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Just passing through the thread, hope you don't mind some feedback:

This ad is poorly formatted and contains a lot of fluff.

- The people are amazing, the possibilities are limitless. I mean it! With no examples.

- You work on hard problems. With no examples.

- Creating elegant solutions is one of the most overused terms. Is anyone looking for inelegant solutions to difficult problems?

- You're looking for the best and the brightest. I think everyone else is too.

- You barely mention the technologies used except Java.

- It takes reading the entire ad to find that the job has something to do with distributed computing.
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I like how they added the transcript - you know, just in case.
> “I’m looking into parabiosis stuff,” Thiel told Bercovici, “where they [injected] the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect. … I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely underexplored.”

> Thinks... blood can keep him young forever

Now that's some extrapolation!
It's just another data point to add to a long list for fingerprinting.

See: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> Having three primary colors never made much sense to me either, but that could just be my own ignorance.

Tree primary colors thing seems to be mostly ignorance of the educators teaching that stuff to children. There are no absolute "primary colors" - basically, you can pick any colors at random and use them as a base for linear combinations; the set of colors you can express as such linear combinations form a color space defined by those base colors you picked. Red, green and yellow are a common historical picks, RGB is more common now because that's what is put on the computer screen, but CMY form a color space too.

C.f.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color#/media/File:CIE1... - the triangle inside is the color (sub)space of RGB overlayed on CIE 1931 color space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space).

Source: I educated myself when I got asked by a local drunk to resolve a bet between him and (presumably) another local drunk while I was shopping in a local grocery store. Those two got into a bet over whether RGB or RGY are primary colors.
Ubiquiti ERLite runs Vyatta on Debian on MIPS. $100 and it has TCP + VPN offload and 3 real interfaces. It might be possible to run PFSense on it; I've installed PFSense to a CF card on an IDE adapter running in a thin client (you can also find these on eBay, some with PCI-E even...check out the HP T5745 for example). You can find a lot of thin clients on eBay for under $100 if that's what you want, and most are fanless and low-power. The only issue is fitting multiple NICs, but again, PCI-E if you know where to look.
This stood out to me too. It's harsh, but true. I love that Apple is making computing devices more accessible to people, and I think that's a good thing. But I wish they weren't also making those very same devices more closed and controlled. Imagine if all of the original personal computers were as locked down as the iPhone is, in terms of being able to tweak/customize it, create and distribute software for it, or find other people's software for it. It's definitely a regressive step and I don't see why we can't have beautiful industrial design, slick software interfaces and more easy, open-access under the hood for users that want to get in there.
Welcome to the Hyper-Meritocracy: The Rise of Apprenticeships
Awesome. You know what would be really nice to have? Little markers at the beginning of points or concepts, like the numbers in the Bible. If I could bookmark those, and link to them from a digital notebook (are there any good Haskell notebooks?), that would make it very easy to come back to difficult concepts later, or to provide context with my own notes.
Isn't that the girl who kidnapped and tortured Brandon Green?

http://thislandpress.com/2013/07/28/subterranean-psychonaut/
From an endpoint security perspective, 'activists' really need to be trained not to just click on everything blindly and to open everything suspicious in a sandbox.

Yes it's possible to escape from a VM, but it's significantly harder to code executable malware that will escape from, for example, a Windows 10 VM running inside Virtualbox on an XUbuntu/XFCE4 host laptop.
Actually, this may be a valid concern. It does look like Microsoft is trying harder and harder to lock down PC gaming. See Gabe's [0] and Tim Sweeney's [1] complaints.

[0]:http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/steams-newell-windows-...
[1]:http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/tim-sweeney-to-microso...
We changed the url to the site from the blog post, but anyone who wants the background can read it here: https://blog.amium.com/a-better-way-to-collaborate-b33d9dc4c....
I don't mean to imply that they're difficult to overcome. I'm just trying to explain why people often say that C has poor string handling. Many modern languages provide more comprehensive string libraries, and the ones that are provided tend not to suffer from such problems. It's not that C is incapable of doing string handling (it's capable, yes), but when you constantly find yourself tossing out C's string library altogether and rolling your own instead, it becomes obvious that C's provided string handling functionality is inadequate for many use cases.
I can think of one way to dissuade irresponsibly breeding them for the pet trade, but it'll only work if they taste good.

(As you downvote, consider: what the hell else is there to do with a bunch of surplus 100- to 200-pound tortoises jettisoned by people who didn't put enough forethought into their choice of pet?)
There will continue to be lots of examples of preserving the best of analog technology in the digital world.

One example is an app that I built that lets authors sign ebooks (Authorgraph: http://www.authorgraph.com). This idea was a result of doing more and more reading on my Kindle but missing the experience of meeting authors and having them sign my books.
It sounds like you had the good fortune of reading a well-written book. Any well-written book, regardless of subject matter, will be a pleasure to read cover to cover.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205597
>"The p-value appears to be 10^-5 and they ran a replication data set as well. Many GWASs report much less stringent p-value and many don't run sub-replications."

The p-value really should be totally irrelevant to your assessment, unless you believe the null model they used is literally true. I didn't check the paper, so maybe this is one of those rare times. However, in general I've seen that everything is correlated with everything.
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Well, the article also quotes someone saying the aging reversal so far has seemed to be permanent, somehow "resetting gene expression". if it works more than the one time, potential immortality?
> Today we’re proud to announce the initial rollout of multi-process Firefox for Desktop to our general audience. With this, we’re taking a major step forward in improving Firefox for Desktop. Users should experience a Firefox that is less susceptible to freezing and is generally more responsive to input, while retaining the experience and features that users love.

Really? That's it? I mean, don't get me wrong, that's great. But I kind of assumed FF already had this. Didn't Chrome roll this exact feature out like 6 years ago?
On-Prem is something we're considering on our roadmap (our classic product, AeroFS, is offered on-prem), shoot us an email at feedback@amium.com
Apple Is Finally Making iTunes Better for Classical Music
In addition to other major legal restrictions, the latest API update crossed a line for accessing your own posts; now you can only retrieve 20 of the most recent entries and pagination has been disabled.

Yes, Instagram legally owns your data, but now they are actively preventing you from accessing it as well.
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That's why unused variables should be reported.

What people are arguing about is errors vs. warnings.

> things that can really cause bugs

"can" means that they don't always cause bugs: other compilers treat such uncertainties as warnings because the human looking at the screen is the one who is in charge.

Go allows you to compile code which does not respect "go fmt", why? aren't you afraid of committing working code that does not abide to the proper style? Improper formatting can lead to confusion, bugs and maintenance problems too, after all.
Are there any good stats available on Instagram's usage over trends over time? Seems like people are using it less and less.
Explaining Ed
No, it's an I/O heavy workload.
You definitely consider your words and characters more carefully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system is a useful start for anyone not familiar with the very strong link between some genes and sex determination.

The next step from there is that in humans the X chromosome carries more genes than the Y chromosome. Since women have two X chromosomes, they can express multiple variations of genes located there. Men will only possess one variation.

This is the reason that color blindness is so much more common in men, some of the genes related to color vision are carried on the X chromosome so a single error in one of the pigment genes is sufficient. Women are only color blind if both copies are defective.
That Time We Pitched Uber10 Years Too Early
It does still happen, because trolls.

However, vouching allows the community to rescue legit dead comments, and we review all the vouches. That means that if an account has negative karma (perhaps because of a faux pas early in its history), but has been posting good comments since then, we'll eventually see it. When we do, we use an internal feature code-named 'redemption' to put its karma back to 1 and restore any remaining dead comments.
A Primer on the React Ecosystem: Part 1 of 3 – Pattern Hatch
What I do is rounding the glyph position to 1/4 of pixels, in my tests it has not much visual impact.
That still mean in the worst case the glyph cache could contains 16x the same glyph, and that's before hinting enters the equation.
Apptimize is hiring in sales and engineering (so everywhere)
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Megaprocessor, a micro-processor built large. Very large
It would be EEE if they, for example, ported DirectX to Linux. But here they're just ported other product to run on their "a-la Android for desktop" system. Possibly evil but not exactly EEE.
They can still provide some benefit, but it's true that modern high-DPI mobile screens don't need the heavy-handed hinting of Windows and doing subpixel rendering when the subpixel orientation keeps changing as the device is rotated can be more trouble than it's worth.
Interesting how quickly this article was censored once it hit the front page.
Fast enough for a 60's computer, imagine nowadays.

But if you want numbers, Turbo Pascal 5.5 was doing 34,000 lines/minute[1] on MS-DOS back in 1989.

[1] http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803
Meanwhile any time I look at Instagram now I'm hard-pressed to find any posts from the current day because they only show me the "important" highlights from more than a day ago.

Yeah, I'm serious.
Newell's comments are from 2012. Sweeney's comments have been pretty much directly invalidated by Microsoft's actions. Note that this year Microsoft made a point to address Sweeney's comments by demonstrating Steamworks in a UWP app, and the Windows 10 update releasing today makes it easier to install UWP apps without the Windows Store. They've repetitively reiterated that UWP apps can be sold through third party stores, the difference is primarily a technical one: That UWP apps are sandboxed (like Android and iOS apps) and therefore less able to act maliciously.

To date, Microsoft has done... nothing I'm aware of... to lock down PC gaming. FUD articles are abound though.
I've always been a fan of Firefox, switching to it years and years ago, but Chrome's performance was always a bit smoother because of multi-process, and their dev tools are top notch.

The flipside is that Chrome is a major resource hog too, often taking up half or more of my 16gb of RAM. Curious if Firefox can now compete performance-wise without going down the same resource path.
They've closed the window but left the door open. See the link I posted. When the page knows "Battery will be discharged in 18365 seconds" it doesn't matter that the battery percentage is only two digits.
Here are some:

https://github.com/facebook/Haxl - A Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services.

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger - The hledger command-line and web-based accounting tool, a Haskell rewrite of ledger.

https://github.com/facebook/flow - Adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality.

https://github.com/coq/coq - Coq is a formal proof management system. It provides a formal language to write mathematical definitions, executable algorithms and theorems together with an environment for semi-interactive development of machine-checked proofs.
This seems like a Thiel hit piece. Calling him obsessed is a bit much. How about all the people who eat right, are active, don't smoke, etc? We're all interested in longevity and health on some level. We know guys like Brin are deeper in the longevity hole, to the point of talking about sci-fi nuttiness like brain uploads and such. We also know that many celebrities do things like HGH injections.

Then quoting Gawker as a reliable source for an outrageous rumor with zero proof just tops it off. Clearly, Gawker is not going gently into that good night.

A non-hyserical article about possible longevity solutions championed by the SV wealthy here:

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/03/13/silicon-valley-trying-mak...

The article also explains the blood issue:

She found that a protein called GDF11, common in the blood of young mice but sparse in the systems of the older rodents, caused much of the old mice’s "reverse aging." In the bloodstream, GDF11 is responsible for keeping stem cells active; when GDF11 levels drop, as they do with age, stem cells (which are responsible for tissue renewal) falter, injuries heal more slowly and aging begins to take hold. But even in very elderly bodies with very little GDF11 inside them, those stem cells never go away—they merely become dormant as GDF11 levels drop. Injecting young blood, with its high levels of GDF11, into old mice seemed to restart those dormant stem cells, causing the old mice to "age in reverse" as they produced the healthy, vital tissues associated with youth. The work is “incredibly promising,” says Collins.
Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof
What's the risk of acquiring infection or other disease from these transfusions?
Nice! Would be awesome if you could add more playgrounds!
One of the main points of VACUUM is to protect you against XID-wraparound or multixact ID wraparound.So,your idea of auto-launch of a Vacuum Freeze is good but i still believe it is important to be aware that you may lose your very old data if you dont do anything about it.
I'd be embarrassed to provide one of mine and it would be unfair to pick on somebody else's.
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Gives Older Adults Independence and Autonomy
This is really slick. Played with it for about 15 minutes and fell in love. Now to just convince people at work to use it... and pay for it.
Can anyone make a critical Trump argument without immediately satisfying Godwin's Law?
Have you ever seen Apple's marketing? Better question, have you ever had an interaction with Apple where they weren't trying to sell an image to you?

I completely believe that among a technical audience that those here who chose Apple products did so because they evaluated the their options and chose the one that best fit their requirements, But if that was really their primary audience their marketing would look very different.
The Github repository has less noise than Scribd: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive

Direct link to the 1998 file: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast...
ACLU challenges DEA attempts to access drug database without warrants
Thanks for noting your hourly rate requirements. Much appreciated.
There's evidence of GDF11 transplants (through blood in this case) that certain stem cells become active again and can affect longevity. Its not necessarily crazy science, its well established in mice models. If that effect is transferable to humans and if its a strong is the big question.
A partial list of interesting talks on Haskell are available at https://github.com/0xmohit/talks
Skeptical reaction at Theranos' coming out party
You need to monetize this. Having the analytics of what is happening to your application would be a godsend to job seekers. It doesn't provide any real benefit, but I think people would pay for piece of mind.
Medium acquires Embedly
Satan, I think you'll find.
Did they then change their minds? The github repository is gone (404), and the user does not have any repositories:

https://github.com/MICROSOFT-XBOX-ATG/MICROSOFT_UWP_UNREAL

https://github.com/MICROSOFT-XBOX-ATG?tab=repositories
The alleles being sex linked makes sense, although there are a couple of theoretical exceptions. One is the very rare male that has two X chromosomes because the SR-Y gene was transposed onto the X chromosome. The other would be having the reverse where the second gene is transposed onto the Y chromosome. The former are sterile while I would guess that the latter are not sterile, but unless they really do exist, are found and one that is found has the same combination as a tetrachromatic woman, there is no way to confirm that.

Genetics was one of my strong points when I was in school. I would have gone into bioinformatics if it were not for my poor performance in organic chemistry, which I felt crippled my ability to do the sort of work that I had wanted to do.
HN is unabashedly homogeneous. It's a community by and for science-educated upper-income white male software engineers who (claim to) value thinking like scientists and being articulate, and share a strikingly uniform set of opinions about the industry and politics.

The set of opinions that will not get you downvoted into oblivion / pushed out of the community is so narrow that, assuming you like a decent proportion of highly upvoted submissions and comments, you'll almost assuredly like all of them.

There are plenty of people who don't. They are just not on HN (anymore).
Allegedly first whole body statue of Marcus Aurelius is found in Perge, Turkey
Krystle claims she was also tortured but Brandon said she was involved in his torture. They were all extremely high on a cocktail of hallucinogens so it's hard to tell what really happened.
This is an amazing idea, and I will be implementing this today. Great job. I haven't seen any rendering problems across browsers either.

The only change I would make is to remove the "Share on Twitter" text that is included with each large button on the website example. It's pretty much implied for the end user once they see the colors of the buttons and the icons.

For example, I shortened "Share on Twitter" to just "Twitter".
If you use Firefox and Chrome side by side every day, you can definitely tell that Firefox lacked it until now. This is especially evident on older Macs and most Linux distros I've tried. Chrome/Chromium's performance is leaps and bounds ahead of Firefox, RAM usage notwithstanding.

I'm eager to try this out when I get home tonight.
Using the name Peace, the hacker said the data was "most likely" from 2012.

So you're saying as long as you updated your password from the 2014 breach, you should be fine.
Redshift is based on PestgreSQL, but is vastly different. Redshift is a columnar store, and can't do things like create indexes. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_SQL_commands...
The problems affect a fairly narrow band of latitudes; specifically, those where the average long-term temperature was just below freezing i.e. the southern margin of the permafrost. 1-2F is indeed within natural variation, but historically a warm year or two was followed by a harsh winter to refreeze the surface so that the deep layer stayed frozen.

Now, the average temperature is just above freezing or close enough to it that the heating effect of the asphalt pushes the local average temperature above freezing. This means that deep layers are now thawing for the first time in thousands of years; they will stabilize eventually, but in the meantime they're going to be near impossible to build roads on. And the thaw line continues to march north, year by year.
It's a 20 minute video about how he's in love with Krystle. Still it's interesting.
Could you (and others) be more explicit about which privacy concerns you have? Rather than treating them as an amorphous whole, it's probably more accurate to consider each concern individually. I've used 23andMe, and think it's an acceptable low risk compared to the potential benefit. But maybe I'm missing something that's obvious to others.