site.
Is it OK for you, a neighbor, and your friend to agree on the toppings of the pizza and then for your neighbor and yourself to "vote in" different toppings for every succeeding pizza?

Your friend consented to the first pizza, but he didn't consent to any pizza after, except insofar as you can say that his remaining a member of the pizza-owners' association represents actual consent.
Why do people keep asking the question when there are obvious answers?

See Richard Wolff. I'm a broken record because it looks like this daily fluff appears once a month to talk about and forget. Healthcare is a minor point if you've been tracking costs (e.g. Costs passed onto the consumer per item, per meal, for most major fast food chains has been rising at about 5 cents a year)
Errr, I didn't communicate clearly.

What I meant to say was that CCITT Group IV gave acceptable sizes for early-'90s computing power, CPU and disk, and something at or better than its level of lossless compression today should be even more acceptable.

And in light of this screwup, I suspect we'd agree that Xerox would have been better off to use lossless (well, after the scanning, as you point out, but then again no one was willing to pay for color) CCITT Group IV than overly clever lossy JBIG2.

"It could be TIFF, it could be PDF, it could be something an intern coded during coffee break."

It could be something a journeyman software engineer edging to expect coded in a Saturday afternoon in a very fast paced project; for me, 3 weeks on the "engine". And, oh my, I can't remember encoding endiness, except of course for the leading TIFF bytes. But I had a guy who knew this cold telling me what to do, he was the one who debugged all our raw compressed data problems bit by bit. And, yeah, it was an "Intel" little endian TIFF, and I think I recall the Kodak Powescans produced that (600 pound monsters that could scan 18 inches per second at 200 DPI).

Hmmm, at least back then, "TIFF" was the selling point, and, oh yeah, it's Group IV compressed (except of course when it wasn't, we once dealt with some weird enhanced Group III).
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SHM_OPEN(2) BSD System Calls Manual
You could possibly argue the semantics thing about Ember.
After you load up the CoffeeScript module in your app.js (server.js etc) you can actually write an entire node.js app in CoffeeScript.
I know. There's a big phase change in the middle there and it don't look pretty.
Yep, I thought I was going to find my own domain here.
> is it in your best interests that they get a full course of treatment in an isolation ward in hospital, or that they wander the streets coughing blood all over the place and incubate a new drug-resistant strain?

That's a false dichotomy. An example of a 3rd option is to put them in an isolation ward, and allow them to simply die if they can't pay for treatment.

When it comes to medical care, the question of how to allocate resources on quality of life improvements is never so simply and black and white.
Can view the image of one, then subsequent hovers don't load
But the same morals and 'ethical guideposts' apply throughout, do they not?

By way logic does a libertarian say that e.g. government coercing people to obey quarantines is acceptable, but that the government coercing people to pay for cheap public preventive care (before expensive specialist treatments become necessary) is not?
Yes. Christopher Nolan made his character a villain for this very reason:

http://popupchinese.com/the-dark-knight-rises.html

No accident that the third film starts with a CIA rendition sequence (the state has devolved into a vigilante actor on the same moral level as Batman or Bane -- "no lawyers [and] no due process"). Meanwhile, we see politicians govern by lying on television ("theatricality and deception") while the justice system has become a monster under the Dent law ("a law with teeth", "based on a lie", etc.).
For example, the glial cells are now believed to be vital to the brain's processing, but most "brain simulations" are still modeling neurons only, not glia.

http://shahamlab.rockefeller.edu/pdf/CTDB_69_C_69003.pdf
>In light of the Freedom Hosting kerfluffle, as well as the Snowden revelations, I don't see much incentive to run an exit node.

I don't see how this has anything at all to do with snowden, and as achille points out this story is about a host of the some of the most infamous Tor Hidden Services, it has nothing to do with exit nodes.

Running an Exit Node is a somewhat risky activity since your ip address will be seen when a Tor user hacks/views CP/Torrents.

Running a hidden service allows one to anonymously host a website, so it will require significant effort to unmask you, and is usually alot safer than running an exit node.

>The problems inherent to running any sort of anonymizing service are just too many, and too serious, as we have recently seen.

There are actually two completely safe ways to contribute to the Tor network:

Running a (non-exit) relay routes traffic internally through the Tor Network and is therefore a risk-free activity that can be bandwidth intensive.

Running a bridge allows is a risk-free activity that requires much less bandwidth.

Even exit nodes aren't as dangerous to run as you may think, according to https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html there are about 2000 exit nodes and you have only brought up one case of a prosecution resulting from the operation of one.
"Cells phones are tracking devices" used to be how cliche, wild-eyed conspiracy theorists were identified. Glad to see the mainstream (bloomberg and others in general, not Schneier) catching up.
This is the exact thing I'm talking about. Try doing that without a container as a top-level container so you actually have:

<div class="container">
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content">

Besides what, semantically speaking, is a wrapper anyways?
What do you mean by big/massive?
I read a bunch of stuff like "hardware is new software".
I don't see how that would be.
I'm bullish on 3D printing long-term (10-20 years) but in my eyes it actually gives even more leverage to software.
The more advanced we go with hardware the more important software shall become. Am I wrong?

I just don't know which exact market you're talking about?
To me it just opens up opportunities in the software market. Better design tools etc.
People will simply be able to spend more time designing and planning stuff in software without dealing with the internals of actual manufacturing.
SOLVE IT WITH TEH TECKNOlOGIES!
Well, surely JS is a better bet than CS, if that is what you mean.
I think the attack goes something like: You figure out how you should name a temp file by checking to see if files with the same name already exist. Between when you decide on the name and when you open the file, a nefarious user creates her own temp file with mode = 0777. You open your file and write to it, not realizing that another user can now read all your temporary data. Because the file was already created when you opened it, whether your umask is set properly doesn't matter.

It sounds like the OpenBSD implementation would throw an error if the file was owned by someone else when you tried to shm_open() it, which mitigates this race attack. mkstemp mitigates this attack by atomically determining the name and opening the file without the opportunity for a nefarious process to touch the file system in between.
>There will have to be CS2 that introduces new semantics and old apps will have to be migrated.

I'm sure there will be a new version of CS when ES6 becomes widespread, but why would old apps need migrating? CS produces regular JS, and thus will be 100% compatible with ES6.
I have wanted to make an infrared-based chording keyboard. Using an infrared camera, monitor the velocity of the five brightest points and consider a fingertip contracting to be keypress. Throw a small infrared LED into the front of a smartphone and a forward facing infrared camera and voila, smartphone chording keyboard, without taking up any screenspace.
Max Levchin: NSA "everyday heroes" (q to 25:45)
i agree with him almost word for word on this.
I'm more fearful of the government-media complex. NBC doctors a 911 tape, and sways a nation.

Hmm. Does Facebook / Google count as a "media" company, if you define it loosely enough?
I don't know why people say Bootstrap is "bloated" and Foundation is not. They are pretty similar, in fact the Foundation CSS has a larger footprint (86kb vs 65kb). I think people say it because Foundation feels more "raw" but this is not a selling point in my opinion. In fact I find that Foundation's biggest flaw is that it's components don't look that hot.

I will also agree Bootstrap is a quick and easy way to get something up. I would argue it is quicker and easier than Foundation, but many people with serious CSS skills don't want to work with it for some of the reasons I brought up. I think that Foundation is more flexible and extensible which is a big strength.

However, none of this is that important for a landing page, I have been able to build landing pages quite comfortably with both and don't think either has a huge advantage here. A landing page isn't a huge task either so I'd try doing a rough design on paper and building with both to see which you like best.

I will probably concede though for most "product/fit" finding experiments Bootstrap may still have the speed advantage, particularly if you are not that familiar with CSS (in fact I credit Bootstrap with teaching me a lot about CSS).
>Is this a throwaway account is 1 hour a very long time?

That's what I would assume. The man would have to be insane to try and claim seniority with an hour old account.
I believe people can go for a while winning using the technique though, which builds a self-reinforcing "I can't lose" feeling. Eventually house odds and the table limit will work against you though.
Isn't that true in general, 80% of tv is crap, 80% of photography, 80% of twitter/tumblr is crap, 80% of music is crap (country!), 80% of every human endeavor is crap.
[buried my lede: the front page algorithm]

I'm new, pointed in by the coursera startup engineering course. I have no idea how large that cohort is, or how uniform it is.

I certainly scan the headlines for startup themes (tech and other practices). I have found a lot of great things. My humble thanks for all it.

If I'm curious about one thing, it is the idea that people visit many times a day, and then expect many new high quality threads. If I understand the purpose, shouldn't visits be less frequent (to sync with startup world) and the front page less changing? Because if the front page "must" have new items, it must go further afield. The algorithm, which seems to [be] based on "velocity" of new items rather than strict rank, may favor the "topical" at this point.
I can only see a blank page.
> AUFS ... became part of mainline Linux much more recently

AUFS is not part of mainline kernel. Many distros include it (Debian, Ubuntu). But some don't (Fedora).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufs
The Tor Project should offer a bundle with 1) a VirtualBox image with Tor installed configured to work with 2) a Tor daemon installed on the host system. This should add another level of security.
You have a point. I wasn't thinking corporate access (the "private" part of the parent article) ... and more about the "public" (government) access.

After all, the license-plate scanners may be operated by local police, but you must be certain the FBI sees everything. And with them the DHS and who knows what other alphabet soup of agencies ... many of whom can also see many / all of the other items in your list.

While it's true people can try to reduce their footprint, it's pretty hard to avoid doing everything on the list ... and I suspect you only need to do a small few of those and it's more than enough to get a comprehensive assessment of you.
>For too long the minimal to zero reporting these issues have received in the majority of news outlets was met with an abundance of silence and indifference. Outside of a few communities on the net (and fewer offline), there hasn't been discussion on these issues. The Guardian finally breaks one story that manages to have legs for a week or two in the mainstream press and we're done here?

I feel that you've highlighted a possible underlying cause of HN's present malaise, which is: many community members here are poorly connected on the Internet. HN is an open website, which means that it is very easy for someone who is new to the Internet to find and browse. If you've been commenting a lot in the recent political threads, I can make the following predictions: you've participated in online fora for less than ten years, and you don't pursue social connections much deeper than reddit user flair.

If you would like to take part in a lot of technical and political discussions regarding surveillance, you should consider joining a newsgroup or mailing list (if there still are any, I know politech and cypherpunks are dead) specifically devoted to this discussion. Usenet requires a modicum of effort (and maybe a subscription fee) to participate, which can help to limit the discussion to serious contribution by serious participants. You may also want to subscribe to and comment on blogs by people who know about these things, so you can get to know people and contribute to a discussion that, in order to be any good, must stretch on far longer than a single comment thread. There are communities devoted to this sort of discussion.

The content-link plus tree-style-comments format of HN is good for day-long free-form discussion on lighthearted issues of interest to technical people. It is not suited for deep, long-term discussion of complex political issues. HN can't be usefully political even if it wants to be, any more than HN can be used to design novel methods of quantum error correction. Some things just aren't suited for the HN style of discussion.
I think that's worse. Last thing you want is someone judging you for the fact that your blog's theme is an obvious svbtle clone.
"A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap." - Mitch Hedburg

Props to them for the Hedburg quote. Was listening to that CD of his stand up (although, those jokes were for the CD, and maybe he'd done it elsewhere as well) just the other day.

The site and concept look pretty cool too.