skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> couldn't function with cerebralspinal fluid

s/with/without/ (also, though this is just nitpicking, s/cerebralspinal/cerebrospinal/)

Cerebrospinal fluid (hereafter referred to as CSF) is actually very interesting. I don't think scientists/doctors have it fully figured out just yet (given how little we understand the brain in general, no surprise).

Of particular interest are persons with very anomalous findings: fully functioning with virtually no real "brain" to speak of, just plenty of CSF sloshing around. When I first came across this, I was certain it was a hoax.

Later, a colleague at Sheffield University became aware of a young man with a larger than normal head. He was referred to Lorber even though it had not caused him any difficulty. Although the boy had an IQ of 126 and had a first class honours degree in mathematics, he had "virtually no brain". A noninvasive measurement of radio density known as CAT scan showed the boy's skull was lined with a thin layer of brain cells to a millimeter in thickness. The rest of his skull was filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The young man continues a normal life with the exception of his knowledge that he has no brain.

Although anecdotal accounts may be found in medical literature, Lorber is the first to provide a systematic study of such cases. He has documented over 600 scans of people with hydrocephalus and has broken them into four groups:

-those with nearly normal brains
-those with 50-70% of the cranium filled with cerebrospinal fluid
-those with 70-90% of the cranium filled with cerebrospinal fluid
-and the most severe group with 95% of the cranial cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid.

Of the last group, which comprised less than 10% of the study, half were profoundly retarded. The remaining half had IQs greater than 100.

More citations:

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/is_the_brain_really_ne...

http://www.rifters.com/real/articles/Science_No-Brain.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lorber
I wasn't aware we were upvoting forwarded emails these days... Must have missed that memo. Here's what snopes has to say (very much false).

http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp
Imagine trying to fit a vault in a cubbyhole meant for shoes. That's what RESTful APIs end up fighting with. I would gander that because DELETE refers to permanent deletion, whereas destroy is reversible, they chose to use the less confusing verb.

The real problem with trying to conform to REST is that there's no rigorous definition, and this leads to the same verb being used for slightly different purposes among APIs.
In the cold fusion debate we sometimes forget the theorists who argue `for` and `against` cold fusion in platonic terms - where it has yet to be completely disproved.
How would you patch multiple fields? Using json to patch json is more reliable. Also, if somebody changes the email before your request, your request will modify the document into an invalid json.
What is RMS in this context? Googling got me nowhere.
It is difficult to convince people that an abundance economy can work.

But these very people don't understand that they are currently enjoying one abundance right now: Free air.

The question is: How many things can we make as abundant as air?

OSS is there in fact. I would argue that electricity is next, then education (Khan Academy and the like), and one day fresh clean water.

We just have to keep knocking down one scarce resource at a time. The same way we don't take a single leap straight up the staircase, but instead take small steps to get to the top.
Interesting how the human economy of ambition is scaled. Thanks for your insightful post.
Zillow is on NASDAQ. The symbol customs have changed as well. NYSE symbols were typically 1-3 characters while NASDAQ were 4. But of course we know FB and Z are now on NASDAQ (and LNKD on NYSE).
And with what OS was the experience, the best?
Yes you guys are right, and I am not. Sorry.

It is still bad practice since the unencrypted URL can be stored in server logs which could be problematic depending on the application, security requirements, compliance requirements, etc. Unencrypted URLs are also stored in the browser history which would not matter unless the API is being called in the browser.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499591/are-https-urls-enc...
The shuttle has launched Ryan.
Yeah well your use case doesn't fit the "many" qualifier that was mentioned in the comment you replied to.
Getting out my cell phone, navigating to an app and then doing something or other with a QR code. For. Every. Single. Login.

And who knows what happens on a mobile site or app.

Yuck.
showinghn.com needs pagination though.
I find that leveraging the most popular which are Social Media and social bookmarking works best. Linkedin generates lots of traffic as well so be sure to create a company page in linkedin. Professionals thrive in Linkedin and it's a good platform for you to get introduced to your target market.
We are currently developing a Digital Collaboration Platform that incorporates both file sharing, data capture and social (www.phoenary.com) and we'll be using those sites for the soft launch next month including the sites you've listed.

Thanks!
How is this different from XPCOM browser addon for Firefox? Why the heavy VM instead of just using C++ modules?
You are right. At my house I place one of those gym steps in front of my toilet and actually feel my body out of wack when I have to use other restrooms.
Its been there for long time, I don't understand why is he glorifying what Google has achieved in ages. Honestly , I don't find anything new in technique.
This "virtually no brain" business is highly misleading, and the implication that the brain is not the seat of the mind or intelligence is simply unscientific.

A lot of hydrocephalus patients have brainmatter displaced in the center, with the actual cortex often somewhat intact lining the cranium. It's true that the brain is amazingly redundant and especially damage sustained at a young age can often be fully compensated. But let's not jump into pseudo science. You can't take this "no brain" thing literally.
It's not bad, my Nexus 7 has been an adequate appliance of a walled garden variety, so I don't want or expect a flexible operating system. It comes with all the apps I will ever need from it, such as book reader and browser. I do really hate the google plus nagging I experience every now and then.
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“It only needs one small thing; if he will answer one simple question, the rest will follow. Why did he resign?”

— № 2, The Prisoner, The Chimes of Big Ben
It's not HN, it's (am I really about to type this?) hacker culture. It's antagonistic and adversarial; I personally thrive in an environment where I get told to eat shit and die if I ask a question I could have found the answer to on Google.

You're fighting nearly 30 years of tradition - don't bother. Just get used to it.
I'd agree but there are shades of grey where gangsta rap can actually be quite enlightening to listen to. Big L was very very _hard_ yet still had a real story to tell, and real perspective.

Ie. Street Struck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwff61MTOUo
Fuck the greed, the amount of work that will be wasted from both sides of people trying to implement DRM and others who are trying to bypass DRM should be spent on something more useful like agreeing for once at already implemented standards and making them work cross browser, or implementing new better solutions, but no, it's important to protect Miley Cyrus' songs or the universe will collapse.
Thanks, my years of steady learning seems so lackluster now :P

Ryan --- http://www.radiumcrm.com
I hope they create a formal support lifecycle for Mac OS X.
We're talking about DRM and content protection, so RMS' 1997 short story seems apropos:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
This is standard operating procedure for recent OS X/iOS developer previews: Apple enables in-place DP-to-DP upgrades, but requires a full install of the GM seed. No doubt this is done to iron out any issues that might've arisen in the DP deltas.
I wonder if this will finally kill Firefox? Imagine a world where FF can't play YouTube or watch Netflix? What if DRM content becomes so prevalent it FF will render most websites like Lynx?
I'd say WinXP (and greater) and OS X both make it very easy to set up and use multiple screens effectively, with OS X being overall drastically better for my purposes in almost every other aspect and - due to the full screen thing - slightly lagging behind in multi screening.

Disclaimer, it's been a few years since I last tried, but: Linux and other unixy OSes were the absolute worst, due to failures at every level from the drivers to the window managers, plus of course the endemic configuration pains. Some distros and drivers have halfway-decent support for two displays driven by the same card, but that's it. Clearly, in that entire ecosystem nobody saw why you would ever have more than 1-2 displays.
It isn't proper English. A proper version of this sentence could be "I'd prefer clipping my
toenails to paying any more attention
to this movie" but even then the "paying any more attention" part would probably cause a human sentiment analyser to do a double take at it.
So I guess I disagree.
There are known good solutions to this problem.
Yes, it's definitely some work actually writing the code right, but it's not like this is a problem that requires engineering brand new solutions.
It just requires a good engineer and some time.

I consider that "simple", as on the scale of "engineering complexity", it would be simple, even though on the scale of "engineering time" it may take longer.
I knew there was a simple explanation that I was forgetting.
CSS is very extremely well-specified in how it draws stuff, and if you use it within its bounds, it's very good at doing what it set out to accomplish. That is, as a way to style content. It was not designed as a "draw a triangle" language, and I'm sure the original people behind the CSS standard would never have thought of exploiting the bevel effect to draw a triangle.

I don't understand the attitude of "well, you're using CSS outside the bounds of what it was designed for, that means that CSS is ad-hoc garbage", nor the attitude of "well, you're exploiting CSS in a clever way, that means you're a terrible engineer".

It's a clever hack in the truest sense of the word, and that makes me proud.
No, of course not. However, if the basic observations were truthfully reported, a brain one tenth the mass of a normal brain still able to somehow function (in some individuals) as well as a brain ten times it's weight is certainly food for thought.

The title of that article is of course tabloid trash. But I think there is something as of yet unexplained of interest in the mentioned subjects and their physiological situations.
Create and share decision trees with d3.
Doesn't have to be an issue about social issues to not be plain retarded in terms of linguistics. Point in case: Big L. Gangsta rap that had flow and cleverness. Lil Wayne and Rick Ross don't really cut that, but I do love that song 8 Ball by Rick Ross, he's just plain fun to listen to.
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Hahaha, what an awful reason. Keep white knighting and see how your life turns out.
First of all, making a bug-ticket for something that doesn't exists yet isn't going to solve anything. Second of all, why do you oppose DRM? It's been around for years. Games, DVDs... Nobody really had troubles with it until the bad (not so user-friendly) implementations came around. But, with W3 standardizing the spec for it, we get a win-win: We can watch all our (streaming) video without Flash (which was previously used for DRM), and content providers can be sure that the content we're watching is payed for.
You've found the 15% it gets wrong. Though, given the other tricky cases it does well on, more training data might help.
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And salaries in academia aren't all that high. I'm one of the lucky people being paid to work on IPython (from another grant), and while I'm not a senior developer, $100k would cover my salary for well over a year.
Have you considered any of the probabilistic extensions to Prolog? (i.e. PITA for XSB?)
Can you please explain what you meant ?

Are you saying we need to create a cloud service that is completely secure ( which we know is impossible ). My understanding is that CloudFlare is already tackling the security aspects of hosted services and seem to be doing well.
True, but it bears repeating that the surface of the brain is where the magic happens, and that's only casually related to mass. Most of the mass in the center is for support structures and a place to thread interconnect fibres through. All that stuff still has to happen for a hydrocephalus patient to function, but there's a lot more mass than technically needed. Intelligence decrease in hydrocephalus comes from the tissue trauma associated with it, not necessarily the decrease in overall mass itself. Unexplained might be a bit of an overstatement, but there is certainly a lot to be learned from examining a little closer how the brain deals with damage.
Analysts declare Twitter may drop 140-character limit after IPO
Mavericks still supports multiperson video chat.
Is electricity really abundant, or about to be? I don't really see any options for plentiful energy in the future. Most people have a very negative attitude about nuclear plants, so those are a no-go. Solar/wind/hydro have relatively low output, in addition to taking a lot of land/resources and requiring very specific placement. Coal pollutes like crazy. In other countries, the electrical network already can't handle peak load, so they get occasional blackouts.
GM Seed means quite literally what it says. It's the build that will be released to customers if nothing showstopping crops up.
I think you're barking up the wrong tree... And that it has the potential to blow up in Firefox's face.

Remember what happened to html5 video. Everyone but Firefox was pragmatic, and implemented h.264 -- primarily, but not only for hardware acceleration reasons. Years later, Webkit-based browsers are ubiquitous, and Mozilla is developing a phone OS nobody will care about, in a desperate effort to become relevant again.

Imo, Mozilla ought to spare itself another embarrassment by being the only guys in the room with the contrarian opinion. Take the issue to the W3C directly -- or for that matter vote for your local pirate party. HN and other tech news venues might be the correct places to recruit support, but you ultimately want to lobby your case directly.
Although this is a possible explanation, do you consume APIs using HTML forms? Probably not. And if you desperately have to consume APIs in the browser, you'd end up writing some JavaScript.
The Affluent Society by Galbraith is worth reading on this subject.
Of course, the abundance of air might actually be hurting us. It is so cheap that companies can abuse it freely, and it actually does wind up impacting the rest of us.

Fresh clean water is much the same way. Water is so cheap, its market price doesn't reflect its value and you get companies pretty much wasting ridiculous amounts of it, which in turn causes problems.
This means the GA is about a week to 2 ahead.
What is the percentage of founder breakups these days? We talking 20% - 30%? What's worse... a bad co-founding relationship with moderate traction or a technical solo founder who is about seeing early signs of hockey stick growth?
How do you guys deal with "actions" in your API's that are not CRUD? Something like reserving an airline seat where you just want to pass in an id of a seat and a user id. I guess that's what PATCH would be for? I was unaware of this verb until today.

What I'm struggling with is that REST does not seem to fit with how we use the web today. These HTTP verbs were designed for a document centric era of the web, not for the complex processes we're modeling today. I'm not really seeing REST being easier to design or consume than RPC style web api's--isn't that the whole point?

I mean if you were designing an API to be consumed internally in Ruby/JAVA/C# etc, would you design it like REST? I wouldn't. Why have we all become convinced we need to do this for a web api?
such crap. Leave the server running.
POST to /reservations
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Every generation (and employers who want to hire young people for cheap) considers the next one "lazy and arrogant" while the fact is that life really is becoming easier across the board. In my opinion, the author is confusing "boring work".

There is two kinds of boring work. One is where you are still committed to the end goal but some things just have to be done in order to achieve it. There's no arguing about this and I think even the new generation recognizes the value of it and the value of going through the "dip" and finishing things.

The other is when you become disinterested in the end goal itself. Leaving this kind of boring work is a good thing. It's a shame to continue working on uninspiring projects especially when there are so many other opportunities. Life is too short for that. Adding some whitespace to one's life is how you move on to better opportunities.

This article comes out as attacking the second category as well. For example, he compares this to "the vapid life of a vagabond merrily traveling from pleasure to pleasure in life ever thirsting, but never being quenched, every tasting, but never consuming.".

Vagabonds have vapid lives? That's a bit presumptuous. "Not all who wander are lost."
Watch out kids, they got energy saving maps now ... on more than one display. That's gonna be huge!
I believe Julian Assange worked on a system that would make it impossible for an external entity to determine if there is any useful information on a data partition. Basically you would have a hard drive full of random numbers and it would be unfeasible to determine if there is any actual information on it, without the right keys and tools.
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OH yeah, happened to me too! The only reason I didn't buy was that I was completely, genuinely broke. Heh. She was so pretty and so thoughtful and persuasive and blah blah blah.
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I'm mostly interested in the non-financials in the document. On the top of the list is this:

"We have implemented a disaster recovery program, which allows us to move production to a back-up data center in the event of a catastrophe. Although this program is functional, we do not currently serve network traffic equally from each data center, so if our primary data center shuts down, there will be a period of time that our products or services, or certain of our products or services, will remain inaccessible to our users or our users may experience severe issues accessing our products and services."

One of the most technically advanced software companies is still operating a single critical datacenter instead of many at once?
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I'm just happy the FBI doesn't know how to run OCR. Hell they could have mechanical turked segments, like captcha farms.
The correct stock market value of a company is the discounted sum of all its future earnings. This number is impossible to calculate, but investors can estimate it with probabilistic models (a discounted cash flow model, taking into account the probabilities of different scenarios).

E.g. a simplification of such a model would be to create some plausible-looking probability histogram for the "fundamental" value of the company in 10 years. Many investors believe there is a significant probability that Tesla will be worth >100 billion in 10-15 years, i.e. one of the world's major automakers (perhaps one of the largest) due to a global shift to electric vehicles and its 5-year head start and patent moat. It's probably worth noting that multiple major analysts have performed such a DCF analysis and arrived at a number in this ballpark.

Under these assumptions, a $200-300 share price isn't absurd. I can agree it's speculative and extrapolating a lot. But on the other hand a $40 price as some analysts are calling for, is IMHO more absurd since it ignores some very likely growth prospects. If companies were always valued on "fundamental" value, buying growth stocks would be guaranteed to make you a massive, market-beating return.
I disagree, in terms of analytics/targeting twitter is better or as good as Facebook. Have you used the platform?

You can literally target ads at a specific set of users, their followers, etc.
So what you are saying is that Mavericks will have multiple multiple screen supports?
> On to speculation - I'd guess they don't want you to use full screen, and only included it as a concession to things like movies / games.

On the contrary, the Lion fullscreen mode, which caused the issue, was a relatively large push towards fullscreen, by giving it a standardized and better (if you don't have multiple displays :) UI and integrating it into built-in applications.
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It's a good name and shouldn't be changed. They're different enough things to be discriminable via context.
Also, there's Automatic Reference Counting and people who don't care about proper casing ("Ios").
Lastly, if the matter gets out of hand, it's regrippable by adding the author's name in front of Arc: Paul's Arc, Grun's Arc, Noah's Arc.
What drove me to Chrome at the time was the resource hunger and the inferior UI of Firefox, not the video thing. If DRM is the consensus, Mozilla should (and probably for technical reasons must) have the contrarian opinion. It would be enough to make me switch back, actually.
The fundamental misunderstanding here is that a nearly steady-state economy is not a situation like the 1970's. It's a situation where 90% of the population is unemployed and unnecessary. Our expectations for a steady-state economy should be adjusted to mean the situation that existed from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to 1850 or so.

Vast majority of people on unemployment, barely subsisting. People who have viable businesses dig in and isolate themselves (if necessary declaring independence). Ever-growing consolidation of power and every institution falling to the influence of ever fewer power centers.

Fortunately, a mere 10 years of steady state economy won't get us to that point. Today we're already at the point that something like 60-70% of the world's population is useless (if you killed all of them tonight, tomorrow there would be no visible difference at all). That number is increasing fast.

The cure ? Remove the scarcity of electricity might do it. Find something to do (the way some medieval economies solved it was to employ 70% or so of the population for building cathedrals - manually. Every last thing manually cut from stone. That could work). War is another option, used in the middle east did (well, one particular group, really). As long as they keep winning, their borders expand, their economy grows, and it can last quite a while in that state.
Good post, Alex.
Considering mozilla is basically the last bastion of freedom in the world of major web browsers, I sincerely hope they ignore your advice
So I'd have to POST an object that represents a process? It seems like you end up cluttering your code with objects to represent every process? Which in OO programming would just be a method call...
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Oh you reminded me last time I upgraded my OSX. Ruby and RVM always have problem with me upgrading the system.
It's not exactly the same, but a TPM does something very similar by keeping it at the hardware level.
i hope to never encounter this insect. glad i don't live in one of those states...