skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? Hacker News has degenerated to outright flaming?
I'm not certain, but I think that once a particular user's karma falls below a certain threshold, all of their future comments and submissions get auto-killed.
TextMate for code and SequelPro for MySQL. The rest is built in: Terminal, Apache + PHP. Also, I off-and-on use Things for task lists (now I'm back on using TODOs in Textmate).
I use xcode, textmate, cyberduck for sftp, gitx for basic git usage, terminal for most of the heavy lifting, vim on servers. Photoshop when needed to tweak something minor but mostly I am a programmer.
I sat next to a girl on the airplane the other day who works with autistic children. She told me that the strange thing is that many of these children are good with computers and frighteningly addicted to YouTube. Apparently there is an entire community of autistic people making videos for other autistic people. The autistic viewers will watch the same minutes of autistic-produced video again and again thousands of times. They do things like read the contents of movie jackets on film, zooming in on each photo one by one. And out there in YouTube-land is an audience for it, obsessed.

I thought of this while I struggled to figure out why the Zefrank video was at the top on Hacker News this evening.
The camera cuts actually help in keeping me fully focused on the video. Just as my mind begins to wander, a cut brings my attention back to the video. I think it's clever of Ze Frank to have those cuts.
Thanks for mentioning reading fiction. I used to read quite a bit of fiction, especially science fiction. More recently, I've set that aside in the name of spending my reading time on things that are "useful".

But I have found, reading fiction is useful, as it activates your imagination in ways that nonfiction simply does not. I still don't read a lot of fiction, but I endeavor to get in some, and I think it helps...
yep, first fpp, typo, duh
(I couldn't help myself. You made things even more difficult by setting up the "flamer" joke.) But since I seriously do not understand your points, I submit the following questions:

1. What's your problem with Lil Wayne?

2. Why do you deliberately alienate yourself from someone based on their musical taste?

3. If we're in all of this together, then don't you understand that her preferences are just the result of her experiences?

4. Why do you cling to some sort of predefined me-ness?
Other high points include when he asked people to decorate their vacuum cleaners, and when people started doing videos of Power Moves.

My time as part of The Show community is one of my fondest internet memories. It allowed me to do a kind of creative collaboration that I haven't been able to do since. And it was great to watch.
The problem is that the workplace is filled with constant interruptions. Either a coworker needs to talk to you about something, you need to get up to go talk to someone, or you end up interrupting yourself when you should focus on working by checking email, browsing to a website, or any million other things.

To improve your attention span, you need to work at removing as many of these restrictions as you can. Since you can't control the external distractions - coworkers, meetings, etc., that means you have to focus on the ones under your control. So for start, pay attention to what you're doing at any given time as you work and try to reduce the number of times you interrupt yourself.
I guess I found it sardonic because the intended audience is most definitely not sportsracers. It's sort of like the high school star linebacker calling the 100lb nerd "big guy".
Can someone please clarify what the hell this means? Thanks.
> Your proposal dismisses just about all we know about neurons, and ignores all we don't yet know about neurons.

Yes. That's because I think that the things we know about neurons are mixture of recipe for great adaptive control system and implementation details of this idea in biological hardware. In fact I think that most of the things we know are implementation details (although valuable form medical point of view and intrinsically interesting).

> Reproducing such simplifications in hardware, as you propose, may result in products that find a technological application, but don't advance our understanding of brain computation.

I agree. I don't claim that such neural network can help us understand how brain works. But I bet such simplified artificial neural network could learn how to walk, run and jump maybe even see - as good as a child.

> You'd be hardcoding a battery of special cases.

I think that you are referring to my statement about sleep. I believe that sleep is not special case of anything but essential thing for any neural network learning. I have not heard about single organism with neural network that does not dream (perhaps with exception of one human being, Ngoc Thai). I interpret hallucinations resulting from sleep deprivation as symptoms of neural network over-learning. I think that periodical disconnecting of neural network from sensors and actuators and letting neurons discharge randomly is essential for proper learning.

> While we expect the brain to be hardwired in some regards, its agility and flexibility are mighty.

I think that specialization of some parts of the brain for some tasks is just minor optimization. I draw that conclusion from the fact that young human with large parts of his brain missing can grow to be perfectly fine because other parts of the brain train themselves to replace functionality of missing specialized parts.

> Your model falls short of emulating even our current limited notions of brain computation.

True. But I am not striving for modeling biological brain. I just want to build new brain in silicon.

Evolution is simple idea obscured in details by strange biochemical hardware it has to run on. I believe that same is true for neural networks.
at 6:30, he mentions there are only small groups in nature, but neglects ants and bees and others in the insect world.
Hopefully this is not real, otherwise I hope he chooses to do something better and less drastic.
The mouse who spoke with a deep voice
I couldn't agree more with the comments. It's amazing how much paying attention to physical and psychological ailments makes a difference.

The OP might want to look into neurofeedback for focus/peak performance.

Disclaimer: I work as an EEG Technician,and also write software for neurofeedback systems. This is not medical advice.
In line with my thoughts. Evaluate your health. If you are feeling poorly, it can keep you from getting into or maintaining flow.

Also, physical exertion / exercise calms the nervous system.
the people who threaten to commit suicide never go through it, especially the ones who threaten to do so publically and leave their email address. The whole "I'll take poison" and "I'll overdose on medicine" are the sure signs of a drama queen.

It's the ones who never talk about it, that usually man up to pull the trigger.

My guess is that either he is attention whoring, or he just got hacked(none of his other sites/profiles say this)
Let's email him with positive thoughts...? I feel like there's not much else we can do. Maybe we can find a phone number?

kitahata@99.alumni.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Aquamacs is fantastic!
Totally agree with this piece. I remember a childhood like that (though it didn't go as far as swimming in the ocean alone) and it's sad so many kids don't get that now and are instead cooped up indoors playing games consoles and watching TV.

That said, the world has definitely changed. While I'd agree that the world is actually safer now than ever before, I think people and the sense of community necessary to raise children is significantly worse than when I was a kid - at least here in the UK. People ignore children in a way they never did before - see http://is.gd/51r7d - from fears of parental retribution or accusations of paedophilia, which has been a bit of an alarmist topic in the British media for the last 5-10 years here - http://is.gd/51rdy.

While I'd love to let my daughter have as free and as rich a childhood as I had (richer, even), I'm not convinced British society as a whole provides a healthy environment for her to have that freedom when adults are scared of conversing with unknown children or even helping them in vulnerable or potentially dangerous situations. Can't say I entirely blame this attitude though, as I've ignored quite a few kids for much the same reasons.. though I'd like to believe I'd step in and do something if they were in danger..
I recommend "hnweekly: this week's top stories from Hacker News" at http://hnweekly.chibidesign.com/ to find good stories you might have missed.
Some counterevidence to their hypothesis is the dissociation in some aphasic patients between the ability to process sign language and the ability to process meaningful gestures that are not part of a sign language. For example, some of these people have quite a bit of difficulty interpreting their native sign language correctly but show completely normal performance in interpreting ordinary gestures or pantomimes. The most striking cases involve iconic signs. Most gestures in a sign language (e.g. ASL) are completely arbitrary, but there are some which look very much like pantomimes of the object or action being described. For some of the aphasic patients, these pantomimic signs are just as hard to interpret in a linguistic context as the arbitrary signs, even though they are perfectly capable of interpreting pantomimes in non-linguistic contexts. This suggests that it can't be precisely the same bit of the brain that's doing both.

It seems more likely that what both tasks have in common is something higher level -- an element of trying to figure out what another person is trying to convey, given what you know about them and the context.
Middle-aged men are the most likely to give advance warning, are the most likely to carry through with that plan, and have the highest completion rate, after doctors.
His difficulties are real, apparently.

"Tetsuya, you have show the utmost lack of respect on this forum to the chairman of the organization, who in the most friendly and forgiving way attempted to nudge you away from inappropriate directions. No one else in this organization is so flexible. So your complaint falls on deaf ears."

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-community/20091...
Yeah that's what I use but couldn't remember it off the top of my head. Thanks.
Perhaps he can be reached via twitter: http://twitter.com/tetsuya_k

Does it reveal anything? I can't read Japanese.
This should be flagged.
It's more whimsical than sardonic. It's too absurd to be taken seriously.
The Making of Algol 68
Why do you have trouble finishing these products? What makes you lose the focus?

Sometimes, attention problems can be corrected by taking better care of yourself. Personally, I've found my attention problems come more from ultimately not caring than from some weakness of character. It's easy to think up ideas that could be successful, but are they really for you?

For example, I've come to discover that I get motivated when solving really tough niche problems that no one else has dealt with effectively. But I couldn't care less about serving general lusers, like writing Facebook apps. I could maybe think of a cool idea for a Facebook app, and it might even be a killer one, but ultimately, I don't feel anything about serving Facebook users, harvesting their data and habits, etc.

Is it possible you're tackling the wrong projects?
Bing considers paying sites to delist themselves from Google
I had a friend who always used to say he was going to kill himself. I too thought he was asking for attention until he drove his truck up the curb and took out two light polls right outside my window. vaksel, you are wrong.

Ps: he survived but I can assure you it was not an attention stunt. You would have had to see the accident scene to believe me
You are most welcome. It is difficult (though not impossible, my life hasn't been without blemish) to imagine what it must be like to have a prognosis like yours. I admire everything you are doing to combat it.
Boo hoo. Please stop whining about the app store approval process or rather the lack of process. We all know it sucks. Even my mom knows how bad it is. But it's not going to change by blogging. Move to a different platform or suffer under apple.
Looks like vandalism to me.
I'll delete it myself if you'll explain exactly what's so objectionable.
I want to recommend Mike Rohde. You might have seen his work with the various "sketchnotes" posts around here. He's a great guy: http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/index.html
Though I don't think every show is relevant to HN, I don't see any problem with submitting individual videos. Compared to some of the blog posts we see, Ze Frank videos are full of content.
Create Your Own Flash Adventure Game - Level Loading
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
There is also this:

"Re: Inappropriate use of announce@ - Tetsuya Kitahata - org.apache.community - MarkMail"

http://markmail.org/message/qifwabx7e62jb6sx#query:Tetsuya%2...
I've recently been buying quite a few books online... through Amazon's third-party book service. I've found a plethora of academic books (e.g., edited collections of research papers) for sale, maybe used, maybe new, at a fraction of the regular Amazon price. I like to think that I'm not only getting a great deal but also helping smaller independent stores.
The constant camera cuts are to conceal any eye blinking that he might do. Don't quote me on this, though.
This has saved me a lot of time: http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/
Singularity Gives Execs A View of The Future
I think the secret is to start learning something completely new. I just started Judo and I find the exercise combined with a comply different type of thinking has helped me concentrate in other areas. Once you are good enough at coding it starts to become difficult to separate thinking about the problem from just daydreaming. However, because I am learning something completely new I can almost feel my brain making connections which helps me concentrate and remember what that feels like.
just use openid
"I have been working on Docley for about 6 months."

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Given the technical complexity of a site like this, and the fact that you aren't yet open to the public, that seems like forever.

Have you talked to your future customers yet ? Do you know who they are ? If I was in your shoes, I'd implement the absolute minimum number of features to show the basic concept, and ship that prototype. Then I'd pitch it to just about everyone I could think of, and see what they say. Chances are, I'd change the feature set and my target audience in the process, so the faster I could ship the less time I will have wasted.
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citation? [edit]: Thanks!
>Granted, there are OSHA-ish reasons Apple might not want to get mixed up in

Especially given Apple's current issue with OSHA over the amount of benzene their computers emit
But some parents — particularly those weary of never-say-no techniques and child-rearing books suggesting that children should call the shots —

I have three sons, aged seven, five, and three, and... well, let's just say that I have become a connoisseur of child-rearing books, and "children should call the shots" is not exactly a running theme. The hippy-dippiest of such books in my library, The Discipline Book by Sears and Sears, uses the phrases "fix your child's behavior" and "train your child" on page three.

I think there are certainly a lot of parents who mis-discipline their children because they want their children to be their friends, or because they don't want to suffer the short-term pain of dragging a tantrumming child to his room in exchange for maybe eventually preventing tantrums in the long run. (I certainly plead guilty to the second error.) But "be an authority figure" is not a new concept in the child-rearing literature, and it's not even an old concept that the Dog Whisperer has rediscovered.

Maybe there are parents whose children are driving them nuts, but who are so full of themselves that they never even think to crack a book on the subject of disciplining children, and then they watch this TV show about dog training, and dawn breaks over Marblehead.
So smashingmagazine.com, the blog/magazine, is not a "blogazine" as defined by...them? Thanks for your insight.
GPG and PGP both make tempfiles, as do many of the email integration systems that use PGP, but I'm not here to help harden your idiosyncratic Linux setup, only to explain that your expectation that the OS designers are going to make 3rd-party crypto packages a priority is unrealistic.

If you need crypto-level assurance for your machine, you use full-disk encryption --- or at the bare minimum you turn off system restore points and use secure deletion software. People who harden Win64 professionally know to do this stuff, just like people who harden Linux setups professionally know the rest of the problems with your EncFS system.

I'm a security person, and not a Windows user, and I prefer the Win7 approach over the "whatever makes TrueCrypt easier to write" approach.
What are the autistic-community videos of?
The Single Playbook Exec - What VC-Backed Execs Can Learn From NFL Coaches
yeah, I kind of knew this crowd would want that. I'm looking . . .

Males more likely to complete
http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&p...

Males much more likely to complete, and docs most likely: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/24/2473

males more likely (also, unemployed, ill, and single more likely) http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/177/6/484

middle-aged more likely
http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&p...

however, predicting suicide is still difficult: http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/5/418

Basically, middle-aged guy says he's going to commit suicide, that's one where you have to prove he won't. If he walked into the ER while I'm on, he's getting admitted.
well I'm just approaching this from my own perspective. If I'm ever "driven" to suicide, I would never talk about it, who wants the embarrassment? You talk about it, and you end up in a nuthouse. So to me, the only ones who talk about suicide, are those who are just attention whoring.

Honestly I don't see why anyone would want to go through suicide. That's like admitting you lost, that's admitting to the world, that you just couldn't take the pressure anymore.

Screw that. If you think like killing yourself, at least put your death to good use. Go buy some guns, go grab some ammo, then go on a killing spree of all those people who screwed you over in life. You are already planning to kill yourself, what exactly do you have to lose?

Then there is the whole legacy thing to consider. Noone remembers the suicides, they fade away from life, like they never existed. But go kill a few dozen people who screwed you over, and you might just get a round the clock news coverage.

You don't remember the John Doe who offed himself with meds. But you remember the Cho kid from Virginia Tech, that programmer dude from PA who shot up that gym, that bulldozer tank guy who destroyed half the town.

Basically, if you are going to off yourself anyways, why not take the bastards with you? Hell go steal a Ferrari while you are at it, go rob a bank, for once in your life you don't have to give a crap about consequences, for once in your life, you can live life to it's fullest.

And yeah I know you guys will downvote the crap out of this, but I don't care, it's my philosophy on suicide. And to me it makes a whole lot more sense, than just killing yourself
I've been on Hackernews now for over a year. Very early on I got cited for submissions that were 'not good content.' Please note... the video opens with Toboggan 'ass sliding'. Reallllly?

I watched this video for 30 seconds and it is not good content.

I would rather read an article about the sequential subset of Erlang oppose to this garbage.

Apparently, I am not alone.

God knows how it got to the top of HackerNews - slow Sunday night maybe?
I just did. I wrote, "There are many things to see and enjoy in life. Do not be discouraged by something small." I hope it helps.
Ask HN: What small problems do you face frequently?
I really am looking for small rants about a problem, and a possible solution to the problem.

Example: "I have trouble figuring out where all my time goes. I need an application that makes it really quick for me to keep a log of my activities."
You're right; it wasn't really constructive, because I was criticizing the content. A post bragging about how deep and smart you are and complaining that you're lonely belongs on LJ, not HN. And since posts on HN are selected, generally, on content, I figured it's a valid criticism.

If you want constructive criticism, I could go after style. There was very little organization; this made it very difficult for a reader to tell where the author was going with the post. From the first few paragraphs, it does look like the author is going to talk about gods, and that's probably why it got flagged so quickly. If the purpose of the essay had been clear from the beginning (it's called an "introduction") then it may have not have been flagged.

And re: your D in high school, I can tell you why there was no more elaboration. Grading bad essays makes you want to shoot yourself and/or the writer in the face. And if an essay is as bad as a D, there are so many comments that you want to make that it's impossible to do so without spending several hours writing it up. At 60 students (the number I have this semester), that's an immense amount of time writing something that the vast majority of students won't read anyway. If they really care, they'll come talk to you about the essay. By then you'll hopefully be calm enough to prevent yourself from calling them morons.

It's much, much safer to write "disappointing."
I guess I don't see the point of your comment. What's the upside of you discouraging people from taking this seriously? The potential downside is rather obvious ...
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One more reason to be glad I don't smoke. The fact that smoke damages the internals of a computer isn't obvious at all, I wouldn't ever have thought of it. Thanks for the explanation.
I use Coda and MAMP.. and they do everything I need
only affects cheap violins

Sorry, I was unclear. I meant that it affects cheap violins in addition to expensive violins.
Electric carmaker Tesla preparing IPO
Alright... I just sat thru the entire vid... I'll admit. Not bad - maybe he needs to do a little better job of relevance in the beginning... first 10 seconds scared me - not excite me.
Hollywood: Maxim Hot Girl Drew Barrymore
You might find it interesting to look at this site, which gives you a lot of the infrastructure for testing your FX strategies with real time data (although not direct access to the data).

http://preview.collective2.com/

Strategies are independently monitored and ranked on the site, and can be switched from simulations to real accounts when you're ready. If your strategy performs well, it will be noticed and you can get paid commissions on it (potentially helpful for raising capital).

For FX and equity data, you might as well use Yahoo finance. I run a Slicehost server that scrapes it once every minute with no problem. It's not ultra high frequency but you can't hope to compete in that space anyway, as others have pointed out. You should start building a historical database now before you do anything else, so that you'll have something ready when you need it. You probably don't need years and years of it.

I worked as a quant for a while and would support the other comments that standard ML techniques are unlikely to outperform, but you might be the exception.
If true, I expect we'll see talking chimps soon: adding the gene is a neu-brainer.

I'm also reminded of Bruce Sterling's short story, "Our Neural Chernobyl".