skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but cancer still remains a leading cause of death along with heart disease. In other words, no one is living that much longer even if cancers earlier in life can be successfully treated. And that has almost nothing to do with the eventual degradation of the mind and sensory organs that nearly everyone experiences in old age.
You're right, but please be a little nicer about it.
By "something that grows", I think you mean "something that scales".

It confused me, because Brooks talks about "growing' software (as opposed to building/planning it), which is I think what you mean by "something that evolves".

FWIW, I think the standard wisdom today is to evolve (your term) software (e.g. agile ideas of YAGNI, DTSTTCPW), and only to scale/plan it if you have a very clear idea of what you're doing (e.g. frozen specs, which exist in some government/military domains; long-term standards; mathematics) - and you also know how to do it, having done it a few times before.
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I think the tags idea might be a bit too complex, interface-wise.

I'd prefer an option next to every post in my stream called "fewer posts like this (from this person)". Given enough feedback from me, G+ would automatically start filtering out items for me. Since Gmail accomplishes a similar feat already, this doesn't seem impossible.

However, more practically, I think they could probably just solve my problem by allowing me to mute an entire contact or an entire person. Currently you can "block" individuals, but that's not really what I want - I don't want to block them from seeing me, I just don't want to see their stuff in my main stream.
One of the key things that was kinda skimmed over: You should check out http://github.com/twitter/finagle.

It takes async network programming with netty into a functional programming paradigm. Programming scala/finagle network services is much nicer IMO than coffeescript, ruby/em/fibers, raw netty. I can't wait until we release our finagle-based cassandra client. It's been really nice to work with.

Here's some sample code:

https://github.com/twitter/finagle/tree/master/finagle-examp...
The barrier is already pretty low. Good on you for trying to promote PDO, but I doubt it's going to change anything.

There are already a number of DB layers like ADODB and of course the dozens of ORMs around.

This doesn't help when people have read "make a blog in 2 hours" from 2003 and think they're a PHP superstar.
Poll: Given the opportunity would you work at Google?
It is mid 2011 and Google has just kicked off another attempt in the social scene. They are thriving as a company and there appears to be no end in sight. We have now accrued a wealth of information on google, their hiring process, the internals, the culture and there has also recently been a book written about them outlining some intimate details.

Knowing all these things, do you want to work for Google? Do you work for Google? I would love to hear your stories.
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I don't know, if that's too big of a load just use a CRM with email integration and have people pick new emails according to their position, or have an assistant/secretary route the emails to the appropriate address.

That sounds much more reasonable, not to mention that you won't use your email address as the single contact, rather you will set up a different one that will act as a dispatch.
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Ask HN:  Pain Points of Online Clothes Shopping?
In this discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2726989, three people have already mentioned clothes as an issue. The OP is not considering getting into this space. Just wondering if we can have a separate discussion and elaborate on why people hate shopping for clothes.

Thanks.
That's about the "surprise"-buzz of seeing him registered
Sure!

There's a type of service called media monitoring. It's where companies... monitor the media. Clients often want media clips from the TV shows they were featured in. So you need a database of TV clips.

There's a government body in Canada that handles a bunch of aspects of Canada's copyright system. They set tariffs and rules for doing various things. They've set the tariffs for media monitoring and also set the rules that you have to follow in order to run a media monitoring service. One of them is that you can't have a database that has video with a resolution greater than 320x240 and it also can't have a frame rate greater than 15 frames per second.

Obviously this isn't legal advice... There appear to be a lot of rules to follow. This looks to be one of them. Consult a lawyer to find out how complicated this really is...
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For those saying "clothes", since the OP is not interested in getting into this space (and it's also a very big space), I was wondering if we could have a separate discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727464

Thanks.
The Netherlands will say it's subject to the Netherlands' laws, and the US will say it's subject to US law. What actually gets enforced is a matter of diplomacy.
This exploits CoffeeScript syntax in the same way that (fab) exploits JavaScript syntax:

https://github.com/jed/fab/blob/browser/demo.html

(I'm biased, but am a fan of making markup "just code".)
Here's my solution to this problem, which I tried implementing when I designed my own (now-defunct) social networking site:

http://coding.pressbin.com/51/An-algorithm-for-self-enforcin...
I'm torn myself about the perspective.
TBD deliveries are quite slow anyway, maybe they'll improve on that front.
I see how this is cool, but weren't we trying to separate style information from the program logic? ... This seems like a step back into PHP spaghetti code.
A one-line comment in "Security requirements", or even an option to read from /dev/random, may be a good idea.

Good point. I'm used to FreeBSD, where /dev/urandom and /dev/random are the same device.

you should probably #include <string.h> in lib/events/events_network.c for memset() as used in FD_ZERO

POSIX says that <sys/select.h> is all you need.

OpenBSD has no -lrt either, so I just removed that.

POSIX says that -lrt must work (having a librt isn't required, but if you don't have one the compiler must ignore -lrt).

Hopefully these will either get fixed in OpenBSD or as patches in ports/security/spiped if someone decides to add spiped to the OpenBSD ports tree.
"Sorry sir, we really don't know how much money is suppose to be in your account. Our developers thought that transactions added too much overhead, so they decided to drop them to insure that the increased response time wouldn't anoy our customers."
I was wondering if it was one of those little cheeses (in the yellow wrappers) or a small fish sausage.

http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00nTEtNeUzVaqh/Fish-Sausa...
Sorry for the long response, but you asked some thought-provoking questions ...

I gave up looking for good personal care products because the process, both in-store and online, is painful and confusing (confusing because there are many brands and they keep on changing labels, painful because when taking a chance with a bottle generally involves purchasing at least a month's supply, and it sucks when you hate your body soap)

Nowadays I just purchase in bulk from costco (it's a bulk-discount store). But if there were a compelling alternative, I would switch in a heartbeat.

Important things for the experience (based on my complaints about the process):

- Make it easy to try lots of brands, even if you charge a little bit to do so. I would gladly spend a very small amount of money on a week's supply or a few day's supply of a brand so I could try it.

- Have a more user-driven recommendation scheme (like netflix, but doesnt have to be so advanced) -- maybe you could even figure out most commonly used combinations ...

- Remember the last products I ordered, and allow me to indicate if they were good or bad. I dont want to accidentally buy a deodorant I hated and I definitely don't want to have to remember what products I'm using now.

- Quick-order flight-friendly bottle pack. My dream: one click to overnight my current set of products to my place here or at my destination. (Yes, I know that hotels provide most goods like this, but they are geared toward the expected behavior of the clientele -- i really really dislike the hermes soap at la bristol)

Personally, I like unscented products through and through. Except for cologne, which I use sparingly (for now it's JPG Le Male, which I won in some charity raffle a long time ago)
Does it download your friends' public email addresses and phone numbers?

If no, why not?
Almost all PHP frameworks have already DB wrapper built-in. If you're a PHP dev and not using a framework, then you should consider using one.
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before I visited SF and the googleplex, I would've said no, I can have way more fun and do way more interesting things on my own.

but after spending a weekend there, I've changed my mind. I'd definitely work there for a period. There are so many intelligent people there that it'd be foolish to not go through the experience, given the option.

Edit for context: I live in the east in canada, so part of my awesome experience is definitely the environment, as well as the people.
Damnit, transferring domains is such a pain in the ass.
Hi, did the video on the front of the site not work? Maybe we should make the Watch it now button bigger? Cheers.
It uses CoffeeScript's grammar, so there's no need to learn a new one or switch between two different grammars as you work.

It's also way less code than Haml. CoffeeKup's src folder is 240 lines of code.
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Well, we have an Intranet page that's updated dynamically from our CRM system - no need for anyone to remember to update or circulate anything.
Trust me, between the new pricing scheme and the piss poor support, we have this discussion nearly every week. I have a feeling by year's end we'll have made the transition. Right now, the ridiculously cheap hosting costs are literally the only thing keeping us there.
Oh please ;) Don't hate on the ERb. It's fine for something like this.

OK, I am only half-kidding. Have you seen RABL? I've been meaning to play with this. http://blog.dcxn.com/2011/06/22/rails-json-templates-through...

Looks perfect.
And the government is taking over the temple so that they can covet the wealth.
I emailed them about this a few months ago after being spurred on by the creation of plaintextoffenders.com:

> I received this email when I registered with you last year, and was prompted by the recent creation of the site 'Plain Text Offenders' to send it to them. Somebody else has submitted their registration email too:

The reply was as follows:

> We realized that this area was of great concern to many customers and we have since removed password submission in our 'Welcome' email.

So to give their customers peace of mind, they made it less obvious that what they're doing is stupid.
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The government did not waste the money, it gave too much to too many railroad workers, civil servants, teachers that now protest against the government that gave it money it didn't have in the first place.

And no, debt is not the root cause of tax evasion, tax evasion results in less money for the government so it borrows more and takes on more dept.
Maybe this is all an elaborate practical joke.

Or maybe they wanted to test their security, so they're putting out an all-call to every blackhat out there.

Because either of those makes a lot more sense than what they've said.
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I absolutely despise the touch-sensitive 'wheel' on my iPod Classic. It's useless if I'm working in the garage with nitrile gloves on. I've resorted to using my elbow or nose at times.

It's even pretty useless without gloves, if I've been doing anything that gets my hands dry, or had the iPod in my pocket so that it became relatively moist. I often have to breathe on my fingers before changing the volume!
Oh, I'm very aware of how bloated the monstrosity called OpenSSL is.
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I don't think they were legislating to a temporary technological point. I think the point was to ensure signal degradation in the database of clips so you have to go to the actual rights holder if you want a usable clip. It's a copyright protection.
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I only know of two, do you have more?

1. Feedback. This turns out to not be important for most people for most tasks. Still physical feedback (of layout and of action) important tool of physical interaction and required for eyes-free operation. I fully expect this problem to be solved within two years.

2. Software bypass. This is mostly useful in case of complete software lockup (low level/OS crash), but while most phones are built to be "always on" you can't always avoid low-level lock-up. And in that case you need to reset all transient device state. I expect the final fail-safe to remain a physical button, although some kind of watchdog running alongside the OS itself may be able to take care of 99% of the lockups.
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What does 'secured by the DLP' mean?

Does Certivox retain the ability to decrypt all messages?

FYI, nothing shows on the FAQ page when blocking Javascript, which is somewhat common among the security conscious who may be your target audience.
Also, Larry and Sergey don't have a movie about them.
here's an animated gif showing what it does on the current frontpage: http://i.imgur.com/ZNo0D.gif
Likewise. It's an excellent piece of rethinking.

Simplicity equals elegance in my mind. If I can fit the whole product/platform in my mind, I am again powerful and not just a victim of the tyranny of over-abstraction and overwhelming APIs (yes I'm looking at you Java and C#).
Just because a developer utilizes the JVM doesn't mean they're writing in Java. As I recall Twitter uses and is a big proponent of Scala, which sits on top of the JVM.
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I've found that to be the case with a lot of Google ads. It's extremely annoying and I intend to fix it at least for the classes of products I include in my store.
ARGH! I just confirmed this. So disappointed. I've changed it now to be completely unique but I wouldn't be surprised if it's logged somewhere.
$ ssh root@router
# ifdown -a; ifup -a

Oops.
this is one of the reasons you never enter real data into online services
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The tweet by the Anonymous twitter account seems to indicate they _did_ have something to do with it:

http://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousIRC/status/87426935390609408

Also, the geek.com article you listed states that there is no connection between the hacker idahc and the pastebin, which does not preclude Anonymous from having pasted it:

"After idahc successfully discovered vulnerabilities on an Apple business website, a dump of more than two dozen usernames and hashed passwords appeared on Pastebin — though he claims the data was not posted by him. "
I spent my early adulthood from 18-22 and 24-31 as a Marine. I've found I can't muster up much patriotism anymore. American exceptionalism, even less. I wore the "cloth of our nation" for many years, before, perhaps, some readers of HN were even born. (It's possible!) While I believe that American ideals strive to capture the very highest potential of civilization, my disillusionment is total.

I spent a long time in Iraq, and I was part of the federal Hurricane Katrina response immediately after the levees broke. I was a fervent George Bush supporter & believer until I saw what happened in New Orleans, and was a strong opponent after my second Iraq tour.

What little faith I had in our elected leaders has been methodically sought out and destroyed by Obama's term in office. The vigor with which politicians will consume each other to the detriment of national interests is... heartbreaking. I foolishly afforded myself a little of "that hope-y, change-y stuff", but our president's ineffectiveness -- either because of his own doing or the resistance in Washington -- has made me regret that.

And now, we have Sarah Palins and Michelle Bachmanns running around belittling science, undermining factual rightness, and generally spitting in the face of honesty. Anthony Weiner's weiner was dangled in front of us to distract us from the deficit, and it appears the only bipartisan, bicameral unity our Congress can muster anymore is the belief that an electronic dickshot must be dealt with immediately. The federal deficit can wait.

I dunno. Happy 4th, I guess. Fireworks are cool and my kid seems to like the festivities. But for me, I won't be waving a flag around anytime soon. America for me has become, ironically, much like communism: A beautiful ideal that is ruined by greed and power-mongering.
You cannot reliably shop for a size. No two shoes are sized the same, no two shirts or pants. Except for Tshirts and underwear you MUST try something on to be sure it's comfortable.
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Oh I think you're right but what was maybe half quality a few years ago is now a small fraction of HD signal quality.

Perhaps x% of median quality of Canadian broadcast channel signal quality would be more appropriate? I'm not sure but fixing at 320x240 seems like probably not the best approach.
Syria and Libya are not comparable examples. Libya has a much smaller population (less than 1/3rd of Syria's), and Gaddafi's army is much smaller and less well armed than Assad's. More importantly Syria is known to have stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, especially mustard and nerve gas.

If we were to set up a list of brutal dictatorships based on the order of which are most deserving of being toppled then likely North Korea would be on the top, perhaps even above Libya right now. However, the cost and sacrifice (in civilian lives as well) of such actions must be taken into account, and for both North Korea and Syria it's highly questionable whether that math adds up. We could overthrow North Korea or Libya's government if we desired. But without an imminent external threat the question remains whether it would be worth the hundreds or thousands of lives of american troops lost, and the perhaps tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands (in the case of North Korea) of innocent civilians that would die in the conflict.
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I'm surprised at how many people in this thread are focusing on the "Google locked the account" as the bad part of this. The clear fuck-up on Google's part is rather that they didn't provide any avenue for Alex's parents to accept the contract on his behalf.

Nobody would be complaining (other than the usual light grumbling) if the lockout message had been something like this: "Parent permission required! Our records show that you are not yet 13, so we have blocked access to your account. To restore access: If you are at least 13, click here to send proof of that. If you are under 13, have a parent or guardian click here to link your account to theirs and accept the terms of service on your behalf."
I still find it ironic that Mark Zuckerberg is on G+
No, but it's pretty damn important. All it takes is one disgruntled employee, one uninformed sys-admin, one mistake, and boom, all that "security" is gone.
I'm sure the government would love to take over the control of the temple after 3G Scam and CWG Scam the next one maybe the Temple Scam
I was going to say tactile positioning, but you seem to be rolling that in to feedback/layout. I would also add the distinction between putting your finger on a control and actually activating it. Capacitive technology doesn't provide a good way to handle that[0]. For an extreme example of the type of control you'd like to make such a distinction, consider the trigger of a gun. It may be important to be very ready to activate the control, and even more important to not activate it prematurely.

[0] I don't consider press and hold, double-tap or similar to be good general-purpose solutions to this
It's perfectly legal for him to make his own US Delaware LLC, with a cost of maybe $300 a year in fees and accounting. There are numerous sites for doing so. Being Polish is no obstacle.
This is awesome. Anything to streamline the UX and eliminate the overt loading of a separate application is terrific. Hopefully Mozilla can continue to innovate and push Google on the browser front.
Google+ isn't just 'techie types'. All of my friends (the ones I care about) have actually picked it up and we're all hooked. My family has joined as well and love hangouts.

Nobody I've talked to thinks circles are complex (most of my friends are non-technical). The abstraction you refer to is not foreign at all -- it is modeled after real-life social circles.
I agree with you. And I do have prejudices, but I believe them to be well founded. It is a jungle out here (general Balkans) and one can never take enough precaution.
Thats why I chose to spell it out clearly instead of wrapping it into weasel words.
First of all, this feature is sufficiently buried that when I looked around for it a couple days ago I was convinced that it simply didn't exist (though honestly it's not that buried, it's just not where I would expect it). It didn't allow me to download my information, it said I should receive an email when I can (it's "gathering") and after 25 minutes the email hasn't been sent. Honestly, even if the zip has exactly what I want in it, that is an unacceptable experience.

I created a yahoo account just so I could link it to my facebook account and export the contacts from yahoo. If linking to a third party and exporting from there is more straightforward than exporting the data directly there is something seriously wrong.

Secondly, I only want my contact information, why can I not get just it? If I was on a limited bandwidth connection or I had to pay per byte in particular it is completely absurd that I have to download everything that I don't care about to get what I do care about.

There is also the point that the facebook experience feels adversarial for some things. Sure they had almost exactly the same feature as Circles for a long time, but how many people ever used it? When I was using it it feels more like some VP at facebook was like "I guess we have to include this feature, but it will hurt our bottom line if too many people start using it so we should make it sufficiently complex and buried that no one uses it while still being available so that if anyone complains about the lack of security features we can point at the fact that it technically exists". Exporting data seems to have followed exactly the same line of thinking.

My last comment I will be unable to actually confirm until I am able to see what they are exporting, but if it is not in a format that I can import to gmail contacts (it supports several formats from major vendors) then it is worse than useless to me since it made me waste all this time to get something that isn't in a usable format. I'll update this comment either way when I am able to actually access the information that I requested.
Yes, this is a significant issue, both online and off. But what if there were an informational solution to this issue? What if a site could give you sufficient data/means to determine the answer?

Thanks for replying.