skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well put. Dean is making a sort of karmic argument of the form "The punishment is just because of past mis-deeds" rather than a procedural argument (which is where I was coming from). I personally have always preferred that karmic backlash be a product of the market rather than the courts, but there are plenty of cases where plaintiff or defendant were made to be examples to discourage similar behaviors.
Hey, they paid someone for those patents. Someone who would not have been paid anyway. Do the inventors not deserve compensation?

A windfall profits tax on transferred IP would be interesting, so IV and the like couldn't suck all the value out of the tech industry.
HTC killed itself with that Sense crap. Trying to innovate in software was indeed their downfall.
FYI: Google's "Nexus S" was manufactured by Samsung.
Anyone can take an undifferentiated group of people [Adults!] in any industry and "let them do what they want". In fact, if everyone did this and there had to be a winner, this would be the "winning strategy"! [Congratulations!].

Good luck with your next iteration.
Blackberries were the only reasonable choice at some point in the past. It's not reasonable to compare blackberries vs. other phones in 2006 or 2008 vs. 2011 or 2012.
I agree with this and don't think Google has the desire/skill to do anything about it. This is the biggest issue for Android from day one because the portable device is now considered a musical instrument and Android can't compete. Things are going to get shaken up again once Windows 8 tablets start running Ableton Live/Cubase so at this point Google should just wait and see what happens.
Centralized software distribution channel != phoning home every time any software is installed on a computer. You are citing examples of the first, the second is what the article is about.
I had a recruiter provide me with an interview. I was thinking about a job at that point. They were getting somewhat near $40 an hour and I was getting almost half.

The people I talked to were floored by the idea. It's not what you know it's who you know.

If the recruiter hadn't got me an interview at $25 an hour then I would be earning $0 for that period of time. I would have never found that job or got to know the company.

Once I got in that organization I could easily work with HR to buy me out of the recruiter's contract and negotiate a better salary for myself, considering the company wanted me.

The recruiter and me will probably do business again after my contract. I get a new salary after an initial test phase for the company. They get one time fee or recurring income.

Everyone has to eat. Recruiters have to make contacts. They have to pay salaries. They have expenses. I don't get why people are floored when they take a large portion of your salary. Most people don't have an influential network that can land them interviews. If you can then this doesn't apply to you.

If you are a I.T. recruiter in Toronto feel free to provide me with awesome interviews at $40 hour while you are making $100. I won't mind I promise.
There may be some long-term bias going on here. It would be interesting to see what correlation there is between current age and preferred age of death. You'll might find that 60 year olds (with death only 20 years away) would answer differently to 18 year olds.
The problem is that they're all clamoring for more than their fair share of my attention, even when what they have to offer doesn't make a lot of sense. Profitable recruiters are optimizing for the first candidate who didn't resign and wasn't bad enough to dismiss in the first n months, because they aren't rewarded any more for better diligence and outstanding candidate/position fits (if anything, mediocre fits and turnover yield more business down the line).
About 4 years of comprehensive insurance for a family.

Much longer for an individual, and about 5 times longer for family insurance if you are willing to have a deductible.
> Apple is all about streamlining and optimizing for the common case. Not providing options for the minority with different preferences.

So "think different" really means "think exactly the same as every other Apple user".

Thanks, that explains a lot.
To the best of my knowledge, (this isn't my field) nobody has ever made a visible-light metamaterial."

You would be wrong, see this CalTech press release: http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13341

However the thing that makes this interesting is that every single SFP+ single mode fiber tranciever (and if you've got a datacenter you probably have a lot of those) has a glass lens which focuses the light from the fiber onto the detector. Losses in the system affect how far you can run that fiber and/or how bright the laser at the source end needs to be. So this invention has the potential of making those connections both cheaper (easier to manufacture) and more efficient (no light lost due to abberations in the lens). So that is a pretty big deal.

USC professor Tim Strand was doing research into holographic lenses back in the early 80's. Basically trying to create a white light hologram of a lens system. Cool concept that didn't get far enough unfortunately. (I kept hoping one day we'd have a sticker you put put on your sunglasses and it would turn them into prescription glasses for you.)
I don't mind if others don't want to live forever, but I am happy to give it a red hot go.
> there are plenty of exciting, risky, and challenging things to do right here on the ground that are likely to have higher priority than manned space exploration for most people for a long, long time.

There will be human ground-level problems (poverty, mental illness, education, etc) to solve right up until the point where the Earth is no more (or is at least non-human-habitable). The Earth is temporary. Becoming less dependent on it as a species is going to be a very, very long process. We can't wait until we solve every human problem* to start.

* Spoiler alert: We will never solve every human problem. Ever.
First-order linkbait. A hyperbolic title (obviously) with no clear indication of the true piece's contents.
" Startup is not your job
If you use emacs, what do you think about `flyspell-auto-correct-previous-word`? It's like autocorrect, but it only happens when you invoke it and it always happens on the last misspelled word rather than the word under point.
Apple invents time machine
As a 66 year old, who just finished the Coursera machine learning course with a score of 750/700 on the programming assignments, and is currently ranked in the top 8% in the current Caltech online ML course, I think you're talking prejudiced and prejudicial BS.

Some people can't adapt to new ideas at any age, and some remain flexible, mentally and physically. My mother was mentally alert and engaged up until her death at 99, although her body was failing.

Many 22 year olds have lousy judgement compared to adults - I know that I did.
http://gist.io/3473504
I'm not Indian either, but I used to live there. Your description of China seems similar to the situation there. There are a plenty of terrible schools teaching "ethical haking" (i.e. windows firewall for dummies) or web design for a few thousand bucks.
The parking barriers were pretty silly in the first place because they were only on some of the lots. If you wanted to park by buildings A,B,C or D you would scan your badge on a card reader and they would open, but if you parked across the street by building E there was no such barrier. And it wasn't like they stopped people from walking across the street and right to the other buildings.
Sounds like you are talking about contractor management, not a recruiter.
Note the X1 is a different laptop than the X1 Carbon
That's all fine for Microsoft's business strategy? But what does Win8 bring to the table for me, the consumer, that I couldn't have already gotten by using an 3rd party app on win7/xp?
If the story is true, they're just regular users. That doesn't their dumb, just not smart about computing technology.
I am forced to browse the Indian app store through my account( I live in India), and i'm sick of the suggestions and the popular list since the people have a pathetic taste for apps here. I have to log out in iTunes and browse the US store to find quality apps.
Well if you stay biologically 22 forever, who's to say that your brain won't remain plastic?

Also, you form new neurons throughout your life, not just when you're a baby. If you're learning new stuff, those neurons stick around.
Strawman, but valid thoughts. I have had similar misgivings, but if we have cured aging, part of that should include a cure for our minds aging aswell.
I think an "exercise or surrender" sort of clause would do wonders. Of course, the patent system is brutally complicated and rife with unintended consequences, so tinkering with it is pretty fraught. The world isn't a theorem to be proved, there's no right answer. We all have to learn to deal with ambiguity better.
Downloading a previously purchased digital asset requires confirmation of financial responsibility‽ Who would have thought!
I've worn both entirely custom-made suits and off-the-rack ones. All suits I've ever worn have the same problem - the standard sorts of fabric/design that everyone recommends for "a dark suit" is too hot and doesn't breathe enough so you tend to get all sweaty and gross and want to get out of the suit as soon as possible, regardless of how well it fits. In the summer, it's too hot outside to wear a suit; in the winter, it's too hot inside to wear one. Hence: inherently uncomfortable. Maybe if you wear one long enough you just learn to get used to it?
Snopes is pretty good evicence that "why would X person lie?" is a naive worldview. People make up stories to get people to believe them, for laughs.

Addicts think and speak out of the bounds of "good faith" on a regular basis. They are very unreliable narrators.
#1 question to ask a recruiter offering you an interview: Have they placed someone else at the same company.
If the recruiter is worth working with, they have a contract with target employers, and aren't just as disconnected as you are as a prospect.
Time is indeed scarce and I agree that the industry is probably too focused on short-term goals. I'm referring to the recent trend of bagging on recruiters and publicly humiliating them. I try to live and let live while being grateful that I'm not unemployed like many other people I know...
I'd think Windows would be more up their alley due to the similar lack of customization options.

Oh, right. I forgot the hip factor. Windows is too uncool now, after all those Mac/PC commercials.
It's fragile hack, and it is against their EULA when the host OS is not OSX, but AFAIK|IANAL, violating a EULA has no broad legal precedent set in the US yet in limiting copyright terms against consumers, e.g. violating a EULA term alone does not make it piracy.
I don't believe I'm making the karmic argument here, hopefully you're not interpreting it as such. I was simply arguing that Samsung copies at a deeper level which borders the line of cloning a product. If it were up to the market to decide, we should be manufacturing identical Chanel handbags at 1/10th the price and making a killing. Those handbags sell for $10k and probably cost pennies to make.
The title was made up by the submitter, not the author (and has since been fixed by the mods)
This is where I think we're headed. We're going to figure out exactly what all the moving bits do in our DNA and mitochondria and we'll be in a position to re-write it at will. When that happens, the question of what it means to be 'you' is going to get very pertinent, a safe example if it turns out your love of certain foods is a result of wiring in your brain due to your DNA makeup, do you change it? Do you add new foods? Do you delete old foods?

What happens to social justice when one person can afford gene therapy to make their children 99% more capable than average and others can't? If you ever saw the movie Gattica (not a great movie but it tried) don't worry about people who are born 'perfect' or born the 'natural' way, think about people who re-write their own genetics to have the mutation that gives Sherpa in the Himalayas more, and more efficient red blood cells. Very scary tech talk at Google on this once where a researcher in gene therapy was getting approached by trainers already.
People who offer solutions and timetables are researchers trying to get funding(always overly optimistic).

The fact is that we have a relatively tiny amount of understanding and control over organic matter. And far more basic research breakthroughs are required before aging can seriously be discussed. SENS and transhumanists are like a primitive civilizations enchanted by the prospect of landing a man on the moon before the horse and buggy was invented, which is why most biologists don't take them seriously.
Some of us still don't enjoy downloading 5 gigabytes just to try a game. Granted, this makes crafting the demo a little harder than putting in an unlock code.

As for torrent sites - demos could easily be distributed separately from full games. Companies could even have private trackers, though they might want a custom installer for that.
The irony of a billion dollar lawsuit: it is all good advertising for Samsung
I'm sure underaged kids for years will enjoy him buying them beer while listening to his stories of high school football... er a navy SEAL ninja lord who had to be the best at everything he did.
TPP treaty (ACTA all over) provisions leaked.
Don't read everything too literally.

Could be a bit of tongue-in-cheek there.
> Perhaps we're talking past each other.

You say "each other".

I see you revisiting the parts where you think he didn't hear you but should have. Which parts do you think you weren't hearing but should have?
I loathe arrogant, neomaniacal comments like this. So ignorant of unintended consequences, so naive in thinking more of everything must be better. You have _no idea_ what the consequences of extending lifespan indefinitely will be, but here you are openly deriding people who are happy to stick with what's worked well-enough in the past.
I was in semi-searching mode. I had a very long commute I was unhappy with, and had every intention of putting some time and effort into finding the perfect situation. Something close to home. Something matching exactly the type of problems I wanted to solve. Using exactly the tools and technologies I wanted to work with. However, there was always another project I wanted to finish first, or another topic to bring myself current on before finding the right match and interviewing.

Meanwhile, I was getting emails from recruiters. I was pretty good about replying because you never know where an opportunity might come from and because it feels better (for me) to just reply before archiving that message out of my inbox.

One of those out-of-the blue recruiters ended up working out. What was an hour long drive is now a 5 minute bike ride. I hadn't valued this nearly so highly when I took that far-away job as I do now. See for example:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...

So anyway, for me this was a clear case of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. An opportunity for an immediate improvement landed in my lap that I otherwise might not have found out about, or might have put off. I can't be too upset about that.
I prefer your way, it's much more fun to write this kind of message!
It is a good question, I've always wondered why engineering types didn't develop a similar system to the one in LA for actors. Perhaps its the long term nature of software (3 - 5 years to get the product out) or support after the release.

Consider other agencies, like professional sports teams, can you put together 12 engineers who can win you the superbowl of engineering (what ever that would be)? Perhaps there is a disruption opportunity here.
God says...

7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 7:4 Or how wilt
thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first
cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn
again and rend you.

----

God says...
sweet truth grammarian malicious what's_the_plan expressed
wide-spreading devilish Belarus commandments Iraq Her
contained definite seeketh
Totally false. The app store is for people who want simplicity. It's for the consumer market. Those people who infect their computers with viruses constantly because they think that sketchy looking banner telling them they've won todays lottery isn't sketchy at all and click it.

There's nothing stopping me from downloading and installing any app I want from whatever source I want on my Mac. Everyone all of the sudden thinks that the Mac App Store is the final nail in the iOSification coffin but it isn't. It's just a good idea for people totally unlike us and those people actually get a far better experience than any "free" system because of it. But again, no one is forced to go through the app store to download applications.

Honestly, I haven't even set Mountain Lion to let me download anything unrestricted. I set it to the medium setting where it'll give me a warning before installing non-app store apps and I like it that way. I like being reminded that what I'm about to install hasn't been vetted by Apple. That's fine with me. I just control+click it and run it the first time and I'm never bothered again. Sure, I could set it so I get no hassles but I like the feature.

When it comes down to it, I know what I'm getting into. I'm not so completely risk averse that I refuse to use something because some worst case scenario or edge case might happen at some point down the road to me.
or instead of wikipedia maybe just read some papers:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/Aubrey/

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/aubrey.jpg
Show HN: Tonights project - Free Bootstrap Landing Pages
Metro (yeah I'm not going to stop calling it that, it's annoying), I think is a mostly a flash in the pan. It will probably be gone in the next consumer OS. It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft offered some UI "game changer" and then backed off. In fact ...

It's just so generic boring and not particularly useful. I haven't paid close attention, but if you look at demos of what Microsoft called Surface back in 2007 for tabletops vs this Metro stuff now, which one is more visually compelling? Kind of a strange place they went, in my view.
Piecewise marketing would be a disaster, but charging the standard price and letting people disable the pieces they don't want, that would be nice--- and to a large extent, Windows XP and 7 did exactly that -- you had Classic mode, which disabled all the UI cockups and kept the fucntionality improvements.
We all know well enough that bugs are an universal constant.

But even assuming software without bugs was possible.

Walled gardens still would suck, by design.
Agreeing with most of lexande's points, only to add: Bay Area populations are essentially tri-centric. There's San Francisco, there's the South Bay, and there's the East Bay. The Peninsula is relatively sparsely populated (single-family detached homes, small apartment complexes), very expensive, exceptionally poorly served by transit, and has horrendous traffic (101, 280 south of Page Mill and north of Burlingame, and various South Bay expressways (Oregon, Lawrence, Middlefield, etc.).

Locating offices in/near San Jose (limited tower availability due to SJO-induced height restrictions), Oakland/Berkeley, San Francisco, and possibly satellites in Walnut Creek or Pleasanton/San Ramon (many more established companies do have datacenters in these areas) would make more sense.

Why do so many companies locate in/near Palo Alto? VC and founders. Headquarter location is most often dictated by the CEO.

Where's Mark's house again?
Why would that API be buried in the Metro UI code, and not in a system library compatible with 7? A bit of laziness, perhaps.
This is a spin-off from a project I also completed today. These are four landing page templates built with bootstrap. They are licensed under the GNU WTFPL, so go ahead and use them without fear. Let me know if they came in handy by shooting me an email (address in profile). I'm also available for hire as a freelancer (back/front end).

Here is to shipping!
Actually, by your logic, it is. If the book stands to possibly make you $10,000 with probability .1%, the book is worth $10. As you mention, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I'd conjecture the book is worth at least $39 if it stands to make you $10,000+ with greater than .1% probability.
Well, for the sake of discussion, how does NASA assemble the team(s) that build their stuff? That's the highest profile, most ad-hoc programming gig I can think of.

Fact is projects like that are pretty rare.
And may well be "downgradeable" to Win7 for a fee, like Vista computers had the XP option to buy out of that mess.
Isn't that partially what YC is?
Robin Hanson covered this a few weeks ago. I fact, it's probably worth having an agent _just_ to negotiate your salary given that a 10% increase is not out of the realm of normal negotiations. Not to mention all the other effects of having an agent like signaling, networking, having someone to guide you through career development, etc. this is an industry ripe for creation, but I don't know how to go about doing it: you'd have to start with a bunch of smart developers, and the ideal way to do that seems to be for me to become a top recognized developer, and then transition into starting an agency once I've developed the reputation... Anyone have a good history of how agencies began in Hollywood?

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/08/why-not-agents-for-all...
We get it, people are unhappy with the decision. Is it necessary to clutter HN with stuff like this that offers no useful insight other than an attention grabbing news title?
That argument only applies to the Mac App Store, which is still getting mixed responses from users and devs.
Can't find a reference to the story you are mentioning, could you share a link that explains it in more details?
Couldn't you just put one of these lenses in front of every single CCD subpixel to create a flat lens?
Please don't say "I'm not good at this"
The LG Prada : December 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Startup Aims To Install Pipelines With Helicopters
Does anti-ageing = universal good for everyone?

Most of the major causes of suffering have already been fixed by 'biotechnology' eg vaccines, condoms, sanitation, basic nutrition, obstetrics. But we still fail to apply them in many places due to well, negligent barbarianism as you put it. Will it really fix these problems if we start embalming billionaires and dictators?

Your blog seems free of any consideration of the social consequences of anti-ageing technology. Do you worry about it? For example, Neil Armstrong died today, and by all accounts he was a great man. But recently he stood up and decried NASA funding private space ventures like SpaceX. Now if the next dragon probe punches a hole in the ISS he may turn out to be right. But all these historical figures who are proven to be wrong or misguided won't be historical figures if you make them live forever... is this unequivocally positive? And if it isn't, how do we deal with it?
Given that they discourage solo submissions.. no.
I just went through the steps and was able to switch my email address without issues...

Do you have your backup email address in use on another Apple account?