skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. Well, in this case, they kind of did that:

3.2 Ingredients. All ingredients shall be clean, sound, wholesome, and free from foreign material, evidence of rodent or insect infestation, extraneous material, off-odors, off-flavors, and off-colors.

3.2.1 Sugar. Sugar shall be white, refined, granulated, cane or beet sugar. Powdered sugar of equivalent quality may be substituted for part of the granulated sugar in the brownie formula to control spread.

3.2.2 Oatmeal. Oatmeal shall be the commercial product known as quick cooking oatmeal. It shall have natural rolled oat flavor and odor and shall be clean and free from burned particles, rancid, musty, sour, or other undesirable flavors and odors.

. . .

They factored out the "all ingredients" part of the standard.

You know, I'm sorry to admit, but I've written these things before. There's a real tradeoff to make there. On the one hand, there's a virtuous impulse to do as much factoring as you can so you don't have to write things twice--or heaven forbid, update them multiple times when they change. On the other hand, you then find yourself calling for MIL-STD-340985 sugar and MIL-STD-320598 flour and MIL-STD-24098 molasses with deviations allowed to items 4, 5, and 9 of paragraph 6 when using process B of MIL-STD-32409 Baking Instructions. And there's sort of a desire by users of the document not to need to have twenty books open at once just to figure out if they can use this flour or not.

Writing this sort of thing well is a lot harder than you would think.

Edit: Upon reflection, there's a real parallel between that and walking the fine line between copypasta code and spaghetti abstraction.
I transited China once, without a visa and any papers that proved I had an onward flight. I was asked to go over to a special area, where 10 different immigration officials looked at my passport. A minute or so later... they stamped it, and I was free to go. No problems at all.
Ignoring any claims that the man is a crackpot and any other problems one might have with the science. Does anyone really want to live to 1000? I think you might get a little bored :-/
It's amazing to think that just 500 years ago things were so bad that people awaited death patiently and willingly because they believed life was a punishment rewarded with an afterlife.

Now we're trying to extend the amount of time that we live 10 fold because things are so great right now. I'm not saying either is right, just an observation.
And Heinlein had tons of novels where it worked out fine.

I don't think we should fund research based on what storytellers wrote to entertain us.
Just started using javascriptmvc on a small project (google gadget) and really like it.
I think you may have misunderstood nailer's point. I think what he was trying to say is that if someone feels compelled to leave his country (and his family and everything he knows) to further his career elsewhere, then that must mean he must be really committed to that career path, and probably has the drive and motivation to succeed in that area, to a greater level than someone who wouldn't make that same sacrifice
Yes, if only such technology existed where you could swap between two bookmarks with a keypress. Or where you could jump to a particular page by just typing in a number.
From the release notes: "This framework is only supported by Apple on Mac computers equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M graphics chips."

Unfortunately my three year old MBP is too old :( If someone with a newer Mac wants to report back on how well this works, here is a good test video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2YWRJ-ppo
I use Sprint because they have a 3G/4G data plan. 4G is awesome.
> If people lived 10x longer than they do now, the birth rate would have to drop dramatically

And it would, if you knew you'd live that long most wouldn't tie themselves down with kids while they're still young, they'd wait much much longer and go out and live life.

As it stands now, if you don't have kids by the time you're 30 you risk not being able to have them at all and having to suffer though months of fertility treatments and such just to try.
I use otherinbox to filter out all my messages. beta.otherinbox.com - generate e-mails on the fly so that everything is organized. It's kind of like generating filters in gmail on the fly when you sign up for a new service.
I have my dotfiles and bin directory in a git repository on github. This makes setting up new machines easy, and ensures I have the same great settings on all my machines.

For other home directory stuff: documents, ebooks, etc. I store that in Dropbox. It syncs when you're online, yet works perfectly when you're offline and keeps previous versions automatically (not every change, but ever hour or so, iirc).
Interview with Omar Hamoui, AdMob C.E.O.
I honestly don't think we're throwing very much effort into the work.
Someone smarter than me noted that all predictions of living forever always have one thing in common: it places the time when people start living forever within the lifetime of the predictor.

Aubrey de Grey is 43, and he's predicting that this might be in place in 20 years.
If you are an app developer, you know what typical latency you get. This page serves its purpose: to let you know if there is something unusual. What's the big deal?
So that's what that tunnel of light is...
I disagree with your perspective. Scientists don't need to understand everything about life to make meaningful contributions to our lifespan. This stuff isn't magic - there are sound, repeatable principles at the bottom of everything you mention, and the principles are possibly within our grasp. The technology needed for making these discoveries only gets better with time, never worse.

Look at it this way: crude principles applied at the macro level have extended our lifespan by decades. As scientists get better and better at piecing together the building blocks from the bottom, they'll likely find principles at the micro level that improves our lifespan as well
That is sort of what I'm getting at I guess. We haven't progressed much further than what was possible thousands of years ago.
Am I? If you dont have a path you will be going to nowhere. You might learn things but the hard way. If you want to become serious you should try with a teacher or a career.
Valid point. Perhaps i'm mistaking the overflow of emotion for 'relief' - in that it was a missing tool in the developer toolbelt.
Look, it is true that Ruby is not fast like other languages. But the goal is to focus on algorithms, prototyping, delivery, working. Get that going and you make money because you have a product. Afterwards you can translate to Java or whatever when you have the money.

I don't love ruby because of lack of generics in Java. Or lambdas (though that would help in java).

In any case... I say don't ignore it, but keep an eye out for changes in the community. When the Ruby community shifts to another language, thats when Ruby dies.
More like each press outfit wants to draw more links by sensationalizing conflicts, whether real or imagined. Other press outfits don't want to be second with the story, so they run their own exciting stories.

At that point, it's an arms race of words. Whenever two competing companies actually compete, it's "war" and "slugfest" and similarly overblown adjectives that Americans are now quite familiar with.

It's stupid, but it's the media, and just the way it is. When Windows Phone 7 starts becoming available, we might hear as much about it (if it's compelling enough not to be marginalized).
Life in the third realm
BP denies coverup, spilled oil keeps coming
This is going to spike their time-on-front-page statistics.
The default options is also the least desirable... That is an interesting and also likely necessary condition for a service.
Also commercial jets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

(It's a little embarrassing to count how many people have died because pilots have intentionally turned off power to warning systems that were warning of them of an actual problem. Here's another one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_255. Same digits -- freaky.)
A counter example does not disprove a trend. Most people have plenty of situation where using a laptop is uncomfortable. I don't want it on my lap and I don't like the discomfort of leaning forward or turning to the side. Tablets are perfect for just holding in the hand while relaxing in a favorite chair and reading the news, something many including myself do daily. Laptops suck for this.
I don't think there's any debate on the fact that, given enough time, research will eventually figure out how to stop and reverse the changes brought by aging.

The debate is - whether this can be done soon, as opposed to 10000 years from now.

I certainly wish that AdG was right. But is he? I'm not sure. Maybe he is (yay!), maybe not.
The best part was where he pointed at Visual Cobol as an example of something better. Wow.
"...dynamic, non compiled languages are neither clever nor difficult to implement."

Some days, HN really needs a downvote. This article is not even wrong.
A hundred years ago those positive symbols of gay lust would have merited a beating by riot police. A prison sentence was a very real fear for otherwise "respectable" but (somewhat) openly gay men. That stopped when people refused to back down for the riot police. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
I agree with you - I didn't add much to the quality of discourse. I just feel like I need to walk on pins and needles here (YC) when I want to voice my opinion about Steve Jobs and Apple. It's almost like I'm drawing a picture of Muhammad...
He sounds like a crackpot when his theories are misrepresented. He's not saying "here's how I'll make you live to 1000". He's saying "If we solve this list of things, medical science will be able to give you on maybe another 30 healthy years of lifespan - and by doing this I can convince the world that ageing is so important, we will use those 30 years figuring out how to give you the next 30, and so on".

Edit: for what it's worth, the 1000 year figure is something that was calculated by estimating the chances of a person with the health characteristics of a young adult dying of any reason other than age - about 1 in 1000 per year, or an average of 1000 years life. That's just an average though - after early die-off of careless people, you might reasonably expect a 200-year-old to easily outlive 1000. And of course during that time technology won't have stood still - 1000 years ago, it was the dark ages.
So we're perpetually closer to curing aging than we are to energy-positive fusion? If only they were reversed, we'd be able to support the population explosion in millenarians before they got here...
[video] Niall Ferguson on Fiscal Crises and Imperial Collapse
Yes, But I'm Not Sure What Your Point Is.
Ahh... you mean "give a shit" signifies that they care deeply for it.. (as opposed to "don't give a shit").

Not the most fortunate choice of words, but I get your point now (remember I'm not a native English speaker :) ).

Thanks!
Code Quality Measure: WTFs/minute
In addition to Sortfolio, which has been mentioned by others, check out the work on http://dribbble.com/ - there are some really great designers posting their work there. Shouldn't be too hard to find one whose work you like.

Edit: Fixed the link.
"I once asked a team leader, who had .net and PHP experience and was in the middle of a large Ruby On Rails project, what the benefits of Ruby and Ruby On Rails were.
She could not think of a single one."

run?
A fun exercise for a high school class: Get some basic mortality tables off the Internet. Now, tell me -- to first order, of course -- all the causes of death we'd have to eliminate in order for, say, 25% of the population to live to be 1000.

What I really want to know is what common everyday activities we'd all have to give up. I bet motorcycling and scooter-riding are right out, but what about, say, swimming? Horseback riding? In a world where life expectancy is ten times longer, is everything an order of magnitude more dangerous?
We just rewrote our app from a Postgres backend to a Redis backend. The main difference I see with using NoSQL vs traditional SQL is that you massage the data during insert time so when you goto to look it up later it's pretty much already in the form you need it. This makes lookups super fast, regardless of whether you're paging or not.

I can honestly say I'll never look back. Traditional SQL had a nice run but the incredible gains in simplicity and performance with nosql are indisputable - especially performance.

Case in point: In our initial testing it looks like the Redis setup will be able to support approx 10,000 accounts on one modest dedicated server vs about 100-200 accounts using Postgres.
I can't believe no one has called out the bogus math in the article:

"If you are a reasonably risk-aware teenager today in an affluent, non-violent neighbourhood, you have a risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000, which means that if you stayed that way forever you would have a 50/50 chance of living to over 1,000."

If you assume 1/1000 chance of death in a year, and 1000 years (1000 trials), your probability of living to 1000 is only 37%, not 50%. I don't know if I would trust the scientific analysis of someone who doesn't understand basic binomial probability.
In fact, the SENS foundation is ignoring some of those - because medical research is already attacking them as problems in their own right.
Redesigning Twitterrific
I once asked a team leader, who had .net and PHP experience and was in the middle of a large Ruby On Rails project, what the benefits of Ruby and Ruby On Rails were. She could not think of a single one.

I once asked a liberal what the benefits of conservatism were. She could not think of a single one! Conservatism is doomed!
A frugal wardrobe: think, then shop (video)
http://thedailywtf.com/articles/im-sure-you-can-deal.aspx
It'd also be interesting to see what % are profitable out of all YC companies.

I saw this on another thread http://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=t_toYuVyy6fci0MAiIaZ... which shows exits, but it'd be kinda interesting to hear if any of the non-exits are raking in cash. (I know, I know, they're unlikely to tell us really).
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360847

(although now that I've checked, there's no discussion there)
thanks teyc, thats just the kind of thing i was thinking of, 'cept that's for silverlight
"I think there's a reason complicated life evolved so that it would age. The standard reason given is that eventually errors in replication accumulate and cancer results. I.e. we age to avoid cancer. But that is a ridiculous reason."

Exactly. Any justification along those lines falls flat on its face when you realize it should also apply to the sperm and egg. Yet it doesn't apply in that case.
I bet that cure would be so expensive only a few people could access it.
Re: video:
I don't think the average user cares about playing DiVX/XViD/etc. That's a niche's niche.

Re: internet: Apple's products are almost as prepared as Froyo for accessing the broad internet. Both companies are pushing for custom apps. Apple is trying to regulate the quality (for better or worse), but I wouldn't classify Google as being non-App/all internet. Apple's very pro HTML5/web standards, so don't rule them out of the web-is-the-app business just yet. They may not be providing the web apps/services like Google does, but they certainly know their users want to be able to access the latest and greatest apps the web has to offer.
by the time the lagards implement it, it will be standardised, ie doesnt require a prefix now that its finally implementing it.
Sounds to me like Google IO got them a little scared and they don't want customers dropping their plan for another carrier that has a better selection of Android phones.
You're probably right, but why post a blog about it announcing it to the world as if it is available before everything is synced up and ready? It makes Google look sloppy, IMO.
"If you are a reasonably risk-aware teenager today in an affluent, non-violent neighbourhood, you have a risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000, which means that if you stayed that way forever you would have a 50/50 chance of living to over 1,000."

I know there is a shortcut to this but for this to be true you need a constant rate of 1 death in 1415.78389 per year.

1 / (1 - 10 ^ ((log .5) / 981)) = 1415.78389 so (1-1/1415.78389) ^ (1000-19) = .5
Crap. We have CLEAR modems, and Sprint owns CLEAR. I'm doing business with them again. Well, I'll never run my phone service through them.
IIRC, either Kurzweil or de Grey said exactly the same thing.
Extending SSL to Google search
A small JavaScript LRU (Least-Recently-Used) cache implementation
From what I've seen, O'Reilly material works well on iPad. I have a subscription to Safari Library, and have tried using it three ways on my iPad.

1. For those books that support the HTML view, I've read them in the browser from the Safari Library web site. These have been excellent, including diagrams and code snippets. One or two books have had slight formatting problems (a line of example code not wrapping).

2. For books that don't support the HTML view, or books that I've downloaded as PDFs (part of the my subscription is a certain number of "download tokens" that can be redeemed to download chapters or whole books), I've read then in GoodReader. This has worked out fine.

3. Finally, they offer some books for download in EPub format. I've tried those in iBooks, and they've been good. I've also used the free program Calibre to convert some of the PDFs I downloaded to EPub and they have worked fine.

I am quite pleased with the combination of O'Reilly Safari Library and my iPad.

Oh, they've also announced that this summer there will be a Safari Library iPad application. That should be interesting.
Can you share what these variable (i.e. per-startup) operating expenses are?
Cool, I've been thinking about getting an eBook version of RWH because I can just never seem to find the time to read it at home.
Yep, SENS isn't duplicating already existing research. If you support them, you are supporting research that might not take place otherwise.
An Understanding Of Wealth
You, and nobody else, own your body. I.e., nobody should be able to say you're not allowed to have children.
Ask HN: Your Development Environment
Was wondering what does your dev environment look like. I am more of a Web Developer and have a Mac as personal computer and a dev box which runs Debian. So, I basically use SSH into the Debian box from my Mac.

I wanted to get into systems programming for linux and wanted to know how to approach that in this environment. By systems programming I mean things like writing device drivers, play with linux kernel etc.

Thanks.
Who knows, what about V8? Maybe V8 is better, on that note would be interesting if browsers exposed their JS engine to Flash so that any browser improvements to javascript would also improve flash performance, instead of duplicating effort and having adobe do crap with actionscript it all just runs on one engine and vuala.

Pipe dream or reality?
Watch kites online
In the harsh terrain of the Mexican desert, a mortally wounded man is left for dead in the heat of the desert sun. This is J. Once a street smart, carefree young guy. Now, a wanted man. As death looms, the only thing that keeps him alive is the quest to find the love of his life, Natasha. A woman betrothed to another man, but surely destined for J. A woman who comes into his life like a bolt of lightning and changes it forever
Lightworks to be ported to Linux
1. Odd statement on JQ Adams: "He devoted most of his adult life to public service, notably after leaving office." True, but clearer if one said "notably as a congressman after his single term as president".

2. The statement that Cleveland's estate was outside Washington, DC, is I think incorrect. It is the neighborhood now called Cleveland Park, well within city limits but then I suppose newly developed.

3. The calculation on Hayes makes me wonder whether they are including real estate valuations at current prices. That's fine if an area is still planted in corn or tobacco, less so if it was crops and is now built up.
If it's an imperfect mechanism, then look back at the huge chain linking you to the first living creature: adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / ...

How come that chain hasn't failed?

Basically, you're just rephrasing the "aging through accumulation of errors" hypothesis. The problem is, errors should accumulate along the chain mentioned above, too. Yet they don't.
Someone want to give me a tl;dr summary of this article? I closed the window as soon as that stupid photo loaded.
Hedley!
No it's not useless since it also includes yesterday's measurement for that same timeframe.
https://ssl.scroogle.org
Except that Glass-Steagall had almost nothing to do with the problem and its repeal allowed some of the measures used to try to save things (namely banks buying failing investment houses).

The crash was caused by govt trying to get people to buy houses that said people could not afford. There were tons of regulations aimed at that end and they all contributed. Yes, that includes CDOs.

Regulation is systemic risk.

And for those folks who think that "too big to fail" is a problem, what does "too big to fail" tell us about the Federal Reserve?

And for folks who think that incentives and "skin in the game" matter, what are regulators' incentives and what skin do they have in the game? Have any regulators lost their jobs over the financial crash? (The closest is Chris Dodd, but Barney Frank will be re-elected.)
Ask HN: What would you do differently if you knew you might live to 1000?
Suppose SENS worked out and essentially cured aging, so you knew there was a good chance you and everyone else would live to at least 1000 (only non-aging related things could kill you).

What would you do differently, starting from today?
It would be most accurate to say it competes with MBA programs. I could say with a straight face now that if you want to learn about the startup end of the business spectrum, you'd be better off doing YC than going to B school. But I wouldn't say that about college, because so much of what you learn in college is social.
The "reason" for aging seems almost self-evident to me. The goal is to pass on [mutated] genetic information. Post-reproduction, you're simply a drag on local resources.

Hypothetical populations that didn't age and die would have killed themselves off due to lack of food.
I believe the predominant evolutionary theory actually does have an explanation - sexual reproduction serves to produce offspring that are different from their parents and have a better shot of being adapted to a constantly changing environment on average (particularly relevant to parasites/diseases). These children still carry their parents' genes, though, so it is in the parents' best genetic interests to die once the kids are self-sufficient so as to avoid out-competing their own offspring.
The reason for sticking around after mating is to protect your children. In this sense, there is definitely an evolutionary pressure to live longer. The longer an organism takes to mature, the more advanced it can become. Consequently, the longer you live as a mature individual, the longer you can mate to produce more children and protect the ones you already produced.
"The two points of view are this: Apple: Our apps provide better access to the Net than the Net itself. Google: The Net itself is the Killer App."

I haven't seen a more succinct summary of the battle than this.
I suspect their goal is engineeting bacterium that will produce crude oil, or something of that nature.
Ballmer: Android Isn't Free
Exciting headline; miserable experience.

We're sorry, an error has occurred in our application.

So now I've finally given up after the tenth attempt. I guess O'Reilly won't be selling me that copy of Building Scalable Websites after all.