skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you be willing to set off a tactical nuke in Harare if you knew it would kill Mugabe? Let's say you predict the nuke will kill 1,000,000 people.

150,000 human beings die every day. About 100,000 of those are age-related. No dictator can hold a candle to that. Dropping that nuke is equivalent to delaying a cure for aging by 10 days. And yet you want to delay a cure indefinitely? That would condemn billions to the grave.
Yes.

It failed to say the only thing I wanted to hear: "this migration will happen automatically and you will not need to do anything".

Having failed to do that, it then failed to give me any resolution at all, just leaving a cloud of doubt and ominous phrasing about months of "dialogue". The only reason you need months of dialogue with your customer is if you are about to piss them off enormously.

I was pretty much already planning to migrate to Linode for other reasons (more RAM on the smallest server is huge), but this gives me a good reason to do it right now: months of dialogue sounds more painful than an hour or two re-setting up my server.
You of course realize, not all contract terms are binding, yet when contract terms are implemented in software, they become much more binding than when they are interpreted by a court of law.

You also realize that not all license agreements are the same; and first sale doctrine normally gives right to resell copyrighted works. I would in effect be gifting the game to my girlfriend, rather than lending it, as I wouldn't be playing it again.

And thanks for accusing me of breaking the law. I appreciate it.

(The thing that tipped me into buying the game on Steam was that I'd also be supporting independent developers with the Potato Sack etc.)
First of all, please don't conflate license agreement and statute -- a statute is law, a license agreement is a private contract that may or may not be valid.

The US has until recently had strong case law support for lending and reselling goods. Look up the first sale doctrine, which states that copyright holders can only impose restrictions on the first sale of a copyrighted project, and thereafter the property can be used, sold, abused, denigrated, etc., as desired by the possessor. This is actually a really important part of copyright law, because without it a copyright holder could say "You can't give my CD to charity, I don't make money for poor people" (manifest practically as "you must not charge less than x price"), and otherwise impose ridiculous restrictions on private property, thereby diminishing the real property of the possessor in favor of the theorized intellectual property assigned to the copyright holder in order to promote useful progress in the arts. To the extent that copyright powers do not promote useful progress in the arts, they should be entirely demolished!!!
Steal a loaf of bread. Is the shopkeeper you stole it from, who says the loaf costs $2.50, a "legislator"?
This is great news! Managing users and groups from the command line tools was a bit of a PITA.
Eating uncooked meat from Jack in the Box is safer than playing Russian Roulette.

I'll wait for the next option, thanks.
I agree that it would be nice to have local CDN POPs, but all that does is transfer the high cost of Australian packets back to the provider ... and they would want to pay that because ...?

Faster services -> more usage -> higher revenues (cite Marissa Mayer, Google, circa 2007 about search speed and revenue).
Amusing to see how many former C#/.NET compiler and framework developers are on this team. And they even used the "await" keyword!

Definitely could be a compelling project, especially if they implement a type system as they've hinted.
http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot...
Hate to add to your pain, but I actually bought my 8GB (2x4GB) kit for $80 (was about 2 months ago).

Aside from an MB Air I bought for my dad (non-upgradeable RAM), I always tell folks to go minimum on RAM spec and find suitable add-on RAM, often 3-6 mo later.
Three words: exponential population growth.

As much as I'd like to be immortal myself, it might not be a sustainable pattern for us as a species. And if I were around for thousands of years or more, suddenly long-term sustainability of civilization gains a good deal more urgency. It seems likely that affordable immortality would degenerate into a vicious war of all against all, unless it were paired with a Kardashev-II level of efficiency with energy and resources (and possibly even then).

(I'm actually with Kurzweil on this one: when consciousness becomes mere information, easily backed up and transferred to other substrates, the concept of mortality will lose meaning.)
ING has good rates, really low fees if at all, good website, bill-pay, easy in and out. There are no local branches, but ATMs abound.

My favorite though is their checking accounts can have a line of credit with super competitive rates (7.25% right now). And even if you don't go for a credit line they don't charge overdraft fees.
Diet to Lose Weight
Spotify launches Apple iTunes 'rival'
There's always the world's oldest profession.

Or in seriousness, find a startup in the area and intern with them for the summer. With that under your belt, you''ll find a paying job by the time the fall semester starts.

Alternatively, write an iPhone app or web app over the summer and use that to get a job or make money.

Finally, there's always Kickstarter.
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The `await` keyword is part of a Harmony proposal (not Traceur specific):

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:deferred_fun...
3 stages of increasing creativity in the workplace
Seven ways to assess the organizational fitness of your business
most e-waste recycling in China is not as clean and neat as this

Now I come to think about it, the original blog post shows 3 people working hot air desoldering stations without any visible ventilation, and with only one wearing a thin respirator. So it's probably not all that healthy for the workers even there. At least in the photos I've seen of Chinese electronics assembly factories, the workers have extraction units for their soldering stations.
No. There is (some) DSL and Comcast availability, but no fiber anywhere. To be more specific:

"I live in an area (not far from Sacramento) where, of the residents that have internet access, roughly half are still on dialup because they can't get anything better."

And, of the dialup subscribers, many have problems every year because it's old infrastructure and the aerial lines have a tendency to fill with water in the winter.

I only point this out because I suspect that there are a lot of people living in metropolitan areas that really have no idea what internet access is like in rural areas.
Hang onto the job and keep applying to startups. It could be a long process and having steady income will be very helpful.

Focus on the work and not the bureaucracy. Ie become the 9-5 guy ... Finish your work and leave early and apply for jobs 4 hours a day after work. If you do this by leveraging your networks you have a chance.

Again, don't quit till u have a new job lined up.

If you can't stand the mental anguish for even a couple of months till you find a startup then your probably not cut out for a startup anyways.

If u quit and can't find a startup job in three months you might have to get an even crappier Corp job.
I suspect that most large internet companies have crunched the numbers and decided that the small Australian market doesn't justify the large Australian costs.

Australia is an internet minnow.
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If you look at the changelog for that page, the person responsible for all the edits is Peter Hallam, who is one of the Traceur developers at Google and was also formerly on the C# compiler team at Microsoft.
I think you underestimate the power of coal plant incidents and hydropower incidents. They're no joke.

Chernobyl, an INES-7 killed 56 people. Plus another 4000 from radiation.

As previously linked, check these out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease

The Great Smog of London killed twelve million people. Banqiao Dam killed 171 000 and destroyed homes for another eleven million people.
Some newer housing developments have fiber-to-the-home, with blazingly fast internet access in perpetuity, included in the price of the home. I have no idea how the financials actually work on that. I don't remember what the speed test was, but I half-wondered if it had malfunctioned somehow because I'd never seen anything like it in a residential area.

That said, I suspect that very few people are going to get that kind of access relative to the population as a whole. The U.S. is pretty big, and there are a lot of people in areas that simply aren't feasible to do expensive build-outs. (I live in one such area.)
Losing Weight after Delivery Requires a Perfect Plan
Do desoldering stations actually generate enough fumes to be comparable to actual soldering? When I do hot-air rework, I rarely see any smoke at all, unless I have just put a lot of flux down.
The Linode Library has some instructions: http://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6-tunnels
There's no good way to say it, even if that's what you're feeling. It's tacky at best and insensitive at worst.
Was I just looking at formulae or some pages taken from the Odyssey?

I guess we could get the computer to categorise it ...
Apple files for "MissionControl" and "StartUp" trademarks
Blogs are a simple case because the default is to refer to each other through inline hyperlinks.

I've also seen linguistic data mining studies done that suggest that blogs which commonly agree with each other, commonly agree with each other. For purposes of politeness, I acted astonished at this revelation.
Twitter quietly reverts to old design (again)
If you can go to MIT then go.

Throughout life people will give you an opportunity mainly based on two things - your reputation and your ability. Going to MIT will prove to a lot of people that you have the ability.

Also you have to work with the best to be in the top of your field. Read the book"the talent code". You simply have to go to MIT if you can get in.
Bubblenomics: How you will know when we are actually in a bubble
Aren't we already immortal?

See, two possibilities exist.

1 There's no life after death:

You don't exist before or after your life.[1] You only perceive anything during your lifespan. Since you can't perceive anything before or after, your life is infinite for you. Because when it ends, there would be no you to notice.

Of course, such immortality ain't about prolonged lifespan, but it doesn't make it less cool (just maybe slightly off-topic here?).

2 There is life after death:

Then you won't die as such, period.

So the only problems left with are the inconveniences of aging.

I'd like to hear some critique on this, though; the idea seems too bulletproof to me, I don't like it.

---

[1] It may be impossible to correctly imagine the condition when there is no yourself, mainly because there would be no yourself in this situation (some kind of catch-22 here).
Recast'ing automatic annotations for player cover in KillZone 3
Doing customer development is am art in of it's own.

How many people did you meet with who were willing to buy it?
And yet you want to delay a cure indefinitely?

I did not say that. See goblin89's comment.
There is one thing that I think can help with the sql overhead you mention - if you have a rock star dedicated sql person that can take all this work off your hands (that's not me btw, i've just worked/am working with such people). I think it affords you easier long term growth if you have expectations of making it to the medium to large company world, while not slowing you down when you are small, so I think it's a better strategy for both small and large companies. Are you signing on for a potential bottle neck? Yea it is a trade off and it is paramount you hire well in that area, but that's the sort of problems and decisions you have make all the time at a company.

I understand where you're coming from and what you describe may be workable in a smaller company with 7-14 devs where everyone knows what they are doing and understands well what happens under the hood. I think it's less likely to work at a company with 50+ devs though where you inevitably start trusting people less, or just at a company where you don't trust everyone. I've worked at both types. There is also the question of the complexity of your data and the way you need to query it. Right now we do essentially a ton of graph queries that we optimize highly in sql (ends up working much faster than any graph database since the schema and the queries are optimized for the exact data we are working on). Some of the functions that I write for this would not be implementable in an orm. I suppose that could be the case where you drop down into raw sql, but that happens to be a fair chunk of our code.

Maybe you can make it work better than I'm expecting, but if you were starting from scratch would you really want to go down that path anyway, all things considered? My original argument was that you are better off choosing a different way. I suppose that point of view will be difficult to change for me :).
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Totally depends on the article and expected audience. For me, Twitter is for articles that are startup/tech related. I work hard to maintain my public persona on Twitter and really filter what gets posted there. I syndicate everything from Twitter to Facebook. Facebook is for funny stuff my mom will like. Email is for specific clusters of folks that will find the article relevant, though I usually end up sending articles to the same 2-3 groups of people. My blog is a special case. I only post stories there that I think reflect my personality and deep interests.
Departing OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan Heads to Silicon Valley VC Firm
Designing For iPad
90GB of data was stolen - nobody is defending that. Some of us have trouble believing that 90GB of data is actually worth the $193,000 as determined by the Telstra contract.

The actual "damage" seems pretty small when compared to crimes which carry similar sentences. If Telstra had a fairer billing system, then a more appropriate sentence would have been more likely.
One word for this guy: Holga.

Instagram gives non-experts the ability to modify pictures they take to closely match the subjective experience that the (already inherently representational) raw photograph captured imperfectly.

Sure, this could paper over a shitty, meaningless life.

It could also enhance a wonderful, meaningful life.

I think your take on it might depend on which of those two you find yourself in. (Aaaah, that's offsides...)
"In our attempts to imbue that nostalgic warmth, we miss the real reason we treasure our old photos: they’re artefacts, hard-copy memories of our lives. Their true value is in the way they make us feel — a good photo can take us back to the place it was taken, and invoke in us the feeling we had at the time. That’s something no filter, no matter how brilliantly implemented, can ever recreate for us."

Which is it? Are photos meant to be hard-copy memories (which I mean to read faithful reproductions of the place/time) or is their true value the way they make us feel? If it's the latter, than the hard-copy memory part is bullshit. If the vignette+cross-process filter helps me remember the depression of that rainy day better, isn't that valuable? If the high-key filter makes me better remember just how glorious that summer day was, isn't that a great thing?

If you're a photojournalist, I don't want you photoshopping in some extra smoke in your shots of Gaza. I do want as accurate a representation of the real scene as I can get with a 2d medium. But if you're 99.99% of the population who isn't a photojournalist shooting for a news outlet, I want to know how the situation felt. If that requires some filters or some photoshopping, fine.
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Get 2d to 3d, product design, construction equipment, conveyor systems, hydraulic machines, reverse engineering, special purpose machines, material handling machines, material handling equipments services.
I think they're talking about this one:

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1183143727

This work uses the correlated topic model, which extends LDA to model correlations among the extracted topics.

Edit: and this one [pdf]:

http://www.icml2010.org/papers/384.pdf
Is 50K/year typical for a development position in Portland? Seems a little on the low side.
This is a silly title. The focus here is dropping of the browser extension and moving resources to a customized version of Firefox.
Yeah, you might be right. My understanding is the bulk of (at least visible) fumes when soldering are from flux, but there are other fumes present. When you're not temperature controlled then you probably have other things melting and fuming up as well though, depending on how deft you are.
Also, after an experiment that automatically posted my Google Reader starred items to GroupMe via http://ifttt.com (awesome service), I've decided that SMS is the wrong way to share articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeroBank_Browser

Xerobank has done the same thing. Firefox has a lot of options that need tweaking if you don't want to leak information. These guys also run a private "Tor" network.
https://github.com/fogus/lithp

http://picolisp.com/5000/-2.html

http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/

http://www.lambdassociates.org/Lib/libraries.htm

http://www.newlisp.org/

http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

http://sites.google.com/site/waspvm/

Fluchtpunkt Lisps are…

Focused: Uncompromising in their vision

Spartan: Devoid of the seemingly unnecessary comforts found in many modern languages

Controversial: Not always by design, but often because of their design

Fun
I used to love data mining. Then I formally learned statistics, causal inference, mcmc and other similar methods. I was amazed at how poor the computer science was for anything outside of computer science problems (i.e. search, collaborative filtering etc). Looking back I now realise that my amazement was misplaced - tools are good for what they are designed for. How many computer scientists who write the tools run experiments or do real exploratory data analysis with data they have collected?

Agree completely with their model selection criteria; model selection is useful when used to compare evidence for k physically plausible models, but should be treated with extreme caution where exploring an infinite model space.

Personally I hold very little hope for automated tools anymore. Considering how complex a seemingly simple study is to analyse correctly, or how hard it is to model physically realistic processes, I think the future does not bode well for tools like eureka as they are currently aimed. At best eureka may present some general hypothesis, but it seems unlikely to be able to search the model space for models that are physically plausible, except in the most simple of all cases.

Besides, try eureka on some of your real data and prepare to be deflated :)
Stylized photos are also a great way to cover up the relatively poor quality of the photos from many camera phones.
Is that the reason for the downvote? Honestly surprised by it!
Query results you will normally adapt to specific object properties, and at that point the only thing that can bite you is if your query starts returning columns of a different sql type, which of course you can't catch compile time anyway. If you wrap your query results with objects and maintain an interface into your update statements via method calls (which obviously have type checking for arguments), I don't see how you can run into serious trouble. In the dynamic language world you of course don't have compile time anything, but you can use pretty much the exact same techniques to ensure you don't pass something bad to your query. I guess this isn't very dynamic, but that's the idea - your data access logic lives in the database, you execute methods and get back objects. That's the no orm way.
Definitely do MIT.

There are literally thousands of scholarships out there, even if you're a rich white kid with no sob story. Seriously. If you treat hunting down scholarships as a job over this summer, I have little doubt you can track down the money to fully cover your expenses.
Fusion really is the answer to the world's energy crisis, for all the reasons laid out in the article (can't melt down, ease of procuring fuel, no pollution, relatively small generation of nuclear waste). It's a shame that it doesn't have better funding.

In addition to the tokamak work being done in the EU at CERN, the US has been funding fusion research for years at the NIF. The US system does not use a tokamak (magnetic confinement of a donut of plasma), but instead involves crushing balls of hydrogen with lasers. The US and the EU are currently in competition to see who can get to "ignition" first. The NIF is hoping for it to happen in the next 2-3 years.

This sounds great and all, but there's at least 10-20 years of work still yet to be done before we can start building commercial fusion power plants. Ignition will be a wonderful "HEY, IT WOOORRRKSSSSS" moment, but there are a lot of big unanswered engineering questions looming ahead, such as "what material do we build the ignition chamber out of that can withstand temperatures high enough to melt salt as well as survive constant neutron bombardment?" Hopefully ignition, when it happens, will motivate major countries to open their wallets and let pour the funding. We'll see. An appreciable percentage of the US's plasma physicists may retire once the US gets ignition. They have been working on this problem for quite literally their entire careers.
Ask HN:Is there any research available about effectiveness of video tutorials 
I am looking out for any credible research done to find out if spoken tutorials like Khan Academy are really effective as they are generally perceived.

What kind of effect will it have on learning when done by an isolated individual or when assisted by a real but no so trained teacher etc.
Wireless carriers scale down scope of mobile payment system
tptacek, in the scenario that I've construct, if you misconfigured an app that result in an astronomical bill, we you pay it without contest? Will you do it if you have to sell your house to pay off the phone company?
Spotify announces iPod support and new download service
Assign variable X to be the number of years you have been alive, at least to your subjective experience.

An immortal will see X go to infinity. A mortal will see it go into the three digits if they're lucky. The fact that you can't perceive your own death doesn't mean you don't die.
i see no macros, why not add the feature that lets users add features?
Spotify says hello to the iPod
Stop letting where you live dictate how you live
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This is certainly a useful analogy and easy to remember as follows : Hypothesis = Idea for Product; Experiment = Product ; Experiment Success = Market Acceptance. Experiment failure = Revise Hypothesis/redesign product & iterate, Also scientist = entrepreneur and nature = markets; Paradigm shifts = Paradigm shifts!
Academic Turns City Into a Social Experiment
Thanks to the Slicehost crew for offering great service over the past few years... but I will not become a rackhost customer as a result of a forced migration. Sorry.