skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people modeling the demographics in a rigorous way, however:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20426616

"A common objection against starting a large-scale biomedical war on aging is the fear of catastrophic population consequences (overpopulation). This fear is only exacerbated by the fact that no detailed demographic projections for radical life extension scenario have been conducted so far. This study explores different demographic scenarios and population projections, in order to clarify what could be the demographic consequences of a successful biomedical war on aging. A general conclusion of this study is that population changes are surprisingly slow in their response to a dramatic life extension. For example, we applied the cohort-component method of population projections to 2005 Swedish population for several scenarios of life extension and a fertility schedule observed in 2005. Even for very long 100-year projection horizon, with the most radical life extension scenario (assuming no aging at all after age 60), the total population increases by 22% only (from 9.1 to 11.0 million). Moreover, if some members of society reject to use new anti-aging technologies for some religious or any other reasons (inconvenience, non-compliance, fear of side effects, costs, etc.), then the total population size may even decrease over time. Thus, even in the case of the most radical life extension scenario, population growth could be relatively slow and may not necessarily lead to overpopulation. Therefore, the real concerns should be placed not on the threat of catastrophic population consequences (overpopulation), but rather on such potential obstacles to a success of biomedical war on aging, as scientific, organizational, and financial limitations."
One big problem I see right off the bat: the twitterLogin() function completely breaks any page I embed this in, since if a visitor isn't logged in, all they see is a link to twitter, and then nothing since you're calling exit().

Another nitpick: if I'm logged in, and twitterCallback() is called, why is it redirecting me to / ? Perhaps my site is nested deep within a directory structure.
In this case though Intel wouldn't be marketing or selling these chips. That is all on Apple, they would basically become the fab house for the chips.

I don't see how that is a retreat, if Apple is a big enough customer to keep their fab houses busy then it is a win for Apple and Intel.
I did this today - started and cancelled a VPS about 10 minutes after I started it. I was credited all but about $0.50 (on a $20/month VPS). Everything was automatic, and I got the "refund" email seconds after clicking the delete button.

http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/5b2bywab/20110503_204326_Sel...

So I don't know if that quite meets your needs (since it's just a credit and not a full refund), although the other post suggests a refund is possible if you ask for one.
Heh - it was easy to bypass ww.com's security in the past to view private cams (sorry jacquesm - don't know if that's still the case - we're talking 5ish years ago ;)). Being a voyeur is far too simple with the state of technology.
In many ways, this is where Haskell is as a language right now: we've compromised on many aspects because it was expedient to do so.

But Haskell also has a reputation for pushing the envelope. Who knew you could get away with not allowing side-effects in arbitrary expressions? Who knew you could actually implement a lazy language, and actually have it perform quicker than interpreted languages? These are things that could have been decided on a case-by-case basis, but Haskell changed the rules of the game by asking you, on a case-by-case basis, to opt out of these features. In the real world, this has a very powerful influence on the library ecosystem.

But I don't think I disagree with you. Just clarifying a point. :-)
As a developer who is semi-color-blind but still likes to dabble in graphic design, I'm a fan of colourlovers. I can't pick a palette to save my life, so I just pick one off of there. :)
Hacker pwns Electric Toothbrush, Creates Startup
Great site and great community.

I use this site all the time to get inspiration from the color palettes.

Congrats!
The fact that people are shivering in reaction is actually very useful for potential users of this software, though I agree that it's not constructive for the author.
Here's a quick timeline of what I've used for calculators:

HP 28C (http://www.voidware.com/calcs/hp28c.htm):
Mid 80's through mid 90's

Emacs calc mode:
Mid 90's through mid 2000's

orpie (http://pessimization.com/software/orpie/):
Mid 2000's through present

If you're an old HP calculator user go check out orpie. It's an RPN calculator for the console. It doesn't appear to be actively developed. Still, it has already got everything I want in a calculator and works very, very well.
I faced a similar problem when I was starting college. My father is disabled and my mother passed away during my junior year of high school, so I had zero financial support from my family for school.

Due to financial considerations, I chose a state school where I had some scholarships instead of the big name tech school that accepted me. Let me tell you, I have regretted it ever since.

The simple fact is that if you -can- get into a top tier school like MIT then you should go. The caliber of your fellow students will be much, much higher than at a state school, and that alone is priceless. One of the best things about college is networking and, for hackers, finding like-minded individuals to make things with. Once you factor in faculties, facilities, and opportunities, it should be a no brainer.

Regarding money, almost no college students have credit history, but that doesn't stop almost all of them from getting loans. I would be very surprised if you didn't qualify for student loans, even if you have to get them from a private organization / bank. I would talk to MIT's admissions/financial aid office, as they can probably help you piece together how you can pay for things.

Don't let money stand between you and your education. The connections you'll make and the experiences you'll have at MIT will be worth the extra money you pay. Of course you'll also like college a hell of a lot more. I know plenty of people who, like me, settled for a state school and have been bored out of their minds.

tl;dr -- Go to MIT and find a way to make the finances work.
I have been with Slicehost for a few years. Last year, while I was on my honeymoon, away from good connectivity, without my primary machine with me (I only had my iPad and iPhone), I got an email to tell me that my slices are making excessive DNS resolutions on their DNS servers. They were blocked from their DNS servers. I asked if they could give me access for a few days. No.

In the end I stayed with them because the inertia was big enough that I was lazy to migrate from them. They certainly did no wrong to reject my request. But I shall remember having to spend the last few hours of the day before evening frowning on the train and working immediately after checking in at the hotel. I could have been made a more loyal customer.

This event is enough to push me over the edge. I shall look into migrating to Linode this weekend. (I have already given them a go several times the past year).
If you are good enough to get into MIT, you probably don't need to go to MIT.
Real-time prevents Adobe After Effects.
Ok, so your overall point is that "Chinese now have dollars that buy 1/2 as much as the dollars they used to buy the treasuries". But isn't this due to inflation and the dollar becoming devalued due to sub-prime disaster and overall global loss of faith in the US economy? Having the $3trillion in US gov securities is still good because it still shelters it from price fluctuations. So the cost of things made in China will still be cheap and US/Europe will still import them. If the $3 trill had been invested in harder assets as you suggests, the Chinese would have made a nice profit yes, but it doesnt safe-guard its import/export industry.
The bits I found informative
"... most Google products ... split between ... product lead ... engineering lead"

"One way of thinking of this, ... Singhal (enginering lead) does the weeding (removing and pushing down low quality content in search), and Manber (product lead) is focused on the seeding (encouraging “good stuff” to grow)."
The chinese have become wealthy because their people are producing more. Their farms produce the same amount of food, while the children are making things in factories. The world, and china, is richer because the chinese people are make more of the things the world needs.

Filling ships full of gold can only make people temporarily rich. Investing in gold is paying someone in south africa to dig rocks out of the ground and melt them down, then paying someone in kentucky to dig a hole and store it. China has contributed much more to the world than 16th century spanish gold thieves.
With my nine year old I said he needed to pass off one level before he could play his regular video games. He just took it from there. There is a concept of points for doing certain things. I didn't think much of it but he keeps track and somehow he cares (something like karma here I suppose).

My 14 year old had a very different reaction. She just uses it to fill over gaps in what she is doing at school. I have a degree in math but no matter how gentle I try to be I think she feels embarrased to come to me for help. Maybe I get too excited and try to explain too much. Either way she is keeping up much better now.

My six year old watches for a few minutes and then breaks into song and dance. I'll just let him be for a while.
Verizon actually wants to stop maintaining the copper plant in the next few years.

Verizon wants to do this everywhere, not just in low-density area's.
Try not to refer to them as sluts when you send off the e-mail, though.
Innovtive music player for iPad (Planetary)
Here's one...

http://seesarasotalive.com/lido-key

There is also somebody's backyard pool, but it is night time now.
"The Chinese treasury uses $1T in USD reserves to stop the run on the bank."

How does it do that? Do you mean the whole money is an illusion thing? And people only work when they have trust in the government backed bills? Cos this argument can work for any country too really..
Very good point. The worst report is the one that isn't written, so any report we receive we're thankful for. Doing the things you said like finding the smallest steps to reproduce or a test case are a big help. This is an area that didn't come up in the original article, but I'm thinking about doing some further writing on the topic and writing bug reports are certainly worthy of significant mention.
Bin Laden compound found by academics in 2008
>"The financial calculator is headed the way of the
>wristwatch: a no-longer necessary device that users
>carry because of sentimentality, vanity or an
>unwillingness to change,"

I disagree with the wristwatch comparison. I'm in my twenties, and I still rather like having a watch. Checking a wristwatch is much, much, more convenient than pulling a cellphone out of a pocket, activating its display, and reading the time. Especially when outdoors, I'd much rather rely on a wristwatch for timekeeping than a cellphone. I can drop a cellphone. I can't drop something that's tied to my wrist.
Possible in theory, unlikely to be practical anytime soon. Algae is a cheaper (and simpler) food source, and one more likely to be used for basic requirements. I could certainly see stem cells used to grow meat - as currently exists - to supplement a diet, though. Saying that something like this would be required for interplanetary travel is going a bit far.
Developers, The Rap
But please try to incorporate the phrase:

"Hey TC, You guys are Social Leaders Understanding Technology Systems more than most people, I'd like your feedback on my app/site..."
Lazy loading in ActiveRecord works like:

users = User.where(:age => 10)
# no rows fetched

# Once you access something on users, then the query happens
users.each do |user|
# something
end

It's not really that "magic", it's useful.

ActiveRecord uses joins (mostly). If you are using a "non-standard" table schema, you can tell ActiveRecord what column to use on joins.
Note that the SuperMicro chassis uses 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)[1] drives. The BackBlaze is using 3.5" SATA drives. Those are in a totally different classes. SAS drives are "enterprise" drives: faster and presumably more reliable that SATA, but lower density and higher priced.

2.5" SAS drives appear to top out at ~600GB and at a premium[2]. The 3.5" SATA drives used by BackBlaze are 1.5TB (probably more by now) and less expensive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_attached_SCSI

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=2.5+sas+hard+drive&hl=en&...
Behavior Changes Lead to Mindset Changes
They wouldn't have to be in a hurry, they'd just have to be interested - if everybody has one kid at 150 years old, that's still 50% population growth per year when it stabilizes.

It's certainly possible that much of the impetus driving us to want children stems from our own mortality, so maybe many people wouldn't want kids after long life became the norm. Or, maybe the psychological imperative would decline enough that some sort of lottery system would actually be acceptable.
While the geek in me thinks this is really super cool, the realist in me wonders why on earth I would need an IPV6 address _now_. All though we're "out" of IPV4 addresses, no hosting company has run out (I can still get all the IPV4 based VPS's & dedicated servers I want). Maybe I care 4 years from now, but I'm not sure I really care now... except it is really cool.
The videos are just one part of the academy. There is a tree you progress through by passing off problems. Ten correct in a row marks you as proficient and you go to the next level. Every so often there is a review section with random problems from any earlier level. The entire system of instruction, practice, and review gives more than an illusion of understanding.

My nine year old's grades have always been really good. The fun for him is just being able to go as fast as he wants. My 14 year old has moved from struggling for c's to breezing along with b's. She just really doesn't care about math but at least she doesn't hate it anymore.
I love the HP-12C. I never realized till now it had a cult following.

Imagine how great it seemed when it was not only a beautiful thing, but also the last world in technology.
And where do you think technology and resource creation and allocation will be in 750 years?
I could be wrong but I believe the purpose of oxygen in casinos is purely to help people play longer without getting tired, thus losing more money that way.
Cu wire armored cable
i take hundereds of pics a month. most with my slr, some with a point and shoot, and fewer with my phone. I love vingnette on my phone, the filters and effects open up a whole new realm of creativity with shooting photos. im not usually trying to go all photojournilistic and document things as much as im trying to convey a feeling or state of mind. also, my phone camera may be 8 mp, but that doesent mean jack without good glass, the lens is crap on my phone, its just the modern replacement for polaroids. so why not tack on some effects to make it more "human" and try to convey the feeling u may have had at that time. Also, if u take thousands of photos, and dont take the time to swlect a few "winners" every so often, then your just lazy. it takes supprisingly little time to pick out whats good, u know as soon as u see it. This article just sounds like an old "get off my lawn", yellin at kids for trying to recreate a place they romamticize about but will never be (the past)
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Fake polaroid photos aren't real!

Yeah, well digital photos aren't real either. They're just zeros and ones representing photos. Furthermore, photos aren't real things, they're just pictures of the things themselves. While we're at it, the things you look with your eyes at aren't really the things themselves, they're just light that's been reflected off them, and the appearance of an "image" of the scene is a mere illusion!

Finally, the way you compare a picture with your remembrance of a scene is utterly artificial. Your memory is fallible, mostly reconstituted from broad sketches and details filled in from similar pictures. Everything is fake! Get over it.

(Except for touch, taste, and smell. Which is why you should download my new app, OlfactoGustaKinetogram, exclusively on Android.)
Bradley M. Kuhn: Mono Developers Losing Jobs Isn't Good
That is awesome news!
I don't disagree that there are too many bin Laden stories, but I'd be hesitant to make any algorithmic changes based on a story that is a once-a-year magnitude event.

The problem isn't that there are too many bin Laden stories: it's that there are any. I know how to get to CNN or the NYT and it's completely pointless to post bin Laden stories here period. I would also say that politics and religion, even if there'a some vague technology connection, should be verboten. There should be some minimum level of genuinely applied or theoretical computing or math content.
Security note: Check out the following lines, taken from the PHP API client used by this application (https://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/blob/master/EpiOAut...):

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

Those lines disable certificate verification: if I can intercept the connection between this client and Twitter, I can present my own, self-signed certificate and the client will still send requests as if I were twitter.com. This completely defeats the purpose of using SSL for connections.
If you haven't done drugs, then you can't really comment on them. That would be like me having a strong opinion on a topic I've never studied or have practical experience with. In fact, probably everything you know about drugs is wrong.

That doesn't sound right. What if I put it this way:

"If you haven't got cancer then you can't really comment on it. In fact, probably everything you know about cancer is wrong."

But in fact cancer is being studied by people who don't have it - should they not be allowed to comment on it?
He gets a reward!

http://rewardjs.com/
Why would you have two contracts?

Buy iPhone 3GS June 2009, Contract ends in June 2011.
June 2010, sell 3GS, buy iPhone 4 and now contract ends 2012.

It is an early upgrade which requires you to sign a new two-year contract.
DigiTimes: Amazon to unveil tablet to compete with iPad later this year
And "lean" isn't a buzzword? What's with the hate?
What’s your secret sauce? A guide to measuring startup success
To be specific, it is a kind of IT parody of The Sun, the whole style of it is one big injoke about british newspaper journalism basically.

http://www.thesun.co.uk

Their motto is: "Integrity - we've heard of it."

Personally I love it, although its not as funny as it used to be.
If I understand properly, the point of view of Rackspace and former Slicehost staff is that;

- Rackspace Cloud will offer the same technical capabilities,
- the transition will be as easy as Rackspace can make it,
- migrating to Rackspace will give users access to new features (Cloud LB/Files, Windows instances and so on...),
- Pricing will end up being close to lower for a good chunk of the customers,

Only thing is that, despite the fact that I spend a fair amount of time setting up my clients on various cloud services, I favored (and actively advertised for) Slicehost for some use cases because of two main features;

- Price; I could save a few bucks by setting up my AWS instance, but I like the simplicity of setting up your instance and be done with it, with a fixed price that you expect paying for at the end of the month.
- UX and UI; it just worked. Damn simple and straightforward.
- Feature set; only what I needed, no crazy catalog of 20 different ways of putting things together.

I remember signing up for my first instance about 18 months ago; I was convinced by the straightforward and simple website and the pitch line on the front page: "Sick of oversold, underperforming, ancient hosting companies. We took matters into our own hands. We built a hosting company for people who know their stuff. Give us a box, give us bandwidth, give us performance and we get to work.". Indeed, Slicehost would set up my box, give me access to it and then get out of my way. By experience, migrating on Rackspace Cloud will not provide me with the same value, and IMHO that was the core value of this product. That's a deal breaker in my book.
A skeptical financial/structural analysis of Long Top and other cloud companies
Designer pitches concept for usable iOS notifications in video
I would definitely read the "How I turned down a $300,000 job at bigcorp to found a startup that crashed and burned 18 months later" story.
I would love for someone else to take care of our headache for us :) Unfortunately, we have enough data that our service doesn't fit well within 3rd party hosting services' pricing plans -- there are other concerns with offloading such an important part of the business as well: availability, data-security, etc.
Pffft. We were into color way before $41M :)
As I understand it, they don't yet have any automation for setting up /64 prefix routes yet, so every /64 deployed has to be manually added to the router configs. Anyway, you're free to set up your own routing rules using that /64 to forward subnets of it on to different linodes.
There is a downside: Your can already download a standalone Tor-Browser bundled with (FF portable), but it still is FF 3.6.17.
After a fork, the Tor project will not invest all their resources in keeping up with an enhanced FF release schedule. They will likely always be behind a few month.
Ask HN: Quitting 9-5, and could really use your advice.
Background: I graduated from college last year and joined a Fortune 500. I'm tired of the politics and bureaucracy, and I'm planning on quitting soon (I've got 3 months expenses saved right now). Ideally, I want to jump straight into a small to mid-sized startup where I can learn the ropes and work on products I'm actually passionate about.

Here are my questions:

Question 1: If I leave without having something lined up, how bad does a gap look in terms of my resume and applying to startups?

Question 2: My contract stipulates that I need to pay back part of the bonus if I leave before a year. Are these actually enforced, and if yes, is it possible to get on some sort of payment plans for these?

Question 3: Any advice on targeting startups when I don't have the x amount of experience required for most job postings (for PM/Marketing roles)?

I know that ideally I should wait till I have something else lined up, but I'm honestly concerned about burnout / for my health if I stay more than 2-3 weeks. I'd appreciate any guidance at all or hear from people who've gotten out of similar situations. Thanks!
Google Takes to TV to Promote Browser
Is grooveshark.com legal?
They want to charge you for the static route you've added to their (finite) router memory, and the administrative overhead for adding it when they don't have the process automated yet.
Linode has a /30: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2600-3C00-1
Lessons Learned from Two Weeks at Distilled
This is the perfect time to get practice using IPv6, so you're not scrambling when it _does_ get scarce :)
It makes my heart warm to hear this. It feels good to have Page directly in charge of Google.
You've correctly characterized my sentiment.

I also stated that you might not care about any of the other cloud products or extra bells and whistles. The fundamental building block (a cloud server) that Rackspace sells will be and is identical to a Slicehost slice, you can just ignore everything else and pay the lower (likely) rate.

I can't deny that simplicity is gone from the equation given all the extra products/services, but the core Cloud Server is the same simple VPS you once knew and loved.