skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the excellent references; I obviously should have checked my facts before posting. The quote I quoted also makes sense in the context you mention of being in contrast to naturally occurring lesions, which looking again seems clear enough from the story.

I think part of what I was thinking of was from this previous wired article on the study you mention: http://www.wired.com/2014/01/hm-brain-closeup

Particularly Suzane Corkin's quote about shifting the emphasis from the hippocampus to the entorhinal cortex.

The wider damage I was misremembering the extent and cause of looks like it was the combination of the left orbitofrontal legion (possibly but not necessarily connected to the accident or surgery) and the cerebellar atrophy (attributed to anticonvulsant medication). The most recent paper suggest that the cerebellar atrophy was likely to do lifelong medication, but I'm not sure if the higher does of whatever medication he took prior to sugery could have caused that as well. In any case, little if any of the additional damage was likely related to the sugery so as you say that point I made is wrong.

Apologies to all for the misinformation and thanks for the correction and references.

Edit: Also, I suspect I was partly thinking of this article as well and others along these lines (rather than what I actually said): http://hargreaves.swong.webfactional.com/HM.htm
Certainly possible, or maybe our tastes just differ.
Related: "Python is only slow if you use it wrong" http://apenwarr.ca/diary/2011-10-pycodeconf-apenwarr.pdf [pdf]
What irks me about this is that services like edX are going to be affected. I didn't want MIT et al. being charged for the free video lectures they provide. Now people who used to provide high quality material for free are disincentived doing such things.

I don't love the internet because of Hulu or Netflix or iTunes or whatever else, I love it because of Wikipedia and edX, and countless other stuff that's put there by everyday people. That's what's in danger.
I guess we can't Forget(sic) About Dre?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFcv5Ma8u8k [Explict Version]
It's just not good notation at all, though. It strongly implies "call". And "object". This is misleading.
Ask HN: Is there some service that lets me buy beta app testers?
So I'm in the stage where I might want to test my application before I put it on the app store. I have posted on several forums/reddit etc but it is just so damn hard to gather any significant amount of actual testers. So far I've got one.

I would gladly pay X amount to some service for Y number of "feedbacks".

I would like to upload my app in IPA format. Choose the number of feedback-reviews I would want to receive. I would then pay, and wait.

Is there anything like this?
I wonder, does FRAND apply to copyrights as well as patents? What if a company simply wanted to revoke a copyright license to a major system component for the fun of it? Or not renew it?
Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Would Both Join Apple in Beats Deal
Is this a single IPv6 address sharing the same /64 with stateless auto-configuration, or static?

The implementation is important, over the years I've had annoying experiences with certain providers trying to do IPv6 - but not getting things quite right:

Hetzner - Gave customers a /64, but using additional IPv6 addresses required setting up proxy NDP - which at the time was annoying as only more recent Linux kernels supported it. I believe they've improved on this since though.

OVH - Requires setting up a default route outside of your normal netmask - this isn't fun. We don't do this with IPv4 - so why do some providers do it with IPv6?

Linode - Enables IPv6 auto-configuration, so many servers share the same /64 by default, and they give accounts "pools" of /116 allocations. Sites like Google considers all of them to be part of the same /64 network - so your server will probably have trouble accessing certain resources if another server is doing excessive queries.
How do you apply deforestation ... in the general case?

How do you cut an iron bar in half with a pair of scissors?

Deforestation is a tool; not a universal truth.

You're also pulling a false comparison ... The corecursive function could only be directly equivalent to the linear time, constant memory TCO function in a lazily-evaluated runtime

But I'm using a lazily evaluated runtime. My code is Haskell. And in any case, I used deforestation in the last step to remove the lazily evaluated data structure.

If I understand you correctly, you're telling me that high-level mathematical formalisms work better in Haskell. Yes, they do.
Cdb: a fast, reliable, simple package for creating, reading constant databases
It's true we should mostly focus on the easy problems... But some of our time especially IMO when we are young should be spent on the hard (unsolvable) problems.
Now all you need is an "open in shapeways" button.
Want to see why Bluetooth wins? Check out this connected pill bottle.
I can't imagine there's anything in this for Quora. They just raised $80M last month! I suspect they're either launching a new product or pivoting completely.
More appropriately, Homebrew is very similar to GoboLinux's Rootless project.

It's also worth noting GoboLinux predates Homebrew by about 7 years.
Not working in SF.
Funny story about the Wayback Machine and how it helped me. I had let my blog go into disrepair for a couple months, and eventually, when I went back to it, I found that since I hadn't kept up with security updates, I wasn't able to access any of my old posts.

When I went back to start writing again (this time using paid hosting so I didn't have to deal with that), I was disappointed that I wasn't going to have ~20-30 posts I had before. On a hunch, I checked the Wayback Machine and found that it had archived about 15 of my posts! Very excited that I could restore some of my previous writings.
Reddit is devouring that use-case. I'm not sure where Quora fits in.
Intermittent outages for me. This is the first service interruption I've ever experience from them and even this I'm having trouble recreating because sometimes it works fine after refreshing.

Should be interesting to see why it's happening after they patch the bug.
Man arrested for keeping guns made by 3D printer
I'm not even mad. I'm kind of impressed.
It is working ins SF no problem!
Perhaps you could try addressing the specifics in the letter, like the observation that next weeks vote is a request for public consultation on which legislative powers it would be appropriate for the FCC to use. Some people here seem ot hink he has some sort of magic wand and all he has to do is wave it.
Working perfectly from Bermuda.
Orphan instances in libraries are frowned upon. In an application they are more palatable, though a newtype might still be a better choice, depending.
It doesn't completely abandon it - the old-fashioned filesystem is kept intact through symlink management.
The article clearly shows that Dart doesn't stand too far from vanilla JS. Conceptually it's on the same level. Futures? Really? Functional reactive programming or communicating sequential processes solve the async problem a lot better than futures. FRP is available in vanilla JS (take a look at bacon.js) and CSP are part of ClojureScript which by the way exists because it's a good tool not because some megacorp throws it's money to push it to the masses.
Ask HN: What should I do?
I've been making a game for iOS and have recently made some pretty good progress. After I release this game, I'm going to start working on a social app which I have been planning for about 6 months on sketches and notebooks.

There is an app that has a similar purpose to the social app I've been wanting to make, although they don't seem to make it that good and it seems a bit cluttered. Theirs has recently made #50 in the category as well.

I would like to work full time but being 16, I've got a lot of things to do for school right now.

What do you think I should do? Keep working on the game? Ditch the game and work on the social app? Or focus on something else for the social app?

Thanks
I don't buy the Queen of England explanation. Because there are many other countries besides England. So what other explanation could there be? Given this, along with my poor goose experience, leads to my conclusion that they likely don't have a flavor that appeals to many people.

Maybe I'm wrong. I suppose with current regulations and the fact swans don't live in my area I don't have a way to test my hypothesis.
Ask HN: Koding.com hacked?
I got three password reset links in my email this morning, followed by an email saying my password was successfully changed. None of these were initiated by me (I was asleep at the time). I have heard this has happened to other users as well.

Have they been hacked, or are there server problems? Have an other HN-ers experienced this?
Facebook Is Down For Many
I would imagine most people reading HN have read at least one blog post on his site, if not many more. It's not that amazing he didn't disclose it in my opinion. I agree it could be mentioned in his profile though, just for the curious.
You could try something like Mechanical Turk.
Good mastering requires accurate monitors, as well. Every stage gets tested in various types of speakers and playback devices and formats (so, the engineer checks it out in their car on the way to the studio, on their iPod, on their laptop, etc., as does the mastering engineer). There is no stage where the engineer (recording or mastering) doesn't want an accurate monitoring setup, however. And, there is no stage where checking the mix against various listening environments is a bad idea. High dollar recordings are listened to hundreds of times by at least a half dozen people on the way to being shipped to listeners.
I think the word you want is "fair use" and I'm pretty sure it doesn't apply here.
A letter is a collection of words. The thing I say actions speak louder than.

Sorry, after all the Washington speak emanating from our public officials with results diametrically opposed, I don't believe words as much as once did.

When I see companies able to pay for faster access, when I see a former lobbyist heading the commission... I have to suspect these kind of statements are little more than attempts to placify while surreptitiously carrying out policies very different than the rhetoric. I would be delighted to be wrong.
+1 so hard my keyboard almost broke

Every language needs this except lisp and python :)

Note that the one trick gofmt has over say indent is that it truly understands go syntax. It's not just a pretty printer
Python4! More sharding! :D
From a conversation with Brewster a few years ago: The doubling of density of disk drives has allowed them to stay relatively neutral with respect to space for the Wayback machine. It still occupies approximately the same size as it has for the last 10 years, which is essentially a set of racks about 15-20 feet long altogether I think?

However, the new TV news and search capability requires substantially more space than even the archive IIRC, or certainly is heading that way.
I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Marcel de Graaf has a blog post series going which are pretty great:

1. http://marceldegraaf.net/2014/04/24/experimenting-with-coreo...
2. http://marceldegraaf.net/2014/05/05/coreos-follow-up-sinatra...
Reddit has semi-anonymous, unverified accounts. Quora requires FB. Kind of makes it a no-brainer for me.
For those things you're talking about my parents paid their fair share of taxes, not me. You have to realize, it's parents who pay for their children's education and healthcare, not children themselves: this is true whether we're talking about public or private.

But even if you were right and indeed it is me who is supposed to be paying taxes now for my education in the past, then this sounds a lot like this:

- Here, have a free sandwich
- Ok, thanks
- You ate it? Now give me $10.

in other words, a scam.
The problem is they're now relying heavily on AWS spot instances, and neither Google or Microsoft have a competing spot market.
Well, he resigned from S.O. two years ago (http://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/ ) and most of the users here know that the founders of S.O. were codinghorror and spolsky.
So we should circlejerk over this just because he's 17? I know a lot more good developers that are even younger [1]. He should be getting as much critisicism as anyone else. You need criticism to get better.

Now for the criticism....

I sometimes use the iPad as a development environment, and this is approaching it in the complete wrong way. If you even want to think about developing on-device, then you have to jailbreak. That isn't even like, a question. Then all you need to do is get theos [2]. You don't even need a mac build server. The iPad compiles the code. And you can run it without a developer's license.

It's basically $100 license + internet connection + an mac server to build on + ths app's price vs. completely 100% free (+ your choice of development environment instead of being locked into a proprietary GUI text editor). That's why this isn't good.

[1] https://github.com/winocm
[2] http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Theos/Getting_Started
The Paradox of Art as Work
I see a lot of people downplaying the impact of this, saying that it just means the defense falls back to "fair use" - but isn't that the point? Every single open source project that implements any kind of API now has an individual legal threat that their work might not be "fair use" which can only be decided on a case by case basis. It seems to me like the worst case is that any large corporation, whether it be Microsoft, Google, Oracle or Apple can exterminate just about any open source project with a simple cease and desist letter that they are unable to afford to challenge. Without a crystal clear ruling that APIs are not copyrightable a great portion of open source and non-open source that is now out there seems to be essentially in an untenable position.

I really wish Google had invested in the "nuclear" option and pursued a parallel development strategy to move Android entirely away from dependency on Java. If they had started 3 years ago and offered an alternative API (say, for example, based on Go, but it could be anything relatively efficient, even a brand new language), by now there would be a significant base of users and Google would be able to threaten Oracle with a wholesale migration away from Java. Even in their most delusional moments Oracle must know that losing Android would be a huge loss in terms of the mindshare and userbase. I think it's unlikely we'd be seeing Oracle pursuing this to the death if Google hadn't left themselves in such a weak position. (I have a secret hope that they have been doing this and will astonish us all by taking the wraps off it at Google I/O one day ...)
Same here. 100% CTR, then end up spending ~30 minutes on the side. I would love to know how they put those emails together.
>and it's working for them.

Yeah, against massive international outcry from people who don't live here and don't understand that fisheries is literally the only job left.
It is not something the average american home cook would attempt, not because it's hard but because they don't tend to be stocked in normal grocery stores, and when they are(around holidays) they're really expensive.

Add to the fact that the pure liquid fattiness of the(even raw) bird in my experience makes it a huge hassle(I was told by my grandmother whose house I cooked it at that her oven smelled strongly of goose/grease until she ran the hardcore clean cycle).

"anecdotally" eating goose is not something that I was exposed to(outside of a "wild game dinner" put on by a hunting club) in my generic(fairly privileged) middle american childhood and I was exposed to a lot of cuisine(adventurous father)
FedEx’s Price Rise Is a Blessing in Disguise for Amazon
I think it's his use of coutnerpoint and its ability to pleasantly overload the brain. Case in point, Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor. Close your eyes and try to play air organ to this: http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-565/detail/
So what's Dart vs ES6?
How to Moderate What Shows on Your Facebook Timeline – Onenaija Blog
Why not use hashtable instead of binary search? I'm assuming your index is immutable and query for the data structure is essentially random. Another advantage of looking up item by URL hash may be that you can use hash-prefix to direct the query to appropriate machine (so basically, your infrastructure simply looks like giant distributed hashtable top to bottom with no binary searches required).
I'd love a transcript of this talk: the audio is poor...
Quora being valued at $900M? Heh, I'd believe it when there's some revenue, or at least some sign of revenue.

I'd have more faith in Quora long term if they were asking for donations like Wikipedia.
The linear scale on your first plot undersells your accomplishment. The two red pixels, if calibrated by the 4,000,000 users at left, correspond to 25,000 support staff. It sounds like there's only you.

A logarithmic scale, like this: https://flic.kr/p/nyf11i shows off your feat more-completely.

Thank you for making Trello. It's made my life more organized and efficient.
The queen pricing and pollination services pricing are the most interesting observations here. I don't understand how both this could be a serious problem and the prices also remain the same (over a long-ish period of time)

You can fudge a lot of news and spin things various ways, but if you're paying the same amount now as you were 10 years ago for pollination? I'm not sure where the problem is.
Down in Cazadero
This is very impressive.

I've been wanting to add three.js to my toolbox and something like this is a great example of what modelling in the browser can accomplish.

Unfortunately I assume the porn filter got to it. There really wasn't anything objectionable about it except maybe the name.
Oh it's not that bad, you probably just have to install some fonts.
The what? John cage has a collection at NYU college for performing arts, and there's tons of other stuff too, like Sonic Youth paid homage to him, and Philip Glass, and many others...I had to write essays about essays about him , so it's not like he's a no one or whatever.

Also, You can't just say 'The Market' as if it was all one bucket. Or some 'God' thing that punishes.
Some companies out there, doing exactly what you want to see. Lots of experiments they're just not public about it. I'll see what I can do.
> I'd like to see cogent arguments as to why copyright as it currently exists should apply to all other code but not API.

For the same reason a textbook publisher shouldn't be able to copyright the table of contents of a calculus textbook:

1) It is merely a guidepost to the rest of the work and doesn't rise to the level of creativity of the meat of the text.

2) over time the structure becomes standardized because of the nature of the information it attempts to organize suggests that standard.

For example: imagine an API for accessing student information. You have certain common characteristics for those students: Name, Address, Contacts, Schedule, Grades, Absences etc. I'd be willing to bet that if you put 10 people in separate rooms and asked them to create an API, 80% or more would be so close to one another that if someone studied one, they could find their way in another. And if showed a person who had studied the different APIs some specific part of a particular API they wouldn't be able to tell you which one it came from. They would not differ enough in 'style' to be readily distinguishable.

Now imagine Strings. Or authentication or routes or any number of other aspects of computing that we have to deal with every day.

Now, can the same thing be said of ten different authors of say a writing prompt that says "Write about a student who is having an altercation with a gym coach"?

I'd argue that you'd get some very different and and easily distinguishable stories and styles.
Try to release the game before moving on to the social app. If there's one thing I regret from your age (and later), it was not making shipping my priority.
Oddly enough, goose isn't particularly common as a food in the U.S., even at Christmas. And this is in spite of the fact that we've had goose drilled into our collective consciousness as a traditional Christmas main course (and they're a very common nuisance animal).

We eat tons of turkey in the U.S., but usually sliced. Most people only roast a whole turkey at Thanksgiving, but it's not uncommon to make it at Christmas. In the U.S., if you're cooking a bird, it's probably a chicken. Duck is more of a restaurant thing, particularly at slightly nicer Chinese restaurants.

This story has got me really thinking. I made a fig pudding (adapted from a 120-year-old British recipe) at Christmas two years ago. It was OK. I think I overdid it with the amaretto. Maybe my next Christmas cooking adventure will be goose.
They don't. Avoid at all cost.
If Latvian isn't a language, what would you call it? A creole? A dialect of Latgalian? Just because a language draws from languages outside its immediate language family doesn't mean it's not a language (or else you'd have to take English off the map as well).

Defining what makes a language a language is a very political issue, but there are some standard ways to judge. The half-joking criteria is whether it has an army and navy. Another is mutual intelligiblity—can speakers of a different "language" understand it and be understood by native speakers?
It does for apps that you get via the Windows app store.
I think if python3 had made major performance improvements (not to mention the GIL) there wouldn't be nearly as many 2.7 holdouts.
I'd definitely be interested! As long as we're wishing, I'd also like a Node.js module to do prediction on trained models. Your project looks really interesting, thank you!
There are a few swan farms in The Netherlands, where swans are grown for consumption. They are considered a delicacy in several European countries, but they don't taste as good as duck or geese in my opinion. Some years ago there were a few incidences of Eastern European migrants taking wild swans for food, including some from protected species.
K. How do you express those views? Are you buying SE shares via MicroVentures, etc.? How do you go short Quora?
Of course. I use 864e2 to remember that it is 86400 when I do calculations on paper.
That gist is a fantastic resource, strongly endorsed.
You seem like you would know - has anyone had any luck pulling the chip firmware and reversing it in order to sterilise it?
Ask HN: When should a web application use Java?
After seeing the Modern Java series I've grown curious: when is Java and its related framworks the best choice for a side project/small group endeavour?

Django/RoR or Flask/Sinatra have their niches - what are good reasons for a solo developer or small team to look outside Python, Ruby or PHP? Also, for those who are using Java, where do you host your application/service?
StackExchange has much more than just programming sites, and I've done all sorts of discovery via the "questions from other StackExchange sites" ad units and sidebars.
I agree with the upstream comment about expressiveness, but this isn't a fair example.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd never even think of doing that. The place I work for has a group responsible for third party licensing and stuff like that. It seems pretty foolish -- maybe even negligent -- to just grab shit off GitHub and stick it in your source tree.
We do a four-pound roast chicken almost every week—it's a big yummy meal with lots of leftovers to become sandwiches, pasta, casserole, etc, plus making stock for soup or rice later in the week.

Delicious and really economicaly.