skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But he has also seen public funding of aging research, never particularly robust, become even scarcer."

It seems like this part, at the end of the article, might explain while Guarante is risking his reputation with Elysium. In the absence of public funding, his only options are to depend on the largess of billionaires like Thiel, or form a business and try to retain enough control to set the research agenda.

I suspect Elysium will end-up with a breach between him and his business partners, much like his previous company. There's a basic incompatibility: Actual anti-aging research is expensive, and won't deliver practical results for decades (if ever), while actual profits in anti-aging come from selling regulation-skirting supplements that almost certainly don't work.

Since there's no actual reliance from the profit-making part of the business on the research department, the suits will see it is a large and unnecessary cost, sooner or later. The presence of Guarente and his peers provide a necessary veneer of respectability right now, as they're establishing themselves in the market, and guarantee publicity like this article that it would never otherwise receive. But once they're established, I'm guessing they'll decide they can do without the scientists and the research, and Guarente will be looking for another source of funding once again.
Interesting article!

The Rishi's and Yogi's in India always woke up at 4 in the morning. In the Hindu Yogic philosophy this time period is also called the Brahma Muhurta. If anyone is interested, you can read more about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmamuhurtha

and

http://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/537/what-is-the-...
We do this with Facebook ads for SMBs. It works.
Well if everyone is playing a different game, it's no wonder nobody is having any fun. There is certainly no way for me to interact with you in a fair way if you're cheating past the limitations I'm enjoying.
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The Porsche has launch control, so there's really no skill involved for a 0-60 run.
I don't think her school is too boring. It's her and her sister and a full time teacher just for them. They have near unlimited flexibility in scheduling and approaching things. She goes on about how fun it is; they both love it. It's just she can't seem to focus on any task without the meds. She really likes taking them, hence making me more conflicted.
agreed, this really isn't that much bandwidth
I'm interested in learning what the average "delay" for live-streaming would be? At a high-level RTMP > (Segmenter: EvoStream) HLS > Cassandra < NginX-LUA < HTTP Request (seems to flow model outlined here (From the 2014 World Cup): https://www.nginx.com/blog/globo-coms-live-video-platform-fi...)

I'd assume it's minimum > 20 seconds depending on setup and teardown time for first "chunk" in a sequence to reach cache and be transferred to a user?
"If you are being paid specifically to put work in front of your hobbies"

...then it is most probably illegal in quite a lot of countries. Labor codes exist for a good reason. Most people are a) employees b) not willing to put life ahead of work and c) not willing to be forced to by competition from desperate/workaholic co-workers.

Database uptime employees work shifts, so even they should not be forced to put life before work.
Actually I just walked over to my drawers and the first sheet metal screws I found would be decent drywall screws (flat heads and everything), except for the presumed increased cost. For machine bolts, I was picturing long 4-40 ones, hammered into the stud to get started. This seems like it would work as well, just even less efficient cost wise for a longer body to compensate for the shallower thread. But anyway back to the argument

There apparently was this case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12341278 . But the items described sound like canonical bolts! Apparently the company turning their head when installing them legally changes that. So now we've got a legal definition that is abruptly different from how most anybody actually skilled in the art would classify them if actually forced to choose exclusively between the terms "screw" and "bolt".

My point is that perhaps if terms are so close to be generally interchangeable in common usage, then perhaps the legal system shouldn't be trying to differentiate between them at all! It's a code smell of being at the limit of understanding. The government should only be creating general rules that are straightforwardly interpretable by the average person, not attempting to catalog and dictate every minute domain aspect top-down.
Linode DNS outage
I'm not sure how supercapacitors do on energy density right now, but a better cooling system certainly sounds good. It would be interesting to see what the Electric GT people are doing. They're going to be racing P85+s next year, and I imagine it would be boring to the viewers if the cars limited power due to overheating during the race.
To each their own.

Most people have highly adaptable bodies and can train themselves to be a "morning person." If a person were to stay up until 2AM, there's no way they'd want to wake up at 4AM. They would therefore see themselves as a productive night owl.
> They could (& probably would) do the same thing with limited vacation policies.

But then, when you leave, they would hand you a check for accrued vacation.
At one point, this said it was due to a Denial of Service attack. That text has since been pulled, unfortunately I didn't get a screenshot.
unfortunately for me, all my distractions come from within my own mind :\
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>I am an employee (making less than market value).

Are you accounting for your tuition as part of your benefits for working for the university? I am not trying to be argumentative, I am genuinely curious. In Civil Engineering the grad students, both master's and PhD are under market value even when the tuition is accounted for.
I expected the article to have some kind of research to back up this claim. The anecdotal evidence presented could just as easily apply to 3 or 5 a.m.
Sometimes, scraping a website is the only way at your disposal to fetch relevant information, you've paid for (or not). It could be simply the opening schedule of your local administration or the status of different pieces of public infrastructure.

If your administration don't have the resources (and it's often the case) to maintain a proper JSON API for you to fetch with a fancy python lib, then, it's not "super bad netizen stuff" to scrap a few HTML/PDF/XLS, parse them and display them for convenient public consumption on your personal website (and paying for the bandwidth).

It's 2016. State-companies holding a third party responsible for their own outages and poor planning is _bad faith_[1]. ETL? Never heard of it?

[1]: https://citymapper.com/i/1208/soutenez-citymapper-et-lopen-d... (french)
s/500 GB * 1000 people/500 MB * 1000 people/
> A website is a public property.

This isn't even true metaphorically. It's like a shop front: there may be public access, but it is NOT public property.
You missed/added a times 1000 somewhere in your math.
Total tangent: Anyone doing scientific computing work on the JVM may be interested in:

ND4J: N-dimensional arrays for the JVM
http://nd4j.org/

Libnd4j: The C++ engine powering the above
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/libnd4j

JavaCPP: The bridge between Java and C++ (Cython for Java)
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

Fwiw, all that works on Spark with multi-GPUs.

http://deeplearning4j.org/spark

http://deeplearning4j.org/gpu
About this quote by Bill Gates, whom I admire greatly:

"It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer."

Bullshit. It sounds great, but what's it's really saying is that Bill Gates is a better judge of what should be done with Leonard Guarente's time than Leonard Guarente. That kind of talk is insidious. First of all--what are we going to do, all submit to Bill Gate's idea of what we should do? If not Bill, then, who will decide?

It ignores the fact that the research of people like Guarente could end up right in Bill's wheelhouse. Many great scientific discoveries were accidents.

It also completely ignores the fact the Bill himself became a great force for good not by doing what some factotum told him what to do, but by doing something that everyone told him not to do. Who knows, maybe Guarente will make a trillion dollars on his research (which I have absolutely no interest in). If Bill had done what his parents wanted him to do he probably would have been a white-shoe lawyer in Seattle or CEO of Planned Parenthood.

I think Bill is a severely underrated CEO and probably a well-intentioned human being, but Bill has no fucking business telling the rest of us what to do with our time.
I think it's almost 100% news media sensationalism.

News media today is not about investigative reporting, or real news. It's about selling ads and getting eyeballs. So they report rare events as if they happen every day and you need to keep watching so you know what to do about it.

The news media today is toxic. You could do little more to improve your outlook on life and the future than simply not watching it. At all. I haven't watched a news program on any major network or any cable news in several years, and I don't miss it at all.
And this is why I'll never work for a service business with billable hours ever again unless I'm desperate.

If your time is the product and you are the biggest source of overhead (see every agency of every industry out there),then getting more hours out of you for the same or lesser pay is the primary lever for management to pull to grow revenue and margins.
Would be interesting to see the performance of Python's overallocation algo compared to a simpler one like Lua's, which just overallocates to the next power of 2 (so if you have a list with 4 items and want to add, it jumps to 8, then 16, then 32). I can't imagine the bitwise operations adding up to that much time added in Python, but Lua needs to increase size much less the larger the list (after 7 iterations Lua has room for 64 items, Python only 46 according to that link). Interesting choices, wonder which optimizes for what.

Would love to get Ierusalimschy and van Rossum in a room together and let them talk it out.
"without a citation, might i add"

Odd card to play when your comment had no citations either, and you seem to be ignoring my request for them....
They aren't, or at least, they won't be if Google decides it doesn't like them anymore and decides to bring the matter to court.

The CFAA says it's a crime to exceed "authorized access". Authorized access is whatever the server's owner says it is. If they change their mind, you must cease and desist or risk both civil and criminal penalties. A contract defining the length and nature of your authorization from the server's owner would go a long way to establishing your rights to access, but no one is going to give that to a small player.
i think the 991 turbo S is a more apt comparison in terms of price. it's also is tested at 2.5s 0-60, will certainly outrun the tesla over long distances and top speed, and can launch 50 times in a row, at least (this is probably only limited by gasoline). it's also very fast around a track, which you can lap repeatedly, many times, on a single tank of gas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DRCTW-Q7o

the tesla is an amazing vehicle but it's not the same thing as a high end sports car which was built to give maximum performance with high endurance over long distances. all of the sports car stuff came out of F1 and LeMans and FIA rally research and development.

a tesla isn't designed to do any of those things. it's designed to take you to work or your weekend destination really, really fast and in comfort and then take you home and sit charging overnight. and clearly it does that job excellently but people insist on comparing to other use cases which is just dumb. it's like comparing a pickup truck to a 918 spyder.
I did the same. I tried to find a live stream online, and failed. Everything I tried wanted me to login with cable credentials. Ended up watching it on my broadcast TV for about 10 minutes before giving up, and didn't watch anymore.
Damn. Only 25 years old. Puts things in perspective. Its not often that you live through a "before" and "after" to something as huge as this. (9/11 is probably another)
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Thoughts?
I think mine was too since I was agreeing with you, ADHD is most definitely not a symptom of stimulant withdrawal.
I am like you. Here's what's worked for me:

* Get up at the same time every day, even if you've had a late night

* Wind down by avoiding electronics an hour before bedtime

* Put a loud alarm clock on top of the fridge

* Get a big drink of water as soon as you wake up

* Turn on all the lights (or go outside, but that obviously won't work at 4am at most latitudes)

* Have a morning routine that you can do on autopilot while your mind fully awakens. For me that's cereal and a shower.
Mind giving a quick description of getting PhantomJS to work?
I got a link that Chrome warned me contained Malware...so there's that.
I prefer DJBDNS tools:

#dnsq a theonion.com NS1.LINODE.COM
1 theonion.com:
temporary failure
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Might need to water it down some more and say Facebook and Buzzfeed won't exists if it weren't for particle physicists.
Looking forward to celebrating the 25th anniversary of the last update, as well.

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> Graduate students are students.

Yes, they are. This case is not about that, as it is not in dispute.

> They are paying to be in school.

Indeed, they are. And, as such, the are, to that extent, customers of the school, and legally treated as such.

> They may be paying for it with money gained from the University but they are still students.

Here's where the issue is. Yes, they are still students. But, when they are paid by the university for work which benefits the university (such as work as teaching and research assistants), they are also employees.

> Should an undergrad that is on a university scholarship be considered an employee too?

An undergrad on a university (academic, sports are potentially a different issue and the subject of some active controversy right now) scholarship is generally not doing work that benefits the university. OTOH, an undergraduate paid by the university as a tutor (undergrads generally aren't employed as TAs) or research assistant (a role in which undergrads are not uncommonly employed on campus) is, uncontroversially, an employee.

> How are the economic realities of grad school any different from undergrad?

The only difference is that graduate school programs often bundle paid work of the type that would, uncontroversially, make anyone else an employee as part of the requirements of the program. This ruling simply says that bundling a requirement to do paid work on behalf of the university into the requirements of an academic program doesn't magically transform that work into a non-employment relationship.
I like this post. As someone who has little aspiration anymore for starting a company, but has (kinda) in the past, I could've used this.

An interesting idea is to NEVER read the dumb internet comments. Just like professional baseball players are smart to not read reports/rumors, those with these kind of goals are smart not to get wrapped up in the bullshit of internet comments.
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How about, A Fountain of Youth Scam
The core engineering team for Pinterest is out of SF and the team was open to moving to SF as part of the acquisition. Given that the company was majority-owned by betaworks (based out of NYC), it's unlikely we would've moved outside of the acquisition.
My first thought was: "I'm as old as the internet"
this has nothing to do with 10m people stopping altogether, people are stopping because its a fad, and utterly retarded, this was predicted form its inception. Nintendo stock goes up, and now it will go down.
> Nobody wants to work for a coward.

I dunno. There's advantages to having a boss that's a huge pushover...

Boss: "We need this done by the end of the week!"

Employee: "That's just not possible. These sorts of things take research and most importantly, time."

Boss: "Oh. I see. Two weeks OK?"

Employee: "At least a month. Maybe two."

Boss: "But that's too long!"

Employee: "Nine women can't make a baby in a month!"

Boss: "Oh alright. You've got until the end of the quarter."
You're probably right. I was just thinking, "It can't possibly be THAT bad," especially seeing as there are so many objects that are referenced frequently.
Last January, I wrote a blog post rhetorically titled "You're Not Allowed to Criticize Startups, You Stupid Hater" in response to the disproportionate hype around Peach ("it's a messaging app that hit #10 in the App Store so it is a success and the haters were wrong!") and how the fact that the startup had credible backers does not give it immunity from criticism. (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967859). Nowadays, we can see Peach did not succeed because it was another messaging app.

Likewise, I'm disappointed to see this post from Sam as it advocates ignoring the haters. "Don't let their lack of imagination hold you back" is terrible advice for people who want to find pain points for their product to improve. The assumption that all criticism is bad is, in my opinion, toxic to the startup ecosystem.
>There may be less on average, but more in reality.

Mind explaining this? I'm having trouble grokking it.

>Not having so many kids on the streets may also cause the crimes to be less.

The article accounted for this.

>Children wear less clothes than they used to and there seems to be more pedophiles, if those little kids were left alone, more may be taken advantage of.

What? Do you have any more information on any of these claims? It's coming across as pure conjecture on your part.
I appreciate the congratulations. I do understand that plans change, and all I can say is that I will be doing everything to make sure we offer the same great product and service at Pinterest.
TL;DR: The delay is normally a segment length. Somewhere between 2-16s depending on there configs.

Because the system is realtime (live) it _must_ not fall behind live. These systems therefore are always only a single segment behind live. (A segment is an independently decodable chunk of video, usually between 2 and 16s).

Source: I designed the backends, including segmenting, for NBC.
Ah, this is what had me confused: I was assuming that the parts of "iCloud" that preceded the creation of the Ubiquity sync protocol (e.g. Safari bookmark sync, Notes and Reminders, Calendars, etc.) just stayed WebDAV-based with their CoreData databases being purely local+ephemeral, rather than migrating over into using full-on Ubiquity-synced CoreData stores. (I swear you can still export e.g. CalDAV calendar URLs from Calendars.app for iCloud calendars, and these CalDAV resources are writable if you want them to be. Or am I misremembering?)

Still, even with the way iCloud works, you don't need to directly prod the data. If you want to manipulate Safari's container, you can prod Safari itself into doing so. OSA is no COM, but it works just fine for this sort of thing. (And if you can't manage to make it do so, you can write a Safari plug-in presenting a locally-bound HTTP API that the Chrome extension can talk to.)

Now, the real challenge would be doing this syncing as part of some "syncing service" running on a cloud VM somewhere, that doesn't actually want to run thousands of headless copies of Safari. That's what I really want: the ability to sync Chrome with iCloud even if I currently have no active iCloud-attached devices. Probably the simplest way to do this is to write your own Ubiquity+CoreData client libraries and present yourself as another device that wants to sync against the iCloud account. It'd be up to you from there to safely munge the CoreData object hierarchy in a way resembling the official clients, but at least you'd be able to linearize those updates against iCloud messages.
This is not my twitter account. I just was citing the tweet as source.
Setting up the stage for the October surprise...
2.0Mbps is an SD profile, which is worth mentioning.
Too bad multicast streaming never really happened.
500GB * 8bit = 4Tb; not 400Tb
It's funny that you compare ADHD to cancer. You can see a cancerous growth. You can feel it. There are tests for it.

Criteria for ADHD are completely symptom-based. There is no infecting agent, no parasite, no detectable chemical poisoning or imbalance, no irregular growth, nothing! There is no standardized physiological test. You just observe how a person behaves and then say they have ADHD - a disease whose criteria humans defined completely arbitrarily. What qualifies as a mental health disorder says a lot about a society. Call me an ADHD-denier but I remain skeptical. I think ADHD is mostly an issue of searching the problem within the brain when it's everywhere in our society except the brain.
How two students built an A-bomb
This is why I just run all of an app's dependencies in a Docker container and connect the app to the Docker containers. Then I don't have to brew install all this crap.
Wow, how did I miss javacpp? Looks featureful and actively maintained to boot. Thank you for these recommendations.
> An interesting idea is to NEVER read the dumb internet comments.

Ironically this good advice comes from an internet comment. :)
Interesting that nobody has commented on what this will likely result in - fewer grad students. If this is a good or a bad thing depends on your point of view.

Edit. Stupid typo :)
You're saying the site should pay him a consulting fee for the free load-testing service he provides?
If the receptionist has this, and they sit within 10ft of the door, is the door perpetually unlocked? Or is there an algorithm to prevent this very behavior?
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Memory Locality
Twitch and Netflix use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_bitrate_streaming. So does youtube. It's all the same tech.
killer - as in battery killer
It seems like you could easily hit those scaling issues by manually browsing the website. While I agree that it sucks to take down a site by scraping, in that specific case it sounds like the performance issues are their fault and not yours. That said, once I realized the effect my scraping had, I would (hopefully) cease my scraping.
> Do you have cable and/or phone service?

The terrible state of internet service providers is not a free-market phenomenon. Those industries matured over a long period of time hand-in-hand with governments and regulators. Through bidding processes, licenses, and overt monopolies, government has heavily influenced the shape of those industries today. Taking a broken system and "deregulating" it doesn't magically get you awesome results, if the very fabric of that system was built on government privilege and control.

If government wants to take some action now that can undo what it has done in the past regarding the ISPs, then I'm all for it.

> There's always going to be the problem of information asymmetry.

Even if I grant you that point -- but see sibling comment -- wouldn't it be nice if that were the only problem in the market? Wouldn't it be nice if there were no government-granted monopolies? Uber vs the taxis is the perfect example of what's wrong with cronyism and government privilege.

> propping up the fast food industry

Consumers are propping it up, because it meets the need for cheap, tasty food. Sure it's bad for you, but people know that and don't care. Doing drugs is bad for you -- and illegal to boot -- and plenty of people use them. I don't prefer a government that dictates what sorts of things I put in my body of my own free will.