skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting with the father of biology, Aristotle, and the father of botany, Theophrastus (who was Aristotle's best pupil).
I'd bet good money that most people on that subreddit are just plain lying about being all that clever.
If you want to pass the Chartered Financial Analyst exams, you need a calculator. Only two models are allowed; this is one of them. That might be driving the price up!
You know, making music sounds great. I host "parties" on a regular basis, but they're small, I know almost everyone, and we usually play boardgames which I guessed most people wouldn't do at a party in the 80's :)
We were in the middle of a large infrastructure change starting at 4:30am this morning, including taking our application offline. I'm very thankful that we did dry runs along with timing how long certain operations like RDS restores should take and planned for abort steps in case something goes wrong.

We noticed that RDS and ElastiCache backup and restores were taking much longer than expected, and once the first set of errors about Dynamo DB came in we decided to abort and try it again at a different date. An hour later we got notifications that RDS was having issues as well. I'm disappointed that it takes so long to update the AWS status page when things aren't working properly.
Germany with its switch to renewables is seeing the same issues. They pay the Netherlands and other neighbors to dump German surplus electricity in peak wind hours.

Germany has a goal of 80% energey out of renewables by 2050, but it is entirely unclear if this is even physically possible because of this issue of spikes.

Norway has it easier as it mountaineous enough to allow hydro everywhere.
> Rent is higher

> More Millenials unemployed

> More Millenials living at home

> More geographic dispersion after school (good friends end up all over the world)

> City scene is all about bars and clubs, especially for those who can afford it and want the prestige factor

> Everything more competitive than 50 years ago when U.S. enjoyed an economic heyday after WWII

>>> Millennials still party all the time regardless, and it's not that big of a deal
Social Security is based on your highest 20 years of salary and what age you start collecting benefits. My projected monthly payment, if I start collecting at 70 is $3,600.00 a month. I'm 56.
The same team has previously done work using drones to build structures out of bricks (rather than ropes):

http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/research-dandrea/research-projects/a...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/video-watch-...
CSS Tricks is awesome. Chris Coyier is basically the CSS god, and his posts are always about the newest and most highly relevant topics.

Joel on Software is old, and not updated often, but still an unbelievable source of knowledge about programming and especially developer careers.

And of course shameless plug for my own blog, Hacking UI, which I do read it every day since I develop it. My partner and I write about front end development, Design and everything in between.
While it's blindingly obvious that the current monolithic pyramid schemes used to move money from the young to the old will have to disappear, this is a big stumbling block for politicians. People already in the payout stages of the pyramid scheme will not take kindly to changes. The difficulty of changing these systems has even been touted as a reason to opposing healthy life extension technologies - so much for rules to benefit the people! It's quite astounding that anyone would rather suffer and die (and force suffering and death on billions) than face the reality that change happens and we must adapt.

In the world just a few decades from now in which the old are becoming just as healthy, active, and capable as the young, social security programs are just not needed. Not that I think they are a good plan in the first place - enforced wealth transfers from the young to the old are generally enforced wealth transfers from the poor to the rich. Not to mention the fact that it encourages people to rely on the (inherently inefficient, unreliable) government for services that are quite capably handled by planning ahead (very underrated in the present time!), insurance, family, investment, and standard banking.

Retirement in the future will become something quite different from what it is today. I think we will see two forms of retirement in this future without aging. Firstly, there will be the extended vacation. A worker will finish a career with enough money saved to go on vacation for a few decades. That should be more than enough time to decide on a new direction in life. Secondly, an ambitious worker could save enough wealth to remove the need for income - they could live on capital gains, the return on investments, and all the normal methodologies of the well to do in the present day. Given enough time, even the most lowly of jobs could produce this sort of wealth, necessary for a permanent vacation.

Of course, this won't result in a world of perpetually vacationing people. If everyone is resting on their laurels, there would be no one to produce goods and provide services. So a dynamic equilibrium would arise between the vacationers and the working - too few workers and prices rise, so more vacationers return to work (out of necessity, or looking to make a killing in a hot market). If many people are working, prices fall, so more can afford to become long term vacationers.

A future in which we have decided to treat aging as the medical condition that it is, and implemented SENS or similar approaches of periodic repair of cell and tissue damage that causes aging, will be one in which everyone who is prepared to work can be wealthy. This wealth will bring vastly greater choice and freedom. It would be a terrible shame if political concerns and simple human selfishness mess up, prolong, and cause unnecessary pain in the transition from the current state of affairs to a better tomorrow.
docker, wercker, travis.ci are also affected. Can't login or stuff is really sluggish.
This appears to have completely blown away all Alexa data. Even searching for google.com returns nothing.
Audible seems affected by this as well. I've made some purchases with my credits but the books are still not showing up in my library...and the checking out process is very slow.
Perspectives on a Universal Basic Income
It seems to me like the main thing about a physical calculator would be the physical keys. Would it make sense then to have a Bluetooth "calculator" keyboard linked to a smartphone?
Spaced repetition is great. Have you tried Anki (http://ankisrs.net/)? It's a flashcard app with spaced repetition. They have desktop and a mobile app, and the latter is especially useful for any downtime you have. In addition to just flashcards on their own, I'd try to learn the commands in the context of using them as well.

Have you read Moonwalking with Einstein? There are some good tips there.

Finally, you may want to understand yourself better to decide how you learn best, as each person is different:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
> While it's blindingly obvious that the current monolithic pyramid schemes used to move money from the young to the old will have to disappear,

A sentiment shared by the young. Until they get old.
I mostly agree, but I don't think that it's just a matter of money. Money is a way to motivate people - but for lots of people, the ability to work on a system that will cause a huge improvement in the lives of hundreds of millions of people is reward enough. However, nothing saps motivation more than pointless credentialism and bureaucracy.
Are there parts of the US where $3600 is enough?
My view on this is that if one can find these kinds of meaning and understanding without using any drugs, so much the better. Drugs, for both good and bad, can provide shortcuts (in the broadest sense).

Personally I am a bit suspicious of shortcuts, in general. If I had to choose between drug use on the one hand and meditation and other approaches to 'enlightenment' (in an admittedly vague, broad, rather personal sense), I'd choose the latter any day.

But with my limited experience of the former, I consider it quite valuable, albeit sometimes risky.

EDIT: to name one example. I remember reading about a guy who had severe trouble connecting with others and making friends. After using MDMA once, and having the 'forced' experience of loving everybody around him, it was as if this unlocked his ability to make and maintain friendships. My personal experiences are similar.
https://api.ctwatch.net/domain/ycombinator.com is an RSS feed of all issued certificates for ycombinator.com and its subdomains.

Feel free to use that to check your own site's certificates!

(It's possible to directly query the multiple Certificate Transparency log servers for your site's certs, but non-trivial, hence why I implemented the above functionality.)

Code: https://github.com/certificate-transparency-watch/
Tinder is down due to this, now my life is pointless.
How'd you get them figures? I'm 53, I'm curious how mine looks.
I've had a lot of success with `curb` gem.

It is used to run thousands of tests, via a local monitoring system we built:

https://projects.bytemark.co.uk/projects/custodian/wiki
You might be interested in the free Age of Empires II engine then:

http://github.com/SFTtech/openage
Well everything still boils down to ethics and morals of the Intelligence.

At the end it all depends on what actions are taken using this intelligence by super AI or a human with amplified intelligence. Does this intelligence create a weapons to destroy the planet or helps in finding cure for cancer.
SSA sends out an annual letter with your figures. You can also create an account on SSA.gov[1] and check anytime you want.

[1]: http://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/
I don't understand something - if she worked her entire life, how can she not have a pension? Does US not have a state pension?
Doing the right thing only when it benefits me: isn't democracy great?
Новый+альбом+Димы+Билан+'не+молчи'.+Слушать+и+скачать+»+Голос+4+-+
They'll start sending you estimates when you get a little older but you can go to ss.gov for an estimate.
> Post teens were adults with adult incomes but not adult responsibilities, like kids, for quite a few years, usually.

Hmm, not sure I agree with that really.

I agree with most of your sentiment about elimination of entry-level jobs and extended education, but I think the natural response (and the response we see) is for women to have children at older ages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_maternal_age).

It used to be the case that you'd graduate high school and start having children in your early 20s, so I'm not sure I agree that there was ever a time when it was "socially acceptable" to be an adult with an adult income and no children for several years.
I don't. Having been in the industry since the 1980s, I make little attempt to memorize the intricacies of whatever language my client is using. I know what I want to do and how I want to do it; Google can remember trivial things like syntax.
Small correction, it's based on your highest 35 years of salary[1]

[1] - http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10070.pdf
Gold itself may not be a very good medium for storage, because in the meantime (e.g. some intermittent dark ages) someone may decide that the gold is worth more than the bits they encode, and scrape them off.
Show HN: Undo send mail for Apple Mail
What it's like to be on the data science job market
I am a big fan of Gmail's undo send feature for emails (stalls the delivery for a moment so that you can stop if you spot a mistake in the last moment).

I wrote this plug-in for Mail.app to support a similar undo send mail feature a while ago and use it every day. I have recently polished it up and made it compatible with the upcoming OS 10.11. Maybe this is something that is of value to you, too.
Yeah, most anywhere except California, Washington (both), and New York.
I wrote my own minimalist spaced repetition system - it was an interesting exercise to make sure I understood the mechanisms, and got exactly what I needed. I've recently used to to learn a speech in Norwegian, before that to learn the poems "Cargoes"[0] and "Clancy of the Overflow"[1][2] - Spaced Repetition[3] is extraordinarily effective when used well.

With regards learning styles, I quote from the Wikipedia article you reference:

There are substantial criticisms of learning-styles
approaches from scientists who have reviewed extensive
bodies of research. A 2015 peer reviewed article
concluded: "Learning styles theories have not panned
out, and it is our responsibility to ensure that
students know that."

[0] https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/cargoes.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_of_the_Overflow

[2] http://www.wallisandmatilda.com.au/clancy-of-the-overflow.sh...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
This editorial is unfortunately about 95% dramatic story and 5% meaningful numbers. What it doesn't talk about in detail is the savings rate for the baby boomers pre-retirement age, which is the largest factor in the current "we can't retire" saga. Pre-2008, most boomers were basically saving nothing [1] and somehow expecting things to just work out when they got older. As a result, I'm not nearly as sympathetic as this article wants me to be.

Another issue it leaves unaddressed is what the proliferation of older Americans remaining in the job market is doing to job availability for younger Americans. Tech is obviously insulated, but in many other industries it is becoming very difficult to advance into the executive ranks because the current executives are staying in well past their retirement age.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-11-20/millennials-...
Sign-ins to AWS console also appear to be timing out:

https://www.evernote.com/l/ABkKLgp3RjRDe5uV4pMlyVg1uzkW41DG4...
The "power company can turn off your AC" thing never made any sense to me at all. Why not just let the customer set the price at which they will automatically turn off their AC, and let the power company know what it is. Then you get automatic dutch auctions for the price of electricity that set the price where demand meets supply.

Then you can set different prices for different things: Don't turn off my AC unless the price exceeds $.50/KWh but stop charging my electric car if it exceeds $.12/KWh.
The core idea is, whenever a new node is added, we select an existing node which has the largest keyspace and split that keyspace between the new node and old node in the ratio of 57:43.
dynamo db is affected in the entire region, however, not just a single AZ.
Even 100 x 100 meters is a decently sized city block and that's pretty good depending on how much they cost. Considering it took California decades to clean up Los Angeles air using new technology and regulations, Im pretty sure Beijing residents wouldn't have a problem seeing a pretty, oversized Porta potty every 50 meters if it meant clean air.

Taking into account the long term strain on healthcare of polluted air (it makes almost everything worse), this might be an economically viable solution
The two people mentioned in the article both say they make about $500 a month from social security.
Change for the better
Rackspace CDN Blacklisted by Chrome
A future without aging smells too much like the 4 day work week. If it occurs, it will be for the wealthy only.
I gave up: So many programming
languages, I've done a lot of
programming in at least eight,
so much similar but
not exactly the same syntax,
mostly all the same semantics,
so, I just gave up.

Solution? For the syntax of a given
programming language, just
glance at some old
source code in that language. Then
99 44/100% done.
In this case AWS sign in is down (perhaps it depends on Dynamo), so redundancy across regions can only help you if fail over is fully automatic which has it's own problems (split brain syndrome...)
$3,600 a month is more than enough in most places in the US. Especially if you plan right and have a paid off house in an area with favorable property tax laws when you retire.
Ask HN: What is your take on the theory of disruption?
Following the scathing takedowns of Clay Christensen's theory by Jill Lepore[1] and now by King and Baatartogtokh[2].

Has it changed your viewpoint on the idea that something cheap(er) and good enough can upend existing business behemoths?

Here is a nice summary article [3]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine

[2] http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-useful-is-the-theory-of-disruptive-innovation/

[3] https://chronicle.com/article/The-Undoing-of-Disruption/233101/?key=QD1yIFY4MSBAMX9naz5HMD8HaCNvMR5yYXMba3kiblpTGA==
I wake up this morning to reports from multiple customers saying that when they try to access a file stored on Rackspace's new CDN product they receive the big red screen that says "The site ahead contains harmful programs".

Rackspace's response: It's Google's fault.

Try it out: https://reportcards.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/assets/uploads/f...
You've confused energy with potential (voltage). Despite the potential being extremely high, the energy is very low. Otherwise these people would not only be receiving shocks, they'd be burned and/or electrocuted. A capacitor the size of a typical shampoo bottle can definitely hold a lethal amount of energy.
I'm assuming your brand new to Rails so I would definitely check out "Agile Web Development with Rails 4" (https://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-...). It was written by DHH, Sam Ruby, and Dave Thomas. I started reading through this after I did the online tutorial and I have not been disappointed so far. There are some other books they have that seem interesting. I'm thinking of getting "Crafting Rails 4 Applications" by Jose Valim when I'm finished.

I also hear that Michael Hartl has written some great material (https://www.railstutorial.org/), but I haven't read anything by him yet.

Hope this helps and best of luck.
If you can't get in the console, use awscli. It is responding fine!
Fiorina Jumps to Second in CNN GOP Candidate Poll
I live in some kind of CIA prison or mental health hospital. All my news media is stories about me. That's odd. I am the center of my world. When I had jobs they were fake, like the Truman show. They wanted me to crack the secure hash algorithm, so they could study me and put humanity lock in hell with no way out.

You don't seriosuly expect me to get a job and get tortured again! LOL What kind of drugs are you on.

God talks. You forget that. Are you serriosuly so stupid you do not know what a certified random number is.

MIT made a artificial intellkigence to monitor mental patianence. I have been arguing with this entity for ten years. It is not programmed to understand what God talking means.
Taking this one step further, can these clean the exhaust air from coal plants?
IMHO, she really came off as a war-mongerer during the CNN debate this week.

I'm in shock that this country would fathom another one of those as our leader.
We're talking about air pollutants which are mostly industrial waste and exhaust so they're practically useless and have to be stored.

Since this pollution is already in our air regardless, it doesn't really matter how we store it as long as it's not in our lungs.
What is Social Security if not a 'state pension' by another name? The article says she gets $499 a month from Social Security.
Spaced repetition - first time hearing about that. Thanks!
'Quirkyalone' is Still Alone
> Maven is just much more supported through the entire eco-system

Could you give some examples? I haven't had much problem with Gradle support, and Gradle's essential advantages over Maven fat outweigh what little I have had.
Right, thank you. I only have 2 more years to go.
I'm mostly kidding here, but I think there are plenty of things that people are generally better off not knowing the details of. As the Internet explains, some things cannot be unseen:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-has-been-seen-cannot-be-u...

The benefit of blissful ignorance is what is purposefully ruined by the various shock sites:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shock-sites

And I think it applies more than just images; I think it's true for facts as well. Imagine that you visit your parents for a week and every day at breakfast they tell you in detail about their previous night's sexual activities. Are you happier knowing? Will you chime in with tips?

Or for me, as someone living in California, I have a number of friends and acquaintances with various religious and spiritual beliefs. I generally don't want to know the details. At best, I'm going to be deeply uncomfortable as I struggle very seriously to keep a polite and neutral face. At worst, I will say what I really think, deeply offend them, and lose a friend. I'd just rather not know.

Returning to the office light bulbs, I think my sensitivity to details and my irritability about things being "wrong" is part of what makes me good at what I do. But I can't just switch it off for particular domains; when things are "wrong", I want to fix them. For years I was totally ignorant of the color temperature of lighting and my life was fine that way. I can't unsee it now.
Unless you work for the government or a legacy union, the concept of a pension (one with defined benefits) no longer exists. Most people who worked can rely on Social Security or Medicare but it doesn't fully cover your costs. The more common option is 401K where you basically have to save up and invest your own money tax deferred because employers hardly contribute much. In these cases, those make little income or are not well organized don't put anything much into their 401K. Then they reach their retirement age and find out they don't have enough to survive. Lastly there are those who did save into their 401K but lost a lot due to ill timing and the whims of the stock market.
We have something called Social Security that functions like a state pension. You get anywhere from 350-2700 dollar a month based on how much you paid in.
This is both a great summary pitch and intriguing storage system!

I found it interesting. Thanks.
Thats true in a strictly logical sense of course. But perhaps we need to dig one step deeper and ask why they didn't do that. My guess is that it's not entirely as simple as it might sound.
The AWS KMS is not working. Critital payment applicaction down =S.
From Heroku Status Page:

> Our service provider is still working towards resolution of this issue. We will update when we have news, or in 1 hour.

I wonder why they don't tell that AWS is their service provider. Is it wrong to make the information less obscure?
You are confusing George with Michel Anisimov. Also, what you just did, invoking politics instead of addressing the point should be taboo. I don't care about people's politics. I don't want to hear about it unless we are talking politics.
A comment heard from several friends: "Why save for retirement? One large medical expense can wipe out years of savings. You're better off enjoying life and spending what you earn while you can."
With the fubared background transparency.
Very good point. I wrote a blog post on this topic to try and characterize different types of lock-in. http://www.eightypercent.net/post/types-of-lock-in.html

This was as also part of the strategy when we decided to open source kubernetes. Having an open alternative made the commercial offering (Google Container Engine -- GKE) much stronger because of the reduced dev lock-in.
Introduction to getting started with Linux kernel development
This is one of several IG audits covering the healthcare marketplace roll out. The purpose of this particular audit was to review the government's management of the contractors.
Don't you try thinking critically here ok?!
The High-Tech Toilet That Destroyed a Submarine
Not often you see a red status symbol on Amazon's status page (yellow is normally considered more than enough to indicate that the product is totally broken). Don't think I've ever seen _ten_ of them before.